Well joking aside this is fairly traumactic
http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/10/14/self_immolation_french_math_teacher_sets_herself_on_fire_in_fron.html
QuoteA 44-year-old math teacher who set herself on fire in front of students at her school in southern France died Friday.
The AFP reports that the self-immolation appears to have been prompted by a confrontation between the teacher and a group of rowdy students at a Thursday meeting aimed at clearing the air between the instructor and her pupils.
Students and teachers who witnessed the apparently depressed teacher douse herself in gasoline and set herself ablaze quickly came to her aid. She was then airlifted from the Beziers school to a Montpellier hospital, where she was treated for third-degree burns on Thursday before passing away the following day.
The BBC has this account:
She came to the Jean Moulin school on Thursday morning with a jerry can, gave a class at 09:00 and then, when the morning break came, walked to the centre of the playground, poured petrol on herself and set herself alight.
"I saw her body on fire, walking forward with her hands on her head," said one student witness, Karim.
"Several people tried to put her out. She said 'No, leave me alone. I don't need help. God told me to do this.'"
The Connexion, an English-Language paper based in France, has a summary of the story from the French press, and reports that Education Minster Luc Chatel visited the teacher in the hospital prior to her death and described her as "psychologically very fragile." He said an inquiry will be held to find out the precise cause of her actions.
WTF?
French students must be pretty awful.
omg
This story is shocking.
QuoteGod told me to do this
A French person who believes in God?
I trust this will ignite protests everywhere.
She may have been hot, but she didn't put out.
You guys are on fire tonight. That's what like about Languish - you aren't flamed for lame puns.
People really need to seek help before they crash and burn like that.
:frusty:
You don't know how much it pains me that one of my threads has turned into a punning abomination.
Those kids are gonna be scarred for life.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 14, 2011, 04:02:43 PM
Those kids are gonna be scarred for life.
They're Muslim.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 14, 2011, 04:02:43 PM
Those kids are gonna be scarred for life.
There was a time that public executions (including by burning) was a public spectacle. Some may be scarred, but I think people have a bit more mental fortitude than you give them credit for.
Quote from: alfred russel on October 14, 2011, 04:20:50 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 14, 2011, 04:02:43 PM
Those kids are gonna be scarred for life.
There was a time that public executions (including by burning) was a public spectacle. Some may be scarred, but I think people have a bit more mental fortitude than you give them credit for.
Most people back then were fucked up because of the horrible things they saw and hard lives they lead.
Most people now are still fucked up. At least the people in movies and tv(including "reality" tv) are.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 14, 2011, 04:41:31 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on October 14, 2011, 04:20:50 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 14, 2011, 04:02:43 PM
Those kids are gonna be scarred for life.
There was a time that public executions (including by burning) was a public spectacle. Some may be scarred, but I think people have a bit more mental fortitude than you give them credit for.
Most people back then were fucked up because of the horrible things they saw and hard lives they lead.
So you're saying they had a good reason to be fucked up. Then what's your excuse?
Maybe it's a generational thing, but back when I was in school, we had some teachers we would have supplied gasoline and matches to if we had known that they wanted to set themselves on fire.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 14, 2011, 04:02:43 PM
Those kids are gonna be scarred for life.
It's not so bad. I had a Kindergarten teacher who was like some Nation of Islam crazy. Told me everyday who I was evil because I was born white.. I don't seem to be to adversely harmed.
Quote from: dps on October 14, 2011, 04:55:56 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 14, 2011, 04:41:31 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on October 14, 2011, 04:20:50 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 14, 2011, 04:02:43 PM
Those kids are gonna be scarred for life.
There was a time that public executions (including by burning) was a public spectacle. Some may be scarred, but I think people have a bit more mental fortitude than you give them credit for.
Most people back then were fucked up because of the horrible things they saw and hard lives they lead.
So you're saying they had a good reason to be fucked up. Then what's your excuse?
Don't turn this into a flame war.
Quote from: dps on October 14, 2011, 04:55:56 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 14, 2011, 04:41:31 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on October 14, 2011, 04:20:50 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 14, 2011, 04:02:43 PM
Those kids are gonna be scarred for life.
There was a time that public executions (including by burning) was a public spectacle. Some may be scarred, but I think people have a bit more mental fortitude than you give them credit for.
Most people back then were fucked up because of the horrible things they saw and hard lives they lead.
So you're saying they had a good reason to be fucked up. Then what's your excuse?
Maybe it's a generational thing, but back when I was in school, we had some teachers we would have supplied gasoline and matches to if we had known that they wanted to set themselves on fire.
