OT: Moral dilemma!

Please

honest,

dramatic

Pulitzer

Marvelous. great joke.

simplicity of

Thanks for the belly laugh!

Black and white. Ruby

And for those of you with red state inclinations, substitute Bill Clinton for Geo. Bush. It is just as funny. I told it to one of my staunchly Republican friends today and he howled. He is a photographer so that may have had an influence on his response. I am sure it will be making the rounds of the Republican venues soon, as Bill Clinton.

I'd jump in to help save Billy though, that's the difference as I see it.

Video. Slow motion. Dawne

Heck, I would hold his head under!!! LOL

Mrs PP , It isn`t the first time that you post something that you consider funny and i think it is Immoral to call it funny. I don`t know if you ever were during your life in a situation , that your Split minute decision, could change a life , your`s and an other person`s ,,, i was and believe me it is very hard. Recognizing the other person doesn`t make a difference to the decision, Reducing possible dammage to all , is what keeps you busy at this moment. mirjam

Pat EAXStitch said

You should've marked it as SI (spew inducing) ;-)

It isn`t the first time you have made it obvious that you have absolutely no sense of humour whatsoever, Mirjam!

Sheesh!

Pat P

The man i chose not overrun with my car thinks much better of me mirjam Ps and neither of us laughed about my smashed car front Because i drove my car into a wall instead of over him

Mirjam - everyone has to get a laugh somehow! I believe you are devoid of any trace of humour and it can't be put aside as being purely a language problem.

Lucretia,,,

Some jokes and Humur are Culture related . The matter of having to decide if and at what cost to save sombody , might become one of the more frequent problems in the contemporary world. You see somebody , with a knife or other weapon entering a public place , would you report it to somebody in the shop, and maybe expose yourself to being threatened, Or will you wait and be threatened anyway , when the person will try to rob And or terrorize the whole Group of people , you included? You hear somebody on cellular phone threatening somebody , will you lok away , try and notify somebody ? You see somebody being threatened in the strreet ? will you look away , evaluate what you can do ? I think you told a grandson of your`s was harmed by a teacher or priest ???? something like that ,,,,Wouldn`t you have that sombody stopped it somehow .... Oh i have Humur allright , just not when it concernes any harm done to anybody , And not when portrays Scenes that happen daily in many big cities around the world ... You are all complaining about Kids Agressive behaviour and suggest Heavy punishment ,.,,,,Part of preventing Agressive behaviours ,is NOt making it a matter of jokes , but making it a matter of Taboo ... Of unwanted behaviour. Kids who joke and laugh [or hear their elders do it] about Letting sombody Drown , or Die , Go over a mental threshhold , find it easier to Hit others , because in their minds it is less than letting somebody die , which is according to those jokes Funny. Do you like jokes about the harm done to your grandkid? Joking about Violence Legitimizes doing it !!! mirjam

The whole point is that were I to actually see something like that, I would immediately do everything I possibly could to save the person, EVEN if it was somebody I loathed.

The political joke is humour, it is a supposed situation. GWB would never be in that position with all those security men around to grab him out.

You have to learn that what people will laugh about, particularly in regard to politicians who rarely have our respect, is very different to actual situations.

As well as seeing what Pat wrote here, I also had one in email that had our Canadian prime minister in it as the one drowning, I am sure if they thought you had a sense of humour, some of your Israeli friends might send you the same one with Sharon as the drowning man!

Or even Mirjam as the drowning woman! In real life we`d even rescue HER! (Although I suspect we`d only get complaints over something wrong with however we did it!) LOL!

Pat P

We had a discussion at the bridge club about a similar situation. There is an old guy in his eighties who is at best 'distasteful' - he is ugly, clearly swathed in Depends, and to make matters worse does not wear dentures and sits huffing and puffing with his mouth hanging open. He is rude and cantankerous and I have had several run-ins with him, such as refusing to oblige a 'gimme the 'phone' unless he prefaced it with please.

One day someone raised the subject of who would help if he needed mouth to mouth resuscitation. I was the only one who said, though I would feel nauseated, I would do it. The thought of standing by doing nothing as someone died, is repulsive.

However, once it was brought to my attention that it could happen, I asked one of the doctors to bring us one of the tube things you can insert - they have the advantage of holding the tongue down too. So the cantankerous old bastards chances have improved somewhat.

The question was certainly not irelevant - you are just evading a sensible answer, as I expected.

Yes, My grandson is in Iraq right now and the jokes are coming from him thick and fast, as is typical of a British soldier! I`m glad things never change in that respect, anyway.

Pat P