firecat69 Posted August 8, 2016 Posted August 8, 2016 https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/thai-weightlifters-grandmother-dies-celebrating-his-medal-winning-performance-133433521.html Quote
traveller123 Posted August 9, 2016 Posted August 9, 2016 We live in Surin and my partner is so proud of this guy winning the medal Quote
vinapu Posted August 9, 2016 Posted August 9, 2016 I like his looks and would gladly hug him with heartfelt condolences Quote
Manly69 Posted August 9, 2016 Posted August 9, 2016 How sad for him. Most unfortunate that his elation at winning an olympic medal is cut short by his grandmothers passing.. Quote
steveboy Posted August 9, 2016 Posted August 9, 2016 Well... the grandmother was 82 and died during a joyful celebration. I can imagine worst ways to end her days, and at 82 she had a sufficiently long life. The olympic winner should feel satisfaction that he made his grandmother die of joy. Quote
baobao Posted August 9, 2016 Posted August 9, 2016 Nice to see something on the success of athletes from a country other than our own! Here in the US we're all too often given reports on what our beach volleyball teams had for lunch, instead of who's winning medals for other countries. Good on you, Sinphet... I bet your grandmother was proud of you. steveboy, traveller123 and vinapu 3 Quote
vinapu Posted August 10, 2016 Posted August 10, 2016 Here in the US we're all too often given reports on what our beach volleyball teams had for lunch, instead of who's winning medals for other countries. spot on unfortunately Quote
Manly69 Posted August 10, 2016 Posted August 10, 2016 Well... the grandmother was 82 and died during a joyful celebration. I can imagine worst ways to end her days, and at 82 she had a sufficiently long life. The olympic winner should feel satisfaction that he made his grandmother die of joy. He should be satisfied he made his grandmother die of joy ? What a vile reprehensible comment... Quote
steveboy Posted August 10, 2016 Posted August 10, 2016 He should be satisfied he made his grandmother die of joy ? What a vile reprehensible comment... Yes, yours is a vile reprehensible comment. Grandmothers don't last forever. I have had such an experience. It is a thousand times better to have your 82 year old grandmother have her heart give out in an over excitement of joy than see her slowly languish amidst suffering from a terminal chronic disease. Not to mention the grandmothers who die of sorrow seeing their grandchildren being imprisoned as criminals, not as olympic winners. It seems that you bought into some over-sentimental news article. Quote
steveboy Posted August 10, 2016 Posted August 10, 2016 spot on unfortunately Agree! I get the videos of the games over-the-air and recorded. When I look at them, I am tired to see nothing but the Americans in gory detail, and very little of the athletes from other countries. I am tired of hearing about the five American gymnasts who won gold. So far I liked much, much more seeing the two cute Chinese guys winning gold in synchronized diving. I would leave behind the gold medal and take... them! vinapu 1 Quote
vinapu Posted August 10, 2016 Posted August 10, 2016 Grandmothers don't last forever. It seems that you bought into some over-sentimental news article. nothing over-sentimental here, death is death even of very old person and for joyful reason. Few years ago world saw Obama shedding tears on news of his grandma passing. Death of grandparent pushes us to a second place in line to go Quote
Manly69 Posted August 10, 2016 Posted August 10, 2016 Yes, yours is a vile reprehensible comment. Grandmothers don't last forever. I have had such an experience. It is a thousand times better to have your 82 year old grandmother have her heart give out in an over excitement of joy than see her slowly languish amidst suffering from a terminal chronic disease. Not to mention the grandmothers who die of sorrow seeing their grandchildren being imprisoned as criminals, not as olympic winners. It seems that you bought into some over-sentimental news article. Yes we all know grandmothers don't last forever,and according to you 82yrs is quite sufficient,who made you the life expectancy estimator expert ? Your comment i bought into a over-sentimental news article is wrong. Your reply to my comment only confirms what i said earlier. vinapu 1 Quote
steveboy Posted August 10, 2016 Posted August 10, 2016 Your reply to my comment only confirms what i said earlier. Your reply to my comment confirms what I said to you earlier. In today's global world we get endless news of unexpected tragedies that cause many victims. A natural death, which seems to have been the case of this grandmother in the excitement of a celebration, does hardly qualify as a big tragedy. But I have something to correct in my previous post: it is not that the article was over-sentimental, the article was simply news. But you took it with a tearful sentimentalism that made you horrified by my common-sense estimation, to the point that you chose to become insulting. You need to be more realistic and down-to-earth. Quote
steveboy Posted August 10, 2016 Posted August 10, 2016 nothing over-sentimental here, death is death even of very old person and for joyful reason. Few years ago world saw Obama shedding tears on news of his grandma passing. Death of grandparent pushes us to a second place in line to go Oh, maybe the tears of Obama set a new standard of sensibility towards the deaths of grandmas. I agree that it is an infamous abomination to have everybody die sooner or later. Quote
vinapu Posted August 10, 2016 Posted August 10, 2016 Oh, maybe the tears of Obama set a new standard of sensibility towards the deaths of grandmas. I agree that it is an infamous abomination to have everybody die sooner or later. o la la, I wonder what is next ? Quote
steveboy Posted August 11, 2016 Posted August 11, 2016 o la la, I wonder what is next ? We don't know what comes after death. We can only speculate. Quote
vinapu Posted August 12, 2016 Posted August 12, 2016 We don't know what comes after death. usually funeral followed by family squabble over the will firecat69 1 Quote
