Good Grief

Malley nee Richards wrote: According to the BBC website (other websites are available)the wave of grief for naturist and 'larrikin' Steve Irwin is similar to that displayed by the Brits for Princess Diana.> > Also my trainee asked why we didn't have a minute's silence yesterday for the people in the Trade towers. *Lights the touch paper and steps back*

Carter USB wrote: They only asked for 1 minutes silence? What is the world coming to. Grief should be on a sliding scale when it comes to silences. The twin towers deserves 2 minutes 30 as a minimum. Oh, hang on, didn't we only do 2 for the tsunami? Loads more people died then. Can we settle on 1min45 for the twin towers then? Any advance... Sorry 'bout that.

Miss Haversham wrote: ahhhhhhh but you're forgetting *picks up Daily Mail* - they're from that Asia place innit. Also. Note we hear nothing about the earth quakes in India now and all the people that were blatantly gonna freeze to death -not in America, therefore don't matter. Presumably someone took them abox of swan vesta and some twigs* gets off soapbox*

Tyrone wrote: May be a formulaic scale e.g. x multiplied by y divide by z= time of silence in 1/2 seconds x= number of dead y= sliding scale of how well known they were 1 -10 (1 not known/too many to mention - 10 very famous) z= sliding scale of how people really give a t+ss whether the peopleare dead or not (10 we couldn't really give a rat's as)s 1 = oh my god Icant believe it I will really miss him/her what a loss to the world i.e 2974 dead in twin towers x 1(who were these people?) = 2974 divide by 8 (I'm sure someone will miss them) =371.75 seconds = 184.88 seconds= 3.09 mins silenceTsunami victims would get 200000 x 1 divide by 8 = 25000 1/2 seconds =416 mins silence - obviously people will be very bored on this one but will mean we all don't have to do any work for about 7 hours

The Lunt wrote: The boy borders on aspergers but is a genius

Leyds wrote: Well fair dincome Tye, as Stevie Irwin would have said (what rating does he get?) ....that's certainly beaten your Fire Exit study..

Tyrone wrote: Steve Irwin = 1 Person x 8 famous scale divide by 8 (do we really give at@ss?)= 1/2 second silence = nuff said.

Leyds wrote: Crikey that's a bit mean... As for the Aussies having their Diana moment !?! Surely that was Asheswhen they crashed and burned ? Sorry that's bad...

Tyrone wrote: I don't know if you really missed him (i.e you were Australian - he'd get a full 4 seconds silence- enough for someone who used to really p!sswild animals off for a reaction