RIPs

[Tombo]

Apparently, when I was a very small child his music was guaranteed to get me to stop crying.

He must have been playing a baby sitar. I'm here all week...

*thwip*  That was the noise of me stealing that for a Facebook status

[I, Cosh]

Excellent work Mr Bamforth.

[SmallBlueThing]

Yes, that made me laugh out loud. To which the teenager opposite on the bus sneered, in a "cant you just say 'LOL' like everyone else you old wanker?" kind of way.

So i punched her in the FACE.

SBT

[Albion]

Norman Joseph Woodland, co-inventor of the barcode.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20718362

I think we should have a day off at work to mourn his passing. We print plenty of them.

[Trout]

Kenneth Kendall.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20730869

[Richmond Clements]

Kenneth Kendall.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20730869

Sad news, but as a Richard Herring fan, I'm afraid I burst out laughing when I read this...

[Richmond Clements]

A lot of children. This is terrible. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20730717

[Goaty]

A lot of children. This is terrible. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20730717

Bloody hell, 18 children, before Xmas, that's so sad.

[TordelBack]

Fuck.

[Dandontdare]

A lot of children. This is terrible. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20730717

Bloody hell, 18 children, before Xmas, that's so sad.

WTF's Christmas got to do with anything? Would this be less tragic in Summer?

[M.I.K.]

Obviously not, but it'll be horrible for the relatives and the surviving kids every time the decorations go up from now on.

[Spikes]

This is just simply awful in the extreme. Terrible, terrible news.
They say events like this are relatively rare, but it all seems to be happening far too often of late.

[Goaty]

WTF's Christmas got to do with anything? Would this be less tragic in Summer?

I am sorry if I said it wrong, it just as it's last week for my niece at her school and just thought of those poor children when it's nearly the xmas.

[TordelBack]

WTF's Christmas got to do with anything? Would this be less tragic in Summer?

I am sorry if I said it wrong, it just as it's last week for my niece at her school and just thought of those poor children when it's nearly the xmas.

Obviously it's no more or less of a loss because it's Christmas, or indeed because it was the US rather than Iraq or Palestine or Darfur, but I know exactly what Goaty means - Christmas in the West is all about little kids, it is in many ways their time of year, and for me at least there certainly is an extra empathic kick in the guts to see such horror visited on them and their families now, when contrasted with all the eager excitement of my own nearest.

[Professor Bear]

I feel a prick for even saying it, but I'm just angry thinking of this and then thinking of all those fuckbags marching on Washington when they thought poor people would get access to free medicine and wonder how many will dust off their marching boots to call for better gun control.
Random, maybe, but I find focusing the anger on complete fucking assholes helps a little.