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What a make the beast with two backsing shame
Crack is a poor people's drug. Whitney to Barbara Walters when asked if she used crack.
What a voice. RIP
RIP
Whitney Houston - One Moment In Time(Grammy Awards Live) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYFHAvULvJ0&feature=youtube_gdata_player#)
RIP.
I remember partying to her 1st album in high school.
My wife is in there right now watching the aftermath on CNN. Only 48.
Another cautionary tale of what years of substance abuse will do to you. TMZ is reporting she was partying hard last night with friends at the hotel. I guess she never learned a lesson.
What a shame. Very talented and a great voice.
Brian R.
a pity...
Quote from: Dan on February 11, 2012, 05:56:59 PM
What a make the beast with two backsing shame
This.
And what a make the beast with two backsing waste of a life and a great talent. People would give their left nut for the talent and opportunity she had. Talent, fame, success, etc. can sometimes be as much of a curse as it is a blessing. Addiction is a 800 lb. gorilla and it drove her into the ground. Sad.
RIP
Call me heartless, but I feel nothing. If you surround yourself with people who do not care about you then its your own damn fault. Addiction, yes she is a mother make the beast with two backser, but with all the education about adictive drugs and with all the people close to her that allowed this to happen. I do not feel sorry for Whitney, she is in a better place.
Quote from: scduc on February 12, 2012, 11:54:10 AM
Call me heartless, but I feel nothing. If you surround yourself with people who do not care about you then its your own damn fault. Addiction, yes she is a mother make the beast with two backser, but with all the education about adictive drugs and with all the people close to her that allowed this to happen. I do not feel sorry for Whitney, she is in a better place.
I couldn't agree more. I wish I could give a shit but I just can't.
Family Guy- Get the F***ing Crack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDBgiA3RgsU#)
I'll just leave this right here...
Whitney Houston Died Today. So Did Sgt 1st Class Billy A Sutton. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxb72aAaTj0&feature=share#)
...then go straight to the ban yourself thread.
What the dude in the video said. [thumbsup] [bow_down] RIP to both. God bless.
I was thinking Eli Whitney and that the OP was a bit late by about 180 years.
Quote from: scduc on February 12, 2012, 11:54:10 AM
Call me heartless, but I feel nothing. If you surround yourself with people who do not care about you then its your own damn fault. Addiction, yes she is a mother make the beast with two backser, but with all the education about adictive drugs and with all the people close to her that allowed this to happen. I do not feel sorry for Whitney, she is in a better place.
Yep, couldn't agree more.
Quote from: DRKWNG on February 13, 2012, 04:04:30 PM
I'll just leave this right here...
Whitney Houston Died Today. So Did Sgt 1st Class Billy A Sutton. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxb72aAaTj0&feature=share#)
...then go straight to the ban yourself thread.
word.
[bacon]
Hmm so a famous person dies n suddenly it's wrong to say RIP.
Why do ppl Feel the need to express -ve sentiments when ppl are expressing sadness. It's kind of sad and childish. I guess the saying to the effect of speak no evil of the dead means nothing.
It's not wrong to feel sad or say RIP.
I just have a different viewpoint on this particular subject than you do.
That's why this country is great. We have the freedom to disagree and not fear any backlash or severe consequences (other than Internet indignation) from it.
Whitney used to make beautiful music. Then she got involved with substance abuse. Now she's dead. It's a terrible thing.
But.
I think there's a disproportionate show of attention to her death, while sad, than to someone who voluntarily puts their life in danger, defending our great nation, so we can have the freedom to squabble like children over the internet.
But, that's just my perspective.
[bacon]
Quote from: The Bacon Junkie on February 14, 2012, 05:04:30 AM
I think there's a disproportionate show of attention to her death, while sad, than to someone who voluntarily puts their life in danger, defending our great nation, so we can have the freedom to squabble like children over the internet.
^^^^ I think that is the point.
I'm genuinely sorry Whitney's dead. I remember her in the movie "The Bodyguard", and I loved her voice.
But I don't like all this media hoarding over hear death. I don't see any "love" for a person who has passed away, just a form of fetish, an obsession with every bit of (so called) news.
And it's not just with Whitney, same thing with Michael, or football, basket ball, whatever...
