Rioting in Argos in Ireland

pjnxi



Joined: 12/02/2009
Posts: 167

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 01:52

Rioting in Argos in Ireland started looting last night.& they are still waiting at the A.B.&.C collection point today.

stubbs1


Joined: 07/08/2011
Posts: 174

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 02:12

This is an attempt at humour yes? Your first time, I'm guessing? Not funny. In actual fact pathetic. Put down your gin and go to bed woman you've had enough. I'll guess that's not the first time this has been said to you.

denizen



Joined: 21/08/2009
Posts: 388

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 02:34

MSG 2 only thing pathetic here stubbs1 is your reply. Wish I was as perfect as you obviously think you are.

Less than a week as a member, you'll go down well here.

The sooner the better

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 06:48

nope I agree with message 2 joking about this when people have died is NOT funny

mmmmmm



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Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 07:18

Sorry.. not in the best taste.. :(

Cocklebay


Joined: 26/02/2011
Posts: 353

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 08:41

Not funny and racist!

puppylover



Joined: 05/05/2008
Posts: 1427

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 08:54

I'm sure Richard Manninton Bowes the 68 year old pensioner who was attacked in Ealing and died in hospital last night, along with the 4 other deceased victims and the 168 police officers who have been injured in the riots will really appreciate.

Plus my 2 daughter's who are working extended long hours at Brixton police station and have had their rest days cancelled and although willing are extremely exhausted.



Sorry, not in the best taste. :(

paddywack


Joined: 04/05/2009
Posts: 959

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 10:41

Pure racism, poster probably wishes he/she had been on the streete with their fellow racists.

Pugwash


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 1797

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 10:50

members I think you are being a bit hard on pjnxi it is only a joke in the vein of Irish/Welsh/Scottish/English jokes we are all very used to, I am sure it was not meant in any racist way whatsoever. Everyone's nerves are a bit raw with what we have seen but I dont think pjmxi meant to cause offence even if the timing may have been better.

babydoll


Joined: 27/07/2011
Posts: 140

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 11:09

pc brigade gone mad again it was a good joke

johnerebus



Joined: 15/05/2009
Posts: 72

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 11:46

Interestingly I was talking to friend about the situation here, a local pub and shop were burned down and other premises ransacked 10 minutes from where I live, and the best way we found of dealing with the shocking horror of events was to joke about them. This happened after the third day of looting / vandalism / murder and released some of the tension we felt. Not sure of the purpose of Pinxi's posting though.

JohhnyLee


Joined: 25/04/2009
Posts: 2495

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 12:19

It was just a joke! It was not a racist remark,



My niece was telling me about a song that has been doing the rounds something like this.



On the foruth day of rioting my true love sent to me,



A pair of Nike trainers, a Greggs open sandwich, a brand new laptop, and a Samsung HD TV



I do not think she is racist or rioter, it was lighthearted.



There are always jokes about events, be it the death of a well known person, an earthquake, etc. etc.



I was speaking to one of my friends from the Police Force and he said I'm looking forward to the overtime pay.

negativenick


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 6023

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 12:25

yeh - lighten up you miserable so and so's..........



you don't catch me winging....

jimmyG


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 900

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 12:57

Msg 13 - not flying off somewhere soon then Nick?!!

Geejay


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 475

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 13:11

Even in the midst of all the gloom surrounding the riots. A touch of humour is welcome.

Don't take any heed of the politically correct, dull, melancholics on this forum !

Nice to see no comment from Dutch Crusader about the poor state of the UK versus Netherlands. lol

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 13:22

For a lot of people, dealing with traumatic events is done by telling or listening to jokes or humour. It's one of the ways we cope.....



I am prone to this myself, for example...whilst lying in a hospital bed, smashed to smithereens...hardly a piece of my body not bruised or broken...i still managed a few jokes...albeit not very good ones...but it was just my way of coping. Once grief has been expressed the usual next step is to introduce humour....after all, all the 'wise ones' say...laughter is the best medicine...



