Grief Athletes and Plain Weird19 Mar 2009 12:22 pm

Does Anyone Know Who We’re Grieving For?

By Nelson

I wonder if the BBC shouldn’t run some kind of opt-out scheme where celebrities can sign a form that reads “In the event of my untimely death, please, under no circumstances should the BBC invite everycunt to share their half-formed opinions of me (after googling me to work out who the fuck they think I was) or tell desperately tenuous stories about how they once took a photo of me while I was looking at a helmet in the Jorvik Viking Centre. Thanks”.

Thanks to Jon for finding this first one.

i think her organs should have been harvested
pym, usa

As usual, much of the thread is full of self-important teeth-gnashing masquerading as concern. There’s a surprising amount of giddy bumwank about ski helmets and the usual collection of cockends who’ve never heard of her and are angry that anyone else has.

I like this one. I’m not sure if it’s a message of condolence or simply a set of instructions on “how to ski”.

It looks like the UK is having its Sony Bono moment. These celebrity skiing deaths happen occasionally. Michael Kennedy had died a week before Bono. at the end of 1997. Skiing is dangerous: one is trying to balance on a slick surface, going down a steep slope–all while having to constantly shift one’s position in order to execute turns. A helmet might well have helped prevent the injury. It is important to bear in mind the one is likely to fall–and that the packed snow can be very hard.
Arthur Pomar, Milwaukee, WI, United States

But my favourite so far is this one from a chap who arrived late to the griefathon and, despite forgetting his P.E kit, gamely agreed to join the grieving in his underwear.

I have never heard of Natasha Richardson Before, but it seems many people have, and like them, I think that any death, particularly any death that results from such a minor incident, is indeed a tragedy.
steve

71 Responses to “Does Anyone Know Who We’re Grieving For?”

  1. on 19 Mar 2009 at 12:45 pm   Mr Cat

    I love the grief threads – so much that I feel a bit guilty because whenever someone dies I always go straight to HYS to read the ubiquitous outpourings of the mentally ill for my own entertainment. These threads never fail to disappoint.

  2. on 19 Mar 2009 at 12:50 pm   Rotwatcher

    Unlike most HYSers, I had actually heard of Natalie Richardson, and even saw her once in a film. I’m very sorry she’s dead, of course, but I wouldn’t dream of saying so in a comment on a website.

  3. on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:05 pm   Rene DesCartes

    Since I never met the person, I am not certain they exist. Hell, I am not even sure if I exist, essentially.

    Hence I am sorry for someone who may well be a figment of my imagination, and must post it on a website immediately, as confirmation that I exist. I thought that nasty Darth Maul fellow killed Liam Neeson anyway. What’s going on?

    It’s as if my understanding of the world is crap or sommat….

  4. on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:10 pm   Mr Cat

    Chinese never know Richardson,Because China never show UK TV programs.We also grief for Richardson!!!

    Wang Dong, Xi’an, China

  5. on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:13 pm   NickDunmore

    Mr Cat- did the very same. It is the most scientific method of measuring idiot response time.

    I may register to post:
    “My fondest memory of Natasha Richardson was reading about her on Have Your Say then writing about her on Have Your Say, then remembering writing about her on Have Your Say and reading about her on Have Your Say”.

  6. on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:17 pm   EleanorD

    I particularly liked this one – such deep and perceptive insight:

    It goes to show that money cannot buy you everything and celebrities are still human just like you and i. Some people think celebrities are higher up on a different plane, but even though they earn more money, they still have feelings and pain and sickness.
    It is a terrible tragedy.
    My prayers are with the family.

    Gemma

  7. on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:18 pm   devolute

    Forget *who* we’re grieving for, more important is if we should hate them or not. Please let me know.

  8. on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:19 pm   Mr Cat

    Sorry – its just too easy – its like a goldmine or something:

    If operated soon enough, people with this kind of injury can often be saved. Surgeons stop the bleeding and open the skull to release the pressure. They have to get to the hospital as soon as the symptoms appear — and she did. Why did they move her from hospital to hospital — are the Quebec hospitals ill-equipped for this kind of surgery?

    This reminds me of Diana’s death. With emergency surgery to close the artery she would probably have been saved. But they just waited while she bled.

    qwerty

    She was probably ski-ing too fast to escape the papparazzi as well.

  9. on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:22 pm   Bob The Killer Goldfish

    I to had never heard of Natasha Richardson Before. It’s certainly an unusual surname, and one I’d be likely to remember.

