At Least We're Level Headed, Rational Folks...

[Subnuts]

...compared to the people who posts comments on news articles at Yahoo. As you may already know, 15 people were killed today at a music festival in Duisburg, Germany when a mass panic broke out and people ended up getting trampled. So how do common folk react to this news? Keep in mind these people are talking about the deaths of some German hippies at an outdoor musical festival.

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. . . . ..'\'. . . . . . . . GERMAN H0M0SWow! OBOZO - GET ON YOUR TELEPROMPTER AND APOLIGE !Oh darn a bunch of dead Fa@@ott nazisObummer's revenge against whites using Duisburg as a launching platform for his testing...What's the fuss about fifteen homosexual junkies? Now if it was ALL of the atheist dogs in Germany that would have been news.
FREE AL QUDS15 less Obama supporters.How many Muslims have these animals killed??? They got their due! Hey you NAZI Christians this is what you get for siding with the dirty jew!
We are handing out sweets.Maybe these druggie loser young Germans who died got to experience what it was like to die in a gas chamber at Auschwitz when the their grandpa dropped Zyklon B into those showers full of Jews. Germany is a decadent cess pool today. Couldn't have happened to a better people.15 dead krauts.....pity there weren't more.that's a shame. I hope most of the dead and injured were welfare arabs and welfare blacks who have no business being in germany and pollute everything by virtue of their being.. oh they joy of anti-capitalist "peace" youth. A bunch of drug induced mindless idiots. in America, these people are Obama-loving socialistic leftwing libtards that hate Israelthis is what happen when you live in a country with to many white peopleO KUFARS, ALLAH WELCOMES THE RISING BODY COUNT !!!! THE BLOOD OF INFIDELS NOURISHES ALLAH...ALLAH IS MOST BENEFICENT, MOST WISE....Nature,s way of killing off the weak and stupid (liberal socialist scum).
My apologies to scum for the use of the word.Celebration starts in Israel.10 fewer techno fans! A job well done!yeah!!!!!!!!! crush there %$@ %%&! @## kill kill killGay freaks
killing themselves in a paradeHitler would of had better control of these people!!!Too bad this didn't happen in israel.Now I just wanna punch every person I walk by in their face and shout obscenities at them until they start sobbing.

[ETR3(SS)]

This is the ugly side of the internet. I can almost guarantee you that these people wouldn't have the balls to say that in front of the families affected. Sometimes anonymousness on the internet can bring out the worst in people simply because they fear no reprisal.:nope:

[NeonSamurai]

Reminds me of Penny Arcade's old greater theory of internet <censored>. Talk about a pretty valid theory.

[Sailor Steve]

This is the ugly side of the internet. I can almost guarantee you that these people wouldn't have the balls to say that in front of the families affected. Sometimes anonymousness on the internet can bring out the worst in people simply because they fear no reprisal.:nope:
It's the same thing that makes people turn ugly when they get inside their cars.

[Jimbuna]

This is the ugly side of the internet. I can almost guarantee you that these people wouldn't have the balls to say that in front of the families affected. Sometimes anonymousness on the internet can bring out the worst in people simply because they fear no reprisal.:nope:

Agreed.....still a little disturbing though :nope:

[antikristuseke]

Welcome to the internets, check your inhibitions at the door.

[Platapus]

The Internets Tubes are full of "internet-tough-guys" We have em here too. :yep:

I am reminded of this quote

"I asked someone why he did cocaine. He said 'because it intensifies your personality.' I said 'Yeah, but what if you're an *******?'" - Bill Cosby

I feel that the Internets Tubes are the same way. The anonymity allows people's true personality to come out. Many people are stupid *******s.

I am sure that there are Psyc and Social Scientists already studying how this unique form of communication affects people's social judgment.

This is one of the reasons, I would like the anonymity of the Internet to go away. The social experiment has gone on long enough to proof the hypothesis.

