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Thu 2004-09-23 14:49
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I know I shouldn't laugh too hard at a serious subject, but it's hard not to when the Independent starts an article with

A suicide bomber struck for the second time in 24 hours yesterday…

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[personal profile] pm215Thu 2004-09-23 07:25
They have a column in (I think) the Saturday edition written by Guy Keleny which likes to point out this kind of thing...
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[identity profile] ex-lark-asc.livejournal.comThu 2004-09-23 08:30
No, I don't think that's schadenfreude at all, I think you really are laughing at a flagrant contravention of the Being Bloody Stupid Act there :)
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[personal profile] simontThu 2004-09-23 08:34
Goodness me, I was at no point worried that I might be accused of schadenfreude! I would hope that it's obvious that I'm not laughing at the fact of suicide, or bombings, or suicide bombings. I'm just prepared to be accused of a little insensitivity in finding that the slight semantic hiccup of the sentence appearing to describe one bomber committing suicide twice jumps out at me much more readily than the tragedy of people dying...
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[identity profile] dennyd.livejournal.comThu 2004-09-23 09:07
Well, it could be schadenfreude if you were laughing at the misfortune of the author of the article I suppose.

It got a good laugh when I read it out in my office anyway :)
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[personal profile] joshdavisSat 2004-09-25 10:18
well, not the misfortune of the author, rather the silliness of their comments.

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[identity profile] ex-lark-asc.livejournal.comThu 2004-09-23 10:23
So you're a cynical product of a world where sensationalism rules the media - so sue you :-)
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[identity profile] ewx.livejournal.comThu 2004-09-23 10:34
Perhaps the second attack was triggered via some kind of dead man's switch.
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[personal profile] joshdavisSat 2004-09-25 10:19
committed suicide twice...
This, of course, is classic, and has been added to http://www.realjosh.com/ranquote.cgi

:)
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