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Old 12-09-2014, 23:57
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Old 13-09-2014, 00:52
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He is a stupid idiot. What more can I say.
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Old 13-09-2014, 01:01
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That was pure sick.
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Old 13-09-2014, 01:14
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He shouldn't be sacked, but really...what a fool. Things like this are not all that uncommon, someone famous getting into trouble for an online comment. You'd thing he'd have learned, wouldn't you?
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Old 13-09-2014, 01:26
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He made a mistake, he is usually quite on the ball
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Old 13-09-2014, 07:20
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Disgusting
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Old 13-09-2014, 09:44
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Old 13-09-2014, 10:19
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Stupid and thoughtless comment but I don't think he should be sacked.
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Old 13-09-2014, 11:08
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disgusting , sick comment

I thought J.P Shepard was alright ,lost all respect for him now!
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Old 13-09-2014, 12:32
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Most of twitter are out for his blood saying 'get this ugly vile rat sacked...he is a rubbish actor'
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Old 13-09-2014, 12:37
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He is a prize prat that is very lucky indeed to be on the Corrie gravy train with his acting 'skills' but he wont be sacked for this, just get a slap on the wrist and make a "hearfelt" apology with the usual bla bla about didnt mean to offend anyone trash
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Old 13-09-2014, 12:48
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He is a prize prat that is very lucky indeed to be on the Corrie gravy train with his acting 'skills' but he wont be sacked for this, just get a slap on the wrist and make a "hearfelt" apology with the usual bla bla about didnt mean to offend anyone trash
If it was a normal job, he would most likely get the sack butt but noo as people like him have it easy and write bs apoligies what mean northing.
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Old 13-09-2014, 13:04
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If it was a normal job, he would most likely get the sack butt but noo as people like him have it easy and write bs apoligies what mean northing.
He sent the tweet at 1am Friday morning apologised at 10.40pm last night because so many people were complaining. And do you really think he wrote it himself ITV have done it for him.
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Old 13-09-2014, 13:09
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If it was a normal job, he would most likely get the sack butt but noo as people like him have it easy and write bs apoligies what mean northing.
Why?

And what do you mean, 'bs apoligies'? Would you have preferred he didn't apologise? Would that have made it better in your eyes?

Talk about hysterical overreaction on here. Tasteless jokes flood the internet after every disaster, including the far more tragic ones which affect real human beings.
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Old 13-09-2014, 13:17
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Why?

And what do you mean, 'bs apoligies'? Would you have preferred he didn't apologise? Would that have made it better in your eyes?

Talk about hysterical overreaction on here. Tasteless jokes flood the internet after every disaster, including the far more tragic ones which affect real human beings.
I'm glad I'm not the only one with this opinion. Why would he get sacked for that? This dog thing has got out of hand.
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Old 13-09-2014, 13:26
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Why?

And what do you mean, 'bs apoligies'? Would you have preferred he didn't apologise? Would that have made it better in your eyes?

Talk about hysterical overreaction on here. Tasteless jokes flood the internet after every disaster, including the far more tragic ones which affect real human beings.
So you don't think these killings have affected any human beings ? What about the people who work there do you not think these have not been affected by it?
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Old 13-09-2014, 13:27
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I don't think Jack should be sacked, just learn to put his brain into gear before tweeting.
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Old 13-09-2014, 13:49
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So you don't think these killings have affected any human beings ? What about the people who work there do you not think these have not been affected by it?
Nobody's saying it isn't sad when any living thing dies, of course it is, but let's at least try and keep a little perspective here. The sadness a few kennel workers feel for the loss of the dogs in their professional care can hardly equate to the life-changing misery caused by the loss of a mother/father/wife/husband/sister/friend etc etc.

And while we're on the subject, why is it only the deaths of 'cute furry' animals that cause such ott outpourings of grief? Are all these grief-stricken animal lovers in a similar perpetual state of outrage over the activities of Rentokil for example, as they tuck into their bacon butties of a morning, or their minted roast leg of lamb of an evening?

Again, key word should be 'perspective'.
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Old 13-09-2014, 14:28
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Nobody's saying it isn't sad when any living thing dies, of course it is, but let's at least try and keep a little perspective here. The sadness a few kennel workers feel for the loss of the dogs in their professional care can hardly equate to the life-changing misery caused by the loss of a mother/father/wife/husband/sister/friend etc etc.

And while we're on the subject, why is it only the deaths of 'cute furry' animals that cause such ott outpourings of grief? Are all these grief-stricken animal lovers in a similar perpetual state of outrage over the activities of Rentokil for example, as they tuck into their bacon butties of a morning, or their minted roast leg of lamb of an evening?

Again, key word should be 'perspective'.
Perhaps you should just speak for yourself, instead of making generalizations based on your own views towards animals. Some people do feel strong bonds with animals, you're in no position to state that a loss of an animal can't possibly mean as much to someone as other possible losses. I lost a pet this year, and as far as I'm concerned she was part of the family.

As for the second paragraph, why are you assuming that all animal lovers who are horrified by this event are meat eaters? I'm certainly not. Again, a ridiculous generalization with zero foundation.

I personally think it's rather disturbing that you feel the angry reaction to a dog shelter being set alight is "over the top". Anyway, if you don't value animal life, fair enough, but some other people do, and you have no authority to state that nobody out there can possibly feel real grief from their deaths, just because you don't. As I said, speak for yourself and let others feel the way they do, instead of claiming that they have no "perspective" for actually feeling different than you.
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Old 13-09-2014, 14:43
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Why?

And what do you mean, 'bs apoligies'? Would you have preferred he didn't apologise? Would that have made it better in your eyes?

