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Tannin 
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| stui magpie wrote: | | We get domestic sieges all the time that often end up with as many people dead as in Martin place, but you don't get multiple TV networks all camped outside. |
That's the point, isn't it.
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stui magpie 
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| Tannin wrote: | | stui magpie wrote: | | We get domestic sieges all the time that often end up with as many people dead as in Martin place, but you don't get multiple TV networks all camped outside. |
That's the point, isn't it. |
It's A point, yeah.
Maybe social media can fill a void once it settles a bit between what social issues need to be fixed, and what mainstream media reports.
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Born to Pie
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Saddened and shocked, I was in Sydney last week and now home in Cairns. It feels as if I'm stalking tragedy.
But events like these put things into sharper focus, appreciate what you have and those around you, life's too short to worry the insignificant.
Our thoughts and prayers at Xmas with the innocent and the brave, and their families, whose lives have been needlessly cut short this week. RIP
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| stui magpie wrote: | | Tannin wrote: | | stui magpie wrote: | | We get domestic sieges all the time that often end up with as many people dead as in Martin place, but you don't get multiple TV networks all camped outside. |
That's the point, isn't it. |
It's A point, yeah.
Maybe social media can fill a void once it settles a bit between what social issues need to be fixed, and what mainstream media reports. |
I think the Media have lost a lot of Credibility during last weeks siege and the ongoing search for related stories. Much dare I say like the Phillip Hughes story and now they all but ignore the murder of 8 children because it's not as "sexy". |
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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| Born to Pie wrote: | Saddened and shocked, I was in Sydney last week and now home in Cairns. It feels as if I'm stalking tragedy.
But events like these put things into sharper focus, appreciate what you have and those around you, life's too short to worry the insignificant.
Our thoughts and prayers at Xmas with the innocent and the brave, and their families, whose lives have been needlessly cut short this week. RIP |
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him or her too feels as if he or she'm stalking tragedy? What else feels like that? |
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David 
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Dave The Man 
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So is she Nuts, on Drugs or in a Cult?
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stui magpie
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Bits of column A and bits of column C, with a massive serving of stereotypes lobbed in.
The more I read about this he more you just don't know what to say. So much risk of being accused of being racist.
By what I read, the mum was someone who did all right. Lots of kids to 5 different fathers jars a bit, but assuming it was her choice, fairy nuff. Relying on welfare to feed the tribe, again jars a bit but what ya gonna do?
The positives, from what I read was she wasn't much of a drinker, in a sub culture where it's rampant, and actively had a booze and drug free home with a 10,pm curfew, so she was trying within the cards she was dealt to do the right thing by the kids.
Then for some reason it all turned to sh1t. Allegedly she found God and decided that technology was evil, throwing out the TV. There's also allegations that the kids were going to be removed from her care, which is what prompted the action.
FIIK. You can't explain this kind of stuff, you can examine in in retrospect but finding an answer is beyond me.
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| ^^What we have is media speculation in overdrive. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story as they say. |
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stui magpie
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The Man who shot Liberty Valance nods in approval.
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Tannin
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| Damn it, now I've got a stupid song in my head! |
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You gotta wonder how she did it. We're they drugged? Why didn't any escape? And how come when she got to say 3, she didn't think why am I doing this?
Gees what an awful way to die, and at the hands of your own mother
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| stui magpie wrote: | ^
Bits of column A and bits of column C, with a massive serving of stereotypes lobbed in.
The more I read about this he more you just don't know what to say. So much risk of being accused of being racist.
By what I read, the mum was someone who did all right. Lots of kids to 5 different fathers jars a bit, but assuming it was her choice, fairy nuff. Relying on welfare to feed the tribe, again jars a bit but what ya gonna do?
The positives, from what I read was she wasn't much of a drinker, in a sub culture where it's rampant, and actively had a booze and drug free home with a 10,pm curfew, so she was trying within the cards she was dealt to do the right thing by the kids.
Then for some reason it all turned to sh1t. Allegedly she found God and decided that technology was evil, throwing out the TV. There's also allegations that the kids were going to be removed from her care, which is what prompted the action.
FIIK. You can't explain this kind of stuff, you can examine in in retrospect but finding an answer is beyond me. |
Because, by definition, it's a mental collapse. No need to protect sanity by calling it anything else. Some brains just pack it in, like Lee Walker's knees.
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Jezza 
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It's extremely sad news and my thoughts go out to the eight victims!
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stui magpie
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| Tannin wrote: | | Damn it, now I've got a stupid song in my head! |
Very good song. Great movie.
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