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CaptainP wrote:You are entitled to your opinion.


So is everyone else here.

I think I'll change my signature to include this....

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:C'mon, everyone. Take a deep breath. I'm pretty sure there's not one of us who doesn't feel for the misery and tragedy that the people of the Gulf Coast are suffering. Quite obviously, people react to and deal with tragedy in different ways. How 'bout if we all just take a step back and focus on what unites us, rather than on what divides us.

Worth repeating...

Tiki Bar wrote:

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:C'mon, everyone. Take a deep breath. I'm pretty sure there's not one of us who doesn't feel for the misery and tragedy that the people of the Gulf Coast are suffering. Quite obviously, people react to and deal with tragedy in different ways. How 'bout if we all just take a step back and focus on what unites us, rather than on what divides us.

Worth repeating...

Nibblin on sponge cake,
Watching the sun bake...

This tragedy shouldn't be taken lightly. It is horrible and I am glad I don't have family in the area. I will do my part by donating to the Red Cross and by living my life. I will be at the concert tonight! If I was in New Orleans right now, I would want the concert to go on instead of everyone sit around and sulk. Do what you can do to help and live your life.
Boy, if we couldn't laugh.......



Bill

Hoosierparrot wrote:This tragedy shouldn't be taken lightly. It is horrible and I am glad I don't have family in the area. I will do my part by donating to the Red Cross and by living my life. I will be at the concert tonight! If I was in New Orleans right now, I would want the concert to go on instead of everyone sit around and sulk. Do what you can do to help and live your life.
Boy, if we couldn't laugh.......



Bill

.....we'd all go insane.

Well said Bill!

phjrsaunt wrote:

Tiki Bar wrote:

phjrsaunt wrote:Be the thermostat, not the thermometer.

Even I have no idea what this means!

But please do try to be considerate and respectful of fellow BNers.

Just another way to say "lead by example." And be considerable and respectful of fellow BN'ers. Has to be a two way street. Like that there.

I get led where my wife tells me.. thank you very much.

Hoosierparrot wrote:This tragedy shouldn't be taken lightly. It is horrible and I am glad I don't have family in the area. I will do my part by donating to the Red Cross and by living my life. I will be at the concert tonight! If I was in New Orleans right now, I would want the concert to go on instead of everyone sit around and sulk. Do what you can do to help and live your life.
Boy, if we couldn't laugh.......



Bill

When my brother died at home of a brain tumor in 1967 after suffering for months, we were sitting in the living room waiting for the funeral home to pick up his body. Our preacher and my grandparents and my aunt Louise were there. My aunt said something that made everyone laugh, and I can't begin to tell you how much that meant to me and my parents....it was a relief from the deep pain we were feeling, if only for a short while. So I am a BIG proponent of using humor, appropriately, to save sanity. And I will never ever think any other way. Appropriate means to use humor in a light, gentle, not mean or harmful way.

"Humor is the absence of terror, and terror the absence of humor"
- Lord Richard Buckley.

I've stayed away from Katrina posts so I don't know exactly what they said that upset you so.

I know that sometimes people can say dumb or insensitive things when something like this happens but, more often than not, it's because they're overwhelmed by the horror of it all and just don't know what to say, rather than trying to be hurtful.

Let's take a deep breath and give the benefit of the doubt.

What's important isn't what some anonymous person on the internet said, but that the folks along the Gulf Coast get our prayers and support as they need it.

Samaritan's Purse is down there helping right now. If you'd like to help, they're a great group that does a lot of good and is very accountable for where your money goes.

Click here to see more... http://www.samaritanspurse.org/

Well Said Mike

What necessitated this post to be here?
WHO said WHAT that apparently got some people so upset?

As much as a select few people here annoy the sh*t out of me, I can't imagine ANYBODY here making light of any of the recent events along the Gulf Coast.

Or maybe I should just quit thinking that there IS a certain amount of good in everybody. (Everybody HERE, that is).

Not to stir the pot, but this was part of it.

http://www.buffettnews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39738

All I can say is there ARE good folks here on BN, and in the world. Everyone has some good in them. But some find it amuzing to antagonize folks.. or lump all BN'ers together as bad people.

And we all deal with tragedy differently. Just like everything else in our lives.

What necessitated this post to be here?
WHO said WHAT that apparently got some people so upset?

