Brother down ..

You could've tried a little harder than that.

 

I don't usually respond like I did.
Having buried two of my siblings, mine was an automatic and
sympathetic reaction.

 

I don't get that vibe from Ben but then I don't take everyone so
seriously.

 

"So basically Steve, if I'm reading this right, _you_ killed him."

or

"lol - collision with a telephone kiosk."

 

what speed was the kiosk doing?

 

If he was really trying he'd have taken out the queue of people
waiting to use it.

 

Looks like we differ in that regard, then.

Actually, that's not quite true, 100%.

For example, if I was in regular email contact with someone I'd never
met, for whatever reason but it would usually be work related, and I
had built up a rapport or relationship with them, then yes, I can see
your point.

Reading the occasional usenet post from someone I've never met is a
different kettle of fish, IMO, as the relationship is not necessarily
there. YMOV.

 

Hasn't that already been done?

 

It just appeared from nowhere - a big blue telephone box.

 

<AOL>

In my case, it was my wife's elder brother, killed in a silly low-
speed shunt. I had to formally ID the body. Not fun: doing that once
is more than enough, so I don't want to do it again.

(The hospital was startled that I'd arrived on a bike to identify a
bike fatality victim - I asked if they said anything to people who
arrived in cars to identify car crash victims)

 

heh.

 

Not in such a kamikaze stylee, no

 

actually, clicking on the "latest details" link reveals it was
actually a collision with a "London Style Taxi", rather than a
telephone box, so presumably the Doctor's finally got the
shapeshifting function working again.

 

I believe it's something called empathy..

I don't either (generally) - but this one I did because I know what a
kick in the guts it is losing a friend on a bike. And if that friend is
your brother as well I suspect it's worse.

Now I'm not suggesting that you have never lost a friend in a bike
accident - far from it. It's just that I chose to respond because it
would have comforted *me* if someone had responded when I was in that
situation..

And I'd also have known that there would have been the odd "it's just
an xxxxx" comments somewhere in the mix. Which wouldn't have bothered
me either - because that's what UKRM is like.

Phil

 

*Ding*

Phil.

 

Which somehow doesn't sound compatible with the bleating from you, Phil
etc., that ...

'Usenet is part of real life'
http://minilien.fr/a0kg88

I believe it's called wanting to have your cake and eat it.

D.

 

Phone boxes that didn't see you, startled hospitals, whatever next?

 

*ding*

D.

 

...and you're funnier than him.

 

Nah - no sprogs here. He's welcome to at least one of my brothers
though..

Phil.