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Re: [Expletive Deleted] You, 2016
« Reply #15 on: December 30, 2016, 04:41:40 pm »
Quote from: Morag;200553
A) This is a shitty thing to say to people in mourning. You must be so welcome at funerals.

B) Tell that to Anton Yelchin.

C) Carrie Fisher was 60. Alan Rickman was not yet 70. Many of the artists we lost this year were around their late 60s. In a time when life expectancy in the Western World is around 80, they were by no means "old" or at an age where their deaths could be expected.


Actually though, he's right (except maybe the substance abuse.  At least for me.  I'm fifty.  A lot of people have died that I remember from my child hood,  (Richard Adams, Irving, Florence Henderson), they are plain old.  My generation (fisher, Bowie, rickman) are hitting the age when dying starts happening because it does, heart attacks cancer etc.  Then there are always a number of youngsters who die due to accident illness and sometimes drugs.  We notice them because they are the recent ones and they make the news because it is unexpected for them to die.
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Re: [Expletive Deleted] You, 2016
« Reply #16 on: December 30, 2016, 05:03:48 pm »
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I'm DONE with this year.


No major celebrities died today. 2016 must be going soft in its old age.
The first song sets the wheel in motion / The second is a song of love / The third song tells of Her devotion / The fourth cries joy from the sky above
The fifth song binds our fate to silence / and bids us live each moment well / The sixth unleashes rage and violence / The seventh song has truth to tell
The last song echoes through the ages / to ask its question all night long / And close the circle on these pages / These, the metamythos songs

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Re: [Expletive Deleted] You, 2016
« Reply #17 on: December 30, 2016, 07:14:09 pm »
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No major celebrities died today. 2016 must be going soft in its old age.
It's only 7:15 EST. Please, don't tempt it.
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Re: [Expletive Deleted] You, 2016
« Reply #18 on: December 30, 2016, 09:00:17 pm »
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It's only 7:15 EST. Please, don't tempt it.


The news ran an RIP segment this evening; unlike previous years, it was mostly people I had heard of. Some of whom I didn't know had died until I saw it.
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Re: [Expletive Deleted] You, 2016
« Reply #19 on: December 31, 2016, 12:10:18 am »
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(I am very welcome at their funerals btw, as my profession ensured that their families were well provided for. Some I attend, some not - depending on whether I felt I'd be intruding too much on private grief).

 
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Re: [Expletive Deleted] You, 2016
« Reply #20 on: December 31, 2016, 05:08:55 am »
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No major celebrities died today. 2016 must be going soft in its old age.

Alas, minor celebrities weren't so lucky. Tyrus Wong died yesterday, if you care about old Disney artists. He was 106, believe it or not.
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Re: [Expletive Deleted] You, 2016
« Reply #21 on: January 01, 2017, 01:19:55 am »
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Alas, minor celebrities weren't so lucky. Tyrus Wong died yesterday, if you care about old Disney artists. He was 106, believe it or not.

 
I saw that headline! I didn't realize he was the primary influence on how Bambi was illustrated. It's awful how little-known he and other Asian American animators are/were.
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Re: [Expletive Deleted] You, 2016
« Reply #22 on: January 01, 2017, 01:23:12 am »
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From George Takei's Twitter:
 

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Re: [Expletive Deleted] You, 2016
« Reply #23 on: January 01, 2017, 02:04:51 am »
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Just hanging this here.

BYE 2016! DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOUR ASS ON THE WAY OUT!

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Re: [Expletive Deleted] You, 2016
« Reply #24 on: January 01, 2017, 11:52:27 am »
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D'you think the Mayans might have been off by four years?

 
? Why? 2011 was a very bad year when thousands died at Fukushima.
2012 was a dark year, and each year has its disasters. I remember 2016 as the year when my grandfather passed away and how so many innocent civilians at Allepo were killed. I don't consider the deaths of celebrities as the reason for 2016 being a bad year.

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Re: [Expletive Deleted] You, 2016
« Reply #25 on: January 01, 2017, 09:57:38 pm »
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Just hanging this here.

BYE 2016! DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOUR ASS ON THE WAY OUT!

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I couldn't have said it better myself. GOOD RIDDANCE.
The first song sets the wheel in motion / The second is a song of love / The third song tells of Her devotion / The fourth cries joy from the sky above
The fifth song binds our fate to silence / and bids us live each moment well / The sixth unleashes rage and violence / The seventh song has truth to tell
The last song echoes through the ages / to ask its question all night long / And close the circle on these pages / These, the metamythos songs

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Re: [Expletive Deleted] You, 2016
« Reply #26 on: January 01, 2017, 09:58:27 pm »
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From George Takei's Twitter:


Perfect. Takei strikes again!
The first song sets the wheel in motion / The second is a song of love / The third song tells of Her devotion / The fourth cries joy from the sky above
The fifth song binds our fate to silence / and bids us live each moment well / The sixth unleashes rage and violence / The seventh song has truth to tell
The last song echoes through the ages / to ask its question all night long / And close the circle on these pages / These, the metamythos songs

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