What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[jp1]

amirite?

User was banned for this joke.

Well played sir.

[Flake]

Frown: I shrug when most celebrities die. I'm not happy they're gone but their passing doesn't affect me more than any other stranger's departure. That's not how it is with Robin Williams, though. I'm having trouble with this one.

(Weak) Smile: I bought a surround sound system for my game room. My game room is small, only about 150 square feet. The surround sound system is intended for a living room about 400 square feet large. When Mario jumps, you can feel it. My wife is not sure this is a good thing.

[fastbilly1]

(Weak) Smile: I bought a surround sound system for my game room. My game room is small, only about 150 square feet. The surround sound system is intended for a living room about 400 square feet large. When Mario jumps, you can feel it. My wife is not sure this is a good thing.

That is a good thing. I designed sound system around one I saw in college where you felt the lightsabers turn on. I just need to upgrade the subs and it will be complete. Just dont go deaf.

[BoringSupreez]

Frown: I shrug when most celebrities die. I'm not happy they're gone but their passing doesn't affect me more than any other stranger's departure. That's not how it is with Robin Williams, though. I'm having trouble with this one.

All I feel about it is a small sense of aggravation. I never liked his style of humor and didn't like most of the movies he was in. Knowing that he took the coward's way out when he had a family doesn't improve my opinions of him.

The problem with suicides is you always hurt the people around you more than yourself.

[puke_face]

Knowing that he took the coward's way out when he had a family doesn't improve my opinions of him.

Is it really fair to claim that he took the "Coward's way out" if he was fighting severe depression?

[Betagam7]

This is a good article on this subject matter.

http://gu.com/p/4vkhc/fb

[BogusMeatFactory]

So it was raining a bunch yesterday and my wife and I decided we wanted to go grocery shopping, because our carpets were recently cleaned and the floors hadn't dried yet and we wanted some outside activities to pass the time.

Bad Idea. Flash floods swept Michigan. We were sitting at a light and, by the time it turned green we were sitting in about 6-10 inches of water. Our journey home was treacherous as we decided to just forget about it as we were driving through enormous pools. We saw numerous cars disabled and stuck in the water. Some expressways near Detroit had 12 feet of water with images of the water line hitting the overpasses. It was insane.



With the Robin Williams thing. Depression is a mental illness, it isn't a state of mind. Yeah, Suicide is not good, but to be upset at a person for having a mental illness and committing suicide is just plain disrespectful to a person, regardless of their fame.

[samsonlonghair]

I wasn't ever a huge Robin Williams fan. I liked him well enough, but he wasn't one of my favorites. Something about his suicide really struck close to my heart.

I suffer from clinical depression too. If you ever met me in the real world, you'd never guess that. I'm all smiles and sunshine on the outside. I'm always trying to make the people around me laugh. I think Williams's death demonstrates that sometimes smiles mask a deep-rooted depression.

[Ack]

I suffer from clinical depression too. If you ever met me in the real world, you'd never guess that. I'm all smiles and sunshine on the outside. I'm always trying to make the people around me laugh. I think Williams's death demonstrates that sometimes smiles mask a deep-rooted depression.

Same here, though I have an anxiety disorder which causes my periods of depression and have sought counseling and used medication at times in the past. So now I have an easier time of recognizing my symptoms and understanding what is going on in my brain. Humor is a coping method, and I've forced myself to be more willing and able to open myself up to people through the years, mainly by making them laugh. I've told people before that I suffered from depression, folks that had known me for years, and they were shocked by the admission because I was always making jokes and laughing.

[Luke]

Tricky subject. I've had a few close friends commit suicide, so I know first hand that it makes you upset. Angry even. Your anger can get misdirected and you end up hating the person for "taking the coward's way out". But you aren't in that person's melon. You don't know what trouble and "demons" they face on a daily basis.

Is suicide the most selfish act a human can do? Possibly. Is it an end to a life of mental torture? Possibly.

All I know is that none of us were asked to be born. It is selfish to think "It's my life to end if I want to" but that's just the way some will think.

And as we all know, comedy and tragedy go hand in hand.