Discussion Awesome / RealLife

Declined the cut request because Moment of Awesome is not No Real Life Examples, Please! and the cut was requested unilaterally.

Removed the following Natter that violated Example Indentation.

Titanic example in the Disasters section.

• But it led to an unfortunate and highly caustic moment after when their employer sent a letter to the father of a deceased violinist, billing him for the rest of his monthly salary and lost uniform.

Hong Kong Phooey example in the Human Rights section.

• Today, Hong Kong Phooey, like many Fair for Its Day creations, is considered one of the most racist cartoons of all time.

4chan example in the Legal/Criminal section

• Possibly averted. Sources from the town where this happened state that the boy's family is good friends with the town's sheriff and that the cat went right back into that household.
  kenny-glenn.net: My name is (removed), I live in Lawton, OK and I have first-hand knowledge of the fact that the 2 cats being abused in that video, have not gone anywhere but back home to his abuser. I know for a fact that the Glenn’s and Sheriff Stradley are best buddies, I have witnessed Kenny (Christopher) Glenn telling the Sheriff that “I’ll see you when you come over to the house later.” Nobody has been punished, the cats are still where they came from in the first place. For personal reasons I can’t give you more info then that, I am just letting you know that absolutely nothing has happened to the animal abuser. The media ordeal was all a big show to make the public think that the abuser got punished...
  • Hopefully the guy who posted that is a troll lying his ass off to mess with those who saved the cat because nothing else came of this and noone is investigating this further. Dusty The Cat is likely safe and Kenny has been punished.

Galileo example in the Science section

• This is actually a popular misconception, as are many other things about the Gallileo trial

This entry also violates Weblinks Are Not Examples and Repair, Don't Respond.

Is the entry that says "The response of this teenage waitress when confronted by a violent, angry customer..." linked properly? The link is currently showing a story about a sub sandwich that doesn't involve any violence.

Nord Ronnoc deleted these two examples:

• For many years it was joked that Great Britain was one of the few countries in the world that had no Independence Day to celebrate, because Britain was the country everyone else had won their independence from. Then came June 23, 2016, when the British people defied elite opinion in their own country and abroad and voted to regain their independence from the European Union.

• Donald Trump winning the Presidency in 2016. First, there was the fact that he won the Republican nomination while spending less than any other candidate except Kasich (by way of comparison, Clinton and Sanders each spent more than three times as much in the Democratic primaries as Trump spent in the Republican primaries), and then won the general election while spending less than half of what his opponent spent. Then there was the fact that almost every poll and pundit was predicting that he would lose. From the moment he entered the race, all "respectable" opinion, on both sides, assured the public that Trump could not possibly win, and that he would take the Republican Party down to defeat with him. And then came election day, when Trump not only won, but led the Republican Party to what is arguably its greatest victory, and certainly to holding the greatest number of elected offices, since the twenties. There wasn't a "deplorable" in America who didn't feel a little bit taller that day.

His reasons were "Bretix [sic] is not awesome" and "Yeah, not awesome in context", respectively.

He added this example:

• The Women's March, starting out as a local protest group on Facebook, has grown and attracted two million members and over 600 marches worldwide. On January 21, 2017, it had over 500,000 attendees marching down in Washington DC, with similar turnouts in major American cities like Chicago and Los Angeles. Trump's inauguration had less than 250,000 at its peak. The purpose? It was to protect civil rights of religious and ethnic minorities and the LGBT community.

I guess he supposes that this page is Crowning Moments of Leftism. I disagree with that. I think that if this page is going to have a category for politics, it should be open to a variety of political persuasions. I do not think that the example he posted ought to be deleted, although I don't think it's awesome at all. I think it was rather pathetic, but different people see the world differently. The question is whether this page is going to be open to differing points of view. I think the examples he deleted ought to be put back. I spoke to a moderator about this, and he encouraged me to bring it to the discussion page for other users to chime in. So that's what I'm doing now. I think we are generally better off if we at least try to see the world from others' points of view, instead of just deleting entries we disagree with. I hope other users will agree with me.

Seriously, what happened to the C Mo A for Sports? I didn't see anything controversial from what I recall. Sports is practically a haven for these kinds of moments.

For Awesome / Real Life, where can we put the SALMON CANNON? Science? Technology? Humanitarian? 'Cause I'm with John Oliver on this one, this is one of the greatest achievements in human history.

Why did the Martin Bashir example get deleted? Sarah Palin went on about slavery, and he ended up telling her "THIS is what slavery is like, grow up". For people that are sick and tired of hearing various Strawman Political types rant about slavery without considering what actual slaves went through, it's seriously refreshing.

