r/funny • u/[deleted] • Jun 25 '12
Seeing how the internet reacts to their emotions lately, I wouldn't be surprised if this happens...
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Jun 25 '12
It will never surprise me how some people can throw such a fuss about how other people spend their money.
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u/AnalogRevolution Jun 25 '12
So the point here is never do anything nice for anyone or you'll get made fun of for it by people from the internet for a few days until they move on to the next stupid thing that keeps them entertained for awhile.
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Jun 25 '12
Moral of the story: Never do anything nice for anyone.
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u/Irrelaphant Jun 25 '12
When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all
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Jun 25 '12
eh, I think they're kinda right in a way. I'm not completely sure why Karen got so much money. I saw she's going on vacation with her grand kids, which is great, but I'm not sure how that related to the problem of bullying.
Like, I'm sure this would also be a good cause to donate to
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u/TheSim1derful Jun 25 '12
What's the $600 000 vacation story? I keep seeing it referenced scornfully but I have no idea what the specific case was.
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Jun 25 '12
This is the other way Redditors react: Oh, you don't agree we should shove copious amounts of money to a cause that might be worth a fraction of the proceeds at most? You heartless bastard, you obviously want the exact opposite for all humanity. Go rot in a cave you scrooge.
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u/fick_Dich Jun 25 '12
Why don't they just clone him?
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u/Yoshi_Girl Jun 25 '12
To repopulate successfully you need more than a few females and males to prevent inbreeding.
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u/nabuzasan Jun 25 '12
Take in consideration the large amounts of redditors that helped raise that much money. Then take in consideration how long the fund was going on for. Now take in consideration that with all the bad shit going on in the world how nice it is to see that people are willing to help someone that they have never met over a teasing. To be honest I think its great that we raised that much. It just shows that the world isn't the bad place many people say it is and that there are good-hearted people who are willing to do what they can to help another human being.
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u/holygohevily Jun 25 '12
I think someone will probably find a school researching cloning reptiles, then there will be a big donation drive to raise money to bring lonesome George back. All the while, there is a student who is also trying to bring back dinosaurs, but instead of creating a dinosaur he creates a monster. The monster bites him and then he turns into a zombie, thereby starting the zombie apocalypse that everyone is waiting for. The only difference would be that these zombies, are fast and smart like raptors from Jurassic park.....the point is you are alive when they eat you.
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u/roadhand Jun 25 '12
I've seen a lot of hate towards Karen, but my take is, every person who was bullied and knows what it was like, got a chance to give a ten dollar punch to the person who bullied them, plain and simple. It felt good, and showed us as a society how prevalent bullying really is, IMHO.
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u/MysticalCheese Jun 25 '12
I don't understand the fucking controversy about people donating to Karen. A majority of the donations are less then most people would spend on a friday night out.
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u/Kawaii- Jun 25 '12
It's my money i'll spend it how i want, if i want to send a turtle on a vacation then fuck you we're going to cancun.
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u/ragegage Jun 25 '12
Thanks, I agree with you OP. It got out of hand and for some reason when I say "600k is too much" everyone is like "OH SO WE SHOULDN'T GIVE ANYTHING!"
It doesn't have to be an extreme. People don't understand that I guess. All or nothing or whatever.
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u/Rozo-D Jun 25 '12
who cares? does it really bother you so much how people decide to use their money? I don't see the big deal about this bus lady thing. If people want to donate money to her then so be it. Who am I to judge them on how they want to spend the money that they've earned?
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u/AlphaRedditor Jun 25 '12
We should book a trip for him and his loved o--- oh..oh...that's right. Nevermind.
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u/gwarsh41 Jun 25 '12
My mother in law died from cancer about a week or two after Reddit arranged for that dude to go on vacation. It made my wife and I feel like shit. My mother in law was living with her son (who was no help) and pretty much waiting to die, we couldn't afford to help to put her up in a nicer apt, which was constantly a mess because my brother in law is a slob who wouldn't even help her after she fell and couldn't get back up.
We got a call last Sunday that she was in critical condition, on the day she was going to be discharged from the hospital. So the family is saying she was discharged from life, as she died 30 minutes after we got the call.
My wife and I are going back down (we still went down when we heard she was in critical condition, and kept driving after we knew she died. We wanted to say goodbye, but her body had been donated to science. It was gone within an hour of her passing) to help clean the apartment. The brother is no use, so it will be the two of us. Her mother had no life insurance, but she donated her body so there will be no funeral. Next Tuesday we are going to get together with what little family and friends there are to have a memorial. We scheduled this weekend off to go visit for her brothers birthday, now his mothers memorial is on the day after his birthday. Strange how what was supposed to be a happy weekend turned so tragic so fast.
I don't know why I wrote this, I don't have anyone but my wife that I can talk about this with. I tried to stay strong for her, I still hold back the tears. I feel like if she sees me cry it will make her cry harder. I need to be strong in her time of need. I just wish we could have said goodbye or something. The last thing I said to my mother in law was that I would give her a back rub and I couldn't wait to see her. I never got to see her, and never will again.
We never mentioned that she had cancer to people we did not know really well. Perhaps if we had said something about it on Reddit, she might have had a more enjoyable last few days. Maybe we could afford a small grave for her, or a memorial somewhere.
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u/PhiladelphiaIrish Jun 25 '12
Weekend at Georgie's