Hmm...dunno if i found this one funny.
Saw the story running originally, and at the risk of sounding like a Mail or Express journo....You have to wonder what the world is coming to when people act like that...
...then again, the story makes it sound like people stood around for ages like a mob, but the reality is probably that one bell-end shouted it, and the police went and got him to fuck off straight away.
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Certainly a more measured response than I was expecting.
I found the links from a puff-piece article on the Grauniad which was banging on about how absolutely appalling and sickening it was. I just feel the needless sensationalism of the articles was at least equally cheapening of the event.
Well granted it was unpleasant behaviour, but I still found it funny in a gallows-humour style.
Though I'm loath to ascribe groupthink to b3ta, this is still a site where Madeleine McCann jokes are still posted pretty much every week; where the Falling Man motivator made an FP; where the Asian Tsunami was the subject of much joking and where I read a hilarious QOTW response about someone getting hit by a tube train.
I'm happy to delete the thread if anyone feels particularly strongly about this - I just thought that there's normally a fairly twisted streak to the boards.
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I'm not judging you, dude...
I'm not shocked, appalled, or offended.
I simply don't agree that it's funny. And yes, it takes a lot on these boards to offend.
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