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If Radio 1 do play that wretched song.....

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j08 Thu 11-Apr-13 18:43:02

on Sunday, then I believe it will show that this country has lost any small semblance of moral decency it was holding onto. And that the heads of a national institution have let all thoughts of ethical reasoning go out of the window in favour of political correctness.

I can only hope that it doesn't make number one.

But, my God, this country has sunk to an all-time low.

Very sad.

glassortwo Tue 16-Apr-13 10:14:48

jingle I kept my MN name when GN started.

This thread has the here we go again feel about it.

absent Tue 16-Apr-13 10:19:12

I joined MN after I joined GN and have a completely different name. I don't go there very often and post extremely rarely.

Nonu Tue 16-Apr-13 10:25:37

He is the chap who started the campaign to promote the song "Ding Dong"

j08 Tue 16-Apr-13 11:03:27

Oh!!!!!

Where does he live?

j08 Tue 16-Apr-13 11:07:59

I'd better add a wink to that. In case he gets blown up tomorrow.

(Wasn't me Guv)

j08 Tue 16-Apr-13 11:08:46

Absent that was a joke!

absent Tue 16-Apr-13 11:23:16

In the light of recent events in Boston it wasn't particularly funny.

j08 Tue 16-Apr-13 11:51:31

Oh, don't. That's a horrible remark to make.

Disgusted now!

j08 Tue 16-Apr-13 11:53:07

Everyone has compartments in this their daily thinking. We would go mad otherwise.

j08 Tue 16-Apr-13 11:53:38

That remark was beyond contempt.

j08 Tue 16-Apr-13 11:58:49

It's just not worth being on here. There is always someone ready to put the boot in.

Sad.

Sel Tue 16-Apr-13 12:00:53

Just ignore it j08. Using a tragedy to score points is quite contemptible

j08 Tue 16-Apr-13 12:02:20

Thank you Sel.

Ceesnan Tue 16-Apr-13 12:09:26

If people look hard enough I'm sure they could find something that would offend someone in the most innocuous remark. Don't let it get to you jo8 flowers

absent Tue 16-Apr-13 12:20:13

There is nothing innocuous in a remark – a joke apparently – about someone being blown up, particularly so when people have just been blown up. The so-called joke is tasteless and contemptible, not my comment.

absent Tue 16-Apr-13 12:26:48

Sel How dare you accuse me of scoring points? angry

Tegan Tue 16-Apr-13 12:31:39

C'mon; the remark was in extremely bad taste at this moment in time. And the poster was aware of that even when posting.

j08 Tue 16-Apr-13 13:42:05

Tegan that is a lie. And an insult.

j08 Tue 16-Apr-13 13:45:26

If we never smiled again each time someone in this world dies through man's cruelty or neglect, we would never smile again. Do you really think that no one has died in Africa, Syria, and the like, in the last twentyfour hours. I'm not seeking to diminish the tragedy of what has happened in Boston. I feel it deeply. But we have to survive.

I don't want to have an argument with anyone over this, but I have to defend myself when it comes to my morals being called into question.

j08 Tue 16-Apr-13 13:51:50

I'm about to start reading the book of the month. I really hope it is as absorbing as others have said it is. I so need to get away from the nastiness that is Gransnet.

j08 Tue 16-Apr-13 13:52:41

Not all gransnetters, of course. Most are lovely.

Just a few....... sad

gracesmum Tue 16-Apr-13 14:24:14

But it wasn't funny - esier to admit it, apologise if necessary as clearly unintentional and retreat gracefully instead of trying to justify it. When in a hole........

gracesmum Tue 16-Apr-13 14:25:36

And Sel - [spoon] emoticon - why go there?

j08 Tue 16-Apr-13 14:49:38

I think this says more about you lot than it does me.

When I posted that post I wasn't thinking about Boston at all. It's hardly likely to be in my mind all the time.

I did n' t know I was in a hole gracesmum!

#smallmindedpeople

gracesmum Tue 16-Apr-13 14:54:38

Granted, you weren't thinking - that is obvious, nobody would be so crass as to say it deliberately, but it doesn't preclude the inappropriateness of the "joke" - these things happen. Say sorry for the bad timing and move on. Your defensive aggressive reaction says to me you definitely were in a hole.