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Post by mekon on Mar 13, 2021 7:50:15 GMT
Long story short, one of the neighbours has just been wheeled out of the house on a trolley with a blood-stained sheet over them. Wife woke me up as police are everywhere in street and it looks like CSI outside.
She's literally freaking out and crying and I'm just, sort of non-plus about it. I think I've spoken to them about twice in 10 years so don't know them at all. Fuck knows what's gone on which one is dead and how. Not sure if I'm supposed to be feeling something? Like I said we don't know them.
Maybe I'm just a cunt? Maybe I'm in shock myself? It's an odd scene.
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Post by spentcase on Mar 13, 2021 7:57:50 GMT
It's a good question Meeks. Most of the time I am Captain Compassionate and help people out in emergencies, or with even the smallest things. However there are times when, like you said, I just flat out don't give a fuck even though I should. Like Joker said in Full Metal Jacket, it's "the duality of man"
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2021 8:07:07 GMT
The old lady next door to me was committed to a care home and it bothers me because she lives alone and the thoughtless fuckers who took her away have turned off the heating in her house and now my heating bills have gone up.
Cunts.
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Post by mekon on Mar 13, 2021 8:17:09 GMT
The only reason I woke up was a delivery driver got blocked in and way having a fit outside about his routes and swearing like a trooper. He was a cunt.
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Post by beefus on Mar 13, 2021 8:25:29 GMT
To answer your post....no, I wouldn’t be upset in that case. You don’t know them. We have 3 neighbours we speak to but we’re not ‘mates’....if anything bad happened I’d have sympathy for their family’s situation but I wouldn’t be emotionally involved.
Unfortunately we’re turning into a world of grief junkies with a side order of self pitying victimhood thrown in. We’re now supposed to be upset when someone we don’t know dies...it’s worse with celebrities on planet la la land. You have to be seen to be upset, which makes it about you not the victim. Narcissistic virtue signalling at its best.
I blame Princess Diana! 🤭😉
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Post by mekon on Mar 13, 2021 8:40:58 GMT
Well Facebook has decided he had a heart attack as he left the house to move the car, fell and banged head. Apparently his daughter came out, found him and started calling for help. I had ear plugs in due to snoring wife so didn't hear
He was about my age and seemingly fit. The reaper can get you any time.
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Post by spentcase on Mar 13, 2021 8:49:36 GMT
You have to be seen to be upset, which makes it about you not the victim. Narcissistic virtue signalling at its best. I blame Princess Diana! 🤭😉 And social media |
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Post by beefus on Mar 13, 2021 9:33:58 GMT
You have to be seen to be upset, which makes it about you not the victim. Narcissistic virtue signalling at its best. I blame Princess Diana! 🤭😉 And social media Indeed....couldn’t agree more. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2021 9:42:13 GMT
To answer your post....no, I wouldn’t be upset in that case. You don’t know them. We have 3 neighbours we speak to but we’re not ‘mates’....if anything bad happened I’d have sympathy for their family’s situation but I wouldn’t be emotionally involved. Unfortunately we’re turning into a world of grief junkies with a side order of self pitying victimhood thrown in. We’re now supposed to be upset when someone we don’t know dies...it’s worse with celebrities on planet la la land. You have to be seen to be upset, which makes it about you not the victim. Narcissistic virtue signalling at its best. I blame Princess Diana! 🤭😉 Yup |
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Post by Eddie The Bastard on Mar 13, 2021 10:33:26 GMT
To answer your post....no, I wouldn’t be upset in that case. You don’t know them. We have 3 neighbours we speak to but we’re not ‘mates’....if anything bad happened I’d have sympathy for their family’s situation but I wouldn’t be emotionally involved. Unfortunately we’re turning into a world of grief junkies with a side order of self pitying victimhood thrown in. We’re now supposed to be upset when someone we don’t know dies...it’s worse with celebrities on planet la la land. You have to be seen to be upset, which makes it about you not the victim. Narcissistic virtue signalling at its best. I blame Princess Diana! 🤭😉 You were gonna get a thumb until I saw the 'VS'. I think people overlook the area in between 'so what' and 'oh what a tragedy'. It is the reflection zone where people can spare a few thoughts and take stock. People die every second and only at the very extremes are they almost deemed 'deserved' (like a suicide bomber en route who injures nobody else) and at the other end that poor lady in London who it seems was almost literally in the wrong place at the wrong time suffering the most undeserved death. As for Diana it was sad that a mother of two died like that. It was not her 'time'. She would not have been the only one though. Her loved ones undoubtedly fared better than the majority of others. mekon, you have it right: "that's sad, must enjoy my life as you don't know what's round the corner." |
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Post by mekon on Mar 13, 2021 11:29:17 GMT
Same shit happened to my old man when I was 20. Got woke up in middle of night, mum freaking out, he'd just had massive heart attack and that was that.
Times like this I think fuck it, just buy what I want but then I also think my family would still need my stash of cash.
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Post by mekon on Mar 13, 2021 11:31:13 GMT
Now I've just read about the Girls Aloud member having spine cancer at 39 and it's probably her last year. Life eh!
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Post by Eddie The Bastard on Mar 13, 2021 17:51:07 GMT
You lost you dad too young mekon, that's horrible. As for Sarah Harding, I hope they get her pain relief spot on. |
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Post by mekon on Mar 13, 2021 18:21:25 GMT
It's odd how we all process stuff. I went to work the next day as I needed to not think for a bit. Boss wanted to send me home but I said to him it was better for me.
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Post by Diego the toe clipper on Mar 14, 2021 22:03:21 GMT
Funny you should bring this up now as I am apparently too.
I posted recently on here that our neighbour accross the hall died of Covid a few weeks ago. It hit my wife much harder than it should have in my book. Of 4 apartments on the same floor, they were the ones we had more relationship with, but we've only lived here 4 years, it's not as if they were like uncle and auntie to our kids or anything. We just had a few chats in the lift or when we crossed paths.
We ended up having a typical couples conversation in which I said that if she lets everything affect her so much, she's gonna end up depressed... that, apparently, makes me a heartless cunt (not her words, but Mekon has hit the interpretaion nail on the proverbial head).
Also an intersting observation on how we deal with stuff, maybe there's some truth in that. My dad died when I was 10, I went to school the next day, I guess it was to try to protect me from the grief (or maybe just to get me out of the way) but maybe I'm still avoiding it...
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