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Life imitates art:
Dale Gribbel, savior of the sacred flame.
I quit smoking over a decade ago, but if I had the opportunity to light a cigarette from the Olympic torch…I’d take it. Probably also use that cigarette to light the pilot lights on my water heater and then all my showers would be heated by the Olympic flame (technically speaking).
Meh. He didn’t harm anything. He just broke the rule of, “keep off the memorial.”
Basically, a non-event. Why is this news?
Serious question for you: I wonder if you would feel different if your parent had died in the war being memorialized?
I’m trying to figure out if you are saying “This doesn’t affect me so I don’t care” or maybe, “Memorials serve no purpose” or something else. Cheers,
That’s not the point. The point is nothing at all actually happened.
It’s the monument equivalent of shouting, “you’re ugly” at someone. Disrespectful, sure, but newsworthy? No.
I wonder if you would feel different if your parent had died in the war being memorialized?
Exactly as I commented. “Ah, this will make people angry, and anger leads to clicks.”
i went to dallas and stopped by the jfk shooting museum. real neat. real somber. there’s a yellow x on the asphalt where he was shot, and every few dozen minutes when there’s a break in traffic there’d be a tiktok kid popping out there to get a cheery selfie or video. at first, I thought “they don’t quite understand where they are, they’re just dumb kids” and then the constant stream (i promise i got it by the third one) of them made me realize they were all ragebating us olds.
You are certainly correct about that, but you and OP haven’t answered my question. I really wonder if OP was saying that they wouldn’t be upset, even if they had a personal connection to that specific memorial.
My guess with OP’s comment was more like they didn’t see how it affects them, versus any other answer. I believe society won’t move forward as long as everyone only ever sees the world through the lens of “how does this affect me”. But this is all just me guessing.
I was answering the question:
Basically, a non-event. Why is this news?
Why is this news, indeed? Because it makes people angry. That’s it, that’s the sole and only reason. There’s no other point to wasting the amount of verbiage that has been wasted on this complete non-story of a pointless event.
Are you suggesting we should have news stories broadcasted to the whole world about every possible thing that might offend someone, because otherwise we’re ignoring “things that don’t affect me?” There’s a reasonable threshold below which this kind of thing shouldn’t be worth this kind of attention, IMO, and lighting a cigarette on an eternal flame is well below that threshold.
Someone in editorial thought “ah, this will make people angry, and anger leads to clicks.”
That’s honestly the most French thing I’ve heard in a while. Not because of the war memorial but because of the cigarette
There’s a genocide going on, we have thousands upon thousands of homeless people, the world is heading to a climate catastrophy, but let’s be outraged by someone lightning a cigarette with the flame of a war memorial.
People dying of hunger because of politics, capitalism and violence, it’s none of our business. But that man lighting his cigarette, what a fucking outrage!
Disappointment = Expectations - Reality
You can only really control one of those 2 factors regarding global events.
speak for yourself, my farts have gotten ecological laws passed
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
I like to disrespect authority like the next punk but disrespecting war memorials is fucking disgusting. I would have liked to punch that fucker. And smash his fucking cigarette.
Fair, but did we need a news article about it?
I definitely interpreted this title as someone lighting a 110-year-old cigarette.
Me, too. I had a whole internal discussion about which scenario would be more stereotypically French…