:rolleyes:
Complete Bullshit.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 14, 2011, 10:00:38 PM
Quote from: dps on October 14, 2011, 04:55:56 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 14, 2011, 04:41:31 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on October 14, 2011, 04:20:50 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 14, 2011, 04:02:43 PM
Those kids are gonna be scarred for life.
There was a time that public executions (including by burning) was a public spectacle. Some may be scarred, but I think people have a bit more mental fortitude than you give them credit for.
Most people back then were fucked up because of the horrible things they saw and hard lives they lead.
So you're saying they had a good reason to be fucked up. Then what's your excuse?
Maybe it's a generational thing, but back when I was in school, we had some teachers we would have supplied gasoline and matches to if we had known that they wanted to set themselves on fire.
:rolleyes:
Complete Bullshit.
Fuck you, loser. You weren't there, you don't know shit about it. Heck, you barely know shit about stuff you wre around for.
Quote from: dps on October 14, 2011, 10:02:10 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 14, 2011, 10:00:38 PM
Quote from: dps on October 14, 2011, 04:55:56 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 14, 2011, 04:41:31 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on October 14, 2011, 04:20:50 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 14, 2011, 04:02:43 PM
Those kids are gonna be scarred for life.
There was a time that public executions (including by burning) was a public spectacle. Some may be scarred, but I think people have a bit more mental fortitude than you give them credit for.
Most people back then were fucked up because of the horrible things they saw and hard lives they lead.
So you're saying they had a good reason to be fucked up. Then what's your excuse?
Maybe it's a generational thing, but back when I was in school, we had some teachers we would have supplied gasoline and matches to if we had known that they wanted to set themselves on fire.
:rolleyes:
Complete Bullshit.
Fuck you, loser. You weren't there, you don't know shit about it. Heck, you barely know shit about stuff you wre around for.
Very mature. :rolleyes:
Unless I missed something even the homicidal mountain tribes of West Virginia frowned upon the immolation of public school teachers. Even in the 1970s or whenever you went to school.
Damn, Deep. What got into you? :console:
Deck the halls with gas-o-li-ine, fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la...
Anyway, it's interesting to note the correlation of a possibly increasing incidence of mental illness and lack of exposure blood-curdling real-life violence. :hmm:
Quote from: Ideologue on October 14, 2011, 10:06:28 PM
Damn, Deep. What got into you? :console:
Deck the halls with gas-o-li-ine, fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la...
Anyway, it's interesting to note the correlation of a possibly increasing incidence of mental illness and lack of exposure blood-curdling real-life violence. :hmm:
If thats all it is, a dose of the 6 o'clock news usually provides all the real-life violence you could ever want to see.
That's not real-life violence. That's edited and mediated. Don't be ridiculous.
Quote from: Ideologue on October 14, 2011, 10:06:28 PM
Anyway, it's interesting to note the correlation of a possibly increasing incidence of mental illness and lack of exposure blood-curdling real-life violence. :hmm:
Is there really an increasing incidence of mental illness? :huh:
Quote from: Martinus on October 15, 2011, 02:03:45 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 14, 2011, 10:06:28 PM
Anyway, it's interesting to note the correlation of a possibly increasing incidence of mental illness and lack of exposure blood-curdling real-life violence. :hmm:
Is there really an increasing incidence of mental illness? :huh:
I doubt it, today's culture is more open, aware, and caring about it but I doubt there is a significant increase.
Quote from: Martinus on October 15, 2011, 02:03:45 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 14, 2011, 10:06:28 PM
Anyway, it's interesting to note the correlation of a possibly increasing incidence of mental illness and lack of exposure blood-curdling real-life violence. :hmm:
Is there really an increasing incidence of mental illness? :huh:
Possibly not, no. It was just a joke. There is certainly a higher incidence of diagnosed mental illness. On the other hand, we're farther away than ever from the niche our psyches evolved to deal with.
QuoteVery mature.
Coming from a guy that posts Abe Lincoln riding a bear.
Anyway, I've never really liked hot teachers. It's hard enough to pay attention to a lecture even if I don't want to fuck the Crim Pro instructor's brains out. And that's why I took it with Edward Said's son instead.
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 15, 2011, 08:08:57 AM
QuoteVery mature.
Coming from a guy that posts Abe Lincoln riding a bear.
And not the good way either.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 14, 2011, 04:41:31 PM
Most people back then were fucked up because of the horrible things they saw and hard lives they lead.
You know this with such certainty, were you around or what? :hmm:
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