Dumbest news quote ever?

bigmike20vt · 4 Jul 2019 at 10:03

Minusorange said:
Surely the following sentence of "it's even worse than 3 hours on the train isn't it ?" (she says it in the video) when she was speaking of the 2 dead is an even more dumb statement ?

Of course getting hit by a train and dying is worse than sitting 3 hours on said murderous train

Woman clearly in shock and then having a mic shoved in front of her face. Yes she sounded a bit daft but imo the reporter was wrong to quote her, pretty mean thing to do as it is obviously does not paint her in a great light.

regardless of the details, a very tragic accident. I feel for the train driver as well. I guess it is down to expense but surely some form of radio could be built into all train workers ear defenders so that a warning goes off in the headset when a train is approaching???

the tech is there but would probably add another £X to the cost of the ear defenders.

SexyGreyFox · 4 Jul 2019 at 10:11

singularity said:
I agree the quality of news reporting is awful

I visited my Dad a couple of weeks ago and he had cut two stories out of our Evening Sentinel that had my name on.
They had taken my stories from a local Facebook page and completely twisted all the words.
I was fuming to think they can do this, the stories were nothing eg Michelin Apprentice School, but all the timeline and context was wrong.

singularity · 4 Jul 2019 at 10:47

SexyGreyFox said:
I visited my Dad a couple of weeks ago and he had cut two stories out of our Evening Sentinel that had my name on.
They had taken my stories from a local Facebook page and completely twisted all the words.
I was fuming to think they can do this, the stories were nothing eg Michelin Apprentice School, but all the timeline and context was wrong.

yeah whenever I read a story that I have inside knowledge on it is invariably completely wrong.

Dis86 · 4 Jul 2019 at 12:27

String said:
I don't think her words are any more insensitive or "dumb" than yours, TBH. Kill someone because they said something?

Ahhh, good old tampon string. From your logic applied here Hitler wouldn't have deserved capital punishment because he only said some things.

Dirk Diggler · 4 Jul 2019 at 12:46

@Dis86 nice use of Godwin's there, although I'm not so sure he "only said some things"... I'm pretty sure he did some things, too.

wolfie138 · 4 Jul 2019 at 13:58

did he, or did he just order it?

Ayahuasca · 4 Jul 2019 at 18:35

SexyGreyFox said:
I visited my Dad a couple of weeks ago and he had cut two stories out of our Evening Sentinel that had my name on.
They had taken my stories from a local Facebook page and completely twisted all the words.
I was fuming to think they can do this, the stories were nothing eg Michelin Apprentice School, but all the timeline and context was wrong.

It’s only going to get worse with the implementation of deepfake.

Dis86 · 4 Jul 2019 at 18:47

String said:
@Dis86 nice use of Godwin's there, although I'm not so sure he "only said some things"... I'm pretty sure he did some things, too.

You're pretty sure? Got any sources to back up that he personally 'Did some things'?

Teh_Next · 4 Jul 2019 at 19:08

Yeah, let's all hate this woman because she said something.

Dis86 · 4 Jul 2019 at 19:16

Teh_Next said:
Yeah, let's all hate this woman because she said something.

Well...Yeah. not liking someone because of their opinion is pretty normal.

Would you not dislike someone immensely for saying all (insert offensive term for black people, Asian people, etc.) Should be killed painfully? I know I would!

Might reserve a spot on the tracks next to her for you.

Teh_Next · 4 Jul 2019 at 19:32

Dis86 said:
Well...Yeah. not liking someone because of their opinion is pretty normal.

Would you not dislike someone immensely for saying all (insert offensive term for black people, Asian people, etc.) Should be killed painfully? I know I would!

Might reserve a spot on the tracks next to her for you.

Sure, make the jump from an innocent harmless (even if a bit silly) woman to some weird association with racial slurring. If you were talking to me I'd happily jump on the track, no need for a reservation.

Dis86 · 4 Jul 2019 at 19:34

Teh_Next said:
Sure, make the jump from an innocent harmless (even if a bit silly) woman to some weird association with racial slurring. If you were talking to me I'd happily jump on the track, no need for a reservation.

As you said, it's just saying 'something'. So why get all twisty over it?

Teh_Next · 4 Jul 2019 at 19:39

Dis86 said:
As you said, it's just saying 'something'. So why get all twisty over it?

I'm not, you made a thread, I replied, you got upset, almost as upset at some insignificant woman's rather dull quote to the point you got all "twisty" and made a rather silly post to vent your frustration at her. You then made a rather aggressive comment about wanting to throw me on the tracks with the woman who shattered your world with her dull quote and I replied with something in the same vein and you got upset again.
You're doing well.

Dis86 · 4 Jul 2019 at 19:40

Teh_Next said:
I'm not, you made a thread, I replied, you got upset, almost as upset at some insignificant woman's rather dull quote to the point you got all "twisty" and made a rather silly post to vent your frustration at her. You then made a rather aggressive comment about wanting to throw me on the tracks with the woman who shattered your world with her dull quote and I replied with something in the same vein and you got upset again.
You're doing well.

Aggressive? Dunno what you mean. Just said 'something'.

Teh_Next · 4 Jul 2019 at 19:43

Dis86 said:
Aggressive? Dunno what you mean. Just said 'something'.

Stop it or I'll quote a (dull) woman at you.

ttaskmaster · 8 Jul 2019 at 11:36