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I guess this has become one of those things everyone has to comment on. All I’ll say, maybe, is that stingrays are the badasses of the sea. This guy stabbed a thousand crocodiles with sticks, taunted sharks and badgered snakes, and none of them could do a damn thing about it. He spooks one stingray and the thing turns round and stabs him through the goddamn heart with a poisonous, serrated barb, killing him. I mean, damn. Posthumourously… “If something ever happens to me, people are gonna be like ‘we knew a croc would get him!’” “I have a deep-seated respect for parrots. As gifted as I am with all other wildlife, parrots have this uncanny desire to kill me. I’m not sure why, but they’re like my kryptonite!” aus_croc: omg ray u stol r frag I am joking, of course, about the death of a decent guy and father of two kids. This is because I have an urge to redress balances, and the level of mourning Steve is getting makes the deaths of Douglas Adams and John Peel look like the closure of a local greengrocers. Douglas Adams is the reason I write, and John Peel has given me a body of music that is more important to me than actual people that I know. Steve Irwin was someone we all laughed at when he unwisely provoked dangerous animals. In the end, he got killed by a dangerous animal he provoked. Perhaps, I suggest, when you have two kids you should dial down the provoking-dangerous-animals job. This is not an unwarranted tragedy any more than a Russian Roulette player shooting himself, and if you were laughing at the click of the hammer on the empty chambers, your grief is just a waste product of the endemic celebrity worship that now serves as the prevalent religion in the developed world. | ||
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roBurky: I never laughed at Steve Irwin. I thought he was a dick who tormented animals. He was like a kid at school who kept knocking your pencil case onto the floor.
bob_arctor: The thing is though in this instance he wasn't being overly provocative. The stingray just went for him, which is extrememly unusual, and there wasn't a reason for it.
It could have been a gap year student going diving. It was out of the blue, and extremely rare. So I think it's a bit unfair to say what he did directly led to his death. Taunting crocs, resulting in croc attack would be more like that.
craigp: I like Irwin. He's all over Discovery and Animal Planet, and Lea has both. I get abandoned when she's out prodding mummies and rubbing heiroglyphics, and my choices are watching him or going outside. I eventually gave in to watching is show. It's more amazement than amusement for me. I'm not going to grieve by any manner of mean, but his death has reminded me I actually found his show a great deal of fun to watch. I'm "acquiring" some right now in fact.
You're wrong on the TV show - he was filming a segment for his daughter's show because he couldn't get to those deadly creatures. For hilarity you should type his name into Youtube: idiots with Windows Movie Maker make me sad.
Suki: I think Douglas Adams would have to have been killed by a book printing press or something similar for comparisons to be made there. Unless he was. I didn't read about his death. Did a book fall on his head from a really high height?
But yeah, it's not the identity of the deceased that's the thing here, I think. It's the circumstances of his death. Jason L: Re: DNA - I know that was just a mild joke, Suki, but for information's sake...nope, Adams died at home, of a heart attack during a morning workout at age fifty. The third, and by far the smallest reason 2001 sucked so bad.
Jasmin: U know, I really do not get any of the stupid thing u guys said Honestly u r idiots!
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