[Whostolemycookie]

(Original post by JamalAhmed)
I think I am.

Yeah the documentary was pretty sad, those boys were messed up. But tbh one of their 'homemade videos' showed them screaming at the camera, it was as though they were trying so hard to be 'evil' and come across as messed up. They just wanted to be remember, and sadly it worked : (


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[Cephalus]

(Original post by HollyB_C)
Your post seems to be riddle with insincerity Yet, for some, the news hit them hard. Get some sensitivity.

For those who are stupid: I'm obviously not being serious

loool perhaps it was too subtle for people to understand? =P

[Pink Boy]

The massacre of over 70 people in the island Utoyea, Norway.

Such a selfish incomprehensible act, young people, like us, dead and so many of them.

[Sir Master of Bate]

City winning the Premier League. Sad day

Come on you reds!

[Enigma7]

Everything in the News is bad... Impossible to choose the worst.

[TenOfThem]

Worst news for me = my Mum ringing to tell me that my Dad had died

Worst Headline = GOTCHA for those that are not old enough .. the SUN newspaper celebrated the death of Argentinian men in a manner that made me ashamed to be British

Disaster-wise

Herald of Free Enterprise = my son was only a month old and, as a new mother my understanding of potential loss was magnified

Hungerford = later the same year, this was new to the Uk and terrifying

Dunblane = as a mother and a teacher this was so frightening

7/7 = My husband works in London and I spent some time in stunned fear



Whilst other events may have killed more or had more impact on world attitudes and events I think that they were often too far away to really feel the fear ... I remember sitting for hours watching the 9/11 news coverage and it seemed so far away


I tend to react later ... when the names are released and the victims become people

[HollyB_C]

(Original post by Cephalus)
loool perhaps it was too subtle for people to understand? =P

That wasn't aimed at you by the way I'll work on my delivery

[Cephalus]

(Original post by HollyB_C)
That wasn't aimed at you by the way I'll work on my delivery

lool I know I did laugh when you said it =] I just thought I'd lighten the mood somewhat (and to add I actually love DH, my life really isn't complete without Wisteria Lane =D). Some people just get too serious on TSR

[Manitude]

Personally, finding out that a very close family member was diagnosed with a potentially life threatening illness.
Or coming home from holiday to find our house has been robbed.

Sure, 9/11 and 7/7 were terrible, but it didn't affect me personally so it's hard to have the same emotional attachment.

[HollyB_C]

(Original post by Cephalus)
lool I know I did laugh when you said it =] I just thought I'd lighten the mood somewhat (and to add I actually love DH, my life really isn't complete without Wisteria Lane =D). Some people just get too serious on TSR

I was actually going to waltz in and bust a joke not dissimilar to yours ...but then I saw you did it first so I had to adapt This takes me back to Facebook when I dedicated a whole status about my dismay that the cameras will not be rolling down Wisteria Lane; needless to say, I got hate! Blimey, don't I know it -_-

[Cephalus]

(Original post by HollyB_C)
I was actually going to waltz in and bust a joke not dissimilar to yours ...but then I saw you did it first so I had to adapt This takes me back to Facebook when I dedicated a whole status about my dismay that the cameras will not be rolling down Wisteria Lane; needless to say, I got hate! Blimey, don't I know it -_-

lool some people just don't appreciate good television

[XO*]

9/11 was a little kid and came back from school to see half my family crying and staring at the TV.
7/7 had family working in London, and I was away at a summer camp.

[kaboon-supreme]

Anders Behring in the norway bombing and shooting

[Inzamam99]

Events such as 7/7 and suicide bombings elsewhere saddened me greatly but I found that they never got me extremely upset to the point of tears. That feat is reserved for personal news such as the death of my Grandmother or my aunt- I absolutely adored her and she passed away when she I was around 7.

[daisydaffodil]

Worst news for me - learning about both my parents' childhoods, their marriage and my father's biological family background; things I never wished to hear and will probably never forget or even fully comprehend. Also hearing my classmate's mother had commited suicide.

Worst "news" news - the helicopter crash not far from Aberdeen 2/3 years ago when all on board died, Dunblane, when they realised Sarah Payne had been murdered, Diana dying ..

[Naarim]

Surprised no one has said Michael Jacksons death.

For me personally I don't think there's been any worst/most shocking piece of news in my entire life :\

[LETSJaM]

Mum: I'm getting married.

Me: But I like how it's just you and I.

<3 x

[Ice Constricter]

The summer riots is up there with the worst, but personally I found it more embarrassingly disgraceful than anything else.
And like everyone else, I was pretty young during 9/11 so couldn't really process to the extent how devastating it was like i can now. But that doesn't mean I didn't think it was a big deal. 7/7 wasn't as 'big' of an event objectively speaking, but because of the recency effect (2005 compared to 2001) and considering how close it was to home I would rank it almost as bad as 9/11.

(Original post by llessur123)
This is going to sound awful, whilst I realise those kind of things are sad, they don't personally affect me and are far from the worst news I could hear. I've had a relatively good life so probably the news that my knee would always cause me problems after I dislocated it for the second time. As far as things go I'm quite thankful that is the worst I've heard.

Also, Madeline McCann was one of thousands of children that go missing every year, the only difference is that we heard about it. For instance, here are a few, have you ever heard of them?

http://uk.missingkids.com/

I did agree with your point initially but when I reread the OP I saw why you are wrong. Everyone seems to be forgetting that the OP did specifically say the worst news headline you've ever heard, not just the worst news in general.

If the OP changed the thread title maybe it could help stop the confusion.

[Honeyx]

9/11 the way the 2nd plane was captured going into the tower...what people must have been going through is unimaginable
I remember even my mum thinking this can't be right, it was like a horror film

then 7/7, when it was reported first as a suspected gas explosion or something and I just though immediately it was more serious and it really scared me

I also remember although not shocking in the same way as the others, when princess Diana died, I was watching cartoons and there was a notice at the bottom of the screen saying stick the new on a serious incident had occurred or someting (was very young so can't really remember!)

[Ice Constricter]

(Original post by Enigma7)
Everything in the News is bad... Impossible to choose the worst.

Good point. Why is it that 99% of the things we hear on the news is negative?

Think I already got an answer. Bad news makes better, more interesting headlines.

Compare "employment increasing by 20% every year" to "unemployment increases by 20% every year".

The latter gives us something to all complain about. The only exception is hearing extremely good news like potential cures for life threatening diseases. And don't forget the lottery lol, "elderly couple win £20 million in lotto rollover".
Everyone just thinks lucky bastards.