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Posted: 3/5/2006 11:17:10 AM EDT
[#1]
Nope. Sometimes I feel good.
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Posted: 3/5/2006 11:17:52 AM EDT
[#2]
Ask me when Jimmy Carter bites the dust.
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Posted: 3/5/2006 11:18:15 AM EDT
[#3]
fuck 'em.
rj |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 11:18:48 AM EDT
[#4]
Meh, I don't blame you.
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Posted: 3/5/2006 11:19:01 AM EDT
[#5]
Maybe you only did deserve a C...
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Posted: 3/5/2006 11:19:08 AM EDT
[#6]
Respect is something you earn, as far as your old teacher, he didnt earn any respect from you so I dont see that he deserves any from you.
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Posted: 3/5/2006 11:19:28 AM EDT
[#7]
I may be sorry for thier family, depending.
Otherwise, I'm not sorry, and, I'll say so without any remorse. |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 11:20:19 AM EDT
[#8]
[Ogre] NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRDS! [/Ogre] |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 11:20:24 AM EDT
[#9]
Issues...
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Posted: 3/5/2006 11:20:37 AM EDT
[#10]
nope, I hate how people are turned into "angels" when they die. If they were assholes they were assholes, it is simaler to people saying "Don't say that, it is mean" Fuck that if it is true that say whatever the F-bomb you want. Like when John Ritter died every came out saying how great and funny he was, bullshit!!, I've never seem anything he has done to validate his existence
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Posted: 3/5/2006 11:21:28 AM EDT
[#11]
You should have been at my grandfather's funeral three years ago.
Boy, did I stir up a hornet's nest. |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 11:22:22 AM EDT
[#12]
You could say "damn that sucks, but i never liked him anyway"
Just cuz he was a asshole to you doesnt mean he deserves to die or that tou cant pay your respects to him atleast for the people who did like him |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 11:22:47 AM EDT
[#13]
When I was in high school, the vice principal said I was dealing cocaine. Called me in and told me that they were going to suspend me and why. I NEVER sold drugs and certainly was completely shocked by this and flipped out. I yelled at her, I hope you die a horrible death and taste your own blood as you do so.
10 years or so pass and I hear from my mother that the old VP died in a horrific car accident. Took the FD about an hour or so to remove her from the car. She died after they got her out. Needless to say, I had a few thought about her demise. |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 11:28:48 AM EDT
[#14]
No issues here. He is dead. What better poetic justice. I was tormented because I wasn't a jock. And he was too stupid to not watch for power lines. This topic came up during a discussion my wife and I were having. Somehow it was brought up that a guy she knew from high school died, and she thought "good", because he was an ass. Her friends got on her because she should talk that way about someone who just died. It reminded me of my high school gym teacher, and how I faced the same thing from people. |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 11:30:22 AM EDT
[#15]
What happened? |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 11:31:29 AM EDT
[#16]
You mean lie and act like you're in the least bit sorry? Screw that. I won't be at thier funeral danceing on their graves, but, I sure ain't gona play kissy-face is somone asks me my opinion. |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 11:34:20 AM EDT
[#17]
I usually try to follow the "if you don't have anything nice to say..." rule in that kind of situation. I'm not going to lie and say nice things about an asshole, but I'm not going to badmouth someone in front of his mourning family, even if he was a dickhole. "no comment" |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 11:39:28 AM EDT
[#18]
The bible tells us that God finds no joy in the death of any person.
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Posted: 3/5/2006 11:49:23 AM EDT
[#19]
The dead guy either has way more important things to worry about or isn’t going to ever worry about anything ever again. (Depending on which religion is right.)
But, you should have respect for the feelings of those still living. There are something like six billion people on the planet right now, we aren’t exactly an endangered species. And, there’s far more tragedy and suffering in the world than any one person can even begin to deal with. We can’t go around feeling sorry for everyone. So, when some asshole dies off in a comical way just feel free to be secretly happy about the situation. But don’t go adding to the loss and suffering other people are feeling by voicing your pleasure. Oh and one more thing… That teacher probably gave you the grade you deserve in Gym. Think about it. Some guy who doesn’t have the God given brainpower you do has to struggle with math and makes a C. It’s not that he didn’t try but he lacks the natural ability. And because he lacks that ability he feels like the math teachers don’t particularly like him… So, god didn’t bless you physically as well as he did others and you have to struggle in Gym to get that C. And naturally the teacher shows favoritism to his better students. It’s the same thing. |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 11:54:48 AM EDT
[#20]
Im not saying respect the guy, im saying respect the people that did care for him Probably the safest thing to do is to just keep your opinions about him to yourself |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:00:15 PM EDT
[#21]
I don't feel bad at all when an asshole dies.
