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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 03:34 PM Original message |
All I will remember about Andy Rooney is what he said about Kurt Cobain's suicide |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
1. This was kind of Rooney all over: The stereotypical grumpy, out-of-touch oldster. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 05:04 PM Response to Reply #1 |
31. The bushy-browed curmudgeon aspoect is why I loved him growin up in the 90s. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
3. He did apologize, so I forgave him for his earlier uninformed remarks about |
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Gregorian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
4. Everyone is bright as well as shallow, in their own ways. |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 03:55 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. I always thought Cobain saw the ugliness in life, maybe it just got to him. Yep, I'll |
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ChandlerJr (554 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
5. What did he say that was wrong and why the need to apologize? |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 03:57 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. I remember it at the time. |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 03:59 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Rooney lived through the Depression, WWII |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 04:01 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. That's not the point. |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 04:04 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. actually i find those attacking Rooney to be uninformed and condescending |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 04:08 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. I'm not attacking him. |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 04:15 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. i don't think his commentary was shitty, his reasons were good |
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firehorse (547 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 05:04 PM Response to Reply #15 |
30. me too... if Justin Beiber committed suicide, in the context of a near depression and his death |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 05:35 PM Response to Reply #30 |
36. Clinical depression is not teenage angst. (nt) |
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firehorse (547 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 06:11 PM Response to Reply #36 |
40. teenager mourning a pop star's suicide is teenaged angst - and depression is not the point |
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Chorophyll (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 07:13 PM Response to Reply #40 |
53. You know what, though? |
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Goblinmonger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 07:02 PM Response to Reply #30 |
50. You're not really comparing Beiber to Cobain, are you? |
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cyglet (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 04:09 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Yet |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 04:11 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. +1, n/t |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 04:12 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Not saying it was not open to criticism, but Rooney's |
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cyglet (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 04:00 PM Response to Reply #5 |
13. Something underlying |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 04:21 PM Response to Reply #5 |
25. Why not? |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 06:29 PM Response to Reply #5 |
43. Kurt Cobain did neither of those. |
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GodlessBiker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
7. Rooney's schtick was cute early on, but it got tiresome pretty fast. |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
8. i actually have no problem with what Andy Rooney said, he gave a good explanation |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
9. Frankly, I agree with most of his points. |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 04:50 PM Response to Reply #9 |
28. I hope no one who depends on you for emotional support ever suffers from a mental illness. nt |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 05:07 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. But they could have gotten help, silly! |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 05:20 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. Expecting someone who is suffering from mental illness to think clearly enough to |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 05:36 PM Response to Reply #32 |
37. People surrounded by that kind of attitude tend to have a harder time doing something about it. (nt) |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
10. Oh. |
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DonCoquixote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
18. Kurt died because |
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cyglet (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 04:22 PM Response to Reply #18 |
26. Grohl |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
19. Until I experienced Depression...I would have agreed with Rooney |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 04:17 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. So many people are so ill informed about depression, they think you just have |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 05:24 PM Response to Reply #23 |
35. The stigma in minority communities is even worst... |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 06:53 PM Response to Reply #35 |
44. Amazing, all these years, and it still goes on. n/t |
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cyglet (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 04:19 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. Nope |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
27. of course people mourned Cobain more than Nixon |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 05:01 PM Response to Original message |
29. Wow, that was tasteless on his part. |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 05:14 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. +1, n/t |
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cwydro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
38. I'll remember his great commentary on life. nt |
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TheCowsCameHome (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 06:07 PM Response to Original message |
39. R.I.P., Mr. Rooney |
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RetroLounge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 06:15 PM Response to Original message |
41. That's ALL you will remember? |
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cwydro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 06:56 PM Response to Reply #41 |
45. I know, right? |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 08:33 PM Response to Reply #41 |
57. and his eyebrows. They are probably stick up out of the ground at his grave. |
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firehorse (547 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
42. As a perfectly imperfect human, I hope I'm not judged soley by one thing I say when I die. |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 06:58 PM Response to Reply #42 |
47. You know, I think of some of the things I've said and done over the years and |
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Union Scribe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 06:56 PM Response to Original message |
46. Me too. |
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AntiFascist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
48. One aspect of what he said is true... |
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cwydro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
49. Smells like teen spirit. nt |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
51. That was bad but I wouldn't want to be judged by the worst thing I said. |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 07:09 PM Response to Original message |
52. Those remarks really rubbed me the wrong way at the time. too |
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rugger1869 (71 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
54. It's bad form to speak ill of the dead. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
55. At least Rooney corrected his misjudgement. |
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InvisibleTouch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-06-11 08:13 PM Response to Original message |
56. I tend to agree, actually. |
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