8Mile
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Seriously? People in Detroit have been affected by the murder of this British soldier?
I guess you were affected enough by it to read this thread, right? Me, too.
News travels fast in the age of the internets.
Seriously? People in Detroit have been affected by the murder of this British soldier?
I guess you were affected enough by it to read this thread, right? Me, too.
News travels fast in the age of the internets.
Well, no. I'm actually not affected by it at all, to be completely honest. You just can't be affected by everything, can you?
Correct you are. But I can see when people are antagonizing each other.
I guess not.
On the other hand, we're both sad that Ed Shaughnessy has passed. Even though I'm here in Detroit and you're in the lumpen post-industrial district.
A not even remotely political postEveryone in the UK and the USA should be affected by this. This is a scary thing to happen and for, finally, there to be at-home brutal terrorism on our streets that's isn't orchestrated by our own governments (yes, I mean 9/11 and 7/7, even a monkey could see that was nothing to do with Al Qaeda!) is a big shock to people!
People need to turn off their televisions and read a bit more - thats the only way to protect yourself from the scaremongering and biased media output that the government rely on to control their citizens
A not even remotely political post
I just heard that more arrest have been made in connection with this young mans murder.So do you thing there is some kind of terrorist knife wielding death squad running around over there? very disturbing news you folks need to be very alert of your surroundings
Well, now you've got me wondering. Not to be confrontational or disagreeable in any way, but I'm curious to know how the murder of this British soldier affects us all?
I agree with you that you can't be affected by everything and I'm not saying we have to grieve and mourn the loss of every single person on the planet.Well, no. I'm actually not affected by it at all, to be completely honest. You just can't be affected by everything, can you?
And I still don't see the impact this would have on the citizens on Detroit, I mean I don't see any connection, sorry.
Everyone in the UK and the USA should be affected by this. This is a scary thing to happen and for, finally, there to be at-home brutal terrorism on our streets that's isn't orchestrated by our own governments (yes, I mean 9/11 and 7/7, even a monkey could see that was nothing to do with Al Qaeda!) is a big shock to people!
People need to turn off their televisions and read a bit more - thats the only way to protect yourself from the scaremongering and biased media output that the government rely on to control their citizens
I agree with you that you can't be affected by everything and I'm not saying we have to grieve and mourn the loss of every single person on the planet.
However, if you've become so de-sensitised to violence that when a person (not to mention soldier, father and fellow drummer) is run down and then hacked to death with machetes like a piece of meat and you don't even bat an eyelid- well, I feel sorry for you TBH.
Well, I can assure you that I've not become desensitized to violence.
I don't know about the fellow drummer thing. That's taking it a bit far, isn't it?
Didn't mean to imply that we were all best buddies with the guy or anything but he was a drummer (as we all are on this forum)- therefore, he was a fellow drummer.
You're right- no-one on this forum would have given a "monkey's arse" that a human being was butchered in the street (what's the big deal- happens every day right)? It was only the fact that he was a drummer that we cared about the story.If he'd been a member of this forum then yes, of course I could understand the reaction.
But the thing is, nobody'd ever heard of him before he was a victim. And we wouldn't give a monkey's arse about him anyway if the news hadn't reported that he'd been a snare drummer in the army.
Really now.
You're right- no-one on this forum would have given a "monkey's arse" that a human being was butchered in the street (what's the big deal- happens every day right)? It was only the fact that he was a drummer that we cared about the story.
Really now.
You've missed the point, though. If you'd never heard of him, why would you care about him?