Girl's Dying Wish is to see 'UP'

[dennisv]

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/pixar-up-movie-2468059-home-show

HUNTINGTON BEACH – Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for one thing – a movie.

From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, she was desperate to see it. Colby had been diagnosed with vascular cancer about three years ago, said her mother, Lisa Curtin, and at the beginning of this month it became apparent that she would die soon and was too ill to be moved to a theater to see the film.

After a family friend made frantic calls to Pixar to help grant Colby her dying wish, Pixar came to the rescue.

The company flew an employee with a DVD of Up, which is only in theaters, to the Curtins’ Huntington Beach home on June 10 for a private viewing of the movie.

The animated movie begins with scenes showing the evolution of a relationship between a husband and wife. After losing his wife in old age, the now grumpy man deals with his loss by attaching thousands of balloons to his house, flying into the sky, and going on an adventure with a little boy.

Colby died about seven hours after seeing the film.

With her daughter’s vigil planned for Friday, Lisa Curtin reflected about how grateful she is that Pixar – and "Up" – were a part of her only child’s last day.

“When I watched it, I had really no idea about the content of the theme of the movie,” said Curtin, 46. “I just know that word ‘Up’ and all of the balloons and I swear to you, for me it meant that (Colby) was going to go up. Up to heaven.”

Pixar officials declined to comment on the story or name the employees involved.

THE PREVIEWS

Colby was diagnosed with vascular cancer on Dec. 23, 2005 after doctors found a tumor in her liver. At the time of her death, her stomach was about 94 inches around, swollen with fluids the cancer wouldn’t let her body properly digest. The rest of her body probably weighed about 45 pounds, family friend Carole Lynch said.

Colby had gone to Newport Elementary School and was known for making others laugh, family friend Terrell Orum said. Colby loved to dance, sing, swim and seemed to have a more mature understanding of the world than other children her age, Orum said.

On April 28, Colby went to see the Dream Works 3-D movie "Monsters Vs. Aliens" but was impressed by the previews to "Up."

“It was from then on, she said, ‘I have to see that movie. It is so cool,’” Lynch said.

Colby was a movie fan, Lisa Curtin said, and she latched onto Pixar’s movies because she loved animals.

Two days later Colby’s health began to worsen. On June 4 her mother asked a hospice company to bring a wheelchair for Colby so she could visit a theater to see "Up." However, the weekend went by and the wheelchair was not delivered, Lisa Curtin said.

By June 9, Colby could no longer be transported to a theater and her family feared she would die without having seen the movie.

At that point, Orum, who desperately wanted Colby to get her last wish, began to cold-call Pixar and Disney to see if someone could help.

Pixar has an automated telephone answering system, Orum said, and unless she had a name of a specific person she wanted to speak to, she could not get through. Orum guessed a name and the computer system transferred her to someone who could help, she said.

Pixar officials listened to Colby’s story and agreed to send someone to Colby’s house the next day with a DVD of "Up," Orum recalled.

She immediately called Lisa Curtin, who told Colby.

“Do you think you can hang on?” Colby’s mother said.

“I’m ready (to die), but I’m going to wait for the movie,” the girl replied.

THE MOVIE

At about 12:30 p.m. the Pixar employee came to the Curtins’ home with the DVD.

He had a bag of stuffed animals of characters in the movie and a movie poster. He shared some quirky background details of the movie and the group settled in to watch Up.

Colby couldn't see the screen because the pain kept her eyes closed so her mother gave her a play-by-play of the film.

At the end of the film, the mother asked if her daughter enjoyed the movie and Colby nodded yes, Lisa Curtin said.

The employee left after the movie, taking the DVD with him, Lynch said.

“He couldn’t have been nicer,” said Lynch who watched the movie with the family. “His eyes were just welled up.”

After the movie, Colby’s dad, Michael Curtin, who is divorced from Lisa Curtin, came to visit.

Colby died with her mom and dad nearby at 9:20 p.m.

Among the Up memorabilia the employee gave Colby was an “adventure book” – a scrap book the main character’s wife used to chronicle her journeys.

