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    Johnny ChundersAlex Pareene
    4/22/16 1:51pm

    Celebrity deaths are different than they used to be. Years ago you would only learn about it on the evening news when Peter Jennings or whoever would have a 30-second segment about how Jimmy Stewart or whoever died and your parents would go “Oh that’s too bad” and you’d go back to eating your salisbury streak or whatever.

    Getting old means that you are now the person that has to say “Oh that’s too bad” but there is also this internet thing where the collective mourning acquires a life of its that was maybe never possible back in the day?

    I don’t have a point.

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      Gabby SnapsJohnny Chunders
      4/22/16 2:00pm

      You made a brilliant point.

      Fucking grieving has become theatre and everyone bends over backwards to display how emotionally deep they are by expressing emotions for an individual they’ve never met.

      How many people would have expressed this same conspicuous grief and misplaced affection for Cosby had we never learned of his private life?

      People are intensely dumb and dangerous.

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      ApexermanJohnny Chunders
      4/22/16 2:05pm

      Not a bad point. It’s a social media, 24/7 online world. We’re more connected. It’s easier to share joy, it’s easier to share pain.

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    Sean BrodyAlex Pareene
    4/22/16 1:34pm

    I know this is an obvious thing to say, but all the songs sound different now, and it’s bumming me out that I can’t hear them the same way again.

    Don’t mean to be maudlin. I just really dug that guy.

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      FreeRonSean Brody
      4/22/16 1:36pm

      I am the same way with 2pac. Sometimes, the lyrics become more poignant once the artist passes.

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      GregoireSean Brody
      4/22/16 1:41pm

      Don’t mean to be maudlin.

      I read this as Maude-lin’ as in ‘to do stuff in the persona of Maude’.

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    GeorgeGeoffersonLivesAlex Pareene
    4/22/16 1:49pm

    Margaret Thatcher.
    She died recently and she was an icon. She stood for everything we wanted from a woman in her position. She made a change.

    A lot of British musicians were very much opposed to her.
    I don’t know about that. Me and Geri were not. The rest of our group loved her.

    Girl, bye.

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      FowlTemptress (aka hercules q. einstein)GeorgeGeoffersonLives
      4/22/16 1:56pm

      Well, no one ever said the spice girls were smart. Their combined iq is probably under 200 (including Posh, I don’t care if everyone loves her, I think she’s lame).

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      You might be wrong.GeorgeGeoffersonLives
      4/22/16 4:23pm

      For all of people’s perceptions of him, he was still profoundly rich and profoundly religious. That’s exactly the kind of politician I’d expect him to hold in high regard.

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    signofthenineAlex Pareene
    4/22/16 1:38pm

    Here, he gives his thoughts on mortality, and makes it clear that he would have wanted you to be partying right now.

    As a matter of fact:

    http://www.theonion.com/article/nation…

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      Brandonsignofthenine
      4/22/16 1:44pm

      The Onion is a fucking national treasure.

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      opiumsmabytchsignofthenine
      4/22/16 3:46pm

      Dammit you beat me to it.

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    opiumsmabytchAlex Pareene
    4/22/16 3:44pm

    The Onion, as usual, nails it.

    http://www.theonion.com/article/nation…

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      Downton FlabbyAlex Pareene
      4/22/16 1:37pm

      “Tell me what you want, what you really really want” – Mel B

      “I wanna be your lover” - Prince

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        Johnny NosebleedAlex Pareene
        4/22/16 1:42pm

        I figured he wasn’t afraid ‘cause it's way easier to get a camel at 3 am in the afterlife than in Minnesota.

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          Dr_ZoidbergAlex Pareene
          4/22/16 1:51pm

          You know, I’m afraid to die. Not because of some nebulous idea of an afterlife, but because I don’t want to miss what happens next in the world.

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            Meat HelmetDr_Zoidberg
            4/22/16 6:04pm

            Same here...I know I’ll never find out about life on other planets and that kills me.

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          Diego MartinezAlex Pareene
          4/22/16 1:37pm

          I think I understand where he is coming from about not celebrating birthdays...

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            hanging gardensDiego Martinez
            4/22/16 1:50pm

            It could’ve also just been the Jehova’s Witness thing.

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