I just mention this now as something to think about.
good advice.
Should we start a Paris murder humor thread?
When we see absurd things: like Obama and Hollande, I think it is ok to point out their absurdity.
There is more often truth in those comments than the “sympathy” comments that do no good.
Amen
A lot of times I'll have to double check to see who the publisher is.
It is annoying.
/johnny
I’m inclined to agree. All those comments along the lines of “Must be those damned Amish again” are worn out and tiresome. And yes, I too have been guilty.
We live in a terrible world made worse by evil and incompetent leadership. Sometimes we have to blow off some steam. If something offends you, scroll past it.
Let me start with this.
Two cannibals are walking through the jungle and come upon a dead clown, which they start eating. A few minutes later one cannibal turns to the other and says, “Does this taste funny to you?”.
I hear you.
Curious, since you don’t have cable how are you connecting to the internet? Thanks.
Fr is where I can safely blow off steam among like minded individuals.
I’ll be humorous if I need to. I paid for the privilege.
Method I:
The vast majority of the sites we post from have RSS feeds (RSS is the protocol that automatically 'publishes' those articles to a news stream). Even FR uses RSS.
You can use an online RSS aggregator like Feedly to collect all of those news feeds and present them to you. (BTW, the basic Feedly service is free)
From there, you can stay completely up-to-date on what is being published very, very quickly...and from multiple sources.
You could even decide to post some of the articles to FR that you find interesting. Then people can make snarky comments about them (it's great fun, you should try it).
Method II:
You can use social media, such as Twitter.
Most news sites and individual reporters, blogs and individual bloggers, all use Twitter for real-time reporting.
Twitter has a really cool feature called "lists". Using a list, you can grab all of "tweets" made by news sites, blogger sites, news reporters, and individual bloggers and view them. This tends to eliminate the flotsam that is normally associated with Twitter and turns it into a decent tool. If you'd like to check out a few of my compilations (and you DON'T need to be a member of Twitter to view "lists"), here are a couple of samples:
Hope the above helps.
And quit being so preachy </sarc>
Have you ever been to a meal occasion after a funeral? It is extremely difficult in human nature to be fully 100% saturated in negative the whole time.
No problem to request no humor during tragedies as long as you know that since it is against human nature and unsustainable, it won’t happen.
I wasn’t able to be funny last night but maybe some people felt more detached. I was hurt and devastated, both from having lived in France and Francophone Europe for 4 years, and especially because both my sons have been to concerts of that band, and I kept thinking of those families, it just hit too close.
An attempt at humor can be the difference between retaining your sanity and losing it.
I agree. I literally look to FP to get some insider news in real time when these stories are breaking. Freepers are everywhere and are generally more informed. I remember being up the night before the tsunami hit Indonesia and there was a thread started by a freeper about a seismic incident that he was watching. He literally called the tsunami before anyone knew it was going to happen.
Why don’t you just get cable?
You think “serious news” is on cable, much less any additional information?? Maybe you should get cable and try out that theory of yours.
The lamestream media jams everything they know into the headline these days. Read the headlines and you know everything they know. After that, it is just social commentary.
Sounds like someone is suggesting that we create a “Safe Zone”. Is that what you really want? With a lot people posting a lot of items here, it would be very difficult to identify what you or others deem is necessary to “lock down” for only serious discussion. Some times you just have to filter the crap.
I was thinking this thread should be in breaking news.