R.I.P Archie Battersbee

Harvey Kartel wrote on 08/08/22 at 12:16:58:



I also think ''Xanadu'' is pretty neat, never realized that ONJ was involved.
Also, not even one tiny mention about Grease ?   It's pretty much her biggest legacy, with the ''Physical'' videoclip as a distant second.


As for the impression of more celebrities dying, I also felt so a bit, and tried to understand. My reasoning is such :

- The older you get, the more people you know
- The older you get, the older they also get, thus more chances of them passing away.
- The more time passes, the more avenue people get to become ''famous'' (internet being the main source of Q-Mark here), so the more people whose eventual demise will be noticeable AND widely talked about.


If I may get a but philosophical, it really is just the normal cycle of life that living being that occupied your past eventually fade away, which is why cultivating space for new people to have meaning in the present and future is the way to go. Nostalgia can be cozy, but let's not neglect the contemporary pleasures.

R.I.P Raymond Briggs, creator of The Snowman

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62490170

We have lost the life of national treasure Josephine Tewson. She was Elizabeth, the nervous next-door neighbour in Keeping up Appearances and Miss Davenport in Last of the Summer Wine

Toddmk7 wrote on 09/08/22 at 09:52:18:


Morbid coincidence :  Her death comes 8 days after the 25th anniversary of the death of her ex-daughter-in-law Diana Spencer.

Harvey Kartel wrote on 09/09/22 at 18:42:51:

You are aware of Britain's long history of colonialism, right? Even if you accept decolonization as 100% successful, I'm not sure how anyone could look back on what they've done in places such as India, China, Ireland, Africa, and several others and be proud of it.

Vinnie927 wrote on 09/09/22 at 19:42:02:


Of course, but the fact that they were able to colonise so much of the world was proof that they were one of the most advanced civilizations on the planet for the latter half of the last millennium. Plus, they helped their language to become the most important language to know in the world bar none.  (Sorry French though you did have your turn.)

While the colonial British Empire may not have exactly pampered their overseas subjects through the centuries, we've got to give the devil his due and admire the fact that they (and the French) actually possessed the means to claim large chunks of the globe for their Kings and Queens of old, propagating their languages and cultures in the process.

So I mourn along with the 60 million people of a truly "Great" Britain as well as the billion-plus people across the Commonwealth countries. It really is a sad time for one of the most successful and prosperous nations in human history.

Without derailing this thread too much further, I admit I know almost nothing about your country so I can't make any definitive statements about it, but based on what you said it would be incorrect to characterize colonialism as a 100% evil which killed everything it touched. Like you said, it does seem a bit out of touch when people say things like 'you'd have been happier without any Western influence whatsoever!' because people imagine the good stuff will happen anyway, and if you get rid of the bad stuff nothing good will disappear.

Some people (including myself to some extent) feel that praising the Queen is essentially sweeping all of the horrors of colonialism, and the monarchy as a whole, under the rug. I am aware that decolonization essentially happened entirely under her reign, so to characterize her as nothing but a bloodthirsty psychopath who loved genocide is clearly a gigantic stretch. But at the same time, she didn't have a spotless record. It really does seem that both groups of people completely ignore some of the things she's done, with some thinking the good things are irrelevant when compared to the bad things, and others thinking that the good things do balance out.

I didn't want to immediately discount what you had to say because it doesn't line up with the people I follow on Twitter, because of course your perspective is far closer to what's actually happening than that of an American who's never left the country. At the same time, I admit I am hesitant to take it at face value. What I can glean is that this is a complicated topic where it is almost impossible to have absolute statements, so making such statements as I did is ultimately unproductive, even if I still agree with them, because what I said was reductive. You didn't necessarily misinterpret me, it's just a difference of opinion where I reduced mine to the point where you couldn't really have a meaningful discussion regarding it.

I am trying to speak more about topics like this, and I really do appreciate your response because it's much more civil than you'd find on Twitter or Reddit.

no control wrote on 09/14/22 at 07:05:22:


Your analogy falls apart here. We really are a bunch of monsters trying to kill the planet, as seen with the growing number of entirely human-caused climate disasters (see floods in Pakistan this week, for example). There are people, I would say many people, who know this to be true, but there is little action being taken to prevent this. I would blame the people in power, who have financial interest in not taking action to save ourselves and the planet.

The same I think would apply to colonialism. There were certainly people at the time who understood the horrors of colonialism and would have campaigned and protested to end it. And there were people in power, such as the monarchy, who had a vested interest in maintaining it. So to say that we can't judge them I think is stupid. The standards of human morality have not changed so much in say, 75 years, that the abject destruction and exploitation of colonialism was fine back then.

If you clowns want a politics thread go make one!

>queen survives the pandemic dying peacefully in her 90's


After all the fake announcements for years it caught me off guard it was finally official this time, lel.

NEW

Fred Franzia once said that if you get a group of consumers together and have a blind tasting between his $2 wine and a pricier $10 wine, most wouldn't be able to taste the difference.  The champion of affordable wine dies at age 79.

A truly brilliant mind on calling bullshit and selling shit!

Aldi sells wine for $3 here.

Toddmk7 wrote on 09/30/22 at 09:08:56:


What could have been...


Late rapper Coolio will be featured in an upcoming episode of the "Futurama" reboot that he recorded weeks before his death.

The "Gangsta's Paradise" emcee, who died Wednesday at 59, will reprise his role of Kwanzaa-bot, the subversive series' Kwanzaa counterpart to its Santa Claus Robot and the Hanukkah Zombie. The rapper recorded both new music and original dialogue for the animated sci-fi comedy's 2023 revival on Hulu, according to series executive producer David X. Cohen.

“Coolio was one of my favorite guests,” Cohen told TMZ. “He was always totally upbeat and genuinely enjoyed coming in to record as his character Kwanzaa-bot.”

Not sure where they will take it but lmao, RIP.