retired_DonWon

'misundertoon'

Ive turned into BG

retired_mika318

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? </BLOCKQUOTE>

You seriously can't see the difference between someone dying after being squashed by an over amorous camel and someone apparently dying alongside their young son in a fiery helicopter crash?

retired_lizm5285

still not as bad as my brother who though every test aircraft taking off from warton was off to shoot down a hijacked plane

like terrorist would want to ram blackpool tower

shannon2007

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>

They aren't. But we 'know' the celeb, we don't 'know' camel woman so we don't care as much, at all really. And tbh, in some dark way such things are funny.

I remember watching a bloke working on a really high building as I was sitting on a bench eating my lunch once and thought I would actually fall over laughing if he fell off. Which I would have. Might have felt bad afterwards.

Humour is a human defence we use at times to protect ourselves, but in most of the RIP threads here that isn't the reason, it's simply what other have said the need to be 'cool' or 'clever' or whatever. Its tired and pathetic really.

retired_navy0614

so fans of a footballer can feel sadness at them dying, but fans of a rally driver should just shrug it off? is there a list anywhere of genres of celebrity it's acceptable to mourn? </BLOCKQUOTE>

In my head. I just feel that footballers (or other mass spectator sports that allow for a concentrated span of attention upon the individual, rather than say, one section of track viewing a car going past) allow for more of a personal bond to be made. Which in that sense makes it more....not acceptable, the word doesn't come to mind...genuine? than rather a "stalker" esque thing of following someone from afar.

retired_kikiiscwazy

They should obviously keep silent/out of the thread for me. That's what I've done with the Maddy one, only ever opened it once and that was to laugh at Argel being banned.

retired_mika318

I've always hated washed up, Swiss, tennis players.

retired_navy0614

Ah...well, I know people who are my age, and people of my age die? Likewise an elderly gentleman attacked may be the same age as a grandfather of mine. Where is the same grief? I know that in the real world people do work that way (in the sense that age matters and the young are the only innocents as it were, and how parents get attached to certain events) but it still seems a little wrong.

retired_DonWon

They should obviously keep silent/out of the thread for me. That's what I've done with the Maddy one, only ever opened it once and that was to laugh at Argel being banned. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Exactly why I'll avoid a Norman Whiteside is dead thread.

Mindzei

I got grief ( well 1 post worth ) the other night for making a joke about Frank Ribery's face and hes not even dead ffs.

But despite that joke i wouldn't walk into a " XXXXX Dies " thread and give abuse and crack jokes. If i honestly wasn't troubled by the news i would probably just read and leave the thread.

People get attched to celebs the like or have followed for years, in some cases they may have been incolved in one of teh high points of their lives. Let them show respect in scilence.