  10. on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:23 pm   Paul A

    HYSers aren’t so stupid afterall. This one is a brain surgeon:

    “Someone – whether family or physician – made a tragic mistake when they decided to take Natasha to the US. A quick scan to reveal the location of the hematoma, followed by an immediate subdural incision to relieve pressure is the recommended protocol. This can, at a pinch, be done by an reasonably well-informed person equipped with a Swiss Army knife…

    Paul Skillicorn, Snow Hill, United States”

  11. on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:23 pm   werka

    I like the mention of the new ipod rival – the Sony Bono. Annoyingly, when I read “It looks like the UK is having its Sony Bono moment. These celebrity skiing deaths happen occasionally. Michael Kennedy had died a week before Bono.” my heart did a mild flutter of excitement at reading ‘Bono’ and ‘died’ in the same sentence.

  12. on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:31 pm   simply wondered

    ‘This can, at a pinch, be done by an reasonably well-informed person equipped with a Swiss Army knife…’

    take note all you careless skiers – switzerland is the smart choice.

  13. on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:34 pm   rjs

    Basic reality failure:

    “Shocked and beyond sadness. It’s not possible!”

    Mia Shay, Boston

  14. on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:35 pm   Simon

    I for one, am angry that this is final proof that God is fallible.

    He was aiming for Linsay Lohan – and missed.

    (@ werka

    Ditto, mate. Ditto. We can only live in hope that he takes up snowboarding in an attempt to be down with the kids.)

  15. on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:48 pm   Throbbe

    I feel I should retire from SYB as the funniest thing on this page was the name Wang Dong.

    Does anyone know where I can best laugh at forunners and their funny ways? (or perhaps it was some fiendishly clever subversive just attempting to get the beeb to print naughty words)

  16. on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:51 pm   Rock Snob

    I too have never heard of her, but after a bit of quick googling realised I once knocked one out over pictures of her sister

  17. on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:54 pm   skunkpussy

    Someone – whether family or physician – made a tragic mistake when they decided to take Natasha to the US. A quick scan to reveal the location of the hematoma, followed by an immediate subdural incision to relieve pressure is the recommended protocol. This can, at a pinch, be done by an reasonably well-informed person equipped with a Swiss Army knife…

    Subdural hematoma? Fuck me, it’s Dr Quincy!

    (Apologies to the younger readers for the obscure 1980′s mid-afternoon medical drama reference.)

  18. on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:58 pm   Shinybiscuit

    Not entirely sure if HTML (or my awful hacked-up cakck-handed versions of it) will work, but this is in italics, ok?

    But my favourite so far is this one from a chap who arrived late to the griefathon and, despite forgetting his P.E kit, gamely agreed to join the grieving in his underwear.

    BRILLIANT.
    Nearly laughed some tea through my nose.

  19. on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:59 pm   Shinybiscuit

    It worked!

    But I spelled “cack” wrong. Sad face.

  20. on 19 Mar 2009 at 2:04 pm   Manly J. Panda

    I thought that Neeson had already buried his wife and married Claudia Schiffer except it wasn’t Claudia Schiffer just someone who looked like her but it was really because that’s what his wife would have wanted and Bill Nighy had the Christmas number one and spend the day with the Baldy Man.

    And that’s how I will always remember her. A True Friend, comfort to the millions.

  21. on 19 Mar 2009 at 2:13 pm   Token Paki

    @Rotwatcher:

    Hypocrite.

  22. on 19 Mar 2009 at 2:19 pm   Hugh Grant

    I ended up with that foul-mouthed Martine McCutcheon. You couldn’t make it up!

  23. on 19 Mar 2009 at 2:22 pm   Paul A

    My sympathy for Natasha Richardson’s family is growing by the second. Not only has Gary never heard of Natasha Richardson, he sees a positive side to her death:

    I’m not being rude – but I don’t know who she is. I know Joely Richardson…. but Natasha…. no.
    AND on another point – people tend to forget that Skiing is an extreme sport! Maybe this will remind everyone again.
    Gary, London

    I’m going to have to stop reading the ‘tributes’ before I feel compelled to attend Natasha’s funeral out of solidarity with her family for their treatment at the hands of your average Jo Cunt on HYS.

