English Idioms

"I am too young to die"

green lemon

User since 2011
Posts: 84

5 Nov. 2011

"I am too young to die" Is that a funny English expression?
This is an excerpt from a Radio Rhubarb'episode "Ray and Rachid dodge a bullet" where the journalist Ray Upton is hovering above the pentagone in an helicopter,a no-fly zone and therefore is threatened by the US Air Force, if they don't land quickly , to be shot and with nuclear missile "svp" because the pilot's name of the copter is Rachid.
And the called Ray Upton to say:"I am too young to die"
As part as the commemoration of the 9/11 many media broadcasted the record of a man who was going to die and who said:"I am too young to die".I have still the timbre of his voice inside me.
This sentence which so many men and woman had prononced in a total powerlessness state.
Your episode would be good(as almost all and funny) to illustrate a certain state of mind in US,paranoïa,racism against
arabian,interesting as well to learn about military vocabulary,one don't ever say!
But using this sentence is obscene.
I heard behind it the snigger of the subhuman person.
Is there someone else who was shocked by that?

"I am too young to die" Is that a funny English expression? 
 This is an excerpt from a Radio Rhubarb'episode "Ray and Rachid dodge a bullet" where the journalist Ray Upton is hovering above the pentagone in an helicopter,a no-fly zone and therefore is threatened by the US Air Force, if they don't land quickly , to be shot and with nuclear missile "svp" because the pilot's name of the copter is Rachid. 
 And the called Ray Upton to say:"I am too young to die" 
 As part as the commemoration of the 9/11 many media broadcasted the record of a man who was going to die and who said:"I am too young to die".I have still the timbre of his voice inside me. 
 This sentence which so many men and woman had prononced in a total powerlessness state. 
 Your episode would be good(as almost all and funny) to illustrate a certain state of mind in US,paranoïa,racism against 
 arabian,interesting as well to learn about military vocabulary,one don't ever say! 
 But using this sentence is obscene. 
 I heard behind it the snigger of the subhuman person. 
 Is there someone else who was shocked by that?

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AhQ ['a: kiu]
User since 2006
Posts: 2715
7 Nov. 2011

I for one wasn't.
I for one wasn't.
Andrew
Moderator
Posts: 58
7 Nov. 2011

F
But using this sentence is obscene.
I heard behind it the snigger of the subhuman person.
Is there someone else who was shocked by that?

Hi Green Lemon. You're easily shocked, I would say. Sometimes humor is just humor, with nothing behind it. 'I'm too young to die' is a common expression, which really doesn't imply anything more than a desire to not die!
[blockquote]F But using this sentence is obscene. I heard behind it the snigger of the subhuman person. Is there someone else who was shocked by that? [/blockquote] Hi Green Lemon. You're easily shocked, I would say. Sometimes humor is just humor, with nothing behind it. 'I'm too young to die' is a common expression, which really doesn't imply anything more than a desire to not die!
eBrain
User since 2009
Posts: 613
7 Nov. 2011

{ Yes, I am shocked that some one who is young just like me can die; if they are twenty years older, I'm not shocked } { by the way, who can it be the subhuman who sniggers ? Are there subhumans in this forum ?}
{ Yes, I am shocked that some one who is young just like me can die; if they are twenty years older, I'm not shocked } { by the way, who can it be the subhuman who sniggers ? Are there subhumans in this forum ?}
green lemon
User since 2011
Posts: 84
7 Nov. 2011

I don't arrive to find that funny when one have heard
this man who understood that he was going to die.
I have however sense of humor.Nobody there hasn't heard this sentence one month ago?
I go on to thinck that it can be an hazard to use it in that scenario and it is the fact of a pervers(something like subhumanity).
I don't arrive to find that funny when one have heard this man who understood that he was going to die. I have however sense of humor.Nobody there hasn't heard this sentence one month ago? I go on to thinck that it can be an hazard to use it in that scenario and it is the fact of a pervers(something like subhumanity).
eBrain
User since 2009
Posts: 613
8 Nov. 2011

Sorry, Green Lemon, I don't agree. In my tiny brains I try to keep the idea I am a mortal and that at any time life can cease. And it doesn't bother me if somebody or some event reminds this to me...
Sorry, Green Lemon, I don't agree. In my tiny brains I try to keep the idea I am a mortal and that at any time life can cease. And it doesn't bother me if somebody or some event reminds this to me...
green lemon
User since 2011
Posts: 84
9 Nov. 2011

"Superman takes off his mask!"
with EpsilonBrain in the main rôle!!!
As for me,I return to my human too much human condition.
"Superman takes off his mask!" with EpsilonBrain in the main rôle!!! As for me,I return to my human too much human condition.
bougmaeti
User since 2009
Posts: 1
23 July 2012

I bet on a certainty that it's false
I bet on a certainty that it's false
green lemon
User since 2011
Posts: 84
24 July 2012

I shouldn't have written this post.It was agressive.But I was really shocked.It is the only one lesson at which I hadn't wanted to answer(I have had 0% and a oups!)out of 250!
250!yes...today, and not yet The 5,5...the next year may be?
I shouldn't have written this post.It was agressive.But I was really shocked.It is the only one lesson at which I hadn't wanted to answer(I have had 0% and a oups!)out of 250! 250!yes...today, and not yet The 5,5...the next year may be?
eBrain
User since 2009
Posts: 613
26 July 2012

agressive against who ? everybody wears at least one mask and it feels good when one can express what he is really thinking ;)
agressive against who ? everybody wears at least one mask and it feels good when one can express what he is really thinking ;)

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