geoffpikey
12:57 Thu Jan 14
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Marston Hammer 10:59 Thu Jan 14
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You say, "I wonder what percentage of those moaning on social media about how upset they are could name his last three albums."
That's hardly the point, sir, with respect. People move on: "ordinary" people, artists, sportsmen. I have no real idea what Sir Trevor Brooking does these days, in tangible terms. Doesn't mean I won't be sad when he goes...
Imagine the grieving here on WHO if it happened tomorrow!
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BRANDED
12:49 Thu Jan 14
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Steve Bacons Lenscap 10:12 Thu Jan 14
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What you're saying is there are levels of grief that are acceptable right? If its the right person or people and the grief is in some kind of proportion?
What a load of cock.
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Darlo Debs
12:28 Thu Jan 14
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Sorry for your loss Norman. R.I.P to your dad.
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Marston Hammer
10:59 Thu Jan 14
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I wonder what percentage of those moaning on social media about how upset they are could name his last three albums.
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Trevor B
10:59 Thu Jan 14
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I think the Allardyce thing was more obsession than meltdown!
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Darby_
10:58 Thu Jan 14
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Some people have emotional meltdowns about Bowie. Some have them about Sam Allardyce. It's just a matter of what you think is important.
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Trevor B
10:56 Thu Jan 14
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SBL
You are right mate, but I think you've missed the point of Polite's thread. He isn't talking about people saying it's a sad day, that they will miss his music, that he influenced them and therefore they feel some sort of loss. We all get that, and as you say there is nothing wrong with someone saying they are gutted. It's more about the faux grief that a lot of people go OTT with in order to make it all about themselves and to gain some attention on social media.
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Steve Bacons Lenscap
10:12 Thu Jan 14
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I actually agree with the basic thrust of the argument but there's a huge difference between, if you take Bowie's death for example, painting a lightning flash on your face and taking the tube to Brixton and hanging about for the cameras like some bird did and posting anonymously something like "what a...sad day. Just want it to be over".
The reason I picked this quote was it was mine.
British cultural icon dies = sad day =fact.
Wanting the day to be over precisely to avoid the media feeding frenzy being talked about. We move on.
Also, someone saying they're "gutted" is hardly emotional incontinence.
Like I said, I broadly agree, just think people 'thinking out aloud' on a forum isn't particularly over the top. Especially, for someone whose music meant a lot to so many.
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Eerie Descent
9:18 Thu Jan 14
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It's not exactly a new debate, is it? And it's hardly a growing hobby, in fact, it reached its zenith with Princess Diana, and Christopher Hitchens did a fantastic hour long feature about it.
That was in 1997
People have been like this for a long time.
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Marston Hammer
8:54 Thu Jan 14
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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/13/dont-deride-those-mourning-david-bowie-this-grief-serious-and-rational?CMP=share_btn_tw
Twaddle
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normannomates
2:35 Thu Jan 14
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Thanks chaps.
Been posting on here all week..blocking it out I guess.
He's a Geordie...I'm half Geordie.
Life has a funny old way of working..twist of fate that we are playing up there this wknd.
I've only posted on here about this..I have facebook...but haven't mentioned anything.
I'm a private person in the main.
Why I've mentioned it here..maybe I feel some sort of brotherhood here believe it or not.
Take care people..and live your lives best you can.
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Mr Anon
2:25 Thu Jan 14
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normannomates 2:15 Thu Jan 14
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Sorry for your loss Norm, a moment we all dread.
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Takashi Miike
2:17 Thu Jan 14
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sorry to hear that norman. I lost my old man ten years ago and still miss him every day. all the best mate to you
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normannomates
2:15 Thu Jan 14
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I'm off up to Newcastle Friday..
My Dad died last Thursday evening at 21.29.
Lung cancer.
His service is on Wednesday 20th..
I'm the only one down here..so on my own.
Don't know why I've shared this...just have I guess.
Still going to the game sat though...he would like that
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Garth Algar
1:35 Thu Jan 14
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One of my favourite threads this. Echoes my own thoughts in many of the posts.
What makes me even more annoyed is that when someone posts their 'respects' on facebook / twitter, the amount of 'likes' is off the fucking chart!
Almost as if people dare not .
Load of cheese on toast bollocks
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clarky
1:32 Thu Jan 14
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Personal grief has gone out the window sadly, people can't lose a loved one without documenting every moment for the world to see!
Have some dignity you cunts! Keep it to yourself! It's not about you, you self absorbed loathsome shit!
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1chop
1:24 Thu Jan 14
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mashed in maryland 4:56 Wed Jan 13
That blog posted up proves you point.
The dozy tart is moaning about about people pouring out their grief but in the same article she manages to go on about what she been doing during and works in the fact that her kid topped himself.
Saying no marks are using Bowie's death to gain their own bit of publicity while she's doing exactly the same thing.
Fantastic bit of self awareness from the stupid bitch.
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claret on my shirt
9:22 Wed Jan 13
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Have you seen the grieving that happens on this site if we go one down to Bournemouth or Noble does not play a 50 yard defensive splitting pass?
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Hammer and Pickle
9:07 Wed Jan 13
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My thoughts - here goes:
Respect, empathy and authenticity - if you can do that when anyone bows out all's well and good.
It's problematic when it's a massive media personality because the context is not physical and anyone can claim your grief is merely visceral herd instinct, but fuck 'em, if you really feel it, it's real.
Not as if you are trying to turn the country into a police state anyway.
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Sven Roeder
9:00 Wed Jan 13
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If the Queen ( sorry, WHEN) dies we WILL get a day off won't we?
So all the wet lettuces who couldn't face work wouldn't have to suffer that ordeal.
About July on a Friday would suit me.
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Mr Polite
8:53 Wed Jan 13
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Mashed
If the queen died you would have more people posting how they didn't care - on here at least. But overall it would be the same as any celeb, except more of it as she is so well known.
You would have people paying tribute to the hard word she put in throughout her life.
You would then have people saying how gutted they are how even though she was old it has really affected them.
In my humble, tributes to someone are nice, right and proper. The faux grief is pathetic.
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