More Misery Caused By Last Nights Attack

[alan23]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/6742730/England-v-France-to-be-called-off.html

[Prudie]

I don't think cancellation of a football match is in the same class as more misery. You didn't mean that did you?

[alan23]

no i didn't mean that prudie

[gness]

Yes you did - if not please explain to a simple dave what exactly you did mean ?

[gness]

For dave read dame......☺

[Old_Geezer]

That is was an additional issue ?

[alan23]

as old geezers says

[ummmm]

Seriously? Who gives two hoots about football at the moment..!!

[Barsel]

I think it's only right that they cancel, for several reasons.

[Canary42]

Calling that misery is an insult to those who suffered.

[Gromit]

People have suffered enough without another interminable England outing.

[Hypognosis]

Gotted!

10 points to Prudie.

Mean what you say or say what you mean.

Apologies will make you look good; backpeddling will make you look silly. Digging in your heels and forcing through your initial stance, to the exasperation of others is a specialist skill, for which at least one ABer is famed. Both stamina and lots of spare time (yes, that's a euphemism) are required.

[bednobs]

blimey people are sensitive (and apparently mind readers)...
it is miserable for those people who had tickets and were looking forward to the match. The misery, which is clearly felt more acutely by relatives of people who were killed or injured, people who were there, french people and so on, ripples outwards in incremental waves.
people who are in another country and who are only touched peripherally by the atrocities are allowed to feel miserable both about them but also abput disruption to their plans caused by them. My friend ws flying from gatwik today - she feels pretty miserable that her flight hs been cancelled/delayed nd she cant get home, but he of course knows it's not in the sme league of having relative blown up - doesn't stop her feeling miserble though

[ichkeria]

That is a response worthy of best answer bedknobs

Anyway, it's not definitely off yet so ...

[Hypognosis]

@bednobs

That's a fair comment. But you nevertheless appear to be acknowledge that the scale of misery is wider on some days than on others. Even a child with a broken/lost toy can experience loss and consequent misery. Age and experience changes our perspective and events like last night squash all our little miseries into insignificance.

So it is just a matter of timing.

"More issues caused by last night's attack" might have been more proportional phrasing but probably would not have got many reads, let alone replies.

[bednobs]

alan has already said that he did not mean in in the way prudie nd others wrongly construed

[alan23]

"blimey people are sensitive (and apparently mind readers)..." bednobs
i marked it as best answer itch before i read your post.

[alan23]

oh and my horses performance in the pp gold cup just caused ME upset/distress ;)

lighten up

[Ken4155]

Quite surprised to see that out of 54 scheduled French Cup games, 9 are actually going ahead!

[ichkeria]

England v France goes ahead, I am glad to say