    (hope I’ve mastered this blockquote thingie)

  24. on 19 Mar 2009 at 2:25 pm   Tonymac

    I enjoy the amateur medics who all come out of the woodwork on occasions such as this. I’m sure the Canadian authorities specifically sent the worst paramedic team in Canadian Paramedic history to treat Natasha Richardson.

    Then, to suggest that the medics were maliciously moving her from hospital to hospital in order to worsen her condition, belies a singularly fucked up grasp of reality.

    And is it compulsory to read SYB drinking a hot beverage, just in case you have a tea / bovril / hot funky semen snorting moment?

  25. on 19 Mar 2009 at 2:53 pm   Philbert

    Someone – whether family or physician – made a tragic mistake when they decided to take Natasha to the US. A quick scan to reveal the location of the hematoma, followed by an immediate subdural incision to relieve pressure is the recommended protocol. This can, at a pinch, be done by an reasonably well-informed person equipped with a Swiss Army knife…

    I had no idea that modern Swiss Army Knives included a CAT or MRI scanner. Did they replace that thing for taking stones out of horses’ hooves?

  26. on 19 Mar 2009 at 3:03 pm   twopoint6khz

    This one joins the ranks of those grieving in their undercrackers:

    I really don’t know anything about her. But, her image along side in a smiling face with captivating eyes brought a feeling of sadness to know such a young woman died in an accident. Death is cruel at time as is it is a means to dwell in peace perpetual. Wish her soul rests in that peace. May her near and dear bear her loss in her memory.

    But this goes one better and gets thespian on y’ass:

    ‘Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak
    Whispers the o’er fraught heart and bids it break.’
    [Shakespeare, MACBETH IV.iii]

    My heart goes out to the Neeson and Redgrave families. The world has lost a great talent. They have lost a great love.

    And those were plucked from the first page of the “most recommended” section. Easy pickings indeed.

  27. on 19 Mar 2009 at 3:04 pm   Nelson

    I had no idea that modern Swiss Army Knives included a CAT or MRI scanner. Did they replace that thing for taking stones out of horses’ hooves?

    Nah but they often include LED torches… some of those things are fucking bright. I reckon you could see through a skull easy enough.

    “Pass me the photon hammer”

  28. on 19 Mar 2009 at 3:15 pm   Dr Feelgood

    Natasha Richardson’s tragedy (apart from dying, obviously), was to be neither un-newsworthy, nor sufficiently famous to be universally known by the Grief Athletes – thus prompting this wonderful display of mawkish ignorance.

    For the mocking elite, truly the Goldilocks Zone of HYS celebrity death commentary.

  29. on 19 Mar 2009 at 3:25 pm   James

    Yeah, Dr Feelgood, if she had been more famous and newsworthy, I reckon we would definitely have avoided a triumphant display of mawkish ignorance on HYS. Definitely.

  30. on 19 Mar 2009 at 3:36 pm   skunkpussy

    I had no idea that modern Swiss Army Knives included a CAT or MRI scanner. Did they replace that thing for taking stones out of horses’ hooves?

    I can’t see the MRI equipped Swiss Army Knife ever catching on. You certainly wouldn’t want to keep it in your trouser pocket – not unless you were happy with the danger posed by any ferrous item you happened to pass within 3 or 4 meters of suddenly hurtling at your bollocks…

  31. on 19 Mar 2009 at 3:45 pm   Alex

    I for one, am angry that this is final proof that God is fallible.

    He was aiming for Linsay Lohan – and missed.

    Oh God, is this going to descend into another thread on celebrities we can’t wait to see in a box? You guys are SO FUCKING OUT THERE.

    How about this one: I HOPE ROWAN ATKINSON DIES! Yeah! I love this! I HOPE HE TAKES MILEY CYRUS WITH HIM! Come on, high five!

  32. on 19 Mar 2009 at 4:06 pm   True Grief Athlete

    A tragic accident. Deepest sympathy to all of her family. I have to confess I had never heard of her.

    John DAKIN, Bristol, United Kingdom
    Recommended by 1 person

    Oi John, My great granny died three months ago in a tragic dildo/ energiser battery accident. She played “old bag #2″ in her local wrinkly theatre group to rave reviews. You would never have heard of her either, where the f*ck was my sympathy message.

  33. on 19 Mar 2009 at 4:14 pm   Mr Cat

    Oh God, is this going to descend into another thread on celebrities we can’t wait to see in a box?