How about what happened in Boston the week of April 15, 2013?

I'd like to contest the Alexander Fleming entry. Whilst he is credited with creating penicillin, I don't think he deserves it. By chance, mould spores landed in a culture plate while he was on holiday; he noticed that they killed harmful bacteria, experimented some and wrote an article about it in 1928/29, and did nothing more, not realising the potential for penicillin nor developing it further.

It wasn't until 1937, when Ernst Chain, Howard Florey, and Norman Heatly came along, that his paper emerged from obscurity and people began working on the drug. The team of men slowly devised methods for extracting and purifying penicillin despite having little funding, eventually gathering enough to start tests on mice and, at last, people. Their perseverance after the first two patients died*

At this point, though, Fleming steps into the scene again. He went public with Florey & co.'s discoveries, and got all the credit. The spotlight meant that government funding — from both England and America — was poured into research and production, but that would have happened anyway when the group had enough results to be sponsored by a pharmaceutical company. Fleming was honoured several times for his supposed contributions despite doing little work.

The effects of penicillin then and now are great; by the 1944 D-Day landings there was enough to treat all wounded soldiers there, deaths in the war are thought to have been reduced by 12-15% with the use of penicillin, later the US military used 20,000 doses a month (IIRC), and it was the first antibiotic. However, in all, Fleming's part was small and due to chance. He is greatly overcredited in the public mind, and I think either he should be removed and Florey, Heatly, and Chain added. I can't think of a way to include them all without using this giant post.

Did this get nuked or something? It had a lot more examples last time I saw it.

I respectfully ask that you restore the CMOA Sections for History, War and Politics.

Those stories deserve to be told, even if, and especially because, they actually happened.

Tropes can apply just as well to nonfiction as to fiction - and the stories you have deleted so callously were proof positive that Real Life can be Awesome.

...Didn't there used to be a section for "War"? Y'know, American Revolution, Civil War, WWI (WWII had its own section, I remember), Korea & Vietnam, Gulf, etc.?

Most of the Animal examples seem to be generic gushing about species that are awesome, not specific cases where individuals have a moment of awesome. A lot of those ought to be moved to Badass, IMO, apart from the viral videos and similar specific anecdotes of individual animals' awesome feats.

Wait, hang on.

So the Awesome section about war - about the courage, heroism, and humanity that appears in the blackest of conflicts, has been removed...

...yet the Bible gets its own section, with things about how awesome God apparently is for wiping out a city and genociding the population?

I'm sorry, but what the hell? Explain this nonsense. This is BS of the highest order.

Did Auxdarastrix discuss it with anyone before removing 90% of the content on this page? I thought the point of a YMMV entry was to post what individuals thought was awesome/funny/sad/heartwarming without worrying about whether the context might be sensitive - are we really going to be restricted to animals and sports now?

A brief first-person recount of a (black) buddy of mine curbstomping a Nazi. (replacing Troper Tales) We ran before the police got there. It was quick, too. It was me and two friends, and we just tackled him and starting punching him. He tried getting up and punched my one friend off of him, but the other kicked him in the stomach and smashed his head into the street light. I, of course, had to get the last lick, so I said a nice little slur and curb-stomped his face down. Thankfully, barely anyone was there that day, so we just ran into a nearby alley, waited about ten seconds, and then walked into my buddy's car and drove away like nothing happened. Damn.

About that guy comparing the Israeli/Palestian conflict to the Nazi situation.Some people see as a dethroning moment of suck.I am a supporter of Israel but before you cry that I see Israel as a perfect angel who could do no wrong.I believe that Israel is more a grey figure that makes alot of bad decisions and should treat the Palestians better plus understand their situation.However,people who defend Palenstine sometimes just make it too Black and White sometimes.Palestine needs great humanitarian effort but we also need to root out terrorists who call for the total destruction and ethnic cleansing of the Israeli state.Yes,Israel should clean up its act and not try to hurt any more civilians plus they must feel smypathy for the people suffering during war.However,Palestine is not getting off that easy either because this conflict is very grey.Plus Israel doesn't want to wipe out the Palestians but wipe out the terrorists that are causing the problem.Yes,Israel should learn to stop builing houses where Palestians are and have the soldiers treat the civilians and protesters better.However,comparing them to the Nazis just puts an awful godwins law that will not help things.What needs to be done is Israel must have better leaders who can defeat Hamas but have sympathy for the Palestinian civilians.Sorry,that I got on my soap box but having that guy's statement be an amow isn't for me one.

could some one write up a entery for Kurt Denke's letter?