I dunno if it's the Virginia Tech shootings or what but i've been having terrible nightmares recently. I was quite scared and disturbed when i first read abt it online one evening.
Anyway, today i was just reading The Age newspaper about the Virginia Tech Shootings. The showed many photos and exerpts from the video he sent to the ABC. It just made me so damn pissed off. He blamed everyone in the world for his pathethic-ness. What a loser. He sounds bitter and jealous about not having the things other people have, like money. SO?? if he thinks about it, he's alr much better off than a zillion other people in the world. He speaks as though we asked for it and he is doing the world a service by teaching us a lesson.
Anyway the media should stop showing photos of him--that's giving him the platform he wanted. he looks proud in those photos of him wielding guns and knives. Cho, you just look plain stupid, really. This may lead to copycat acts by ppl trying to gain historical notority (since they are unable to be famous during their lifetime).
Also, i read that his sister graduated from Princeton University. Maybe he feels inadequate coz he cant match up to her.
Or maybe, let's be sympathetic. He is afterall a psychiatric patient who was involuntarily hospitalised 15 months ago for being a potential threat to society. So why didn't the school do anything about that?! Shouldn't they monitor or expel students with dangerous mental health issues?? He was writing gory and perverse plays during the lead up to the incident--> the teachers and students should pay more attention. Also, what are his parents doing? Do they even know his state of mind? If their kid has some serious mental prob, shouldn't they keep him at home so they can monitor him? Make sure he takes his medication or send him to a mental institute or better still, tie him up and lock him up in a basement?!
Of coz it is easy to pick out all these problems from hindsight. But this is not the first case. The Columbine High Sch shooting shd have made it clear that GUNS SHOULD BE BANNED!!! Are Americans willing to sacrifice their citizens and children just so they can uphold their liberal ideal?! Safety first man! Good thing guns are banned in Aust and I don't stay on campus. Phew!
Anyway another article which made me quite irritated was about Sledging in Australian Football. Sledging is the practice of insulting other plays, especially with sexually explicit profanities directed at their manhood, wives, sisters and mothers. I am disgusted. The worse thing is, Australians feel this is part of the footy culture. Bullshit. This is poor sportsmanship.
This debate over sledging is raging here because of the recent incident where Player A was alledged to have insulted Player B's 6 year old daughter by calling her a slut or someother sexual insult. Player B punched him for that. According to some footy players and journalists, insults to daughters, insults regarding a player's illness or addiction, and insults pertaining to race and religion are out of bounds. All other insults are just part of the game and to "test mental toughness".
Sledging is still ridiculous. footy is seen as a very MASCULINE sport, so does this make profanity acceptable? Isn't it glorifying such low crude behaviour? Does violence and the use of crude language constitute masculinity? Imagine if Roger Federer shouted profanities at his opponent in a tennis match. Boy, he would be stoned by spectators and empires alike. It reminds me of Rugby in JC. Remember the ACS boy who stamped on another player's face in a match? Guys think violence and a lack of self-constraint is so cool and makes them seem like a tough n testosterone-driven man. Fine, it is a rough sport and requires high tolerance of pain. But it is also associated with many vices like violence, insults, booze and party which contaminates the sport and make these boys look like mere beasts. Discipline and diligence is forgotten as players get caught up with the superficial image they want to portray of themselves--as cool, wild and animalistic.
I think sledging is just a reflection of poor sportsmanship. It is not "testing your opponent's mental toughness". It is jsut being ridiculous. Sport and competition alone test an individual's tenacity and courage. Profanity and insults just reflect poor and weak characters who need such dirty and underhanded means to try to gain an advantage.
Right, that's all the ranting. Now for some lamenting. Aust's facing a serious drought problem now and agriculture is suffering, especially the cultivation of GRAPES! Darn, they're expecting prices of food products to soar. Darn.
Anyway, today i was just reading The Age newspaper about the Virginia Tech Shootings. The showed many photos and exerpts from the video he sent to the ABC. It just made me so damn pissed off. He blamed everyone in the world for his pathethic-ness. What a loser. He sounds bitter and jealous about not having the things other people have, like money. SO?? if he thinks about it, he's alr much better off than a zillion other people in the world. He speaks as though we asked for it and he is doing the world a service by teaching us a lesson.
Anyway the media should stop showing photos of him--that's giving him the platform he wanted. he looks proud in those photos of him wielding guns and knives. Cho, you just look plain stupid, really. This may lead to copycat acts by ppl trying to gain historical notority (since they are unable to be famous during their lifetime).
Also, i read that his sister graduated from Princeton University. Maybe he feels inadequate coz he cant match up to her.
Or maybe, let's be sympathetic. He is afterall a psychiatric patient who was involuntarily hospitalised 15 months ago for being a potential threat to society. So why didn't the school do anything about that?! Shouldn't they monitor or expel students with dangerous mental health issues?? He was writing gory and perverse plays during the lead up to the incident--> the teachers and students should pay more attention. Also, what are his parents doing? Do they even know his state of mind? If their kid has some serious mental prob, shouldn't they keep him at home so they can monitor him? Make sure he takes his medication or send him to a mental institute or better still, tie him up and lock him up in a basement?!
Of coz it is easy to pick out all these problems from hindsight. But this is not the first case. The Columbine High Sch shooting shd have made it clear that GUNS SHOULD BE BANNED!!! Are Americans willing to sacrifice their citizens and children just so they can uphold their liberal ideal?! Safety first man! Good thing guns are banned in Aust and I don't stay on campus. Phew!
Anyway another article which made me quite irritated was about Sledging in Australian Football. Sledging is the practice of insulting other plays, especially with sexually explicit profanities directed at their manhood, wives, sisters and mothers. I am disgusted. The worse thing is, Australians feel this is part of the footy culture. Bullshit. This is poor sportsmanship.
This debate over sledging is raging here because of the recent incident where Player A was alledged to have insulted Player B's 6 year old daughter by calling her a slut or someother sexual insult. Player B punched him for that. According to some footy players and journalists, insults to daughters, insults regarding a player's illness or addiction, and insults pertaining to race and religion are out of bounds. All other insults are just part of the game and to "test mental toughness".
Sledging is still ridiculous. footy is seen as a very MASCULINE sport, so does this make profanity acceptable? Isn't it glorifying such low crude behaviour? Does violence and the use of crude language constitute masculinity? Imagine if Roger Federer shouted profanities at his opponent in a tennis match. Boy, he would be stoned by spectators and empires alike. It reminds me of Rugby in JC. Remember the ACS boy who stamped on another player's face in a match? Guys think violence and a lack of self-constraint is so cool and makes them seem like a tough n testosterone-driven man. Fine, it is a rough sport and requires high tolerance of pain. But it is also associated with many vices like violence, insults, booze and party which contaminates the sport and make these boys look like mere beasts. Discipline and diligence is forgotten as players get caught up with the superficial image they want to portray of themselves--as cool, wild and animalistic.
I think sledging is just a reflection of poor sportsmanship. It is not "testing your opponent's mental toughness". It is jsut being ridiculous. Sport and competition alone test an individual's tenacity and courage. Profanity and insults just reflect poor and weak characters who need such dirty and underhanded means to try to gain an advantage.
Right, that's all the ranting. Now for some lamenting. Aust's facing a serious drought problem now and agriculture is suffering, especially the cultivation of GRAPES! Darn, they're expecting prices of food products to soar. Darn.
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