Comments on: The consequences of a bad joke

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:54:51 +0000

In reply to Whoami?.

“…subsidised by the British taxpayer”?

Get your facts right.

The Royal Family doesn’t cost the taxpayer.

It brings in more than it spends.

By: Backwards Country

Backwards Country — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:27:39 +0000

It wasn’t a bad joke, just unfortunate – if the nurse hadn’t killed herself no one would be talking about it.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:22:42 +0000

In reply to CaMiCasi. You have no idea what you are talking about.

By: Chris Ripard

Chris Ripard — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:50:16 +0000

In reply to Vanni.

Sadly, the nurse who topped herself can’t have been very able to withstand pressure, I mean, one accidental booby shouldn’t drive one to the ultimate resolution, should it?

I presume she wouldn’t have been on the ward in the first place if she’d demonstrated a highly sensitive disposition in the first place.

By: CaMiCasi

CaMiCasi — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:49:01 +0000

What rubbish. It was a hoax, a prank call, they happen all the time – whether it matches up to your sense of what constitutes humour is irrelevant (and I agree, it isn’t funny in the slightest… but that’s entirely subjective. To many, it is. It’s not bullying, that’s certain – the nurse was never a target, and being embarrassed doesn’t make you a target of bullying).

The DJs should not be held accountable for something which no one had any reasonable expectation could possibly happen. The measure of whether they did something wrong is this: would they have been stopped or disciplined for doing it if there were no consequences? No – everyone would have laughed or grimaced or shrugged, the royals would have feigned outrage and it would have ended there. The Aussies would have carried on with their clunky, coarse sense of humour, pranked more people and told stories about the pranks over the barbie.

There must have been other issues at play here, and the publicity around the prank call was the final straw. That makes it a tragic death, but it doesn’t mean somene has to be made responsible for it.

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:28:07 +0000

I work in broadcasting. I have done for 20 years.

The presenters obviously wouldn’t have known the outcome of their hoax call, but you do NOT prank call a hospital. Ever.

It doesn’t matter if it’s royalty or somebody from the street.

What’s even more incredible is that the ‘prank’ call was aired after it was given the green light by lawyers.

2Day FM are accountable and the Programme Controller should have prevented the ‘prank’ going to air.

I’ll say it again: 2Day FM are accountable.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:35:26 +0000

In reply to H.P. Baxxter.

What fucking shell, damn you?

Every employer of mine has marked me down as gobby and told me to shut it or else.

If you want me to come out of my fucking shell you should tell your mates to give me a fucking job, then maybe I can change out of my cammies into a blimming intellectual’s suit like yours.

By: Matthew Vella

Matthew Vella — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:29:04 +0000

They definitely over did it but there is no way a stable human being would commit suicide over something like this. She obviously must have had other issues, it incredibly unfair to blame them for her death.

By: Joseph Schembri

Joseph Schembri — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 10:42:45 +0000

In reply to Whoami?. My thoughts exactly, just another being subsidized by the British taxpayer.

By: TROY

TROY — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 09:01:35 +0000

In reply to H.P. Baxxter. You need to come out of your shell,my dear Baxxter. Camouflage attire doesn't suit you.