Originally Posted by hackjo:
“Yes, agreed.
The last time I was moved to tears was earlier this year when I saw only 10 people had attended the funeral of an honest, kind and generous man whose son I went to school with and whose wife used to look after me when I was little. A lovely guy, but because he was quiet and unassuming and not particularly talented, he will be rapidly forgotten.
Now THAT'S ****ing sad.”
Same thing happened to me recently. I went to a funeral of a man I had grown up calling my Uncle. He was only a close friend of my grandparents and my mother, aunts and uncles had all grown up with him in attendance at every family event too, so he was more or less part of the family. He had no kids of his own and his fiance died when they were quite young and he never found another partner. His funeral had 16 people at it, 9 of which were from my family. It was horrible that such a kind, caring man, who had devoted his life to literally everyone else but himself, was seen off by barely anyone.
Originally Posted by Lyricalis:
“I'm not sure that journalism even exists any longer. I think it's all done by AIs trawling Tweets and those people on TV who say the news are all computer generated.”
Journalism ceased after 9/11. Now it's just let's see who can scare the viewers the most and distort the facts the greatest. I can't even watch TV news anymore and haven't bought a newspaper in about 10 years because I just can't stomach the way news stories are twisted and full of speculation and fearmongering.
Originally Posted by LostFool:
“I think the one which affected me the most was Terry Wogan. I don't know why as I was never a regular listener to him on the radio. I just remember thinking that it was far too soon for him and there hadn't been any news that he was ill.
As a child of the 80s, George Michael did bring back a lot of memories of school discos. I know several women of my age who are devastated as they have lost the first person they ever had a crush on. I suppose it would be the same if us men lost Kylie.
I don't quite understand the Carrie Fischer reaction. She was in a famous 1970s sci-fi film and a recent sequel (which I haven't see yet) but I can't remember seeing in her anything else in the last 40 years and I wouldn't have recognised her from a photo.”
I was in Cuba when Wogan died. I didn't even find out until nearly 2 weeks later as I had no internet there.When I got back I didn't know about it for ages because it had slipped out of the news by then.
I hated Star Wars, never like a second of it, but Carrie Fisher always amused me when she was on talk shows and the little parts she has played in various TV shows in recent times have always had me in stitches, especially 30 Rock, which I think she was only actually in 1 episode of, but it's still my favourite character from the whole show!