Ingvar Wixell: Dead.

[french frank]

But can you explain to me how the formula 'X X: Dead' is somehow contentious? Being, as it is, a statement of objective fact.

Contentious in the sense that people seem, as objective fact, to object to it.

[Mandryka]

Contentious in the sense that people seem, as objective fact, to object to it.

About two people, at the last count: more who approve and (many) more who don't give a hang.

[amateur51]

About two people, at the last count: more who approve and (many) more who don't give a hang.

Oddly enough, I'd prefer "X has died". "X:Dead" feels like a poke in the chest, unnecessarily bald. Like you Mandy I don't like like the mimsiness of 'passed away' etc, but my preference would be 'has died' and praps the two dates.

Thanking you

[Panjandrum]

No, it does not, as you would know if you had a modicum of intelligence.

To make the sentiment clearer for people of your kind, I appended a sad face emoticon, to indicate how I feel about this news.

Once again, you are extrapolating (look it up, please): making presumptions about my intentions based on non-existent evidence.

I don't mind your being a fool, but could you please confine your foolishness to other peoples' threads, or - better yet - start your own? There's a good chap. :)

Better yet than that, why not confine yourself to twitter, where your banalities can vanish into a void that befits them

Somebody help Mandy put his toys back - poor ickle lamb's thrown them everywhere.

[Mandryka]

Somebody help Mandy put his toys back - poor ickle lamb's thrown them everywhere.

That's the sum total of a day spent racking your brains, scouring the internet and asking your Mum what you could put as a suitably tart response.

[Panjandrum]

That's the sum total of a day spent racking your brains, scouring the internet and asking your Mum what you could put as a suitably tart response.

Perhaps you didn't notice, huddling over your PC on onanistic little threads, but it's been a beautiful day, and I've been enjoying various sporting pursuits. You need to get out more, in every sense.

[Dave2002]

Like twins in a pram I think

Would it not make sense to have an obituaries thread? Perhaps not, as there'd be different obituaries intertwined, though does vbulletin support sub-threads etc.? Surely it's possible to have a sub-forum, and increase the depth of sub-forms within Platform 3, and that might then keep everyone happy - maybe!

If this were a newsgroup rather than a web based forum, it would simply be a question of using an appropriate news reader, as the better ones allow quite clever display of intertwined threads.

[Chris Newman]

[QUOTE=Dave2002;99594]Like twins in a pram I think

Yes 'twas getting a little incestuous though as someone once observed "Vice is nice but incest is best".

[Mandryka]

Actually, panjandrum, I've been outside all day and am about to attend a concert, so I don't think I need to take your well-meaning advice.

But I'm delighted that I seem to have taught you a new word (the one beginning with 'o'); please feel free to apply it to yourself.

[Mr Pee]

Actually, panjandrum, I've been outside all day and am about to attend a concert, so I don't think I need to take your well-meaning advice.

But I'm delighted that I seem to have taught you a new word (the one beginning with 'o'); please feel free to apply it to yourself.

How deeply unpleasant this is becoming.

I am aware that some of my opinions and posts over the years may have been provocative to some, but I do not think I have ever hurled insults about. No doubt somebody will now prove me wrong.....

I know that Derren Brown was mentioned on another thread recently, and I'm thinking of one of his shows that was broadcast a week or so ago, which explored the whole idea that anonymity, whether on forums such as these, or in his case, on a fake TV game show in which the audience all wore masks, can facilitate unpleasant behaviour toward others that one would never countenance face to face.

I think that happens less here than on many other internet forums- however I think that a comment such as the above is an example.

Let's not go down that road if at all possible.

[Mandryka]

How deeply unpleasant this is becoming.

I know that Derren Brown was mentioned on another thread recently, and I'm thinking of one of his shows that was broadcast a week or so ago, which explored the whole idea that anonymity, whether on forums such as these, or in his case, on a fake TV game show in which the audience all wore masks, can facilitate unpleasant behaviour toward others that one would never countenance face to face.

I think that happens less here than on many other internet forums, however I think that a comment such as the above is an example.

Let's not go down that road if at all possible.

Mr. P - I keenly appreciate what you are saying; but I feel that you are ENTIRELY the wrong person to be saying it.

I'm off to enjoy my concert. Bye, peeps! :)

[Nick Armstrong]

as someone once observed "Vice is nice but incest is best"

Whereas necrophilia is just dead boring....



Quite relevant to this thread, now I think of it, and to many of Mandy's assiduous tributes to the Grim Reaper.

Speaking personally, and with all due respect to Mr Wixell, I have enjoyed reading the 26 posts here no end, and far more than the lugubrious heading suggested I would

Love hearing the characteristic 'whooshing' sound of handbags being deployed in close combat

Terrible really, that the death of a great singer could have cheered me up so much.

Thanks folks.

Keep 'em swinging!

[amateur51]

Love hearing the characteristic 'whooshing' sound of handbags being deployed in close combat

Ah memories of Inner Temple induction dinners, eh Caliban?

[Nick Armstrong]

Ah memories of Inner Temple induction dinners, eh Caliban?

Indeed, ammy!!

Almost as evocative as that summery sound from one's schooldays, the thwack of Leather on Willow...

Dear old Willow!

I'd love to find out what became of him....

[Panjandrum]

Actually, panjandrum, I've been outside all day and am about to attend a concert, so I don't think I need to take your well-meaning advice.

Don't forget to keep your electronic tag turned on Mandy!