3w ago

Man lights cigarette from French war memorial

www.france24.com

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Meh. He didn't harm anything. He just broke the rule of, "keep off the memorial."
Basically, a non-event. Why is this news?
- Someone in editorial thought "ah, this will make people angry, and anger leads to clicks."
  
  Clicks lead to hate, hate leads to the dark side
- Sir, this is not the onion
- Though I would not call this front page news worthy, at the same time it's extremely disrespectful from this asshat at the very least.
  The monument is literally for those that died to give you the freedoms that you enjoy today. It's somewhat news worthy and hopefully it will shame enough people in giving a little respect where respect is due.
  I see this as a similar news item as tourists writing "Kyle was here!" with a marker on some monument and it reminds me of when I just recently visited the Vatican as a tourist where I too saw so many disrespectful people.
  I'm a staunch atheist but I can admire the beauty of the art, and I understand the importance the place has for many people. Women entering are asked to wear a scarf over their shoulders if they wear tank tops, etc. So to my surprise, so many women got the scarf, walked in, the just stuffed the scarf in a purse or something because they didn't wanted to wear it.
  Agree with it or not, that's fine. But if you enter, show some damned respect. Either wear the scarf or leave. I don't have respect for people that don't respect others
- Serious question for you: I wonder if you would feel different if your parent had died in the war being memorialized?
  I'm trying to figure out if you are saying "This doesn't affect me so I don't care" or maybe, "Memorials serve no purpose" or something else. Cheers,
  
  I wonder if you would feel different if your parent had died in the war being memorialized?
  Exactly as I commented. "Ah, this will make people angry, and anger leads to clicks."
  
  That's not the point. The point is nothing at all actually happened.
  It's the monument equivalent of shouting, "you're ugly" at someone. Disrespectful, sure, but newsworthy? No.
I definitely interpreted this title as someone lighting a 110-year-old cigarette.
- Me, too. I had a whole internal discussion about which scenario would be more stereotypically French....
Life imitates art:
- Dale Gribbel, savior of the sacred flame.
  
  I quit smoking over a decade ago, but if I had the opportunity to light a cigarette from the Olympic torch...I'd take it. Probably also use that cigarette to light the pilot lights on my water heater and then all my showers would be heated by the Olympic flame (technically speaking).
That's honestly the most French thing I've heard in a while. Not because of the war memorial but because of the cigarette
There's a genocide going on, we have thousands upon thousands of homeless people, the world is heading to a climate catastrophy, but let's be outraged by someone lightning a cigarette with the flame of a war memorial.
People dying of hunger because of politics, capitalism and violence, it's none of our business. But that man lighting his cigarette, what a fucking outrage!
- Sir, this is a Wendy's
- Disappointment = Expectations - Reality
  You can only really control one of those 2 factors regarding global events.
  
  speak for yourself, my farts have gotten ecological laws passed
- I'm not going to lie to you I don't see the connection.
Based
I like to disrespect authority like the next punk but disrespecting war memorials is fucking disgusting. I would have liked to punch that fucker. And smash his fucking cigarette.
- Fair, but did we need a news article about it?

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