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Topic: Amy Winehouse is dead

Posted By: reifidom
Subject: Amy Winehouse is dead
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 12:50pm

Kind of saw that one coming.

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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 1:05pm

Apparently she should have gone to rehab.

Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 1:39pm

She should have said Yes, Yes, Yes.

Irony!

Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 2:12pm

Some of her music was enjoyable. But yeah, not way up there in the surprising celebrity death list.

Posted By: GroupB
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 2:27pm

About as surprising as Betty Ford

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Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 4:27pm

Sad that someone died, but truthfully couldn't care less.

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"When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter.

Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 4:59pm

You know that? I don't even care in the slightest.

One prima donna self destructive drug whore vs 91 Norwegians? I know where my sympathies are.

KBK

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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 6:52pm

Kayback wrote:

One prima donna self destructive drug whore vs 91 Norwegians?

Disliking people dying before there time is not a finite resource.

Posted By: Gatyr
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 7:44pm

agentwhale007 wrote:

Disliking people dying before there time is not a finite resource.

But attention span is. With as little as this country cares about others, this woman's death will probably overshadow the event that people should learn more about.

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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 7:45pm

So what did she OD on?

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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 7:53pm

agentwhale007 wrote:

Kayback wrote:

One prima donna self destructive drug whore vs 91 Norwegians?

Disliking people dying before there time is not a finite resource.

Whale, of all people...

Son, I am disappoint.

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Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 7:57pm

agentwhale007 wrote:

Kayback wrote:

One prima donna self destructive drug whore vs 91 Norwegians?

Disliking people dying before there time is not a finite resource.

But choosing to reserve my sympathies for those who had their fate thrust unjustly upon them rather than those who elected to self-destructively pursue it is.

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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 7:57pm

DeTrevni wrote:

agentwhale007 wrote:

Kayback wrote:

One prima donna self destructive drug whore vs 91 Norwegians?

Disliking people dying before there time is not a finite resource.

Whale, of all people...Son, I am disappoint.

DeTrevni beat me to it. Seriously disappoint.

Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 8:49pm

I'll take it as a compliment of high expectations that a simple typo encourages multiple posts in response.

Posted By: Snipa69
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 10:08pm

oldpbnoob wrote:

Sad that someone died, but truthfully couldn't care less.

Why try and say it when oldpbnoob has said it for me?

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Posted By: Gatyr
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 10:08pm

agentwhale007 wrote:

I'll take it as a compliment of high expectations that a simple typo encourages multiple posts in response.

This is the correct response. Well played.

P.S. I thought I was just being a gentleman by ignoring the obvious lapse in being ungrammarful on your part by just responding. I'll be more scrupulous next time.

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Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 11:02pm

agentwhale007 wrote:

Kayback wrote:

One prima donna self destructive drug whore vs 91 Norwegians?

Disliking people dying before there time is not a finite resource.

Difference between bringing it upon yourself, and someone forcing it upon you (Ryan Dunn anyone?)

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Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 11:08pm

agentwhale007 wrote:

Kayback wrote:

One prima donna self destructive drug whore vs 91 Norwegians?

Disliking people dying before there time is not a finite resource.

The fact that she is dead means that it ws indeed her time...

Just sayin.

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"When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter.

Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 23 July 2011 at 11:36pm

oldpbnoob wrote:

The fact that she is dead means that it ws indeed her time...

Oh, that's good.

Posted By: stratoaxe
Date Posted: 24 July 2011 at 2:44am

Not surprised, slightly sympathetic to her as a human being, but not much beyond that. I feel bad for her family, but even they weren't surprised.

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Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 24 July 2011 at 3:03am

I'm sorry she wasted her tallent, but that was done years ago.

I'm not sorry she is dead. She wasn't contributing much to the world at large.

KBK

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Posted By: Koolit32
Date Posted: 24 July 2011 at 7:42am

I'm surprised at the reaction from most people honestly. A drug addict dies and it's "about time lul". A drunk driver and his passenger dies out of irresponsibility and the world mourns. I just hope no one here has any addict relatives or children.

Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 24 July 2011 at 9:46am

Koolit32 wrote:

I'm surprised at the reaction from most people honestly. A drug addict dies and it's "about time lul".

No, I took it as more of a "just don't care" reaction.

A drunk driver and his passenger dies out of irresponsibility and the world mourns.

Unless I know them, it is still an "I don't care" reaction.

I just hope no one here has any addict relatives or children.

That would be a "caring because they are family" reaction and have nothing to do with why/how they died. I would never suggest that Winehouse's family should not mourn her or suffer from her passing just because she contributed to it.

