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Michael Jackson Death discussion thread - CHAT, NOT JOKES

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  • #152
    Sparky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    RIP Micheal!


  • #153
    ball
    Registered Users Posts: 479 ✭✭ball


    http://michael.jackson.mediafetcher.com/news/top_stories/actor_new_zealand.php


  • #154
    ~me~
    Closed Accounts Posts: 324 ✭✭~me~


    murpho999 wrote: »
    All very strange, Sky news have him as dead but CNN & Fox only say taken to hospital.

    if you look and listen properly to sky you'll see they're only quoting tmz so they dont look like fools if its wrong. it looks like he is dead but it is unconfirmed. tmz are the only people to 'confirm' it as of yet.


  • #155
    portumna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 260 ✭✭portumna


    They're not going to confirm he's dead until the family are notified. It's standard procedure in any country. But from all the talk it seems he's gone. RIP.


  • #156
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    murpho999 wrote: »
    All very strange, Sky news have him as dead but CNN & Fox only say taken to hospital.


    They're American so at least five hours behind us.

    /Grabs white glove...

    .


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  • #157
    jape
    Closed Accounts Posts: 396 ✭✭jape


    Well if it is true, I hope before he died that he knew he defined an entire generation, and millions of people still respected both him and his music. RIP Michael.


  • #158
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Fox aren't confirming the death.. just saying it 'looks bleak'


    Fcuking media.


  • #159
    FruitLover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭FruitLover


    murpho999 wrote: »
    All very strange, Sky news have him as dead but CNN & Fox only say taken to hospital.

    Sky is based in the UK, CNN and Fox are in the US. He won't be dead over there for another 5-8 hours.

    Bah, beaten (shakes fist at Mairt)


  • #160
    connundrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    Record sales x 10 million in the next week.

    Crazy news, but if its true, how crazy can it be.

    I'd imagine his diet, health, daily medication etc would have been pivotal in the final moments.


  • #161
    ZiMZuM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 147 ✭✭ZiMZuM


    Sky News saying he died,no matter what happened in his private life it cannot be denied that he was a great music artist! R.I.P


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  • #162
    DarkJager
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    Most likely dead I would say. He wasn't breathing when they picked him up and TMZ, which had already recieved statements from his brothers and dad, have now said he has passed away. They obviously have some connection inside the hospital.


  • #163
    tk123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,053 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    God I'm glad I'm off work tomorrow - wont have to deal with the influx of dead-person jokes flooding into the mail servers!


  • #164
    OK-Cancel-Apply
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,528 ✭✭✭OK-Cancel-Apply


    Wonder how long it will be before the conspiracy theories start.


  • #165
    jackdaw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭jackdaw


    Not confirmed yet ... just the gutter journalism that sky news is to get the story first ...


  • #166
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    cornbb wrote: »
    Just to break the thread up a bit:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_hz2am90Hk

    Disabled video mate


  • #167
    Saibh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭Saibh


    TMZ are the website confirming he is dead, Sky is using them as their source that he is dead.


  • #168
    dublintuition
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭dublintuition


    yep, not confirmed yet. But very critical


  • #169
    Pop's Diner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭Pop's Diner


    zokrez wrote: »
    Jeez he took the news of Farrah Fawcett pretty badily !

    FF is dead too? :confused: I really should pick up a newspaper occasionally!


  • #170
    Photi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 669 ✭✭✭Photi


    Some guy on CNN using an awful lot of Past Simple.


  • #171
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,544 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    ~me~ wrote: »
    if you look and listen properly to sky you'll see they're only quoting tmz so they dont look like fools if its wrong. it looks like he is dead but it is unconfirmed. tmz are the only people to 'confirm' it as of yet.

    I can look and listen properly....I'm not stupid.

    My point is that Sky are reporting him as dead but the american networks are only talking about him being in hospital and not quoting any sources about him being dead. I think there must be stricter speculation laws in the US.


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  • #172
    portumna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 260 ✭✭portumna


    Pop's Diner wrote: »
    FF is dead too? :confused: I really should pick up a newspaper occasionally!

    She only died today 2. There's a thread on her somewhere aswell.


  • #173
    heebusjeebus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭heebusjeebus


    Heee Heeeeeeeee's dead!

    RIP Jacko ya mad bastard.


  • #174
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    I can't believe it:(. I hope it turns out that it's untrue. The mans a legend.

    But it seems like the prince of pop is dead. Long live the prince.


  • #175
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,382 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    I wonder if he has some special arrangements for his body, like cryogenics?


  • #176
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,125 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    jackdaw wrote: »
    Not confirmed yet ... just the gutter journalism that sky news is to get the story first ...

    Kay Burley and the smoking gun.


  • #177
    Fizman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Whatever bad you can say about the man, there's no denying that he was a great musician and entertainer.

