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149. You may wish to review the subthread of which Goblinmonger complains:

The thread is California man washed out to sea during baptism: a BBC story is posted, with the gleeful remark All join in now: "Nearer, my God, to thee ..."

I respond in #8 Do you just enjoy hearing about drownings, or do you get some special pleasure from the deaths of strangers whose views you don't particularly share?

Later, in #55 of the same subthread, I point out that about 10 persons accidentally drown every day

Goblinmonger's #56 responds So fucking what?Are you denying that there is irony here? Do you place a time limit on when irony is humorous? I laughed pretty loudly when I heard on the radio that the guy who invented the Segway died when he drove one off a cliff. That's funny

In response #65, I say So you say you also laugh when people fall off cliffs. There is a word for that: Schadenfreude is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others ... It is the feeling of joy or pleasure when one sees another fail or suffer misfortune ... Schadenfreude really exists and has been been observed in ordinary people. On general principle, I think I should perhaps call your attention to the fact that, in severe and chronic cases of schadenfreude, results can be rather unattractive. This is the post of which Goblinmonger complains

Goblinmonger's #67 is something about my "Google skills"

In my #73, I point out that Goblinmonger's stance is Man drowns! Ha ha ha! because ... baptism! and Man falls off cliff! Ha ha ha! because ... Segway!

Goblinmonger in #76 says Do you not understand irony? Certainly you can muster the ability to Google that, right? But go ahead and build those straw men. Let's go step-by-step: Is it ironic that a man going to get baptized drowns? Specifically, is it situational irony?

I point out in #83 (news link included) that the man who was washed away was not being baptized

This, of course, does not affect Goblinmonger's view that the drowning is good laugh

It is perhaps noteworthy that Goblinmonger begins his complaint against me here by remarking how "frustrating" he finds my Google-Fu (whatever that is) and my supposed vomiting as much stuff as possible to dilute and distract from the point of an OP; this evidently is an ongoing frustration, since he mentions it at least twice in the subthread we have just examined (in his posts #67 and #76)

I suppose it might indeed be frustrating to look forward to having a good laugh at the expense of a poor drowned man, on the theory that it's funny because he was being baptized at the time, only to have someone point out that the man who was washed away was not being baptized; and I suppose some of those, who were enjoying this sad news story due to its alleged irony, might (like Goblinmonger) be frustrated when someone dilutes and distracts from the point of an OP by pointing out some actual facts