Christopher Hitchens has died

Morlar · 16-12-2011 06:24PM

Technocentral wrote: »

Piece coming up shortly about him on PM which is on Radio 4 now.

BBC radio 4 ? The online player is something completely different.

Chuck Stone · 16-12-2011 06:24PM

Cooper: Christopher I'm not sure if you believe in heaven but if you do do you think Jerry Falwell is in it?

Hitchens: No, and I think it's a pity there isn't a hell for him to go to.

Love it.

This is one of my favourite clips of him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIviufQ4APo

amacachi · 16-12-2011 06:26PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Ironically I wish an afterlife did exist for people like him.

That can really be read in two different ways. :pac:

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Cooper: Christopher I'm not sure if you believe in heaven but if you do do you think Jerry Falwell is in it?

Hitchens: No, and I think it's a pity there isn't a hell for him to go to.

Love it.

This is one of my favourite clips of him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIviufQ4APo

If you gave him an enema you could bury him in a matchbox. :pac:

AnnyHallsal · 16-12-2011 06:27PM

I've opened a bottle of champagne (ironically one of the things, along with an*l, he said were overrated) and I'm having a wake. Hitchens-related material only for the rest of the evening.

Technocentral · 16-12-2011 06:30PM

Morlar wrote: »

BBC radio 4 ? The online player is something completely different.

Not sure what you mean, PM is on everyday 5 - 6 on R4, am listening to it now online?

AnnyHallsal · 16-12-2011 06:31PM

It's coming up on the show later, Morlar, probably within the next half an hour - they've just flagged it.

Morlar · 16-12-2011 06:33PM

Technocentral wrote: »

Not sure what you mean, PM is on everyday 5 - 6 on R4, am listening to it now online?

You are right I clicked on the wrong link and got some kind of comic strip style drama about bees and tennis. Found it now cheers.

amacachi · 16-12-2011 06:33PM

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

I've opened a bottle of champagne (ironically one of the things, along with an*l, he said were overrated) and I'm having a wake. Hitchens-related material only for the rest of the evening.

Pfft, all about the Johnnie Walker.

Technocentral · 16-12-2011 06:41PM

Morlar wrote: »

You are right I clicked on the wrong link and got some kind of comic strip style drama about bees and tennis. Found it now cheers.

No probs, for future reference its a pretty good news show in general if you like current affairs. Also that great American radio network NPR have a good few pieces about him including this

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/16/143830372/for-hitchens-in-life-and-death-an-unaware-cosmos

AnnyHallsal · 16-12-2011 06:44PM

amacachi wrote: »

Pfft, all about the Johnnie Walker.

I'm not hard-core enough to down a bottle of whiskey while the boyfriend's out at a Christmas party. Hey, I'm no Hitchens!

TheChizler · 16-12-2011 06:46PM

Elliemental wrote: »

And are funerals "religious" by nature? Do you think we Atheists are content to chuck our dead on a bonfire and have done with it? Several of my relatives have had perfectly decent, totally non-religious funerals. We even said things like "rest in peace".

Actually I originally specified Catholic funerals, but changed it cause I thought it looked like I was just trying to stir ship...

I was just thinking he might find it amusing that tributes to him would contain that phrase, just a thought, nothing more. Will honestly miss the guy, been apprehending this day for months. Just managed to get my last fix of him last night with the "does it make me stronger?" article.

AnnyHallsal · 16-12-2011 06:47PM

That Paxman interview was brilliant.

amacachi · 16-12-2011 06:58PM

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

That Paxman interview was brilliant.

I'm always right.

AnnyHallsal · 16-12-2011 06:59PM

amacachi wrote: »

I'm always right.

Which one? :pac:

Technocentral · 16-12-2011 07:01PM

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

That Paxman interview was brilliant.

Hilarious when Paxman quoted some guy as saying "the body rots after death" and Hitch says "thats uncontroversial"!

