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[RabbitLuvr]

I never talked about liking Amy Winehouse, for example, but I did (do) enjoy her music and was sad when she died.

Maybe it's because I'm getting older, and/or because I faced death last year and it's still lurking over my shoulder, but I do feel sadness when a celebrity I followed, even very casually, dies. I'm also at a point in life where people who were prominent when I was growing up are dying. Even if I wasn't the biggest fan, there's a definite feeling there.

I guess personally I wouldn't want someone to tell me my feelings weren't genuine and I don't think it's fair to judge others for it. Even if they weren't genuine, I don't think it's difficult to scroll past some updates or just avoid FB for a day.

 

[yally]

I'm still shocked that Amy Winehouse is dead.

I'll be older than her (and the rest of the 27 club) soon

 

[yally]

My dad died 2 days before Princess Di. The country went nuts and had NO IDEA what real grief was (except those that did of course )

 

[Alice-Bee]

Im not saying its not sad, or they dont deserved to be missed/mourned. Its more like 'First comment!' style posting.
Just to be part of the story of the day.
Believe me Ive shed plenty a tear over peoples deaths. Famous or not.

 

[beancounter]

I'm still shocked that Amy Winehouse is dead.

I'll be older than her (and the rest of the 27 club) soon

I wish I was still 28. Heck, I wish I was still 35.

 

[Amy SF]

http://gma.yahoo.com/twinkies-return-hostess-unions-wont-030833930--abc-news-money.html

Nice.

I've never eaten anything made by Hostess; now I have one less reason to do so.

And I gotta tell you, if they want to open a nonunionized bakery in Los Angeles, they're going to have a fight on their hands. Unions are a big deal around here. This will NOT sit well with anyone at City Hall, certainly.

 

[Amy SF]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/obama-abortion-foes-return-1950s-19050661#.UXrUgkprVGB

Wow.

See, he can do that now because he's a lame-duck. He couldn't do that during his first term. But kudos to him.

 

[Muggle]

I love this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22013245

 

[Amy SF]

How sweet!

 

[mlp]

What's unfortunate is that the explosion in West, Texas which occurred just two days after the bombings has not had quite as much coverage as the bombings, and while the bombings of course are inexcusable, we really need to have a discussion on why the fertilizer plant in Texas blew up. But most people are still focused on the bombings in Boston.

Yes.

And every day since the Boston bombings we've had at least one shooting in which more people were killed than as a result of the bombings, while guns remain so sacrosanct that universal background checks can't even be passed.

As a society, we focus so much on what's "in" at the moment, even when it comes to violent death.

 

[peacefulveglady]

Two big news today the anti union twinkies and George Jones passing, what a day it was.

 

[Blobbenstein]

Hadn't heard of this:

STAR of Whitechapel Hannah Walters winged into Gloucester to get her mother's ashes tattooed on her foot.
The actress, married to Snatch actor Stephen Graham, stopped off at new tattoo studio Gods of Ink, in Northgate Street.

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   FLUTTERLY BEAUTIFUL: Actress Hannah Graham has the tattoo done in Gloucester. Left; Hannah with tattoo artist Mark Richmond. Right; they are joined by co-owner Lisa Richmond.

She popped in to get her mother's ashes tattooed into her foot, known as a cremation tattoo when the ashes are mixed with the ink, in a butterfly design.

Read more: http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/Whitechapel-actress-Hannah-Walters-gets-mother-s/story-18821725-detail/story.html#ixzz2Rdmo0ylV
Follow us: @thisisglos on Twitter | thisisgloucestershire on Facebook​

 

[mlp]

^^^Kind of a cool idea.

 

[KLS52]

^^^Kind of a cool idea.

Yes, it is! And ouch!

 

[Spang]

Today is the day of the first integrated prom in Wilcox County, Georgia:

Georgia’s Wilcox County High School will hold its first ever integrated prom this Saturday, nearly 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education desegregated the nation’s school system. The integrated prom comes after a small “group of [young] ladies” teamed up with the NAACP to pressure school administrators and community leaders to let the event go forward.

In Georgia, proms are organized by private groups, like parents, and not by the school. But since Wilcox County is the last county in Georgia where dances are still segregated by race, WMAZ-TV reported, that has meant separate proms for black and white students.

The students from the small town in rural south Georgia called attention to their efforts by starting a Facebook page that has more than 24,000 “likes.” The “Integrated Prom” page says it represents a group of adamant high school seniors” who “want to make a difference” in their community.

 

[Amy SF]

Yeah I posted about that before. I'm gonna go find that page and "like" it.

 

[das_nut]

Shut Up or Get Out: PA City Punishes Domestic Violence Victims Who Call the Police.

 

[Amy SF]

Shut Up or Get Out: PA City Punishes Domestic Violence Victims Who Call the Police.

Holy ****.

 

[yally]

Why is the world so completely ****?

 

[das_nut]

Why is the world so completely ****?

Antidote.