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Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 24 July 2011 at 10:06am

^^^ Agreed with Mack. And personally, I am someone that doesnt get why the passing of someone famous or semi-famous should garner more of a reaction than anyone else. I think it's ridiculous the spectacle that we make when someone famous dies or for that matter when they live. I"m just not enamored with celebrity. I don't get people that are.

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"When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter.

Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 24 July 2011 at 11:14am

93 People dead in Norway; Blown up and gunned down without mercy. And people cry over a washed-out problem singer.

Posted By: stratoaxe
Date Posted: 24 July 2011 at 2:10pm

Koolit32 wrote:

I'm surprised at the reaction from most people honestly. A drug addict dies and it's "about time lul". A drunk driver and his passenger dies out of irresponsibility and the world mourns. I just hope no one here has any addict relatives or children.

I think that we all have limited attention spans, and try to give sympathy where sympathy is needed. This girl was dead long before she hit the ground, and like countless other irresponsible celebrities who chose the same fate, you feel bad at first but then after a while you move on to other subjects.

I'm surrounded by tragedy at the moment. Both of my grandmothers just recently became crippled, one through a devastating stroke that left her unable to walk or even control her bowel movements, and the other through amputation that was later found to be a mistake of the doctor treating her.

I have a cousin who's both an addict and homeless who was mauled nearly to death by pit bulls and lost much of the use of his arms, I have a father in what I believe to be poor health but won't tell me, a nephew who's practically homeless because neither of his parents want him so he lives with me at the moment, and a brother who just lost his job just in time for his wife to take his kids and leave.

I say all that to get to this point-I have lots of people to pity right now. And my addict relatives fall below those who didn't choose their afflictions. I realize that addiction is a terrible thing, but it's a consequence of a chosen path, and therefore while I grieve for a person enduring it, it's limited to the idea that there are enduring a consequence.

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Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 24 July 2011 at 9:11pm

While I absolutely don't want to diminish the significance of personal responsibility or say that the onus of controlling addiction is on anyone but the addict, I find the lack of empathy here short-sighted.

Art, and thus music, has long been an expressive outlet of people who have problems. Sometimes it makes them famous, which gives them attention which is most likely unhealthy. Just google "paparazzi assault." Then you're pouring jet fuel on the little campfire that was his or her problems. Problems that were there when they were driving a beat old Subaru instead of a Bentley.

I agree that the obsession with all things famous and celebrity is bizarre and sad. So, removing that, what's left in the situation?

What's left is a lot of people damn-near reveling that a person with problems lost the battle with their addictions. Cute.

Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 24 July 2011 at 11:19pm

Hairball!!! wrote:

What's left is a lot of people damn-near reveling that a person with problems lost the battle with their addictions. Cute.

How exactly does "couldn't care less" amount to reveling in your book?

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"When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter.

Posted By: Maiden Hell
Date Posted: 25 July 2011 at 12:30am

I don't care much, and I agree on the thing about the Norweigans. Don't know if I spelled that correctly. But yeah either way she basically had it coming.

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Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 25 July 2011 at 1:20am

oldpbnoob wrote:

Hairball!!! wrote:

What's left is a lot of people damn-near reveling that a person with problems lost the battle with their addictions. Cute.

How exactly does "couldn't care less" amount to reveling in your book?

Don't flatter yourself, I wasn't talking about you. I'm talking about every one of the people I've heard comment on the matter by saying "good" or "deserved it" or something in a celebrity-bashing vein.

Posted By: Koolit32
Date Posted: 25 July 2011 at 1:32am

Hairball!!! wrote:

Don't flatter yourself, I wasn't talking about you.

Same reason I didn't bother posting again. I love the implications that I don't care about Norway, and that I'm in my room crying alone over Amy Winehouse. The shooting has it's own topic by the way, so take your trolling to that thread.

Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 25 July 2011 at 3:29am

Actually no. Someone wanted to start a thread talking about the death of a loser, drug addicted "celebrity". That is glorifying their death.

You know what? I'm not thrilled she is dead, but I honestly could not give a rats ass. She shouldn't have been famous in the first place. She had some decent talent for music, but she'd wasted that, and she'd let herself nosedive.

I feel absolutely buttons for any celebrity that dies from any glamour related reason.

Why should we feel sorry for her, she had every resource, and the money to afford the best help to help her cope with her issues.

A bunch of kids were gunned down by what has to be a mad man and twitter/facebook has one or two posts. Amy dies and it fills the feed? I'm honestly worrying about my friends priorities.

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Posted By: Koolit32
Date Posted: 25 July 2011 at 3:48am

Kayback wrote:

Actually no. Someone wanted to start a thread talking about the death of a loser, drug addicted "celebrity". That is glorifying their death.

