Can't we have one bleepin' year where no one dies?

[Reverend Conehead]

At the end of 2019 one of my favorite musical performers ever, Kim Shattuck of the Muffs, died. That SUCKED! So then in 2020 we had the worst year in history since the year 536 with the stinkin' pandemic and all kinds of awesome people, both famous and not famous, dying. It included my best friend from grade school. It included my guitar hero, Eddie van Halen. 2020 SUCKED!

So in 2021 we're owed a better year. We were supposed to have a year where the stinkin' pandemic got fixed and NO ONE died! But it has to start of the new year by killing off the woman of the hottest poster on my wall as a kid, Tanya Roberts. Enough!

I'm fed up. I'm starting my next prayer with, "Hey, you, you're being a real jerk, knock it off." That might not sound very articulate or poetic, but it's truthful. Enough of this.

 

[The Fonz]

I feel ya ....Life is too short my friend make the best of it ...don't worry about something we have no control over....let's hope for a better year

 

[CouchCoach]

All of those people we grew up with are growing older and mortality becomes a real part of life. Compared to the last 10 years of my life, I feel as if I was sheltered from this and it decided to catch up.

The natural state of things with the passage of time are one thing but when they go the way that Robin Williams, Butch Trucks, Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell did it hits really hard.

When people take their own lives that appear to "have it made" to the rest of us. the shock and acceptance of that can derail us. I can still remember the feeling I had when Freddy Prinze took his own life. Here was a man at the top of life, he had arrived, and that wasn't enough.

Nothing so fragile as life and we, too often, think too many have better lives than we do. Peace of mind is vastly underrated.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

All of those people we grew up with are growing older and mortality becomes a real part of life. Compared to the last 10 years of my life, I feel as if I was sheltered from this and it decided to catch up.

The natural state of things with the passage of time are one thing but when they go the way that Robin Williams, Butch Trucks, Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell did it hits really hard.

When people take their own lives that appear to "have it made" to the rest of us. the shock and acceptance of that can derail us. I can still remember the feeling I had when Freddy Prinze took his own life. Here was a man at the top of life, he had arrived, and that wasn't enough.

Nothing so fragile as life and we, too often, think too many have better lives than we do. Peace of mind is vastly underrated.

It really bothered me that Robin Williams took his own life. I think men in particular have absurd pressure on us to succeed and make tons of money or you're treated as worthless. Then even when you do succeed, you never really escape that pressure, and no one really gives a crap what you feel. I think a lot of that was going on with Robin Williams. I won't go into further detail because I don't want the conversation to turn political, but suffice it to say divorce destroys men while rewarding women. You're better off refusing to play that game.

 

[JoeKing]

A year where no one dies, that never has happened and never will happen.

 

[nobody]

 

[DallasEast]

It really bothered me that Robin Williams took his own life. I think men in particular have absurd pressure on us to succeed and make tons of money or you're treated as worthless. Then even when you do succeed, you never really escape that pressure, and no one really gives a crap what you feel. I think a lot of that was going on with Robin Williams. I won't go into further detail because I don't want the conversation to turn political, but suffice it to say divorce destroys men while rewarding women. You're better off refusing to play that game.

Three things come to mind reading this. First, Robin Williams did experience personal and career related problems but diagnosed/misdiagnosed physical and mental health issues may have played a role in his suicide also. Second, I am both glad and appreciative in your observance of site rule #7--although I am not quite sure of your context. Finally, I really REALLY believe you hold a profoundly strong opinion about women that is not exceptionally positive.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Three things come to mind reading this. First, Robin Williams did experience personal and career related problems but diagnosed/misdiagnosed physical and mental health issues may have played a role in his suicide also. Second, I am both glad and appreciative in your observance of site rule #7--although I am not quite sure of your context. Finally, I really REALLY believe you hold a profoundly strong opinion about women that is not exceptionally positive.

My negative opinion is more about people who are abusive in relationships and not women in particular, though plenty of them are guilty.

 

[Winonesoon]

Sorry brother man, everything is a cycle. Just hope this is not our year.

 

[DallasEast]

My negative opinion is more about people who are abusive in relationships and not women in particular, though plenty of them are guilty.

There are as many men as there are women who are equally guilty. People, men and women, are imperfect. Fingers are pointed both directions.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

There are as many men as there are women who are equally guilty. People, men and women, are imperfect. Fingers are pointed both directions.

That was my point.

 

[DallasEast]

That was my point.

Your comment was:

My negative opinion is more about people who are abusive in relationships and not women in particular, though plenty of them are guilty.

Re-worded, it could have read as:

My negative opinion is more about people who are abusive in relationships

I would not have quoted and commented if I had read the latter. Generalization and ambiguous are not always one and the same. That is my point.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Your comment was:

Re-worded, it could have read as:

I would not have quoted and commented if I had read the latter. Generalization and ambiguous are not always one and the same. That is my point.

I can guarantee you I would be every bit as critical of some dude who married a rich woman just to use her for her money. IMO, anyone, man or woman, who wants to get married because their potential partner makes them see dollar signs should simply never get married. They should never date. Come to think of it, they should never even talk to any other human being. Just build an ice cabin in the arctic on a frozen-over lake and subsist off of ice fishing without any contact with another human being for the rest of their life. That's what I think of anyone who marries for money.

