Uh-ohh...Get ready for the GRIEF junkies...

[Lady Whistledown]

It does seem that there is often a need to be seen to be grieving, and that if you're not, it makes you a bad person.

Even if it's someone you never met, who never had any personal impact on your life, or ever achieved anything of note. Look at all the celebrities queuing up to pay their tributes.

I mean, one of the newspapers has a snuffling quote from Russell Grant today. Now I guess it's to be expected that the journalists would seek out the opinions of fellow Hollywood uber-celebrities, along with the lifelong fans who, odd though it seems to the rest of us, camped outside the hospital where Jackson died. But who, please tell me, gives a SHIT about what some tubby, camp, washed-up star-gazing charlatan thinks??

 

[Muzzman]

tubby, camp, washed-up star-gazing charlatan

I would say this describes the majority of Jackson 'fans' out there.

 

[Dave the OAP]

This could make Lady Di's grief look like a childrens party.

I think it is really sad that we have lost an undoubted talent, but a flawed genius like most celebrities are.

 

[Easy 10]

This could make Lady Di's grief look like a childrens party.

A childrens party at Michael Jacksons often ended up like that, I've heard.

 

[Man of Harveys]

This could make Lady Di's grief look like a childrens party.

Rightly. At least he actually DID something.

 

[Austrian Gull]

Amongst all the attention-seeking, there will be loyal fans who will be devastated that their favourite singer has died.

Just because they never knew/met Michael Jackson, doesn't make them strange to me. His music was the soundtrack to a lot of people's lives.

I was extremely sad when some of my favourite musicians died (Marvin Gaye, Robert Palmer, Paul Hester from Crowded House) - I hope that doesn't make me a weirdo too.

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

Oh just f*** off and do one will you. I have posted stuff supporting Jackson to counter all the utter c*nts posting shit. I was more upset about Farrah dying.

Also Easy if people want to wallow in grief about Jackson just let them. Like the Diana situation what right do you or I or anyone else have to tell people the limit of their grieving ?.

The same right that you have to get on your high horse and tell everyone they're c unts for not respecting the vacuous chav tarts/washed up kiddy fiddlers/dead horse/insert more or less any crap celebrity.

That's what, you mentalist.

 

[Easy 10]

I was extremely sad when some of my favourite musicians died (Marvin Gaye, Robert Palmer, Paul Hester from Crowded House) - I hope that doesn't make me a weirdo too.

Did you don the face-paints, grab a candle and join a massing throng lining the streets, grizzling and howling like a bansee in a torrent of snot and tears ?

If so then yes. You are a weirdo.

If you were deeply saddened, perhaps even shed a tear or two of regret, but pretty much got on with your life after a short period of sad reflection then I'd say you were really very normal.

 

[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

I keep hearing " you are not alive " and "I'm dead . I'm dead you know i'm really dead" in my head.

 

[Titanic]

The same right that you have to get on your high horse and tell everyone they're c unts for not respecting the vacuous chav tarts/washed up kiddy fiddlers/dead horse/insert more or less any crap celebrity.

That's what, you mentalist.

Hey PNfE, why not say what you really think?

 

[Raphael Meade]

missed it myself but This Morning had lionel blair on as a 'good friend of MJ', as he admitted halfway through that he'd never actually met him...

 

[Austrian Gull]

Did you don the face-paints, grab a candle and join a massing throng lining the streets, grizzling and howling like a bansee in a torrent of snot and tears ?

If so then yes. You are a weirdo.

If you were deeply saddened, perhaps even shed a tear or two of regret, but pretty much got on with your life after a short period of sad reflection then I'd say you were really very normal.

Fortunately, the latter!

But I'm sure there are a lot of ordinary, normal MJ fans who are deeply saddened and I'm not going to join in the ridicule of their favourite star.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Fortunately, the latter!

But I'm sure there are a lot of ordinary, normal MJ fans who are deeply saddened and I'm not going to join in the ridicule of their favourite star.

I am sick to death of these reasonable and perfectly logical people posting sense on NSC.

there is no place on here for such unaldutrated filth.

Mods...ban this person immediatly

 

[Lady Bracknell]

This could make Lady Di's grief look like a childrens party.

I fear it will. I've just heard someone on the 1 o'clock radio 4 news claiming that Michael Jackson was such a formative influence on her and all the other people whose lives were directed by him (?!) that it is "Princess Diana all over again".

*sighs and goes out for siege quantities of supplies*

 

[Titanic]

I'm just waiting for Gordon Brown to make a statement on behalf of the nation.

 

[Golden Oldie]

missed it myself but This Morning had lionel blair on as a 'good friend of MJ', as he admitted halfway through that he'd never actually met him...

Talking of the Blairs, no doubt Teflon Tony will be putting out an emotional and sincere statement shortly. Just like his old friend Gordon who has already paid tribute. (Wonder who had to write it for him?)

 

[crasher]

I'm really not looking forward to seeing the legions of emotionally incontinent grief-junkies all over the news over the next few days, and at the funeral. Its started already - 5-Live had some blubbing woman on this morning professing her undying love for Jackson as she gulped back the snot and tears through her interview. I'm sorry, but anyone who gets themselves into such a STATE over the death of a celebrity who they'd never met and never knew outside of his public persona, is a bit of an oddball in my opinion. Maybe I'm a bit of a cold fish, but the only people I could envisage getting into that kind of state over if they died would be members of my family or close friends. OK, and maybe Myleene Klass.

But the press go into overdrive to actively seek out these emotional car-wrecks to glorify in their "grief", and there's never a shortage of volunteers just aching to get their snivelling mugs all over the news. When the news first broke last night, I switched over to CNN to watch some of the coverage, and they had a reporter outside MJ's house in LA. A few locals had just started gathering in a crowd outside the gates, and it was actually quite refreshing to see some interviews conducted with ordinairy people there who were completely normal, articulate and in control - saddened by his death, wonderful memories of his music etc, but none of the tears and wailing and shrieking that we're going to get now that the story is in full swing, and the news crews can take their pick from the hoards of melodramatic grief-junkies just out looking for their 5 minutes of fame.

Its going to be Diana all over again. Pass the bucket.

Absolutely. Tennis fans as well, most of 'em.

 

[portlock seagull]

No - it is entirely appropriate for a 45 year-old man to share the bed of a 14 year old boy.

Just saying he wasn't convicted of any crime, and your implied crime is a pretty serious one against anyone in this world. Plenty of adults and kids share beds in this world innocently enough. Doesn't make you an automatic paedophille though, no matter how weird you are. And by conventional standards, Jacko was weird - no one denies that. But then he lived an extraordinary life.

 

[Man of Harveys]

I'm just waiting for Gordon Brown to make a statement on behalf of the nation.

It does seem really difficult for people to realise that politicians only tend to reply to these things because someone asks them about it. And woe betide the politician who said "I'm not interested in that" - they'd be pilloried or painted as out of touch weirdos if they did.

 

[Muzzman]

I'm just waiting for Gordon Brown to make a statement on behalf of the nation.

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