'Doing something rather brave – I won't be working next Tuesday' blog disscussion

Former_MSE_Helen

This is the discussion to link on the back of Martin's blog. Please read the blog first, as this discussion follows it.

Read Martin's "Doing something rather brave – I won't be working next Tuesday" Blog.

Please click 'post reply' to discuss below.

Ken68

Good for you Martin. I sometimes think you are close to burn out.
Time to put your feet up now and again, more family less work, get a chauffeur, delegate, get an allotment !!

iAMaLONDONER

MSE_Helen wrote: »

This is the discussion to link on the back of Martin's blog. Please read the blog first, as this discussion follows it.

Read Martin's "Doing something rather brave – I won't be working next Tuesday" Blog.

Please click 'post reply' to discuss below.

There's only so much one person can do - after all even Margaret Thatcher needed a cabinet too!

iAMaLONDONER

MSE_Helen wrote: »

This is the discussion to link on the back of Martin's blog. Please read the blog first, as this discussion follows it.

Read Martin's "Doing something rather brave – I won't be working next Tuesday" Blog.

Please click 'post reply' to discuss below.

There's only so much one person can do - after all even Margaret Thatcher needed a cabinet too!

Slowhand

How can anyone consider using the word brave about such a mundane and irrelevant matter given recent events about someone who was truly brave. Insensitive and totally wrong. Martin you have a skewed idea of what brave is.

Ken68

It's a metaphor, Slowhand, for jumping into the unknown, a bit like when you eventually learn humour and irony.

Slowhand

Ken68 wrote: »

It's a metaphor, Slowhand, for jumping into the unknown, a bit like when you eventually learn humour and irony.

Whatever it is, it's wrong. It's not smart to claim to be being brave within a day of when one who truly was brave has been brutally murdered. It's thoughtless and insensitive. What next? Martin Lewis claiming to be a hero for making it through Tuesday/Wednesday without looking at the weekly email? Not now I suspect.

Ken68

Sounds like you have lost someone yourself Slow, my sympathies, but you can't stop the world. You can't attribute someones post to a happening elsewhere.
You could ask for the post to be removed.

esuhl

Slowhand wrote: »

Whatever it is, it's wrong. It's not smart to claim to be being brave within a day of when one who truly was brave has been brutally murdered. It's thoughtless and insensitive.

It's not smart to call Martin "thoughtless and insensitive" within a day or two of a brutal murder. How can you compare the thoughtlessness and insensitivity of a murderer to Martin?! That in itself is thoughtless and insensitive!

Maybe the words "brave" and "insensitive" can only ever be used once for THE most "brave" and "insensitive" events, and then never used again in case we belittle subsequent events by comparing them to more significant ones. Maybe words shouldn't be re-usable at all...

Voyager2002

Slowhand wrote: »

How can anyone consider using the word brave about such a mundane and irrelevant matter given recent events about someone who was truly brave. Insensitive and totally wrong. Martin you have a skewed idea of what brave is.

There is nothing brave about getting murdered. The really courageous people were the women who kept the murderers talking and distracted them from further slaughter, and even attempted to care for the victim. Not to mention the police, who calmly put themselves into a very dangerous situation and resisted the temptation to shoot to kill (the easy and safe way out).

Macho boys who put on uniforms and play with guns do not deserve to be called heroes. Most of the time they are just following orders.

Wywth

If David Cameron can fly off on his hols leaving this country in a state of a substantial international terrorist attack, I'm sure we'll all survive for a day or two here on MSE in the capable hands of Dan, Guy and the other 20 talents in the MSE editorial team.

(It might be a good practise run ahead of 2015 )