It's being talked about by a lot of people, dealwithit.

You know what? I'm not thrilled she is dead, but I honestly could not give a rats ass. She shouldn't have been famous in the first place. She had some decent talent for music, but she'd wasted that, and she'd let herself nosedive.

Taste is subjective, I'm certain she inspired someone. Perhaps her career nosedive had to do with her growing drug problem.

I feel absolutely buttons for any celebrity that dies from any glamour related reason.

No one smokes crack for the glamour, I assure you.

Why should we feel sorry for her, she had every resource, and the money to afford the best help to help her cope with her issues.

As someone said earlier, money and fame typically make it more difficult to get clean. Being rich and famous at an NA meeting really never turns out well, I assure you that recovery isn't easy.

A bunch of kids were gunned down by what has to be a mad man and twitter/facebook has one or two posts. Amy dies and it fills the feed? I'm honestly worrying about my friends priorities.

Posted By: GroupB
Date Posted: 25 July 2011 at 4:48am

All this over Amy Winehouse?

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Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 25 July 2011 at 8:31am

GroupB wrote:

All this over Amy Winehouse?

Sorry, what? I can't hear you over the "Amy Winehouse is Dead" party that is still going on in my living room. Head on over, we're getting ready to watch old news footage of her. Be prepared to drink anytime someone says "rehab".

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"When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter.

Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 25 July 2011 at 8:47am

oldpbnoob wrote:

GroupB wrote:

All this over Amy Winehouse?

Awesome! I 'll bring the cheap booze and cocaine! Do you still have some E left over??

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Innocence proves nothing
FUAC!!!!!

Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 25 July 2011 at 8:56am

Ceesman762 wrote:

oldpbnoob wrote:

GroupB wrote:

All this over Amy Winehouse?

Awesome! I 'll bring the cheap booze and cocaine! Do you still have some E left over??

Dear Ceesman, this is OPBN's wife. Sorry to say that in the spirit of his Amy Winehouse party, he is asleep in the bathtub drowning in is own vomit. We'll be having an "OldPBNoob is Dead" party tomorrow night if interested.

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"When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter.

Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 25 July 2011 at 8:58am

oldpbnoob wrote:

Ceesman762 wrote:

oldpbnoob wrote:

GroupB wrote:

All this over Amy Winehouse?

Awesome! I 'll bring the cheap booze and cocaine! Do you still have some E left over??

OH No You Didn't! Wake his ass up! He is not getting off that easy! Feed him a few more lines of Columbia's finest!

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Innocence proves nothing
FUAC!!!!!

Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 25 July 2011 at 9:24am

A thing I did not know until all of this with Amy Winehouse: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jul/24/russell-brand-amy-winehouse-woman?CMP=twt_gu - Russell Brand can write really well.

When you love someone who suffers from the disease of addiction you await the phone call. There will be a phone call. The sincere hope is that the call will be from the addict themselves, telling you they've had enough, that they're ready to stop, ready to try something new. Of course though, you fear the other call, the sad nocturnal chime from a friend or relative telling you it's too late, she's gone.

Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 25 July 2011 at 9:28am

agentwhale007 wrote:

A thing I did not know until all of this with Amy Winehouse: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jul/24/russell-brand-amy-winehouse-woman?CMP=twt_gu - Russell Brand can write really well.

No truer words spoken.

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Innocence proves nothing
FUAC!!!!!

Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 25 July 2011 at 9:52am

Hairball!!! wrote:

oldpbnoob wrote:

Hairball!!! wrote:

What's left is a lot of people damn-near reveling that a person with problems lost the battle with their addictions. Cute.

How exactly does "couldn't care less" amount to reveling in your book?

Someone is a tad over-sensitive on the matter. I went back through the entire thread before the post I quoted and had a hard time finding any reveling and the closest I could find to either "good" or "she deserved it" was a general consensus that her death was not unexpected. Given the way she lived, that is a statement of fact, not reveling.

I really see nothing in this thread* which was worthy of instigating a "LEAVE ~~BRITTANY~~ AMY ALONE!" post.

*Up to the point of the quoted post; given the humorists** on this forum I fully expect to see reveling and humor in poor taste afterwards.
**Myself included if I can overcome my apathy regarding her demise just to taunt her defenders.

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Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 25 July 2011 at 10:07am

I guess her family was reveling as well:

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/stopthepresses/392232/could-amy-winehouse-have-been-saved/ - http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/stopthepresses/392232/could-amy-winehouse-have-been-saved/

Originally posted by Amy Winehouse's Family

Amy Winehouse's Family wrote:

"I realize my daughter could be dead within the year," said her mother, Janis. "We're watching her kill herself, slowly. I've already come to terms with her dead. I've steeled myself to ask her what ground she wants to be buried in, which cemetery. Because the drugs will get her if she stays on this road. I look at Heath Ledger... She's on (his) path. It's like watching a car crash -- this person throwing all these gifts away." The year Winehouse's mom went public with this prophecy of imminent doom? 2008.

