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# sickipedia got FP'd
but for all the wrong reasons...


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what did they think the site was about, with that title...?

and nings
(polished turd 404 pixels wide, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:27, archived)
# coward
Rob Manuel, of Kentish Town, London, who manages the Sikipedia website, did not return The Star's calls or emails asking for comment.
(polished turd 404 pixels wide, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:35, archived)
# What would he have said though?
"Yes, hello tabloid, this is exactly what Sickipedia was designed for, welcome to the internets. Bye now."
(I helped save b3ta! elephant rider property shark sighted!, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:38, archived)
# that's pretty much what i would have said.
adding, "it's your choice whether to view it or not.
people will always make sick jokes after any tragedy. that's humanity, get over it. goodbye, mr news person, and fuck off."
(polished turd 404 pixels wide, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:45, archived)
# Yes, this.
2012 Olympic Fever has been sweeping the nation.

Just the other day a South Yorkshire girl entered the fencing.
(I helped save b3ta! elephant rider property shark sighted!, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:52, archived)
# More like
Ginger nut Rob Manual is quoted as saying, 'Pot, kettle, black.'

'ningles all.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:59, archived)
# ahaha
let's ask him if he wants to go sledging...

(polished turd 404 pixels wide, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:02, archived)
# Ah! The truths comes out.


EDIT: This could actually be quite interesting as I know there are members of the press who would relish the chance at getting their claws into b3ta.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:08, archived)
# Well the stupid cow shouldn't have used a car roof as sledge to start with
and she should of jumped of when it was heading for the fence.

(I helped save b3ta! Duke Otterby you pre-verts, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:19, archived)
# *shhh*
The Star will be listening!
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:27, archived)
# oh hahahahaha
that took way too long!
specsavers?
(polished turd 404 pixels wide, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:20, archived)
# I raelly wanna shop that girl now
But I know the press will be watching b3ta ready to pounce.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:28, archived)
# Meh. Once it's been started there's no point stopping it.
(I helped save b3ta! Quijibo Esq. BSc. May contain traces of nuts, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:31, archived)
# No tattyshop on this PC
Just imagine a Sister Sledge image.:P
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:33, archived)
# Pfft
That would possibly be pushing the luck of B3ta.
(I helped save b3ta! Quijibo Esq. BSc. May contain traces of nuts, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:34, archived)
# Hum.
Does libel apply to the dead?
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:38, archived)
# no, this is all they have:
According to Section Four of the Public Order Act: "A person is guilty of an offence if, with intent to cause a person harassment, alarm or distress, he uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour, or displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting, thereby causing that or another person harassment, alarm or distress."
(polished turd 404 pixels wide, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:43, archived)
# Apparently "you can't libel the dead" is a well known saying.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4630243.stm
I didn't know.
I would have thought the deceased should be able to sue for any damages incurred after their death.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:46, archived)
# The next person who verbally abuses me is going to get sued
then I will become rich and rule the world!

(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:14, archived)
# I presume that a living family can sue for libel against a dead member of the family
Or maybe they would just claim emotional damages?

edit : ^ I stand corrected
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:44, archived)
# Do we have the tort of emotional distress in this country?
I rather hope our law encourages all to distress one another as much as we like, in the absence of material harm.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:52, archived)
# Woah could you imagine an entire family pressing for loss of earnings due to emotional damage.
That must nearly be 10 quid in yorkshire!
(Jeru War and Piss, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:00, archived)
# arf!!!
(I helped save b3ta! god save the queen making another unremarkable comeback, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:10, archived)
# Nope
Presumably they'd sue for 'distress' or 'emotional damage' if anything.

"Of their dead relative, there are no circumstances under which a family could sue for libel." - source: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4630243.stm
(I helped save b3ta! kitaro is all, like, "Nifty Biscuits" 'n that..., Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:48, archived)
# It would be quite hard
They have to take action in America I think as that is where the site is hosted.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:08, archived)
# But it's not where Rob is, so that wouldn't work very well.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:16, archived)
# Yeah but this is how a lot of these spamming viagra sites get away with it.
The are hosted in some of the poorer Asian countries.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:19, archived)
# What puzzles me is:
you can apparently sue for emotional damage as part of a claim for road traffic accident compensation, and for injury to feelings as part of a discrimination case. So if Rob had published sick jokes about their deceased relative while simultaneously running them over in a car, or refusing to employ them because of their race, then they could claim.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:30, archived)
# rob didn't post them though
All they can do is make him takwe them down. He can just say he was unaware that they'd been posted.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:50, archived)
# ah
the old 'plausible deniability' chestnut

