Gallows humor is usually funnier when it’s not being made by the executioner.
Gallows humor is a way for people IN the stressful situation to deal with it emotionally, it’s not a way for people who CREATE the stressful situation to make fun of the people they are crushing.
I think this type of humor is more correctly called “Please Firebomb our Offices” humor.
I’d go with a never-ending back-to-back marathon of Democracy Now!.
We want them to suffer, but I’d never wish that on my worst enemy!
As others have suggested, you have a rather unusual understanding of gallows humor.
I wonder if you realize that these are not the only people who are losing their houses. You do realize that, right?
With the economic downturn, plenty of people have been unable to pay their mortgage because they’ve lost their jobs.
Although I’m a progressive liberal, I’m still wishing Democracy Now! on them. For the men, their only fapping material will be photos of host Amy Goodman. On weekends and holidays, they might be treated to an episode of Free Speech Radio, and just to make things interesting, maybe some Alex Jones.
Maybe two stations: Pacifica Radio, and a shortwave brokered time station.
Oooh, sounds like a live-action version of the opening splash panels from a 1950’s “Tales from the Crypt” comic. I hope we get to hear how the story turns out.
My, what Bright Young People. Plus les choses changent, plus elles restent les mêmes.
I’m not seeing the connection.
The Bright Young People were an English society set that liked to have costume parties made it into the press. They were entitled, excessive, childish, and remarkably insensitive. In 1927, the year folowng the General Strike, and on the heels of the 1927 Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act that prohibited secondary strikes and mass picketing, they held a Beggar’s Ball. They had jumped the shark by 1931, when they were roundly castigated in the press following their Red and White Ball, which was held during the Jarrow Hunger March to London.
Eight decades later, we have the same behaviour by yet another entitled group, putting on a Beggars’ Ball while Occupy Wall Street is taking place to protest the behaviour that has led to so very many people being homeless, unemployed, under-employed, or unable to get ahead. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
How about they have to watch a documentary in Hell, narrated by Terry Gross, that’s by Ken Burns; so it’s an endless, barely perceptible zoom-out from a sepia photo of Frederick Douglass; but it’s also an Errol Morris documentary; so whenever Terry pauses it plays slow, demented circus music?
I just wanted to thank you for sharing that video. Fascinating stuff. I wasn’t aware of that scene at all.
Reread my post, particulary the last bit.
Having read it, it doesn’t really absolve you from the fact you are a dick. If you had the barest understanding about the extra-legal procedures being employed by this firm and others like it, or what proportion of the mortgage market was speculators vs. people who were trying to buy a family home (20% speculators, last stats I’d heard), maybe you’d have any right to people caring about your paper-thin disclaimer.
And the firm in question has not just an adult, but a LEGAL responsibility to follow proper procedures to establish that they even have the RIGHT to foreclose on a property before doing so. They have been sanctioned for not doing so, in “scores of cases.”
Instead, they decided they’d rather throw a party making fun of those they may or may not be properly bringing foreclosure proceedings against.
I don’t know about you, but my sympathies are definitely with the scores of people who have had to deal with the reality of losing their home when they weren’t at fault at all.
Yes, very good, put a red star on your P.C. perhaps mommy will give you a cookie for your reading ability.
Now reread it again, but this time try to understand what you’re reading, I know for people like yourself this might be a little more difficult then for the rest of us, but help me out here just this once and give it the good old college try eh ?
(A college is a lot of big buildings where grown ups go and do stuff, but don’t you worry about that eh ?
One step at a time.)
Free translation: “I got nothing, so I’m going to blow smoke like a badly tuned diesel.”
I been to college, that’s where I found out I already knew how to read.
Well if you’ve got nothin’why didn’t you say so in the first place?
That way you’d have saved us all wasting a minute of our lives reading your attempt at a post.
But please don’t let me keep you, I’m sure that you’ve got plenty of things to do, you know homework assignments, tidy your room etc.
Cheerio now !
They should have had someone dressed as a robot to represent robo-signing. Another as a ghost of homes foreclosed when the bank did not have clear title ,since it was chopped up and sold off in many CDOs.