Luxury yacht sinks off Sicily

[pride in battle]

Within a very short space of time professional comedians were telling a certain joke about that disaster. It has always been done. Its a way of coping. If you look at this week, 3 stabbed (one dead) in Gorton, this tragedy, people dying in car crashes, shootings, robberies the lot. That is just this country. Gaza/Israel/Iraq. The Rohinga are being slaughtered again. Russia committing war crimes, South America in a permanent state of crisis......
You either end up a depressed bloke on tablets, refuse to read/watch the news or you take a light hearted casual attitude to all the death and destruction.
I know which of the 3 I am and it doesn't make me a bad person no matter what some on bluemoon think.

Just makes you a wanker ?

 

[paulchapo]

The gallows humour I think is because people don’t want to acknowledge how fragile life is, I certainly used it all the time as coping mechanism for the stuff I’ve witnessed otherwise it drives you mad, unfortunately it doesn’t help with the memories I have now which seem to be resurfacing now and then at the weirdest times.

I agree. I just found those comments incredibly insensitive considering they were sailing on the same shipping company where 38 crew had died only weeks before. Geoff Haney the chef who died was only 30. A big Blue I still remember him outside Wembley against Tottenham in 1981 playing a bloody tuba! Why I have no idea lol.

 

[Grassland Blue]

So you're saying God assassinated them then?

The insurance company will no doubt.....

 

[stonerblue]

Why is this such a huge news story? BBC1 news had it 1st and for over 5 mins yesterday.

'bunch of rich cunts on a boat in the Med get fucked over by a storm'.

Got 8 articles on it this morning.

 

[Grassland Blue]

Just been reading this thread about a luxury yacht sinking and there's a luxury yacht advert at the bottom of the fuckin' page!

It says 'Contact Us Now By Filling Out The Contact Form'.

I say get fucked I'm staying on dry land.

I went on the Woolwich ferry yesterday.
I had no concerns.
I was with The Woolwich!

 

[stonerblue]

It's a sad sad situation

Sorry...

 

[Grassland Blue]

I suppose they are selling it cheap it can't be in great condition.

People have accidents on dry land, I believe no one has died on the moon though. Not many pubs mind.

No atmosphere on the moon as Russ Abbott once said.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

I went on the Woolwich ferry yesterday.
I had no concerns.
I was with The Woolwich!

Been on that several times but prefer driving through the Blackwall tunnel as it's a lot quicker.

 

[metalblue]

They thinking boat wasn’t locked down for the storm. Leave anything open and water is getting in.

And that life raft didn’t look suitable for 22 people.

 

[Blue Mist]

Just makes you a wanker ?

I don't think so, do you ? Perhaps you could expand a little and tell me what I have said on this thread makes me, in your eyes, a wanker.