“I’ll have to fill those adventures in for her,” Lisa Curtin said.

[Reigh Kaufman]

Beautiful.

'Night, puppy.

[Tweek]

:( Wow.

[Tagia_Romero]

Poor little sausage. :(

At least she was given something to make her happy in her last hours.

[ericdraven]

Man, that is sad. I am glad the people at Disney or wherever it was went out of the way to let her watch the movie.

[jackson13]

I read this on Fark this morning. I didnt cry. Very sad.













ok, ok, I cried. So what?!

[Heisenberg]

wow, thats really sad. Glad she got her last wish.

[echo_bravo]

HOLY EFFIN SHIT:eek:

That is beyond sad but its awesome that Pixar came thru and let her see it. WOW

Not to make light of things, but I was thinking of sending the same message to James Cameron so I could get see Avatar before it comes out.

[Reigh Kaufman]

HOLY EFFIN SHIT:eek:

That is beyond sad but its awesome that Pixar came thru and let her see it. WOW

Not to make light of things, but I was thinking of sending the same message to James Cameron so I could get see Avatar before it comes out.

Actually, I've often wondered if studios did this. I first thought of it when The Phantom Menace came out and it struck me that there must have been thousands of hardcore Star Wars fans waiting to see how the new trilogy panned out.

Just another reason Pixar rule.

[ElderPredator]

Wow.....that seriously depressed me. :(

[AspectRatio1986]

Wow

[BadCoverVersion]

I hope her parents find comfort in the fact that she was granted her final wish.

A very sad but beautiful story...the death of an child is always heartbreaking.

[razgriz21]

That is very sad but beautiful.

[Cosimo]

real upsetting

[NathanRomano]

Yeah, I cried

[Mr.HyDe807]

I definitely teared up, not gonna lie.

Disney and Pixar were great to give the girl her wish.

[The Heart Collector]

GOSH.

[The Heart Collector]

Actually, I've often wondered if studios did this. I first thought of it when The Phantom Menace came out and it struck me that there must have been thousands of hardcore Star Wars fans waiting to see how the new trilogy panned out.

The humane thing in that case would have been to send nothing.

[Cronos]

Sad story, nice of them to do that for her.

[ScaryFreak1827]

:(

[Shinigami]

Her dying wish was to see a movie? She needs to get a life!

:mad: :mad: I knew some asshole would come in here and once again prove why the internet community is a lot of smarmy basement dwelling assholes who think it's funny to make light of everything that shouldn't be made light of. I've experienced the helplessness you feel when someone you love is dying of a disease you can't fix no matter how hard you try. I'm sure it must have given her parents some measure of relief to be able to do this one thing for their daughter. Kudos to them for being badass enough to get through to Pixar, and kudos to Pixar for listening to their story and flying a DVD down.

People, try to keep the juvenile comments to a minimum in this thread. I don't care if you're sitting there and a really funny joke pops into your head. This is not the time for you to try to impress the internet with your immature lulz. I don't care you think the joke is clever. I don't care if you try to comfort yourself in the knowing that you're not telling it to the wrong company. It's still not appropriate. So for the love of all that is good and clean, don't tell the joke anyways just because you don't have the willpower to maturely contribute to a rightly somber and justifiably sympathetic thread. You dick.

[NathanRomano]

:mad: :mad: I knew some asshole would come in here and once again prove why the internet community is a lot of smarmy basement dwelling assholes who think it's funny to make light of everything that shouldn't be made light of. I've experienced the helplessness you feel when someone you love is dying of a disease you can't fix no matter how hard you try. I'm sure it must have given her parents some measure of relief to be able to do this one thing for their daughter. Kudos to them for being badass enough to get through to Pixar, and kudos to Pixar for listening to their story and flying a DVD down.

