@fmf saidI routinely look up the people I don't know, and normally find enough to understand why they have been posted.
If, for example, you looked up Cicely Tyson on Wikipedia and saw why she was notable, would you STILL feel the need to ask the person who cited Cicely Tyson's death about why she was notable? You can substitute "Cicely Tyson" with any of the dozens and dozens of other deceased people on this thread you might not have known and about whom you did not ask.
I didn't find out about the creator of the Liverpool hymn a while back, but was led to it and immediately understood after the Relentless Red explained that.
I myself add an explanation to people I assume are more in my cultural context than in an universal one.
@ponderable saidYou looked the guy up on Wikipedia and you still didn't get it. Even that couldn't help you with your "cultural context". Gosh. The Wikipedia entry and its implications were - I take it - too "universal" for you. It's interesting.
I routinely look up the people I don't know, and normally find enough to understand why they have been posted.
I didn't find out about the creator of the Liverpool hymn a while back, but was led to it and immediately understood after the Relentless Red explained that.
I myself add an explanation to people I assume are more in my cultural context than in an universal one.
@ponderable saidSo if a famous Indonesian sportsperson/celebrity/TV actor/personality dies, and I mention their name here on this thread, you are going to chase me down dragging your "cultural context" behind you by chains?
I routinely look up the people I don't know, and normally find enough to understand why they have been posted.
@ponderable saidBut you looked this Iranian person up on Wikipedia and still failed to see anything notable, despite the man having his own Wikipedia page?
No. But I reserve the right to ask.
@ponderable saidThis Iranian gentleman in question is an international sports person, Iranian national TV presenter, actor and also has an uncle who is a “famous” Iranian Shia cleric, which of itself is a big deal in Iran. Furthermore he died at 43 of COVID-19, topical, interesting and notable considering he was an athlete and still young.
I routinely look up the people I don't know, and normally find enough to understand why they have been posted.
But you can’t see anything notable in the person whatsoever, how is that?
05 Feb 21
@torunn saidWould you believe they took the post down where I stated that some people may be
I did make an unfortunate association to that book.
thinking of the movie by that name (D. T.), or in your case, the book?
Can't figure out how that goes against the posting guidelines, ,or common sense,
@earl-of-trumps saidSeriously dude! Are you going all blinky-eyed and pretending you don’t know what goes on in this place?
Would you believe they took the post down where I stated that some people may be
thinking of the movie by that name (D. T.), or in your case, the book?
Can't figure out how that goes against the posting guidelines, ,or common sense,
Cant you see all the perfectly reasonable posts which get a rash of red thumbs, predominantly from the group of people here who don’t like the presence of other people who don’t share their partisan milquetoast perspectives and preferences, and would prefer this forum to be a uniformed, doing-as you’re-told, sitting round the fire at the feet of one of their Akelas singing Ging Gang Goolee kind of place?
05 Feb 21
@handyandy saidYou mean that YALE graduate (home of the deep staters) Bob Woodward, and insider during the Nixon Imbroglio?? It would be just like Deep State (or Intel) to use such a person that people have confidence in to make such a confirmation. And Woodward wrote a Trump Reveal book, and is doing another. Amazing how at any age, this guy keeps getting the *real inside scoop*. eh??
Bob Woodward confirmed that it was Felt.
Bullcrap. Woodward is a deep stater
The CIA's middle name is "Intelligence". It's no blarney. If Woodward said it, it's a misdirection. My opinion.
@divegeester saidNot *you guys*, and not "probably", WAS. It is pretty much known that the 1960 presidential election (Kennedy - Nixon) was stolen by Kennedy.
Of course Nixon was a Republican, so his Presidency was probably stollen from him.
You guys love alternate truths.
Joe Kennedy, a big crime gang boss in Boston and John's father, paid the most notorious mob boss in Chicago, Sam Giancana, to throw the vote in Chicago and Las Vegas over to Kennedy. That gave the electoral votes of Illinois and Nevada to John Kennedy. Reverse all that and Kennedy loses the election, it was that close. So yes, the election was stolen from Nixon. Glad you asked, DG? I am. :-)
The full story was actually brought to light by the woman currier, Judith Exner, who went to Washington to meet Kennedy's father. Judith was actually Giancana's girlfriend and is said to also have had a go with young John Kennedy as well while she was in Washington. Anyway, She travelled to Washington by train to get the suitcase full of cash from Joe Kennedy and take it back to Chicago. It went well, Judith tells us. Giancana, the mobster, did the rest.
Look up the names, Sam Giancana and Judith Exner.
When us oldsters tell you Democrats CHEAT elections, we know what the fook we are talking about.
05 Feb 21
@suzianne saidHe was guilty. So what? He actually knew about this third rate break in and lied about it to a committee of congressional investigators. woop woop.
Because he was guilty as sin?
You don't think the repubs in the senate could block that impeachment?
but they didn't and they told Nixon (or someone told him) to step aside.
And because Americans were happy he was going, they never questioned it.
Obviously, Nixon pissed off deep state. We'll never know what he did or did not do. Deep state also controls Intel, as a lot of what they knew about Nixon had to come from them.
Funny, democrats have no problem seeing deep state in JFK's assassination.
But not with Nixon's removal from office.
@divegeester saidI get red-thumbs all the time, what does that have to do with it?
Seriously dude! Are you going all blinky-eyed and pretending you don’t know what goes on in this place?
Cant you see all the perfectly reasonable posts which get a rash of red thumbs, predominantly from the group of people here who don’t like the presence of other people who don’t share their partisan milquetoast perspectives and preferences, and would prefer this fo ...[text shortened]... d, sitting round the fire at the feet of one of their Akelas singing Ging Gang Goolee kind of place?
I'm talking about RHP REMOVING a post. Why?
I must say that I find many of the notable deaths reported in this thread to be strange choices.
Seems that many people think that being famous makes you notable. I call Mother Teresa notable, or Jesus Christ, or Abraham Lincoln. I wouldn't put a single actor or athlete on the list, they're celebrities. This thread should be called celebrity deaths because there are so many celebrities and so few people who have changed the world for the better.
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@kewpie saidWould a notable death not be newsworthy?
I must say that I find many of the notable deaths reported in this thread to be strange choices.
Seems that many people think that being famous makes you notable. I call Mother Teresa notable, or Jesus Christ, or Abraham Lincoln. I wouldn't put a single actor or athlete on the list, they're celebrities. This thread should be called celebrity deaths because there are so many celebrities and so few people who have changed the world for the better.
Seems that people report deaths in this thread that are meaningful to them. I see nothing wrong with this. Sharing is a good channel for emotion.
05 Feb 21
@kewpie saidI have to disagree here Kewpie, a lot of athletes are great role models and a source of inspiration for young people and actors do a great job of teaching the poorly educated about history etc.
I must say that I find many of the notable deaths reported in this thread to be strange choices.
Seems that many people think that being famous makes you notable. I call Mother Teresa notable, or Jesus Christ, or Abraham Lincoln. I wouldn't put a single actor or athlete on the list, they're celebrities. This thread should be called celebrity deaths because there are so many celebrities and so few people who have changed the world for the better.
