True, but I don't mind people that do, as long as it's not a first post and they want buckets of sympathy. Maybe they don't get the chance to vent in the real world, and so this is their only release?

I suppose it comes from the fact that I don't feel awkward about things. I can talk about horrible things and not stumble too badly. A woman on a forum a while back posted that her husband had cancer and was deathly ill, and I suppose as that's my world her fears for his health and death were not new to me, while other's visibly backed off.

I think as well it's the level of the effect.
One of the most distraught humans I have ever seen was an old man who's budgie died. After that he gave up and died himself, whereas others can cope with the loss of a close one quite well.

My mother in law picked herself up really well after her husband died. She went loopy for a few months and needed loads of support, but now the woman who had never been abroad has been to China and Australia and a load of places inbetween. She saw she had to live life, and although she still sheds the odd tear, she could have easily given up and died herself.

It may be that some kid is moaning about nothing, but to them it is a huge deal, and if it's too annoying, I just don't respond.