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18 Jan 2012, 5:57 pm

I was going to say something like, yeah it's kind of annoying when people break a nail and call it tragic or something. Some people do tend to go a bit overboard.


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18 Jan 2012, 5:57 pm

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I didn't know alice cooper was in Steps.

It would be better if it was Iggy Pop


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18 Jan 2012, 5:58 pm

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18 Jan 2012, 5:59 pm

Moog wrote:
I didn't know alice cooper was in Steps.


He was the founding member. A dream he had held for some years, I believe.



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21 Jan 2012, 4:45 pm

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Comparing a single suicide to a national tragedy is asking for a firestorm. I don't know what country you're from, but I'm an American and hearing you say something like that makes my blood boil. I'm not going to flame you, but somebody else probably will.


I am Cascadian. But my point was, I just don't see a large number of people dying as automatically being tragic. To me tragic does not just equal bad, it has a certain character of badness to it.



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21 Jan 2012, 11:13 pm

I had this friend who used to phone me all the time in the Early 90s and everything bad that happened to her was a tragedy.


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22 Jan 2012, 12:53 am

If I prick my finger: that's tragedy.

If you fall down the stairs and break your neck: thats comedy!

---------------Mel Brooks, as the 2000 Year Old Man.



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22 Jan 2012, 3:25 pm

It's just like not anything good is automatically 'epic' .... tragic is like, someone who's finally learned to love life after being depressed for many years getting hit by a car and dying.



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22 Jan 2012, 3:29 pm

donnie_darko wrote:
It's just like not anything good is automatically 'epic' .... tragic is like, someone who's finally learned to love life after being depressed for many years getting hit by a car and dying.


According to Alanis Morissette logic, that's 'ironic'. :roll:


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22 Jan 2012, 3:37 pm

puddingmouse wrote:
donnie_darko wrote:
It's just like not anything good is automatically 'epic' .... tragic is like, someone who's finally learned to love life after being depressed for many years getting hit by a car and dying.


According to Alanis Morissette logic, that's 'ironic'. :roll:


Hahaha. Tragedy and irony are kind of related, but not really the same.