Grim

[Manc]

My train has just flattened a human.

[phonics]

My family work on 'The Railway', always say that Drivers never come back the same after someone jumps on the tracks, if they come back at all. Just rips apart a human in a way that is gruesome beyond words. Apparently there was a big funding push from the rail industry to discourage/prevent jumpers, not for public safety but for staffs mental health.

[Manc]

New driver inbound.

[bruhnaldo]

Am I a shit person cause i expected a picture

[Lewis]

Remember that 'chuffed to bits' tag when Robert Enke chucked himself in front of one? Probably the peak of the entire internet that. I used it in real life when somebody my friend knows did likewise and I've been hailed as a genius ever since.

[randomlegend]

Man that's gotta be rough. I'd imagine even people in jobs who see death fairly regularly would find something like that pretty traumatic; god knows what it must be like to be confronted with that as a triangle driver.

Edit: triangle driver lol. Train.

[bruhnaldo]

Triangle driver that's fantastic lol

Edit: I even thought "wow they have such peculiar slang!"

[Giggles]

Accident? Then that's grim indeed. If it's a suicide then fuck them. Dirty bastard to do that to a driver.

[randomlegend]

In my experience, people who are willing to hoss themselves in front of a train are - in the vast majority of cases - just not able to consider those kinds of consequences to their actions. Their brain/logic is just broken.

[Giggles]

In my experience, people who are willing to hoss themselves in front of a train are - in the vast majority of cases - just not able to consider those kinds of consequences to their actions. Their brain/logic is just broken.

They get too much leeway. All suicide is a selfish act, especially one where you ruin someone else's life to do it.

[randomlegend]

They get too much leeway. All suicide is a selfish act, especially one where you ruin someone else's life to do it.

Have you ever spoken to someone who is deeply suicidal? I honestly think you'd change your mind if you did. They aren't capable of making the kind of logical journey and arrival at those kind of conclusions like you are. Their thinking is flawed in the same way someone with schizophrenia who believes their neighbour is trying to kill them's is - they firmly believe things you can see aren't true but they can't, like that their family are better without then or whatever.

There are people who are kind of logically suicidal, but I'd wager they aren't the ones that go in front of trains.

[phonics]

I like how you're trying to get Giggles, a man who thinks people eat pasta to show off, to empathise with another human being.

[Manc]

Some sloot on the train asking about refunds. I'm about to go Gigantor.

[phonics]

Also lolling that 'people who jump on the tracks get too much leeway'.

What would a suitable punishment for a mauled corpse be?

[mugbull]

Suicide should be way more accepted than it is. Compassionate dying for terminal or chronically ill patients is one of the policy initiatives that I'd fight tooth and nail for if I could.

[Danny]

Some sloot on the train asking about refunds. I'm about to go Gigantor.

http://www.whoaisnotme.net/articles/images/hf1406spe25.jpg

Gigantor?

[niko_cee]

It's a shit thing to do, but it's not all that high on the kill yourself like a bastard scale (top of which I guess is plane into a mountain).

Also, is it bad that my immediate thought about drivers not coming back to work after having this happen is one of overwhelming cynicism?

[phonics]

It's a shit thing to do, but it's not all that high on the kill yourself like a bastard scale (top of which I guess is plane into a mountain).

If that's a 10 on the scale I'd put it at like an 8 or so.

[bruhnaldo]

I'm trying to kill time at work so I tried to make a scale:

10 - Plane full of people into a mountain

9 - Suicide bomb or, in America, shoot yourself after committing a mass shooting

8 - Jump in front of a moving train

7 - Shoot yourself in a public space

6 - Bleed yourself out where your family will find you and be horrified

5 - Drink driving accident

4 - Jump off a high bridge into traffic

3 - Purposefully wreck your car
(this differs from a 5 because a 5 is more you got recklessly drunk because you hated life and didn't care about the consequences... in this one you're fully coherent and just smash into a pole or something)

2 - Jump off a high bridge into water (Cause other people probably would see

1 - Deep dive into a vat of chocolate and drown yourself in it (this becomes a 1 because eventually someone has to find you and that's kinda shit but if you're gonna go ).

0 - Ritual seppuku

[niko_cee]

11 - do yourself in in the bunker after having overseen a genocidal tyranny.

[bruhnaldo]

*Pretend to do yourself in in the bunker after having overseen a genocidal tyranny, shave your mustache, and fuck off to Argentina

[igor_balis]

FWIW I sort of see both sides of the argument. I used to be fully behind the Giggles school of thought, like why do it in a way that's gonna fuck other people up etc, until i had some minor experience of it.

There was this guy right on the edge of my extended circle, proper friend of a friend of a friend stuff, who despite us barely knowing each other would always be really friendly and chatty and just a genuinely good guy if we bumped into each other. Played pool with him a couple of times and he let me nick ciggy filters off him etc. Saw him by Sainsburys one day and just had some casual small talk. Asked what he was up to, and he basically said his parents were going on holiday and it was a bit shit cus it always puts them on edge leaving him alone cus of his mental health issues. I said something pretty shite like "oh, that's rubbish, but i'm sure you'll be alright". Last time I ever saw him, two days later he also threw himself in front of a train.


He was such a genuine, personable guy, but had some properly awful mental health shit. Sectioned loads of times, loads of psychotic episodes etc. I absolutely couldn't see his suicide as a selfish act cus he was basically medically unable to control his own behaviour, and obviously it must be very similar for a lot of other people who do it.

[niko_cee]

8.5 on the Bruhnaldo Suicide Scale (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47817593)

[Lewis]

Tactical victory for racism that one.

[Spikey M]

FWIW I sort of see both sides of the argument. I used to be fully behind the Giggles school of thought, like why do it in a way that's gonna fuck other people up etc, until i had some minor experience of it.

There was this guy right on the edge of my extended circle, proper friend of a friend of a friend stuff, who despite us barely knowing each other would always be really friendly and chatty and just a genuinely good guy if we bumped into each other. Played pool with him a couple of times and he let me nick ciggy filters off him etc. Saw him by Sainsburys one day and just had some casual small talk. Asked what he was up to, and he basically said his parents were going on holiday and it was a bit shit cus it always puts them on edge leaving him alone cus of his mental health issues. I said something pretty shite like "oh, that's rubbish, but i'm sure you'll be alright". Last time I ever saw him, two days later he also threw himself in front of a train.


He was such a genuine, personable guy, but had some properly awful mental health shit. Sectioned loads of times, loads of psychotic episodes etc. I absolutely couldn't see his suicide as a selfish act cus he was basically medically unable to control his own behaviour, and obviously it must be very similar for a lot of other people who do it.


They probably shouldn't have gone on holiday.

[Pepe]

Tactical victory for racism that one.

So much going on there that I don't even know which thread to follow.

[mugbull]

Follow your heart

[Shindig]

Thelma and Louise II.

[Spikey M]

Thelma & Louise VIII

[niko_cee]

Thelma and Louise meets Cheaper by the Dozen, with some sort of role for Martin Lawrence.

Big Momma's Cheaper than a Roadtrip.

[Shindig]

Speaking of grim, I read a report today about a claimant whose dad (who was showing some domineering signs at assessment) mentioned how his 30 year-old daughter is useless and he has to do everything for her. This included shaving her pubes.

[Spikey M]

I mean, you don't actually have to shave your pubes, do you? So, yeah, nice bit of incest.

[igor_balis]

They probably shouldn't have gone on holiday.

agreed, tbf