[llessur123]

(Original post by Ice Constricter)
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.

Oh, in that case I couldn't really answer. Nothing on TV has ever really shocked me.

[Ice Constricter]

(Original post by llessur123)
Oh, in that case I couldn't really answer. Nothing on TV has ever really shocked me.

[ZeeAli]

Bird Flu epidemic

[llessur123]

(Original post by Ice Constricter)

What is shocking about that?

[Ice Constricter]

(Original post by llessur123)
What is shocking about that?

OK, let me rephrase that. Has anything on the news ever 'surprised' you?

[llessur123]

(Original post by Ice Constricter)
OK, let me rephrase that. Has anything on the news ever 'surprised' you?

Yes, but for about five minutes. I've never been deeply affected by anything on the news. Most of the time I think "Oh, that's sad" and change the channel.

[Ice Constricter]

(Original post by llessur123)
Yes, but for about five minutes. I've never been deeply affected by anything on the news. Most of the time I think "Oh, that's sad" and change the channel.

At least you keep it real.

[JamalAhmed]

(Original post by Sir Master of Bate)
City winning the Premier League. Sad day

Come on you reds!

Dont remind me. That was sad. But Man Utd's new signing - Shinji Kagawa - will make us win next year!

[JamalAhmed]

(Original post by Ice Constricter)
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.

True. People NEED something to complain about, especially my History teacher. He complains about everything the tories do. The way he swore (and I mean swore) at Michael Gove in class made me laugh my ass off.

[flugelr]

(Original post by TenOfThem)
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

I honestly do not understand your viewpoint here. We had just taken out the most serious Argentine naval threat to our Task Force and in doing so had taken a huge step on the road to the eventual liberation of occupied British Territory. I really don't see why you think that is so bad, especially when compared to some of the genuinely horrific stuff that you see in the papers.

[TenOfThem]

(Original post by flugelr)
I honestly do not understand your viewpoint here. We had just taken out the most serious Argentine naval threat to our Task Force and in doing so had taken a huge step on the road to the eventual liberation of occupied British Territory. I really don't see why you think that is so bad, especially when compared to some of the genuinely horrific stuff that you see in the papers.

The headline glorified the killing of hundreds of men

Other papers reported the same event without this



I do not think that killing people is glorious


This is, of course, a personal view and I accept that you and many others may see things differently

[flugelr]

(Original post by TenOfThem)
The headline glorified the killing of hundreds of men

Other papers reported the same event without this



I do not think that killing people is glorious


This is, of course, a personal view and I accept that you and many others may see things differently

Fair enough. I'd say that in a war situation using a victory to boost morale and confidence isn't nessecarily a bad thing. However distasteful it might seem to those of us lucky enough to live a relatively peaceful existence, given what was happening at the time I don't feel I can condemn it.

I'm not expecting you to agree by the way, just felt that I should explain my viewpoint a bit more.

[TenOfThem]

(Original post by flugelr)
Fair enough. I'd say that in a war situation using a victory to boost morale and confidence isn't nessecarily a bad thing. However distasteful it might seem to those of us lucky enough to live a relatively peaceful existence, given what was happening at the time I don't feel I can condemn it.

I'm not expecting you to agree by the way, just felt that I should explain my viewpoint a bit more.

It was "at the time" that I condemned it

thanks for the reply ... it is nice to be able to debate rather than argue on here

[PinkMobilePhone]

The one that has probably stayed with me the most all through my life was Dunblane. I was only 12 at the time but I remember it like it was yesterday.

Now, don't get me wrong, 9/11, and 7/7 were horrific as well - people doing unspeakable acts to other people is always shocking, but the terrorists targeted mostly adults in those situations.
Similarly the 2005 tsunami - horrible yes, and children did die, but this one was an act of nature/god rather than somebody actively trying to kill people.

But Dunblane, even though the loss of life was less than some of the other big tragedies, really got to me (and still does) because of the fact that this lunatic targeted a bunch of reception age children. I mean, going in and massacring a classroom full of 5 year olds....it doesn't get much more awful than that really.

Now, as a parent of young children, it hits home all the more. I can't even begin to imagine how their parents must have felt, I really can't. Those poor little angels, so many of them, so innocent.

Other individual tragedies involving parents murdering their own children stay with me as well, or other terrible people doing terrible things to children (think Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman) but Dunblane is probably the biggest scale child massacre that I've heard about in my lifetime.

[Skeppy]

My grandad dying... I know everyone dies but he was such a tough guy that I never thought about how old he was, he just seemed to keep on going and going....

to add I guess when I thought I was going to go home and the judge sentence me to 18month on a youth offenders prison. that was crap news too

[Herr]

9/11 was very disturbing for me as I was living in New Jersey and worked in Lower Manhattan not too far away from the WTC. I was on my way to office when that happened and saw the 2nd plane hitting the tower.

Soham / Ian Huntley issue, shocked someone like that could actually be working in a school, it was then that the cracks in the system started to show and a lot of people realized just what a mess not just the school sector was in but much of the UK's public services were in.

[Pabu]

I think for me it was probably the 3/11 tsunami last year. And the mass shooting on utoya island.

[h4mza]

When Justin Bieber was born

[ScottishShortiex]

Even though I was 8 years old at the time of 9/11, I can't really remember it.

For me, the few headlines that have stayed with me are the Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman murder, 7/7 and the Glasgow Airport terroist attack. I only live 10 minutes away from the airport and had been in the airport two days before. My step brother was really shook up as well since he had landed exactly 24 hours before the attack so we were both thinking "We could've been there when it happened!!"