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It doesn't matter, it's not appropriate when people are trapped under collapsed buildings and are dead.
by disordinary 10y ago
It doesn't matter, it's not appropriate when people are trapped under collapsed buildings and are dead.
- dvtv75 10y agoYou seem to know something that others don't. What's your source on that?
- disordinary 10y agoI was part of the first response for the Christchurch earthquake providing technical support and co-workers in my old job are trained USAR engineers that were deployed overnight. But most of this information is from the NZ media. We aren't talking high fatalities, but USAR are looking for a couple of missing people and there are buildings that have collapsed, people were also stuck under a vat in a winery and had to be cut out. There are two people dead but not much information is coming out of the most effected area because most communications are down.
- nom 10y agoEnglish is not my first language, so what exactly is the problem here? Please explain.
- disordinary 10y agoThe poster used slang to reference the event and someone else was making fun of the slang by taking it literally, completely trivialising the fact that a huge natural disaster occurred which resulted in death, injury, and hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars in damage.
- nom 10y agoI _am_ that poster. English is my second language and I wasn't aware that the word heavy is perceived as slang. I should've used "serious".
- disordinary 10y agoNo, you're fine. It was just the reply seemed a little inappropriate.
- cloudjacker 10y agoThe only thing that collapsed is your HN karma
- sctb 10y agoWe've asked you repeatedly not to comment like this, so we've banned the account.
- cloudjacker 10y agothis is a shadow ban?