And people call ME sensitive!

 
 15 Nov 2007 @ 2:52 PM 

Yeah, so over at the FanHouse there’s a post from Jes Golbez about the Red Wings’ little planecrash the other day.

I say “little”, because they went off the damn runway at like 5 MPH. That’s it. The pilots cut it a bit too close when making a turn, and one of the wheel assemblies went into the grass like The Stig in a wingless Koenigsegg CCX (though not nearly as fast and with fewer divots being thrown about).

Note that nobody else really talked about it. Why? Because it’s not like the plane went plummeting out of the sky or anything–that would be some serious business, and the only person on the planet who would point and laugh would be some embittered loser on USENET. Not even I would wish that on the Red Wings, and I loathe that team the way a Yankees fan loathes the Red Sox. What they did was the equivalent of Cory Stillman’s airbag deploying after he slid into a pole coming out the RBC lots one day after practice. It was something that was scary at the time, but when you look back on it you can giggle because nobody was seriously hurt or killed.

Jes, of course, poked fun at it in that “Oh man, bet you won’t do THAT again” sort of way. He got silly, as he is wont to do–and lo, there was a great wailing and gnashing of teeth. The comments made me roar with even more laughter than the original story did, because so many people decided to get all up in “bleeding heart” mode. Veiled threats, misplaced rage, and general stupidity abound as everyone screams and hollers that Jes dared to make fun of something that wound up being not all that serious.

The plane didn’t blow up on the runway. It didn’t go down in flames. All that happened was that it went partially off the tarmac into the mud.

Lighten up, Francis. Laugh, roll your eyes, and move the hell on already.

Sheesh.

Posted By: The Acid Queen
Last Edit: 17 Nov 2007 @ 04:40 PM

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  1. Jes Golbez says:
    15 November, 2007 at 3:05 pm

    One wonders just how uptight these people are in their normal lives.

    Of course, there is a double-standard.
    I bet if I made a post about Britney’s drug use, they’d be like “OMGZ, what a skank whore”!

  2. acidqueen says:
    15 November, 2007 at 6:50 pm

    But of course!

    Though honestly? I chalk the overreaction up to just plain stupidity more than to just plain old uptightness/double-standardry.

  3. Sarah says:
    16 November, 2007 at 7:53 pm

    This is my favorite line from those comments:

    We as sports fan have a hate for rival teams in a sports world of hate!

    Umm, yeah….

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