I wouldn't count my grandmother as an asshole, but she's never exaclty been kind to me. When she dies, I will shed no tears. I will most certainly not be discussing this with loved ones, however. |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:00:24 PM EDT
[#22]
joy? ...no
feel bad ...no the only person i ever really disliked dies in a casr wreak about 2 years after we graduated HS I didn't feel bad but i took no joy from his death |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:01:50 PM EDT
[#23]
So death is poetic justice for giving you a hard time? daaayuuuumhock.gif |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:02:31 PM EDT
[#24]
oops, double tap
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:03:45 PM EDT
[#25]
+1..........if you don't deserve my respect while you're alive, you sure as hell will not get it when you're dead. |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:08:04 PM EDT
[#26]
No need to rejoice in the fact but don't feel obligated to feel bad.
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:10:53 PM EDT
[#27]
I wonder what it is that makes us think that "our respect" is such a valuable commodity?
It is much healthier to live a life in which the opinions of others mean very little. Just as you don't have to remember what you said if you just tell the truth, you don't need to be concerned about the opinions of others if you have done your best. |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:17:03 PM EDT
[#28]
Yes issues... If you are happy someone died because of gym class there are issues… not healthy. If you think you need to or have a right to interject your opinion on other people who are grieving you not only have issues you have bad manners and poor taste. My brother always said the gym teacher picked on him because he was not a jock... the real reason he got picked on was he was a smug smarmy smart ass punk who thought he was intellectually above everyone else and acted that way. That don’t even get in to the hating grandparents part… weather they deserve it or not. Issues... |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:17:39 PM EDT
[#29]
Hey, it wasn't as if I killed him or anything. But yea. To answer your question. Its a terrible thing that he was killed and left friends/family to morn him. Asside from that, I'm glad he is dead. There were a couple of other kids in my class that he treated worse. And I'm sure there were many others before and after me. ... well, not too many after me. |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:19:40 PM EDT
[#30]
Usually not.
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:20:02 PM EDT
[#31]
Why is that? Do you believe that relatives are above being on your shit list? |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:21:58 PM EDT
[#32]
George Costanza......"can't stand ya"
if he was an asshole to you ..the hell with him. |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:24:38 PM EDT
[#33]
So you have never been "glad" someone has died? Someone you despised so much that you smiled to yourself when they put him in the ground? My "gym teacher" might be someone else co-worker, or ex-spouse, or ... fill in the blank. Someone that you feel the world would be better off without. I've got to say, if you have lived your life and never hated someone, you must be the most mellow person alive. |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:25:35 PM EDT
[#34]
I don't think it is healthy for you to feel the need to hate family... even though it is sometimes justified. Far better to let it go. |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:26:48 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:26:52 PM EDT
[#36]
There is this one high school teacher... and when he dies, I will probably take a week off just to fly to his grave and dance on it, and spend the rest of the week partying.
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:28:41 PM EDT
[#37]
Yeah thats great and all, but I'm not God. |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:29:21 PM EDT
[#38]
No not a gym teacher... never glad. Give a shit less yes but hate or glad no. I reserve that kind of feeling for important things. The real problem is your need to interject your feelings on those who are grieving… that is inexcusable bad manners. |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:34:48 PM EDT
[#39]
It wasn't as if I was at the wake and erected banners telling the entire crowd what I thought of the guy. It was a group of friends, someone mentioned the fact he was killed, and amongst the "oh my god, really?" type comments, I gave my comment. |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:35:05 PM EDT
[#40]
I feel really bad when good people die.
