Who's death made more Brits happy?

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Brits seem to have their priorities messed up.

[ingemann]

Brits seem to have their priorities messed up.

Seeing as Bin Ladens death made Americans more happy than Gadaphphy's, maybe they are not the only one with messed up priorities, or maybe British people focus on things which effect them before things which effect others like everybody.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

OBL affected the entire world. Thatcher mostly only affected Britian.

[Famous Mortimer]

I look forward to Charlie Brooker's 2013 Wipe in 8 months time.

I wonder if he'll bemoan the reaction to Thatcher's death the way he did the reaction to Gaddaffi's in his 2012 Wipe.

[LastVoter]

Why should OBL's death make anyone happy? He probably affected 100,000 personally given the most generous estimate. The rest of America(soldiers in Iraq, military expansion etc etc) was affected thanks to the right-wing politicians that are always elected by it's uneducated working class. Thatcher on other hand affected millions of people on UK in a very negative way... The answer here seems to be very obvious.  A lot of people have emotional/irrational response to terrorism.

[You kip if you want to...]

OBL never attacked us, Maggie did.

/troll

[minionofmidas]

WHow could anyone who is not a particularly depraved and degraded loser feel any kind of happyness at the coldblooded murder of a long-fallen foe? Beat me at the time, and does still.
I've seen worse things in my life than the American (and, if to a lesser degree, also the European) reaction to Bin Laden's death, but not many more disgusting things.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

There's a general "for f&)#'s sake" that I think deserves to be attached to this...

[freefair]

If we were to measure net satisfaction/happiness/unitlity somehow, There are more pro than anti Thatcher people in the UK (I'd guess 3:2). Not all anti-Thatcher people will have been truly happy with her death, and there will be many millions who were saddened by it.
Whereas almost nobody felt sad at OBL's death, everyone was to some degree happy with it, but few as happy as a US citizen.
Edit- Should I have dignified this with a serious answer?

[patrick1]

WHow could anyone who is not a particularly depraved and degraded loser feel any kind of happyness at the coldblooded murder of a long-fallen foe? Beat me at the time, and does still.
I've seen worse things in my life than the American (and, if to a lesser degree, also the European) reaction to Bin Laden's death, but not many more disgusting things.

Guess that makes me a degraded loser. Oh well. As a Christian, I'd give you standard forgiveness etc but f' that as a New Yorker I am glad he is dead and would have no compunction pulling the trigger.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Why should OBL's death make anyone happy? He probably affected 100,000 personally given the most generous estimate. The rest of America(soldiers in Iraq, military expansion etc etc) was affected thanks to the right-wing politicians that are always elected by it's uneducated working class. Thatcher on other hand affected millions of people on UK in a very negative way... The answer here seems to be very obvious.  A lot of people have emotional/irrational response to terrorism.

OBL affected the entire world.

Mabye I should have changed the question. "Who's death made more people happy?" instead of only Brits.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

This is a really bizarre thread, but then it's created by one of the weirdest people here, so, meh.

[Zanas]

Mabye I should have changed the question. "Who's death made more people happy?" instead of only Brits.

Maybe you should have changed the question to "Whose death made more people happy ?"

Brits seem to have their priorities messed up.

You seem to have your spelling messed up.

[All Along The Watchtower]

what is this thread

[batmacumba]

Shouldn't It be 'whose'?

[bgwah]

This thread is just embarrassing.