I take it he didn't lose her in the WTC in 2001
and 2 weeks is the official Jewish period of grief, and you're just illustrating a point about how people react to genuine grief rather than a sort of perverse reflected glory like the OP implies most Americans indulge in?
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Mon 23 Aug 2010, 16:37, 1 reply)

No.
Ah, I didn't really make myself clear. He did lose her in the WTC. I'm just saying that his reaction is normal and quite admirable. The mawkish sentimentality of those doing it in his 'honour' is rather disgusting.

I'm bringing him up (I don't really feel 'affected' anymore than anybody else who was in Dalston, E3 that day) to show that not all Yankees are chest-beating morons, but, perversely (and moreso,) to also show that those who 'speak' for the 'victims' are a bunch of idiots.

Some of these idiots don't even believe that any Jews died that day. Some of the people who gladly became rich from death and tragedy, who are fighting against the Muslim NYC community centre, who sit on Fox News and weep out words as the 'voice' of thousands of people genuinely don't believe that Jews died that day, despite being faced with the evidence.
(TheSnark oh, c'mon, like you didn't see me coming, Mon 23 Aug 2010, 16:49, closed)

Psssst.
Dalston isn't in E3.
(Sloppy Giuseppe, Mon 23 Aug 2010, 17:13, closed)

Ah, oops.
That's just where I woke up.
(TheSnark oh, c'mon, like you didn't see me coming, Mon 23 Aug 2010, 17:41, closed)

But it happened more than 4 weeks ago.... maybe Im not reading it properly, but if it's been 2 weeks since the 2 weeks of grief ended, then that's 4 weeks. That's July 2010.
Sorry if Im just being dumb and not reading it properly!
( user_names_suck, Mon 23 Aug 2010, 17:46, closed)

Ah, no.
That was my stupid writing.
(TheSnark oh, c'mon, like you didn't see me coming, Mon 23 Aug 2010, 18:08, closed)

"Some of these idiots don't even believe that any Jews died that day."
This doesn't even make any sense as a viewpoint. So it was a Judeo-Muslim conspiracy, cause everyone knows they get along so well?

The stupidity and bigotry of some people buggers one right in the mind sometimes. :(
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Mon 23 Aug 2010, 17:50, closed)