Who was it who said 1 death is a tragedy, but 10,000 is a statistic?

Apart from me just now.

Posted By: yarmyyarmy on March 13th 2011 at 19:06:48

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things not looking too good in Japan today (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 17:50:22
- bloke on skynews... (General Chat) - Tombs, Mar 13, 18:45:12
  - I was just thinking about the same. Why the urge to count? (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:49:12
    - Who was it who said 1 death is a tragedy, but 10,000 is a statistic? (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Mar 13, 19:06:48
      - Robbie Savage? (n/m) (General Chat) - usacanary, Mar 13, 19:16:53
        
        is a cunt (n/m) (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 19:27:10
      - stalin (n/m) (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Mar 13, 19:09:49
    - i'd have thought so (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Mar 13, 18:54:11
      - value of property destroyed is probably fairer (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:56:11
        
        so property is more important than human life?! (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Mar 13, 18:57:07
        
        no, just a better way of evaluating and rating disasters (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:57:59
      - that's a refreshing change then (General Chat) - Tombs, Mar 13, 18:56:03
  - I see they resued one bloke (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 18:47:54
    - saw that and the three old biddy's in a car which was covered in mud (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Mar 13, 18:52:18
    - yeah, I just watched some vids of the tsunamis though (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:51:33
      - on a less serious note (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 18:53:27
        
        it looked a bit shit tbf, more like the sea just rose 30ft in height suddenly (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:55:33
- other side of the world (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Mar 13, 17:55:01
  - I feel sorry for the poor fuckers, massive earthquake, huge tsunami (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 17:57:46
- Aftershock of 8.0 expected by Geological Survey Experts (n/m) (General Chat) - UtterlyHuckerby, Mar 13, 17:51:32
  - it really is beyond belief (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 17:57:13
    - from what i heard on the radio this morning (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Mar 13, 18:05:25
    - they were a due a big one weren't they? (General Chat) - SCC 28, Mar 13, 18:02:23
    - I trust the Japanese to put this right (General Chat) - LowestoftBoy, Mar 13, 18:02:10
      - "Japan's nuclear industry has a tarnished image" (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:03:38
        
        Thankfully, the procedures were in place to find that out (n/m) (General Chat) - LowestoftBoy, Mar 13, 18:06:29
        
        agreed (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Mar 13, 18:04:52
        
        also agree but (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 18:07:16
    - they probably are the best prepared, but they aren't in enough control to (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 17:59:12
      - according to the nuclear whizz kids on the BBC (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 18:05:11
        
        I really liked the bloke they had on the BBC. (General Chat) - Arganth, Mar 13, 18:27:14
        
        I don't remember people panicking *that* much about Chernobyl at the time (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:09:23
        
        that`s because (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 18:11:38
        
        and because (General Chat) - LowestoftBoy, Mar 13, 18:15:42
        
        the fact is they may not be able to stop these exploding either (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:13:15
        
        they can't explode like chernobyl can they? (General Chat) - SCC 28, Mar 13, 18:18:02
        
        No, don't think so (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 13, 18:22:24
        
        that`s what I heard too (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 18:20:22
        
        let's hope not. I'd hope their emergency is a little better than Russia's 30 years ago (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:22:47
        
        it could well come to that (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 18:16:22
        
        iI don't think there's much they can do, except the concrete tomb thing (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:20:15
        
        anyway, I hope this puts the chilean govt off letting those cunts Suez build one here (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:25:10
  - that won't help the nuclear meltdown much (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 17:52:53
    - Even a meltdown isn't disastrous so long as it's contained within the steel container (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 13, 18:11:12
      - meltdown will result in the metal containment chamber being breached though... (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:13:51
        
        Not necessarily - indeed they're just saying the same thing on the BBC... (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 13, 18:19:23
        
        incidently ( a little off topic but relevent) (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 18:24:08
        
        Gotta say, I've started watching NHK, CCTV and Russia Today more than BBC or Sky. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Mar 13, 18:28:56
        
        Russia Today isn't the most neutral of news channels! (n/m) (General Chat) - Brandonio, Mar 13, 18:42:44
        
        No, it's not. (General Chat) - Arganth, Mar 13, 18:48:15
        
        indeed (General Chat) - Tombs, Mar 13, 19:03:22
        
        I've got a BBC World cable channel (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:27:03
        
        I have BBC World; but it's generally shit (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 13, 18:26:49
        
        I think it's ok. When there's big news the coverage is pretty decent (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:28:42
        
        Oh, yeah there's CNN too; but that's a waste of time (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 13, 18:41:16
        
        must admit (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 18:46:34
        
        Robert Fisk at the Indy for anything Middel East related (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 13, 18:52:29
        
        no, but it's a grave danger surely. I think it depends how much fuel goes into meltdown (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:21:00
        
        lust watching the beeb now (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 18:43:26
        
        I'm no expert - follow arclight & thisismusic on twitter (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 13, 18:24:40

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