[uhler]

why is everyone talking about death all of sudden?

if anyone wants to start a thread about death from now on, it should only be about the band death.

[afterthefact]

What can I say? This is the winter of my discontent

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by afterthefact

What can I say? This is the winter of my discontent

it's called Seasonal Affective Disorder

[flophousefloozie]

Originally Posted by afterthefact

Shut up, would you?

Why does everybody gets so defensive and aggressive? All I'm saying is that if somebody is a celebrity, their death is more a tragedy to people than somebody who wasn't. Sure, Thurston inspired a lot of people, but Heath Ledger wasn't a huge inspiration. Granted, we all know who he is, so that's why we all would like to know, but when you see people crying on TV about him when they didn't know him any more personally than they did the old lady in the obituary, then it's just rediculous.

Don't tell me to shut up. You're on a chat forumn. You should expect people to have different views. You're certainly asking for it when you start a thread like this.

I think it's pretty ignorant to say that Heath Ledger was not inspirational to anyone. Maybe not to you.

Trust me, I'm not trying to defend him because I'm a fan. I didn't even see Brokeback Mountain.

So, when someone starts a thread entitled "My Mom Died Yesterday", would you tell them to shut up because no one knew there mom? And yes, I know that is stretching it...

[flophousefloozie]

It might seem ridiculous and completely unexpected that people mention a well-known person's death, but we discuss and crtique personal achievements by these people, so ultimately, we will be discussing the death of such people as well. It's unavoidable.

[flophousefloozie]

If Mrs. Elizabeth Bennet Rachel Drew had done something worth discussing, we might be arguing over the relevence of mentioning her death on the board, and you probably would have the same opinion, were she a "famous person".

[!@#$%!]

da-aaamn...

 

[flophousefloozie]

 

EDIT: I'll be here when he gets back...

[jennthebenn]

Originally Posted by Torn Curtain

That reminds of the death of a musician (don't remember who) that was discussed here and Steve Shelley replied to some cynical answers of the same vein "you guys are cold".

Wilson Pickett...pantophobia started that thread.

The only celebrity death that made me cry was Charles Schulz in 2000
because when I was a young girl and just learning to read, Peanuts strip
collections were the first books I remember just devouring. From age 4 on,
Peanuts was huge in my life, from books to the paper to TV to toys. I never
met Schulz but his death (to me) was liking losing a sage uncle.

[uhler]

i cried when sid vicious died, even though i wasn't even alive then. but i think that's why i was crying when i came out of my mom.