I think you are right. After sleeping on this thing, I'll say that some of
my posts were probably over the top. As a professionally qualified airframe
fitter, I guess the knowledge that my direct actions could potentially leave
500 bodies strewn over several miles makes me over sensitive to such things.
The fact remains though that the original post was not in the slightest bit
funny.
MS
> view. I personally didnt feel it very humorous. However i did feel the
> responses were a bit harsh.
> Shane
> > Shane.
> > The difference is mate, that this is no private funeral or gathering
where
> > mates know each other intimately. It is a worldwide public forum, where
> > absolutely anybody can walk in. As I said in a previous post, a relative
> of
> > one of those dead pilots lives a few streets down from me. What if that
> guy
> > was the brother of one of the correspondants in here?
> > Taking your analogy further, If you was burying a member of your family
> and
> > a stranger walked into the boneyard and started making wisecracks whilst
> the
> > women were weeping over the grave......OK I'm taking it to extremes here
> > but...............
> > As well of your famed and legendary humour, I hear you Aussies can get
a
> > bit punch happy from time to time as well..
> > MS
> > > ppl deal with tragedies in different ways. As an aussie Bruce you know
> > that
> > > as a group we tend to take the***out of any situation