[geetrue]

It's the same thing that makes people turn ugly when they get inside their cars.

Like those women on the cops shows that refuse to get out of their cars locking all of the doors and screaming obscene words.

Plus don't forget the birds of a feather problem

Plus to denounce what they refer to as druggie hippy homo's is a way to prove to everyone that they don't lean that way looking for approval from the other birds.

The last quote got me ... he wished it had of been Israel :salute:

[antikristuseke]

most of it is probably just trolling.

[DarkFish]

They also show they do not have any knowledge on the subject. In some of the posted comments the victims are called "Nazis", in some others "Hippies". WTH?!:doh: Isn't that pretty much the opposite of each other?


Also, "Hippies"? Are they serious? From what I read about it, the festival doesn't have much, if anything at all, to do with hippies.
It's a techno/dance festival. If there's any subculture that doesn't stem from the Hippies, it's those guys.
If there's any successor of the Hippie movement, I'd say it's Metalheads. Don't dare to call me a Hippie, but Metal does undeniably have its roots in Psychedelic Rock (besides Blues Rock). (And we've inherited much more from Hippies than just their music)


So those guys have just shown themselves to be sad ignorant trolls who throw around unfunded accusations:shifty:

[krashkart]

Such angry people. They write things that make very little sense, and that speaks volumes about their intelligence.

Funny thing about trolls... there is one living in an adjacent room upstairs from us. Sometimes it's not just the internet that gives them the separation they need -- sometimes it's just a wall or a door. Pretty much the same kind of personality up there in that room as in the comments in the first post. :yep:

[Jimbuna]

I know it can be difficult but simply ignoring the sad bastids is probably the best thing to do.

After nutting them of course :damn:

:DL

[Tribesman]

So those guys have just shown themselves to be sad ignorant trolls who throw around unfunded accusations
I don't see why others should fund it.;)

[SteamWake]

About the level of discorse one expects at Yahoo News.

Thats why I tend to not pay too much attention to the comments section of any news outlet.

The assumed anonimity of the interwebs is an astounding study in human behaviour.

By the way I missed this news story somehow Ill go look for it but wonder what caused the panic.

342 had been injured in a panicked crush of partygoers in an overcrowded tunnel that served as the sole entrance to a German festival

Thats some poor planing right there. I am really supprised they let them assemble in that kind of situation.

But the OP was just venting not really discussing the topic so .. I will just back out of the thread now.

[Betonov]

I was always surprised by the civilized level of posters at subsim. That's why I even registered. The sad thing is I am surprised by the civilized level at this forum, and not at the un-civilized levels at other forums. Good show everyone :yeah:

And a tragic thing that happened. negligence at planning, one small entrance and all that

[STEED]

:nope::nope::nope:

[conus00]

I can't decide if these people are just ignorant or if they really mean what they posted. I hope it is the former (and they are just posting those comments because they can hide behind internet no-identity) because if it is the later they are just SICK! :nope::nope::nope:

From my own perspective I was caught in 30,000+ crowd in 1989 when Czech Republic got rid of communist government and let me tell you something: I am by no means weak person, but being part of crowd of that size is very strange feeling. Nothing went (too wrong) at that time but had those 30,000 people gone nuts then I (and I believe pretty much anyone here on subsim) would have crapped my pants.

People posting such stupid comments, do not have the faintest idea what they are talking about.... :nope:

[Takeda Shingen]

From my own perspective I was caught in 30,000+ crowd in 1989 when Czech Republic got rid of communist government and let me tell you something: I am by no means weak person, but being part of crowd of that size is very strange feeling. Nothing went (too wrong) at that time but had those 30,000 people gone nuts then I (and I believe pretty much anyone here on subsim) would have crapped my pants.

I was also caught in a large crowd that began to panic. The sheer energy of such a large volume of people is unimaginable. Even the 'big' and 'strong' would be easily trampled or suffocated. At that size, the group takes on a collective mind of it's own.