Is 2016 cursed

Gael23 · 02-07-2016 04:23PM #1

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

tomwaterford · 02-07-2016 04:24PM

Most of them famous people were old like

Is it not to be expected a bit??

Lyaiera · 02-07-2016 04:26PM

No. Curses aren't real.

LightsStillOn · 02-07-2016 04:26PM

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

Gael23 · 02-07-2016 04:27PM

tomwaterford wrote: »

Most of them famous people were old like

Is it not to be expected a bit??

Caroline Ahern was only 52

L'prof · 02-07-2016 04:28PM

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

wakka12 · 02-07-2016 04:31PM

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

Outlaw Pete · 02-07-2016 04:32PM

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

RobertKK · 02-07-2016 04:34PM

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

The Backwards Man · 02-07-2016 04:55PM

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

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 02-07-2016 04:57PM

Not this fücking thread again.

biko · 02-07-2016 06:06PM

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

Winterlong · 02-07-2016 06:07PM

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.

Archeron · 02-07-2016 06:10PM

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.

lawlolawl · 02-07-2016 06:14PM

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.

02-07-2016 06:20PM

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.

mad muffin · 02-07-2016 06:23PM

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.

Mr_Muffin · 02-07-2016 06:25PM

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.

lawlolawl · 02-07-2016 06:25PM

[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.

FortySeven · 02-07-2016 06:28PM

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.

Minderbinder · 02-07-2016 07:21PM

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.

lawlolawl · 02-07-2016 07:28PM

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.

Ronald Wilson Reagan · 02-07-2016 07:36PM

Just wait until the asteroid hits.

Mr. CooL ICE · 02-07-2016 07:44PM

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

So, yeah kinda.

Shenshen · 02-07-2016 07:46PM

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.

Junkyard Tom · 22-08-2016 06:58PM

Harambe.

CINCLANTFLT · 22-08-2016 08:59PM

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

kneemos · 22-08-2016 09:07PM

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

traprunner · 22-08-2016 09:09PM

Hurt - Flowers

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

Wigglepuppy · 22-08-2016 10:28PM

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.

MonkieSocks · 22-08-2016 10:36PM

Ronald Wilson Reagan wrote: »

Just wait until the asteroid hits.

This One?

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

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