funny?, not quite.. Options

[iheartsimba]

I know it's late...I've been meaning to make this topic of a while.

Anyway.

When I got back to school Wednesday, we were discussing the tsunami.
It's really sad of course...
but when we talked about it, everyone found something to laugh about.
I don't think its quite humorous when all these people died.

We watched the news about it...it was on a tape and everyone thought it was hilarious when the anquor said "hell on earth" OH NO A BAD WORD. Even though it literally was, hell on earth. The show was very graphic, showed a few dead bodies. And I heard a little laughing. Someone mentioned they would want to surf the wave...is that funny? 0_o..it made me so angry how some people just had no respect for all those people injured and killed. the people even in america who lost so many family members and friends. I don't know about you but its devestating..


My friend and I are talking with our princible about donations and fundrasors for the survivors who could really use some money and help..


Are people at your school handeling the situation a little more maturly?

[xTINAA]

i actually haven't heard anyone laugh about it. in fact, most people i've talked to about it think it's really sad. and my school is doing a fundraiser/donation for it this week.

[banddorko]

our school is trying to raise $1,000 by the end of this week with a "penny drive" (they put cans in the science classes and you just put loose change or cash in their, whatever you can). no one has really joked about it... except i was in one of the sixth grade classes with two of my friends and the teacher asked us to watch this slide show of before and after pictures, and we all started to laugh because the sixth graders had bigger reactions to the BEFORE pictures compared to the after ones, lol (example: *before picture shows* "OH MY GOSH!!!!!" *after pictures shows* "wow"). but everyone is handling it maturely and is not happy about it, and i definitely think we're going to raise more than $1,000.

[*stephinika*]

yeah i haven't heard anyone laugh about it. people here are taking it pretty seriously too, raising money and whatnot.

[xj_liana_tx]

people laugh at serious things.. i find that rather annoy and i want to slap them

[Chii]

my school is taking donations too, i think it's disgusting that people were laughing...but then again, there's always karma to bite them in the ass

[Flaunted]

comic relief?
but this is sort of a bad time for that. =/

[jr0h]

wow i never met someone who laughed about it. thats harsh. WHAT RESPECT!

yeah my school did a donation thing. we earned up about $400. pretty cool. =)

[runforfun529]

Yea, no one I know actually laughed. Most people are taking it seriously like trying to help out.

[Skyline Drive]

That would disgust me if I heard someone laugh about that and I would be sure to put an end to their laughing. Geez. Our school takes it seriously and is also doing donations.

[imafreakinazn]

our school likes to handle things like this in a fun, competitive way
:D
we had a penny drive too.
cept ours was a mean, cruel, fun way.
XD
we had it where you put pennies in your own classes jar to get your class points.
if you put anything other than a penny, like say a quarter or a dollar bill then you get that many pennies [points] taken away.
so say if your class's jar has 300 hundred pennies, and someone sticks a dollar in there.
you get 100 pennies taken away.
the winner after a week and a half gets a pizza party.
it was fun.
we raised over $3000 in a way we could enjoy it.

[*jooleeah*]

I know it's late...I've been meaning to make this topic of a while.

Anyway.

When I got back to school Wednesday, we were discussing the tsunami.
It's really sad of course...
but when we talked about it, everyone found something to laugh about.
I don't think its quite humorous when all these people died.

We watched the news about it...it was on a tape and everyone thought it was hilarious when the anquor said "hell on earth" OH NO A BAD WORD. Even though it literally was, hell on earth. The show was very graphic, showed a few dead bodies. And I heard a little laughing. Someone mentioned they would want to surf the wave...is that funny? 0_o..it made me so angry how some people just had no respect for all those people injured and killed. the people even in america who lost so many family members and friends. I don't know about you but its devestating..


My friend and I are talking with our princible about donations and fundrasors for the survivors who could really use some money and help..


Are people at your school handeling the situation a little more maturly?

Actually it was mine and felicia's idea.....
har har har. i'm kidding. kind of.
anyway, yeah, you already know my opinion on this. some people need a reality check. i felt like kicking their ass on wednesday.

[gigiopolis]

I think it's fine to have a sense of humour when it comes to tragedy, so long as it doesn't go out of hand.

[silver-rain]

yeah, no one i know laughed. yeah, my school is holding a fundraiser for the tsunami victims.

[angel-roh]

I don't know cause I haven't been to school for months


But I really hate those kids too. They have no respect. Just some day, it will happen to them. SOME DAY... it will come to them and kill their families and they will feel the PAIN.

Just think them like they are bunch of losers and ask them questions like.

1.) If your family was in the tsunami and they died. What would you do about it?
2.) If you lost everything during the tsunami and no foods around you. What would you do?

