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Tears too easily spilt
May 16 2008 By Maureen Messent
I'M PUZZLED at pictures in this newspaper that show Blues' fans in tears at their team's relegation last weekend.
Disappointment I can understand. A corporate deflation I can also understand. But tears? I think not.
The weepers were displaying a minor epidemic of that emotional diarrhoea that afflicted the populace at Di's death.
How small-minded can you be in a world where children's corpses are being dug out of Burmese villages that you can cry over a football demotion? How would these damp-eyed ultra-sensitive wimps react to a tragedy like that unfolded in Sudan or now China?
Their lives must be intolerably threadbare and empty, their relationships barren, if their tears are so quick to be spilt.
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