5t3IIa
Registered User
Dunno, mate. We're all pretty shit at reacting. Look at me with my "Oh my god I used to live there! It could ahve been me!!2" bullshit. What you gonna do, you know?
Plane crashes onto A27 at Shoreham Air Show
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5t3IIa
Registered User
From what I can gather from the TV vids etc, it looks like it was juuuust about on the south side of the road, in the tree line, so not directly on top of cars but I suppose the explosion flung loads of flames and wreckage over a fair distance.
Innocent motorists?
you have a strange way with words sometimes.
Strange way with words? Yours is a very odd post.Innocent motorists?
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Seven dead I think according to the BBC 
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Surely everyone was innocent not just the motorists
bi0boy
Power User
Innocent motorists?
Innocent as in unwitting maybe. The road users not signing up to the increased risk that those attending the airshow would have accepted.
What QOG said
This ^.
One of the definitions of "innocent" is someone caught up in the consequences of an incident, but not directly involved or responsible for it. It's like you've never seen the word used in this way before.
I think unfortunate would have been a better word.
It's bloody awful though for everyone affected
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Yeah, it implies that others are guilty.Innocent motorists?
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Often attendants at a motor race or air show will have bits of paper thrust at them with their tickets saying something like Air Shows are dangerous you accept all risks associated with your attendance. Certainly I can remember the last time I went to Goodwood there was one and I think also at Duxford also. So people attending the show have somehow accepted the risk. Passing motorists however have not. That was my intention with the word innocent, but I accept it was less than ideal.Innocent motorists?
5t3IIa
Registered User
gosub
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m262 and Glouster Meteor . Hunter first flew in 1953
Um, no it doesn't. I already gave you the definition for this context.
It wasn't. It was exactly the correct word to use.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Unwitting would have been better.
At the end, the ME 262 and a handful of Gloucester Meteors.
Steel Icarus
we move
No-one wants a bunfight, not on this thread, now THAT would be tasteless.
Not everyone can find words to express the inexpressible, I will say that much, and I know I don't much like to see honest but clichéd responses to tragedy, BUT wouldn't have a go at someone for it. Like sitting round in my nanna's front room waiting for the hearse with about 10 old dears all saying "it's a sad day", "yes, very sad, a sad day" for half an hour was so bad I had to go out for a quick short at the boozer, but it was just the way it is, not everyone's F. Scott Fitzgerald (thank fuck).
last year on twitter someone posted a photo of a man somewhere, I forget where, just about to be hanged in front of a large crowd including his young daughter who was forced to attend, and the photo was him smiling at her encouragingly with literally seconds of his life left. You could write a novel about that photo, that one moment, and what went round in my head for days and days afterwards like a mantra so it ending up stripped of all meaning was "He smiled at her." An emoticon will do when it's impossible to say anything as meaningful as you want.
It was written about the boxer Sonny Liston that despite accusations of him being inarticulate, he was in fact merely "inarticulate in the way we all are when more has happened to us than we know how to express" (James Baldwin). An emoticon can get around that, and register at least something to show we're affected.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Journo is probably confusing the Hunter with the Hawker Hurricane which did serve in WWII bit isn't a jet.
Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
Only on urban can a thread about seven people killed in a fireball turn into nitpicking about choice of language and emoticons.
likesfish
You can't park here sir
I bet trying to own a flyable surplus jet fighter/trainer becomes harder as this is the 2nd to crash in the last few weeks.
they are currently allowed as relatively simple to repair maintain anything supersonic is banned but they are still way more complex than a spitfire.
off my lists of things to do when I win the lottery killing myself doing something stupid fair one wiping out some poor sods on the ground when my luck runs out not so much
they are currently allowed as relatively simple to repair maintain anything supersonic is banned but they are still way more complex than a spitfire.
off my lists of things to do when I win the lottery killing myself doing something stupid fair one wiping out some poor sods on the ground when my luck runs out not so much
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
You haven't seen the rest of the internet then. This forum is much like any other.
Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
You're right I haven't. I've still got about 137 million pages to go
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
You're right I haven't. I've still got about 137 million pages to go
YouTube's the best. Start with the comments there.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
See earlier mention of the wordThey unwittingly drove along the motorway?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Well tbh, what else is there to talk about?
Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
Yeah I do wonder about threads like this sometimes because where do you go from the title apart from variations of 'oh, that's really shit?' Although someone did have a stab at discussing safety at these events.
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