    I hope not. I’m really liking almost everything that the HYS thread spews out – lets focus on the griefathon. It has everything…

    A terrible tragedy…..I just wonder if the fall was not the result of some vascular event in the head that caused the fall in the first place and not the other way round. Do doctors have any way of verifying that possibilty ?
    Robert Ballantyne, Tiradentes

    The concerns raised about the need to wear helmets whilst skiing have led me to wonder about the wearing of a helmet at the ice rink. This can also be a dangerous sport and it is obviously very easy to slip and fall backwards on the ice.

    Drena Mayes, Skipton

    Another thing I’m noticing is that (with straight faces) so many tributes are gushing about “parent trap” as a life defining film, as though its a role she deserves to be remembered for all eternity for…

    To put it in perspective the IMDB synopsis reads:

    “Identical twins Hallie and Annie were separated at birth when their parents divorced. After the two meet at summer camp, they begin plotting to reunite their estranged parents.”

    Move over Citizen Kane!

  34. on 19 Mar 2009 at 4:17 pm   JGFC

    I am now officially announcing the start of a collection to buy Jade Goody a set of skis!

    And when our beloved Saint Jade pops her clogs I will be first in the queue to buy the Max Clifford authorised tribute “Jade Aid” single featuring Her Holiness singing her very own karaoke rendition of “Jebus Wants Me For a Sunbeam” with Crazy Frog & Mr Blobby on backing vocals.

    Get your pre-orders on Amazon now!

  35. on 19 Mar 2009 at 4:25 pm   The (very) Grim Reaper

    The concerns raised about the need to wear helmets whilst skiing have led me to wonder about the wearing of a helmet at the ice rink. This can also be a dangerous sport and it is obviously very easy to slip and fall backwards on the ice.

    Drena Mayes, Skipton

    Awesome. Drena has just changed ITV’s Dancing on Ice into Potential Celebrity Deathmatch.

    I’ll certainly be tuning in from now on.

  36. on 19 Mar 2009 at 4:27 pm   Dr Feelgood

    James, you are right – misplaced faith in human nature on my part.

  37. on 19 Mar 2009 at 4:30 pm   Tonymac

    Nobody thought for a moment Natasha Richardson’s condition will take a turn for worse. Even emergency medical help was turned down. Later her condition worsened and she was flown to a New York hospital where she died. Natasha derived her acting gene from her parents Vanessa Redgrave and Richardson. She took to stage at four and won many laurels shuffling between broadway and movies. Her portayal in Cabaret won her a Tony. Her always smiling face brightened the environs.She will be missed by many

    Aziz Merchant, Fremont, United States

    I’ve probably fucked that blockquotes up, but regardless, I would have thought that scientists would have made a big hoo-haa about discovering the acting gene. Apparently it’s on the same chromosome as the newsreading, reality TV-show guest and useless cunt genes.

    Anyway, this is in the running for most half-arsed tribute of the year.

    I also like the mental imagery of shuffling between the stage and movies.

    “FFS, Vanessa, hurry up. We’ve got a schedule here.”

  38. on 19 Mar 2009 at 4:35 pm   Tonymac

    This so sad. She was a great actress and very, very pretty. I loved her in The Parent Trap with Lyndsay Lohan when I was a kid (I’m 6 months older than Lyndsay). I hope that Liam Neeson knows that we are all feeling for and thinking of him and the children right now.

    Rest In Peace xx

    Jess, Devon

    Yes, I’m sure Liam Neeson has told his family and friends to leave him alone while he scours Have Your Say for some comfort.

  39. on 19 Mar 2009 at 4:37 pm   millie

    The concerns raised about the need to wear helmets whilst skiing have led me to wonder about the wearing of a helmet at the ice rink.

    The really sensible option is to line a safety helmet with tin foil and keep it on 24/7.

  40. on 19 Mar 2009 at 4:38 pm   Jumpy the Shark

    I do wish they’d bring this non-story to a close. Not because I’ve barely heard of whatsername, but because I always get phantom symptoms of any queasy medical condition that’s in the news, and I’ve got a bit of a weird headache right now.

    Every time I see Jade I worry I’m going bald, too.

  41. on 19 Mar 2009 at 4:52 pm   millie

    From the Daily Heil:

    Natasha struck down by the eternal curse of the Redgraves. Scandal and illness have plagued the family since Sir Michael was revealed to be bisexual.

  42. on 19 Mar 2009 at 4:56 pm   Kelvin

    There’s a lot of information about head injuries in this HYS thread. Then again, there’s a lot of evidence of head injuries in most HYS threads.