 

[DallasEast]

I can guarantee you I would be every bit as critical of some dude who married a rich woman just to use her for her money. IMO, anyone, man or woman, who wants to get married because their potential partner makes them see dollar signs should simply never get married. They should never date. Come to think of it, they should never even talk to any other human being. Just build an ice cabin in the arctic on a frozen-over lake and subsist off of ice fishing without any contact with another human being for the rest of their life. That's what I think of anyone who marries for money.

Your many postings are satirical. I have lol'd at a good bit. I thank you for that. That said, here are a few questions and I will shut up from here (real life work beckons).

Would you judge your many postings have been as equally critical of men as they are of women?

Would you describe your many postings containing an equal number of greedy men as they do of greedy women?

Would you suggest your many postings have illustrated reality based male antagonists equal that of... say... Amber Head?

You have the final word, good sir.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Your many postings are satirical. I have lol'd at a good bit. I thank you for that. That said, here are a few questions and I will shut up from here (real life work beckons).

Would you judge your many postings have been as equally critical of men as they are of women?

Would you describe your many postings containing an equal number of greedy men as they do of greedy women?

Would you suggest your many postings have illustrated reality based male antagonists equal that of... say... Amber Head?

You have the final word, good sir.

My posts about Amber Heard are not really about her. They're satiric posts making fun of a fictional me who's become obsessed with an exaggerated and ridiculous version of her. If I had to pin it down, I would say my posts are more critical of the loon supposedly obsessed with her, though I don't know that it actually counts since that's not a real person anyway. In real life, I don't stalk Amber Heard or attempt time travel excursions to get the best of her. She has gotten some negative press lately, and if some of that is true, she's probably done some things that are wrong, but who knows how much of the press is accurate and not exaggerated to sell stories. My posts about her are mainly for laughs.

 

[John813]

I thought it was revealed that Robin Willians was suffering from Lewey Body Dementia which played a huge role in why he did what he did.

In the months before his death, Robin Williams was besieged by paranoia and so confused he couldn’t remember his lines while filming a movie,
Susan Williams has previously blamed Lewy body dementia for her husband’s death by suicide in 2014. Williams was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease a few months before he died; the telltale signs of Lewy body dementia in his brain were not discovered until an autopsy.


The editorial chronicles Williams’s desperation as he sought to understand a bewildering array of symptoms that started with insomnia, constipation, and an impaired sense of smell and soon spiraled into extreme anxiety, tremors, and difficulty reasoning.
“He kept saying, ‘I just want to reboot my brain,’” his widow recounted.


https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-lewy-body-dementia-gripped-robin-williams1/


The way I see it death is just part of life. Unfortunate and fortunate at the same time. I wish most could die peacefully, and at old age but unfortunately life isn't fair there. For example, Sean Connery's death sucked but was also not saddened by it cause he lived a full life. I have tons of memories watching his films with my dad early ams on the weekends.

 

[cowboyec]

i felt this way since august 16,1977.

 

[DallasEast]

I thought it was revealed that Robin Willians was suffering from Lewey Body Dementia which played a huge role in why he did what he did.

In the months before his death, Robin Williams was besieged by paranoia and so confused he couldn’t remember his lines while filming a movie,
Susan Williams has previously blamed Lewy body dementia for her husband’s death by suicide in 2014. Williams was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease a few months before he died; the telltale signs of Lewy body dementia in his brain were not discovered until an autopsy.


The editorial chronicles Williams’s desperation as he sought to understand a bewildering array of symptoms that started with insomnia, constipation, and an impaired sense of smell and soon spiraled into extreme anxiety, tremors, and difficulty reasoning.
“He kept saying, ‘I just want to reboot my brain,’” his widow recounted.


https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-lewy-body-dementia-gripped-robin-williams1/


The way I see it death is just part of life. Unfortunate and fortunate at the same time. I wish most could die peacefully, and at old age but unfortunately life isn't fair there. For example, Sean Connery's death sucked but was also not saddened by it cause he lived a full life. I have tons of memories watching his films with my dad early ams on the weekends.

Williams' dementia diagnosis is what I alluded to in my first post. It would frighten any person. Or it should.

However, I think it was profoundly frightening to someone with the intuitive extraordinary imagination Williams possessed. The man could vocalize multiple personalities at will and engage in various self-contained dialogues, in rapid cohesive fashion. Fan appreciation varied for his craft but he possessed a comedic genius intellect, which, in my opinion, far exceeded his dramatic acting and writing.

To know he would lose all what made him HIM would have been overwhelming to anyone. It is regrettable beyond words how his life ended but not impossible to understand his final decision.

 

[DallasEast]

i felt this way since august 16,1977.

Without doubt, I know Elvis has known what has been in your heart all this time.

 

[John813]

Williams' dementia diagnosis is what I alluded to in my first post. It would frighten any person. Or it should.

However, I think it was profoundly frightening to someone with the intuitive extraordinary imagination Williams possessed. The man could vocalize multiple personalities at will and engage in various self-contained dialogues, in rapid cohesive fashion. Fan appreciation varied for his craft but he possessed a comedic genius intellect, which, in my opinion, far exceeded his dramatic acting and writing.

To know he would lose all what made him HIM would have been overwhelming to anyone. It is regrettable beyond words how his life ended but not impossible to understand his final decision.

For sure. When it was first announced it threw me off on why he would do it. Then when more came out his health and learning about Lewey, I understood why he did what he did. Must be super scary to not feel control of your own mind.