22-06-2016, 06:57 PM
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Re: Oscar Pistorius
Look we are all mostly forum friends on here .Sometimes we don't agree on things .
but there are times we have to stand up and say what we think is right .
It's not personal it's just saying it how it is.
Not every thread IMO should be cheapened in this way .
Let us draw a line under it now .
22-06-2016, 08:46 PM
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Re: Oscar Pistorius
Originally Posted by Muddy
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Correct .It was cheap and crass.
There is absolutely nothing funny about a young woman being shot to death .
I don't think anybody thought there was Muddy, but people joke about disasters all the time. I don't know why but I understand that jokes about Pistorius are being told all over the world, even the S Africans are getting fed up of hearing about it, so make jokes. What bothers me is that there is so much criticism of the joke and the laughter that followed yet nobody seems to know who said it or who laughed. There were 2 comments, one was a reaction to the other and both were said by people I have respect for, one of the reasons I tried to take the jokes to another thread. I agree that we should draw a line under it and hope that we can agree to differ because those jokes were intended to be light hearted and the people concerned had not realized the reaction that they would cause..... mainly because we all have different points if view ..
22-06-2016, 09:01 PM
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Re: Oscar Pistorius
Originally Posted by Twink55
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[/B]I don't think anybody thought there was Muddy, but people joke about disasters all the time. I don't know why but I understand that jokes about Pistorius are being told all over the world, even the S Africans are getting fed up of hearing about it, so make jokes. What bothers me is that there is so much criticism of the joke and the laughter that followed yet nobody seems to know who said it or who laughed. There were 2 comments, one was a reaction to the other and both were said by people I have respect for, one of the reasons I tried to take the jokes to another thread. I agree that we should draw a line under it and hope that we can agree to differ because those jokes were intended to be light hearted and the people concerned had not realized the reaction that they would cause..... mainly because we all have different points if view ..
And please, please tell me everyone has done now.
Some people could make a day long battle over whether to have the loo seat up or down.
23-06-2016, 01:09 AM
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Re: Oscar Pistorius
I think this case has gone on over and over, and now his lawyers thought that by going in court without his prostheses would create sympathy for him....what was he thinking ? This guy killed a woman, period.As for jokes being in bad taste on a serious thread like this ? I agree with Julie, muddy, morticia, Omah...and all the others. Jokes have a place, this is not the place. I keep on thinking how I would feel reading these tasteless jokes and my child had been murdered and I was a member here, trust me, I wouldn't feel too good.
We don't need to know the person who died to feel compassion and respect.
23-06-2016, 02:23 AM
158
Re: Oscar Pistorius
As much as I would like to agree with my fellow- Aussie(who, like myself, is right 99% of the time),
some of those 'punch lines' had nothing whatever to do with the SA 'legal system' mate. Sorry.
And, god help me, even Morti is right
Originally Posted by Morticia
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Some people could make a day long battle over whether to have the loo seat up or down.
23-06-2016, 02:48 AM
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Re: Oscar Pistorius
Originally Posted by Butterfly2013
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I think this case has gone on over and over, and now his lawyers thought that by going in court without his prostheses would create sympathy for him....what was he thinking ? This guy killed a woman, period. As for jokes being in bad taste on a serious thread like this ? I agree with Julie, muddy, morticia, Omah...and all the others. Jokes have a place, this is not the place. I keep on thinking how I would feel reading these tasteless jokes and my child had been murdered and I was a member here, trust me, I wouldn't feel too good.
We don't need to know the person who died to feel compassion and respect.
23-06-2016, 10:25 AM
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Re: Oscar Pistorius
Originally Posted by Pumicestone
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As much as I would like to agree with my fellow- Aussie(who, like myself, is right 99% of the time),
some of those 'punch lines' had nothing whatever to do with the SA 'legal system' mate. Sorry.
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