The tragedy that struck in Glasgow on Friday and the resulting piss taking and beel generated on here got me thinking about other disasters and tragedies from the past that would have got the General Chat treatment. Some that spring to mind were The Herald of Free Enterprise (Zeebrugge ferry doing a Titanic impression without the iceberg), That boat that caught fire on the Thames and sank killing a load of Yuppies and Michael Ryan letting a few rounds off in Hungerford to name but a few. Any of you ****s got any that would have made a good piss take/beel?
When Noah saved all the animals and left everycunt else to drown. The beel in the ensuing days would have been epic.
Along similar lines, there must have been some mega beel in Egypt after Moses parted the sea to escape with the Jews.
All those gun massacres in the US. In the words of Oliver Twist, "Please sir, can we have some more"?
I honestly dread to think what it would have been like if the internet had been around in the days of the major football disasters. I'm also guessing that the Michael Stone incident would have generated some rather lively discussion.......
You've missed the big one DIANA!!! That was truly the greatest beelfest in history.My brother had an idea for a perfect scam when they were selling tickets months in advance to visit the grave.Account cleared and closed ages before the sad bastards got turned away at the gates.
If you can count it as a disaster then when Orson Wells did his "War of the Worlds " broadcast and sent Americans into a panic ... some fun couldve been had with that ..... though .... if the internet had existed I suppose people wouldve just googled to find out if an alien invasion was really happening ... and realised it was all just a radio play. Aw, **** it, scrub that one.
That was the most surreal week ever - the whole nation seemed to go from being relatively reserved to a mass of blubbering wrecks. I had a field day. 9/11 would have been pretty interesting on here as well.
Lockerbie and Dunblane Venom would probably have got it tight with plenty of burnt coupon jokes after piper alpha from you predictable ****s as well
Word War II would have been a hell of a laugh....that **** Chamberlain with his appeasement, Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, the Normandy Landings and then Hitler's suicide. We'd have had so much material to go on.
Now you mention it, everyone likes to have s go at Ibrox, H,borough and Heysel. Where's Bradford in all of this.
This is interesting.Mrs asked me yesterday these questions: 1.You are standing on a railway bridge with a stranger and a train is coming down the track.A bus full of people has stalled across the line further down and you can stop the train by pushing the stranger in front of it.Do you? 2.You are in a hospital and you know that the baby in front of you is going to grow up into a dictator who will kill millions.You can kill it.Do You? I answered yes to both and apparently few people do to Q2.She says I have psychopathic tendencies.I think people who make humour from disasters may be the same.
It's a really horrible thing to say but I think much of it is because they are a pretty anonymous team. On FA Cup Final day this year it was the anniversary and they never marked it in any way at all - had it been Munich or Hillsborough i think we all know it would have been different.
The Wall St Crash,various famines and the crucifixion of Jesus with THFC606 getting the ire for the last one.
