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Where were you when Michael Jackson died?

 
  

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Quantum
22:33 / 25.06.09
I was on a sofa with a friend, and it was the same friend and the same sofa as when Diana died. DOOM SOFA!

Michael Jackson has died
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
23:00 / 25.06.09
I was trying to confirm reports that he actually passed.
 
 
Eek! A Freek!
23:01 / 25.06.09
Alright: For posterity, then...
I was at the table eating filet mignon chateaubriand with hunter's gravy, fried mushrooms leek and yellow peppers, and oven roasted spicy potatoes.
The phone rang, a friend called and then we turned on the news.

Poor Farrah Fawcett.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
23:08 / 25.06.09
I was also on a sofa. But not Quantom's sofa. A different sofa.
 
 
Triplets
23:50 / 25.06.09
I too was on a sofa. But not Phillip or Quantum's. These's a link here. We should start a rota so that three of us are never sitting on a sofa at the same time, lest we kill again!
 
 
Mistoffelees
06:21 / 26.06.09
As I do most of the time, I was also sitting on my (rattan) sofa, surfing. I was perusing a MJ thread, where the new rumors and reports came in.

Me at quarter after midnight:
"Things must be getting serious: they locked his wiki entry."

Seven minutes later, the LA Times confirmed his death.

For many people the thread had MJ banners, offering London tickets for half price.

Also discussed was the infamous "law of three".
 
 
Unencumbered
06:23 / 26.06.09
I was in bed, trying (and failing) to get some sleep.
 
 
Quantum
07:22 / 26.06.09
I should provide full disclosure and admit that I was on the sofa looking at the internet, and we went straight to /b/ to see what macros had been created.
Did you know he slowed down the entire internet?
tens of thousands of messages started hitting messaging website Twitter, causing the service - which had been urged by the US government to stay online at the height of the Iranian protests - to come grinding to a halt.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
07:27 / 26.06.09
Are you implying the Iranian government killed Jacko to take Twitter down?
 
 
Mistoffelees
07:52 / 26.06.09
I had wondered momentarily what kind of conspiracy theories people would come up with. Maybe too early right now, the autopsy report should deliver some material to help blame the NSA, point the finger at McCartney, use aliens as scapegoats.
 
 
imaginary mice
10:17 / 26.06.09
I didn't watch the news last night, so I only found out this morning.

Thing is, I'm wearing a Pulp t-shirt today and it only occurred to me on the way to work that this could be regarded as totally inappropriate and disrespectful. I just hope I won't bump into any hardcore MJ fans today.
 
 
imaginary mice
10:22 / 26.06.09
...oh and a fan interviewed yesterday said that this was "the day that music died". Which is strange because I've been listening to music all morning and it seems in pretty good shape.
 
 
electric monk
12:34 / 26.06.09
I was near a sofa... getting ready to sit down for a meal of white bean & turkey sausage rigatoni.

point the finger at McCartney

If so, I'm thinking that's a case of justifiable homicide.
 
 
Mistoffelees
13:24 / 26.06.09
There´s a rumour, that according to MJ´s testament, Paul gets the rights to many songs back, so he has a motive!
 
 
Tsuga
22:15 / 26.06.09
I'm not going to be maudlin, because they guy was a very talented, troubled person, and very possibly a child molester. But I'm old enough to remember listening to the Jackson 5 album "ABC" when I was a little kid, and I loved that shit. As I got older, of course I became disdainful of the Jacksons in general and Michael in particular, but I remember when MTV premiered the Thriller video— I mean watching the television the very first time (they had quite the buildup)— and being amazed at the effort that had gone into a music video. Since then it's been a long, slow decline to watch, and very sad.
I sure hope he never really molested children. Poor fucker. He sure was talented.

Sorry, though, off-topic. Where was I? In the car, listening to the radio.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
23:51 / 26.06.09
I found out via a texted joke. Meta!
 
 
Alex's Grandma
06:01 / 27.06.09
I would ask everyone who's mourning Michael Jackson this evening, who's been a long-term fan, to consider, honestly, seriously, looking coldly at the facts, what kind of sexual maynem they might, inadvertently, have been funding, all these years.

The bad karmic debt that everyone who bought 'Thriller' has to engage with, given what Michael, apparently, spent the cash on.

I've often been a defender of poor, misunderstood Jonathan King, and also Gary Glitter; in common with Jackson, both of those guys have sold lots of records, but ... there were problems.

And at least King and Glitter were honest!

Jackson shall not be mourned chez here.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
06:42 / 27.06.09
Actually, there's no point trying to justify this - I don't mind, really, about Jackson being a fiddler; I just couldn't bear his music. And I mean that especially when he was young.
 
 
Timelord
14:48 / 27.06.09
Sound asleep, as I should have been at 5am in Australia when some thoughtless sod texted me as if I cared.
 
 
jentacular dreams
13:51 / 28.06.09
I was on a scottish island with no electricity, where you have to climb a mountain to get any signal. My girlfriend sent me a text with the news, we all assumed it was a prank, given how isolated we were. I have to say though, she's put a lot of effort into this particular practical joke.

