I've noted before how popular celebrity death hoaxes have become. In fact, it's kind of like a weird sign of status for a celebrity to have their death falsely reported. It shows people care, in a sick and twisted way. Britney still leads the pack, having been killed in car crashes many times, but now American Idol anti-star William Hung has joined this elite group of prematurely-reported-dead celebrities. Reports of his death via heroin overdose have been spreading all around the internet. They originated from a faux-news piece on Broken Newz. His suicide note was particularly touching: "I have no reason of living... my art which is my importance to the best everybody laugh to... I make end here... goodbye world of cruel." (via David Emery's Urban Legends and Folklore)
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And Stephan won't buy me a pony.
Mwahahahaha...
Ahhh I'm releived...:ahhh:
WILLIAM I LOVE YOU!!!!! 💋 :red:
how would you feel if you are william? how would our parents feel if we were to be mock by others? Our parents doesnt have the choices to choose from a photo album on how their child could look like before they were born...or the sweetest voice we can be...
Salud to all..
hmmmmmmm i guess not............wish he did though he's pointless and he cant sing for crap......i dont understand why people like him sooooo much..........maybe it's b/c he looks like a huge retard and it's entertaining??????
well i give him a year before he dies!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow... despite the fact that nothing has been posted in this thread for nearly a year and a half, I figured WTF since I spent most of 2008 in hospital recovering from a broken back so it was sort of as if the year didn't exist for me... so really, I'm only a few months out of date. And I wouldn't even bother but I'm so stunned by this thread that I feel compelled. We have Nikki, who neither knows that typing in all caps is equivalent to yelling nor recognizes Stephen's use of a famous line from an 80's classic, Pink Floyd's The Wall, and, I suspect, has no idea what the name Charybdis (or Karybdus.. Charybdus) refers to because she's mis-spelled it and I'm sure if she understood the reference she'd have gotten the spelling correct... First, Nikki - you shouldn't have to wait to have someone explain basic online etiquette to you if you're gonna post online, or even write an email, for that matter... and what's with the blessing people thing? You're using the whole "bless you," or better yet, "I'm praying for you," thing, not as a true prayer for them - that is, unconditionally - but as a weapon with which to strike at someone who doesn't agree with you. You pray, or offer blessings to others not, I suspect, for their own well-being but in the hopes that they'll become more like you or change their opinions and beliefs to yours, which is both sad and hateful, especially coming from someone who is so freaking high and mighty. Listening is an art that requires practice but which allows one to learn - if you're running your mouth (or keyboard) you can't be learning... which is perhaps why you don't know the most basic online etiquette there is and which has existed since before email and the internet first became a tool for the masses, rather than just the DOD and universities (I suspect Nikki has no idea what I'm talking about here, but maybe someone will tell her, or maybe, she'll try to go and find something out for herself... it's called learning... I referred to it a couple sentences back)... Then we have a bunch who think that since Wm. Hung is a bad singer and a joke that this is reason for him to die, either by suicide or murder - nice priorities (I won't say people... I'd hate to see you all have to face compassion equal to your own were you to suck at something)... Then there's my fellow country-person, Ivy, who actually blames Wm. Hung himself for her having wasted her own time watching and listening to him. I'm embarrassed you're a fellow Canadian. If you don't want your time wasted, close the browser window or change the channel - nobody is making you watch crap so you either have no free will or you've just abrogated any responsibility you have over your own existence - are you still on the breast or have you been weaned since you last posted? Of course, if you are being forced to watch Wm. Hung online against your will, for godsake let us know so we can send some help...
Stephen... Charybdus... Brilliant, but wasted, sadly. I offer this advice as someone who, I think, is older than you both and has been both a longtime listserv mod and BB Sysop - my first 'puter was an Apple II Plus that required two 5 1/4 inch floppies just to boot up... whose Mac SI had one of the old O'Connor drives that regularly locked up but which was easily fixed by lifting the entire thing up off whatever surface it was sitting on about a 1/2 inch and dropping it... and so may have a bit more experience with unthinking stupidity and how best to respond and manage it. Yeah... I'm old, or at least old comparatively, I think, but I don't think that makes me smarter - only more experienced, and so I offer this without intending any condescension - When faced with such obvious willful obtuseness, you have to keep it simple... no references that require basic general knowledge or the skills required to find it. Don't assume that the person you're interacting with will be motivated to find out what you're talking about if they don't understand it. It's more likely that they will take umbrage and respond as if you have 'dissed' them, because they are insecure and so driven by an ego that is enlarged from overwork because it has to chronically protect them... like an enlarged heart that has become so from chronic overwork because the rest of the body is letting it down, a willfully stupid person (that is, dumb by choice or laziness... the same thing, really) will have an overdeveloped ego that has become so due to having to constantly protect its owner's sense of self because the second someone disagrees with them or expresses an opinion they don't understand, they feel they are being attacked because they have so little substance that every single quanta of their personality is precious to them and so any challenge to any of their beliefs, no matter how insignificant or trivial, must be defended to the point of even damaging themselves... They are walking self-fulfilling prophecies unless and until they wake up and realize that they are not the centre of the universe and that the universe owes them nothing... that they (to paraphrase Fight Club) are not special. They are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. They're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
Robert Heinlein lived by the motto that "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch" - often shortened to the acronym tanstaafl... so well known that it's even got a wiki page... and he wrote a great deal about personal responsibility and the difference between those that waited to have the universe explained to them - to have knowledge spoon fed to them, and those that went out and created themselves, fed themselves whether with food or knowledge, but were fundamentally self-sufficient. People make fun of the movie Starship Troopers, from one of Heinlein's novels, and so they should... the film sucked and ignored the entire point of the novel - that we are owed nothing but basic respect and compassion, for which we owe the rest of the world basic respect and compassion. Everything else must be earned, and to think otherwise is to infantilize oneself to the detriment of society entire. He posited in many novels that as individuals became less and less motivated to be adults, and were rewarded rather than penalized for self-infantilization, that it was often accompanied by a decline in basic decency and respect toward one and other - that is, manners... the definition of the individual who walks around angry for being 'dissed' without even considering that self-actualization might be a more reasonable response, or to whom it never occurs to extend to those who are perceived to have 'dissed' them, basic human decency and respect in the first place... the fundamental belief that respect is owed and not earned... and that in almost every instance of the fall of human empires, cultures (whether in the larger sense or even within something such as a corporate culture or neighbourhood) or societies, this pattern could be found... that the beginning of the decline and fall was always signaled by a deterioration of basic manners and respect for one and other, followed by a general deterioration of language and basic communication skills requiring logic, followed by a shift in attitude toward general self-infantilization by almost all members of that group, and that those who survived were ultimately the individuals that realized that there ain't no such thing as a free lunch, whether referring to food, shelter, or knowledge and wisdom...
So, Stephen and Charybdis, by all means fight the good fight... but don't waste time on those who can't be bothered to spend time on themselves. Stephen... as a mod, you owe them nothing other than basic respect and decency and after that, if they insist on whining and thumb-sucking instead of learning to wipe their own asses or look up the most basic information required to function in the world - that is to tie their own shoelaces and walk out their front door without being hit by a bus, literally or metaphorically, then f**k 'em...
Cheers Fellow Survivors... I go now to polish my crossbow, inventory the canned goods in the shelter and stoke up the fire under the still.