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Is 2016 cursed

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  • 02-07-2016 4:23pm
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    Gael23
    Registered Users Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭


    The list of celebrity deaths in 2016 is growing daily. On the thread of Caroline Ahernes death someone asked is this year cursed?


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    tomwaterford
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    Most of them famous people were old like

    Is it not to be expected a bit??


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    Lyaiera
    Registered Users Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    No. Curses aren't real.


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    LightsStillOn
    Registered Users Posts: 798 ✭✭✭LightsStillOn


    It's going to get worse and worse as the years go by. Megastars in the 60's, 70's, 80's are starting to get on a bit now so it's only natural that it happens.

    I'm not looking forward to 2076 when Keith Richards finally kicks the bucket :(


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    Gael23
    Registered Users Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    tomwaterford wrote: »
    Most of them famous people were old like

    Is it not to be expected a bit??

    Caroline Ahern was only 52


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    L'prof
    Registered Users Posts: 12,005 ✭✭✭✭L'prof


    Life is the curse. We're dying from the day we're born!


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    wakka12
    Registered Users Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Celebrities die every year and Im sure every year people say similar things


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    Outlaw Pete
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    The numbers were crunched and it seems it might just be.


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    RobertKK
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    Sad, knew Caroline Aherne was fighting cancer as she had time off from Gogglebox.
    RIP.


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    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    There's people dying these days that never died before.


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    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users Posts: 17,417 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    Not this fücking thread again.


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Oh noes, what are the glossy mags going to do now?


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    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    Who would have cursed it though?

    I have heard about people getting cursed. Football fields getting cursed. Even gypsy caravans getting cursed.
    But never heard of a year getting cursed.


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    Archeron
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    LightsStillOn wrote: »
    It's going to get worse and worse as the years go by. Megastars in the 60's, 70's, 80's are starting to get on a bit now so it's only natural that it happens.

    I'm not looking forward to 2076 when Keith Richards finally kicks the bucket :(

    Or 2324 when Cher finally expires. Although I've seen the future and according to it, by then they'll both be heads in jars. And a pizza delivery boy will save the earth a number of times
    Rip Caroline Aherne I, liked her a lot.


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    lawlolawl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭lawlolawl


    It would help if there wasn't a threadload of insincerity posted every time any celebrity of any level died.

    No offense to the woman that just died but it isn't as if people on here were talking about her all the time/at all up until her RIP thread appeared. Empty sentiment.


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    [Deleted User]
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    There seems to be a lot more....indulgence in grief though, possibly prompted by social media. I have seen people I know wail and mourn celeb deaths when they had never even mentioned previously names. One friend who wasn't even into grunge was almost overcome by Scott Weilands passing, I think Alan Rickman may have passed and he suddenly became some icon of film.

    For all that, Caroline Aherne was very funny.


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    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Hopefully the cult of celebrity will die. I morn non of their deaths.

    Sure they entertained me in some way but they never touched my life.


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    Mr_Muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 917 ✭✭✭Mr_Muffin


    Yeah mystic Michelle (the local medium) told me someone i know was going to pass and already Ali, prince and many other people have passed.


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    lawlolawl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭lawlolawl


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    There seems to be a lot more....indulgence in grief though, possibly prompted by social media. I have seen people I know wail and mourn celeb deaths when they had never even mentioned previously names. One friend who wasn't even into grunge was almost overcome by Scott Weilands passing, I think Alan Rickman may have passed and he suddenly became some icon of film.

    For all that, Caroline Aherne was very funny.

    The current thread about her in AH is frankly sickening.


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    FortySeven
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    It's not so much that more celebrities are dying, we just have so many more celebrities than we ever did. Television created more than ever before and the explosion in channels meant finding more talent to fill them. I wonder how big the obituary file is getting at the BBC?

    I've been amazed by the social grief people seem to suffer these days, Princess Diana was one of the first I saw of just utter madness. Never understood it, never will.


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    Minderbinder
    Registered Users Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭Minderbinder


    lawlolawl wrote: »
    The current thread about her in AH is frankly sickening.

    Was she even that famous? I had to google her name. I imagine a fair few people in that thread had to do likewise.


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    #22
    lawlolawl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭lawlolawl


    Minderbinder wrote: »
    Was she even that famous? I had to google her name. I imagine a fair few people in that thread had to do likewise.

    If you didn't watch the BBC over the past couple of decades you'd have no idea who she was.


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    #23
    Ronald Wilson Reagan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 282 ✭✭Ronald Wilson Reagan


    Just wait until the asteroid hits.


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    #24
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users Posts: 17,502 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    666 + 666 + 666 + 6 + 6 + 6 = 2016



    So, yeah kinda.


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    Shenshen
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


    You have to be kidding - more people are refugees now than at any time during the 2nd world war, there's been hundreds of them drowning in the mediterranean, who knows how many thousand killed, maimed and tortured in war-torn countries, and you wonder if the year is cursed because a few celebrities have kicked the bucket? Wow.


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    Junkyard Tom
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    Harambe.


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    CINCLANTFLT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭CINCLANTFLT


    My predictions for who else will die this year:
    - Norman Wisdom
    - Prince Albert of Mons
    - That lad in the TV ad with the cat
    - Mossley the Mocker
    - Dan Dooley
    - Doodai Fyhed
    - Kong Jong On Tai
    - Hitler Cat


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    #28
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,409 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    I was cursed by a tinker once when I wouldn't buy a doormat of her.


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    #29
    traprunner
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    Hurt - Flowers

    No curse. As per the lyrics "We're all going to die"



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    #30
    Wigglepuppy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 397 ✭✭Wigglepuppy


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Celebrities die every year and Im sure every year people say similar things
    No there has been a noticeable higher number of high profile deaths than average this year - some just being due to age, or not being terribly old but their lifestyles accelerated their demise. A few early deaths though - Prince was a shocker. Not that I think it's a curse.


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    #31
    MonkieSocks
    Registered Users Posts: 8,271 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    Ronald Wilson Reagan wrote: »
    Just wait until the asteroid hits.


    This One?

    http://www.asteroidmission.org/objectives/

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



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