subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
Dark red - the colour of my clots?
surely not red on a yorkeshireman
Missing Girl in Wales...
- Thread starter Phil_bucks
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surely not red on a yorkeshireman
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Why set up shrines anywhere? People didn't do that years ago, but it seems to be the fashion now.
On a similar theme - I don't know why people have started leaving flowers at the side of roads where their loved ones have been killed in crashes. I've seen several places where there were two or three separate floral displays in just a few yards. To me, that says that either the road is badly designed or people routinely drive dangerously there. It would make more sense to put up posters protesting about that and to do the grieving in private. I don't get it.
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
It's the fashion for mawkishness these days 'fraid. Princess Di I think was what started it properly.
ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
- Location
- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
I (personally) find strangers grieving openly and excessively to be quite offensive and insulting towards the deceased's loved ones and actual friends.
I have no problems with personal grief. I have no real issue when that is misplaced or simply inappropriate, what I have a problem with is the compulsory grief.
The Diana roadshow was a classic.
I was on holiday when all this happened and was down in the West Country
On the local radio a group was organising a boycott of a small "open all hours" shop as he had failed to show due respect and close on the afternoon of the funeral!
The Diana roadshow was a classic.
I was on holiday when all this happened and was down in the West Country
On the local radio a group was organising a boycott of a small "open all hours" shop as he had failed to show due respect and close on the afternoon of the funeral!
Vapin' Joe
Formerly known as Smokin Joe
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
- Location
- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
zombiemiked
Active Member
The mass grief is a tough call. The media only promote stories that involve people that will catch the public eye. As such the solidarity will be a great comfort to the family but avenge anger to those parents who's children do not make the mass media.
Vapin' Joe
Formerly known as Smokin Joe
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
"Grief" is intensely private, a thing to be borne by those whose lives are directly affected such as family and friends and neighbours. The rest of us feel sad that a child has lost her life in this way, but for people to kid themselves and everyone else that their own lives have been devastated by the loss of someone they had not and would not ever have heard about is total hogwash. People are viewing this like they'd view a soap on TV, they really need to get a grip.
zombiemiked
Active Member
Maybe grief is the wrong word but many people, especially those with children, will feel a kinship of sorts. To deny that we are incapable of feeling the pain of others is to deny what makes us human.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Somebody called it "Grief Lite".
BTW, there's a good essay in Granta no.60, winter 1997. It's called "Those who felt differently" by Ian Jack .
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
Well i for one would wear a pink ribbon to show my empathy with the child's family. i didn't know her or her family, and i've hardly ever been to Wales, but April's murder and this monster's denial is causing major trauma to her family. We're talking about a five year old girl here who was allowed to play out as a treat for her good school report, not some wannabe "gangsta", or some boy racer who chose to put there lifes at risk. She was an innocent child who did no harm to anyone, and the sad thing is that's probably why the dirty bastard took her life, to show his contempt for her innocence and vulnerability. Never mind she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. How can her village and her home be the wrong place to be?
Personally i would execute her murderer after 20 years of hard labour, not excuse his actions and keep him in some isolated cell for the remainder of his miserable life. He's probably in some "interview room" right now giving it the "no comment" routine. How those coppers can hold themselves back from turning off the camera and laying into the bastard i don't know. I suppose they have to cut themselves off from their emotions!
Personally i would execute her murderer after 20 years of hard labour, not excuse his actions and keep him in some isolated cell for the remainder of his miserable life. He's probably in some "interview room" right now giving it the "no comment" routine. How those coppers can hold themselves back from turning off the camera and laying into the bastard i don't know. I suppose they have to cut themselves off from their emotions!