Why shouldn't the opposite be true? Just think Michael Moore
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:35:40 PM EDT
[#41]
Short of the few truly evil people in this world (Billary would be two examples...), I would feel no joy
in hearing of the death of most any person. But I feel considerably less sorrow over some than others. Some people are worth my taking a moment to reflect on their passing and feel some sadness and sympathy, and others quite frankly aren't worth more than a quick nod to acknowledge that they've kicked the bucket. A few aren't even worth the nod. And there are others who, should I hear news of their passing, would cause me to break down and cry for days. I wouldn't be right for a month or more. People earn their status with others. The higher the status they earn, the more they will be missed. CJ |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:36:54 PM EDT
[#42]
Obviously you do not have to respect someone after death that you did not respect in life. Not a very complex issue really. If someone was a dirtbag to you, to hell with him. I can understand why you won't shed any tears in his passing. If someone asks for your opinion, tell them but I wouldn't go out of my way to make it known that I didn't like him. Why make a public issue of not liking the guy. I might not respect the dead guy but I respect my friends, fellow students and acquaintances that did like him. Put the shoe on the other foot. Let's say you have a nerd teacher in charge of your chess team that you respect a lot and means a lot to you. Then he dies in an accident. Do you want the jocks to go around saying what a great day it is because the nerd deserved to die. After all, he didn't like sports and hated jocks. Let's all rejoice with his passing. I think they would be wrong for doing it as much as you would be for doing the same thing. I might not care for chess or the people that play it but I respect you right to do what makes you happy and follow the people you like. Why should I disrespect you if a friend or mentor of your's dies by belittling a person you look up to? |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:47:37 PM EDT
[#43]
Sometime it's a sad thing when someone dies, But in many cases the world is a better places. JMHO
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Posted: 3/5/2006 12:56:23 PM EDT
[#44]
Still bad manners and petty... better to say nothing. Part of the problem in this society is everyone has become so self important they actually think people need to know their every opinion even in a situation where they should have the manners and tact to be quite. |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 1:20:40 PM EDT
[#45]
In a nutshell, my grandparents came over on a ship from Italy in the '30s. They were "old world." Well, my grandfather was a mean SOB who beat the sh*t out of my grandmother all the time. After being fed stories about this stuff my whole childhood, I obviously never bothered to establish any kind of relationship with him. Fast forward to his old age and my mom was constantly telling me I ought to care more about my grandfather and I just let the words roll off my back. Even with gramps being on his deathbed, I didn't go visit him. Well, at the funeral, I got up when they asked if anybody had anything to say, and I pretty much let it all out. I said I felt cheated for not having a kind, old grampa and that all these people pining away about how nice the guy was left me wondering if we were talking about the same guy I was told be wary of for all those years. I had a few people come up to me afterwards (mostly cousins) and say, "I was thinking the same thing!" However, my parents and some of my aunts and uncles WERE PISSED. Needless to say, I was in the family doghouse for a while after that one. For the life of me, I don't understand the mentality behind the whole situation. By most accounts, my grandfather was an absolute terror to my grandmother for years and yet when he's old and dies we're supposed to forget all about it and say how wonderful he was. Maybe I'm missing something. |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 1:46:24 PM EDT
[#46]
+1 |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 1:48:17 PM EDT
[#47]
no.
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Posted: 3/5/2006 2:11:38 PM EDT
[#48]
None of us are perfect. There's probably at least one or two people that would be happy if any of us died, because they were only exposed to our "bad side" (either that or some people here are just a complete jerk). You're concentrating only on the person's shortcomings, you should at least give him the benefit of the doubt and try to focus on some good in him. Or at least mourn the potential loss of the nicer person he might have become had he lived longer.
I wouldn't expect you to break down crying in remorse, but I would at least try to put aside my dark feelings for him in respect of the fact that, in all likelyhood, he is/was probably in the same situation as you are to a few people (at least potentially). Always treat someone as you would like them to treat you. After all, being at least respectful can't hurt. Stop me if I'm wrong, but I've always kind of thought that it is the mark of a more mature individual that they can show kindness to those who don't show it, instead of countering contempt by "sinking to their level" and showing the same amount of contempt in return. ETA: Please note that I'm not trying to be "Holier-than-Thou" here. I wasn't in your situation, and I don't know how I would have reacted myself in your shoes. The above is simply how I feel someone should ideally respond if possible. |
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Posted: 3/5/2006 2:14:57 PM EDT
[#49]
Wobblin Goblin! BALLS MAN! BALLS!
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Posted: 3/5/2006 2:16:49 PM EDT
[#50]
nope |
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