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Amy Winehouse Dead (RIP thread)[Mod Note Post 1]

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  • #332
    CorkMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    bowsie010 wrote: »
    lads...lads the one thing no one seems to have mentioned is that she is a member of the27 club now

    Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones & Kurt Cobain.


  • #333
    Seamonster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭Seamonster


    Just heard about her death, although it's tragic and she was extremely talented, I think it was completely selfish of her to do this to her family and take her own life like this. From what I have read, she seemed to have parents who cared about her a lot, she obviously preferred to get as wasted as possible than to accept their help and use the talent that she had. It's an awful legacy to leave behind. No doubt, she will become a martyr and everyone will call her a genius. She was just a talented woman who let her family down and turned to drugs and partying because she had one good album. I definitely wouldn't put her in the same league as Jimi Hendrix, Jim, Cobain etc. She was just a talented smack head.


  • #334
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    bowsie010 wrote: »
    lads...lads the one thing no one seems to have mentioned is that she is a member of the27 club now

    Oh my god, it's been mentioned 100 times or something in this thread already.


  • #335
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    Oh my god, it's been mentioned 100 times or something in this thread already.

    That was the joke.


  • #336
    take everything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,876 ✭✭✭take everything


    Mr. Denton wrote: »
    Agreed. I find the stuff very moreish.

    ^Harry Hill.


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  • #337
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    I don't like the idea that this can happen and people are still happy to support drug use and play it down, thats all.
    Use versus abuse. Just because a person uses drugs recreationally doesn't mean they agree with mis-use of drugs - the opposite of anything.


  • #338
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    Just hearing this now.

    Any report on how her death occurred?
    Unfortunately down the same road as Jimmy Morrison, Brian Jones, Hendrix, Joplin and Kurt Cobain.

    RIP.

    Her music will live on.


  • #339
    steelcityblues
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭steelcityblues


    Seamonster wrote: »
    She was just a talented smack head.

    You say that like all the other musicians only had milk and cookies every night. :D


  • #340
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,944 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    CorkMan wrote: »
    Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones & Kurt Cobain.

    just to confirm,

    Kurt Cobain, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison & Jimi Hendrix.


  • #341
    Fago!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    mikom wrote: »
    Al qaeda linked?

    according to Sky News, the middle east and the labour party is responsible for her death.


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  • #342
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,565 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    I find these statements about her life being a waste highly offensive.


  • #343
    Cypher_sounds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭Cypher_sounds


    Was bound to happen, by looking at her frame the past few years it was clear she was addicted and no surprises it was an OD. I dont know how she survived up until now with her drug diet, such a shame because she has some great music, R.I.P.


  • #344
    Da Shins Kelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    Mr. Denton wrote: »
    Probably because the people in Norway didn't put the bullets in their own body.

    Nobody chooses to be a drug addict either. Do you think Amy Winehouse wanted to be addicted to heroin and crack and alcohol? Over simplifying drug addictions is really just making an absolute mockery of people who have very serious problems. It's never as simple as getting over it.

    Death, in any form, is a sad thing. Elevating one form to a higher status than others is just making light of what is a terribly sad situation for everyone. What happened in Norway is terrible, of course it is, but so is the untimely death of a young person. It's possible to sad about more than one thing at a time.


  • #345
    CorkMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    Yakult wrote: »
    just to confirm,

    Kurt Cobain, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison & Jimi Hendrix.

    I have only seen the news in the last 20 mins. I have only read page 1 of this thread and then page 33 and up.


  • #346
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Fago! wrote: »
    Yeah you can if you're a shit swimmer. Taking drugs (more so the drugs she was on) is getting hooked on something dangerous and extremely addictive and slowly, and purposely killing yourself. Swimming isn't. swimming is waddling around in fucking water. If you can't swim then purposely jump into the sea, you're an idiot. You knew the risks. Same with heroin. You know the risks involved and deserve what you get.

    You could swim very well, olympic class, and suddenly get dragged miles out into the sea by a strong current. Or some waves could smack you into rocks. Or you could get eaten by a shark. Or you could get stung by a jellyfish. All sorts of dangerous, life threatening things could happen swimming (Or bungee jumping or drinking or driving or running or fucking) regardless of how good you are or how perceived to be safe it is. There's an element of risk to everything fun. Or.


  • #347
    3hn2givr7mx1sc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭✭3hn2givr7mx1sc


    I feel sorry for her family.


  • #348
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭x in the city


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Unfortunately down the same road as Jimmy Morrison, Brian Jones, Hendrix, Joplin and Kurt Cobain.

    RIP.

