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@forumhostpb wrote:

@catmanblue wrote:

PB i dont/didn’t know any of the “Giggles” but even so i think you could have been a little more tactful in your reply for the sake of real life/internet friends of “Giggles” reading this post. A births/marriages/deaths forum would make more sense (for the JC community you like to advertise this as) and be more worthwhile than a “hello/goodnight” thread. Just a thought #-o

Well Catmanblue – I’m now in something of a quandary after your post.

Not only did you not know the allegedly deceased ”Giggles” but it would seem that many many others didn’t know him (or her) either. In fact there is a strong suggestion floating around the Forums that the currently being grieved over ”Giggles” may well have been ….. wait for it …. a FAKE !!! Yes a real live (or indeed dead) fake ”Giggles”.

This means that a number of users have betwween them wasted several boxes of Kleenex tissues (thus unnecessarily contributing to the UK landfill and waste disposal problems).

They are now thoroughly confused. Should they continue to publicly grieve, even though they didn’t know the deceased loved one? Should they wear black and abstain from sex for a week? Should they denounce the entire thing as a dreadful hoax? Is the apparently fake ”Giggles’ really a florist – sniggering in their nasty little shop and rubbing their hands in glee at the thought of all the flowers they will soon be selling to gullible mourners.

So your suggestion causes a bit of a problem, as if there were to be a Dead and Departed Forum, people could post messages that user ****** had just died etc. The concentration of expressions of grief, messages of condolence, and general howling and wailing all in one place would be simply too much for ordinary mortals to bear.

We might even have to post a public health warning for those of a weak disposition, in case they went in by accident, read an assortment of miscellaneous death notices, and discovered to their horror that they were dead themselves. Now that would never do.

I mean … this is a really difficult subject and I am trying to deal with it in a sensitive manner – but as you know, I don’t do tact.

However, if we are all to make this work … then some suggestions as to how it could be done would be a good place to start.

No idea PB I thought (silly me for assuming logic on JC message boards) that the majority of folk would use the forum as it was intended ie celebrations of new life, marriages etc but then again I forgot about the netnerds and how the minority of chatters would ruin it for the majority.
Would also assume that a thread as this, that was started by a reg, UNDER THEIR OWN LOG IN NAME, and not as an impersonator, would hold some credance to the content. Will leave it up to you experts to sort it out :roll: I cant be bothered any more and Im sure you wont lose your beauty sleep over it!!

I for one dont use the boards much but i do read through em now and then when I have nowt better to do!!! No telly ya see … anyways – I cant imagine any of the staff wantin to remove this thread when so many people want to have input!!! Thing is as with many of the other threads … ya can see from page 1 where its heading!! Now that its been cleared up and realised there has been a mistake made …. it gives all the ppl on the boards summat to moan about! Personally I’d move it to ‘STD’ cos thats what this is now all really about!!!

@sunny wrote:

Fast you go on about this aint real you go on about all the people mwhaa and sobbing and griveing

YOU was one of the first to contackt me when mom went

No f00ker new her no 1 nos me in real but the suport and help i got was great

It ant real we all no that But f00k me it helps some times

And PB your a c00nt and half but i needed that smile after a sh ite day at work

Exactly sunny…. I got in touch with you PRIVATELY the way TRUE friends should. Would you have liked it if I had come to the boards and made a whole thread out of it though?

I sumtimes get the kinda feeling that the people who start these death threads are more concerned with their own self importance than with any sympathys for the deceased.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

and dont call me baby…. people will talk… :wink:

@catmanblue wrote:

@forumhostpb wrote:

@catmanblue wrote:

PB i dont/didn’t know any of the “Giggles” but even so i think you could have been a little more tactful in your reply for the sake of real life/internet friends of “Giggles” reading this post. A births/marriages/deaths forum would make more sense (for the JC community you like to advertise this as) and be more worthwhile than a “hello/goodnight” thread. Just a thought #-o

Well Catmanblue – I’m now in something of a quandary after your post.

Not only did you not know the allegedly deceased ”Giggles” but it would seem that many many others didn’t know him (or her) either. In fact there is a strong suggestion floating around the Forums that the currently being grieved over ”Giggles” may well have been ….. wait for it …. a FAKE !!! Yes a real live (or indeed dead) fake ”Giggles”.

This means that a number of users have betwween them wasted several boxes of Kleenex tissues (thus unnecessarily contributing to the UK landfill and waste disposal problems).

They are now thoroughly confused. Should they continue to publicly grieve, even though they didn’t know the deceased loved one? Should they wear black and abstain from sex for a week? Should they denounce the entire thing as a dreadful hoax? Is the apparently fake ”Giggles’ really a florist – sniggering in their nasty little shop and rubbing their hands in glee at the thought of all the flowers they will soon be selling to gullible mourners.

So your suggestion causes a bit of a problem, as if there were to be a Dead and Departed Forum, people could post messages that user ****** had just died etc. The concentration of expressions of grief, messages of condolence, and general howling and wailing all in one place would be simply too much for ordinary mortals to bear.

We might even have to post a public health warning for those of a weak disposition, in case they went in by accident, read an assortment of miscellaneous death notices, and discovered to their horror that they were dead themselves. Now that would never do.

I mean … this is a really difficult subject and I am trying to deal with it in a sensitive manner – but as you know, I don’t do tact.

However, if we are all to make this work … then some suggestions as to how it could be done would be a good place to start.

No idea PB I thought (silly me for assuming logic on JC message boards) that the majority of folk would use the forum as it was intended ie celebrations of new life, marriages etc but then again I forgot about the netnerds and how the minority of chatters would ruin it for the majority.
Would also assume that a thread as this, that was started by a reg, UNDER THEIR OWN LOG IN NAME, and not as an impersonator, would hold some credance to the content. Will leave it up to you experts to sort it out :roll: I cant be bothered any more and Im sure you wont lose your beauty sleep over it!!

Bloody well said =D> =D> =D> =D>