Re: Public emotion : Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:47 pm  

I think social media has more to do with it than anything else e.g. bored, boring and nosey people on facebook al praying for Muamba (I'd never heard of him before I doubt any of the people praying of him had either).

Compare Fabrice Muamba and Marc Vivien Foe, social media wasn't anywhere near as popular in 2003 as it is now, Marc Vivien Foe died and there weren't much of fuss, they retired his jersey number at City IIRC but had that happened now there maybe teenagers crying all over Facebook and twitter.

Re: Public emotion : Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:15 pm  

People seemed to be afraid of being rounded up on or bullied for holding an opinion, personally i'm past caring so don't usually go down the sycophant/emotion route unless that person has actually inspired me or grabbed my heart in some other way.

On the Hillsbrough thing, i view i have on why some Liverpool fans get so self righteous (i expect poop for this opinon) is to deflect slightly from their own fans being involved in a stadium disaster that killed 39 Italians and injured countless others and the shame that brought on the club and how they were seen by the rest of the world.
Liverpool as a a city has always seemed very defensive.


On the Titanic, WTF!
Personally i think James Cameron should shoulder some of the blame.

I'm also getting fed up of the road shrines popping up, i actually have in my will and i poop you not "If i die in a road related accident please do not leave flowers or make any kind of memorial where it happened, i don't want the random place i have died to be associated with my memory"

Re: Public emotion : Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:45 am  

Horatio Yed wrote:

People seemed to be afraid of being rounded up on or bullied for holding an opinion, personally i'm past caring so don't usually go down the sycophant/emotion route unless that person has actually inspired me or grabbed my heart in some other way.

On the Hillsbrough thing, i view i have on why some Liverpool fans get so self righteous (i expect poop for this opinon) is to deflect slightly from their own fans being involved in a stadium disaster that killed 39 Italians and injured countless others and the shame that brought on the club and how they were seen by the rest of the world.
Liverpool as a a city has always seemed very defensive.


On the Titanic, WTF!
Personally i think James Cameron should shoulder some of the blame.

I'm also getting fed up of the road shrines popping up, i actually have in my will and i poop you not "If i die in a road related accident please do not leave flowers or make any kind of memorial where it happened, i don't want the random place i have died to be associated with my memory"

What a pain in the booty they are, I can just understand a grave although I have never visited anyones.

Re: Public emotion : Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:04 am  

Why are roadside shrines a pain?

Re: Public emotion : Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:18 am  

Why are they needed?

There a eye saw, don't get looked after, get in the way if development or maintenance is needed.

Imagine if everyone who died on the road had one.

Re: Public emotion : Thu Apr 19, 2012 6:00 am  

Sheldon wrote:

Imagine if everyone who died on the road had one.

Surely if it was the right thing to do, the reception area of every hospice and old folks' home would resemble the Chelsea Flower Show

Re: Public emotion : Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:07 am  

cod'ead wrote:

Surely if it was the right thing to do, the reception area of every hospice and old folks' home would resemble the Chelsea Flower Show

shrines all over the every 3 metres where somebody once died, looking after all your desendents 'death spots', you wouldn't have time to work!

Imagine the up roar when in a few hundred years we have to build on graveyards because of the population.

Re: Public emotion : Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:38 am  

BrisbaneRhino wrote:

Why are roadside shrines a pain?

Because the people that leave the flowers generally do not bother removing them when they wilt and die. The sight of a roadside shrine 3-4 weeks later is truly miserable and seems to me to defeat its purpose.

Re: Public emotion : Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:01 am  

Horatio Yed wrote:

On the Hillsbrough thing, i view i have on why some Liverpool fans get so self righteous (i expect poop for this opinon) is to deflect slightly from their own fans being involved in a stadium disaster that killed 39 Italians and injured countless others and the shame that brought on the club and how they were seen by the rest of the world.
Liverpool as a a city has always seemed very defensive.

My personal point of view almost perfectly matches the above, hence the reason that I mention the date on page one, which in all probability most people had to go away and look up.

Re: Public emotion : Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:22 pm  

post wrote:

I'm self employed so won't be getting paid anyway.

Ditto.