Is this all part of the new "never fail" youth stuff?
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Last few articles in VARIOUS* papers that I have read over the past few weeks...
It would seem, that every single young person that has died, is either a talented footballer, a promising student or a possible doctor / surgeon.
Even one of the Mephedrone articles recently - you know, the one where they actually took methadone as well, were promising talented young students - who could apparently get hold of a chemical used by heroin addicts
This saddens me in a way, because you never hear of someone with very little going for them dying so either
a) (hopefully) the newspapers are calling everyone promising young architectural lawyer doctors and king of the universe types because they are now dead, so why not let them have their moment
or
b) All our talented young whatevers are being killed off, and soon we will only have scum on the streets - oh wait..
Seriously though - why must everyone be a talented young footballer or "A level student" ?
I only bring this up as most of the deaths that come up are not sudden or faultless, its usually due to some tool wrapping a car round a lamppost, or overdosing on serious amounts of drugs - which is hardly the behavior of a promising young anything...
- Spread across various so the frantic newspaper snobs cannot single out a paper and try to snobberise it...
It would seem, that every single young person that has died, is either a talented footballer, a promising student or a possible doctor / surgeon.
Even one of the Mephedrone articles recently - you know, the one where they actually took methadone as well, were promising talented young students - who could apparently get hold of a chemical used by heroin addicts
This saddens me in a way, because you never hear of someone with very little going for them dying so either
a) (hopefully) the newspapers are calling everyone promising young architectural lawyer doctors and king of the universe types because they are now dead, so why not let them have their moment
or
b) All our talented young whatevers are being killed off, and soon we will only have scum on the streets - oh wait..
Seriously though - why must everyone be a talented young footballer or "A level student" ?
I only bring this up as most of the deaths that come up are not sudden or faultless, its usually due to some tool wrapping a car round a lamppost, or overdosing on serious amounts of drugs - which is hardly the behavior of a promising young anything...
Jasandjules said:
TheCarpetCleaner said:
Seriously though - why must everyone be a talented young footballer or "A level student" ?
Because what sort of wa***r would you have to be to say "well, he's dead, and he was always a scrote, good riddance"...
timlongs said:
I agree, it reminds me of that story a couple of years ago when that girl killed herself sledging on a car bonnet, with a big barbed wire fence at the bottom, but she was a straight A student. Hmm
I always found straight A students to be slightly low on the common sense side of things...TheCarpetCleaner said:
Jasandjules said:
TheCarpetCleaner said:
Seriously though - why must everyone be a talented young footballer or "A level student" ?
Because what sort of wa***r would you have to be to say "well, he's dead, and he was always a scrote, good riddance"...As far as I can remember it's always been this way - generally anybody who dies gets beatified in the media. Bob the Carpet Cleaner would become Bob the loving family man, etc etc
It's even more noticeable with youngsters as they can talk up the potential thus every kid is a "promising footballer" or "wanted to be doctor" blah blah.
Part of it is taking the "never speak ill of the dead" too far and the rest is just selling papers etc. TBH it pisses me off, to falsely flatter someone when their alive isn't seen as a good thing so why should that change when they die?
It's even more noticeable with youngsters as they can talk up the potential thus every kid is a "promising footballer" or "wanted to be doctor" blah blah.
Part of it is taking the "never speak ill of the dead" too far and the rest is just selling papers etc. TBH it pisses me off, to falsely flatter someone when their alive isn't seen as a good thing so why should that change when they die?
Amazed that you see this as a new trend.
FOr years- as long as I can remember- society has bveen respectful of the dead.
You just need to read between the lines:
Talented footballer= has literally no other redeeming features than being quite good at football
Promising Student= Exactly the same as school report although they have censored the next word which would be 'but' or 'if only'
Budding musician= A rubbish s
t.
Loved by everyone= His mum. And that's marginal
FOr years- as long as I can remember- society has bveen respectful of the dead.
You just need to read between the lines:
Talented footballer= has literally no other redeeming features than being quite good at football
Promising Student= Exactly the same as school report although they have censored the next word which would be 'but' or 'if only'
Budding musician= A rubbish s
t.Loved by everyone= His mum. And that's marginal
chunkymonkey71 said:
TheCarpetCleaner said:
Jasandjules said:
TheCarpetCleaner said:
Seriously though - why must everyone be a talented young footballer or "A level student" ?
Because what sort of wa***r would you have to be to say "well, he's dead, and he was always a scrote, good riddance"...
t84 said:
TheCarpetCleaner said:
Even one of the Mephedrone articles recently - you know, the one where they actually took methadone as well, were promising talented young students - who could apparently get hold of a chemical used by heroin addicts
Are you thinking of Methadone?t84 said:
TheCarpetCleaner said:
Even one of the Mephedrone articles recently - you know, the one where they actually took methadone as well, were promising talented young students - who could apparently get hold of a chemical used by heroin addicts
Are you thinking of Methadone?okgo said:
t84 said:
TheCarpetCleaner said:
Even one of the Mephedrone articles recently - you know, the one where they actually took methadone as well, were promising talented young students - who could apparently get hold of a chemical used by heroin addicts
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