Katy French "will not get justice" - tabloid headline?!!

Pace2008 wrote: »

I'm all for the freedom to imbibe whatever substance you choose but who else is to blame when you OD?

Nobody, unless they have deliberately sold drugs cut with substances unsuitable for consumption.

Why would you think my post is blaming anyone else?

I am just pointing out that if people wish to preach for people to have the freedom to take drugs (be it they legal or otherwise) then they should not be saying she got what she deserved.

Will everyone that takes cocaine this weekend deserve to die?

It makes ZERO sense, ZERO!

The sanctimony of the media is a totally different matter, that has always been around, as far back as JFK's assassination if not even longer.

OutlawPete wrote: »

I am just pointing out that if people wish to preach for people to have the freedom to take drugs (be it they legal or otherwise) then they should not be saying she got what she deserved.

Will everyone that takes cocaine this weekend deserve to die?

It makes ZERO sense, ZERO!

The people I see consistently posting about the hypocrisy of our drug laws are not the ones saying she deserved to die; they're saying she is solely responsible for her own demise.

candy-gal1 wrote: »

if your stupid enough to willingly sniff/inject something illiegal into your body then what the hell do you expect?! seriously! stupid idiot scangers pretending to be a celebrity, oh if i take this im like so and so! :mad:

In fairness, if you have any knowledge of the relevant statistics you wouldn't really expect to die from taking cocaine.

shnethb wrote: »

In the days following her death she was described as the Irish princess Diana. FFS she was a coke head!!!

I don't see how that would rule out the diana comparisons.

John Waters wrote this claptrap after her death. It's tragic for families but seriously this extract is not meant to be funny, but I just think it's hilariously deluded. :pac: I mean what? Did she cure cancer or something?


"She had a beauty that suggested itself as emanating from an infinity within. She seemed to believe anything was possible and her smile convinced you, for an instant, that she was right. I wanted her dreams to come true. She was a child. She was my daughter and Eoghan’s daughter and Eamon’s daughter and Pat’s daughter and Bertie’s daughter. She was your daughter, your little sister. She was a child of Ireland in the time of its rebirth."

"Katy French was a personification of our fantasies, of our sense of what we were becoming, of how we might unfold ourselves. She was not the only one, but in the immediate past was perhaps the most spectacular light on the skyline, a meteorite of desire plummeting through the Irish zeitgeist… Katy had found a way of being that promised her it could slake all her human cravings. She had manoeuvred herself into a position where everything humanly desirable seemed to be within reach, and was careering forward on the path opening up in front of her. She did not, other than literally, die of whatever it will say on her death certificate. She died of desire, of being utterly human."

candy-gal1 wrote: »

Well tbh we all know that if you sniff something up your nose or inject something theres a lot more of a risk with that than with alcohol.

Alcohol's got nothing to do with what I said, though it’s the most significant contributory factor in a large percentage of overdoses.

The number of deaths from cocaine is very low relative to the number of users, so you wouldn’t “expect” to die from a few lines.

foxyboxer wrote: »

"She had a beauty that suggested itself as emanating from an infinity within. She seemed to believe anything was possible and her smile convinced you, for an instant, that she was right. I wanted her dreams to come true. She was a child. She was my daughter and Eoghan’s daughter and Eamon’s daughter and Pat’s daughter and Bertie’s daughter. She was your daughter, your little sister. She was a child of Ireland in the time of its rebirth."

"Katy French was a personification of our fantasies, of our sense of what we were becoming, of how we might unfold ourselves. She was not the only one, but in the immediate past was perhaps the most spectacular light on the skyline, a meteorite of desire plummeting through the Irish zeitgeist… Katy had found a way of being that promised her it could slake all her human cravings. She had manoeuvred herself into a position where everything humanly desirable seemed to be within reach, and was careering forward on the path opening up in front of her. She did not, other than literally, die of whatever it will say on her death certificate. She died of desire, of being utterly human."

At least we can take solace in the fact that there’s a new star in the sky, shining down on all of us

muffy wrote: »

That magazine that comes with the Sunday Indo is an example of publication that fuels this kind of tripe.

Gerald Keane and Lisa Murphy were on the magazine cover a while back, dressed in royal attire, being heralded without trace of irony as “Ireland’s Posh and Becks.” It is a faux-cosmopolitan rag of the highest order.