Not driving home for Christmas

.db. said:
Wasn’t that Erasure?

Why does everything need to be serious these days? Making daft quips when someone famous dies is just British humour. It brings humour and lightheartedness to sad situations. It’s low brow, yes, but still just something that we do in our culture.

The thread title and opening post does exactly that.

Bringing a daft joke to the situation is no different to anyone bringing their daft ‘RIP’ nonsense to it. Nobody ‘rests’ in ‘peace’ when they’re dead, they’re just dead and that’s it. Food for worms and bacteria who live in soil is about the height of what happens to a person when they die.

Posting ‘RIP’ is just another form of coping when someone dies, just like bringing humour to a situation is, even if it’s silly humour. Posting ‘RIP’ is not any more respectful than posting a joke, it’s being delusional if anything. But both things are a form of showing how they’ve thought of the person being important enough to comment about with news of their death.

Once this goes down to Page 2, barely anyone here will give much thought to the bloke until they hear his song next Christmas. They probably haven’t given much thought to him once they pop onto the next thread they look at after posting their ‘RIP’ nonsense and moving along.

I’m sure it’s very sad for Chris Rea’s family and friends, but he’s just someone nobody here knew, who knew nobody here. We’re just in some random Manchester City fan chat room, it’s hardly like I’ve popped my head into his wake to say it.

@Mad Eyed Screamer got moaned at for doing the same thing in another thread when someone died earlier this year but there was nowt wrong when he did it either.

There was a story a few years ago where some comedian posted a Chris Rea joke on Facebook every day in the run up to Christmas, and Chris Rea got in touch with the fella to say how much he liked it. Maybe he’d prefer a stupid joke than a delusional ‘RIP’ if he were still alive?
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.db. said:
Wasn’t that Erasure?

Why does everything need to be serious these days? Making daft quips when someone famous dies is just British humour. It brings humour and lightheartedness to sad situations. It’s low brow, yes, but still just something that we do in our culture.

The thread title and opening post does exactly that.

Bringing a daft joke to the situation is no different to anyone bringing their daft ‘RIP’ nonsense to it. Nobody ‘rests’ in ‘peace’ when they’re dead, they’re just dead and that’s it. Food for worms and bacteria who live in soil is about the height of what happens to a person when they die.

Posting ‘RIP’ is just another form of coping when someone dies, just like bringing humour to a situation is, even if it’s silly humour. Posting ‘RIP’ is not any more respectful than posting a joke, it’s being delusional if anything. But both things are a form of showing how they’ve thought of the person being important enough to comment about with news of their death.

Once this goes down to Page 2, barely anyone here will give much thought to the bloke until they hear his song next Christmas. They probably haven’t given much thought to him once they pop onto the next thread they look at after posting their ‘RIP’ nonsense and moving along.

I’m sure it’s very sad for Chris Rea’s family and friends, but he’s just someone nobody here knew, who knew nobody here. We’re just in some random Manchester City fan chat room, it’s hardly like I’ve popped my head into his wake to say it.

@Mad Eyed Screamer got moaned at for doing the same thing in another thread when someone died earlier this year but there was nowt wrong when he did it either.

There was a story a few years ago where some comedian posted a Chris Rea joke on Facebook every day in the run up to Christmas, and Chris Rea got in touch with the fella to say how much he liked it. Maybe he’d prefer a stupid joke than a delusional ‘RIP’ if he were still alive?
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If he were still alive, he would be more surprised by RIP than by a joke.
 
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