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It's not getting depressed Mark, just cruel to speak ill of the dead so soon. at least look at the good parts... I mean who hasn't tried to moonwalk at some point in their life?

Careful, you might get blood on the dancefloor!

OK he didn't get THAT outraged
http://www.londonfgss.com/thread708-130.html#post545324

I just did a search for owl arsehole. hur

Poor Latoya...

you are not alone

I think the people who I feel most sorry for are those at Glasto. My idea of hell has now been changed to setting in a field of thousands of people listening to MJ tributes.

Your off the wall :]

its the never ending media stories,conspiracies and the mass hysteria following the death of michael jackson that scares me

Im actually tired of this alredy.

My issue with this whole thing is the fucking circus of it. It even has the extra large BBC news front page. It's a joke. The affect it is having on people is what depresses me.

I tried as well. Must have spelled areshole wrong. Probably made it two words. Cheers!

balki take some DEMEROL and have a nice long sleep,im gonna and wake up hopefuly when the hysteria is over ;-)

[BBC]The internet suffered a number of slowdowns as people the world over rushed to verify accounts of Michael Jackson's death.[/BBC]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8120324.stm

I'd forgotten about that; it came from The Onion I think.

It's pretty shit really to go from the thread about the terrible tragedy that happened at Holborn...where everyone has been full of sympathy for the victims loved ones...to then come on here and read this kind of shit.
I'm pretty sure most of you don't know the Holborn victim any better than you knew Michael Jackson...and yet because he's a public figure it's suddenly acceptable to laugh at his death and make jokes.
Unless you know him personally you know nothing about him other than the crap you're force fed through the mass media....and if you are naive enough to think that it's ALL true, then you're pretty stupid.

You should maybe spare a thought for the Holborn victims family who have been reading the forum as they'll have been so amazed by the kind words and the love given on the Holborn thread, only to possibly see this and see a different side of the forum.

Ha! And double ha! Second subtitle is simply: "Fail".

In the absence of Demerol, I'm going to self administer 8 tins of Grolsch, a couple of blunts and fire up Streetfighter 4.

Fuck it... 10 tins.

I'm with Scott on this one.

balki you are class

Check for Michael Jackson's pulse. Can you feel it? Can you feel it? CAN YOU FEEL IT?

Fucking pedo boy get more attention than this poor girl.

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread23689-2.html#post766935

In all fairness scott, the circumstances surronding the two different incidents are incredibly different. Jackson wasn't killed by terrorists attempting to propogate a flawed and reprehensible agenda, he was killed, ultimately by a combination of the lifestyle choices that he pursued and the arena in which he chose to live his life. In short, he bought it upon himself. I realise that it is rather more complicated than that but without going into detail, the victims of Holborn weren't aware that they could avoid their deaths.

Due to the massively differing contexts the two cases are rather incomparable.

I think he isn't refering to the terrorist activities but more the girl who was killed there a couple of weeks ago... http://www.lfgss.com/thread236...tml#post766935(already posted by brick)

Completely true....but it's in pretty bad taste to have this going on here and such a different feeling on the Holborn thread when the victims family have just posted yesterday, in my opinion.

scott I don't believe that is true.

This reaction has everything to do with a media-construct and nothing to do with the 'person' of Michael Jackson.
Since we were young we have had these representations forced upon us at every turn.
The reactions are as valid as the heartbroken lamentations of those lining up in front of TV cameras the world over.

Similarly, despite the complexity of the mechanics of empathy and grief, it's likely that we feel abnd share far more in common with the girl in the thread, than with someone who is, to all intents and purposes, from a different world.

I'm angry that I'm even feeling the need to bite my tongue at the moment, as I've now got the right arsehole from having to compare the two. It feels cheap and shit.

Scott that's a reductionist theory & no direct comparison should be drawn

I'm referring more to the fact that the Holborn victims family who are currently grieving over the tragic death of a loved one may come on here and see somebody elses death treated as nothing more than a joke.
Just my opinion as i said.

It is, in fact, just bad taste, regardless of what else may be going on on this board or by which timeline. The presence of other events and our interaction with them doesn't make it better or worse.

And I wouldn't throw stones too quickly, it's only a week since you denigrated Jade Goody, who is also dead.

on the money!

Agree with you there man, The media give more time and effort to one man than all the cycle deaths in london put together. The people who will go to the streets crying are seriously flawed individuals!
As there is no other news in the world right now we are flooded with Jacko views, opinions, storys, testiments and rumour.. fuck all facts

Michael Jackson's last request was to be cremated and for his ashes to be put in an etch-a-sketch so kids could still play with him.

Yup. The death of a cyclist, especially in London, is relevant and important. We can both empathize with them (as a fellow traveler), and recognize that the tragedy has pragmatic implications for us.

It's different with MJ.

(However, I agree with Scott that people should think before posting - for the family's sake. But I can also see that taking the piss out of the death of a celebrity in a situation like this in many ways is the only way to keep the reality of the MJ event in perspective.)

From Bad to Sad.

*cringe*

On the plus side, you having posted that created a link back :)

BBC being a little smug there, but then after they got DOS'd on 9/11 they tripled their back end infrastructure to stop anything like that happening again.

here we go ,there will be moonwalking classes like we had line dancing classes in the 80's

Sorry, but you're wrong there. I never said anything disrespectful about Jade Goody.
If you know different please show me.

http://www.londonfgss.com/post759609-192.html

That's pointing out the fact that Dogsballs was talking about 'Jane' Goodie...meaning Jade Goody...not disrespectful in my opinion.

Fair enough, I didn't get that. Presumed that there was someone called Jane Goody.

i made that. not right now. before he kick it.

maybe now we can make it into a bestseller?

The forum isn't a single conversation: it's a collection of conversations, all happening at the same time. Some of them are grave, some are light-hearted, some are geekily technical. I think most people intuitively get that. I'd be the first to criticise anyone goofing off in a rider down thread, but what happens in a different thread, at the same time, is in my view irrelevant. For what it's worth, I was shocked and saddened by the news of MJ's death, but the negative fall-out on here was entirely predictable, and easily ignored.

oh come on!!!! stop with variation-on-a-theme pedo-from-the-grave crap jokes... If I get another text or email with one of these I'm going to burn anything with a microchip within a 10 mile radius

I bet the cheap jokes are coming from people who are either too young to remember Jackson at his sublime, phenomenal best in the 80s, or are just Daily Mail readers with an obsession with 'peados'.

It's being reported that its suspected suicide now. They are saying it was drugs. They found class a in the bathroom, class b in the bedroom and class 4c in the lounge.

Come on, let them have their little cracks.