People, try to keep the juvenile comments to a minimum in this thread. I don't care if you're sitting there and a really funny joke pops into your head. This is not the time for you to try to impress the internet with your immature lulz. I don't care you think the joke is clever. I don't care if you try to comfort yourself in the knowing that you're not telling it to the wrong company. It's still not appropriate. So for the love of all that is good and clean, don't tell the joke anyways just because you don't have the willpower to maturely contribute to a rightly somber and justifiably sympathetic thread. You dick.


Perfectly Said

[Shinigami]

^Except that nobody actually said what I quoted. Which means..! :eek:

[outsyder]

^Except that nobody actually said what I quoted. Which means..! :eek:

It was probably THC?

[SweetEnLow]

Depressing as hell and beautiful at the same time.
10 years old. Just not right.

I'm glad she got her wish.

[Heisenberg]

:mad: :mad: I knew some asshole would come in here and once again prove why the internet community is a lot of smarmy basement dwelling assholes who think it's funny to make light of everything that shouldn't be made light of. I've experienced the helplessness you feel when someone you love is dying of a disease you can't fix no matter how hard you try. I'm sure it must have given her parents some measure of relief to be able to do this one thing for their daughter. Kudos to them for being badass enough to get through to Pixar, and kudos to Pixar for listening to their story and flying a DVD down.

People, try to keep the juvenile comments to a minimum in this thread. I don't care if you're sitting there and a really funny joke pops into your head. This is not the time for you to try to impress the internet with your immature lulz. I don't care you think the joke is clever. I don't care if you try to comfort yourself in the knowing that you're not telling it to the wrong company. It's still not appropriate. So for the love of all that is good and clean, don't tell the joke anyways just because you don't have the willpower to maturely contribute to a rightly somber and justifiably sympathetic thread. You dick.

I agree. My grandma died from cancer, and it is NOTHING to joke about.

Sick Fuck. :mad::mad::mad:

[FLAME_ON]

I can't help but think though, the movie's quite sad (I thought) and even though it ends on a good note, I wonder how well she enjoyed it?
She was 10, and maybe some went over her head, but there is the whole theme of making the most of your life that she must have picked up on. I just hope she didn't feel bad about her own life after watching it; you know, thinking that she's doesn't have a chance to experience the adventure of life.
Truly a tearjerking story though, my eye's swelled a bit. I find it mainly sad too because I walked out of Up feeling a little down (take the pun as you will).

[God of War]

Heartwarming that she got her dying wish, and heartbreaking that she passed on.

[Shinigami]

Back the truck up. The heart collector never said what I quoted. Nobody said what I quoted. I would never seriously call another schmoe an asshole or a dick like that anyways. My post was a gag. I was feigning a part of me making a tasteless joke, and then another part of me correcting it with one of those grave over-offended replies.

Nobody actually said the quote.

I hate puppies!

Nobody hates puppies.

[adamjohnson]

Fuck that. I would want to LIVE the concept in UP.

Now THAT is a way to send life off.

[Heisenberg]

Back the truck up. The heart collector never said what I quoted. Nobody said what I quoted. I would never seriously call another schmoe an asshole or a dick like that anyways. My post was a gag. I was feigning a part of me making a tasteless joke, and then another part of me correcting it with one of those grave over-offended replies.

Nobody actually said the quote.



Nobody hates puppies.

So....Why did you do that? Not fucking cool :mad::mad:

[Shinigami]

Exactly! I'm the one gagging about the way schmoes react when other schmoes make light of these threads. The quote wasn't real. Nobody should feel embarrassed or anything if they took me seriously, because now that I look at it the gag was pretty hard to notice for what it was since Heart Collector had one of his posts edited. But I had to say something because I don't want this THC guy to get some undue flack.

Not fucking cool

I already said that in my gag. After all, while cancer can be a laughing matter, people who suffer through cancer shouldn't be disrespected. Duh. Neither should a little girl who died so young and so tragically. Even that little dog Loki shouldn't be disrespected.
On the other hand, the way this lot of unrelated peoples on joblo.com's celebrity forum messageboard react to these articles is up for a little bit of mockery and jokes. Don't get me wrong, I'm not being mean spirited towards this community. You guys rock. I'm just poking fun at the typical exchanges in these threads. Eventually somebody makes an off color joke, eventually somebody overreacts to it. If you want to rail on me that's your business, but let's be clear exactly what it is, and who it is, you're being offended for.