AnnyHallsal · 16-12-2011 07:04PM

The full interview's on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-s9AyNQyCw&feature=related

I'm useless at embedding, but that's the link if I've failed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-s9AyNQyCw&feature=related

amacachi · 16-12-2011 07:07PM

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

Which one? :pac:

I posted the Paxman interview earlier in the thread.

AnnyHallsal · 16-12-2011 07:09PM

amacachi wrote: »

I posted the Paxman interview earlier in the thread.

Oh, my apologies. It's been a long day

At least that's made my inability to embed irrelevant.

Reamer Fanny · 16-12-2011 07:12PM

Technocentral wrote: »

justryan wrote: »

Who? Seriously I never heard of him

Why bother posting then? Anyone interested in intellectual debate, world politics and atheism would have.

I'm sure I would have hear of him if he was important

MagicMarker · 16-12-2011 07:14PM

justryan wrote: »

I'm sure I would have hear of him if he was important

What's the point in posting if you're going to post bollocks?

RichieC · 16-12-2011 07:19PM

A big loss, very sad indeed.

RIP Mr Hitchens.. :c

Technocentral · 16-12-2011 07:21PM

justryan wrote: »

I'm sure I would have hear of him if he was important

Bloody hell, I don't mean to be smart but since when was parading one's ignorance considered cool? Why not just stick to commenting on things/people you have heard of and are interested in like any normal human being?

RichieC · 16-12-2011 07:26PM

Technocentral wrote: »

justryan wrote: »

I'm sure I would have hear of him if he was important

Bloody hell, I don't mean to be smart but since when was parading one's ignorance considered cool? Why not just stick to commenting on things/people you have heard of and are interested in like any normal human being?

You can be sure they have heard of him but didnt like him. Outright insulting him would be bad form so a more sutble approach is needed.

Reamer Fanny · 16-12-2011 07:27PM

Technocentral wrote: »

justryan wrote: »

I'm sure I would have hear of him if he was important

Bloody hell, I don't mean to be smart but since when was parading one's ignorance considered cool? Why not just stick to commenting on things/people you have heard of and are interested in like any normal human being?

Some people are obviously still very raw about the loss of this apparent well known person. I will take my "ignorance" elsewhere...

Technocentral · 16-12-2011 07:32PM

justryan wrote: »

Some people are obviously still very raw about the loss of this apparent well known person. I will take my "ignorance" elsewhere...

I'm not raw just found him to be a very interesting and intelligent commentator, anyone who has read broadsheets, listened to serious news programmes on the radio and watched current affairs on TV regularly over the last 30 years couldn't have missed him thats all.

MagicMarker · 16-12-2011 07:37PM

justryan wrote: »

Some people are obviously still very raw about the loss of this apparent well known person. I will take my "ignorance" elsewhere...

If you spent less time playing on your xbox you probably would have had the pleasure of enjoying what the man had to say while he was alive.

Reamer Fanny · 16-12-2011 07:43PM

MagicMarker wrote: »

justryan wrote: »

Some people are obviously still very raw about the loss of this apparent well known person. I will take my "ignorance" elsewhere...

If you spent less time playing on your xbox you probably would have had the pleasure of enjoying what the man had to say while he was alive.

I doubt it he sounds like an arrogant toff, and the vast majority of AH poster would not have heard of him so I'm not alone. This thread needs to be moved to Bereavement or Politics

RayM · 16-12-2011 07:49PM

They're talking about him on Drivetime now (RTE Radio 1).

My name is URL · 16-12-2011 07:51PM

justryan wrote: »

I doubt it he sounds like an arrogant toff, and the vast majority of AH poster would not have heard of him so I'm not alone. This thread needs to be moved to Bereavement or Politics

If you don't want to post in or read the thread then simply don't. And it's a bit presumptuous to say that the vast majority of posters here have not heard of him.

The vast majority of those that have not heard of him are not continuously proclaiming that fact.

Technocentral · 16-12-2011 07:52PM

RayM wrote: »

They're talking about him on Drivetime now (RTE Radio 1).

Quick justryan ring in and ask them why they have the nerve to talk about people you haven't heard of.

Christopher Hitchens has died

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