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Post by Ozymandias on Mar 24, 2022 3:05:34 GMT -5
Q: "We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?"
A: "We think the price is worth it."
She much later apologized. All this according to her Wikipedia page, is it accurate?
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 24, 2022 3:36:19 GMT -5
Q: "We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" A: "We think the price is worth it." She much later apologized. All this according to her Wikipedia page, is it accurate? Yes (and I remember when that was a headline grabber back in the '90s and later). But we're straying into politics now... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2022 22:37:10 GMT -5
 RIP to Taylor Hawkins, best known as the drummer for the Foo Fighters. He was only 50. He died unexpectedly while the band was on tour in South America. No cause of death has ben released. -M |
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Post by Ozymandias on Mar 26, 2022 4:45:01 GMT -5
We've had a lot of "No cause of death"s in the past year or so. Wonder what that could be  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 26, 2022 8:54:04 GMT -5
We've had a lot of "No cause of death"s in the past year or so. Wonder what that could be  The life of entertainers exacts a high price , it seems. Long tours , hours filled with partying. Even when a person is totally clean, the constant traveling could take a toll on ones health. |
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Post by Confessor on Mar 27, 2022 5:33:22 GMT -5
We've had a lot of "No cause of death"s in the past year or so. Wonder what that could be The life of entertainers exacts a high price , it seems. Long tours , hours filled with partying. Even when a person is totally clean, the constant traveling could take a toll on ones health. And Taylor was certainly not a clean living type. He almost died from a heroin overdose in the early 2000s and he loved his booze and fags. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2022 6:09:35 GMT -5
The life of entertainers exacts a high price , it seems. Long tours , hours filled with partying. Even when a person is totally clean, the constant traveling could take a toll on ones health. And Taylor was certainly not a clean living type. He almost died from a heroin overdose in the early 2000s and he loved his booze and fags. Yep, and it's now confirmed it was drug related. Toxicology report shows "10 different substances" in his system at the time. The drug culture is the main reason I quit being in a "serious" working band in my early 20's. It went from being in a garage band in high school with youthful crazy dreams of being on MTV and playing arenas one day and just having fun to looking around at rehearsals and seeing a growing "entourage" that seemed more drug dealer than musician related. I finally walked away from the whole scene and just focused on college (that aspect was never my thing). Funny story many years later...I got into guitar collecting years later because I still like to play for fun. Grew to know a number of folks on a forum related to that, and one day, a guy I "sort of knew" there sends me a PM and says "hey, you're in Columbus, right? I'm managing a band that's coming through, do you know where we can get any party supplies?" And I kid you not, the very first thing I think of is "oh that's nice, I bet it's someone's birthday in the band." And about 5 minutes later, it finally dawned on me what he was actually talking about. My wife and I have joked about "party supplies" ever since (can you imagine their looks when Mr. PG-rated Supercat shows up with the ice cream cake?) |
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 27, 2022 19:11:08 GMT -5
And Taylor was certainly not a clean living type. He almost died from a heroin overdose in the early 2000s and he loved his booze and fags. Yep, and it's now confirmed it was drug related. Toxicology report shows "10 different substances" in his system at the time. The drug culture is the main reason I quit being in a "serious" working band in my early 20's. It went from being in a garage band in high school with youthful crazy dreams of being on MTV and playing arenas one day and just having fun to looking around at rehearsals and seeing a growing "entourage" that seemed more drug dealer than musician related. I finally walked away from the whole scene and just focused on college (that aspect was never my thing). Funny story many years later...I got into guitar collecting years later because I still like to play for fun. Grew to know a number of folks on a forum related to that, and one day, a guy I "sort of knew" there sends me a PM and says "hey, you're in Columbus, right? I'm managing a band that's coming through, do you know where we can get any party supplies?" And I kid you not, the very first thing I think of is "oh that's nice, I bet it's someone's birthday in the band." And about 5 minutes later, it finally dawned on me what he was actually talking about. My wife and I have joked about "party supplies" ever since (can you imagine their looks when Mr. PG-rated Supercat shows up with the ice cream cake?) Actually, that would have served them right. |
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Post by impulse on Mar 28, 2022 9:33:58 GMT -5
Man, Taylor Hawkins passing is so dreadfully sad. He was so young. Dave Grohl must be absolutely devastated. He has spoken about how much he loves that man, brother from another mother, a kind of love at first sight, he'd take a bullet for him, etc. And that this isn't the first time he's lost a close bandmate can't help. Rest in peace, and condolences to the family.
