Sounds about right to me.
A play on McDonalds old jingle of “You deserve a break today”.
Yeah, I know. I didn’t say I didn’t get it.
He used a knife?
So much for gun control preventing mass murders. :rolleyes:
My 1 1/2 yo niece had a febrile seizure Tuesday night. She stopped breathing. Her father gave her mouth-to-mouth until the EMTs came and they took her to the hospital.
Her father is Belgian. I guess he didn’t get the memo.
(She is alright. My sister is taking her to the pediatrician today to check as well).
Very well, cold I am then.
Miserable fat Belgian bastards…
Oh shit-I’m so glad she’s okay.
Back on topic:
First we had the guy dressed as Santa going on a killing spree at a kindergarten (or was a hospital pediatric ward?) and now this. WTF? What next-the Easter Bunny starts handing out grenades instead of painted eggs?
You should all have your filthy gutter mouths washed out with soap. In all my life I’ve never seen so much gratuitous use of the word B*****m. Heathens!
Why say that? I can’t think of anything more derogatory than ‘Belgian’.
We’re trying to win a prestigious intergalactic movie award.
ETA: It’d be cool if we did, we could use it to district chicks from overweening dieties at flying building, multi-generational house parties.
I dunno, he only killed three people. An American school shooting with such a low body count would barely make page seven in the paper.
:rolleyes: yerself
I’m sure someone will be along to scold you all for being insensitive, heartless jerks. Most likely the post will contain some mixture of :rolleyes:s and :dubious:s and :eek:s.
But it won’t be me.
Let it be me then.
The nursery was caring for thirteen toddlers at the time of the incident. Two toddlers were stabbed to death. TEN OTHER TODDLERS are in hospital, with MULTIPLE STAB WOUNDS, some in critical condition. One of the children remained unhospitalised, albeit hurt.
That means that every child in the nursery was stabbed.
Stricken parents were given photographs of the stabbed children and the bodies, to find out if it was theirs that had been killed.
An adult was killed, and two others were injured, as they put themselves between the killer and the children.
Perhaps because the OP started this in a parody format, that it has degenerated into farce. I don’t know.
I do know that this story is absolutely horrific, and I don’t recall ever having seen other mass murders treated with such levity on this board.
I’m fairly unimpressed.
Gallows humour has moved a long way from the scaffold. If we were at the scene of the crime making these wisecracks, it would truly be insensitive. As it stands, there is not much of practical use that can be said about this topic and given the unlikelihood of anyone involved with the incident seeing this thread, I see no real harm intended by peoples comments.
Perhaps not. And normally I do appreciate gallows humour. Perhaps it’s because the incident is so astonishingly horrific, or maybe it’s because I was in Belgium last week, where I found the people to be pleasant and kind and undeserving of such horror, but I’m getting the old “too soon” vibe here.
(Maybe someone can provide a link to the Virigina Tech joke thread for me? I would imagine it to be dated April 17, 2007?)
I reckon most humour of this sort comes as an instant reaction, and not as a result of having contemplated the subject long and hard. By then you wouldn’t have much humour left in you!
jjimm, I think that most people is making fun of this thread than of the incident in itself. Although I haven’t indulged in this one, this is how I feel on most RO threads. We are all so far removed from the incident that we are more likely to react to the outrage, as a more immediate thing, than to the news.
If only the babies had been armed!
Not only that but stabbing babies makes a mess. You get your hands full of baby blood which is specially difficult to get of your clothes. Handguns make the job much cleaner.
Me cago en la madre que le parió.
Suelto de vientre.
OK, that made me laugh a bit.
If we wanted to turn this into a gun control pissing match, it should be noted that in a very similar incident, murderous paedophile bastard Thomas Hamilton managed to kill 16 children and a teacher with:
So thank goodness the Belgian murderer only had a knife.