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Stark wrote:Anyway, I still want to read his emo blog. I'm bored and I can't sleep.

EMO!!!!

We picked up a target coming in. Through my headphones, I was ordered to elevate the gun. The elevation was set electrically and my job was to keep the manual dial exactly on the electrical dial. My school friend had to do the same for the line of sight. Pjotr, our Russian loader, already had the shell in the breech, ready to fire. Unteroffizier Sturmegger, who came from Vienna, pulled the firing cord - one round every eight seconds. We kept on firing but then there was the dull clang of a bell. What had happened? Someone had allowed a shell to hit the tower of the stadium and strike the bell which had called the youth of the world to the Olympic Games in 1936. The 'someone' was me. I had allowed the elevation of the gun to drop too low. The barrel had knocked away the wooden wall which would have stopped us firing in that direction.

My battery commander was nearly disciplined for this mistake, but he was deemed not responsible for the error of a high-school boy who was a keener artilleryman than a Latin student.

During the fighting in Berlin at the end of the war, the bell tower was destroyed. The bell itself was recovered and today it stands beside the main entrance to the stadium, still with a hole in it from an 88-millimetre shell. The angle of the hole in the bell is the same angle at which we were firing on 22 November - 24.25 degrees.

he didn't fool me and I guess i'm not so angry afterall. Just dissapointed.

Dammit, DD, I told you to stuff it up your ass last year when you proposed this. I'd hoped you'd grown some sense since then. You're lucky I didn't remember and/or visit the board yesterday, or I'd have posted the PM.

MKSheppard wrote:Darth David got y'all, he pulled the best prank of this April Fools' and played y'all like saps.

I doubt there was anyone here that believed him. However, given the nature of suicide threats it was just a stupid idea. Do a little research on suicide threats and you'll see what I mean.

There's a reason why all suicide threats are to be taken seriously, and it's not so people can "pull off" april fool's pranks.

I also doubt he fooled anybody, he's just an ass and it is wrong to joke about it. It's really too bad that some of you actually thought it was funny. I hope you never have to deal with a loved one who tried or worse who has succeeded in their suicide. It's not a laughing matter at all. Now grow up.

MKSheppard wrote:

Hotfoot wrote:If it's a stupid fucking prank, than the prankster gets to deal with the aftermath, and maybe learns something about actions and consequences.

Nah. He got you good. Live with it.

No, he didn't. I knew it was a joke in poor taste, I just think its one of those things you shouldn't joke about. Period.

The fact that you find it a hilarious prank, of course, speaks volumes about you.

See, Rob Wilson being a cook? Funny. Aerius lying about his real life relationship? Funny. Someone pretending to join the military on a whim? Funny. Someone pretending to commit suicide? Lame, uncreative, and attention whorish, to say nothing of simply not being funny. Where's the humor? "Haha U thought I'd kill myself but I'm alive!"?

Not even Andy Kaufmann at his worst was that stupid. Even if you consider the theory that he's still alive and laughing at us, he didn't pretend to commit suicide to do it.

Feel free to keep laughing like an idiot thinking that he "fooled" us all though. Self-delusion is a wonderfully attractive trait.

Mrs Kendall wrote:I also doubt he fooled anybody, he's just an ass and it is wrong to joke about it. It's really too bad that some of you actually thought it was funny. I hope you never have to deal with a loved one who tried or worse who has succeeded in their suicide. It's not a laughing matter at all. Now grow up.

I find the subject of suicide a bit funny, but only because I've been suicidal before, and still frequently think of ways to kill myself. I don't find suicide threats funny, though.

Suicide is only funny in a comedy movie. It's becoming too often that people are indeed using the internet as a final plea for help/intervention so I didn't think it funny as all, even if there was just a 1% chance of being true.

Trytostaydead wrote:Suicide is only funny in a comedy movie. It's becoming too often that people are indeed using the internet as a final plea for help/intervention so I didn't think it funny as all, even if there was just a 1% chance of being true.

I actually considered it during the last three months of 2005, before I gained enough sanity to get some real help. I was fairly certain, though, that enough of the population here hated me that asking for help would only help me learn of more people who wanted me dead. Of course, at the time, I took things far too seriously, and thought that my brother wanted me dead just because of some jokes he made. I was a bit nutty.

But this wouldn't have been my last plea for help. There are a lot of folks around here that I'd want to say goodbye to. In the end, though it only came down to one person that really mattered...

Hotfoot wrote:Aerius lying about his real life relationship? Funny.

I dunno, that strikes me like something that would be more "pathetic" than "funny".

felineki wrote:

Hotfoot wrote:Aerius lying about his real life relationship? Funny.

I dunno, that strikes me like something that would be more "pathetic" than "funny".

That was funny. This year's joke had the potential to quite good, but fell short, and then there was last year's which actually fooled some people.

The only person who can make suicide funny is Steve Martin.


I am normally a tolerant person. Everyone here knows I'm one of the quickest people to say "Awww, he's just a dumb kid, cut 'im some slack." My opinion maybe doesn't count for much, since I'm not a senator, but in this case, the punishment should be swift and severe. Suicide is not a joke, and it's not funny. Where I come from, when such a serious "parnk" is pulled there will be swift and sure action.

Imagine what would have happened, DD, if we had taken you seriously, what if we HAD called the police, and the police showed up at your house, and your Mom answered the door? Imagine her heart breaking.

"Ma'am, is your son here?"
"No, he's at the movies, why?"
"Ma'am, he left a message on a website saying he was attempting suicide."
*mother collapses in grief, thinking her son is not at the movies, but is off somewhere bleeding himself to death*

Do you really want to see your mother like that? Or your roommate, or who the hell ever it was who was at your house while you were out and we had let the authorities know you were killing yourself?

DD, I rarely advocate a ban unless the offense is serious. This is serious, and there must be serious consequences.