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To think this from the BBC isn't funny, it's quite sick

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NewlyMintedPeasant · 14/08/2012 22:49

video

It's a video of the games 'most painful moments' set to quite a mocking tune, in the style of you've been framed. It includes the injury the hockey player go to her face and a German weightlifter with a 196kg weight falling on his neck.

I found it worrying to watch and really felt for some of the athletes, I wouldn't be surprised from some sources but I'm really surprised the BBC would think it was approriate to show in this format.

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Northernlurker · 15/08/2012 08:45

He's a weightlifter - a world class weightlifter! Do you reckon he's never had so much as a scratch before? There wasn't an athelete competing that hasn't had injuries. Beth Tweddle has dones some horrible things to herself. The leg of one of the USA sprinters snapped half way through a relay and he finished his leg. Nick Skelton won gold with a background of a broken neck a decade ago. Injuries happen.

SoupDragon · 15/08/2012 08:45

The defending Olympic champion is sore and bruised but escaped serious injury when he dropped the bar on himself in the super heavyweight competition, team doctors said Wednesday. He got to his feet and was taken to the hospital.

"Although I would have loved to win a medal here, abandoning the competition was the right thing to do," Steiner said. "Now I am just glad that there are no fears of permanent damage."

FiveMonths · 15/08/2012 08:47

'Well, the fact that he stood up and raised an arm into the air in a salute points towards the fact that it was minor. FGS. '

I didn't notice that in the video linked by the OP. Was it there? If not how can you expect me to know that Soupy?

FiveMonths · 15/08/2012 08:48

Northern, no one is disputing that injuries happen.

The fact this is set to comedy music implies we're meant to laugh at the incidents though.

That is what does not sit right with some of us I think.

Northernlurker · 15/08/2012 08:49

Well you could try applying your common sense - do you think the BBC would feature it if he'd been paralysed? Really?

This thread is absurd.

SoupDragon · 15/08/2012 08:49

"If not how can you expect me to know that Soupy?"

Well, you could have googled it like I did. I didn't even know there had been an injury.

FiveMonths · 15/08/2012 08:50

And the severity of the injuries is not really the whole point.

Anyone being hurt or disappointed deserves sympathy - even if these disastrous moments are compiled into something, I'm not sure what appropriate music would be to set them to - but not the f-ing Banana Splits, please.

It's a bit more serious than 'It's a Knockout'

FiveMonths · 15/08/2012 08:51

Oh, so to avoid an FGS from you I'm supposed to research all these incidents am I

You said it like it was evident from the clip on the video, and I was being stupid. It wasn't in the video. My point was we don't know what happened next, and we're expected to laugh.

SoupDragon · 15/08/2012 08:52

See, my first thought was to google to see if he was OK.

Not to bleat about a compilation of clips.

SoupDragon · 15/08/2012 08:53

Oh and the FGS was simply in parody of yours. [passive aggressive smiley]

FiveMonths · 15/08/2012 08:57

Yes I know it was copying mine. Mine was aimed at the programme maker - not you.

I don't think I deserved one.
This is pointless and irrelevant...that's lovely if you thought immediately to google to check on his welfare.

I didn't bother because I was commenting on the thread. And also I'm not that interested, though it did cross my mind but I wasn't sure how to search for it without knowing his name.

I'm only here to comment on the tastelessness of the video. I think that's allowed.

PooPooOnMars · 15/08/2012 09:02

People falling over, hurting themselves etc has been a subject of humor for many many years.

If its not your thing don't watch it.

Can't believe uptight people think this is worth moaning about!

MagicHouse · 15/08/2012 09:05

I think it was in bad taste to include the accidents where the players were or could have been seriously injured - I don't find situations like that funny, and the music was a bit naff. The other bits - I don't find them funny, but I do have a sort of horrified fascination and sympathy e.g. the divers getting it completely wrong.

FiveMonths · 15/08/2012 09:06

Falling over - maybe fair enough. Getting hurt - I think it's safe to say that this has only ever been found 'humorous' by insensitive pricks.

