The miners: Insensitive capitalists?

[crownie]

they are the last people to even consider calling themselves heroes

wow.

 

[Murray]

Not hero's (did nothing heroic).

The figure is reportedly $2.75 mill

 

[milo]

So they get near on $1.5m each to tell us how they took a dump.

Money well spent.

 

[crownie]

Not hero's (did nothing heroic).

The figure is reportedly $2.75 mill

interesting.

their story was worth $6 Mill until they appeared on the Footy show

 

[crownie]

So they get near on $1.5m each to tell us how they took a dump.

Money well spent.

and listening to ipods and eating cookies

the thing is they came out of the hole unscaved and not traumatized from it, so what can they talk about?

 

[Blues_Man]

and listening to ipods and eating cookies

the thing is they came out of the hole unscaved and not traumatized from it, so what can they talk about?

Whatever they talk about ..it's a given you will be watching and listening with bated breath. oh and BTW it's " unscathed "

 

[crowie]

These two blokes are just ordinary middle class working Aussies who almost lost their lives doing what they have to do to support their families, I doubt that when they were growing up they dreamed of being miners. There was a third fella who actually did lose his life, he hasn't been forgotten by anyone - especially the the other two survivors.

These guys now have the opportunity to profit from their horrific ordeal, how Australian is it then to cut them down. Tall poppy syndrome is alive and well.

They don't owe anyone anything, what they decide to do with their 'second chance' at life is entirly up to them. When it comes to mining these guys were at the bottom of the barrel, the sh*t kickers. So why should it now be their responsiblity to take on a mining safety role or whatever has been suggested?

I'll also ask, who here has or does work in a blue collor environment? If you do or have done then you'd know exactly what types of blokes they are, and wouldn't take their comments/jokes so seriously.

I assume most here are white collor people who work in offices, what would you know about these guys or what they've had to go through before the accident let alone after. Mining isn't sitting at a desk all day, it's bloody hard work. These guys now have the opportunity to get away from that and have reletively easy lives from now on.

I say good one em, bleed the corporations dry. I would, and anyone here who says they wouldn't in the same situation is a lier.

 

[Fogarty]

These two blokes are just ordinary middle class working Aussies who almost lost their lives doing what they have to do to support their families, I doubt that when they were growing up they dreamed of being miners. There was a third fella who actually did lose his life, he hasn't been forgotten by anyone - especially the the other two survivors.

These guys now have the opportunity to profit from their horrific ordeal, how Australian is it then to cut them down. Tall poppy syndrome is alive and well.

They don't owe anyone anything, what they decide to do with their 'second chance' at life is entirly up to them. When it comes to mining these guys were at the bottom of the barrel, the sh*t kickers. So why should it now be their responsiblity to take on a mining safety role or whatever has been suggested?

I'll also ask, who here has or does work in a blue collor environment? If you do or have done then you'd know exactly what types of blokes they are, and wouldn't take their comments/jokes so seriously.

I assume most here are white collor people who work in offices, what would you know about these guys or what they've had to go through before the accident let alone after. Mining isn't sitting at a desk all day, it's bloody hard work. These guys now have the opportunity to get away from that and have reletively easy lives from now on.

I say good one em, bleed the corporations dry. I would, and anyone here who says they wouldn't in the same situation is a lier.

well said crowie