Talk about hysterical overreaction on here. Tasteless jokes flood the internet after every disaster, including the far more tragic ones which affect real human beings.
Agree with you here. It was tasteless, not funny, offensive and very poorly thought out - particularly as the fire was on his own doorstep in Manchester - but to suggest he should be sacked for it is nonsense. He hasn't done anything criminal, just shown himself up to be an insensitive idiot.

I don't think Chris Fountain should have been sacked either - didn't understand that at all.

I do think bosses of programmes like Corrie should lay down some guidelines for their stupid young "stars" though as there are constantly incidents like this damaging the programme's reputation.
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Old 13-09-2014, 14:44
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Perhaps you should just speak for yourself, instead of making generalizations based on your own views towards animals. Some people do feel strong bonds with animals, you're in no position to state that a loss of an animal can't possibly mean as much to someone as other possible losses. I lost a pet this year, and as far as I'm concerned she was part of the family.

As for the second paragraph, why are you assuming that all animal lovers who are horrified by this event are meat eaters? I'm certainly not. Again, a ridiculous generalization with zero foundation.

If you don't value animal life, fair enough, but some other people do, and you have no authority to state that nobody out there can possibly feel real grief from their deaths, just because you don't. As I said, speak for yourself and let others feel the way they do, instead of claiming that they have no "perspective" for actually feeling different than you.I personally think it's rather disturbing that you feel the angry reaction to a dog shelter being set alight is "over the top".
1. Sorry, I forgot that I'm apparently obliged to state at the beginning of every post I make on a public forum that I am expressing my personal opinion and have not first carried out a straw poll of a significant percentage of the population. My bad.

2. I don't deny that people have a strong bond with their beloved pets. In this case however, these were not beloved pets, they were stray dogs, cared about by nobody except their professional carers....... until they died of course.

3. It's a known fact that the overwhelming majority of people in the UK are not vegetarian. (In the years 2010, 2011 and 2012, only 2% of people surveyed by the UK Vegetarian Society each year claimed to be vegetarians). So hardly 'zero foundation' then?
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Old 13-09-2014, 14:53
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1. Sorry, I forgot that I'm apparently obliged to state at the beginning of every post I make on a public forum that I am expressing my personal opinion and have not first carried out a straw poll of a significant percentage of the population. My bad.

2. I don't deny that people have a strong bond with their beloved pets. In this case however, these were not beloved pets, they were stray dogs, cared about by nobody except their professional carers....... until they died of course.

3. It's a known fact that the overwhelming majority of people in the UK are not vegetarian. (In the years 2010, 2011 and 2012, only 2% of people surveyed by the UK Vegetarian Society each year claimed to be vegetarians). So hardly 'zero foundation' then?
While most of then were stray dogs, a few did have owners and had gone missing like this women who thankfully got her dog back http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...on-attack.html but I know of at least two people who's dog's had been killed.
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Old 13-09-2014, 15:00
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Most of twitter are out for his blood saying 'get this ugly vile rat sacked...he is a rubbish actor'
Then those people are rather sad indivduals, sick jokes always go round, sometimes it's too soon sometimes humour is not appropriate, but it happens and it does not mean the person is vile or means any harm and an apology if one is even necessary should suffice.

It appears to me that a lot of people in this country has become far sicker than the comments and jokes they make faux complaints about, a sickness that is becoming professionally offended at any comment they choose to be offended about that day from the comfort of their armchair just because they can, they want people sacked not because of what they say but because they decide they don't like them, and that is pathetic to my mind.

I wonder, these people complaining, if we checked their tweets etc how many are fuming at the little oik who set the fire and remains unnamed and will probably go unpunished .

One idiot on Twitter who calls for a boycott of ITV by viewers and advertisers in a previosu Tweet about DLT stated the media and Jury should basically shut up and not behave like Judge and Jury ??? talk about double standards
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Old 13-09-2014, 15:03
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Why?

And what do you mean, 'bs apoligies'? Would you have preferred he didn't apologise? Would that have made it better in your eyes?

Talk about hysterical overreaction on here. Tasteless jokes flood the internet after every disaster, including the far more tragic ones which affect real human beings.
Why are tragedies that happen to humans " far more tragic"? Pain and suffering is pain and suffering whatever species you happen to be.

Also, the fact that sick jokes flood the internet after any tragedy does not make it OK. It just means that the internet has more than it's fair share of insensitive morons
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Old 13-09-2014, 15:09
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1. Sorry, I forgot that I'm apparently obliged to state at the beginning of every post I make on a public forum that I am expressing my personal opinion and have not first carried out a straw poll of a significant percentage of the population. My bad.

2. I don't deny that people have a strong bond with their beloved pets. In this case however, these were not beloved pets, they were stray dogs, cared about by nobody except their professional carers....... until they died of course.

3. It's a known fact that the overwhelming majority of people in the UK are not vegetarian. (In the years 2010, 2011 and 2012, only 2% of people surveyed by the UK Vegetarian Society each year claimed to be vegetarians). So hardly 'zero foundation' then?
1. Yes, it was your "bad", considering you weren't merely stating an opinion, but making wild generalizations about people and how others must react to grief, stated as fact.

2. And it's unheard of for the "professional carers" to, like they would with a pet, form bonds with the animals they care for? To suggest that this event would cause little sadness is nonsensical. As is your suggestion that the rest of the animal loving population didn't "care" about them. As somebody who values animals, I always feel sadness when I hear stories about animal suffering. Again, you really need to stop speaking for others and acting like you know more about the subject than you actually do.

3. The "overwhelming population" isn't everybody, while your post generalized the animal lovers outraged by this (no, not just some of them) as being hypocrites who eat meat. So, yes, that particular suggestion had "zero foundation".
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