Took long enough for someone to post this. I had a new thread post prepped 4 hours ago, but it was sufficiently cynical and tasteless so I decided to hold off.
Good choice.
Re: I'd take the bus if I were you....
Took long enough for someone to post this. I had a new thread post prepped 4 hours ago, but it was sufficiently cynical and tasteless so I decided to hold off.
Good choice.
Last edited by Seamus Fermanagh; 06-03-2010 at 03:42.
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Re: I'd take the bus if I were you....
My prayers go out to the many loved ones as well as the victims.
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Re: I'd take the bus if I were you....
Very sad.
All so very banal. Needless, pointless.
What ever happened to the ancient art of retreating oneself to one's study, with a glass of whiskey and a gun?
It is telling of modern society that men (never women), without either courage, resolve, or sometimes sadly indeed means, to overcome difficulties, should think they ought to take revenge on faceless others rather than accept private failure or loss.
Then again, if one wouldn't be prone to blame others for one's failures, then perhaps one wouldn't be a loser in the first place.
Re: I'd take the bus if I were you....
Unfortunately, the modern era of 24/7 news coverage and the certain knowledge of media exposure to millions guarantees those of a narcissistic bent to continue such acts.What ever happened to the ancient art of retreating oneself to one's study, with a glass of whiskey and a gun?
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Re: I'd take the bus if I were you....
I guess someone did´t leave a big enough tip.
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Re: I'd take the bus if I were you....
What this man may have lacked was a sense of legacy and longevity of existance. What better way to prove to the world that you are timeless than to kill those who thought you lacked that and be immortilized and idealized on the omnipresent media circut. In his mind perhaps he could achieve the status of Napoleon. Shame he had to kill innocents and hurt their surviors on such a spontaneous violent frenzy instead of being content with an inevitable modest epithaph that everyone else will live on forever with. Some people seem to take their self-loathing out on others, it's quite sad.
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Re: I'd take the bus if I were you....
A true tragedy. I guess once in a while people just snap. One in a million or so who have the potential to snap like this would be enough to create a unpleasant environment around us. I was in England when this occurred, on vacation.
Have two small thoughts about it.
1. That maybe less of this would happen if media gave it less space. Am very not sure putting so much media coverage on it helps in the long run.
2. With that said, the final of Britain got Talent seemed to be a rather more important topic in the hearts and minds of people. Interesting.
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