You mean the babies had no arms!? Now that is fucking sick, picking on disabled defenceless babies!
If his face is painted white, shouldn’t his hair be dyed red, rather than dyed in red?
Or conversely, shouldn’t his face be painted in white?
Alright, is this your new signoff? I say that first line at least 237 times a day. The second one confuses me.
Don’t yell at me, I borrowed it from the English. It’s what one often refers to as a “joke.”
To be perfectly honest, sometimes it’s difficult to tell the difference between a parody of recreational outrage, a spoof thread (witness the title), and the real thing.
If everybody on the board were always to react with maximum compassion and sensitivity to every [del]waffle[/del] awful thing that happens in the world, we’d be burned out by now.
A few years ago I did a play set above the 110th floor in Tower 1 of the World Trade Center. That is, the play was about the people who were there, it wasn’t actually staged there. There was a tremendous amount of gallows humor behind the scenes, because you simply had to respond in that way backstage lest you become overwhelmed by the drama onstage. Example during rehearsal: someone shouted “Save us, Superman!” and I responded with “Look, up in the sky! It’s a plane! It’s another plane!”
The newsworthiness of death in the US media:
1,000,000 massacred Congolese < 100,000 drowned Bangladeshis < 10,000 Chinese earthquake victims < 1,000 HIV-infected Russians < 100 stabbed infant Belgians < 10 British war casualties < 1 snipered American.
Shamelessly appropriated from America: The Book.
I don’t know, obviously. Tell me, you’re the native English speaker, here. Languages aren’t that consistent, so it didn’t strike me as obviously wrong.
By the way, of course, the thread title and content wasn’t a smear at Belgians or believers, but a reference to the current “Why don’t Christian kill babies?” and similar threads
<1 footwear attacked POTUS
I’m stab’en it
Surely that’s filed under “comedy”, not “tragedy”.
I looked for a thread about this on here because I just read this story and find it really hard to process. It’s a horrific story. What thread do I find? A thread full almost entirely of jokes. ‘Gallows humour’ is a pathetic excuse.
Well that 13th egg we found hidden one year was a pretty serious bomb. Seriously.
It’s not an excuse. It’s the real reason.
And what did you contribute beyond whining about it?
Gallows humour is the jokes made by people like ER doctors, to cope with the traumas they have to face. People on a messageboard aren’t facing ‘trauma.’
What else am I supposed to contribute on a thread that’s taking the piss out of a killer and his victims? Make up more jokes about dead babies?
If this had happened in the US I sincerely doubt this thread would be filled with jokes. But then we all know that American babies are worth at least 20 Belgian babies.
No, no. Please get your exchange rates right. It’s one American baby for five West European babies and twenty Palestinian, Iraqi or other Muslim babies. There is no official exchage rate for Chinese babies because they are not freely traded in the open market but if they were I guess they would go for just a bit less than European babies. Maybe even less if you take into account their abundance.
Here’s the wheel, feel free to steer this thread in whatever direction you feel is better.
The culprit (who by the way is a 20 something with the face of an angel) is now also charged with the murder of a 73 yo woman (also stabbed to death) one week before. He was also planning to attack two other creches.
Agreed. This isn’t gallows humour, this is not caring because it didn’t happen in your country.