However in the same breathe....i am absolutely devastated by what has happened and is still happening, as i am sure the OP is too....



DD

Geejay


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 475

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 13:23

Oh.... I forgot to include

mmmmmm



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Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 13:31

Geejay



this hasn't anything to do with 'pc'.. it's COMMON SENSE..

AndyR



Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 317

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 13:38

It's human instinct to use humour to help deal with difficult or upsetting situatiions, we all do it. I remember a particular joke from the 80's after the oil rig disaster off the scottish coast .....

What's got 4 legs and goes woof?

Piper Alpha

I was told that ny a roustabout who'd worked on the rig the month before it exploded. He lost friends in the disaster.

Lighten up folks, no-one condemns the looting or the violence, but it was a funny joke

AndyR



Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 317

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 13:40

Sorry, that should of course have been 'no-one condones the looting or the violence'.

CheVill


Joined: 12/08/2011
Posts: 2

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 14:27

I don't get the joke - what's rioting in Argos in Ireland got to do with the rioting in the UK? Stupid, silly, pathetic "joke".

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 14:36

AndyR



it is very clear that what you regard as a 'funny joke' is not universally shared.. jokes involving the tragic deaths of folks are 'well dodgy'.. and say more about the 'SoH' of the person concerned..

EamonnMc


Joined: 18/06/2010
Posts: 1019

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 15:31

Original post quite funny and really quite harmless1 and I'm Irish !

Sundance


Joined: 15/07/2010
Posts: 213

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 15:53

Msg 21, pjnxi is stating that the Irish are a bit THICK in a funny way, and me being Irish i see the funny side to it, But then again i know it was down south and not northern Ireland



Sundance

Sundance


Joined: 15/07/2010
Posts: 213

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 16:06

EamonnMc it was in Kildare and not Dublin



Sundance

philbailey


Joined: 17/01/2011
Posts: 3534

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 16:20

Funny and harmless

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 16:26

@ nmsg 15, Geejay: (...) Nice to see no comment from Dutch Crusader about the poor state of the UK versus Netherlands. lol (...)

▶ Yeah, "lol" ("laughing out loud"). Amsterdam and no other towns/cities in the Netherlands were not burning in the past days. Nor where there 5 innocent dead people, 100+ brave, injured police men, millions of damage in the Netherlands.

Does it really make you feel a "great, better Brit" to write such a xenophobic line? Sad man, in my opinion.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 16:28

@ nmsg 15, Geejay: (...) Nice to see no comment from Dutch Crusader about the poor state of the UK versus Netherlands. lol (...)

▶ Yeah, "lol" ("laughing out loud"). Amsterdam and no other towns/cities in the Netherlands were burning in the past days. Nor where there 5 innocent dead people, 100+ brave, injured police men, millions of damage in the Netherlands.



Does it really make you feel a "great, better Brit" to write such a xenophobic line? Sad man, in my opinion.

mmmmmm



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Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 16:57

So good he said it twice !!



I hope you aren't 'offended' over there in 'TRNC'........



I'm sure you'll get my private joke, Hans ;)

denizen



Joined: 21/08/2009
Posts: 388

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 17:08

@ nmsg 15, Geejay: (...) Nice to see no comment from Dutch Crusader about the poor state of the UK versus Netherlands. lol (...)

Does it really make you feel a "great, better Brit" to write such a xenophobic line? Sad man, in my opinion.



although it hurts to say this, agree 100% with you DC.

ps ignore many m's, I think he's a bit miffed at coming second to that aviva guy

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 17:17

denizen



re msg 30



You appear to be 'confused' ..



1/ I think Hans is quite right to 'mock' our current inability to control youths who seem to think they are above the law.....



2/ >>I think he's a bit miffed at coming second to that aviva guy<< How did you know that I have a pension dive bombing with them...?

cypgab


Joined: 09/01/2010
Posts: 338

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 17:18

It was a joke, just a joke.

You'll be complaining about people laughing at funerals next.

There are some really miserable folk frequent these boards.

