Arts & Humanities The Things That Make You Sad Thread

[Exe Gesis]

I feel like this now at 51, smack bang in the middle of a mid-life crisis. Got everything going for me, great wife and family, career, home, fit, my own hair (lol), no reason to feel this way. Closer to death than youth, sentimentality and melancholy are dangerous in equal measure.
As a white middle aged man, I've never felt more useless in my life

Sorry to hear, brother. Glad to know I'm not the only one, everyone else seems very happy and full of purpose. Glad, but sorry to hear. It all really hit me hard during lockdown, and ita not like something to recover from, but more like realization, seeing the truth and no turning back to ignorance.

 

[Plugger35]

Terrible news about the 5 kids killed in Tassie, reminds me of the 6 kids killed in the 1979 Luna Park ghost train fire, kids killed just trying to have fun.

You think back to when you did the same things as a kid, I jumped on bouncy castles, I went on ghost trains, the same thing could've happened to me.

 

[BuddysBiggestFan]

Spooky article from 2018

3-year-old Ava-May was bouncing on a jumping castle. Suddenly, there was an explosion.

There are calls for a ban on jumping castles following the death of a little girl.

www.mamamia.com.au

Guess they’ll finally introduce laws around bouncing castles. Takes the death of 5 innocent kids to do anything about it.

 

[Gralin]

This isn't the first jumping castle tragedy to happen in Australia — everything we know

Five children are dead and three are fighting for their lives after an incident at a Tasmanian school. Here's everything we know about what happened and when a tragedy like this has happened before.

www.abc.net.au

Not the first death in Australia from a jumping castle being lifted by wind

Wonder if they will charge the operators of this one or if it will be deemed to have been secured properly like the one that injured some kids in NSW

 

[Hawk Dork]

You would think they could be engineered to be safer
Water ballast more airflow though the walls less parachuting potential
Parts that would rip apart instead of fly ,maybe velcro ???
Attached wind meters with flashing lights closing the thing down.
They are a licence to print money, so it can be done with insurance coverage only for safer devices or certificates of safety
Unfortunately its a too late

 

[Off The Couch]

We used to own a bouncy castle business - sold it after the tragedy in SA. Goes without saying that I’m relieved we did - I just could not live with that regardless of the fact that it’s a freak accident

 

[Cruyff14]

We used to own a bouncy castle business - sold it after the tragedy in SA. Goes without saying that I’m relieved we did - I just could not live with that regardless of the fact that it’s a freak accident

Was it a lucrative business?

 

[troybe]

Carey’s slashed that thru the covers. Great shot


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[Off The Couch]

Was it a lucrative business?

It was a weekend business for us for extra $$

When you consider the hours involved, insurance, the trailer, fuel etc probably not at the end of the day, but it was also 20 years ago. After the SA tragedy it just wasn’t the same - got nervous everytime we took it out and of course the insurance was insane

 

[edgie]

Best advice I was ever given was to just live your life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters, not the mortgage, not your job, not the team you follow and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, you're free.

Ten seconds or less, not in my car!

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[edgie]

Fwiw my nan went through chemo and other cancer treatment in her 80s and it brought her 3 cancer free years late in life, probably worth it I reckon, but won't work for everyone.

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[troybe]

A sixth child has now died from the tragedy in Devonport


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[RedmanWasHere]

A sixth child has now died from the tragedy in Devonport


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That's so shit and horrible.

 

[Hawk Dork]

At birth, a boy born in the most socially-disadvantaged 10 per cent of the population can expect an average lifespan of 75.9 years.
But one born in the most socially-advantaged 10 per cent of population can look forward to 84.6 years.

A baby girl born in the most socially-disadvantaged circumstances has an average lifespan of 81.2 years compared to 87.6 years for socially-advantaged girls.

Australia’s age gap: luck at birth can mean nine years extra life

National-first research shows up to a nine-year gap in average lifespans for those born at the top of life’s pile and those born at the bottom.

www.theage.com.au

 

[Shell]

Dad’s vile act before killing daughter

A Melbourne father who lurked for nearly two hours outside the house of his estranged daughter before gunning her down had previously severed his own finger and mailed it to his ex-wife.

www.news.com.au

/not to mention furious, pissed off, disgusted etc etc..

 

[peternorth]

Today is the summer solstice. Ergo tomorrow days get shorter

 

[troybe]

Imagine living in England where it gets dark at 4pm this time of year


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[peternorth]

Imagine living in England where it gets dark at 4pm this time of year


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Have done so. It was dark. Walking home from school was how do you say make you walk faster.

 

[Hawk Dork]

Today is the summer solstice. Ergo tomorrow days get shorter

Death of the sun....sounds like Easter

We usually have the druids doing their thing having a nudey dance on the ley lines up the road from here I wonder if thats going on with ronna ???
There used to be a gates of perception monument built up there but they tore it down

 

[Scotland]

Shorter winter days = longer summer days.

The worse thing about the UK is that the weather is bleak for so much of the year. Sure it's summer and the sun is up 5am-10pm but if the whole day is overcast and 15 degrees whoopy do.

 

[FRUMPY]

A sixth child has now died from the tragedy in Devonport


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The Local market didn't change their advertisement after this incident.....the first thing listed as an attraction was a jumping castle.....

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[Catfish Alley]

Imagine living in England where it gets dark at 4pm this time of year


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Closer to 4:30pm here. Meh. Everything is lit up with Christmas lights so it’s not bad. Often cloudy and rainy at this time of year anyway. Don’t find it that much different to a Melbourne winter really. Maybe 45 minutes earlier.

Summer is great though. Sun is out from around 5 to 10.

 

[Hawk Dork]

No more gaps over 2 known gecko entry points you could see where they wore the paint away over 20 years...Im sure theres plenty more I dont know about

 

[peternorth]

If you're struggling tonight on this night before xmas, remember

 

[Caesar]

We have my wife’s nieces staying with us for Christmas… it’s lovely, but really rubs in what we’re losing out on by not being able to have kids of our own