(https://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/426539_3286393922573_1349410379_3408782_1704737281_n.jpg)
The day Whitney Houston died, something like 10000 people (random number to make a point) died worldwide of some drug related cause. The news made no mention of them.
Whitney Houston was an entertainer. She sang pretty well but it isn't like she was 1. the first musician to ever die. 2. The first musician to die from a drug related cause. 3. The first person to ever die.
I wish I could care...I really do. But with friends and relatives dying every day from things that they didn't cause to themselves (cancer, heart disease, etc etc), I have bigger things to worry about than some worthless musical has been.
Call me cruel, call me heartless, call me sad. I don't care about Whitney Houston.
(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa289/ZLTFUL/WhitneyFTW.jpg)
Pretty sad when our nation has nothing better to have conversations about.
THIS
Quote from: The Mad King Pepe' on February 14, 2012, 07:07:26 AM
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If someone joined (joined) the Military for Fortune and Fame, they are dumber than a bag of hammers.
Quote from: The Mad King Pepe' on February 14, 2012, 07:07:26 AM
But I don't like all this media hoarding over hear death. I don't see any "love" for a person who has passed away, just a form of fetish, an obsession with every bit of (so called) news.
And it's not just with Whitney, same thing with Michael, or football, basket ball, whatever...
This is it. A lot of people are just tired of celebrity worship in general.
RIP Whitney, although I don't feel much personally.
That said, a lot of us (including me) were bummed when Simoncelli died, and there was plenty of discussion and coverage in the moto media. Different circumstances, but no one compared his death to the troops...probably because a lot of us on this board are more into moto racing than Whitney's music. It's all perspective.
Quote from: cupcake on February 14, 2012, 11:50:53 AM
If someone joined (joined) the Military for Fortune and Fame, they are dumber than a bag of hammers.
Would that be a bag of the ever-elusive $435 hammers?
Quote from: cupcake on February 14, 2012, 11:50:53 AM
If someone joined (joined) the Military for Fortune and Fame, they are dumber than a bag of hammers.
And you have missed the point entirely. It is directed at the sentiment of the general populace. "We" idolize celebrities. "We" worship everything they do. Yet "we" pay the people who sacrifice everything to protect our rights and liberties almost nothing. Rarely are the ones that die honored in such ways as the drug addict celebrity that most likely ODed. They hardly even get a thankful handshake in public. That isn't THEIR reason for doing it. But it should be our way of honoring them.
Personally, I find it repugnant that "we" honor people like Eli Manning and ignore the men and women who wake up every day not sure if they will see their loved ones again because they have a desire to protect the greater good.
We don't care
Quote from: DRKWNG on February 14, 2012, 12:08:20 PM
Would that be a bag of the ever-elusive $435 hammers?
:D
Quote from: cupcake on February 14, 2012, 12:26:23 PM
We don't care
You cared enough to post up a trolling comment. Ergo, you care. I am flattered. :-*
I've got nothing to say about W.
RIP to those who made a positive contribution to our society.
Quote from: Triple J on February 14, 2012, 11:54:13 AM
It's all perspective.
that makes and sense and thank you for putting it in one....
Don't forget that the news in the States is SO SANITIZED.
The majority of main stream media does not cover the # of military people that died in the current wars and go over the names of each person. I only know of PBS that does that in their daily news.
Remember, leaders like Rumsfield at the time, were against showing on news media the coverage of the toll. No wonder the majority of the people has no clue or does not care.
At the same time, I see no harm in people expressing their sentiments for W. Houston as well as any other celebrity that dies due to life-style albeit good or bad. Blame the media and blame the majority of the population for letting it be like it is.
Quote from: cupcake on February 14, 2012, 12:26:23 PM
We don't care
Quote from: ZLTFUL on February 14, 2012, 12:30:43 PM
You cared enough to post up a trolling comment. Ergo, you care. I am flattered. :-*
Do I have to separate you two again?
Don't make me pull this car over.
Quote from: ducpainter on February 14, 2012, 01:16:17 PM
Do I have to separate you two again?
Don't make me pull this car over.
Please do, I hate fighting in a car. :D
Quote from: cupcake on February 14, 2012, 01:26:18 PM
Please do, I hate fighting in a car. :D
I guess if you really want to fight...
you'll have to exit while moving. :P
Seriously...there's very little to argue about here.
