Iâve no idea. Public expressions of condolence or grief â unless specifically coming from family members or friends of the deceased â often feel rather insincere (to me). Iâm not saying that they are insincere, merely that they feel like it. Big difference. And if theyâre not insincere, then they are almost certainly worthless Quite. The curse and vulgarity of public emoting - of forcibly showing how "good" we are - may be seen to have fully taken hold when Britons disgraced and debased themselves over the death of Princess Diana. This, and the impotence people may generally feel in other aspects of their lives, seems to push them towards gatecrashing public deaths in order to feel part of the story.
Good call. The problem is, however, that "news" organisations report what people are saying there, as if it may ever matter. I may abstain, but there seems to be no escape. I know you would, darling, but just try to be strong for daddy.
This new facebook generation have grown up thinking their voice is as important as anyone else's, on any subject. The BBC have been the worst offenders with this, nearly every article has a 'send us your thoughts/experiences' box under it. On the original subject though, I was trying to make the point last night on the Muamba thread that posting 'my thoughts are with his family' messages on here serves absolutely no purpose apart from making the posters feel better about themselves as human beings. So in fact they're 'profiteering' from a young man fighting for his life. I've also read quite a few posts predicting what the outcome of his injury would be, after only seeing video-footage of the guy collapsing and lying on the floor. What we must always remember is that anything negative affecting anyone famous (only the ones chosen to be 'good' by the media) is of utmost importance and we need to all feel concerned for as long as the media tell us to
Why does it seem to bother you lot that people want to show public displays condolence? On the one hand I see some of you talking down on those because of their 'self important' opinion, yet you're doing the very same thing you criticize them for. If it bothers you so much, I apologize for whoever forced the guns to your head and made you read them. You simply could just choose to ignore it but I guess it's cooler to say 'we don't care, we're not sheep, we don't do what the media tells us, you're all sheeple blah blah'. Oh wait, I'm on the GC section, where most posters here have the combined IQ of a peanut, so commonsense has clearly sailed for sunnier shores with most of you.
Why come on to GC if you think so little of us? I don't like reality TV because I think it's vacuous and irritating. So I don't watch it. So why do you come on to GC when you think the posters on here are too stupid to engage with? What does it say about you as a person?
"Throw a stone and a hit dog will holler." Seems I touched a nerve eh? I hardly ever post on this section I certainly don't engage with 'most' people here. This section is like reading dick jokes scribbled on public toilet walls. Do they provide a cheap laugh? Probably. Is it worth reading? Probably not. I couldn't care less what you think of me, I post my opinions and move on. I was just making an observation of the hypocrisy that some posters were making in this thread, but I suspect they are too dense to see it themselves.
Yet, you still make the effort to come on here so what does that make you? You seem to have a very high opinion of yourself (undeserved in my opinion) yet you choose to come on here and talk in a maledicent manner about people you do not know. We may be guilty of engaging in an inaniloquent style from time to time but that does not justify you coming on here and abusing people. It's the irony that makes it funny as much as anything else
A man after my own heart. I tend to agree and feel your point is perfectly valid and ought to (at least) be given a respectful hearing. What sensible purpose is served, after all, by sticking your head round the door of a room full of strangers and saying âI wish X a speedy recoveryâ or âIâm so sorry that X is deadâ when X and his relations are noticeably absent from the room and must stand an infinitesimally small chance of ever hearing your seeming concern? To whom are these sentiments being expressed, exactly? It rather baffles me. If this action isnât entirely self-serving, then Iâm not at all sure what it is - barring an emotional incontinence. Harsh. Quite right. When perfect strangers tell us to be sad about the lives and deaths of other perfect strangers we must remember to bow our heads with genuine sorrow until we can all move on to the next guy.
Most of us are intelligent people in my opinion. We're just not pathetic human beings who mourn over a footballer having a heart attack. We also have a sense of humour (and one that doesn't involve laughing at Lee Nelson or Stephen K Amos)
I'd like to add another aspect to the debate, why when most famous people die; or kids for that matter; are they always described as such wonderful people, rays of light, or a joy to be around? Over my life, I've met at least as many ****ers, ****s and people I'd piss myself laughing at if they were hit by a bus, as people who were actually wonderful, rays of light, or a joy to be around. Most people are average, some times they're really nice, other times they're ****s, but in the main, they're just going about their daily lives and generally speaking, very few kids are nice as much as they're horrors, so why does nobody ever tell the truth about them when they die? Is everybody interviewed on tv or by the press a hypocrite, or are they just so deperate to be heard, that they'll say any old ****?
