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Old 09-05-2006, 12:35 PM   #28
slimfifa

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Yup, thats cool. I accept that. But that wasn't my point.

To me, disrespecting someone's death is possibly the worst thing you can to. I don't care how he or anyone else died, the fact of the matter is that he is dead, and it is just plain bad form to joke about it. I don't mind lightening things with humour, but to me (and i may have taken this wrong) but "I want to give the stingray a medal" isn't funny. The way I think of it is that anything I would say about the person who has died I would say in front of the persons family. I'm pretty sure that saying a line like that would upset most of his family. To me, that shit just aint funny.

I aint getting into an arguement over this. I didn't know the guy, but you don't have to know someone to be touched by their lives or feeling sadness for their passing. And you don't have to know someone to feel angered when they are disrespected in such a way.

As for the manner of which he died... It was a freak accident. He died doing something that he loved, and yes it was just a freak accident, like you said it is very very rare that this type of accident happens.

I have no qualms of trying to lighten the mood, but putting stuff like "The moron finally pissed off one animal too many" aint lightening no mood. I'm sure his family would be gutted if they read anything like this.

I am sorry if I have the wrong end of the stick, but to me those comments aren't trying to be nice. They are nasty and rude.
Stef, I know what you are trying to say here, but I'll just play the devil's advocate for a second...there are tons of jokes that are going to come out of this(in bad taste yes) and I've already sat through a fair bit over dinner(the man hasn't even been dead for 24hours). I'm kinda holding my tongue on the jokes out of respect...but still...

In Oz, ppl either don't mind him or hate him...and a lot of times its not the former. I'd compare him to William Hung...yeah, he got praise for his little phrase "I did my best" but at the same time(to me as a Chinese person) the guy is a joke and an embarresment as a Chinese role model.

I think a lot of Aussies feel this paradox about Steve Irwin. He's a bit of a yobbo but at the same time he's brought (like Mick Dundee) Australia to the world...albeit acting like a stereotypical country git. I mean he brings attention to Australia but maybe not in the best way possible...then again, any publicity is good publicity.

I think that's probably why you're gonna get comments like this from the Aussie quarter.
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