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Boy 2 falls down 110 metre well in Malaga

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  • #32
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,622 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    Would like the kid to be ok but 110metres is a long way to fall.

    The outrage at the Simpsons clip is the usual over sensitive shyte we have to endure of late.

    Some people use humour as a mechanism to deal with situations.

    I know as I read the article and how awful a tragedy it is but I was singing 'We are sending our love down the well' in my head


  • #33
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    It's a horrible tragedy, but that's life and we all have our own **** to deal with. Some deal with it through gallows humour.


  • #34
    Sycamore Tree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Sycamore Tree


    Ninthlife wrote: »
    Would like the kid to be ok but 110metres is a long way to fall.

    The outrage at the Simpsons clip is the usual over sensitive shyte we have to endure of late.

    Some people use humour as a mechanism to deal with situations.

    I know as I read the article and how awful a tragedy it is but I was singing 'We are sending our love down the well' in my head

    Correct but outrage is easier these days. I doubt the parents will reference Boards After Hours for updates.
    I am a firm believer that nothing is beyond humour.
    Maybe there should be a Boards forum for hard stories where only serious replies are mandatory?


  • #35
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Sycamore Tree wrote: »
    Correct but outrage is easier these days. I doubt the parents will reference Boards After Hours for updates.
    I am a firm believer that nothing is beyond humour.
    Maybe there should be a Boards forum for hard stories where only serious replies are mandatory?

    How about if one of your family died tragically, we could have a good old laugh about that? It'd be 'gallows humour' so that'd make it ok...


  • #36
    bilbot79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,187 ✭✭✭bilbot79


    My heart bleeds for them. Their other child died on them. Poor souls.


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  • #37
    joe40
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,851 ✭✭✭joe40


    Ninthlife wrote: »
    Would like the kid to be ok but 110metres is a long way to fall.

    The outrage at the Simpsons clip is the usual over sensitive shyte we have to endure of late.

    Some people use humour as a mechanism to deal with situations.

    I know as I read the article and how awful a tragedy it is but I was singing 'We are sending our love down the well' in my head
    No You're wrong, the problem isn't the "over senstive shyte" we have to endure it is the complete lack of common decency some people display. Linking this tragedy to a simpsons clip is not "gallows humor", just crass shyte.


  • #38
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,207 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Sonic Youth wrote: »
    People virtue signalling on an obscure irish web forum will definitely help some poor kid stuck in a well in Spain

    Not being a unnecessarily crass kunt doesn't have to be conflated with virtue signaling..


  • #39
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    riemann wrote: »
    Who's joking about it?

    Are you talking about a link to clips from a cartoon where there are some similarities?

    Talk about acting dumb.


  • #40
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,622 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    How about if one of your family died tragically, we could have a good old laugh about that? It'd be 'gallows humour' so that'd make it ok...

    If i die tragically I consent for everyone to have a good laugh at it. The darker the humour the better and a few puns would be a nice tribute too.


  • #41
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,622 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    joe40 wrote: »
    No You're wrong, the problem isn't the "over senstive shyte" we have to endure it is the complete lack of common decency some people display. Linking this tragedy to a simpsons clip is not "gallows humor", just crass shyte.

    No Im not wrong but I may not be right either. And you are neither right or wrong.

    What we have is a difference of opinion


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  • #42
    malinheader
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,131 ✭✭✭malinheader


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Talk about acting dumb.

    Who says there acting


  • #43
    gooseygander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 317 ✭✭gooseygander


    Ill bet that any knob who is posting jokes or any humour about this article has no children of their own. I do have children and it’s a fu— king heartbreaking story that disturbs me to even read.


  • #44
    Gringo180
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭Gringo180


    gooseygander wrote: »
    Ill bet that any knob who is posting jokes or any humour about this article has no children of their own. I do have children and it’s a fu— king heartbreaking story that disturbs me to even read.

    Well said.


  • #45
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,622 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    gooseygander wrote: »
    Ill bet that any knob who is posting jokes or any humour about this article has no children of their own. I do have children and it’s a fu— king heartbreaking story that disturbs me to even read.

    I have kids so there goes your theory.


  • #46
    gooseygander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 317 ✭✭gooseygander


    Ninthlife wrote: »
    If i die tragically I consent for everyone to have a good laugh at it. The darker the humour the better and a few puns would be a nice tribute too.

