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Do you guys compare more recent tragedies to some past event to try to gauge the level of atrocity? When 9/11 happened did people in the UK say this is 6 times worse than the troubles or some shit? Or is that just an American thing?

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[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here in Norway we only measure things in "number of olympic gold medals won in cross-country skiing"

[–] GriffithDidNothingWrong@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see. So I imagine when a terrorist attack happens in another country the prime minister goes on TV and announces, "This was truly (insert country)'s 2014." And then hate crimes against Swedes triples? That wouldn't be so bad

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

surely when measuring a tragedy though, not by size but by emotions, it's just a reference to the last time you lost the Biathlon?