seanybiker wrote: » Was fairly crap alright. Had a few good ones before. Me minds gone blank though.
stepbar wrote: » God I finally find myself agreeing with you.
easyeason3 wrote: » There is no argument for keeping 'threads like that' off After Hours because there are specific forums provided for serious conversations & thoughts to be held. Every forum has a purpose. After Hours, & it's followers, are more than capable of having a serious discussion. But they are also capable of being light hearted & funny. It might not be to your taste but if we all had the same opinion on everything this world would be a very dull place. If you don't like it then go to another forum that caters to your needs. Leave AH alone, if it isn't broken then you don't need to fix it.
stepbar wrote: » Wow, you might want to take a look back over all the posts so...... please put me straight.
stepbar wrote: » There is if it might remove the muppets from same. And remove the very same muppets from posting nonsensical sh1te as what was posted in the original thread.
b28 wrote: » that and people with potentially jungle like manners and a problem getting on with people
b28 wrote: » Wow, 2 thanks for that:eek: Maybe I'll check that forum. thanks for pointing that out.
b28 wrote: » another expert in the field of aerodynamics waiting to give us a nosedive into this entire situation.. maybe you could expand your expertise to the investigators of this crash
stepbar wrote: » Oh god, that was the substance of your argument <penny drops> :rolleyes:
b28 wrote: » well english teacher, try the dictionary for the word sarcasm. i'm a good student, now you know I know what sarcasm means and i can act it!
stepbar wrote: » Wow, you might want to take a look back over all the posts so...... please put me straight. :rolleyes:
seanybiker wrote: » Went bit off course alright
like clockwork! wrote: » Like it or not, this is generally the underlying reason why some stories arouse feelings of remorse in us and others don't. A quarter of a million people dying in a tsunami in Asia is hard to fathom, in terms of the pain felt by the relatives of victims and the general population of the area. 48 people dying in the Stardust disaster, while on the face of it, seems like a minor tragedy in comparison, has the ability to arouse a much greater deal of sympathy amongst us. A psychological flaw amongst humans I'd imagine; probably something to do with the fact that our capacity for empathy for other peoples' sufferings evolved in an enviroment wherby everybody knew everybody else.
poindexter wrote: » so is where everything is fair game then?? i've never really ventured in here, only occasionally popping my head round the corner for a quick peek
shenanigans1982 wrote: » They were right when they said that if you make an exemption for one group of people you are going to have to do it for another...and then another, and so on until you are at a point where you cannot make fun of anything.
seanybiker wrote: » As people have said already. If it wasnt Irish people involved it would be a free for all. I see things all time that I dont like or agree with, I choose not the whine about it because this is after hours. Ya hardly expect a serious discussion in here. We all know there is a serious thread in aviation for the plane crash. Well not serious cos some of them decided that AH is full of tards. Which is also wrong. My mother works with disabled people I think Ill go in and whinge cos someone used the word tard. Balls to it. Ill just live my life in the real world on not get annoyed at a computer screen.
youcrazyjesus! wrote: » Who was the very first person to make a joke out of the Air France crash?
b28 wrote: » First of all, remember the killing of the catholic man in norther ireland this week?
how many people here joke about that?
Or maybe someone killed in a car accident?
Or a major earthquake?
Oh wait a catastrophic aviation disaster?
Fair enuf,
freedom of speech and all that!
the internets freedom to write comments isn't reality! its people acting who they really are behind computer sceens! freedom of speech of course! but cop on and have some consideration for others, unless you're retarded
my point being, people should try and encourage good civil behaviour online about tragic events as they would at a funeral and keep their jokes to themselves. remember, a family member may google the story and once they read the page you all left comments on, they might feel way worse! think!
Kirnsy wrote: » Well would people be interested in : a) a sub forum of AH for more serious discussion? b)a Current affairs forum specifically for serious discussion? I agree with the people who thought the Air France thread was tainted with a few nasty malicious posts. There have been numerous other 'serious' topics that have faced the same problems. However I also agree with Terry in saying that the forum is what the posters have made it. ie There are plenty of posters who find those comments funny (and i have laughed at a few myself). IMO there is nothing wrong with AH and it is a brilliant forum, but i think there maybe a market for a sub forum or another forum catering for the needs of posters who'd like to discuss some of the same threads without the jokes. Opinions?! or just tl;dr.....:p
seanybiker wrote: » think soccer forum had the right idea. Can we have a closed after hours forum where we have to ask for permission and read the rules . Make it state that we will not through our dummies outta the pram because we know the forum is for general piss taking. Be handier
b28 wrote: » Lets be blunt about this, the only way to "filter" is to set up a forum allowing derogatory comments relating to a tradgic or unsavoury events. How about setting up a sadistic jokes catagory! People would think twice next time when talking about the people who suffered in that. just like teaching a nightmare child good manners lol
Ruu wrote: » You are talking to the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel, After Hours is a place where they can unleash.:)
kumate_champ07 wrote: » i didnt catch that thread, did it take a nose dive?
easyeason3 wrote: » And do you not think that the original thread would have been more suitable to Aviation? Seriously, what else are you expecting from AH? That's like giving out about Tommy Tiernan cursing at his own show or making a few jokes about things we shouldn't laugh about but yet we do.
