Thread of the Dead - The Bear and Badger

adkm1979

I did get some funny looks.

Mod74

Sergio Pininfarina

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=25960

adkm1979

Can't say I'd ever heard of him.

g.man

Yes, I've seen your car.

g.man

adkm1979

Badoom-tish.

Coopers Green

Amelia Earheart.Â

OK, I know she's been dead a while, but I read about this planned expedition and thought it was interesting. Miserable ending to an amazing life. Fits best in here, I guess...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/03/amelia-earhart-plane-pacific-island?INTCMP=SRCH

g.man

Eric Sykes.Â Comedy legend. Genuinely sad about his.

R.i.P.

g.man

igorgetmeabrain

I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.

adkm1979

g.man wrote:

Genuinely sad about his.

Not to be dickish but, er, why?

mannaboy

I don't know about g.man, but for me Eric Sykes was a comedy hero, used to sit down with my Ma and Pa and watch his show Sykes with Hattie Jacques and be in stitches with some of the cleverly plotted episodes. Sad day indeed.

g.man

What manna said.

adkm1979

But, those episodes still exist. Â All the material you love still exists. Â And he was 89.

MattyJ

Fucks sake Andy, someone he liked and was a fan of, and from the sounds of it has lots I positive memories attached to died. Why wouldn't he feel sad? Jeez.

igorgetmeabrain

I generally don't get sad when people die either.Â I am a human clusterfuck though, tbf.

adkm1979

@MattyJ: Â He didn't know him, he was old, everything that formed those memories didn't die with him. Â Sorry, but I can't see any reason why he would be sad.

Kow

Never a big fan of Sykes but I was a huge fan of Spike, so here's the both of them.

Facewon

adkm1979 wrote:

@MattyJ: Â He didn't know him, he was old, everything that formed those memories didn't die with him. Â Sorry, but I can't see any reason why he would be sad.

Really? Really?

While I'd hardly suggest that it's like mourning for a loved one, "I feel a bit sad because X entertainer died" seems totally understandable to me, and most people, I would have thought. I don't want to define "a bit sad" for g.man, but I'm guessing he wasn't curled up on the floor in tears, just, you know, a bit sad.

As I was when, for instance, Freddie Mercury died in '91, or when Jim Stynes died earlier this year. It's not like I took time off work and sulked in my room for days, but shit, you feel "a bit sad," play some tunes/watch some games/laugh at some shows and remember them fondly.

It's not that hard a concept to grasp.

igorgetmeabrain

...unless you're dysfunctional, like me.

beano

Sykes was a fucking Don. RIP.

Skerret

Kow wrote:

Never a big fan of Sykes but I was a huge fan of Spike, so here's the both of them.

Very good.

Skerret

Facewon wrote:

adkm1979 wrote:

@MattyJ: Â He didn't know him, he was old, everything that formed those memories didn't die with him. Â Sorry, but I can't see any reason why he would be sad.

Really? Really? While I'd hardly suggest that it's like mourning for a loved one, "I feel a bit sad because X entertainer died" seems totally understandable to me, and most people, I would have thought. I don't want to define "a bit sad" for g.man, but I'm guessing he wasn't curled up on the floor in tears, just, you know, a bit sad. As I was when, for instance, Freddie Mercury died in '91, or when Jim Stynes died earlier this year. It's not like I took time off work and sulked in my room for days, but shit, you feel "a bit sad," play some tunes/watch some games/laugh at some shows and remember them fondly. It's not that hard a concept to grasp.

I might shed a tear when Cleese and Palin drop off.

davyK

I think it is worse when someone dies who is still productive. I was sad when Kubrick died because there would be no more new Kubrick films which took ages to make and were let's face it - a treat.

It is sad too becuase Sykes must be almost the last of a certain era when Milligan, Sellers, Hancock etc. were pushing out material. End of an era and all that which is sad for those who lived through it - partly because it makes you realise you are getting on a bit too.

Also simply - it is sad because the world is a slightly better place when certain people live in it. Sykes was one of those.

ChattinWithChet

Facewon wrote:

@MattyJ: Â He didn't know him, he was old, everything that formed those memories didn't die with him. Â Sorry, but I can't see any reason why he would be sad.

Really? Really? While I'd hardly suggest that it's like mourning for a loved one, "I feel a bit sad because X entertainer died" seems totally understandable to me, and most people, I would have thought. I don't want to define "a bit sad" for g.man, but I'm guessing he wasn't curled up on the floor in tears, just, you know, a bit sad. As I was when, for instance, Freddie Mercury died in '91, or when Jim Stynes died earlier this year. It's not like I took time off work and sulked in my room for days, but shit, you feel "a bit sad," play some tunes/watch some games/laugh at some shows and remember them fondly. It's not that hard a concept to grasp.

Yes. If there wasn't some connection then I doubt that their work would have any emotional impact whatsoever.

Moto70

I can't watch the Senna film without crying...!

WorKid

I was in bits when Freddie died.

Moto70

Have you seen the YouTube vid of some bloke singing Somebody To Love, pretty impressive, I'm as jealous as fuck that I can't sing let alone sing like that.

EDIT: I presume you're talking Mercury and not Starr, though I'm not sure if the latter is actually dead.

Mod74

WorKid wrote:

I was in bits when Freddie died.

Couple years ago I heard Peter Freestone describing his last hours and minutes, in a lot more detail than he's ever done on TV, and I was crying like a baby.

Moto70

I wonder why Freddie's death touched so many? I struggled when I watched a programme on his life and, ultimately, his death.

Mod74

I really don't know.

When we went to Montreux the inscription on this statue says "Lover of life, singer of songs" and I read it and broke down then as well. I'm not normally such a wuss and despite the impression I give I'm not even that huge a Queen fan.

I happened across this again the other week

There aren't many people who could die nowadays and get the entirety of The Sun front page.

WorKid

The Freddie documentaries are incredibly touching. Like (@45mins):

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