  43. on 19 Mar 2009 at 4:57 pm   JaneShibori

    My personal favourite is this one:

    Never in a million years did I see this coming!! Only ever saw her in 2 films, ”The Parent Trap” & ”Made in Manhatten” but still thought she was outstanding. My heart goes out to her family.

    Georgina, Brighton

  44. on 19 Mar 2009 at 4:57 pm   Dr Shade

    I understand what the family are going through, my cousin died in a skiing accident in Canada. It’s a big shock and something that you don’t think will ever happen to you.

    Funny that. My cousin died in a skiing accident in the Empty Quarter of the Sahara Desert and we totally knew he was asking for it. But to die skiiing on a snow-covered mountain in a northern country like Canada? That’s just senseless!

    It is a tragedy to us, in our limited understanding, but perhaps the Lord God Almighty, was pleased with her, at least as much as her earthly family, and decided to bring her home.
    gary pardue, houston, texas, u.s.a.

    Aha. So God looks down on us and says “Hmm. She’s a nice person – never done anyone any harm, entertained a lot of people with her talent, rasied a lovely family, found a lovely husband and still looks like a bit of allright. I think I’ll add her to my collection…”

    If the Almighty actually existed and did do stuff like that he/she/it would be the most unimaginably huge cunting tosser in the entire Universe, gary pardue…

    I have watched her career for years. I would pick out movies just because she was in them – such as the White Countess. I regret that I never got to see her performances on stage. It feel like I have lost a dear friend.
    Iris, Atlanta, GA

    Because watching a complete stranger on a flickering screen a few times is completely like buidling a solid and strong relationahip with them. It’s true, you know. I regularly crank out the jizz while watching Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel and have come to feel like Miley Cyrus is my own daughter. I’ve even built her her own room in the cellar and evertyhing…

  45. on 19 Mar 2009 at 5:06 pm   Paul A

    I had been expecting lots of comments along the lines of ‘Her family are a bunch of dangerous lefties responsible for bringing this once great country to its knees etc. etc. ad nauseam’. But no, not one.

    I can only assume that such comments are amongst the current total of 225 rejected. 528 published comments and 225 rejected – a rejection rate of almost 30%. Just imagine some of the gems missed thanks to a squeamish moderator.

  46. on 19 Mar 2009 at 5:09 pm   Kelvin

    It does feel like the BBC is cheating us by making every thread in existence fully moderated. But looking at the trainwreck that happened when they tried to make a reactively moderated joke thread for a charity event, I can understand why.

    What we really need is someone on the inside to send the moderated comments to submission at this domain, nudge nudge wink wink.

  47. on 19 Mar 2009 at 5:18 pm   Dr Shade

    528 published comments and 225 rejected – a rejection rate of almost 30%. Just imagine some of the gems missed thanks to a squeamish moderator.

    “This commie-pinko, IRA-sympathising PARASITE has OBVIOUSLY been assassinated by Gordon Clown and his NuLiarBore stasi-commandos to DIVERT attention away from the OBSCENE bonuses this pathetic excuse for a Government is handing out WILLY-nilly to the FatCatB(w)ankers who orchestrated the global financial crisis as part of the Stalinist-Zionist Conspiracy and all the handouts from TAXPAYERS (IE OUR!!!) MONEY showered on unemployed illegal asylum seeking towel-headed SCUM and PIKEYS who come over here to OUR beloved GREEN and PLEASANT land – God’s OWN Land!!1! – to SPONGE off the STATE and sell DRUGS and corrupt our sweet innocent virgins into WHORES for their DEPRAVED sex-trafficking NETWORKS!!!11!

    LABOUR OUT!!1! NOW!!11!!!1!!

    Mind you, she was a bit of alright in that Parent Trap thing and my heartfelt condolences go out to her little kiddies and the IRA pikey who was giving her one at this time of sorrow.

    Topsy. Inger-land (Not UK)”

    Something like that, you think…?

  48. on 19 Mar 2009 at 5:42 pm   Kelvin

    I expect there were a few demanding to know how she could afford a swanky skiing holiday when all she does is ponce about on a stage, when the hard working British family man can’t even afford a weekend at Margate because his job’s been taken by a Swazili.

  49. on 19 Mar 2009 at 6:13 pm   Fred's Hat

    I saw John Savident on Loose Women. I was sure he was dead.

