I don’t mean this as a personal attack, but I perceive this comment as being similar to, if you are at a particularly sad funeral service and just finished burying a loved one, proceeding to make a comment like, “Hm, maybe I should get some of those flowers for my front yard.”
Then you have hit a target you couldn’t yourself see, which is high genius indeed.
I’m a Brit, and jokes at funerals are appropriate and necessary, even if the funeral is one’s own. But this is surely not one of those transatlantic things? Even in Tarantino movies the doomed go out with a wisecrack.
Noted. fwiw, I wrote it before reading the article (after clicking the link at the top and seeing what it is). Maybe If I waited until I finished I would have written something more like “chathamroom.com seems very useful for this sort of thing” (without the excited tone).
I don’t mean this as a personal attack, but I perceive this comment as being similar to, if you are at a particularly sad funeral service and just finished burying a loved one, proceeding to make a comment like, “Hm, maybe I should get some of those flowers for my front yard.”
FWIW, I didn’t have a problem with it.
Finally, some humour in what has up to now been a pretty grim read! And I’ve thought we were all doomed for the last ten years.
I didn’t mean it humorously, I meant it more in a grim sense.
Then you have hit a target you couldn’t yourself see, which is high genius indeed.
I’m a Brit, and jokes at funerals are appropriate and necessary, even if the funeral is one’s own. But this is surely not one of those transatlantic things? Even in Tarantino movies the doomed go out with a wisecrack.
Yoav Ravid’s comment is quite Zen.
Noted. fwiw, I wrote it before reading the article (after clicking the link at the top and seeing what it is). Maybe If I waited until I finished I would have written something more like “chathamroom.com seems very useful for this sort of thing” (without the excited tone).
And in your defence, chathamroom.com does seem pretty cool.