    And for all the bad **** he may have done, worse was probably done to him growing up in a world of performing, and abuse by his dad.

    What a sad life for someone so iconic

    Ah sh1t man. If my violin wasn't in the repair shop right now, I would totally have your back right now!


  • #178
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Pop's Diner wrote: »
    FF is dead too? :confused: I really should pick up a newspaper occasionally!

    Yep. BBC link. RIP Jacko if true. Musically he was phenomenal, especially in that glorious late 70s-mid 80s period.


  • #179
    cornbb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭cornbb


    stovelid wrote: »
    Disabled video mate

    Oops, my bad.

    Lets try this one:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZorRGrDiMsA


  • #180
    itsallaboutheL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,333 ✭✭✭✭itsallaboutheL


    Man who ever inherits his estate is going to be in a world of shit..


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  • #181
    Dr_H_Lecter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭Dr_H_Lecter


    Pop's Diner wrote: »
    FF is dead too? :confused: I really should pick up a newspaper occasionally!


    expect a reference to farrah fawcett in the suicide note. i feels it in me bones.


  • #182
    ~me~
    Closed Accounts Posts: 324 ✭✭~me~


    murpho999 wrote: »
    I can look and listen properly....I'm not stupid.

    My point is that Sky are reporting him as dead but the american networks are only talking about him being in hospital and not quoting any sources about him being dead. I think there must be stricter speculation laws in the US.

    i wasnt saying you were, i meant it as they are making it look like they are confirming it yet covering themselves if hes not by not making it clear. i wasnt insulting you at all.


  • #183
    niceirishfella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭niceirishfella


    You know, it was a life lived through music, but I always thought he should have went into politics.

    Like is he had to stand for President last time in the USA, he would have won easily...........

    He was a man, a woman,black and white!


  • #184
    itsallaboutheL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,333 ✭✭✭✭itsallaboutheL


    cornbb wrote: »
    Oops, my bad.

    Lets try this one:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZorRGrDiMsA

    Thats not Michael Jackson............................... Thats a black man??


  • #185
    zokrez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭zokrez


    Already 67,000 tweets. This will be the singular biggest day for twitter ever I predict.


  • #186
    markok84
    Closed Accounts Posts: 857 ✭✭✭markok84


    http://www.rte.ie/arts/2009/0625/jacksonm.html

    rte only reporting him unconcious?


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  • #187
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    He's Dead, He's Dead, you know it, you know it
    And The Whole World Has To Answer Right Now
    Just To Tell You Once Again,
    He's Dead...


  • #188
    xOxSinéadxOx
    Registered Users Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭xOxSinéadxOx


    this is weird


  • #189
    denon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭denon


    Reports on Fox News that he's alive and well. All just a massive publicity stunt, apparently.


  • #190
    nicegirl
    Registered Users Posts: 560 ✭✭✭nicegirl


    cannot believe he is dead, oh my God...
    I used to call him Mickey Jackass....may he rest in peace...im in shock


  • #191
    ronnie3585
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,675 ✭✭✭ronnie3585


    The American networks not reporting his death yet.

    Sky said that Reuters had confirmed it but they are only referencing the TMZ report.


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  • #192
    dublintuition
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭dublintuition


    Pop's Diner wrote: »
    FF is dead too? :confused: I really should pick up a newspaper occasionally!


    I did not know this either!!

    Gawd.... it's a sign you're getting older when the amount of celeb's you know alive is almost as many as the ones you know of who are dead!! :eek::eek::eek:


  • #193
    Peppapig
    Registered Users Posts: 202 ✭✭Peppapig


    Ahhh not again!


  • #194
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0625/breaking70.html?via=mr


  • #195
    BingBlangBlaow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭BingBlangBlaow


    Poor Michael.

    R.I.P


  • #196
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Making this thread dead is the way forward here.


    Its fcuking pointless until an official statement is made. The media are nothing but sensationalist vultures.


  • #197
    cornbb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭cornbb


    I'd be skeptical that he's dead til we hear it from a trustworthy news source tbh... maybe he is, but I hope he's not and all. Changing the thread title was jumping the gun a bit I think.


  • #198
    stepbar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,123 ✭✭✭stepbar


    Unreal Story. Expect the lawyers to have a field day sorting out his estate.


  • #199
    A Neurotic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,779 ✭✭✭A Neurotic


    I'm shocked. Wasn't a major fan or anything, but I'm surprisingly saddened by this.

    RIP.


  • #200
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    rubadub wrote: »
    I wonder if he has some special arrangements for his body, like cryogenics?

    I really doubt he would have had the funds for that.

    Fantastic musician.

    I wonder what will happen to the Beatles Publishing Rights...


  • #201
    Spastafarian
    Registered Users Posts: 749 ✭✭✭Spastafarian


    denon wrote: »
    Reports on Fox News that he's alive and well. All just a massive publicity stunt, apparently.

    No there isn't


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