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-Z-
12-09-2008, 10:32
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/09/military.jet.crash/index.html

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RIP those who died.


Z
Max Logan
12-09-2008, 12:59
They should be tankful it was not a B-52
Minimus
12-09-2008, 13:38
They should be tankful it was not a B-52

Oddly, the misspelled word works. "tankful".
Bram Gotink
12-09-2008, 14:59
Oddly, the misspelled word works. "tankful".

lol

We shouldn't laugh at this, innocent people died, and the soldier survived ...
KLL
12-09-2008, 15:04
lol

We shouldn't laugh at this, innocent people died, and the soldier survived ...

has some wierd irony to it

not as sad as the family in the UK dying because some ****** drove into their car...literaly a ******, he apparantly was at it whiel driving (and drunk)
L P
12-09-2008, 15:06
lol

We shouldn't laugh at this, innocent people died, and the soldier survived ...

Yes, and now he has to live with that for the rest of his life as do the people that maintained the plane. I'm sure if you ask the pilot he would gladly switch places with the dead.

From all accounts he was trying to ditch it in a ravine nearby. I used to live about a mile or two from the crash site. He was about 30 seconds away from the base he wanted to land at.
Bram Gotink
12-09-2008, 15:11
has some wierd irony to it

not as sad as the family in the UK dying because some ****** drove into their car...literaly a ******, he apparantly was at it whiel driving (and drunk)

No, irony is hearing from an oracle that your son is going to kill his father,
so you tell some herder to get the kid killed,
but he can't, b/c the kid is too cute,
so he gives the kid to a couple, who can't have kids, in another country

That kid grows up,
seeks adventure,
visits the oracle, who tells him that he will murder his father,
so he runs away:
goes to a foreign country, which is the country where he was born,
he kills three men, one of which the king (his father !),
one survives,
he then enters the capital, helps the citizens get rid of the Sfinx that threaens them,
He marries the queen and has two kids.
The queen is his mother. his kids are also his brothers.

And guess what ! They find out !!
The queen commits suicide,
the kid who is no kid no more stabs his own eyes out...


That is pure irony,
tragic, but that's typical for Greek Tragic Irony




Yes, and now he has to live with that for the rest of his life as do the people that maintained the plane. I'm sure if you ask the pilot he would gladly switch places with the dead.

From all accounts he was trying to ditch it in a ravine nearby. I used to live about a mile or two from the crash site. He was about 30 seconds away from the base he wanted to land at.
I wouldn't want to be that pilot... I feel guilty b/c I didn't help an Italian nun in an Italian railway station ... 5 months ago
Mahdi
12-09-2008, 17:28
curse you to an italian hell bram
Bram Gotink
12-09-2008, 17:36
curse you to an italian hell bram

nah,
curse Oedipus to a ... where was that again ... Greek hell !
KLL
12-09-2008, 21:37
No, irony is hearing from an oracle that your son is going to kill his father,
so you tell some herder to get the kid killed,
but he can't, b/c the kid is too cute,
so he gives the kid to a couple, who can't have kids, in another country

That kid grows up,
seeks adventure,
visits the oracle, who tells him that he will murder his father,
so he runs away:
goes to a foreign country, which is the country where he was born,
he kills three men, one of which the king (his father !),
one survives,
he then enters the capital, helps the citizens get rid of the Sfinx that threaens them,
He marries the queen and has two kids.
The queen is his mother. his kids are also his brothers.

And guess what ! They find out !!
The queen commits suicide,
the kid who is no kid no more stabs his own eyes out...


That is pure irony,
tragic, but that's typical for Greek Tragic Irony




I wouldn't want to be that pilot... I feel guilty b/c I didn't help an Italian nun in an Italian railway station ... 5 months ago

thats not greek tragic irony, thats jsut greek drama
L P
12-10-2008, 15:15
A Korean immigrant whose family was killed when an F-18 crashed into his house returned home to survey the rubble and said he doesn't blame the military pilot who survived the accident.

Dong Yun Yoon, 37, lost his wife, two baby daughters and mother-in-law after a Marine Corps fighter plane clipped a tree and plummeted into houses about two miles from base. The pilot safely ejected and was rescued hanging by his parachute from a tree.

"I pray for him not to suffer for this action," Yoon said at a news conference, according to The Los Angeles Times. "I know he's one of our treasures for our country."


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,464729,00.html
Bram Gotink
12-10-2008, 17:31
thats not greek tragic irony, thats jsut greek drama
No, that's irony.
definetly irony...
what we call in Dutch ironie van het leven (irony of life)

Why irony?
B/c of some stupid prediction by an oracle, they (parents and oedipus) do all in their power to make sure that it doesn't happen. And by doing so, they make it happen...
As audience, we know this already. If you reat the text, you should notice that a lot of things that Oedipus says, can be interpreted in two ways : the way Oedipus wants to say it, and another b/c we know more than he does.
i.e. : Oedipus refers to himself as a "Child of Fortune". He thinks about luck, meaning good fortune. However, we know that in fact, bad luck is what awaits him, bad fortune.