Trust me, I agree with you on the whole American Royalty thing. Here's my thing though....I kind of agree with you on the Billy Mays and Sham Wow Guy thing. Well, not entirely, I know you can't stand the man but I think its just blind hatred of the things around him to say that he did NOTHING that entire time that was worthy of some kind of respect. Even someone as dispicable as Jerry Farwell has done at least something in life with his station to was positive for some people. And I do just have respect for the OFFICE people hold at times, which is why the "Dear Leader" crap bugs me as much as the "Shrub" stuff did.
Sorry rambling.
But...yes, even with Billy May's death if someone came into a thread where people are simply paying respects and started in on how "He's an obnoxious ass who needs to get off my TV. I'm glad the guys dead, screw him, I don't have to hear him anymore" I'd be thinking that's incredibly classless as well.
Just, in general, I think its a classless, disrespectful thing to do...not just to the dead, but to those doing their own version of mourning...to just immedietely launch into hate filled diatribes in the midle of it all, regardless of who it is.
And yes, the caveat there for my view of it being classless or disrespectful does rely a bit on context around it. If someone started up a second kennedy thread slagging why he should get no respect I'd find it a little distasteful but not have much care nor say its very disrespectful...they're going and voicing their opinion and not disrespecting those around them by ****ting on their mourning (I know its hard for some people to grasp, but sometimes even when you've never met someone, people recognize another human died whose family will grieve over it and they wish to be respectful. Hell, even bhkad recognizes this). As such, when someone undoubtably gets us to the "Godwin's law" stage and say "Well would you say that if people were saying that about Hitler dieing?!" I'd say yes....if there was some thread with person after person paying their condolensces...I'm going to guess that wouldn't happen. (We're not storm front
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Wow that got more long winded than i expected