ForumsWEPRDarwin Awards: Hilarious or a Crotch-shot to Greiving Families?

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thisisnotanalt
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Awrite, dun kill me for putting this here. This is a moral issue and I want intelligent discussion here.

For those (unlucky) few who don't know what these are, they're awards to people who do the world a favor by 'removing themselves from the gene pool' (i.e. killing or sterilizing themselves in idiotic ways) and while these awards can be pretty funny sometimes, some are very tragic and it's a bit morally wrong to give an award to a dead idiot.

What're the thoughts on that?

Personally, I think some are funny, and some are tragic. The funniest thing about them is imagining the eulogies these idiots get at their funerals.

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PossibleInstability
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I stand by the Darwin Awards. They are all funny. Every last one of them.

Kasic
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In either case, if these people are really stupid enough or wanting attention THAT badly, then it's up to them. I mean, if they were that stupid anyways, then they would either end up hurting others or killing themselves in another way eventually.

deserteagle
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LOL! You gotta love stupid people. AND they are removing them selves from the gene pool! Hooray!

thisisnotanalt
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Honestly think the only one that wasn't funny was the one about the stoned teens who tried to climb inside a helium balloon to talk funny, They suffocated. I think all the other ones are hilarious, but that one was sad.

Kasic
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stoned teens who tried to climb inside a helium balloon to talk funny, They suffocated.


See, this is what I am talking about, these people one, did drugs, which imapaired their judgment, which probably wasn't any good in the first place, and then they went into a BALLOON, which one, has no fresh air, and two, you can't breath healium for very long without passing out. I think the majority of stoned people would still have enough sense to at least LEAVE THE BALLOON once they started feeling light headed or one of them passed out.
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Both really. Crotch-shot for those in grief, and hilarious for just about everyone that feels schadenfreude. It's example after example of epic stupid people making incredible dumb mistakes which result in catastophic consequences.

SirNoobalot
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the darwin awards r also said to be jokingly proof that darwin was wrong: not all things evolve to be better...
i stand by the dawin awards as they are meant for humor not to hurt the families.

playaholic
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i think it's stupid

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(26 September 2009, Dinant, Belgium) Two bankrobbers attempting to make a sizeable withdrawal from an ATM machine died when they overestimated the quantity of dynamite needed for the explosion. Nobody else was in the building at the time of the attack. Robber One was rushed to hospital severely injured, and Robber Two was unexpectedly excavated from the debris twelve hours later.

Uncovering the second bungler's body was a surprise because investigators initially assumed that the accomplice had managed a getaway. Would-be robbers One and Two weren't exactly impoverished--their getaway car was a BMW.

Here's one. Lawl XD

Anyway, seeing as I feel little to no empathy for dead stupid people, I find these so funny that I want to laugh so hard reading them that I die, and get an award myself

Pau11Wa11
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that is pretty funny

waluigi
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How about this? (this is a quick summation)
In an attempt to show of to his girlfriend, a man started doing tricks with a chainsaw. He wound up cutting his arm of in the process.

The Darwin Awards-removing unwanted traits from the gene pool

Moe
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I stand by the Darwin Awards. They are all funny. Every last one of them.


I totally agree with you.
Pixie214
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I have to say I find most if not all hilarious. I despair at some of them and am amazed that many lasted as long as the y did without playing in traffic.

The funniest thing about them is imagining the eulogies these idiots get at their funerals.


Here are some real gravestones:

"Here doth lie the body;
Of John Fye;
Who did die;
By the stroke of a sky rocket;
Which hit him in the eye."

It makes me wonder how bad his death was that that was appropriate for his gravestone.

This next one has nothing much to do with the Darwin Awards it just makes me laugh a little:

"Here lies, wrapped in clay;
The body of Ester Wray;
I have no more to say;
Except to bless the day;
She went away-
The 3rd of May"

Over the top rhyming is over the top.
playaholic
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i dunno why im sayin this,but isnt it a little inhuman???they win an award doing stupid things,he might as well jump off a cliff yelling "long live jonas brothers!!!(or whadeva)" rather than juggle 5 hand grenades while simultanously poking a finger in an electric powerpoint,im not saying you're inhuman,im saying da award winners,and do you know what are the relative's expression?

"Yippie."

but if you're laughin at em,at least their sacrifice was not wasted...though they might as well be guinie pigs in some whacko lab

santajoe
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I love the Darwin Awards, theyre all funny, and if they are offended by them, its their own fault for having their own stupid kid, plus, you cant cure stuipidity, so i mean, theyre getting themselves into it

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