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Mawkish sentimentality.

This more than most things in life make me seeth enough to want to shit out my intestines in anger.

For example, the demise of Diana, Princess of Wales, the "Peoples Princess" and the huge wailing and gnashing of teeth in grief the proceeded her death. Jesus fucking christ it was embarrassing, sitting there watching as the general public lined up teary cheeked decreeing her second only to *insert prefered diety here* as the greatest thing that ever existed, how she did soooooo much good to everyone she ever touched or so much as fawned over. ARRGH!

Maddy McCann, would quite happily strangle the parents with the intestines currenty hanging out of my bottom. Dear Mr & Mrs McCann, you are shit parents and entirely responsible for her not being where she should be by your own fucking negligence, blame a film, sue the police, it works for american parents.

A minutes silence on 9/11? right, if you live in America or lost a friend or relative I absolutely agree, but why should some fat cunt in my office in Cambridge lecture me about not respecting this tragedy and the terrible loss! oh fuck off, ok , how many minutes silences have we held for . . . . . .
Dunblane (shooting) Hungerford, Columbine, Omagh, Lockerbie (plane falling on it) Herald of Free Enterprise, Bardford stadium fire, Hillsborough, The Kings cross tube fire, Belsen, Auschwitz Cambodia, etc etc etc ad fucking nauseum.

Why is this one event so important that I have to respect them? hmm? 9000 dead because a couple of crazy fuckers fly a plane into it compared to what Pol Pot did? or Stalingrad in WW11? or Ethnic cleansing in Rwanda, Whats left of Yugoslavia, The killing fields? can't remember ever being asked and expected to stop and pay respect to these frankly awful events in history.

Bah.
(Halfy By light alone, Sat 3 May 2008, 22:25, 7 replies)

I agree
when the minutes silence was held after 9/11 I couldn't help wondering if we would do the same if that many people in somewhere like Afghanistan had been killed.

When did a plane fall on Dunblane?
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 3 May 2008, 22:53, closed)

I think he means Lockerbie

( evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sat 3 May 2008, 23:04, closed)

Fucking well said Halfy!
I echo each of these sentiments entirely. Times 27 squillion.

*clicks like crazy*
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Sat 3 May 2008, 23:23, closed)

Must agree.
A minute's silence for people I neither know nor give a toss about is really bollocks.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Sun 4 May 2008, 1:40, closed)

yes sorry
I did mean lockerbie, has been edited
(Halfy By light alone, Sun 4 May 2008, 9:07, closed)

Yep
I'm a merkin myself - and feel pretty much the same way. A click for you.
(aeon chicken Like the Millenium Falcon, only slower and noisier, Sun 4 May 2008, 11:16, closed)

The term you are looking for
Is 'Grief Whores'
(osok Rebel without a clue, Tue 6 May 2008, 10:12, closed)