  50. on 19 Mar 2009 at 6:34 pm   Bit Special

    I was reading this thread on my phone on the bus home, whilst trying not to laugh out loud (luckily I had no hot beverage to shoot out of my nostrils), when the teen uber-chavs in front of me started discussing Natasha Richardson’s death. Having already almost tutted myself into a near-coma at the sight of their earring-sporting baby swigging on a diet coke, I was eager to hear what pearls of wisdom would spurt forth from their lips. I was not disappointed – apparently Richardson’s death now means that St Jade can’t die, as there is some sort of nebulous Sleb Karma system, whereby if one famous person dies, it means another, however ill, is going to live.

    I was going to pat one on the shoulder and point out how, exactly, this was the most fucktarded thing I had heard in years but then I remembered how a group of schoolgirls attacked me with their bags a few years ago on a train when I couldn’t stop myself interrupting their heated debate about how England (sigh) couldn’t be an island, because otherwise it would sink into the sea as there’s nothing to hold it in place, innit.

    Also, the chav female pointed out that it was probably best for Richardson to die, as she was ageing and getting ‘well more mingin’ an that’. Marvellous.

  51. on 19 Mar 2009 at 7:20 pm   Alex

    I am now officially announcing the start of a collection to buy Jade Goody a set of skis!

    See, I knew this was going to happen. I fucking knew it.

    How weird in the cunting head do you have to be to hear “dead” and think of Jade Goody? Alright so you’re so bereft of anything more important to care about that you can’t wait for Jade Goody to pop her clogs, but since your pathetic, sleb-obsessed prayers have been already been answered with a massive fat minge-tumour, why the fuck are you wasting your money on skis to kill her?

  52. on 19 Mar 2009 at 7:22 pm   Blythy

    so, has anyone seen anyone following david mitchell’s suggestion and posting “It just goes to show, you can’t be too careful!”?

  53. on 19 Mar 2009 at 7:45 pm   JGFC

    See, I knew this was going to happen. I fucking knew it.

    Blah blah blah blah etc…

    Amazing.

    You’re either so sensitive about Saint Jade or so eager to mis-read anything I post that you couldn’t even recognise an obvious wind-up!

    (Well, apart from the “Jade Aid” commemorative charity single – I’ve got money on that happening at some point.)

    I take it we won’t be indulging in a similar piss-take of HYS professional grief-posters when your beloved Jade passes on into the arms of the baby Jebus, then…?

  54. on 19 Mar 2009 at 8:02 pm   Rosey

    It just goes to show, you can’t be too careful.

    (predictable?)

  55. on 19 Mar 2009 at 8:07 pm   Dr Shade

    there is some sort of nebulous Sleb Karma system, whereby if one famous person dies, it means another, however ill, is going to live

    My experience has always been that while the old wive’s tale about “Slebs always die in threes” isn’t strictly true, they *do* always seem to go in “clusters”…

    how England (sigh) couldn’t be an island, because otherwise it would sink into the sea as there’s nothing to hold it in place, innit

    OMG!!! It all makes sense now! Those lying Geography teachers were obviously up to their isthmuses in a conspiracy with all those yacht-salesmen!!!

    Ha! Mind you, thanks your lucky stars no-one told those Spaniards – they might have just scrapped that Armada and invaded us on foot!

    Also, the chav female pointed out that it was probably best for Richardson to die, as she was ageing and getting ‘well more mingin’ an that’. Marvellous

    Indeed. Although if that’s the criteria for dying all us poor SYB-posting fuckers are living on borrowed time aren’t we…?

  56. on 19 Mar 2009 at 9:12 pm   It's Graham up North

    That poor Nick Leeson, he’s had a tragic life hasn’t he?

    Rock Snob: you’re thinking of Joely Richardson. In that backless dress.

  57. on 20 Mar 2009 at 12:20 am   Bit Special

    Dr Shade – speak for yourself; I’m well fit.

  58. on 20 Mar 2009 at 11:10 am   Kelvin

    You’re either so sensitive about Saint Jade or so eager to mis-read anything I post that you couldn’t even recognise an obvious wind-up!

    Haha yeah! Or, sick to the eye-teeth of your one-note shtick. But do tell, what else has Heat Magazine told you to think this week?

  59. on 20 Mar 2009 at 11:26 am   God

    > If the Almighty actually existed and did do stuff like that he/she/it would be the most unimaginably huge cunting tosser in the entire Universe

    Hey! I do exist. And I AM an unutterable shit. I wrote a bestselling book all about my own most revolting behaviour. Though oddly the people who like it best have somehow got hold of the idea that I’m a being of perfect benevolence. Have they got some nasty surprises coming…

  60. on 20 Mar 2009 at 12:19 pm   Jonatton Yeah?

