You call that a massacre? That's not a massacre...
Some people will wank about ANYTHING. I shouldn't be so surprised, considering the wank that happened over Hurricane Katrina.

However... Just so you all know, the incident at Virginia Tech is NOT a massacre, it's just a shooting.

And a quote from commenter spaceworrier: Pardon me, but a massacre implies something like gutting them alive at the same time and laughing and not being a complete nutjob. A massacre also usually involves a bunch of people, and it's not my fault that people can't use vocab properly these days.

Because, like, you know, these things are IMPORTANT and you plebeians should all be using proper English to describe horrific acts of violence.

Also, the follow-up of zomg I said something you didn't like! Complete with 'It's my journal and I'll cry if I want to' mentality.

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hangingfire
2007-04-17 05:46 pm UTC (link)

I sort of want a gallows_humor comm. Except I'm pretty sure that it, too, would slide into a lot of OMG NOT FUNNY.

The thing is, my own defence mechanisms on horrible things go straight for the bad jokes. And I know they're terrible and tasteless, which is why I don't share them.

Still, the more I think about it, the more I think having a public place for anything of that kind is a really, really terrible idea. So, um, never mind.

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sisterelwood
2007-04-18 12:17 am UTC (link)

The thing is, my own defence mechanisms on horrible things go straight for the bad jokes. And I know they're terrible and tasteless, which is why I don't share them.

Same here. I made jokes at school when 9/11 was happening and we were watching it on tv in the classrooms. I just don't think I was understanding what was going on. It was beyond my scope of reason and so I reacted in a way that I knew best- I used humor. Unfortunately, it was in horrible taste looking back on it but at the time with the limited knowledge I had of what was going on it was the only thing my brain could do to keep from having a breakdown, I think.

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	luna_hoshino 2007-04-18 04:51 am UTC (link)
	I think a lot of people don't understand that black humor is a pretty normal coping mechanism for... well, a LOT of people. It doesn't mean that they think the subject is funny; it's just a way of attempting to process things. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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