I don’t understand …
When Steve Irwin died, we had those RIP messages flying all over MSN, and we had people putting a tortoise in front of their display names. I don’t get it. Is the accidental death of a wildlife preservationist more important than the sad death of an 8-year old girl who suffered so much before she finally went to a better place? Shouldn’t we be more concerned about this incident? There’s so much talk about the ‘online community,’ but it seems that this community consists of sycophants and sheep.
The death of Irwin did not affect me at all. He was doing his job, end of story. How did it affect you? Did you religiously follow his series? How about the girl who was walking to the pasar malam, got nabbed and had a cucumber and brinjal stuffed up her private parts? This was not as important, to all of you who put a tortoise, to even mention it? Maybe it didn’t cross your mind. I guess that stuffing foreign objects up children is something normal, while getting killed in the line of work isn’t. Don’t say that there isn’t an emoticon for it. I don’t see how a turtle can relate to the crocodile hunter, and yet it came into being. I remember damn near almost half of my contact list had that turtle thing, all of them Malaysians.
I think that it’s really shallow of them, but it’s just my two cents.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:24 am
true true. play with crocs = nasty bites/death. shopping in pasar malam = kidnap/torture/strangulation??
September 21st, 2007 at 11:20 am
Why are you even comparing them? It’s not like someone started an emoticon thing for the girl and all those tortoise people refused to put them up. There are no connections
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:24 am
no one is NOT comparing them at all. eh??? what we are trying to get at is that no one seems to care that an 8 year old girl was tortured and murdered while shopping in a pasar malam. but there was so much publicity when irwin died playing with crocs (which is dangerous). DUH!!!! understand or not?
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:26 am
ok typo in the previous comment. we are NOT comparing irwin or the poor girl.
September 27th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
I’m with u, Julz.
I guess this is what they meant by celebrity lives…or death, rather.
The case is simple, if ur famous, whatever u do makes the headline, if ur not, well, people just dun care.
If that girl was a descendant of some great sultan, people might start putting crown on their nicks perhaps…sheesh…people, do u have to be so shallow to prove urself
September 28th, 2007 at 9:00 am
OMG another of those sicko attacks?!
eh those sick bastards should be hangged lah!
no person (male/female) should have to fear for their lives when in the society!
i think people need to be educated about this.it’s becoming too much.more funds for education i say….and the next time some perve does this, i think his genetalia should be copped off!