(polished turd 404 pixels wide, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:56, archived)
# "Reporter discovers Internet"
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:43, archived)
# shock, horror!
(I helped save b3ta! fuckyouTtssattsr you cunt, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:47, archived)
# 'Reporter discovers something to whine about'
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:05, archived)
# Aye, there's no such thing as bad publicity.
* watches hits on sickipedia go exponential (just for research purposes of course)

(doogle i've got maddy, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:43, archived)
# Argh!
Return of the Verbless Headline!
(I helped save b3ta! The Coast Of Yemen, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:44, archived)
# Nono
the headline is complaining about how death is joking about anger. Maybe.
(I helped save b3ta! Panjandrum brought to you by tea and biccies, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:46, archived)
# Haha ha!
I just read some of the jokes. LOL!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:47, archived)
# Hahahaha!
Linky for the lazy
(I helped save b3ta! elephant rider property shark sighted!, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:50, archived)
# Most of those are pretty shit
(I helped save b3ta! The Coast Of Yemen, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:54, archived)
# the star report is factually incorrect:
there's five pages of jokes. not three
(polished turd 404 pixels wide, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:55, archived)
# i didn't know the site actually existed
i thought it was a mere figment of rob's warped imagination.

ban this sick filth now!!!!!
(I helped save b3ta! god save the queen making another unremarkable comeback, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 13:52, archived)
# Who you going to call, GOATFUCKERS
(I helped save b3ta! Duke Otterby you pre-verts, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:01, archived)
# when there's something strange, in your neighbourhood
who's it gonna be?
(I helped save b3ta! weaver., Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:09, archived)
# Rob Manual!
(I helped save b3ta! Duke Otterby you pre-verts, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:15, archived)
# I think you'll find that's the right reasons.
It's SICKipedia, after all.
(I helped save b3ta! Quijibo Esq. BSc. May contain traces of nuts, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:18, archived)
# See it's all well and good all these
... but really if you get a little bit of glee out of ppeople not grokking the way this works, having a giggle at the stupid upset people because they don't understands t3h internets and all it's cleverness, well you're a bit of a cunt.

You have to remember some poor fucker did basically get her head cut off by barbed wire, like a couple of days ago. You have to understand peoples feelings might be, you know, somewhat raw still.

Don't get me wrong, humour is the cure for everything I am an advocate of jokes about anything, thinking its funny that the people who don't get this are upset or in someway stupid, meh you really do have to go and fuck yourself.
(Captain_lambkin adifferent.me, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:20, archived)
# Life is unfair. I'm afraid it's a "get over it" type thing.
If it upsets you, don't bloody read it. Nice'n'simple.

If your kid has just died you don't go about googling her name, do you.
(I helped save b3ta! Quijibo Esq. BSc. May contain traces of nuts, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:22, archived)
# Not the point I was making.
I am refering to the people who delight in the fact that this kind of thing upsets people. It's meta as it's not about the joke itself but rather that people like that the joke upsets people.

I doubt very much wether the parents jumped onto google to search for the name of thier child just after she died, thats a dumb assumption, and you know it. People like oh I don't know, reporters? Most likely found it researching who the fuck she was, then stuck it in the families face.
(Captain_lambkin adifferent.me, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:38, archived)
# Ah right. Then yes, I see your point.
(I helped save b3ta! Quijibo Esq. BSc. May contain traces of nuts, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:40, archived)
# "Hey, here's a couple of results from a website called sickipedia"

(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:38, archived)
# i agree with most of that
the bits that made sense anyway...

i can laugh about it, because i didn't know her. the people who did probably wouldn't have been aware of the sickipedia jokes about her without the meeja sticking their oar in.

it's only a 'shock horror' because they have made it so.
(polished turd 404 pixels wide, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:26, archived)
# Shhh... it makes not sense because I am on drugs.
 
(Captain_lambkin adifferent.me, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:32, archived)
# "These jokes are extremely distressing to anyone..."
well not just anyone, clearly. There are at least a few people who think they're really funny.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 14:40, archived)