In Bad Taste

[Bazile]

Would you agree ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-37714159

[andy-hughes]

This will once again polarise AB'ers between the 'yes it's disgusting, and the 'no, it's funny, lighten up / get a life'.

So because of the predictability of the coming posts, I am going to step out of the argument right here.

[Mamyalynne]

Rather thoughtless, yes.

[Lie-in King]

Yes.

[Bertrum]

It didn’t make me laugh

[mikey4444]

Eejits, all of them. Mamy is right.

[Sqad]

Certainly bad taste, but something we are becoming accustomed to at the present time amongst our young.

[jno]

a bit too soon, I think. In 10 years, maybe, when it's become history.

[hereIam]

Yes, bad taste.

[Smowball]

Yes.

[ChillDoubt]

As Blackadder said:

University education eh? You can't beat it.....

Idiotic in the extreme.

[Patsy33]

Funny until it happens to them....

[Cloverjo]

Really bad taste. What kind of idiot would laugh about people losing legs?

[237SJ]

"Yes but something we are becoming accustomed to at the present time amongst our young" I remember going to bad taste fancy dress party at a local RAF base in the 80s and the pilots turned up as the remains of the Challenger crew. Bad taste is nothing new.

[Ellipsis]

> "Its design was based on a traditional concept that has existed for several years and no reference was made to the Smiler by the students involved.

No reference except the photo at the top of the article that shows them posing in a contraption very similar to the Smiler.

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/B432/production/_92003164_7legless.jpg

What muppets.

[jno]

hard to say just from the photo, Ellipsis, that looks like a generic theme park ride. I'm prepared to take the reporter's word about severed legs, but they're not in the picture.

[windywillow]

Yes, in bad taste and not remotely funny.

[Ellipsis]

Hi jno. It's a photo of the students in question, is it not, on a theme park ride? That's a pretty strong reference.

[jno]

there are thousands of theme parks with thousands of rides, most of which go off without a hitch; so no, I don't think so on its own.

[Ellipsis]

You are very forgiving.

* The event is called the "7 Legged" but the students called themselves the "7 Legless"
* They then went and posed for photos on a Smiler-type ride
* Then, quote, "They got into the formation of The Smiler ride and on the back row they had limbs hanging off"
* Nottingham University is quite close to Alton Towers - 36 miles according to Google Maps

So this was definitely in very poor taste.