    Little bit different when we speak about a 2 year old baby and a family that lost a 3 year old also tragically. Humour and this story don’t go together AT ALL in my opinion


  • #47
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    300ft drop poor kid hadn't a hope

    the parents will be tortured for the rest of their lives


  • #48
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,622 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    gooseygander wrote: »
    Little bit different when we speak about a 2 year old baby and a family that lost a 3 year old also tragically. Humour and this story don’t go together AT ALL in my opinion

    No denying it is horrendously tragic and to prevent myself lying awake imagining it happen to one of my own or how I would react I suppress that thought decompartmentalise it and use humour/light heartedness as a coping mechanism

    Im no monster just human


  • #49
    riemann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭riemann


    malinheader wrote: »
    Who says there acting

    Do you have any self-awareness?


  • #50
    rgodard80a
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 562 ✭✭✭rgodard80a


    Bam Bam Mickey wrote: »
    Anyone joking about that is one sick puppy.

    Unfortunately they're just emotionally immature and obviously not a parent themselves. They'll be sending a valentine card to their playstation next month.


  • #51
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Ninthlife wrote: »
    If i die tragically I consent for everyone to have a good laugh at it. The darker the humour the better and a few puns would be a nice tribute too.

    That's not what I asked....


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  • #52
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,622 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    That's not what I asked....

    I know

    If a loved one was involved in a tragic accident no i wouldnt be happy with jokes being made but I would understand the possible reason for it.

    No one has laughed at the kid directly, a reference was made to a kid falling down a well in a cartoon episode which is probably 20 years old now.


  • #53
    gooseygander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 317 ✭✭gooseygander


    Ninthlife wrote: »
    No denying it is horrendously tragic and to prevent myself lying awake imagining it happen to one of my own or how I would react I suppress that thought decompartmentalise it and use humour/light heartedness as a coping mechanism

    Im no monster just human

    I am lying beside my sleeping toddler right now in a bit of a rage at clowns making jokes about this article.

    BUT

    I’m no monster just human


  • #54
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,622 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    gooseygander wrote: »
    I am lying beside my sleeping toddler right now in a bit of a rage at clowns making jokes about this article.

    BUT

    I’m no monster just human

    Dont be angry as if serves no purpose especially in an online setting.

    Embrace your kid and enjoy that moment


  • #55
    malinheader
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,131 ✭✭✭malinheader


    riemann wrote: »
    Do you have any self-awareness?

    Go back and take a good look at the first post.Then take a look at the first reply. Do you have any cop on at all trying to say this is acceptable. Says alot about the society we live in today.


  • #56
    Red Lightning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 378 ✭✭Red Lightning


    Ninthlife wrote:
    The outrage at the Simpsons clip is the usual over sensitive shyte we have to endure of late.
    Some people use humour as a mechanism to deal with situations.

    That is utter ****e. This isn't being over-sensitive. Over-sensitive would be if the wee lad broke his ankle but was confirmed alright and people were calling them out for making fun.
    This is a horrific situation. Either the poor 2 year old died due to the fall or he's alive, possibly conscious and petrified alone in a dark hole. How can anyone make light of that situation? Seriously.

    And 'a coping mechanism' is just a crap excuse to dignify someone's dickish behaviour.


  • #57
    Red Lightning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 378 ✭✭Red Lightning


    gooseygander wrote:
    Ill bet that any knob who is posting jokes or any humour about this article has no children of their own. I do have children and it’s a fu— king heartbreaking story that disturbs me to even read.

    Well said!


  • #58
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,622 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    Red Lightning wrote: »
    That is utter ****e. This isn't being over-sensitive. Over-sensitive would be if the wee lad broke his ankle but was confirmed alright and people were calling them out for making fun.
    This is a horrific situation. Either the poor 2 year old died due to the fall or he's alive, possibly conscious and petrified alone in a dark hole. How can anyone make light of that situation? Seriously.

    And 'a coping mechanism' is just a crap excuse to dignify someone's dickish behaviour.

    No one said it isnt horrific. Its the stuff of nightmares

    I already gave my reason as to why I would rather not think too much of the incident and my way of dealing with it.


  • #59
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    It doesn’t sound good for the poor little lad. Miracles do happen though. Devastating for the family. How would you go on


  • #60
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,385 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    I don't think it's funny at all but the implication in a lot of posts seems to be that if the Simpsons scene popped into your head, you are an awful person.


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  • #61
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Can't be easy trying to perform a rescue when no communications can be got from the boy that gives any indication as to their condition or how best to carry out a rescue.


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