Why can't you go to Warsaw?

(Bazongaloid, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 13:04, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

cos national mourning has been announced and all the public buildings will be shut.
as well as half the major roads in the city.
so as to allow outpourings of grief and votive lighting for the dead.

i don't want to sound unsympathetic, but...
FFS i'm on holiday and really kinda wanted to go to the Palac Kultury for the sci-tech museum and the views from the top. it's a cracking building, a gift from Stalin to the Polish population in about 1920, a great example of socialist-era statement-architecture.

edit: i guess we could still go but there would be fuck all to do but walk the streets.
twunts.

edit2: www.pkin.pl/
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sat 10 Apr 2010, 13:47, Reply)

You did sound unsympathetic I'm afraid

( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 14:04, Reply)

You don't just sound unsympathetic,
you also sound like a prick.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 14:28, Reply)

maybe so.
but do these people mean anything to you?
probably not.
me neither.
i can acknowledge the passing of of a human being (or even 132 of them) but i'm quite sure neither of us know any of them or their families.
empathy is one thing, sympathy another.
and anyway, this is b3ta, tongue-in-cheek and all that.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sat 10 Apr 2010, 14:35, Reply)

Whether they 'mean' anything to me or not
it's a pretty horrible thing to happen and a damn sight more important than your holiday plans.
B3ta may be tongue-in-cheek but you don't seem to have the hang of it.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 14:37, Reply)

I've clicked this a lot
to try and make it go onto the popular page.
(Bazongaloid, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 14:51, Reply)

You could try respecting the general feelings of the country you are visiting,
If the place means so little to you, then go home. It probably wasn't worth the bother going in the first place.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 15:09, Reply)