Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 19, 2005 02:23 AM
If a humor article is all it takes to fire you up over 66 people, how about:
"in 2004, 16,694 people were killed in alcohol-related crashes - an average of one almost every half-hour. These deaths constituted approximately 39 percent of the 42,636 total traffic fatalities." (in the USA) <a href="http://www.madd.org/stats/0,1056,1112,00.html" title="madd.org">http://www.madd.org/stats/0,1056,1112,00.html</a madd.org>
So should we boycott the car magazines? Boycott car dealers? Flame anyone who makes car, oil, mechanic, or alcohol related jokes?
YOU OWE AN APOLOGY TO THE FAMILIES OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED, ARE DYING & WILL DIE FROM THIS TERRIBLE DISEASE.
No, you just need to get a grip. Yes, death is not funny to those involved but I think you are making a mountain out of a molehill. Millions of people around the world are dying today. In 2002, the USA had 696,947 people die of heart disease. Should we ban all fat people jokes?
Was this newsforge article directed at the relatives of the 66 dead people? No.
Your subject title "how about the families of the +66 people who have " might well have been written "Think of the children. Oh, the inhumanity of it all!" boo hoo boo hoo boo hoo. I'm cryin' in my beer.
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Why is a boycott needed?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 19, 2005 02:23 AM"in 2004, 16,694 people were killed in alcohol-related crashes - an average of one almost every half-hour. These deaths constituted approximately 39 percent of the 42,636 total traffic fatalities." (in the USA)
<a href="http://www.madd.org/stats/0,1056,1112,00.html" title="madd.org">http://www.madd.org/stats/0,1056,1112,00.html</a madd.org>
So should we boycott the car magazines? Boycott car dealers? Flame anyone who makes car, oil, mechanic, or alcohol related jokes?
YOU OWE AN APOLOGY TO THE FAMILIES OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED, ARE DYING & WILL DIE FROM THIS TERRIBLE DISEASE.
No, you just need to get a grip. Yes, death is not funny to those involved but I think you are making a mountain out of a molehill. Millions of people around the world are dying today. In 2002, the USA had 696,947 people die of heart disease. Should we ban all fat people jokes?
Was this newsforge article directed at the relatives of the 66 dead people? No.
Your subject title "how about the families of the +66 people who have " might well have been written "Think of the children. Oh, the inhumanity of it all!" boo hoo boo hoo boo hoo. I'm cryin' in my beer.
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