    Her music will live on.

    hardly..

    she will be all forgotten about in a decade.

    kurt kobain and nirvana are gods in comparison.

    murdoch is prob getting somone to hack into her phones now as we speak.


  • #349
    Amber Lamps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 282 ✭✭Amber Lamps


    so its brian jones, jime hendrix, janis joplin, jim morrison, kurt kobain

    what about robert johnson, who if not for him all these guys would have been starting out in a very differnt musical climate. people are talking about genius. johnson was without a doubt a musical genius


  • #350
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Fago! wrote: »
    Just heard on Sky News it was a drugs overdose.

    drugs overdose is soo 1970s

    gotta find a cooler way to go:cool:


  • #351
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    RikkFlair wrote: »
    He already did one for Osama...."Sandals In The Bin"

    Thought that was Mother Teresa.


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  • #352
    lastlaugh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭lastlaugh


    hotmail.com wrote: »
    I find these statements about her life being a waste highly offensive.

    Why is that now?

    Can't you recognize the death of a legend when you see it?

    She had so much more to give to the world.

    I think you need to put it in perspective.


  • #353
    Fago!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    Greyson Obnoxious Oaf wrote: »
    You could swim very well, olympic class, and suddenly get dragged miles out into the sea by a strong current. Or some waves could smack you into rocks. Or you could get eaten by a shark. Or you could get stung by a jellyfish. All sorts of dangerous, life threatening things could happen swimming (Or bungee jumping or drinking or driving or running or fucking) regardless of how good you are or how perceived to be safe it is. There's an element of risk to everything fun. Or.

    Yes there is an element of risk to everything. More so with drugs though. I'm not saying "don't do drugs rabble rabble rabble". I'm saying know what you're getting yourself into. It's much easier to quit swimming and bungee jumping and running or whatever than it is to quit heroin.

    Although you'd rarely see someone dying from fucking. Dying like a king. :pac:


  • #354
    Mr. Denton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 867 ✭✭✭Mr. Denton


    Da Shins Kelly wrote: »
    Nobody chooses to be a drug addict either. Do you think Amy Winehouse wanted to be addicted to heroin and crack and alcohol? Over simplifying drug addictions is really just making an absolute mockery of people who have very serious problems. It's never as simple as getting over it.

    Death, in any form, is a sad thing. Elevating one form to a higher status than others is just making light of what is a terribly sad situation for everyone. What happened in Norway is terrible, of course it is, but so is the untimely death of a young person. It's possible to sad about more than one thing at a time.

    If people weren't warned and didn't full know the dangers of drugs then you may have a point. But whether you get hooked or not you know the risks and have a choice to *not begin* before you begin.

    Like I said she chose to take drugs and now it's caught up with her. Those people killed in Norway never chose to put themselves in the way of danger. She'll not get 1/1000th of the sympathy I have for them.


  • #355
    Amber Lamps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 282 ✭✭Amber Lamps


    mikom wrote: »
    Thought that was Mother Teresa.

    no no, that was "sari's in the sand storm"


  • #356
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    Fago! wrote: »
    Yes there is an element of risk to everything. More so with drugs though. I'm not saying "don't do drugs rabble rabble rabble". I'm saying know what you're getting yourself into. It's much easier to quit swimming and bungee jumping and running or whatever than it is to quit heroin.

    Although you'd rarely see someone dying from fucking. Dying like a king. :pac:
    Just let him try to justify drug use


  • #357
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Fago! wrote: »
    Taking drugs (more so the drugs she was on) is getting hooked on something dangerous and extremely addictive and slowly, and purposely killing yourself.

    Those are what you call addicts.

    I usually avoid making predictions but I'll make one here because it's based on past observations.

    There will always be drugs and there will always be addicts. It's how we choose to deal with the issue that makes us a moral person or otherwise.

    I say that supporting the criminalization of people for taking drugs is immoral on many fronts.

    It's a fucked up world we live in where people can be kidnapped and thrown into a locked room because of the vegetation they have in their pocket.


  • #358
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,610 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    fryup wrote: »
    drugs overdose is soo 1970s

    gotta find a cooler way to go:cool:

    Autoerotic asphyxiation just never caught on.


  • #359
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Fago! wrote: »

    Although you'd rarely see someone dying from fucking. Dying like a king. :pac:

    Bruce Lee.


  • #360
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    Just let him try to justify drug use

    Why don't you justify the criminalization of drug users?



    Let the ignorance flow.


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  • #361
    Jim Parker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭Jim Parker


    Can't say I'm surprised. Waste of a great talent. R.I.P.


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