Oh dear. Is it so difficult to have compassion?
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Quote: Jennie @ 30th March 2014, 8:39 PM BSTThat is a massive assumption and makes no sense. You usually make sense. I'm disappointed. I find that far more offensive than the point you're trying to make.
Well, if they only remember and grieve for their parent by putting it on Facebook, then yes. But who says that is the case? Why would that be the case? How do you know? More illogical assumptions.
Good point. Why bother with any ceremony post death? The person is dead, nothing we can do, lets just toss them into a incinerator and get on with it. No point having a funeral or a coffin or flowers or any of that crap.
Unless someone's mother spent all day on Facebook putting up messages of faux compassion, then I think tributes should be in keeping with the dead. It's why we don't have clown cars at Remembrance Sunday.
I don't for one second believe that people are putting these messages up as some form of thoughtful, deeply moving, digital tribute - this is all about them, their need for attention and most worryingly of all, the desire to sell fake emotions as real. They're saying: 'Look at me, look how much I care, everyone feel sorry for me and the harrowing ordeal I must be going through, sympathise...now!'
Most of the people who put up these messages have a dead elderly relative that a) never went on Facebook, b) thought the Internet was for child abuse and c) would probably find this kind of fake, annoying, rubbish as being utterly pitiful.
'We didn't get on when she was alive, I haven't visited her grave in four years, but look, I've managed to operate the keyboard on my phone during Sunday lunch.' 
Quote: Hannah G @ 30th March 2014, 7:26 PM BSTAwww
It's so horrible, you can't do anything when you're really tired.
And it always makes me feel down.Bath and bed very very soon for me I think...
Ohhh......thank you for your "there, there" 
Quote: Paul Wimsett @ 30th March 2014, 8:17 PM BSTCan we have a special day where RCP explodes with rage?
That would be every day.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 30th March 2014, 9:06 PM BSTThey're saying: 'Look at me, look how much I...
So, then they're not much unlike you: "Look at me, I'm grumpy rumpelstiltskin...I post lots of provocative things..."
Also, you are still assuming a lot of things. Maybe that is true for your FB friends, but not mine. Fact is, you don't actually know if it is fake and attention seeking or not.
Even if it is for attention, I don't begrudge them that. So what if they get a few "chin up honey xxxxxx"'s? I've still got my mum, and I know which I would prefer.
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 30th March 2014, 9:08 PM BSTOhhh......thank you for your "there, there"
To be fair, I think she was being nice.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ 30th March 2014, 9:16 PM BSTIf we're against messages on social networks that aren't in some way self serving, narcissistic cries of 'look at me' 'listen to me' 'validate my nonsense gibber', there'd be no bugger on them.
And indeed, no-one on the BCG. Ultimately every post is a cry for attention. It's how humans are built.
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 30th March 2014, 9:12 PM BSTSo, then they're not much unlike you: " Look at me, I'm grumpy rumpelstiltskin...I post lots of provocative things..."
They're worse then me, they're trading off a dead relative. Besides, wishing your dead mother a 'Happy' Mother's Day without a moment's thought to irony or sarcasm, only provokes me.
Everyone else buys into the pre-existing covenant that if you write something in a certain way, no matter how banal or ridiculous, that it can only be redressed with an expected level of respect and reverence.
I'm challenging this notion, especially when I consider the motivations to be less then sincere.
Quote: Jennie @ 30th March 2014, 9:15 PM BST. Fact is, you don't actually know if it is fake and attention seeking or not.
Unfortunately, if it is sincere, then there are a lot of people out there who have a massive disconnect between logic and emotion. They probably think their toys come to life when they're asleep and that their cats secretly talk to each other in little human voices when they're not home.
You know, mentals.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 30th March 2014, 9:23 PM BSTEveryone else buys into the pre-existing covenant
Oi, Mr Big Head.
Quote: Jennie @ 30th March 2014, 9:18 PM BSTAnd indeed, no-one on the BCG. Ultimately every post is a cry for attention. It's how humans are built.
No argument there whatsoever.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ 30th March 2014, 9:24 PM BSTOi, Mr Big Head.
Don't blame me, I just watched Stewart Lee on my Virgin box.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 30th March 2014, 9:23 PM BSTUnfortunately, if it is sincere, then there are a lot of people out there who have a massive disconnect between logic and emotion. They probably think their toys come to life when they're asleep and that their cats secretly talk to each other in little human voices when they're not home.
You know, mentals.
They're Not necessarily mental but these symbolic gestures maybe give them a good feeling, like it or not. It does not have to be logical.
I'm not saying I would act like that.
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 30th March 2014, 9:28 PM BSTlike it or not.
Not like.
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 30th March 2014, 9:28 PM BSTIt does not have to be logical.
Hence my ire.
I hate it when Gordon Honeycomb who used to read the news on TVAM comes banging on my front door, pissed up and ranting about "Them stinking blacks". Then he goes and pukes Aftershock all down my sister's legs.
Did he really?
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 30th March 2014, 9:23 PM BSTThey're worse then me, they're trading off a dead relative. Besides, wishing your dead mother a 'Happy' Mother's Day without a moment's thought to irony or sarcasm, only provokes me.
Everyone else buys into the pre-existing covenant that if you write something in a certain way, no matter how banal or ridiculous, that it can only be redressed with an expected level of respect and reverence.
I'm challenging this notion, especially when I consider the motivations to be less then sincere.
Unfortunately, if it is sincere, then there are a lot of people out there who have a massive disconnect between logic and emotion. They probably think their toys come to life when they're asleep and that their cats secretly talk to each other in little human voices when they're not home.
You know, mentals.
I have to say I believe you're talking utter shite. How do you know they're being less than sincere? It may not be your style (nor mine) but we don't have the monopoly on sincerity. And what the Hell are they trading? They're remembering a dead relative and feeling sad. Is that so bad? If it is attention seeking, so what? Are we so devoid of human kindness as to begrudge them some of this attention?
As I've said before, you need to prune your Facebook contacts - you obviously despise so many of them. *end of Mother's Day wine-fuelled rant*