"Perhaps it is time to stop buying records," said her former father-in-law, Giles Fielder-Civil, suggesting a boycott as a last resort. "It's a possibility, to send that message... It's about time that their friends and their professional colleagues say to them ‘enough is enough'." The year he went on live radio to sound this warning? Not recently, when Winehouse had little public cache to lose, but all the way back in the summer of 2007, when her star was really just beginning to rise in America.

Her father-in-law thought a boycott could force Winehouse's label to reign her in. But Winehouse's equally concerned father, Mitch, called in to the same program to say the record company was doing everything it could.

http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=13dqjodvn/**http%3A//a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/stopthepresses__4/stopthepresses-571735230-1311529781.jpg%3Fym18eYFDEIr_HcY2 - "There's only one person to blame and that's Amy," her father declared four years ago. "That's what Blake's parents have got to understand... There's no question of the record company or her family trying to work her to the bone. These are some of the accusations that have been levelled at us." In contrast to the popular conception of corporate enablers, Mitch Winehouse described "caring, loving people from the record company, people who have been in the business for 20 or 30 years who are used to seeing matters like this, crying their eyes out because of their genuine love and affection for Amy. The record company isn't as callous as some people think it is."

Mitch Winehouse continued to sound like he was in anything but denial as he discussed his daughter's problems over the years. In 2008, he told the press Amy had developed early-stage emphysema. "If drugs mean more to her than breathing properly, then so be it. But the doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs, it won't just ruin her voice, it will kill her."

Sounds pretty similiar to what I read here.

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"When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter.

Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 25 July 2011 at 10:10am

Mack wrote:

I really see nothing in this thread* which was worthy of instigating a "LEAVE ~~BRITTANY~~ AMY ALONE!" post.

I love that video.

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"When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter.

Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 25 July 2011 at 4:55pm

In related news, Amy Winehouse has successfully remained clean and sober for 48 hours for the very first time.

Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 26 July 2011 at 12:46am

tallen702 wrote:

In related news, Amy Winehouse has successfully remained clean and sober for 48 hours for the very first time.

Oooooo.

Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 26 July 2011 at 1:54pm

tallen702 wrote:

In related news, Amy Winehouse has successfully remained clean and sober for 48 hours for the very first time.

If this were facebook I'd like this.

Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 26 July 2011 at 6:44pm

Just when I thought she couldn't sink any lower, by this time tomorrow she'll have managed another six feet or so.

Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 26 July 2011 at 8:31pm

Who is Amy Winehouse? srsly

Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 27 July 2011 at 7:52am

tallen702 wrote:

In related news, Amy Winehouse has successfully remained clean and sober for 48 hours for the very first time.

I stole this.

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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 27 July 2011 at 9:53am

scotchyscotch wrote:

Just when I thought she couldn't sink any lower, by this time tomorrow she'll have managed another six feet or so.

Posted By: StormyKnight
Date Posted: 28 July 2011 at 10:34am

Reb Cpl wrote:

tallen702 wrote:

In related news, Amy Winehouse has successfully remained clean and sober for 48 hours for the very first time.

I stole this.

As did I. This is the response to my FB posting on this:

Elton John just announced he would be playing at her funeral. Its another remake of his classic called "Candle under the spoon."

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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 28 July 2011 at 11:15am

StormyKnight wrote:

Reb Cpl wrote:

tallen702 wrote:

In related news, Amy Winehouse has successfully remained clean and sober for 48 hours for the very first time.

I stole this.

As did I. This is the response to my FB posting on this:

<SPAN -jsid="text">Elton John just announced he would be playing at her funeral. Its another remake of his classic called "Candle under the spoon."</SPAN>

Niiiiiiiice!

Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 28 July 2011 at 12:11pm

StormyKnight wrote:

Reb Cpl wrote:

tallen702 wrote:

In related news, Amy Winehouse has successfully remained clean and sober for 48 hours for the very first time.

I stole this.

As did I. This is the response to my FB posting on this:

Elton John just announced he would be playing at her funeral. Its another remake of his classic called "Candle under the spoon."

I thought it was "Three sheets to the wind"..

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"When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter.

Posted By: StormyKnight
Date Posted: 29 July 2011 at 12:24am

oldpbnoob wrote:

I thought it was "Three sheets to the wind"..

Didn't Patrick Swayze sing that on the Dirty Dancing soundtrack?

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