I don't care if you think it's 'uptight' to object to this. I'd rather be called that than have some video of myself getting a serious injury being paraded on the BBC for folk to have a giggle at.

PooPooOnMars · 15/08/2012 09:10

So Im guessing you never watch "you've been framed"? Because nearly everyone in that could have been seriously hurt.

If you don't find that sort of thing funny don't watch it. Don't understand the point on going on the internet to moan and be judgmental about every type of program YOU don't particularly like. If you don't like it just don't watch it!

[can hear the bum cheeks squeaking from here]

FiveMonths · 15/08/2012 09:15

You don't have to guess, if you're talking to me - I already said that I don't allow my kids to watch it and I certainly don't. It just makes me feel ill.

I'm guessing you like watching it - well that's up to you.

I think you're missing the point a bit - sorry, but the OP was saying she thought it insensitive and tasteless to broadcast a compilation of clips in which people are known to have been hurt, to a background of comedy music.

I'm not sure why some people think this is OK. What else would you like to see set to this soundtrack? Flooding in Yorkshire? Bridges falling down?

Someone being operated on?
I don't get it, I really don't.

PooPooOnMars · 15/08/2012 09:25

Don't watch it then.

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NewlyMintedPeasant · 15/08/2012 09:26

It was the style of presentation that I thought was off personally. Maybe I just don't get people who think 'ha ha ha! Her jaw got broken!', show it by all means, it's reality, but I wouldn't think it funny. My first reaction was to google the weightlifter and check he was ok, rather than laugh at him. The diving ones and other minors make you giggle, but obvious pain isn't funny to me or things that look serious.

But then I gave up all faith in the BBC after their recent panorama/ daily mail blend such as the Euro 2012 one.

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PooPooOnMars · 15/08/2012 09:26

And not all of them were hurt, the divers, the gymnast, the pole vaulter etc

FiveMonths · 15/08/2012 09:31

I don't hold much faith in the BBC either, OP.

It seems like they are trying to be more and more appealing to stupid people.

WillNeverGetALicence · 15/08/2012 09:34

Well Poo Poo I feel I am allowed to have an objection to something shown on tv, with licence payers money.

It's not the incidents so much as the comedy music.

I personally don't find other people's injuries and misfortune entertaining to watch. Especially in the context of the Olympics where I am fully aware of how long and hard these athletes have trained and how devastated they are likely to feel.

If that means my bum cheeks squeak so be it.

And I also don't understand shows like You've Been Framed where it is apparently hilarious that some child falls off a swing and starts crying.

But I choose not to watch crap like that whereas I did want to watch the Olympics but not have it turned into an episode of Funniest Home Videos.

slartybartfast · 15/08/2012 09:39

fgs i dont see what the problem is and frankly think some people are looking for something to complain about

FiveMonths · 15/08/2012 09:45

I think quite often people IRL would laugh at that child falling off their swing, and tell them to stop making a fuss, and as that child gets older they will be told not to be 'uptight' when practical jokes are played on them, and so on and so on - so the child learns to mock others for having sensitivity or feelings, in turn, and the process continues.

Sadly there will be always a sector of society t hat finds it more comfortable to laugh at personal misfortune than to have or express or even admit any sort of sympathy - that would be painful to them as they would feel silly all over again, just as they did when their parents laughed at them for falling off a swing as a five year old.

Northernlurker · 15/08/2012 10:06

'It just makes me feel ill'. Ok that's quite an extreme reaction to a film showing minor accidents. You might want to talk to somebody about that.

If a child falls off a swing and is seriously hurt a good parent will be sympathetic. If a child falls off a swing and is surprised but no more than a good parent will encourage them to move along with their life and not make a fuss.

FiveMonths · 15/08/2012 10:10

Northern, I'm aware that good parents might indeed try to encourage their child not to make a fuss, that's not the same as laughing at them

As for your first paragraph, why are you being so patronising? I don't mean literally ill. I mean it makes me very uncomfortable. I don't see how anyone can be comfortable watching that sort of tripe, unless as I said, they have been conditioned to laugh at other people getting hurt or upset.

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