That joke doesn't seem so funny now does it?
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Turn the on votes just for that one! :laugh: +5
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Reading that it still looks like that reason isn't generally enough on it's own. I guess my point is that I feel like there's probably more to her reasons we don't know, and the media are trying to sensationalize it and make it sound like the prank is the only reason. I find it hard to believe a an otherwise happy and mentally healthy person would commit suicide over something like that.
lewax00 wrote:
I find it hard to believe a an otherwise happy and mentally healthy person would commit suicide over something like that.
Probably not, but then More than 1 in 10 take antidepressants[^] - perhaps something that they should have taken into consideration when they decided to make a fool out of somebody on a live show. This is something funny[^], what they did wasn't ...
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Nurse victim [^]of prank call commits suicide. I bet them DJ's are regretting it now, although obviously they couldn't have forseen that consequence.
I'm skeptical. Mentally healthy people don't commit suicide because they are embarrassed. In fact, even mentally unstable people don't do that. People commit suicide for many other reasons. Yet, in our drive for reason, we often create causative effects where there are none. Just because two events coincide doesn't mean one caused the other. A genuine concern is that by making a likely false connection, they miss other things, perhaps even foul play or something as innocuous as food poisoning or a mistake in medication. If suicide, it often trivializes the true struggles of the person.
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Nurse victim [^]of prank call commits suicide. I bet them DJ's are regretting it now, although obviously they couldn't have forseen that consequence.
Apparently most of you don't have very good reading comprehension skills...
BBC News wrote:
BBC royal correspondent Peter Hunt said he understood Mrs Saldanha - who was staying in hospital accommodation close to King Edward VII hospital - was the person who answered the call from the Australian DJs and was not the nurse who discussed the duchess's medical condition.
She's not even the one that gave out the information. All she did was answer the call and hand it off to someone else... :doh:
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It is humour driven by laziness to prank unwitting participants. Radio shows have to produce so much material every day, they can't depend on actual comedy, and resort to a hack method. People are becoming way to sensitive, but "comedians" are also increasingly using the guise of comedy to be assholes.
I have always hated prank calls, never found one funny. They are designed to humiliate the recipient and encourage others to laugh at them. I defend almost all comedy, but prank calls should be covered by some sort of law the same as any other malicious communications.
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Reading that it still looks like that reason isn't generally enough on it's own. I guess my point is that I feel like there's probably more to her reasons we don't know, and the media are trying to sensationalize it and make it sound like the prank is the only reason. I find it hard to believe a an otherwise happy and mentally healthy person would commit suicide over something like that.
The media reaction no doubt played some part, I wonder how many calls she's had, how many journalists and photographers she's had on her doorstep since it happened. Large parts of the British press will be rubbing their hands in glee at this sensational new twist prolonging the story and allowing them to morolise at everyone else.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
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I have always hated prank calls, never found one funny. They are designed to humiliate the recipient and encourage others to laugh at them. I defend almost all comedy, but prank calls should be covered by some sort of law the same as any other malicious communications.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
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I once had this[^] comedian do his annoying phone caller thing to me on the escalator on the Metro. I didn't want the to give him the satisfaction of getting any footage from me so I shouted "You've never been funny you fat *expletive deleted (rhymes with hunt)*" ensuring the footage is unusable in the UK. Not bad thinking as I was hammered at the time. I stand by what I said however, I never found him funny, though sadly I'm now no longer in any position to hurl fat as an insult.
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That is the problem with prank calls; you make someone who doesn't deserve it, or even expect it, the butt of a joke. Lazy, selfish, hack, bad comedy.
And they're often chosen at random, you know nothing about them, and they have no right of reply or chance to get their own back like if you prank your mates or family. Phone up, do what you want, hang up from distance. Cowards comedy.
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Keith Barrow wrote:
Because she took her work seriously - and a breach of patient/nurse confidentiallity is likely to be taken seriously?
Worst case she has to find a new career (but I'm guessing unless this isn't the first time she probably wouldn't get much more than reprimand or temporary suspension). Would you kill yourself if you got fired?
Keith Barrow wrote:
Because she felt humiliated, and this was all over the news, probably internationally?
People will forget about it within a couple years. Everyone makes mistakes, most people feel bad about it, then they get over it, as does everyone else around them. It just doesn't seem like enough to want to find such a permanent way out.
lewax00 wrote:
Would you kill yourself if you got fired?
Would you kill yourself if your significant other left you? Would you kill yourself if your significant other cheated on you? Would you kill yourself if you lost your job then your house? Would you kill yourself if your significant other died? Would you kill yourself if you were responsible for a company going bankrupt and many people lost their jobs? Would you kill yourself if you were constantly ostracized in your school over a period of years? Would you kill yourself if you were abused by a relative as a child? Would you kill yourself your dream job/career was derailed by a public incident? Would you kill yourself if you were specifically responsible for the death of several other people in such a way that you could have prevented it with more attention on your part? Would you buy a gun and kill numerous other people and then engage in a shootout with the police which ended in your death? Certainly some people have done so. And others haven't.
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Apparently most of you don't have very good reading comprehension skills...
BBC News wrote:
BBC royal correspondent Peter Hunt said he understood Mrs Saldanha - who was staying in hospital accommodation close to King Edward VII hospital - was the person who answered the call from the Australian DJs and was not the nurse who discussed the duchess's medical condition.
She's not even the one that gave out the information. All she did was answer the call and hand it off to someone else... :doh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
She was the first line of defence at a hospital with the highest profile story in the country being treated there. Probably had no prior training or any idea what to expect and she failed. I imagine that could be devastating to some.
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lewax00 wrote:
Would you kill yourself if you got fired?
Would you kill yourself if your significant other left you? Would you kill yourself if your significant other cheated on you? Would you kill yourself if you lost your job then your house? Would you kill yourself if your significant other died? Would you kill yourself if you were responsible for a company going bankrupt and many people lost their jobs? Would you kill yourself if you were constantly ostracized in your school over a period of years? Would you kill yourself if you were abused by a relative as a child? Would you kill yourself your dream job/career was derailed by a public incident? Would you kill yourself if you were specifically responsible for the death of several other people in such a way that you could have prevented it with more attention on your part? Would you buy a gun and kill numerous other people and then engage in a shootout with the police which ended in your death? Certainly some people have done so. And others haven't.
Having been through some of those, I can definitely say no to those ones. For the rest, I doubt any single one of those I would. Multiple in a short period of time? Maybe. But I see your point. People react to different things differently. It just seems like it wouldn't be worth it to me personally. However unless there's more information I haven't heard there may still be more to it.
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She was the first line of defence at a hospital with the highest profile story in the country being treated there. Probably had no prior training or any idea what to expect and she failed. I imagine that could be devastating to some.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
Probably had no prior training or any idea what to expect and she failed. I imagine that could be devastating to some.
I wasn't trying to dispute that. I was merely pointing out that what some people were posting was completely false, and they should read things more closely before making such statements.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin