So its ok to say you are glad someone is critically injured

[Yorkiegirl]

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It's disgraceful YG. Sorry you are so upset by it.

I hope she is utterly ashamed of herself.

oh yorkiegirl, what a terrible, terrible time you and your loved ones have had recently...

I can feel upset about someone being in hospital, not knowing the man I am not devestated just feel some compassion for a fellow human being. But I can't feel upset by a daft post on a website that does not affect me personally. If that makes me a heartless bitch lacking in compassion so be it!

moondog has been around on other threads the whole time this has been kicking off. She must know how badly YG is affected but is ignoring it.

People just dont understand how precious life is untill you loose the closest person please try (and I know its hard ) please YG I obviously dont know you but I can (and I wish I didnt ) try and understand what you have and are going through . What she said was wrong you know it and I know it and it seems like the whole of Mn thinks it too .

I was not having a go at you YG, that would make me a heartless bitch, which depsite first impressions is not actually the truth. (I have heard a rumour that I am quite a nice person) I can see that for you it will strike a personal note. But for most other people they are getting upset about a woman they don't know posting a flippant and rather bad taste comment about another person they don;t know. As I said I can understand why you might think that MD comment was in bad taste and why you feel some compassion for a man and his family but to feel deep personal hurt I don't understand.

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TSAP, I don't think we're all particularly upset by the comment, just angry that someone can come out with such a vile comment then expect people to want to chat on other subjects. Despite freedom of speech which I support wholeheartedly, I think we have a little bit of responsibility when posting on here.

Maybe I am misreading people's posts then and I apologise of that is so. It does seem to be a new cultural trend to feel deep personal pain and mourning when a public figure is ill or dies, something I have never got. Maybe I am the odd one!

Yorkiegirl
I don't normaly post on arguments.I couldn't not post on this. Moondog was very spiteful to me once when I was desperate and felt that I couldn't go on.I don't want to go into details because I have now changed my name.She just came on the thread made a nasty comment and didn't post on it againI felt so low. Now a few months on do you know what? I don't care what people like this think and post anymore.Don't let anyone upset you .Some on here don't belive there are real people on here with real emotions.I am sure it wasn't her intention to upset you perhaps she just didn't think.There are lots of loving and compassionate people on here.Please don't be upset.I haven't posted to you before but I was sorry to hear about your Dh and have been thinking about you alot.Hugsx

I don't think it's necessarily as hysterical as that, tsap. I am most definitely not of the Princess Diana school of grieving, and I wouldn't have started a thread about the poor bloke for example, but you can be like that and still feel sickened at someone making jibes like that.

tsap - no-one has posted they feel deep personal pain about Richard they have merely posted how tragic that someone so young lies critically injured and how sad for his family. A young man aged 24 was killed on his motorbike near my home recently - I didn't know him from Adam but I can feel sadness at his premature death, is that not a normal response?

YG

TSAP - I think that the current media 'in their faces' paparazzi stuff (magazines, celebs shows etc) makes people (the general public) feel they really know celebrities ... and so therefore people get upset when something happens.

No, I donlt think you are all dressed in black and wailing inot hankies, I am in some ways quite a reserved and private person who comes from a family who don't do emotion. Perhaps my reaction says more about my oddities than anyone else.

Twinsetandpearls

I don't feel deep personal pain either, but I feel some regret for him and his family even though I don't know him from Adam. That's part of being human surely?

but ghosty people are more upset I think with moondogs posting - what was the point of it?

twinset, whether or not you are a person who weeps, wails and gnashes over total strangers, what moondog said was unacceptable as a comment on a human being who might die. Can you not see that?

I sorry to have to say this but YG is not the only one to lose some 1 this year.

I dont know YG but I have heard about her loss. Like alot on folk on here know, so MD could have just been more careful on what she said.

I hate my xp1 but I would not wish him dead.

Good point Ghosty - and as I dont really watch TV and my lack of work life balance prevents me from reading celebrity magazines I am just not in that loop so to me these people are much more of a stranger than to others.

Dp has just reminded me that I cry to the news at least once a week, ( I am a renowned crier!) and I shed a few tears when watching Stephen Fry last night as that did hit home. I suppose we are all emotional about different things and show our feelings in very different ways.

Yeah, I know JT - I posted on that thread about MD's comment - crap and crass
I was just saying to TSAP why people get so upset about things happening to celebs (Steve Irwin a case in point) .... yes, we don't know them but people feel they do because everywhere they look (tv, newspapers, chat shows, magazines) there they are ....

UrsulatheSeaWitch I don't think I have said anywhere that what she said is acceptable, I jsut did not feel personally upset by it.

I don't feel great personal pain, but I can empathise with his wife and children. I find it staggering that some people are so self centred they find that difficult.

I didn't really get the upset about Steve Irwin either, felt sad that he had died and upset when I thougt about my own dd coming to terms with loosing a parent. But again perhaps as I did not know the man or much about him I did not seem to be as upset as others.

Really do think I should go back to my work as the more I post on here, the more convinced I am that I am an emotional cripple with a heart of stone.

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