Maizefarmer Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Blacksberg Tec Virginia USA - nutter kills 33 students, another 20 odd in hospital Yet again ...... won't rehash all the info - it's on the net (and CNN) for those interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britmaveric Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 asian shooter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdnvic Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 The deaths were several times the toll from Columbine. Terrible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neeranam Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 (edited) were there any Thais? Why post it here? Who cares? What's wrong with Americans? Edited April 17, 2007 by Neeranam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney_the_Dinosaur Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Many Iraqi women and kids killed in Iraq this week. However, they're not American. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacksonGlurk Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 ....Who cares?What's wrong with Americans? When someone's immediate take on a tragedy like this is to use it to advance his own personal generalizations about a nation of nearly three hundred million people, you can only shake your head at what the world must look like from such a pea-brained perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neeranam Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 I was watching Fox news yesterday and they spoke about there being a shooter at a school as though it were an everyday occurrence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney_the_Dinosaur Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 were there any Thais? Why post it here? Who cares?What's wrong with Americans? The shooter was a Chinaman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxexile Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 When someone's immediate take on a tragedy like this is to use it to advance his own personal generalizations about a nation of nearly three hundred million people, you can only shake your head at what the world must look like from such a pea-brained perspective. agreed. perhaps neeranam should explain exactly what he means. the dinosaur as well , are american lives of less or more value than iraqis ? killings are not unusual in countries undergoing what amounts to a civil war and a hated occupation. but they are unusual in schools and colleges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney_the_Dinosaur Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 the dinosaur as well , are american lives of less or more value than iraqis ? Same of course. But don't expect Americans to take that view. 30 killings in Iraq wouldn't make the back page of USA Today. <Most readers would have realised I was being sardonic, however. Phew, Tax Exile really does belong in the cast of 'Last of the Summer Wine'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neeranam Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 agreed. perhaps neeranam should explain exactly what he means. What I mean is that I'm totally uninterested in this thread. Something happens in America and Americans think that the whole world cares. 9/11 etc. There were thousands ofIndians killed in a earthquake at the same time and all the Americans I spoke to didn't know or couldn't care. Self-importance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxexile Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 'Last of the Summer Wine'> i always thought it was the daftest show on tv.... ....... until "barney the dinosaur" came out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neeranam Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 <Most readers would have realised I was being sardonic, however. Phew, Tax Exile really does belong in the cast of 'Last of the Summer Wine'> Funny you mention that programme - I have this image of him as that little guy with the wooly hat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farang prince Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 When someone's immediate take on a tragedy like this is to use it to advance his own personal generalizations about a nation of nearly three hundred million people, you can only shake your head at what the world must look like from such a pea-brained perspective. agreed. perhaps neeranam should explain exactly what he means. the dinosaur as well , are american lives of less or more value than iraqis ? killings are not unusual in countries undergoing what amounts to a civil war and a hated occupation. but they are unusual in schools and colleges. It gets as tiring reading the American bashing on this board as it is reading the Thai bashing. If it weren't for some of the really reasoned posters in TV, this would be an exercise in worthless mental masturbation. As it is, I can only hope that this tragic incident will once again reopen the debate in the USA about the easy availability of powerful handguns and assault weapons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxexile Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 What I mean is that I'm totally uninterested in this thread. but you have made 2 posts out of the 11 , thats nearly 20% of the thread.! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney_the_Dinosaur Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 It gets as tiring reading the American bashing on this board as it is reading the Thai bashing. If it weren't for some of the really reasoned posters in TV, this would be an exercise in worthless mental masturbation. As it is, I can only hope that this tragic incident will once again reopen the debate in the USA about the easy availability of powerful handguns and assault weapons. Dangnabbit, you int taking our guns away. Its in the Constitution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onzestan Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Many Iraqi women and kids killed in Iraq this week. However, they're not American. Killed by whom??? Americans, Brits or maybe insurgents (brother muslims) Not that it matters who did it. onzestan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxexile Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 about the easy availability of powerful handguns and assault weapons. if one of the students in the classroom where the massacre took place had had a gun on him , then the death toll might have been much less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neeranam Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 What I mean is that I'm totally uninterested in this thread. but you have made 2 posts out of the 11 , thats nearly 20% of the thread.! Just explaining myself. Well I ain't going to make any more. oops.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chanchao Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Today I learned a lot about CNN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywais Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 There are sooo many reasons that I'm closing this topic, but foremost it is not Thai related. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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