[thumbsup]
Quote from: The Bacon Junkie on February 14, 2012, 05:04:30 AM
It's not wrong to feel sad or say RIP.
I just have a different viewpoint on this particular subject than you do.
That's why this country is great. We have the freedom to disagree and not fear any backlash or severe consequences (other than Internet indignation) from it.
Whitney used to make beautiful music. Then she got involved with substance abuse. Now she's dead. It's a terrible thing.
But.
I think there's a disproportionate show of attention to her death, while sad, than to someone who voluntarily puts their life in danger, defending our great nation, so we can have the freedom to squabble like children over the internet.
But, that's just my perspective.
[bacon]
One viewpoint is as valid as another but this thread was started by someone who holds the viewpoint that it's a sad thing when someone with so much to offer wasn't able to get a grip on the shit in their head, and died. People can disagree about the importance of that loss but to try and compare it to someone else's death is pointless and in the case of comparing it to a soldiers death is nothing but baiting. If anyone feels there is a disproportionate show of attention then maybe you should complain to the mainstream media about it. I don't see how this thread rises to the level of 'disproportionate attention'.
edit: I made an assumption about the OP's viewpoint.
^^^ [thumbsup]
Quote from: Dan on February 14, 2012, 02:40:37 PM
One viewpoint is as valid as another but this thread was started by someone who holds the viewpoint that it's a sad thing when someone with so much to offer wasn't able to get a grip on the shit in their head, and died.
.....and
that is exactly where
I was going with the post.....
Just be kind and don't hate on all the media coverage and thousands of weeping hot women when I pass
I think part of the reason for the outpouring of grief after a celebrities or singers death is the emotional connection to their body of work. Music (it used to be from the radio) was the soundtrack to our lives. Songs hold special meaning due to the events that are happening at time. I wonder how many couples played I Will Always Love You at the wedding or other special event?
I think we mourn the lost part of our past or youth when a death like Whitney's happens.
Calling her a crack whore is disrespectful and unnecessary. She could afford to buy her drugs and to my knowledge never had to prostitute herself for cocaine. It cheapens life and our connection to each other through art. We will all die some day and I would hope we respect the passing of life no matter how it arrives.
I feel for every person that has died in service to our country. Unfortunately, I do not know them. If an airman that I know passes, then I give them their honor due. I served with some who had no business in the military. Mere fact that someone is in a branch of the military does not make them a hero, a protector of the nation or somehow more worthy then any one else. It is what they do with that time and service.
When my time comes I hope there is no such disrespect. My sister Jenny is a crack head and quite possibly a crack whore. I hope when she passes that those who find her show respect and remember that she was some one's family.
Edit: know one here called her a crack whore. That was over at advrider.
This ^
Addiction is a wicked make the beast with two backsing pregnant dog, plain and simple.....
Quote from: lethe on February 14, 2012, 03:40:26 PM
Just be kind and don't hate on all the media coverage and thousands of weeping hot women when I pass
The whole world might implode when I go. [laugh]
Quote from: Little Monkey Toes on February 14, 2012, 04:05:26 PM
When my time comes I hope there is no such disrespect. My sister Jenny is a crack head and quite possibly a crack whore. I hope when she passes that those who find her show respect and remember that she was some one's family.
Edit: know one here called her a crack whore. That was over at advrider.
If your sis is truely a crack head and you care about her, then you owe it to her to do everything possible to get her help. When you stop trying to get her back, you just show that she really is not that important to you. No disrepect, but if someone close to me was in trouble, well lets just say hell would freeze over before I'd say oh well. Addiction is a pregnant dog, I've been there. and I'd still be there if I did not have someone who cared.
Quote from: scduc on February 14, 2012, 05:31:33 PM
If your sis is truely a crack head and you care about her, then you owe it to her to do everything possible to get her help. When you stop trying to get her back, you just show that she really is not that important to you. No disrepect, but if someone close to me was in trouble, well lets just say hell would freeze over before I'd say oh well. Addiction is a pregnant dog, I've been there. and I'd still be there if I did not have someone who cared.
I have done and will continue to do whatever I can for her. I have never said "oh well" and you do not know me or my sister.
This has gotten way out of hand.