[Heisenberg]

I already said that in my gag. After all, while cancer can be a laughing matter, people who suffer through cancer shouldn't be disrespected. Duh. Neither should a little girl who died so young and so tragically. Even that little dog Loki shouldn't be disrespected.
On the other hand, the way this lot of unrelated peoples on joblo.com's celebrity forum messageboard react to these articles is up for a little bit of mockery and jokes. Don't get me wrong, I'm not being mean spirited towards this community. You guys rock. I'm just poking fun at the typical exchanges in these threads. Eventually somebody makes an off color joke, eventually somebody overreacts to it. If you want to rail on me that's your business, but let's be clear exactly what it is, and who it is, you're being offended for.

I'm being offended for myself, the little girl, her family and the countless others that have been affected by this disease. I now see that you were not doing this in spite. But I think you badly mistimed this 'gag'. Cause this was a REALLY bad thread to try it out in.

[athf1980]

that was a nice story.

[Smarmy Douche]

After all, while cancer can be a laughing matter,

Example?

[Tinkles]

Damn that's so heavy. It makes me wonder why bad things happen to good people! What's up with that?

[FLAME_ON]

Damn that's so heavy. It makes me wonder why bad things happen to good people! What's up with that?

Life.

[Shinigami]

Example?

:confused: Some people cope with their shit by trying to make light of it. I don't want to turn this into a blowhard analysis of really sick people, but have you- has anyone here- been around someone like that for a long, consistent period of time (maybe a family member)? I've actually been yelled at for being another grave face reflecting the seriousness of the situation back at someone who had to deal with this heavy stuff. In my experience that's not the sort of stuff people always need. My experience isn't total, but some people like the hahas. One chick I used to know tried to relax about her tumor by posting jokes about it on her Myspace every week. Sometimes it's about denial, but sometimes people just need to feel like the world isn't crumbling apart in their end of days.
/blowhard analysis of really sick people

Anyways, this has has little to do with me making fun of the way joblo "death threads" go. It just illustrates why both extremes are goofy reactions. People who laugh at tragedies can be heartless, but people who demand too much seriousness towards them can be just as misguided. I'm surprised I seem to be alone on this one, because I've read similar complaints on other RIP type threads. We are just chatting with fellow moviefans on a website, after all. It's a gossipy forum. That doesn't excuse some kind of moral anarchy, but I still find a lot of these overreactions odd. The guy up there actually said he was offended for himself, the girl, the family, and everyone who has ever suffered from this disease. Am I the only one who raises an eyebrow at that stuff?
If I were to actually do something truly disrespectful I would defend myself by listing all the people closeish to me who've died from this sort of shit as a petty qualification parade showing why I feel and respect the gravity of these situations. But that's not cool. Argument fodder on the internet is a lame way to use the suffering of friends and family, especially when it doesn't have anything to do with my point (it doesn't). All I wanna do is stick with keeping this about poster extremes in these "death threads". Right now most schmoes seem more interested in the story than in my gag/point, so by the looks of things I'm dead in the water. The only sure way to keep me afloat is for schmoes to bellyache at me cuz they've chosen to be offended for people and things that aren't even being attacked.

[Reigh Kaufman]

Were it not for the fact that The Heart Collector edited his first post, making it look like Shinigami was quoting him, we would have all understood that the point Shinigami was making was that people who make bad taste jokes using the anonymity of the internet as a screen are not welcome here. It was bad timing, but the intention was well-meant. Get over it and stop ascribing hidden meanings to every one of his replies just because you like a sewing circle.

It was clearly an unfortunate coincidence that his post would decry and satirise bad taste posts at the same time that someone would edit their own post, thus making it appear less satirical and more sinister. Failing that, check his post history and see if he has a history of being a knob.

I see nothing that would suggest he is ornery.