I think someone started a thread saying something to the effect of "Should I cancel my kid's birthday party this week?" because of the hurricance. Being sarcastic. I actually thought it was in bad taste too, and I am a very sarcastic person. I think that thread got locked....

Some people just deal with tragedies different..

OldFriendTheSquid wrote:

What necessitated this post to be here?
WHO said WHAT that apparently got some people so upset?

I think someone started a thread saying something to the effect of "Should I cancel my kid's birthday party this week?" because of the hurricance. Being sarcastic. I actually thought it was in bad taste too, and I am a very sarcastic person. I think that thread got locked....

Some people just deal with tragedies different..

KLL posted the "Birthday Party" thread, because some people in the "Cancel Shows" thread were refusing to hear any points of view other than their own.

Yes.

CaptainP wrote:

OldFriendTheSquid wrote:

What necessitated this post to be here?
WHO said WHAT that apparently got some people so upset?

I think someone started a thread saying something to the effect of "Should I cancel my kid's birthday party this week?" because of the hurricance. Being sarcastic. I actually thought it was in bad taste too, and I am a very sarcastic person. I think that thread got locked....

Some people just deal with tragedies different..

KLL posted the "Birthday Party" thread, because some people in the "Cancel Shows" thread were refusing to hear any points of view other than their own.

and then claimed "they only wanted to start a discussion"..

OldFriendTheSquid wrote:I think someone started a thread saying something to the effect of "Should I cancel my kid's birthday party this week?" because of the hurricance. Being sarcastic. I actually thought it was in bad taste too, and I am a very sarcastic person. I think that thread got locked....

Some people just deal with tragedies different..

Okay, thanks. I do have to agree-any sarcasm over a tradgedy of this magnatude is definately in poor taste. Some people just DON'T have any compassion.
I hope they never have to deal with what the people of the Gulf Coast are dealing with right now.

Wino you know wrote:Okay, thanks. I do have to agree-any sarcasm over a tradgedy of this magnatude is definately in poor taste. Some people just DON'T have any compassion.
I hope they never have to deal with what the people of the Gulf Coast are dealing with right now.

Guess I'm grateful that my sarcasm wasn't over the tradedy, but rather over the notion that somehow attending a Buffett concert this week could somehow be miscontrued as a lack of compassion.

Wino you know wrote:

OldFriendTheSquid wrote:I think someone started a thread saying something to the effect of "Should I cancel my kid's birthday party this week?" because of the hurricance. Being sarcastic. I actually thought it was in bad taste too, and I am a very sarcastic person. I think that thread got locked....

Some people just deal with tragedies different..

Okay, thanks. I do have to agree-any sarcasm over a tradgedy of this magnatude is definately in poor taste. Some people just DON'T have any compassion.
I hope they never have to deal with what the people of the Gulf Coast are dealing with right now.

I disagree that sarcasm, neccessarily, is in poor taste. Let me explain my position : I work as a crisis counselor and serve on a CISD ( Critical Incident Stress Debriefing) team and we react to local crisis situations. If you would hear the black humor, sarcasm, politically incorrect comments, profanity and down-right crude comments that are used to relieve stress and defuse tension, you would be appalled. But this activity serves to help us crazy people keep from going insane. We can't help anyone else unless we work to maintain our own mental health. I have heard similiar comments from firemen and police officers, behind the scenes, then watched them put on their professional persona and work in heart-breaking situations. We have to work to keep our comments within our group of helping professionals because I realize that many people will not be able to empathize with us and understand the need for this type of stress relief. It seems that the worse the situation is, the worse the jokes become.

I wish that I could pass the Red Cross physical and go to the Gulf Coast, but because of a bad knee, I can't.

first of all let me be the first to say nobody was making fun of the victims on this....It was a jab at the way certain people felt about the way it should be handled. Cancelling the concert or not cancelling the concert. Nobody is right or wrong, but it was to be a discussion and it became way to personal.



wino---don't take this personally because i've read alot of good things you have posted.....however, you write " I do have to agree-any sarcasm over a tradgedy of this magnatude is definately in poor taste. Some people just DON'T have any compassion. "--- however your signature line makes fun of sexual harrassment. I believe that is poking fun at a subject that i'm sure some people are very sensitive to. Does it bug me, no...I actually get a chuckle out of it, i think we all need humor, but i'm sure it does bother some. I'm not pointing this out to be an A@@, i'm pointing it out so that you can see people use humor all the time to get over things. The post became way too personal and that was the bottom line.....