Degrees To Virginia Tech Fallen???

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Degrees To Virginia Tech Fallen???

Postby Porter » Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:49 am

It was absolutely terrible what happened at Virginia Tech. Fuck that guy and I feel really sorry for the people involved there.

But what the fuck?? Awarding degrees to the dead students? C'mon, there is always a point where something becomes ultra cheesy and an unnecessary tribute. This is as bad as the country singers coming out with their cheesy stupid 9/11 songs.
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Postby EmperorJeramyu » Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:08 am

Well, maybe the RA who was a senior and triple majoring in like 3 totally different fields, but yeah, that is pretty cheesy.
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Postby Shindy » Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:09 am

Or else the parents won't be so happy.
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Postby Sling » Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:13 pm

Apparantly, the total body count was the highest ever sustained in a single shooting incident.

How the hell would a degree help a dead person. Does St. Peter ask you your qualifications or something?
"Oh sorry, you need 320 UCAS points to get in".
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Re: Degrees To Virginia Tech Fallen???

Postby Angel_OA » Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:15 pm

Porter wrote:But what the fuck?? Awarding degrees to the dead students? C'mon, there is always a point where something becomes ultra cheesy and an unnecessary tribute. This is as bad as the country singers coming out with their cheesy stupid 9/11 songs.

It's called a posthumous degree and its done all the time. This isn't a one of occasion or anything. However, I think that the newspapers printing the picture of him in a hollywood style pose was pretty stupid, it's just spreading the fear exactly as he intended.
On another note I have a friend called Cho, who's finding it hard adapting to all the newspapers with 'Cho is a Bastard' written in big letters.
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Postby Teenr0cker » Thu Apr 19, 2007 4:34 pm

In all honesty, I think we all have a friend named Cho in our lives...



Anyhow, I agree that it's cheesy, but at the same time, it's these school shootings that are really painful because the lives lost are most often quite young. Lets say one of the victims was 20 and lets assume they would have led a healthy life into their late nineties and even break 100 years old maybe. If you think about that, you realize they lived one freaking fifth of their life. All the good times they could have had, all the success they had the potential to experience, all the memorable experiences that is a human life...Destroyed with the pull of a trigger. ESPECIALLY for college students, because after college is the real world. There wouldn't be any more teachers or pop quizzes, but there would be new exciting experiences waiting for them. All that time and effort applying to college, all of those hours spent studying, those long Friday nights they spent working to afford an education... All of that failed to deliver an incredible young adult because some idiot decided to interfere and judge them. Out of respect for the dead, I would not hesitate to grant them what they strove for their entire lives up until that point, even if they had no real use for it (obviously). So it goes.
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Postby Greatchickenman » Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:23 pm

I have little affection for all the media's attention on incidents such as this considering 30,000 children die of preventable diseases each day.

We all agree that young people dying is a bad thing, yet we refuse to see the grand scheme of things and realize we aren't more important than the rest of the world. 32 college students being killed is a bad thing, and is shown all over United States, but instead of preventing tragedies around the world, such as the hundreds being killed each day in war and the hundreds of thousands each week due to preventable diseases, we all just sit around and mope.
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Postby Angel_OA » Fri Apr 20, 2007 6:36 am

Everything comes down to greed. Tackling the problems on the surface (such as giving a starving village a bag of seeds) is only a temporary solution on a small scale. The problems need to be sorted right at the top, where the greedy bastards suck away all the millions of charity money into their own pocket.
Like Robert Mugabe, who's building another palace for himself right now.
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Postby Porter » Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:45 pm

Everyone should read the chapter YELLING in Maddox's new book, The Alphabet of Manliness.
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Postby Sling » Sat Apr 21, 2007 5:16 am

Angel_OA wrote:Everything comes down to greed. Tackling the problems on the surface (such as giving a starving village a bag of seeds) is only a temporary solution on a small scale. The problems need to be sorted right at the top, where the greedy bastards suck away all the millions of charity money into their own pocket.
Like Robert Mugabe, who's building another palace for himself right now.
The only reason the USA etc haven't invaded Zimbabwe to stop Mugabe is becuase there is no oil there... otherwise we'd have another Iraq.
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Postby CJ » Sat Apr 21, 2007 7:12 am

Sling wrote:Apparantly, the total body count was the highest ever sustained in a single shooting incident.


really?

i'm pretty sure Martin Bryant killed 35 people in the Port Arthur Massacre.
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Postby Sling » Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:39 am

I think it was the most ever in a school/learning institution then. I can't remember, but some kid in my class was going on about it. It's not exactly something to brag about though.
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Postby Telephalsion » Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:39 pm

Sling wrote:I think it was the most ever in a school/learning institution then. I can't remember, but some kid in my class was going on about it. It's not exactly something to brag about though.


I reckon humans can brag about just about anything.

When we heard this, me and a friend began discussing it. WE didn't know if it was 100% true, but as far as we're aware, school-massacres are unique to America.
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Postby JLAF » Sat Apr 21, 2007 3:17 pm

Sling wrote:I think it was the most ever in a school/learning institution then. I can't remember, but some kid in my class was going on about it. It's not exactly something to brag about though.

Wikipedia: Virginia Tech Massacre wrote:...the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.



wikipedia can be wrong too.
It would maybe depend on where you draw the line for modern U.S. history.

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I agree that it depends on what you'd call "modern" but I've check several versions back on the article, as well as hearing it said several times in media reports, so I don't think Wikipedia is flat out wrong.
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Postby Burning_Flame » Sat Apr 21, 2007 4:02 pm

Telephalsion wrote:
Sling wrote:I think it was the most ever in a school/learning institution then. I can't remember, but some kid in my class was going on about it. It's not exactly something to brag about though.


I reckon humans can brag about just about anything.

When we heard this, me and a friend began discussing it. WE didn't know if it was 100% true, but as far as we're aware, school-massacres are unique to America.


I looked up school shootings on wiki, and for school shootings:

United Kingdom - 1
Yemen - 1
Germany - 1
Australia - 1
Lebanon - 1
Israel - 2
Canada - 4
USA - 30
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