Killed another squirrel this morning... this time in my car.RIP.
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Can we have an RIP thread without the BS please?
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Posted 10 months ago #
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you do realise that every time you run over a squirrel God kills a kitten..?
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That's not the sound it made.
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What sound did it make TSY?
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More of a thud. There was probably a bit of a crunch but I was rocking out Classic FM so missed some of the more subtle notes.
Posted 10 months ago # -
And how are you feeling about it now?
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No matter what your oinion of Amy Winehouse, whether you have complete sympathy for a lost talent who lived a tortured life riddled with substance abuse and depresson, or whether you think she was a drugged-up loser whos death was inevitable and only has herself to blame - that truth is that this is an open public forum, and (within the rules of those who own and run this forum) you are entitled to comment what you believe and so are the other hundreds of users interested in this topic.
So posting on a public forum assuming that someone else won't post an opinion contrary to your own just shows complete ignorance for how internet forums work.
IMPO - I thought her music, style and choice of boyfriend was awful, yet if anyone knows anyone suffering, has known anyone who suffered from or knows anything about substance abuse, the associated depression and other associated disorders would agree with me that she would have been going through the most traumatic, hellish time of her life, as would those who deeply cared or loved her and tried to help her, and for her life to have ended in this way is just terrible for everyone involved.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Pretty shaken up.
I've been on a bit of a road kill spree recently, couple of weeks ago I got a cat (RIP) so I'd have thought I'd be becoming desensitized now.
I'm not going to flush any more spiders down the sink to redress my karma imbalance. Do you think that'll help?
Posted 10 months ago # -
I'd be becoming desensitized now.
Reads like you already are.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Maybe I'm in shock??
I'll ask if I can have the rest of the day off.
Posted 10 months ago # -
I'll ask if I can have the rest of the day off.
I get the feeling you're absolutely fine about it. Your eagerness to get it off your chest here shows you're dealing with it very well.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Are you not going to offer me a hug?
You know I'd do the same for you.
Posted 10 months ago # -
'excessive empathy'
never said "excessive" ernie. I said "ostensibly".
If you're going to be so picky on quotes watch out for falling glass."Did you hear about the shootings in Norway?" I replied, "Yes, awful isn't it, I can't begin to imagine how they must all feel today"
DD, miles off beam there. There's a massive distinction between showing empathy as part of a conversion and broadcasting trite Hallmark-card nothings to a forum of strangers.
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We could grieve all day about each and every futile death but that would take up too much time and our lives would be filled with sorrow.. so why not take these opportunities to share a little manageable grief together..?
Ant that's particularly silly. You rank other people's tragedies in order to give an outlet for your own emotions? Publicly grieving a stranger's loss is somehow supposed to improve your own emotional health? ridiculous.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Yep. People want to display their sorrow on a public forum and then get upset when people exercise their right to say things that might argue against them.
This is surely a place for debate and discussion and threads which are no more than a condolence book are boring sterile and pointless. If you want to mourn someone without the risk of people questioning your assumptions do it privately.
For the record I was sad but unsurprised that AW died. A real talent wasted, but she had choices and responsibility for her own decisions. The Norwegian kids are a tragedy, but somehow touch me less because we knew them less. Wrong perhaps. The grief some people expressed when Jade Goody (the "people's chav") died I found particularly nauseating.
Posted 10 months ago # -
i'm finding myself agreeing with Stoner, in principle ...
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Jade Goody is dead?
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ridiculous.
err.. I know you are you said you are but what am I..?
I'm not exactly sure how else best to respond to any of the stuff you're posting..
I'm not particularly precious about death.. and I don't imagine myself starting RIP threads..
but getting all supercilious over another's decision to do so..?
bizarre
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How about explaining why you dont use the death of an alzheimic nonogenarian as a springboard to "share a little manageable grief together..?"
Or does it have to be mass murder to count? Or maybe just a famous person will cut it?
Posted 10 months ago # -
people exercise their right
Tut. Have you not read the recent posts from the Mods? You have no rights here.
People want to display their sorrow on a public forum and then get upset
Actually, there was two sevenths of bugger all "sorrow" shown on the thread in question...equally, if someone wants to disagree with the macho posturing (borrowed from tags) - then surely you have no problem with that either?
Posted 10 months ago # -
How about explaining
you really don't see..? the keyword is popular.. a popular celeb.. hence the shared emotion..
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How about explaining why you dont use the death of an alzheimic nonogenarian as a springboard to "to share a little manageable grief together..?"
If there was one who'd touched our lives in some way, and that we all knew, I can imagine that that might fill the bill.
AW's music was not that important to me - I downloaded Back To Black and listened to it a few times, like a few tracks - but when David Bowie kicks off (don't laugh) I can imagine feeling a bit melancholy, as I listened to his music pretty much non-stop as a teenager, and it will remind me of the passing of time ...
Posted 10 months ago # -
and that we all knew
but we "knew" AW? I doubt it.
I can imagine feeling a bit melancholy, as I listened to his music pretty much non-stop as a teenager, and it will remind me of the passing of time
As will I. But would you feel the need to weep into your keyboard as you type out your post so we can all know how you feel about a stranger's death.
Acch. going round and round now. Im off out. Didnt mean to insult anyone individually - hope I haven't. But I still think a little more sincerity instead of popular vacuousness that's adds nothing but personal validation wouldn't go amiss sometimes.
Posted 10 months ago # -
but we "knew" AW? I doubt it.
"knew about", let's say, or "knew of"
As will I. But would you feel the need to weep into your keyboard as you type out your post so we can all know how you feel about a stranger's death.
I certainly hope not!!
Posted 10 months ago # -
Stoner - Member
But would you feel the need to weep into your keyboard as you type out your post so we can all know how you feel about a stranger's death.
There you go again - pretending that punters on here have shown excessive grief with regards to Amy Winehouse's death. And yet you have been unable to provide a single example to back up this claim, let alone many. I haven't seen any posts which left me thinking that the poster had been 'weeping into their keyboard'.
I guess you must feel that if you keep repeating something which is patently untrue, then eventually it must become "true".
Posted 10 months ago # -
ernie - Kit's OP read a bit like that to me. It was also inviting the discussion that has ensued IMO.
To write ill of the dead is disgraceful, if you ask me, but to debate the motives behind starting RIP threads... a completely different thing.
Posted 10 months ago # -
I would have posted earlier but my keyboard short circuited.
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