Dreadful gruesome vile shock horror story

[IPityTheFool]

Do you have an interest in these? I'll assume you do, as you've opened this thread.

Should you feel the need to discuss the latest dreadful story with others, many of us would be grateful if you would be a little more euphemistic in your thread titles.

Lose the red tops headlines style titles, please.

Thank you.

What a ridiculous thread.

i agree with greyriverside - how delicate ARE all these adults on here so easily upset by thread titles? it doesnt take a second to click 'hide' on ones you find distasteful, and im sure the first viewing wont actually hurt you, will it? its only words people...

alos love cods convo, v funny. and true.

The other day I walked past a news stand selling my local paper, and the headline was SCHOOL ANIMALS BATTERED TO DEATH. This really upset me as am stupidly oversensitive at the moment, but it never occurred to me that it shouldn't be there, iyswim.

The content of the story is what's upsetting, and anyone with a functioning imagination will be able to fill in the horridious details for themselves no matter how it's announced.

I am not delicate.
I find it distasteful, that's all.

It's all very well saying 'hide the thread' - but it's the title itself that's the ridiculous part.

Who uses the word 'jailed?' Crap journalists. Who here uses it on a daily basis? (apart from the mn prison wardens) It's a red top word. THese thread titles are written to provoke a big reaction, otherwise they would be titled 'Babysitter abuse case' and the like. Reference a place or a name, not the gruesome details. It's ridiculous and curtain twitchy.

And the headlines on news stands are fairly objectionable too, but they're there to sell papers. The mn ghouly ones are there for rubber necking imo.

What is so extraordinary about the world 'jailed?'

I live in the real world. I have mates like this who just can't bear to debate certain stories or issues or get deep about things. I remember in particular when the Madeliene McCann case was at it's peak and a work collegue said with a big smile "Oh she is fine someone just thought she was cute and adopted her!". She refused to discuss it at all. Fair enough I suppose.

Some have a limit to how much they can accept is rotten in their world. I respect it but I don't understand it at all.

what is there to 'debate' about horrific stories of torture and abuse? how exactly is our understanding of anything deepened by repeating the grisly details on here followed by endless faces and expressions of hatred for the perpetrators?

how sad

then we get all the naffola
god bles him
xxxx
and naff resting in heaven poems

what is there to 'debate' about horrific stories of torture and abuse?

quite a lot actually if you consider appalling events such as the holocaust - and a lot to be learned from these "grisly events" too. If you actually give a toss about whom they happened to.

It's not about what I can't bear to debate. It's about seeing some 'look at my thread' title in active convos.

I can understand some people feel the need need to discuss these issues (I'm not one of them and I rarely open such threads) but I don't understand what's to be gained from the discussion (agree with Franny there)

However, my real objection is the 'come and gawk here' thread titles.

Oh god, don't get me onto poetry.

wel as someone who taught hte holocaust for nigh on 10 years i must say there was a very fineline to draw with curious year 10 boys wanting to look at pics of corpses and just not gettign ti.
it was hard and every year i taught it the more dissatsifed i got wiht it
its not the gruesome bits that COUNT as much as the sterotyping and marginalsising
imfo

( as a lesson)

yes so we learn about the stereotyping through the awful event and it;s details. I agree with you about gawping over the horror factor but awful stuff has happened - sometimes to hear it can be a kick in the arse to think about something other that your own happy world.

Agree OP and cod and franny and mrssprat and others. It's the salacious rendering of detail that's frankly distasteful. There is very little that can usefully be 'learned' from in-depth descriptions of the precise nature of the sadism involved in any particular case. The fact that people seem to derive titillation from discussing these details is extremely alarming IMO.

I do not live in a happy bubble of shimmering glossy sparkly perfect loveliness. I'm not objecting to debating and discussing and learning more about the nastier events in the world.

I don't read the gawpy threads, but it seems that they reflect the thread title if they full of faces and gruesome detail discussion.

I visit other websites, like the bbc news site. I like to debate. I just can't bear shite thread titles. It's Diana grief-gluttony all over again.

Cod I've been to the holocaust museum in Israel. It's sobering and thought provoking and not something I'll forget until dementia sets in.

I guess it's the thread I started that has got you going. I don't post much on here - have lurked a bit, and I felt moved to post that thread not to revel in some horror fest but because I was genuinely really shocked, that this had happened.

I hadn't really considered that the thread title would upset others - I've seen (but not generally read) so many like them. No intention to offend.

The thread title came from the BBC not a red top, and I don't read tabloids for what its worth.