    She truly was the queen of our hearts.

  61. on 20 Mar 2009 at 12:23 pm   Charles Exford, Oxton

    I’ve spent half the morning trying to think of a joke involving “Sony” Bono and the Walkman, possibly with a gratuitous reference to that sanctimonious Irish cunt thrown in. I have failed, and now have a headache. Bastards.

  62. on 20 Mar 2009 at 12:39 pm   JGFC

    But do tell, what else has Heat Magazine told you to think this week?

    Eh?

    On the one hand I’m accused of being a cunt for not giving a shit whether some pikey sleb dies of minge-cancer or not (or according to Alex’s misperception I’m actually praying for her demise) and on the other hand I’m accused of only thinking what Heat magazine tells me to.

    Kelvin – please enlighten me as to *which* issue of Heat magazine told me that

    (A) Jade was a worthless minger who deserves to die a painful lingering cancerous death (according to Alex’s opinion of me) or

    (B) whose life/death is meaningless to me except as an irritant from the constant glurge-filled media hype surrounding it (which is – and has always been my position).

    If you can give me the issue number I’m sure I’ll be able to find it in my poly-bagged and cross-referenced collection of back issues*

    * That’s sarcasm, by the way, but as you & Alex seem to have a knack of confusing my ironic and sarcastic comments with true facts given under oath in the Court of SYB perhaps I should clarify that I don’t REALLY have a collection of Heat magazines, or even one issue of it. I did once buy an issue of Nuts but it was so shite I never bothered again. I read Fortean Times though – maybe they told me Jade was actually a lizard-alien from the planet Chav and I formed my uncaring opinion of her and her life from that…?

    Anyway, I can’t be arsed to get into a conversation/debate about this – it isn’t what this place is supposed to be for, so that’s my last word on this. Feel free to take a free shot without worry of reply.

  63. on 20 Mar 2009 at 12:49 pm   Kelvin

    Oh, poor JGFC! You’re either so sensitive about Saint Jade or so eager to mis-read anything I post that you couldn’t even recognise an obvious wind-up!

  64. on 20 Mar 2009 at 12:54 pm   JGFC

    LOL!!!

    Fair enough Mr K – you got me!

    And this really is my last word on it!

  65. on 20 Mar 2009 at 12:55 pm   JGFC

    Well, apart from *this* one, obviously…

  66. on 20 Mar 2009 at 2:00 pm   yukino

    @ kelvin
    “There’s a lot of information about head injuries in this HYS thread. Then again, there’s a lot of evidence of head injuries in most HYS threads.”
    Here is your evidence:

    “We share the same birth year, and I too had a traumatic head injury just two years ago…I feel so sad and sorry for her family. Let’s hope that some good can come out of all this tragedy and safety measures will be enforced in the future…

    Gin Sanchez, Albuquerque, NM “

  67. on 20 Mar 2009 at 2:52 pm   Mr Flabulous

    Wha…?

    What happened?

    Did Jade Goody die in a skiing accident or what? I’m totally lost.

  68. on 20 Mar 2009 at 7:36 pm   Daley Mayle

    What are you doing posting on here, Mr Flabulous, when that weird-looking old man with the boz-eye is leaning over the gate, offering your kids sweets… ?

  69. on 23 Mar 2009 at 9:48 am   Joris

    Wow, I have heard of that Natasha Richardson; but this is the first i’ve heard of her death. Probably ‘cos i don’t read the papers or watch tv… but then, ultimately…who cares?

  70. on 23 Mar 2009 at 2:29 pm   MrFlabulous

    @ Dayley Mayle

    Don’t worry: I’ve got that weird old man covered with Google Street View. I’m keeping an eye on him…

  71. on 24 Mar 2009 at 6:37 pm   Gridlock

    I couldn’t stop myself interrupting their heated debate about how England (sigh) couldn’t be an island, because otherwise it would sink into the sea as there’s nothing to hold it in place, innit.

    Some ‘chav’ on a bus

    Maybe she was trying to explain how arbitrary political barriers built on the basis of separation by H2O is obviously an artificial construct and as such should be considered less relevant than an individual’s Kantian human rights founded on the basis of inherent rationality?

    Or maybe not.