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Micheal Jackson is in the Hospital!
billiumbean:
First time in my life that I've ever shed tears over the death of an icon.
--- Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 25 Jun 2009, 15:34 ---whoa
let's all have a moment of silence while we enjoy the greatest music video ever made and think fondly of the dearly departed.
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QFT.
scarred:
:cry:
Inlander:
Okay guys, sorry to bust in on your sorrow but I've decided to pull a unilateral mod-move to head off at the pass any hurt feelings over bad jokes that are going on over this particular issue. 'Cause let's face it, there are a lot of bad jokes to be made.
From now on, I want to see if we can have all serious discussion of Mr. Jackson's death happen over in the thread that's up and running in the Infinite Pony Debates sub-forum. This thread right here: http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,23363.0.html.
All jokes and snarky comments and the like are to be confined to this thread right here. The one you're reading right now.
Let's face it, there are people for whom this is a genuinely sad day, and there are people who just want to point and laugh. Let's try not to tread on each-others toes. I know, I know, "Segregation - bad!" and all that but let's try it just this once. Thanks!
pwhodges:
The idea that jokes and snarky comments about the death of anyone should be legitimised in this way is a bad one. Don't do it. Just don't.
I'm am also greatly saddened by Jeph's comment a few minutes ago in Twitter, partly because I have spent the last couple of weeks reading the analysis of Wagner's Ring by Deryk Cook (sadly unfinished when he died) which makes it utterly clear that the things that people dislike Wagner for are totally irrelevant to either his life or his work. It's not just that a comparison with Wagner is unfair, but that a remark like Jeph's is parading ignorance about something he is displaying as the standard for that comparison.
Inlander:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 25 Jun 2009, 19:02 ---The idea that jokes and snarky comments about the death of anyone should be legitimised in this way is a bad one.
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I agree with you. Personally I find the idea of laughing at anybody's death completely repugnant.
However I'm also a realist enough to realise that in an online community with several thousand members, and given the nature of Mr. Jackson's recent infamy, at least some people here are going to feel compelled to make awful jokes about his life and death. Some people just won't be able to help themselves (or will feel that they can't, but that's another discussion). I'm merely hoping to ensure that those people don't offend the rest of us, who don't find anything to laugh about in this situation, and that those of us who are shocked or saddened or just rather startled by Mr. Jackson's death don't have to be offended by stumbling upon somebody else's idea of humour.
Lest it seem like I'm legitimising the making fun of the recently departed, let me offer the following caveat: if you make jokes about a rather strange and mentally unstable man dying of a heart attack at the age of fifty then you should feel ashamed of yourself.
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