Michael Jackson dead at 50

[rob]

It does bug me how some poeple can only process stuff like this by making shitty jokes about it. It's disrespectful apart from anything else.

I'm also finding it quite bizarre how the very newspapers who have hounded the guy for the past who know how many years and called him everything from a weirdo to a bad parent to a child molester are now apparently his chief mourners.....hmmm.

Run guys you might miss that bandwagon!

[aeonsource]

I'm also finding it quite bizarre how the very newspapers who have hounded the guy for the past who know how many years and called him everything from a weirdo to a bad parent to a child molester are now apparently his chief mourners.....hmmm.

All a bit Jade Goody, isn't it.

We hate a celeb and the moment they die its all 'OOOOH HE/SHE WAS A ANGEL'

[Gavin Scott]

It does bug me how some poeple can only process stuff like this by making shitty jokes about it. It's disrespectful apart from anything else.

I'm also finding it quite bizarre how the very newspapers who have hounded the guy for the past who know how many years and called him everything from a weirdo to a bad parent to a child molester are now apparently his chief mourners.....hmmm.

Run guys you might miss that bandwagon!

It strikes me that Michael Jackson was ALL of what he's being made out to be.

I agree that one should show a certain amount of grace and respect when discussing the recently deceased, but how much surely depends on the individual being discussed.

Likening this to Jade Goody - well, the worst thing she was accused of was being crude, ill-educated and perhaps a bully (although I never did believe she was "racist").

Michael Jackson? Well, he was accused of some pretty foul things - FAR worse than la Goody; and like it or not, when there's that much smoke, then there's got to be some fire somewhere.

And saying all that, I bought (and loved) "Off the wall", and "Thriller". As a kid I stayed up past midnight to watch the video being broadcast for the first time, and learned the dance routine.

I was a fan of his work (between 69 and 94), but I also have to look at the bone chilling accusations of child molestations from a number of sources, his bizarre behaviour and insistence on reclaiming his "childhood" over a period in his life three times longer than any childhood I had.

I certainly don't wish anyone dead, but I find it difficult to be reverential towards him in these circumstances.

[Ben]

Agreed, Sky reading out tweets from David Milliband.

A fake David Milliband by all accounts.

[marksi]

Agreed, Sky reading out tweets from David Milliband.

A fake David Milliband by all accounts.

What, more fake than the real one?

[Ronnie Rowlands]

While I kinda agree with what Gavin said about there being no smoke without fire, I kinda get the impression that the reason people were more quick to believe that Jackson did the things he was accused of is because of his innocent, if not decidedly weird, eccentricities which related to children.

What sickens me is some of the idiots on my Facebook list saying things like "wheeeeey he's dead bye pervert!". He was acquitted of all charges, and these people fail to take into the account the amount of money one could make out of Jackson simply by taking him to court. A lot of this is down to the papers over publicising his oddness and linking it to the charges, so in a way I feel that they played a huge role in the stress the poor man was under.

And will they learn what their hysteria whipping, life ruining stories can do to people and stop? Will they hell.

[Sput]

Marksi: these would be the suspects...

[Gavin Scott]

While I kinda agree with what Gavin said about there being no smoke without fire, I kinda get the impression that the reason people were more quick to believe that Jackson did the things he was accused of is because of his innocent, if not decidedly weird, eccentricities which related to children.

What sickens me is some of the idiots on my Facebook list saying things like "wheeeeey he's dead bye pervert!". He was acquitted of all charges, and these people fail to take into the account the amount of money one could make out of Jackson simply by taking him to court. A lot of this is down to the papers over publicising his oddness and linking it to the charges, so in a way I feel that they played a huge role in the stress the poor man was under.

And will they learn what their hysteria whipping, life ruining stories can do to people and stop? Will they hell.

A "poor man" he wasn't.

Just to be absolutely clear - being found "not guilty" is not the same as being found innocent.

But worse still is paying millions of dollars to make a court case just "go away".

Sickos on facebook is another matter. I refer everyone to James Martin's "Ding dong the witch is dead" regarding Jade Goody (specifically calling her a racist pig - such delicious irony), and his latest slew of jokes about the victims of a French airliner at the bottom of the ocean.

But things like, "Michael Jackson.... History?" I think isn't that sick, and rather clever, if anything.

[Gavin Scott]

Marksi: these would be the suspects...

That is super cute.

So is Milliband. There. I said it.

[Pete]

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/bigbrother/ ... death.html

You know those times you just can't come up with anything to say...

[Gavin Scott]

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/bigbrother/ ... death.html

You know those times you just can't come up with anything to say...

The show's producers have decided that telling the housemates would breach rules which forbid contestants from having any contact with the outside world, The Mirror reports.

Oh? those rules which the producers can change at any time as they see fit?

Worra lorra shite.