[Terror Australis]

I share my sentiments with everyone else here as well. This is a very sad but at the same beautiful moving story.

[Reigh Kaufman]

Personally I think he got hit by that taxi because the driver was distracted by his sparkeling skin:D.

Seriously though while I'm not fan of him or the Twilight series, I'm am glad that he wasn't seriously hurt.

You get lost, Terror?

The Robert Pattinson thread is your first left, down the corridor, then follow the arrows...you can't miss it. Tweek is there, pretending she is still reading the book after a bazillion years.

:D

[someguy]

:mad: :mad: I knew some asshole would come in here and once again prove why the internet community is a lot of smarmy basement dwelling assholes who think it's funny to make light of everything that shouldn't be made light of. I've experienced the helplessness you feel when someone you love is dying of a disease you can't fix no matter how hard you try. I'm sure it must have given her parents some measure of relief to be able to do this one thing for their daughter. Kudos to them for being badass enough to get through to Pixar, and kudos to Pixar for listening to their story and flying a DVD down.

People, try to keep the juvenile comments to a minimum in this thread. I don't care if you're sitting there and a really funny joke pops into your head. This is not the time for you to try to impress the internet with your immature lulz. I don't care you think the joke is clever. I don't care if you try to comfort yourself in the knowing that you're not telling it to the wrong company. It's still not appropriate. So for the love of all that is good and clean, don't tell the joke anyways just because you don't have the willpower to maturely contribute to a rightly somber and justifiably sympathetic thread. You dick.

On the same page of this forum someone is wishing that an actor gets killed by a semi.

[Shinigami]

the point Shinigami was making was that people who make bad taste jokes using the anonymity of the internet as a screen are not welcome here.

That would have been a lot cleverer. But I was really just trying to make a joke about the process in celeb tragedy threads. Somebody makes an off color joke, somebody else overreacts and starts crusading for puppies and children. I faked a standard joke, then a standard how dare you! reply. I was trying to roll my eyes at both extremes. It might be goofy for someguy^ up there to keep posting "he/she died doing what he/she loves", but sometimes it's even worse when people flip out at him and get their dander up about what is basically a harmless stirring of the joblo pot.

But I'm starting to think I'm having difficulties communicating with my fellow man here. I should probably bow out before this thread becomes too distracted with trying to figure out what the fuck Shinigami is talking about. :D

[The Heart Collector]

Just to clear up the confusion, my edited post was a lesser Phantom Menace joke.

[bigred760]

This is a great story. Goes to show that there are good people on this planet and that they give a damn about something other than themselves. I'm glad the little girl got her wish and that her parents know that their daughter left this world happy.

[Shinigami]

http://www.joblo.com/newsimages1/colby-curtin.jpg


Really cute kid to boot.

[Terror Australis]

You get lost, Terror?

The Robert Pattinson thread is your first left, down the corridor, then follow the arrows...you can't miss it. Tweek is there, pretending she is still reading the book after a bazillion years.

:D

Already fixed. Now let's never speak of this again:D.

[X-Nightcrawler]

http://www.joblo.com/newsimages1/colby-curtin.jpg


Really cute kid to boot.
If every thread describing a death/tragedy started with a picture like that, I'm pretty sure we'd get much less opinionated-moron remarks which seem unavoidable (this forum just doesn't have enough edgy assholes, does it?). I'm surprised this thread was clean with the exception of Shinigami's weird-ass satire.

And I'm glad, honestly. This is a really sad story. Glad to see the parents were saw their kid having her final wish fulfilled. I'm sure it alleviated her death (well, as much as losing a child can be). Pixar did a beautiful thing. Eventhough "Up" is about living the adventure that's life, it seems like a good movie to be your last.

[Abbie Normal]

What a great story. It is always a shame to see a child die, especially in this manner, but I am always amazed of the strength of the human spirit when they want to achieve a goal in the face of god awful pain and agony. When I go to see UP I will think of her.

[Tony_Montana]

Damn thats........ damn.


RIP

[Pentangeli]

My post was a gag.

