- Posted
- Aug 28th 2008
- Music
- Defenitly NOT Rammstein
You know what sucks? Bad jokes. Especially jokes about disasters and such. I remember how people started to make jokes about 9/11 on the same day it happened. I never understood that.
Bad timing goes hand in hand with that. You know, making bad jokes about someone who died on the anniversary. It doesn't make the joke better.
Today I had a prime example of "retard" at work. On of my co-workers made a bad joke about "Ramstein". Not the band but the disaster 1988 at Ramstein Air Base where 70 people died and over 400 where injured when a plane crashed into the crowd while trying to perform an air-show.
My wife is there right now. Today is the 20th anniversary and as a survivor she and her father are there for the commemoration, leaving me and our daughter at home...which is better I think.
20 years ago this disaster took her mother (her real mother) and her sister away, leaving her, her brother and her father behind. Of course she doesn't remember every detail...she was just 4 years old. But everytime she hears a jet roar over our heads, she goes inside the house. Can't blame her.
Haliestra Says:
I understand you perfectly, I lost a good friend in 2004 due the Tsunami. I have to say I never heard bad jokes about that, but I heard those about Ramstein and 9/11 as well.
Those who where there when all of that happened went trough hell and back, it's not easy to live with that. I "only" lost a friend and not a family mamber, I was never there: in Ramstein, Puket or in New York), but I have the respect which the dead people deserves. It's too mormid (is that even a word in english?) for me to talk about that in a joke.
I hope your wife will be ok. I am sorry to hear about her loss that day.
maybe she has a fear of heights?
Stellarness Says:
I don't like jokes like that as well. Highly disrespectful. My best friend a few years back actually made a very upsetting drawing to those who lost their loved ones on 9/11. Thankfully, it was deleted [was on DA]. & now she's a bit more mature. I think back then she just didn't get how it was disrespectful because she was a lot more immature & never really did lose a loved one from such tragedy.
Minstrel Ayreon Says:
Some people have no compassion--I am convinced.
(When it comes to 9-11...I'm going to be very blunt. People in other countries love the thought of bad things coming to Americans--no two ways around it. So they delight in our pain.)