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Dunblane: "Why us? First the school massacre and now Murray loses at Wimbledon."
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberMaybe it's just because I knew people who had children at the school at the time, but I find this too close to the bone.
I quite enjoy sick humour, but this bothers me.
Sorry Dvo.
(PS, I am not the 1* Fairy here.)
Posted 11 months ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberOh get off your high horse.
Some of us like to try to be civilised around here, and as the tenet of the site is for peer-criticism, we tend to explain what did or didn't work for us.
If you just want to throw insults around, then you can fuck off.
Posted 11 months ago # -
dvo4fun
offlineMemberWell, first sub to have such comments and if I was more secure in my own skin I'd just let it roll off but ...
@Junket: "I suppose you'd call this "edgy". It isn't. It's just the pathetic attempt by a not very funny man trying to impress his peer group"
I could say that I thought the juxtaposition of the two events was quite interesting but in fact you've seen right through me.
@Grumble: Yep. Yesterday you might have thought the future of the world hung on the Scottish Man's efforts to bang a squishy ball across a net. Quite a few more important things (in m' personal view) might have occupied the media. But that's show business.
@Jeni: Not sure if it was meant to be sick humour [see para above] but points taken. It was only after I'd posted this that I heard on R4 the first reference to AM having been at that school.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Ironduke
onlineMemberYes, this one doesn't work for me either...but this site has lots of edgy stories and sometimes it is difficult to see the line when you're up close and writing.
A simple 'not for me' in Jeni B's style makes for a far more enjoyable site than lambasting someone.
And after all, Jeni did threaten to massacre me with a roughly sharpened pencil...she knows how to give feedback!
Posted 11 months ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberThat'll be MRS B to you, and that, my dear friend, was quite an intentional statement.
Clearly, this is not the place for you.
Posted 11 months ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberGet back under your bridge junket.
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I think as dvo says it trys to out things into context by what I believe is juxtaposition. I think it makes a point more than going for a laugh-out-loud-fuck-me-he-joked-about-a-massacre thing.
Whether you like it or not is personal. I think it is an interest point about the over reaction to one man in a tennis game. But unlike Jeni this has not touched me personally. Maybe if it had i woukd feel different. It's all about subjectivity.
Many people laugh at jokes about dyslexia. Now I could argue that no one should ever joke about as I have it. Because of having dyslexia, my opportunities for furthering myself were limited as when I was at school only those deemed worthy were seen as worth investing time, whereas I was never going to help the 'figures' so not as much attention was spent on my education. That meant I had to leave school and find a job, however that job could not be anything to do with reading and writing. So I started at the bottom and have had to work damn hard to achieve a wage my peers gained quite soon after leaving school. Not to mention the bullying at school and in the work place both physical and verbal. It is something that has shaped my life, often negativly, so a flipant joke about dyslexia which you may find funny, has a long and hurtful meaning to me. But that is a personal thing
My point being that humour or your view on something is purely subjective. Just because something someone says doesn't meet with your high moral standards does not mean that for them, it is not a valid point or even funny. No person should be lambasted for their view. Often no comments on a sub gets to the point that it was not to the majorities taste. And no, I don't believe in Dog.
Posted 11 months ago # -
junket56
offlineMemberJeez Perks, I'm not reading all that baloney, though I did see the word dyslexia in it, which is the second most common crap joke on this site. Ms B seems to have gone off me, in spite of that night back in'93, but that's women for you. My original statement still stands, though: a bloke trying to be big and brave is just a bit shitty when truth be told.
Posted 11 months ago # -
waylandsmithy
offlineMemberThanks junket56, for your anonymous and abusive contribution to the website. Truly, you are the very model of bravery.
Not DVO's finest ever moment, but junket, you reek of rank opportunism that would embarrass George Galloway. Feedback is one thing, being a reactionary bell-end is quite another.
Posted 11 months ago # -
waylandsmithy
offlineMemberPerks: it's the 'Scottish tenniser' thing, I think. At least this week.
Posted 11 months ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberOoh Perks! You've given me an idea...
Posted 11 months ago # -
junket56
offlineMemberYes, here you have an outsider attacking one of your pack. You really are a sorry little bunch aren't you? I don't believe in censorship but if you find this "joke" acceptable and something to be ashamed of criticising it does, actually, disgust me.
As for your reeking of opportunism comment, Smithy, exactly the same can be said for your jumping on the Jeni band wagon.
I have an opinion, my opinion is, I don't like people making jokes out of dead kids.Posted 11 months ago # -
waylandsmithy
offlineMemberjunket56, you resorted to personal abuse. That isn't 'expressing an opinion', it's pretty childish and troll-like.
Posted 11 months ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberHang on, this is nothing to do with "an outsider attacking one of [our] pack."
You were the one whose opening statement was a personal attack on a fellow writer.
As it happens, I agree that it is a subject that I don't feel should be made fun of, but as I explained, that is because of a personal interest.
Having said that, I don't think the slaughter of young children in any circumstances is comedic.You then attacked me for "making apologies for not liking a sick sub".
Frankly, it's none of your business why I did that, but I explained that that is the way that this site works.You clearly have an issue with the content and contributors on here, which is why I suggested it was not the place for you. That had nothing to do with you being an "outsider", we all have been at one point on here.
You seem to be determined to cause as much of a ruckus as possible, rather "Troll-like" behaviour and I therefore made that reference.
Nobody made me the judge, not yet. But surely if you are proclaiming your right to an opinion, then so are those who you refer comments to.
I've learned that the best course of action with people like you is to say what I have to say and then leave it.
On this occasion, I haven't abided by my own tenet, but from now on shall.Posted 11 months ago # -
junket56
offlineMemberFuck off waylandsmithy is personal abuse. Where else did I do that in a childish and troll-like manner? Answer or, preferably don't. I'm getting a bit bored with this sort of splitting hair type argument.
I couldn't give a fart what you or anyone else on this site thinks about me but whoever gave this more than one * I think is a twat. Which I'm sure will make them hang their heads in shame.
Get over yourself wayland.Posted 11 months ago #
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