retired_navy0614

Honestly, I expected the "rally" joke. Maybe that's why it didn't surprise/bother me. The hypersensitivity to it I feel is an overreaction. I could understand people being bothered by the genuinely offensive (and tbf, I've waited 4 months for the McCann jokes and even then tried to avoid the more...controversial ones directly about Madelaine herself) and I would agree that it would be out of order to post them initially - the "cooling off" period is always warranted.

retired_carribear68

I made a "joke" about the camel woman (was it a camel?) but wouldn't mock a celeb death and find it pathetic that people quite literally race to get the first quip in, it's really really sad. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Why is the celeb worth more than the camel woman? </BLOCKQUOTE>

jesus

the celeb will (I SUSPECT) have more people who followed/supported/whatever them, built a connection of some kind, and hence be impacted on a little when they die. especially if its unexpected.

a person that you can be 99.9% sure NOBODY on here knows, is hardly going to warrant the same type of response.

retired_navy0614

7/7 bothered me even less than 9/11 to be honest, largely as I slept through it

But I had been to London once at the time, didn't know anybody there at the time and in many ways had no more of a connection to that than 9/11. Again it felt too distant to really affect me personally. </BLOCKQUOTE>

I didn't know 7/7 happened until late in the day - was at the other half's flat, without TV/Internet. Ended up going to London the week after the 21/7 attempts, and it was very eerie. I was uneasy about going on the tube, family were worried and took paranoid precautions like trying to get into the most deserted carriages and eyeballing anyone looking a bit foreign to death.

retired_carribear68

and as for the casual assumption that rally drivers wont have any supporters or people that care so lets stick the boot in, but yeah show some respect if its a footballer

well, it's laughable.

retired_mika318

7/7 bothered me even less than 9/11 to be honest, largely as I slept through it

But I had been to London once at the time, didn't know anybody there at the time and in many ways had no more of a connection to that than 9/11. Again it felt too distant to really affect me personally. </BLOCKQUOTE>

I didn't know 7/7 happened until late in the day - was at the other half's flat, without TV/Internet. Ended up going to London the week after the 21/7 attempts, and it was very eerie. I was uneasy about going on the tube, family were worried and took paranoid precautions like trying to get into the most deserted carriages and eyeballing anyone looking a bit foreign to death. </BLOCKQUOTE>

wp on subscribing to the culture of fear.

retired_navy0614

Why is the celeb worth more than the camel woman? </BLOCKQUOTE>

jesus

the celeb will (I SUSPECT) have more people who followed/supported/whatever them, built a connection of some kind, and hence be impacted on a little when they die. especially if its unexpected.

a person that you can be 99.9% sure NOBODY on here knows, is hardly going to warrant the same type of response. </BLOCKQUOTE>

I'm asking why BBB thought it was acceptable to make the joke about the camel woman but not about a celebrity. Is it solely because people are more likely to be bothered about the latter? Is that not callous?

retired_DonWon

and you misunderstoon my parents comment, I wasnt referring to Rhys Jones parents, but parent in general, who empathise with a situation (ie a child dying) and thus get an emotional attachment as a result.

retired_jessicadon

The camel woman isn't worth more or less. It's just the story was incredibly amusing.

Not that much funny about helicopter crashes. Death by sexed camel, always funny.

retired_carribear68

I remember going on a bus on the afternoon of 7/7 ... when there were still loads of warnings out and high alerts.

I won't deny I was a tad more nervous than usual on that journey.

But think I kept it in perspective pretty well.

retired_stevesgrl

bang. nail. head. on. </BLOCKQUOTE>

I can see the anger at those who just wish to show their email inbox gets the latest joke first. However what of the person who genuinely doesn't care or is glad that x person has died? There surely must be people like that out there.