My new avatar

[polysciguy9]

Just wanted to take my new avatar out for a test drive ... it's MSNBC's simulation of SWA 1248 sliding off the runway at Midway ... notice the flames shooting out the back. Remind anyone of a certain SNL JetBlue skit? The simulation ended with the aircraft coming to rest on the street corner and shooting out a few small fireballs

Click on the video with the aircraft at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10388519/ to see it - it's freakin' ridiculous.

 

[avbug]

Funniest thing all day, right? Is it the dead little boy you find funny, or the destruction of property? Perhaps it's the near loss of life for the passengers, or the other injured as the airplane slid over their car?

Before anybody else tells you so, let me be the first to say you're an idiot. A bloody idiot.

Aircraft crashing and people dying isn't funny. Perhaps after you've been around long enough to have lost friends in aircraft you'll come to understand that. Perhaps one day you'll be old enough to have a six year old, and you'll rethink just how hilarious an event like this can be.

If I were you, I'd delete your post and then go hide.

 

[Lrjtcaptain]

I agree, its only a matter of time before you goot the Flightinfo boot for that comment

 

[polysciguy9]

Funniest thing all day, right? Is it the dead little boy you find funny, or the destruction of property? Perhaps it's the near loss of life for the passengers, or the other injured as the airplane slid over their car?

Before anybody else tells you so, let me be the first to say you're an idiot. A bloody idiot.

Aircraft crashing and people dying isn't funny. Perhaps after you've been around long enough to have lost friends in aircraft you'll come to understand that. Perhaps one day you'll be old enough to have a six year old, and you'll rethink just how hilarious an event like this can be.

If I were you, I'd delete your post and then go hide.

Your reading comprehension skills suck ... I never made any comment to suggest that the accident was "funny". I'm commenting on the media's coverage of the accident (or accident's in general) ... if you haven't jumped off your soapbox yet, you'll notice that there's an entire other thread that focuses a great deal of attention to the humor in the media coverage of this tragedy. Maybe you should carry your crusade over there.

 

[Lrjtcaptain]

Ah, your a 737 expert and an accident investigator with your 40 hours in that C172. HAHA, we get it now. Working on your private you have no room to talk.

 

[FN FAL]

the video does look kind of hinky, so i'd have to side with the polysci guy with his comments on the video. But, like you guys said, it does "appear" a little crass his part to use it as a avatar.

 

[Lrjtcaptain]

Polysciguy, if we misunderstood the post...then why did you edit it???

 

[Going2Baja]

polysciguy - Show some compassion! I'm not sure who is worse - EMB120ASA or you for showing your stupidity! You might try and back pedal as fast as you can or find a new forum to hang your hat - you're not welcome here with that attitude!

 

[polysciguy9]

Polysciguy, if we misunderstood the post...then why did you edit it??? Oh, it doesn't matter, everyone will get the original in their email addresses

I edited right after I initially typed it to correct a grammar error - no one had replied at that point.

I'm going to change my avatar so the one up there won't be visible anymore. My comments are consistent, however, with others made on this site regarding how the media "disatrocizes" these accidents for the sake of drama.

 

[Going2Baja]

Maybe you can switch it to that of an American being beheaded in Iraq - or maybe the picture of the parent carrying their child away form the SWA accident - or maybe the USS Cole with the giant hole in the side - or Maybe of the Twin Towers in rubble or maybe the pic of the 767 just before hitting the WTC. Don't be stupid bro - grow a heart if possible.

 

[polysciguy9]

Ah, your a 737 expert and an accident investigator with your 40 hours in that C172. HAHA, we get it now. Working on your private you have no room to talk.

Where in my post did I ever make any comments regarding the 737 or anything even vaguely related to a speculative remark regarding the accident? I commented on media coverage - that was it.

 

[Lrjtcaptain]

Well, that is what the media does because they are uneducated on the matter. Great idea, your working on your private, call CNN and MSNBC and tell them your flying backround and I'm sure they will hire you as a technical specialist on the matter cause I'm sure you know all about what happend.

 

[Going2Baja]

Just wanted to take my new avatar out for a test drive ... it's MSNBC's simulation of SWA 1248 sliding off the runway at Midway ... notice the flames shooting out the back. Remind anyone of a certain SNL JetBlue skit? The simulation ended with the aircraft coming to rest on the street corner and shooting out a few small fireballs

You posted your "new" avatar following the SWA tragedy, describe the flames shooting out the back, and mention a SNL skit. Seems to me you were pretty excited about your "cool" new find - excited enough to make it your avatar. Most people choose avatars to show a union or solidarity to something. I chose to post a picture of my beautiful little girl. Others have pictures of the aircraft they fly. But for some reason you choose a picture of a tragic moment - weather it was Jet Blue or SWA doesn't matter in my book. You strike me as the type of person that would get off hurting animals or something. Time for you to do a reality check my friend. This is ONE heck of a small industry.

 

[polysciguy9]

Maybe you can switch it to that of an American being beheaded in Iraq - or maybe the picture of the parent carrying their child away form the SWA accident - or maybe the USS Cole with the giant hole in the side - or Maybe of the Twin Towers in rubble or maybe the pic of the 767 just before hitting the WTC. Don't be stupid bro - grow a heart if possible.

Yeah, cause they're definitely the same.

Given my intent, I didn't think it was crash to use the avatar on my site. But given the fact that you guys' have completely missed the point of my post, I have removed it. Fair enough. Given you guys' logic, anyone who has an avatar with a military jet on it should remove it immediately - lest we offend the poor arab woman who has to cary their child away from a smoldering hole in the ground. Even if misguided bombs are an accident, you'd definitely be "cruel" to show a picture like that.

 

[polysciguy9]

This is ONE heck of a small industry.

Thanks for the insight, but I have no interest in entering your industry.

 

[Going2Baja]

Naw - US Military jets are cool and so are the bombs they drop in the name of democracy and freedom. After reading your posts I have a feeling you are either not from the US or are very young as your grammar and spelling could use some work.

 

[polysciguy9]

Naw - US Military jets are cool and so are the bombs they drop in the name of democracy and freedom. After reading your posts I have a feeling you are either not from the US or are very young as your grammar and spelling could use some work.

Don't pull that fascist crap with me - I love this country as much as the next guy. I'm a 25-year old college professor. My application to the Air Force Academy was rejected on medical grounds - I have nothing against the military, so don't try and spin it that way. But if we can't show a picture of anything that takes human life, then by god, a fighter jet would seem a bit "crash". Personally, I don't agree with this, but it seemed to be the way the logic was playing out.

What grammar problems? Did I spell something wrong? BFD ... I'm writing on a freakin' message board and I'm typing fast.

Just so we're clear - I apologize that my post was interpreted incorrectly. I think I've shown that it wasn't my intention to make any reference to the tragedy itself, but rather the inappropriate media coverage. I've taken the avatar down - what more do you want from me?

 

[Lrjtcaptain]

Thanks for the insight, but I have no interest in entering your industry.

good cause we don't want you in our industry!

 

[Going2Baja]

I've said all I have to say. Out.

 

[polysciguy9]

I've requested this thread be deleted