Ask these horror questions to them and lets see what they have to say about it.

Those people are very annoying. I dislike them all

[ApocalypseAelis]

No...people in my school are taking it seriously and maturely. We aren't doing anything to help, though...

It's really horrible that anyone would actually laugh or make a joke out of that...maybe if their families drowned, it would educate them a little.

[sweetxsimplicity]

Actually, no one really says anything about it..I mean, they know that there was a tsunami, they just don't talk that much about it..

[demolished]

what the hell is wrong w/ them. their probaly just want to be funny and try to get someone's attention. i dont think its the time for that person to joke around.

[Tung]

yeah, thats pretty mean of people who see's this tragedy "funny". cuz really it isnt. as for our school, this topic isnt talked abotu much. rarely at all i should say. our school goes on like nothign really happen. =\

[bad_girl]

nope. it was pretty funnny. lol the process i mean. cos we had this ceremony on friday.. like a remembrance thing in school. everyone had to wear green/blue to school and we each had to donate at least HKD20. we made like $146, 000 HKD that day. donating it all to Unicef. =]. back to the topic, no.. everyone was being quite silly. but there is a sad side.. i swear.

[misoshiru]

school just started for us. but to my knowledge, no one's laughed about it. a friend of mine was there at phuket when it happened but she's fine.

[*tweeak*]

people at my school arent handling it at all. i have literally not heard the tsunami mentioned once since wednesday. (well, they had collections at the basketball game, but that doesnt count)

i dont know if you were in pinckneyville during 9/11, but we were watching the news, and then people were being so immature about the whole thing that we had to turn it off. or the theory may have been that people would get upset, but they were acting a lot like that then too.

[Heathasm]

wow....i would have royally bitched at them if i saw ANY ONE doing/saying any of that shit. wow, they seriously laughed at the word hell? you must be in 3rd grade or some thing

[lovescream]

They're not even talking about it. But I'd be mad. I hate immature bitches like them. Rawr, makes me mad.

[burnoveride]

that goes to show you how rude some ppl are. it really does make me mad someone should have slapped or punched that person who laughed to show them how rude they were :)

[jennyjenny]

Wow, I doubt that they would be laughing if they were the ones in the tsunami...

but our school is having this thing where if you pat $1.00, you get one little starburst... but okay, i donated 50 cents =)

[KissMe2408]

damn, you should slap those kids and tell em to get some respect. lol, but remember they are just immature kids, and the world revolves around them, so anything in the news is a joke to them, cuz if it isn't happening to them, then they don't care about it

[inthemudhole]

No one at my school really says anything about it..
We watch a news program called Channel One everyday, and they've been covering the tsunami damage first-hand, but no one's really said anything about it.

[*xcaitlinx*]

no. the students at my middle school don`t laugh about such a horrible tragedy. i can`t believe how shallow and immature those kids in ur school are. maybe they just cant take the truth, and laugh to nod off the problem so they don`t have to deal with it head on. our school is having a fundraiser...donating money...for all the kids that suffered from the tsunami. if i were u, i would tell off those disrespectable kids in ur school..they don`t appreciate how good they have it in the US.

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QUOTE:::: but our school is having this thing where if you pat $1.00, you get one little starburst... but okay, i donated 50 cents =)

i dont understand how people are being BRIBED with candy. u should donate money because you WANT to...not because ur getting something in return. its called donating for a reason.

[*mona lisa*]

yea, my school raised about $7,000 so far and it was all donations, we weren't bribed. man, canadians are rich. i hate the fact that so many people in this world are so ignorant. >=|

[gigiopolis]

nope. it was pretty funnny. lol the process i mean. cos we had this ceremony on friday.. like a remembrance thing in school. everyone had to wear green/blue to school and we each had to donate at least HKD20. we made like $146, 000 HKD that day. donating it all to Unicef. =]. back to the topic, no.. everyone was being quite silly. but there is a sad side.. i swear.

You go to school in Hong Kong?

Whoooaaa.

Anyway, I hate it when people start whining about how much coverage on the news something gets. Like, people who complained about too many news topics on the 911 attack. "Oh my God, who the hell cares? So, people died, NO ONE CARES. STOP TALKING ABOUT IT." I think that's very disrespectful, and sure, it might be a little repetitive, but what do you expect? Lots of people died in the 911 attacks. And hundreds of thousands died in the tsunami, so of course there's going to be a lot of coverage.

People just need to respect those going through tragedy.

[lilanglbaby418]

there's nothing going on at my school regarding the tsunami that i know of, but at my job.. we are raising money there. from us and customers so i know we'll contribute a lot!