You complain about others making jokes about such things, yet your's is the only post that does make a joke of it. :confused: I'm not saying you do find it funny, I just don't get the joke.

Anyway, that story made my eyes leak. Though in a way it was also beautiful, with Pixar showing that there's still some humanity within the big corporations. I never planned to see UP in the cinema, but I will do now out of respect for what Pixar did. On a side note, I wonder how they verified the girl was truely ill.

[Shinigami]

You complain about others making jokes about such things, yet your's is the only post that does make a joke of it. I'm not saying you do find it funny, I just don't get the joke.

The more I explain my first post the less interesting it seems. :D

Everything in my first post was a joke. The quote was a joke, but so was the rant against it. I'm not just bitching at people who make tasteless jokes in these threads. They aren't even the main target. My first post had one quote devoted to making a cliche of a tasteless joke, but it had two larger paragraphs devoted to making a cliche of a gasbag rant. That people took the rant seriously and actually liked its contents shows that I'm probably alone on this, because I intentionally wrote my rant to be a lame statement that was nearly as annoying as the joke it was angry at. Schmoes actually thought it was a good thing to say (it wasn't).

I also expected someone to come in here and post a joke about the whole thing. This would, of course, cause a bunch of other schmoes to rant at it by posting those goofy statements like the schmoe above who said he was offended for himself, the girl, her family, and anyone who ever suffered through this disease, or the schmoe above me who referred to jokesters as opinionated morons/edgy assholes (exactly the kinds of overdone behaviors I'm raising point with). Then my gag would have a context and we could go from there. But none of that happened naturally, and because none of that happened naturally my point isn't relevant. I had bad timing, though not for the reasons a few people thought. This thread seems to be the exception to the routine. Schmoes here appear to be more interested in talking about the poignancy of the article than they are in squabbling. If that changes I'll pipe up again, but if it doesn't I don't want to keep distracting everyone by reiterating a point that looks more and more likely to have little to do with this particular thread.

[Heisenberg]

The more I explain my first post the less interesting it seems. :D

Everything in my first post was a joke. The quote was a joke, but so was the rant against it. I'm not just bitching at people who make tasteless jokes in these threads. They aren't even the main target. My first post had one quote devoted to making a cliche of a tasteless joke, but it had two larger paragraphs devoted to making a cliche of a gasbag rant. That people took the rant seriously and actually liked its contents shows that I'm probably alone on this, because I intentionally wrote my rant to be a lame statement that was nearly as annoying as the joke it was angry at. Schmoes actually thought it was a good thing to say (it wasn't).

I also expected someone to come in here and post a joke about the whole thing. This would, of course, cause a bunch of other schmoes to rant at it by posting those goofy statements like the schmoe above who said he was offended for himself, the girl, her family, and anyone who ever suffered through this disease, or the schmoe above me who referred to jokesters as opinionated morons/edgy assholes (exactly the kinds of overdone behaviors I'm raising point with). Then my gag would have a context and we could go from there. But none of that happened naturally, and because none of that happened naturally my point isn't relevant. I had bad timing, though not for the reasons a few people thought. This thread seems to be the exception to the routine. Schmoes here appear to be more interested in talking about the poignancy of the article than they are in squabbling. If that changes I'll pipe up again, but if it doesn't I don't want to keep distracting everyone by reiterating a point that looks more and more likely to have little to do with this particular thread.


I don't see my opinions as 'Goofy' but thanks anyways. :rolleyes::mad:

You 'Gag' was really stupid and badly timed. Nevermind the usual routine, NOBODY would make a joke in THIS thread. They would risk getting banned. Keep in mind what LS got banned for, this would top that.

[Shinigami]

On the same page of this forum someone is wishing that an actor gets killed by a semi.

:p
Look guys, I don't want to keep making this thread about me. It's nice to see a sad celeb/gossip thread that's focused on some poignant article without losing its way with these goofy routines I've been making fun of. I'll try my best to keep this up, but I'm already tired out after just two pages.

I don't see my opinions as 'Goofy' but thanks anyways.

