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"3000 dead: nobody gives a ****"

Just been looking around on the internet and saw a news story that two trains have collided and exploded in North Korea, killing up to 3000. Luckily all of these people are dirty little foreigners who have weird yellow skin and talk funny so there is absolutely no need to be worried, upset or interested by this news. Although the death toll is apparently comparable with 9/11 there will be no Hollyoaks-displacing round the clock news coverage, mainly because nobody in North Korea thought to videotape the explosions! When will communists learn that simply being 'on fire' is no excuse for depriving BBC viewers of some apocalyptic news footage to keep them interested until the sport comes on? Thankfully the world's media have responded to the North Koreans' disgraceful laziness by ignoring the story as much as possible, aided as always by the North Korean government's decision to cut off international phone contact with the area - nice one, Kim, that'll teach them a lesson!

These are the top headlines from various web news sources:

Guardian - Blair: a no vote means no
BBC - Blair rules out repeated EU polls
Washington Post - Columnist McGrory Dies at 85 (Noooo!)
New York Times - Violence in Iraq Forces 2 Big Contractors to Curb Work
Al Jazeera - Sharon back Gaza pullout or lose U.S. assurances
CNN - Trains collide, explode in North Korea (Hang on...)
Sky News - MANY CASUALTIES REPORTED (Hooray! They've found a picture of a train! Now it's proper news! [URL]http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1132362,00.html[/URL] )

So the moral of the story is: it serves you right for being cameraless North Koreans.

Still, I bet this is all over the news as soon as Reuters get a cameraman in there. Reminds me of that Iranian earthquake.

Ah well that's just you.

Hmmm I'm going to see if there's any Victor Lewis-Smith stuff on the net...

Edit: Damn no videos.

Hedfix wrote:
> Humour about death and shocking events: not a new thing.

Neither it is.
But I found neither of those comments humourous in any shape or form.

Humour about death and shocking events: not a new thing.

I know what we're all subconciously thinking: who gives a damn about those yellow freaks? If kids look like this: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3648583.stm[/URL] what hope is there, eh?

I'm almost literally shaking my head in disgust at those comments, to be honest...

SHEEPY wrote:
> Communists deserve to die

Especially if they're SMOKERS!!!1111

To be fair to Sky News, though, they did actually report it earlier - without any visual medium.

Communists deserve to die

Gosh, that's awful. I remember being similarly appaled at lack of empathy toward the Iranian earthquake (and the Turkish one before that) in favour of tittle-tattle politics.

I think the 3,000 figure is a very rough estimate - do they not always round figures up in these kinds of disasters? I seem to remember people bandying figures of around 10,000 dead in the aftermath of 9/11. Still, doesn't change the fact that it's a dreadful thing to happen.

Just been looking around on the internet and saw a news story that two trains have collided and exploded in North Korea, killing up to 3000. Luckily all of these people are dirty little foreigners who have weird yellow skin and talk funny so there is absolutely no need to be worried, upset or interested by this news. Although the death toll is apparently comparable with 9/11 there will be no Hollyoaks-displacing round the clock news coverage, mainly because nobody in North Korea thought to videotape the explosions! When will communists learn that simply being 'on fire' is no excuse for depriving BBC viewers of some apocalyptic news footage to keep them interested until the sport comes on? Thankfully the world's media have responded to the North Koreans' disgraceful laziness by ignoring the story as much as possible, aided as always by the North Korean government's decision to cut off international phone contact with the area - nice one, Kim, that'll teach them a lesson!

These are the top headlines from various web news sources:

Guardian - Blair: a no vote means no
BBC - Blair rules out repeated EU polls
Washington Post - Columnist McGrory Dies at 85 (Noooo!)
New York Times - Violence in Iraq Forces 2 Big Contractors to Curb Work
Al Jazeera - Sharon back Gaza pullout or lose U.S. assurances
CNN - Trains collide, explode in North Korea (Hang on...)
Sky News - MANY CASUALTIES REPORTED (Hooray! They've found a picture of a train! Now it's proper news! [URL]http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1132362,00.html[/URL] )

So the moral of the story is: it serves you right for being cameraless North Koreans.

Still, I bet this is all over the news as soon as Reuters get a cameraman in there. Reminds me of that Iranian earthquake.