So, are you guys in on it too, or have you also been hoodwinked by her wily and elaborate jest?
 
 
Triplets
15:34 / 28.06.09
They played quite a few Michael Jackson songs out in town last night. In honour of Michael's new post-life status we danced to all of them in the style of Thrrrrrilllerrrrrr.
 
 
wicker woman
05:54 / 29.06.09
I would ask everyone who's mourning Michael Jackson this evening, who's been a long-term fan, to consider, honestly, seriously, looking coldly at the facts, what kind of sexual maynem they might, inadvertently, have been funding, all these years.

The bad karmic debt that everyone who bought 'Thriller' has to engage with, given what Michael, apparently, spent the cash on.

I've often been a defender of poor, misunderstood Jonathan King, and also Gary Glitter; in common with Jackson, both of those guys have sold lots of records, but ... there were problems.

And at least King and Glitter were honest!

Jackson shall not be mourned chez here.


To be honest, I think, it's possible, that he didn't actually do anything, and that he may, have just been closer, to children than he should've been. There's no conclusive proof, that he fiddled any of them. I've got, no vested interest in defending him, I'm not a 'hardcore' fan; just saying.

Also, it seems kind of silly, to me, that a person should feel guilt, karmic or otherwise, because they bought Bad, or Thriller, or any of his other albums. That seems a bit like, well, feeling guilty because the taxes, from everyday purchases, go to fund, like, wars and stuff.
 
 
Quantum
09:08 / 29.06.09
I bought a Michael Jackson album and I felt...

 
 
iamus
00:09 / 30.06.09
I was sitting in the campsite at Glastonbury at the start of a downpour. Got a call from somebody telling me, just as forks of lighting started splitting the sky.
 
 
h1ppychick
08:23 / 01.07.09
Me too.
 
 
grant
14:30 / 01.07.09
I was in the National Enquirer newsroom.

Most folks had left work for the day.

The rest... became highly agitated.
 
 
Jawsus-son Starship
15:30 / 01.07.09
The bassest from Franz Ferdinand told me. *starfucker*! I was at work at the time.
 
 
Dead Megatron
22:00 / 01.07.09
To be honest, I think, it's possible, that he didn't actually do anything, and that he may, have just been closer, to children than he should've been

Somebody on the TV news said one of the children who accused MJ years ago came forth after his death and confessed his father told him to falsely accuse MJ ofsexual abuse so that they could extort a couple of millions with an out-or-court deal. This story smells a lot like internet rumor, but if this is true, then that kid's father is a major douchebag - specially considering this was the boy for whom MJ was paying for a cancer treatment, I think - and the world might very well owe MJ a postumous appology.


Here's a link


Can anybody confirm this?
 
 
Quantum
15:49 / 02.07.09
No. Nobody can confirm it.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:17 / 03.07.09
Being nice is really difficult sometimes. I mean, on one hand, you want to support the mourners. On the other, you don't know if that includes spreading unconfirmed rumours that might potentially re-ruin the life of someone who, if the rumour you are spreading is inaccurate (and, realistically, this is the kind of thing it's very hard to resolve), has kind of already had their life ruined once. Tricky, tricky.

I think that the moral of the story may be that whereof one cannot speak NICE THINGS, thereof one should stay silent.

*zips lip, disposes of key*
 
 
Dead Megatron
23:51 / 03.07.09
Very good point, ONT.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
07:23 / 04.07.09
Being nice is really difficult sometimes. I mean, on one hand, you want to support the mourners. On the other, you don't know if that includes spreading unconfirmed rumours that might potentially re-ruin the life of someone who, if the rumour you are spreading is inaccurate (and, realistically, this is the kind of thing it's very hard to resolve), has kind of already had their life ruined once. Tricky, tricky.

I think that the moral of the story may be that whereof one cannot speak NICE THINGS, thereof one should stay silent.


While respecting this sentiment, I highly struggle with the idea that the grotesque farce that Jackson's life was (if he is dead!) is just a matter for the family. You can't go anywhere round here anyway, without having to listen to 'Thriller' or 'Off The Wall', while you're staring, blankly, at the wall, and just wondering, in the facilities.

As with the whole Jonathan King thing, men like Michael Jackson are often, perhaps, misunderstood - ahead of their time, if you like - but that's no excuse for the records.
 
 
Mistoffelees
07:57 / 04.07.09
Since he died I haven't heard his music at all. I only heard one person make the usual jokes, and except for the internet there was only the odd article in the newspaper to inform me of his passing. I probably now live more reclusively than in 1997, but at that time, too, there wasn't any of the insanity here that was elsewhere about that celebrity death.

My advice to people complaining about the amount of coverage: it is possible to ignore it, and right now is a good time to try. The best time is of course october to december. The only time I have to be aware of christmas is january, where people chuck their trees out of their windows.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
08:39 / 04.07.09
If, Mist, you have not heard any of Jackson's records recently, I can only speculate about where you're living at the mo?

You're not doing that Norwegian death metal in a cave thing, are you?

Because if so, man, it's not worth it ...
 
 
King Mob
07:23 / 26.07.09
I was also on a sofa.
 
  

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