Don't get combative about this. I'm not personally insulting you or anything. What you said was goofy because you're offended for this cute girl, her family, and anyone who has ever suffered for the disease, yet nobody is attacking this cute girl, her family, or everyone who has ever suffered for the disease. You can't even misunderstand that because I already said so outright. I'm not attacking this cute girl, much less her family, much much less anyone who has ever suffered from his disease. So that's a goofy thing to front. To pretend that I am is absurd, and to continue pretending after you've already been corrected is beyond the pale and exactly the kind of overdone reactions I'm complaining about from earlier celeb/gossip threads.
I'm making fun of the way some posters behave in these celeb/gossip threads. As far as I know that's something I can joke about. My big fuck up was assuming that the routine would go down in this thread too, although it makes sense I'd assume so. We've had jokes in threads where a woman gets her face chewed off by a chimp. I think we've even had jokes in that thread where Tyson's baby girl accidentally died. If those examples make you wonder why the fuck I'd "sort of" defend such jokes, here's the answer: I know (as should anyone) that nobody on this forum actually disrespects this shit. Most of the time we're a behaved and mature place. When some guy like someguy comes on a thread and types "he died doing what he loves", the dude is obviously just shitting around or trying to get a rise out of people. He's not actually disrespecting anything important, which is why it's weird when you get posters who pretend he is just so they can put him down. There are oddball extremes on both sides, and Heisenberg is demonstrating some of that now.

Edit: Remember, nobody actually hates puppies. Nobody has ever hated puppies. There is no sweeping trend of people hating puppies. And what I mean by that is if you ever find yourself in a position where you can't imagine how a human could be so cruel and callous as to disrespect puppies or dead children or a dead celebrity, chances are they aren't.

[someguy]

I gotta be honest Shinigami, I'm having a good laugh at this blowing up in your face right now but digging the hole even deeper won't help.

You really could just sum things up by saying you're making fun of a horribly callous forum's ridiculous self-righteousness when it comes to celeb deaths but you made the mistake of putting it in a thread for some poor little girl and not a 'celebrity.'

[Tweek]

I gotta be honest Shinigami, I'm having a good laugh at this blowing up in your face right now but digging the hole even deeper won't help.

You really could just sum things up by saying you're making fun of a horribly callous forum's ridiculous self-righteousness when it comes to celeb deaths but you made the mistake of putting it in a thread for some poor little girl and not a 'celebrity.'

I'm laughing too and for that exact reason.

[X-Nightcrawler]

or the schmoe above me who referred to jokesters as opinionated morons/edgy assholes (exactly the kinds of overdone behaviors I'm raising point with). Yeah, and as daunting as your complex satire is, I stand by my point. If you're somehow under the idea that

"Haha! A little girl died *joke*" = "I'm offended by that, go fuck yourself."

Then get your head checked. It's not the same and doesn't call for the condescending eye rolling that's exploding in your face right now. Nothing overdone/silly in telling some moron that his needless remark was out of place/offensive. You're exagerating stuff a little, too. I don't remember really any instance where the backlash to one of these jokes you're referring too was that big (though I generally stay away from these threads); generally it's just "Go fuck yourself." o "You're scum." or "You're a terrible human being." No 'crusade' is ever started unless whoever idiot made the joke jumps in to defend himself as though he had an actual reason to make the joke other than trying to get a rise of out people. I find it stupid how these people often get defensive going "Oh no! It's the moral police" as though they weren't 100% aware that their little joke was offensive and would actually piss people off.

At least your intentions weren't the same 'edgy' crap that's been raised many times before.

[Shinigami]

I don't remember really any instance where the backlash to one of these jokes you're referring too was that big... generally it's just "Go fuck yourself." o "You're scum." or "You're a terrible human being."

I lol'd


http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b67/thisplacesucks/computergif.gif

Let me try it again now that I've gotten some helpful advice.
I'm making fun of a callous forums' ridiculous self-righteousness when it comes to sad threads in this celeb/gossip place. Of course, I did so in a thread where no one was being callous or ridiculously self-righteous, at least not until I posted something that some people mistook as both callous and self-righteous. The ironing is delicious.

