Worser, was seeing the news last night, and one news channel was showing this news. The female news reporter was covering the event as if she was doing stock market readings for the day, no emotions, no regrets.Quote:
Originally Posted by Visionray
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Worser, was seeing the news last night, and one news channel was showing this news. The female news reporter was covering the event as if she was doing stock market readings for the day, no emotions, no regrets.Quote:
Originally Posted by Visionray
Worse or worst, not worser.
well if you read his plays, its just a CRY for attention. My views on this is that it is very sad, but life must go on and that crying is a selfish act. We shouldnt think about the past but move towards the future. Stuff like this happens... the only thing that could be done is to move on and try to prevent it from not happening again.
Hmm, I think my use of the adjective 'worser' seems to be fine. Sorry if Iam wrong though.
"crying is a selfish act"
I think you're missing out on the proper context here. Are you talking about the killer or the suffering families?
"Worser" is not a standard word.
Bad, Worse, Worst. "Worser" is incorrect English.
maybe he was addressing the people that live at Worser Bay in New Zealand?
Worstest excuse ever.
William Shakespeare, ladies and gentlemen...(the third google result link next to worser bay FlashLackey, btw)
Stupid of people not to realize that you are using English spelling from the 17th century;)
Bad, Badder, Baddest... new standards. :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by gerbick
Worser is still wrong. Do you still use doth, thine, thy?
Worse is comparative of bad. Worst is the superlative. Bad, Badder, and Baddest is also appropriate.
But in English, you do not use -er with every word. Worser is not standard English. Take it from an English speaker. And to use an obscure, archaic, poetic, anachronism of a reference to an improper word smacks of desperation to be correct. Sorry... it's just not a word that is proper.
It's like saying "more bester" or other oddly formed superlatives; Good, Better, Best for example.
Meh...
Same link...Quote:
Originally Posted by adit_ya_sharma
Update your dictionary.Quote:
While common in the 16th and 17th centuries, worser is now found only in some regional dialects, and is considered nonstandard.
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Originally Posted by adit_ya_sharma
A chum of mine is a homicide detective here in NY and he can talk about brutal murders over dinner without flinching...pretty much the same for the nurse friends my wife has......some professions that have you constantly surrounded by what would be considered shocking to the average person make it a detached sort of experience that if you stop and dwell upon the sheer sadness of it or the senselessness of it might affect how you do your job or if you are able to at all. Conditioning is a fact of any profession I suppose.
Then again she just might be a cold hearted b**ch :)
[QUOTE=gerbick]But in English, you do not use -er with every word. Worser is not standard English. Take it from an English speaker. And to use an obscure, archaic, poetic, anachronism of a reference to an improper word smacks of desperation to be correct. Sorry... it's just not a word that is proper.QUOTE]
*Shirvers in fear* ok sir, I.. I.. I'll do my homework from now on, please don't hit me *closes eyes* . ;)
Chris_Seahorn: My mom has been a doc. (gyne.) for more then 25 years now, but screams and runs out of the room whenever she'll see a house lizard on the wall. :)
don't know if this has been mentioned before in this thread, but what is it about the 3rd week in april that makes people go nuts?
VT - April 16
Oklahoma City - April 19
Columbine - April 20
i'm sure there are more than that that have happened in this time period, i just can't think of them right now.
from my understanding the vt killer praised the columbine shooters as martyrs. so doing this during the same time fram may be seen as some sort of glorification of them.
either April or May is the month with the most suicides. It might have been Freud who said "suicide is the urge to kill turned inward".Quote:
Originally Posted by lefteyewilly
LOL..well...my buddy hates spiders too....but he has no problem with a wet spot that used to resemble a human body. People are strange :)Quote:
Originally Posted by adit_ya_sharma
I have two parents who are doctors and a brother who is a medicine student. Conversations at our dinners aren't always very appetizing!;)
So Jack is blaming micrsoft(bill gates) for the shootings now because they published counter-strike.
Source
ummmmm I am pretty sure microsoft didn't publish counter-strike. It was a 3rd party mod that was created and then picked up by valve after years of watching to help the team out. The CEO and founder of valve is an ex microsoft employee but left before starting valve. I love how Jack just makes stuff up- and even if it was indeed microsoft who was the publisher you can't blame them.
MagnusVS: yup, yup, me and my bro. mostly go "Mom pleaseee...." whenever those talks start :P
BTW: I think Jack scares me more then any counter strike, half life, quake, doom, gta or zuma...
A maniac is threatening with a new massacre:
http://sheriff.co.sutter.ca.us/press...%204-18-07.htm
It is odd how the people that actually want to do something like this don't tell people ahead of time and then people wanting attention are announcing their intentions to everyone and their brothers.
Sorry to beat a dead horse, but I wanted to talk about the media again, which is making me sick to my stomach. I found an interesting article from fark...
http://www.deusexmalcontent.blogspot.com/Quote:
NBC's news department heads received a gift from the gods, via the mail, and they'd be damned if they weren't going to run with it -- no matter what kind of moral somersaults they might have to perform to justify the decision.
So run with it they did -- splashing Cho Seung-Hui's contorted face and idiotic ramblings across the airwaves with all the subtlety of gang-bang porn.
As you may know, Cho mailed a package to NBC on wednesday, and NBC was more than glad to air it all on TV. They seemed very very proud of the fact that out of all the news agencies, Cho chose NBC as the one to air his pathetic rants.
What do you guys think? My thought is, on one hand - when you hear about a guy killing 32 people in cold blood, you want to know what this guy looks like, and why he did it. On the other hand, I can't imagine being a family member of any of these victims, and then turning on the TV and being assaulted once again by this kids ugly ass face.
...just goes to show that anybody can get their 5 minutes of notariety when selling news is more important than reporting it.
I am not sure why anyone would want to know what a dead mass murderer looks like.
...I mean who really cares for any good reason.
david
I won't watch the news and I've avoided newspaper articles on this guy. I couldn't give a **** about his life or his story, I don't need to be bashed over the head with it every time I turn on the TV.
that's the thing, humans are curious and the media knows this.
Most people will have at least a quick glance at those photos.
If you've looked at a newspaper or turned on the TV in the past week, it's almost impossible to avoid seeing what this guy looks like. How many people immediately looked away when presented with his image? How many people have never looked at a photo of Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Timothy McVeigh, Charles Manson or any other notorious mass murderer? How many people have never seen a photos of the 911 hijackers, or a picture of Bin Laden? It's almost impossible not to wonder who these people are, maybe even falsely hoping you can see through the photos, to catch a glimpse of what made that person kill. Looking at a photo doesn't mean you sympathize with the killer, or are sick and twisted yourself for being curious.
That's why I'm torn on the subject, because I'd probably also be complaining, out of principle, if the media were suppressing any information. Fair use and access to information is important to me. Yet, I hate the way the media, as you said David, cares more about ratings than reporting. NBC plasters it's own logo all over the images and videos. After initially seeing the photos of this kid, and the way the media presented them, and relished in them, I'd had enough. They are turning him into exactly what he wanted, a martyr.
People who does things like this massacre, want to get attention. They want to be remembered! And the media also want to get attention. Therefore, media can be used by people like these.