You and I don’t go to the same parties.
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In Japan, we wait for all of the facts to be available before jumping to rash conclusions like this.
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You mean you jump to the rash conclusions after you have all the facts? Unorthodox, but if it works for you…
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Florida, however, is ultimately the complete responsibility of the Spanish.
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I just grab them by the tuna.
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(Long-time lurker here)
Hate to be a party-pooper but… wow, this post is in really bad taste. Yes, the situation has some (ok, plenty) comic resonance. It’s still pretty gross to make fun of it.
Also, how would this read?
No one is sure how 51 year old British woman ended up dead, pantsless, tied to a bench in front of the Malaga airport with luncheon meat on her buttocks and a chorizo in her vagina.
Not quite so funny maybe? Why not?
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Yeah, this one pissed me off pretty badly.
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Is it possible that he’d just misread an advertisement for a cooking class?
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Hahahahahahahaha
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I don’t see humor in the post. None really. I’m open to you pointing out the humor in the post. Where the author is making fun here. Please illuminate it for me. Where is that?
I think possibly you’re reading into things (the comic resonance that you yourself say you see in the situation) and attributing it to the author of the post. Are you possibly objecting to what you’ve read into the post?
Can you divine any other purpose to the OP other than let’s all point and laugh?
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I don’t blame OP for my own imagination when I do think things like that. I don’t hold other people accountable for my own internal dialogue. That would be silly indeed. YMMV.
I can actually make a dozen guesses as to his intent. A taste for the macabre? A friend of his vacations there and reads the blog? Who knows??? None of my assumptions would be nearly as charitable as just asking him. And really, his words are just news copy, mostly quoted. Also, who cares what he meant? Enjoy the free ice cream. Or don’t, and ask for your money back, right?
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Tourist advisory?
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Way to make it not funny. Thanks a lot. 
Laughter is not an uncommon method of coping with tragedy, especially bizarre tragedy.
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Yeah, I’m not keen on concern trolling, but I thought it was a fair point that the tone of the thread would likely be different if it was a woman…
I am not yet at a point in my life wherein bizarre misfortune that happens to a man isn’t potentially funnier than if it were to happen to a woman.
Remember all those old fart hiker dudes who fell off the balance log? I wouldn’t have so much as snickered had they been women. Bunch of old white dudes, busting hips in a heap? I laughed at that all goddamned day. Felt like an asshole for it, ain’t proud of it, but the memory still tickles me even now.
So if I ever end up dead, bareassed, belunchmeated and fucking a can of tuna, I expect I’ll have it coming. You won’t hear me complain.
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Y’know, when you play dumb that convincingly, well, people are liable to get suspicious.
Here’s the thing… I’m not ashamed to admit I found this situation somewhat comic. I’m also not ashamed to admit I felt like crying about it at a different moment. That’s the human condition: we are subject to conflicting emotions because our brains are complex and layered. The challenge of being human sometimes is in deciding which emotions should be played out, and how. There are individual and collective decisions to be made about what makes us human. I am arguing that by mocking this man’s fate we become less human, and I prefer to associate with people who share that attitude.
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