Epic Tissue wrote: » There is a difference between making a joke about a subject and making the subject a joke. Someone posted "Ben Linus knows where it is". That's not offensive and it's funny if you watch Lost. Someone posted an image from 4chan with the Air France plane and "404" on it. Now that's funny because 404 is a missing webpage and that very smart person obviously made a connection to the missing plane. That's a joke about the subject. Someone registered an account "Funny Man" just to have a smart reply to another poster, that was funny even though it was on a serious topic. The problem is when those jokes start to degrade the subject. I think puns are a good example of this. A great example of jokes degrading the subject are the Maddie McCain jokes. I can't stand the obsession with some people on AH trying to be degrade every subject. The forum doesn't need it, AH used to be great and I never noticed this around. You don't need to be offensive to be funny. Go to the LOLocaust with your 4chan obsession. /half arsed rant
seanybiker wrote: » stepbar you are not a mod. Maybe if you where I might listen to you but your just an ordinary member like the rest of us. This thread isnt going to change after hours at all. Your simply wasting your time. Do what everyone else does and report posts instead of starting a thread in the forum ya dont like.
Terry wrote: » My mother died in 1983. I was 7. I moved in with her sister and her children. They looked after me. Her sister died when I was 12 and most of her children had moved on and had their own families at that stage. Oh, poor me. I was all alone. Everyone has a tragic story and we could mourn all tragic deaths for the remainder of our existence. Shít happens. Deal with it. Get the fúck over your selves and stop pretending to feel sorry for people you would never have known. John Smith died in Brighton this week. Where's your sympathy for him? Oh yeah. It's only worth sympathy if it makes the news. John Smith was not newsworthy, so his death goes unrecognised. I ws never a big fan and Norwegian Wood is probably my favourite song, but this one really sums up the false sentimentality of today's society:People have died from falling off horses. No. In your opinion. I think people who follow the words of Parker and Stone to the letter are complete idiots. As someone who follows their words to the letter, would you feel that I am being harsh on you and would you be insulted if I was to call you a comlete tool for following the words of a couple of cartoon writers? Indeed. I look after an autistic chld on a regualr basis. In the past I did allow crass comments to get to me, but I don't any more. That's not to say that uncalled for comments are allowed in AH. I'm just saying that I have let people go without banning them for something that another AH mod would deem bannable. Don't know. Tell me. I made a joke about the tv show Lost. nope. No idea. Again, no idea. 7 Again, no idea. Text speech. All credibility lost. Not on this site. What about retarded people? Should they not have a say in their lives? Ahh. I see. Northsiders suck. Southsiders rule because we are better than you and stuff.
b28 wrote: » why is a mod special, as far as i know they're ordinary people who done the mod work voluntarily
stepbar wrote: » That been said, I'd hope posters here could discuss the topic without resorting to stupidity.
K-9 wrote: » Susan Boyle? What's your stance on that?
b28 wrote: » You are right. thats life. but i see no need to joke about the loss of a person in pub let alone an internet forum. its like bitching behind someones back and then being nice to the person they were bitching to their face.
Sharpshooter wrote: » If someone in a pub (within your earshot) makes a crass remark that upsets you and you hear others agreeing you could just up and leave so you don't have to listen anymore. Or move to seats or an area where you don't have to listen to them. You can do the same here. Move on to a different thread or a different forum.
stepbar wrote: » I have no problem having a "light hearted" dicussion. But when it borders on the downright discusting I have a problem. As someone said earlier, there could be family members or other people who knew these people directly looking at this. As 10% of posts on boards are posted through this forum, I don't think its too much to ask for posters to have a bit of cop on regarding sensitive issues like this.
stepbar wrote: » I don't expect much from AH TBH lets put it that way. As much as people give out about TT, I've never heard him mocking the dead..... Yep, perhaps the original thread would have been more suited to Aviation but on the other hand it wouldn't have been right to limit it to a thread that most posters havent a clue where it is. That been said, I'd hope posters here could discuss the topic without resorting to stupidity.
ShooterSF wrote: » See here's my point. I find it downright disgusting when someone tries to impose their beliefs on me. I live my life to a simple policy, have fun wherever possible and don't take anything too seriously. If I die in a humourous fashion I really hope people see the funny side, why the hell would it bother me. I understand that when things are close to home people can get upset and some don't share my beliefs. They really shouldn't though expect me to curb my beliefs completely because they are at a contradiction with theirs. On the other side I would never intentionally go out to hurt someone who had family in this tragedy or any other less publicised. At the end of the day I really feel for the mods here. Every time a big issue like this comes up two groups of opposing beliefs have at it and people feel disgusted/restricted. Also I do hope that as you started a thread rather than just report posts that you were genuinely willing to listen to those that don't agree with you.
Terry wrote: » My mother died in 1983. I was 7. I moved in with her sister and her children. They looked after me.Her sister died when I was 12 and most of her children had moved on and had their own families at that stage. Oh, poor me. I was all alone.
Everyone has a tragic story and we could mourn all tragic deaths for the remainder of our existence.
the_syco wrote: » AH ain't meant to be serious.
