Most Pathetic Thing You've Seen?

ct89 · 13-01-2011 10:24PM #1

Have you ever seen anything on your travels that has made you sad, properly upset?Especially in urban enviroments? For example once seen a little kid in a shop looking away at an elmo book wanting the mother to buy it, but she caused an awful fuss : "Im not spending £3 on a book!" at the top of her voice and stormed off. Things like that

orourkeda · 13-01-2011 10:26PM

ct89 wrote: »

Have you ever seen anything on your travels that has made you sad, properly upset?Especially in urban enviroments? For example once seen a little kid in a shop looking away at an elmo book wanting the mother to buy it, but she caused an awful fuss : "Im not spending £3 on a book!" at the top of her voice and stormed off. Things like that

She could do with a good crack on the arse

jd007 · 13-01-2011 10:26PM

Yore ma?

Plug · 13-01-2011 10:27PM

ct89 wrote: »

Have you ever seen anything on your travels that has made you sad, properly upset?Especially in urban enviroments? For example once seen a little kid in a shop looking away at an elmo book wanting the mother to buy it, but she caused an awful fuss : "Im not spending £3 on a book!" at the top of her voice and stormed off. Things like that

Jesus what a shocking story:(

You know you should write that down, you might even get a book out of it.

ct89 · 13-01-2011 10:27PM

jd007 wrote: »

Yore ma?

so much for serious discussion, no need to be a shower of cnuts about it

Oranage2 · 13-01-2011 10:28PM

A dole Que

*I'll get back under my bridge

bonerm · 13-01-2011 10:28PM

ct89 wrote: »

"Im not spending £3 on a book!" at the top of her voice and stormed off. Things like that

Edward Stratemeyer would be proud.

Saw a guy begging on Merrion Row whose face had been all burnt off. I gave some money (which I have a general rule of not doing).

13-01-2011 10:29PM

Oranage2 wrote: »

A dole Que

*I'll get back under my bridge

A dole what?

bicardi19 · 13-01-2011 10:29PM

yeah shockin a child doesnt get everything it asks for. Have you ever been in a shop with a child?

superfish · 13-01-2011 10:30PM

jeasus some one ring child line

ct89 · 13-01-2011 10:31PM

bicardi19 wrote: »

yeah shockin a child doesnt get everything it asks for. Have you ever been in a shop with a child?

Oh yeah it was totally an ipod the child was asking for, not a book about the alphabet which would stimulate the young ones mind. And for £3 in a bargain book shop in belfast, the price of a can or two adults have no problem spending money on

fakearms123 · 13-01-2011 10:31PM

How is a kid not getting a £3 book pathetic?

if anything it would be sympathetic for the kid not having enough money to afford the book but the kid and/or mother are certainly not pathetic

ct89 · 13-01-2011 10:33PM

fakearms123 wrote: »

How is a kid not getting a £3 book pathetic? if anything it would be sympathetic for the kid not having enough money to afford the book but the kid and/or mother are certainly not pathetic

To quote google:

pa·thet·ic Adjective /pəˈTHetik/

Synonyms:

adjective: touching, piteous, moving, pitiful, pitiable

Arousing pity, esp. through vulnerability or sadness
- she looked so pathetic that I bent down to comfort her
Miserably inadequate
- his test scores in Chemistry were pathetic
Relating to the emotions

Zombrex · 13-01-2011 10:33PM

The tall guy on Grafton Street with the shaved head who seems to regularly be begging completely out of his mind wearing a coat and just underwear on his bottom half and a big sleeping bag over his shoulder.

Even by beggar standards this guy has really let himself go.

bicardi19 · 13-01-2011 10:33PM

ct89 wrote: »

Oh yeah it was totally an ipod the child was asking for, not a book about the alphabet which would stimulate the young ones mind. And for £3 in a bargain book shop in belfast, the price of a can or two adults have no problem spending money on

Did you ever think the child might have 10 similiar books at home.
You must have been one of those celtic tiger children.

PhysiologyRocks · 13-01-2011 10:34PM

I have seen at least 5 things today that made me feel more upset than a child not getting a book.

And I really, really value education.

ct89 · 13-01-2011 10:35PM

bicardi19 wrote: »

Did you ever think the child might have 10 similiar books at home.
You must have been one of those celtic tiger children.

Far from it, regardless of whether the child owned a hundred books, an investment in a child's development however small is a positive one.

ct89 · 13-01-2011 10:36PM

PhysiologyRocks wrote: »

I have seen at least 5 things today that made me feel more upset than a child not getting a book.

And I really, really value education.

well like what so then??

Mister men · 13-01-2011 10:36PM

superfish · 13-01-2011 10:37PM

if it upset you so much why did you not offer to buy the book ?

ct89 · 13-01-2011 10:38PM

superfish wrote: »

if it upset you so much why did you not offer to buy the book ?

Never crossed my mind, besides the kid was long gone once the mother stormed off

O.A.P · 13-01-2011 10:38PM

bonerm wrote: »

Edward Stratemeyer would be proud.

Saw a guy begging on Merrion Row whose face had been all burnt off. I gave some money (which I have a general rule of not doing).

A perfectly healthy 20 something young lad begging outside Aldi in Ennis a few months ago, now that was ****ing shocking.
I did give him some advice though .

bicardi19 · 13-01-2011 10:38PM

ct89 wrote: »

Far from it, regardless of whether the child owned a hundred books, an investment in a child's development however small is a positive one.

Well you should feel privileged if thats the most pathetic thing you have seen!

carfiosaoorl · 13-01-2011 10:38PM

So the fact that the kid didnt get a book made you feel "properly upset".

ct89 · 13-01-2011 10:40PM

Certainly it did, the fact that a mother might'nt have had £3 of disposable income

tony1kenobi · 13-01-2011 10:41PM

I was on a train going through Turin in 1997 and I saw a guy f*cking a horse.

Neither seemed to be enjoying it.

Couple of days later I was in London and someone had murdered Princess Diana.

Nobody enjoyed that much either.

My interailing ended on a bit of a low really.

Seloth · 13-01-2011 10:42PM

A mother screaming at her child telling her too shut up on the train.The Child was two.

The grandmother (who was only in her 40's) was saying she's only a child with the mother going "Noo.Ma'am I cant take it anymore..Shes brazen out brazen...Aoise shut up!...Shut up!" "She's only a child" "No Ma'am she knows what she's doing!"

ct89 · 13-01-2011 10:42PM

bicardi19 wrote: »

Well you should feel privileged if thats the most pathetic thing you have seen!

That and those who get caught without paying VRT and moan about it then on a thread. That really makes me shed a tear.

13-01-2011 10:43PM

bicardi19 wrote: »

Well you should feel privileged if thats the most pathetic thing you have seen!

Indeed. Who cares if it was a book? Perhaps the mother was broke that week or he has millions of books at home. Hardly a tragedy, is it? It's not as if she slapped him and called him a c*nt for asking.

TheZohanS · 13-01-2011 10:43PM

ct89 wrote: »

Most Pathetic Thing You've Seen?

I was in a shop the other day and a little girl asked her mam to buy her a book, it was only £3. The mother said no and the girl was upset, but there was this guy right beside the little girl staring at the whole incident, he could have bought it for her and he didn't. Had I been closer I would have but they were gone before I had a chance.

bonerm · 13-01-2011 10:43PM

tony1kenobi wrote: »

I was on a train going through Turin in 1997 and I saw a guy f*cking a horse.

Neither seemed to be enjoying it.

Couple of days later I was in London and someone had murdered Princess Diana.

Prince Charles?

Most Pathetic Thing You've Seen?

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