Also, I am not discounting the likelihood that drugs were involved, I have seen people who know say the particular list of substances found in his system are not necessarily not supposed to be there. There can be valid reasons they were prescribed and taken, etc. At least, the last article I read was saying those things were present but not ruled as cause of death yet.
Though, yeah, considering the circumstances, it seems like they very well could have been.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2022 10:00:31 GMT -5
Man, Taylor Hawkins passing is so dreadfully sad. He was so young. Dave Grohl must be absolutely devastated. He has spoken about how much he loves that man, brother from another mother, a kind of love at first sight, he'd take a bullet for him, etc. And that this isn't the first time he's lost a close bandmate can't help. Rest in peace, and condolences to the family. Also, I am not discounting the likelihood that drugs were involved, I have seen people who know say the particular list of substances found in his system are not necessarily not supposed to be there. There can be valid reasons they were prescribed and taken, etc. At least, the last article I read was saying those things were present but not ruled as cause of death yet. Though, yeah, considering the circumstances, it seems like they very well could have been. First and foremost, I agree with you it is terribly sad. While it is possible these were all legitimately prescription based despite his prior drug use history, he also had the open bottle of vodka and empty beer can so safe to assume he was likely mixing alcohol with these. And sadly that's when things can go extra wrong. I'm definitely not vilifying him, nobody knows what he was dealing with at that point, and what pain (physical or mental) and/or addiction led to this. In any scenario, I just hate to see substances take another life, he had so much more life ahead of him. |
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Post by impulse on Mar 28, 2022 11:19:00 GMT -5
Yes, I completely agree. I've read that in addition to the vodka and beer can there was a white powder in the room, as well. It's not looking good, but it is possible the substances were not used improperly and were there coincidentally, even if unlikely.
I also agree that it's terrible to see these substances take yet another talented and beloved person far too soon.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 29, 2022 14:43:55 GMT -5
Just saw it announced on fb that penciler and inker Garry Leach passed away a few days ago (March 26). He mostly worked on UK comics, with his art appearing in publications like 2000 AD and Warrior. He's perhaps best known - at least among American fans - for his art in the early stories of Alan Moore's revived Marvelman. He did do some work, mainly inking, for American publishers as well (I know he inked about the first half of Marvel's The Twelve in the '00s).  |
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Post by berkley on Mar 29, 2022 15:46:53 GMT -5
Sad to hear. I really liked Garry Leach's work on Miracle/Marvelman and thought the book lost something when he left.
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 30, 2022 10:39:51 GMT -5
Tremendous artist.
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Post by foxley on Apr 1, 2022 11:10:27 GMT -5
Just learned from my Doctor Who Club of Australia magazine of the passing two actors connected to my favourite show. Both died last year, but they weren't big enough names for their deaths to make the news here in Oz. (If details have already been posted here and I missed them, I apologise). Jackie Lane,who played Dorothea 'Dodo' Chaplet, companion to first Doctor William Hartnell, passed away on June. 21, 2021, aged 79 (and two weeks shy of her 80th birthday).  And Tony Selby, who played intergalactic conman Sabalom Glitz alongside Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy, died on Sept. 5. Selby was also known for playing Clive Mitchell in EastEnders and Corporal Percy Marsh in Get Some In!.  |
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