# I pit the jackasses in Oslo **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 22, 2011, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038 "2011-07-22T22:05:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038/1 "2011-07-22T22:05:15Z")
I am _very_ glad that my norwegian buddy who just spend one of the more horrifying afternoons of his life is safe. I am seriously pissed off that he had to go through the explosion at such short quarters. They can go die in a fire.:mad: ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038/2 "2011-07-22T22:58:27Z")
Somehow “jackasses” seems…insufficient. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038/3 "2011-07-22T23:19:47Z")
Clearly the best approach is to find out what their demands are and offer to meet them. Then when they show up to collect, shoot them in the face. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038/4 "2011-07-23T01:09:16Z")
That’s a bold statement, right there. Joe ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038/5 "2011-07-23T03:14:37Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > Somehow “jackasses” seems…insufficient. Tomas _works_ in that block. Nobody could get in touch with him for hours. I do not like losing friends, I don’t have all that many. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038/6 "2011-07-23T06:10:04Z")
**aruvqan** , I think **MEBuckner** ’s point was that using much, much stronger language would certainly be warranted in this case. And I agree. When I left the house earlier, the news from Norway was already horrific at an estimated 20 people killed, and when I got home, the estimate had risen to 80. It is unspeakable. ---
**Author:** ![Norse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9adbd/32.png) [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038/7 "2011-07-23T08:34:36Z")
It seems as if it was a lone madman. Norway’s own Tim McVeigh. He set of a bomb that killed 7 and gunned down 84 good young people. Words are insufficient Thankfully, the Norwegian justice system can’t give the death penalty. There has been more than enough deaths Don’t let the hate take over. This is what hate leads to ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038/8 "2011-07-23T09:33:58Z")
I was just talking with another of my viking buddies [as i jokingly refer to them] and he is absolutely shocked. He was luckily nowhere near the bombing, and wasn’t related to anybody that got hurt or killed, he says that everybody is horrified, shocked and baffled. Apparently the guy was upset with how soft Norwegians are?! He mentioned it was up to 91 ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Norse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9adbd/32.png) [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038/9 "2011-07-23T09:39:35Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > He mentioned it was up to 91 ☹ 7 casualties in the bombing in Oslo and - so far - 84 confirmed shot and killed at Utøya island. They’re still not sure that they’ve found everyone, though ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038/10 "2011-07-23T09:51:03Z")
Here’s a little more information about the (now confessed) murderer, [Anders Behring Breivik](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/07/23/2011-07-23_who_is_anders_behring_breivik_norway_shooting_suspects_profile_emerges.html). Right wing extremist, anti-Islam activist, poster on fundamentalist Christian blogs, and mass-murderer. That is what they know so far, or all they are releasing at this point anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038/11 "2011-07-23T11:13:27Z")
Not too happy about that link, it’s such a jumble of stuff and I can’t help but think someone was trying to make a link between violent movies, TV and video games, possibly the Masons as well. Seriously, the vast, overwhelming majority of people who like those things never harm anyone else, much less blow up buildings or gun down kids. It makes as much sense to blame it on his liking for classical music. Really, the thing that always gets me about wild-eyed maniacs like this is how _ordinary_ they are in so many ways. Put me down for another who thinks this is the Norwegian Tim McVeigh. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038/12 "2011-07-23T13:16:53Z")
Am I a horrible person fore being thankful that it was a Norwegian that did this? I didn’t wish for this to happen, needless to say, put I was crossing my fingers it wasn’t one of “them brown people”. We would never hear the end of this. I am hoping the courts find a way to store him away for life in a place where he only knows that his name has become a symbol of ignominy and ridicule. ---
**Author:** ![RaleighRally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@RaleighRally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaleighRally)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038/13 "2011-07-23T13:32:42Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > Am I a horrible person fore being thankful that it was a Norwegian that did this? I think he looks like an Oriental with dyed hair: [http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article4181374.ece](http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article4181374.ece) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038/14 "2011-07-23T13:35:41Z")
You really are a piece of work, **RalieghRally**. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038/15 "2011-07-23T13:41:17Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > You really are a piece of work, **RalieghRally**. He’s got to grasp at straws in order to try to distance himself from someone who essentially holds the same ignorant beliefs as he does. Next he will blame it on his faulty “programming.” ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038/16 "2011-07-23T13:41:41Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Clearly the best approach is to find out what their demands are and offer to meet them. > > Then when they show up to collect, shoot them in the face. Bruce Willis School of Negotiation? > [@RaleighRally](#): > > I think he looks like an Oriental with dyed hair: [http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article4181374.ece](http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article4181374.ece) Huh? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038/17 "2011-07-23T13:47:17Z")
> [@RaleighRally](#): > > I think he looks like an Oriental with dyed hair: [http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article4181374.ece](http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article4181374.ece) Who the fuck uses the term “Oriental” anymore, other than a racist asshole? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038/18 "2011-07-23T13:52:01Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Who the fuck uses the term “Oriental” anymore, other than a racist asshole? In fairness, as an adjective it doesn’t have a particularly racist overtone in the UK - we tend to mean South Asian when we say Asian, so “oriental” is a common descriptor for people from East Asia. As a noun, however, it does sound a bit iffy. ---
**Author:** ![RaleighRally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@RaleighRally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaleighRally)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038/19 "2011-07-23T13:53:34Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Who the fuck uses the term “Oriental” anymore, other than a racist asshole? Seriously, I didn’t know that the Frankfurt School had banned that word too. Thanks for enlightening me. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038/20 "2011-07-23T13:59:04Z")
I apologize for this in advance… Yeah, I don’t know why **RaleighRally** wants to make this guy out to be an “Oriental,” this incident just supports his theory that [Northern Europeans are trying to turn themselves into a minority.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=616746) This guy was just trying to help the process along by killing of 90-odd more in one fell swoop, eh? In your face, doubters! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-jackasses-in-oslo/590038.md?page=2)