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 17:39

Cygap..



if you find 'jokes' about recent tragedies 'funny' I wouldn't be too quick at describing those who don't as 'miserable... it's all about the appropriate time passing ... Never heard too many jokes told by complete strangers at funerals of folks dying violently ... must have led a sheltered life..

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 18:20

... not funny if it was one of your family dead and you were burying them today or your family now without a home and no belongings



whatever floats your boat ... a joke off others misfortunes is pretty low - trouble is those that died it is final for them they wont ever get to augh again !

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 18:22

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html as a reminder ! but hey ho funy isnt it

Geejay


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 475

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 18:32

Well that touched a nerve didn't it. Hans... Pot and kettle spring to mind. My comment was a light-hearted reference to your continual mockery of all things British. It seems you can only give it, not take it. Now that is sad.



This original witty comment by pinxi was not directed at the human tragedies of the riots at all but at the situation in general and Argos in particular. Some of the reactive posts here show a singular lack of perception of this by some contributors.

pjnxi



Joined: 12/02/2009
Posts: 167

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 19:08

Geejay spot on pjnxi

jimbob433



Joined: 26/06/2008
Posts: 102

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 19:21

i think some people on this forum have far too much spare time in their lives

0maintenance


Joined: 22/09/2010
Posts: 2179

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 19:28

They must of run out of them little pens that you fill out the form with !

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 19:37

re msg 36



Geejay



>>This original witty comment by pinxi was not directed at the human tragedies of the riots at all but at the situation in general and Argos in particular. Some of the reactive posts here show a singular lack of perception of this by some contributors.<<



Rather some contributors have a 'perception deficit' re what is common sense as to 'timing' ... timing makes for a good joke from a comedian.. the timing of the posting of this 'joke' was ( IMHO) lousy..



It is rather 'sad' that the OP has now taken Geejays somewhat bizarre condoning as some sort of 'encouragement' .. :(

kittyfun


Joined: 11/04/2011
Posts: 181

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 19:41

What a pile of prats have you nothing better to do with your time ??? plonkers, good joke Pinxi

mmmmmm



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Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 19:53

re msg 41



Kitty'fun'



If Denouncing tact or lack of common sense re the timing of 'jokes' is 'pratish' or a 'plonker-like' - then that's a cap I'll happily wear.. fell better, now ;)?



MMMMMM - aka Victor Meldrew II

kittyfun


Joined: 11/04/2011
Posts: 181

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 20:04

fell better - was it on your head lol

mmmmmm



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Message Posted:
12/08/2011 20:05

YUP - I noticed that.. AFTER I'd posted [ embarrassed emoticon goes here ] ;)

keldanreb


Joined: 17/09/2009
Posts: 212

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 20:23

a guy lost his leg,in the battle of goose green,he was screaming" i lost my leg,i lost my leg".

a para picked it up and said" no you aint its over here."

a true story,of british sense of humour

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 20:25

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haha yeah very funny

CheVill


Joined: 12/08/2011
Posts: 2

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 23:14

To Message 36. So, explain it then as I don't understand the innuendo and I'd like to.

denizen



Joined: 21/08/2009
Posts: 388

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 23:40

2/ >>I think he's a bit miffed at coming second to that aviva guy<< How did you know that I have a pension dive bombing with them...



Ditto, Mark

should'a stayed wi' Norwich Union



Best o' luck tommorer agen the 'brough

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
13/08/2011 01:42

Re the 'brough - we'll need to up our game - we didn't show up at Northampton



Norwich Union BECAME Aviva ;)

Sundance


Joined: 15/07/2010
Posts: 213

Message Posted:
13/08/2011 14:03

Keldanreb I know where you,r coming from, been there wore the tee shirt, we had a guy in Royal Irish got badly burnt, he then become kown as TIN FOIL, and not behind his back, its the way suaddies deal with what they are going through, and such remarks can not be made by any

out sider, we where also a band of brothers and would be there for one another at any time.



FAUGH-A-BALLAGH.