― hstencil, Friday, 5 December 2003 22:10 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.worksongs.com/mug.jpg
― may pang (maypang), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:13 (twenty years ago) link
― may pang (maypang), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:52 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Friday, 5 December 2003 23:07 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.diehardmovies.com/diehard1/image4.jpg
"I let a kid fall, dammit. Since then I've been behind a desk with doughnuts."
http://www.diehardmovies.com/diehard1/image5.jpg
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 5 December 2003 23:30 (twenty years ago) link
"And peppermint latte. The best damn peppermint latte in this sad, sad town."
― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Friday, 5 December 2003 23:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Friday, 5 December 2003 23:34 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 5 December 2003 23:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Friday, 5 December 2003 23:59 (twenty years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 6 December 2003 01:49 (twenty years ago) link
So, uh, he's dead, right?
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Saturday, 6 December 2003 01:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:12 (twenty years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:14 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:15 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:18 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:23 (twenty years ago) link
― ssl, Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:57 (twenty years ago) link
And it's a few weeks before Christmas, too. Damn.
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 6 December 2003 03:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 6 December 2003 03:46 (twenty years ago) link
I thought this guy would be saved by the fireman's truck thing early on. I didn't think he would actually jump.
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Saturday, 6 December 2003 03:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Dancing Queen, Saturday, 6 December 2003 03:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 6 December 2003 03:58 (twenty years ago) link
― D Aziz (esquire1983), Saturday, 6 December 2003 04:45 (twenty years ago) link
ditto. (this is why i clicked on the thread to being with). if this had been on the televison, i would not have watched, i am sure of this. but by JaXon explaining everything & the details of his day-it was quite surreal. grotesque-yes
another thing, if the thread did not have pictures, i would of been more creeped out by the subject matter
poor fellow. i hope he is in a happier place. i see suicide as a potential release from the confines of flesh & blood. a possible freedom.
― kephm, Saturday, 6 December 2003 05:22 (twenty years ago) link
― kephm, Saturday, 6 December 2003 05:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Saturday, 6 December 2003 07:43 (twenty years ago) link
Sure, those of us who didn't initially comment can be all self-righteous now, even if we secretly giggled at the earlier posts. But what the fuck good does that do?
This is sad, and the reasons behind similar senseless deaths are shrouded and bewildering, but unless we want to add to the wold's pain, we oughta take a deep breath and realize how peripheral all these detached, humourous posts were in the first place.
Poor guy.
― David A. (Davant), Saturday, 6 December 2003 08:13 (twenty years ago) link
― David A. (Davant), Saturday, 6 December 2003 08:14 (twenty years ago) link
― David A. (Davant), Saturday, 6 December 2003 08:15 (twenty years ago) link
and yes, we all believed (myself especially seeing all of it unfold) that he would be pulled down. it was rather silly that he was threatening to jump from 2 stories high. this is where most of the humor started from. it's as if someone said, "i'm going to kill myself by slicing my wrists with this here piece of brocoli"
i appologize for starting this thread if it offended anyone, that wasn't my intention.
― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 6 December 2003 08:59 (twenty years ago) link
i'm a huge weegee fan and my final assignment (80 slides set to music) in my photo class was "The fine line between sleep and death". i went around the city taking pictures of the huge homeless population sleeping on the streets. i also set up a bunch of fake suicide scenes: people with hairdryers in the bathtub, i set up a big tube from the exhaust of my car to the window and had someone pretend they were asleep at the wheel, a friend with a shotgun in his mouth (very freaky even to me), a bag over his head, a hand with prescription pills falling out of it.
and i set it to Joseph Spence's "I Bid You Goodnight". it's a sorta bouncy folk blues song and he plays and sings like he doesn't really know how. the weirdest thing about the class (very similar to what happened on this thread) is that a very sinister and creepy topic turned funny. everybody was cracking up throughout the entire slide show. it wasn't the intention i had at all, but either people don't know how to deal with death and suicide and cover it up with humor, or the juxtoposition of this sort of lighthearted music made people think it was funny.
i bookended the pictures with two quotes
a) "sleep, those little slices of death. how i loath them" - poe b) "death - the last sleep? no, it is the final awakening" - william scott
― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 6 December 2003 09:13 (twenty years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 6 December 2003 18:39 (twenty years ago) link
while the majority of the criticism ocurred after the event.
this is 2 differing opinions of what has happened, but not located at the same point in time. is it possible to have felt both, at the respective junctures? of the people criticising the thread, only g--ff did it before he jumped. the others didnt until after, i wonder how they felt before, whether they didnt believe it would happen, or thought that it was a little sick but no big deal?
i dont really think i thought anything of it until after he had jumped, when it suddenly became more real
― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 6 December 2003 18:49 (twenty years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 6 December 2003 18:56 (twenty years ago) link
Inherent rationality leads one to believe that a person wouldn't really jump headfirst onto the concrete even when threatening to do so. Post-jump, the tragedy of the initial situation becomes clearer.
― webcrack (music=crack), Saturday, 6 December 2003 19:07 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 6 December 2003 19:12 (twenty years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 6 December 2003 19:12 (twenty years ago) link
you needed him to jump before you realized it was a tragic situation?!? does your 'inherent rationality' not also tell you that an 'inherently rational' person would not be up there in the first place or does that information need to be delivered in pie charts?
― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 6 December 2003 19:14 (twenty years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 6 December 2003 19:15 (twenty years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 6 December 2003 19:17 (twenty years ago) link
clearer = more clear than before. Please read and comprehend the post prior to attacking me for it.
― webcrack (music=crack), Saturday, 6 December 2003 19:19 (twenty years ago) link
i have no idea how any of this came to pass, ie, what was he doing with a crossbow in the first place? and from then on in, well...
― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 6 December 2003 19:20 (twenty years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 6 December 2003 19:20 (twenty years ago) link