Confirmed that a Brit has died in the Nepalese earthquake

[Rich]

[Snin]

knob head

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Classic Jorge]

But now you've said a brit has died it's made it into a real tragedy.

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Snin]

[Snin]

[Monty91]

[Rich]

The Nepalese are used to earthquakes. Poor old John from Didcot probably died confused and scared.

[barrybueno]

tragedy imo.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I assume you knew him, or her.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Fred Killah]

[Classic Jorge]

There's almost nothing to say that the random british person is anything more like me, or you for that matter, than a frenchman, an australian or someone from Kenya.

[Classic Jorge]

[Snin]

Media rules

1 Brit = 32 yellow ones, 93 black ones , 8000 towel head ones, 3 europeans, 2 septics and 1.75 jooos unless killed by arabs then its .75

[redgunamo]

He was one of us, he will be sorely missed :-(

[Snin]

[Classic Jorge]

For all we know the brit could also be an Irish, technically at least.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

We shall each eat a potato and then we shall dance until it is time to return to work.

[Snin]

[Classic Jorge]

http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article83297.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/david-cameron-during-george-osborne-s-speech-the-conservative-party-conference-pic-getty-477738960.jpg

[Ben.]

http://www.400smilesaday.co.uk/sheep10.2.jpg

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Classic Jorge]

but it appears ben beat me to it

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

And to be perfectly honest I don't give a f**k.

I have of course a sense of what is a normal human reaction to these events and feel sorry for the family who have to deal with the loss but I am not going to pretend to be personally affected in any way.

Unless I then happen to know the person, which is unlikely, then I might be a wee bit pissed off.

Unless I didn't like them.

[Rich]

[redgunamo]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

You're welcome,SW.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Snin]

very sad..lucky we cremate though..wuldnt be room for em

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-700/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/1/14/1295014011796/Mortality-statistics-grap-001.jpg

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Ben.]

just seemed the obvious direction.

[Rich]

free will then you must live with the potential consequences.

[redgunamo]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Tiocfaidh ar la.

[Classic Jorge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qty_6JqsWNA

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Peter]

[redgunamo]

[Classic Jorge]

That's when we pounce

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Imagine hating your Heimat so much, you want to leave it?

[Billy Goat Sverige]

f**k GREAT BRITAIN!!!

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Monty91]

As I said, to deny this is to deny human nature.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Take today as an example, I just found myself on the train to work like this.

http://img.thesun.co.uk/aidemitlum/archive/00941/SNN04BALA_280_941603a.jpg

[Classic Jorge]

Maybe it's just me, but I don't think I have anything more or less in common - save possibly that we might have watched the same **** telly - with someone from this country.

I find it a weird, strange, insular and myopic idea that nowadays people still think like this.

[Rich]

A34 the other day. They have a railway museum there, I understand.

[Rich]

I appreciate that this might be difficult to take. But life is full of uncomfortable truths.

[redgunamo]

[Monty91]

even down to something as trivial as the area of a city the person is from.

If I hear someone has died in north London, I am instinctively more interested than if they were from south London. I wonder whether they live near me, whether I have ever passed through the spot that they died, whether it means I should feel less safe, and numerous other questions that stem from the possibility that their lives bear a resemblance to mind.

All of these things are interwoven with the levels of empathy you will feel for someone.

[Rich]

[redgunamo]

lunch along broadly similar lines of taste.

Could be wrong though.

[redgunamo]

[Monty91]

cultural similarities.

Come to think of it, he also likes The Hangover http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/ohwell.gif

[Snin]

[barrybueno]

decline since 1997.

[Snin]

the daft beggars would have forgotten where they buried them all imo

[Classic Jorge]

I find the whole business of nationality a very arbitrary one anyway.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I said he doesn't eat fish.

[Classic Jorge]

I'm not sure what more, or less for that matter, I share with your average british person, if such a thing exists.

Crucially, I'm not really sure how much more I'd empathise with someone dying based on their proximity to me. The whole thing doesn't really make any sense.

It's just crass and I wish the news would stop reporting stories like that.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Man.

[Classic Jorge]

I like Monty and I'm sure we could have a pleasant pint (or half in his case) together but I'll wager we're pretty different despite our relative proximity.

[Classic Jorge]

As I generally find the people I'm paying to make food to my specifications ignore it and leave reddy bits in it.

If I asked for the f**ker raw I could just nip over to the field next door and bite one.

[Monty91]

French and German families mourning their loved ones after the Germanwings crash than the various Asian ones of recent times.

There is also the factor that Malcolm Gladwell discusses about it being more morally virtuous to want the underdog to lose sports events, because the fall to earth would be much less harsh for them than for the favourites.

In the case of personal misfortune, people in poor countries have **** lives anyway and so they are likely to be less affected by trauma as they are used to it. For someone who lives in the comfortable, affluent west, the impact is likely to be much greater and they are therefore more worthy of our empathy.

[Luis Anaconda]

[redgunamo]

felt the need or perhaps ability to contribute.

That's "our" culture and our place, regardless of our differences as individual people moving through the world on our own paths.

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

Today I have spoken with people in Delhi, Rosario and Tel Aviv, for instance

[redgunamo]

teaching the locals the art of Englische Elfmeterschiesen

:thumbup:

[Classic Jorge]

As discussed above

[Classic Jorge]

...is people's obsession with Malcolm Gladwell.

He's a dull man, fond of lazy and clumsy metaphors. It's the type of stuff the intellectually challenged read so they can appear clever,

[redgunamo]

[Berni]

climbs mountains. Either way, no great loss imo.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

How could you desert your fatherland, la?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Snin]

ruined everything...the Royal family is still smarting now imo

[Luis Anaconda]

It is to the sum of no pounds and no pence but technically I am a still paying it. Besides beer is cheaper here

[Monty91]

but his point about never backing the underdog being the virtuous option was a good one.

[Luis Anaconda]

[barrybueno]

[Fred Killah]

[redgunamo]

you can keep below you, the better off you yourself must be. Like giving loose change to beggars.

*As you've explained it there. I've never heard of the chap.

[Snin]