RIP Shinigami

[outsyder]

Of course, I did so in a thread where no one was being callous or ridiculously self-righteous


Yeah, you seem to have found the only one.

[Pentangeli]

Let me try it again now that I've gotten some helpful advice.
I'm making fun of a callous forums' ridiculous self-righteousness when it comes to sad threads in this celeb/gossip place. Of course, I did so in a thread where no one was being callous or ridiculously self-righteous, at least not until I posted something that some people mistook as both callous and self-righteous. The ironing is delicious.

what I find even more confusing is why you are now eating your ironing? :confused: Is this like a phrase: "I will eat my hat", or something?

[Reigh Kaufman]

RIP Shinigami

He died doing what he loved.

[Shinigami]

^I'm not sure if Pentangeli is joshin me or not, but if you're serious it's just a Simpsons reference. One of the stupid characters on the show is supposed to say "the irony is delicious", but instead he forgets what the right word is and says instead "the ironing is delicious", which makes it doubly ironic cuz he got the word wrong. I assumed people would know the reference because everyone has such a good track record of understanding me in this thread. :D

Heisenberg, you should get some licks in too because I wason you most of the time.
As soon as he's done I'll need a few of you to help drag my dead beaten horse away from this thread so its smell doesn't disturb people who just want to talk about the article.

You were in the wrong place at the wrong time, but I still think you made good points Shinigami. I agree with you.

Thank you disembodied voice.

Just kidding loser

[Tweek]

^I'm not sure if Pentangeli is joshin me or not, but if you're serious it's just a Simpsons reference. One of the stupid characters on the show is supposed to say "the irony is delicious", but instead he forgets what the right word is and says instead "the ironing is delicious", which makes it doubly ironic cuz he got the word wrong. I assumed people would know the reference because everyone has such a good track record of understanding me in this thread. :D

"Don't you mean irony?"
"HUH?!"


You're still okay in my book, Shinigami. I'm sure you're thrilled to have my approval.

[dennisv]

Fuckin A.

[Shinigami]

I wasn't sure I wanted to bother doing this because I'm genuinely tired of carrying on about something that has nothing to do with Pixar granting a wish for adorable Colby Curtin... especially after my point was rightfully put down for being in the wrong place at the wrong time...
But my dead horse had a sudden spasm. Has anyone seen this article's strikeback on joblo.com's main page?

A schmoe named Donnie_Darko said the following in response to this article. "I'm touched... not really, but it was a nice gesture I guess. I just hope her parents ripped the DVD and upped somewhere. No... wait... I don't want to see it, so never mind. Yes, bravo move on their part, but I don't think the positive publicity is going to hurt them either. I mean, if it was so "heartfelt", why not keep it low key? Yea, I'm a negative bastard, carry on. ". That's all he said. Just some cynicism.
Here are the replies he got.
Donnie_Darko----You're a jerk for saying what you said.
wow, nice darko, way to be a dick.
HEY DARKO....three step plan for your life...1. get cancer 2. suffer 3. die alone
And no, Donnie_Darko, Pixar didnt spread the news, you fucking retard.
And Darko honestly what the fuck man? And you probably wonder daily why you have no friends or a boyfriend. There is a thing called manners and spitting on a ten year olds grave just shows how much of a grown up you clearly are not. Pull your head out of your ass and grow the fuck up.

Actually this has nothing to do with my point because nobody on these forums has ever gone to those extremes. Joblo.com forums > Joblo.com strikebacks. You know it's true because on the strikebacks I would've actually made sense, and when Shinigami starts making sense something is very wrong.
Good on you guys for not lowering yourselves to my gag's level and beyond like they did. :D As a reward I'll shut up. :p

[X-Nightcrawler]

You were in the wrong place at the wrong time, but I still think you made good points Shinigami. I agree with you.

[corran horn]

That is very sad but beautiful.

It is. I also find it touching given what UP is all about: making the most out of the time you have left.