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I couldn`t help creasing up when BBC East Midlands Today interviewed the owner of a caravan showroom, where over £1 million quids worth of mobile homes and caravans were burned to the ground following a huge fire.

Interviewer : "So how do you feel ?"
Caravan showroom owner : "Gutted."

Any other inappropiate things you`ve heard people say at the wrong time ?

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I remember singing a chorus of Ding-Dong, The Witch Is Dead! when I heard that the media-manipulating whore Princess Diana had died.

When I worked in a Casino and news of Princess Diana`s death came through to us our pit boss said:

"So what! She doesn`t lose any money in here."

Which I was not impressed with.

Nick

Hello, my name is Gyles Brandreth!

Dwight, I`m finding it hard to reconcile your posting in this thread with what you put on the Laura Sadler RIP thread, as follows:

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Over-reverence for the victims of tragedy is equally as distasteful as the outright disrespect shown by some people on this forum.

I get it, it`s only outright disrespect if it`s someone else saying it, and not you.......

You and Rik should really climb down from your moral high-horses. I have absolutely NO respect for drug-users, whether they are dead or alive, or whether they are occasional or regular users. A waste of a life? Absolutely. Tragic? Not for a second. Play with the traffic, and you`re gonna get knocked over some day.

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Who really cares if a young actress from a mediocre drama series indulged in a spot of Charlie? It`s hardly worth getting on your high horse about. You don`t even have any hard evidence to prove that drug-taking caused her death. Do you believe that rumour, gossip and speculation are equally as valid as facts?

As far as I`m aware, she wasn`t an undignified, narcissistic, materialistic, manipulative attention-seeker. Diana was and, unlike the hoards of wailing buffoons, I`m not going to pretend that the end of her fatuous life was some great tragedy.

Dwight, you say I don`t have any hard evidence that drug-taking caused the death of LS. Well, it was reported in yesterday`s Times, and that`s good enough for me (or can you give me a more reliable source to get my news from?).

Where is your hard evidence that Diana was Quote:
an undignified, narcissistic, materialistic, manipulative attention-seeker? Do you believe that rumour, gossip and speculation are equally as valid as facts? Your statement, not mine.

The contradiction in your two paragraphs is laughable, and the fact that you value one life so highly over another (despite the fact that, I assume, you never met either of the two individuals) just shows your previous moralistic comments up for exactly what they were - sentimental claptrap.

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Mix Man has a point. The media twists things, and if you never met a person then I certainly wouldn`t base my personal opinion of them on a few articles written by a journalist trying to get promoted.

You have to remember that when Diana died, she left two sons behind.

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"You have to remember that when Diana died, she left two sons behind."

Will somebody please think of the children???!!!

There`s a wealth of evidence of Diana`s zany publicity whore antics. Perhaps she should have considered how this might effect William and Harry. Laura, on the other hand, played a fictional character in a bland television drama. We know lots about the `real` Diana, but very little about the real Laura.

It`s hard not to be judgemental about someone who quite blatantly fed stories about herself to our sensationalist gutterpress. However, we only know Laura Sadler`s real name because she had the misfortune to die in unfortunate circumstances. Otherwise, she`d still be a minor character in Holby City.

If you really want to pursue the Druggies Deserve Death discussion, why don`t you start a thread about it, Mix Man?

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