Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

You're telling me that this isn't an aggressive way to frame something that no one with any sense would give a shit about?

There’s just something aggressively anti-intellectual about not having heard of a four-plus decade chronicler of NYC nightlife and queer issues

Reads as pretty aggro to me.

It's the attitude, "how dare you not know who this totally marginal, unimportant person is! Why don't you Google it, you nincompoop!"

Go hassle someone else who might be intimidated by your schtick because baby, I’m bored now.

Defending your shitty attitude by continuing to have a shitty attitude doesn't do you any favors. I've never had a notable interaction with you on this board, so pray tell, what's my schtick that so annoys you? Having a different perspective than yours?

Pierre Cardin

BREAKING: Fashion designer Pierre Cardin, whose Space Age style was among the iconic looks of 20th-century fashion, has died at 98, France’s Academy of Fine Arts says. https://t.co/hM3UU8hPdd

— The Associated Press (@AP) December 29, 2020

cannot read his name without then singing it in the mellifluous way of the adverts for his perfume back in the day

... people you thought were dead who are now dead.

People Who Dead

As though we're supposed to know who Pierre Cardin is lol

Is he related to Cardin B? No. Then forget him.

Googled him. Appears he made handkerchiefs or something, which no one with any sense would give a shit about.

I will steadfastly refuse to mourn someone who is French, looked like a prat and is someone whom I've never even fucking heard of.

Didn't Pierre Cardin design the Space Force uniforms? I seem to recall reading that in an AP obit

Thread officially lit af its what they wouldve wanted

I didn’t know the musto person and can’t say that I “give a shit” but come on that was a fucking absurd response to Ned posting “musto on alig” plus a link. What the fuck is wrong with you lmao

Don’t even have to google, could have just... clicked the link, if interested. Or ignored

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of the rolling obituary thread. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

- Derek Jarman

tables response wasn't to ned afaict

the response to ned was

Musto on Alig

As though we're supposed to know who Musto is lol

― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, December 26, 2020 8:42 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

is that what you found absurd?

It is and I was aware that was the initial response

i apologise

thread has me rooting for bob dylan to die so we can move on

If it’s an absurd response (it is) then it follows that it isn’t “elitist” to say so, and we still end up at “wtf is wrong with you lmao”

xp np!

col Musto in the Obituary thread with the fatal neglect

As though we're supposed to know who Musto or Alig is lol. Someone in the obituary thread who not everyone has heard of? Just doesn't happen.

Let us honor the memory of Michael Alig with a multi-day argument about whether Musto is famous or not.

Not the end of year clusterfuck I was expecting, but I'll take it.

Yeah, but everyone knew who Jim McLean was.

Our next instalment better be titled 'Rolling Aggressively Anti-Intellectual Obituary Thread: 2021'.

Well, we could go back to individual rip threads

It's just not the same without Shakey.

rip

F

Googled him. Appears he made fake RIP threads or something, which no one with any sense would give a shit about.

I keep thinking of Morbs whenever there's a British TV celebrity who no one with any sense should give a fuck about is memorialized on this thread, though he usually held his tongue until there were two in a row.

Man, has any actual decedent in 2020 received as much commentary itt as Michael Musto? Grade A ILX right here, I tell you.

Fake Muosto!

I read that as "decadent" at first. Fitting tribute?

I have the sense that I am a parody of myself when I post an obit for someone who appeared as a background actor in one episode of Compact.

I now realise that not everyone understands that not everyone shares their own personal knowledge, which probably belongs on the "things you were shockingly old when you learned" thread or more likely the hypothetical "how the fuck did they get to this age thinking that was true" thread.

not I obit goes by where I don't feel like I'm smarter than everyone else on here

It's Musto on Alig
But it's over now
It just had to had to be googled
But I'm lost ITT somehow

We need rip threads for famous ppl and rip threads for posting rips for ppl nobody has ever heard of

And an rip clusterfuck thread for disagreements about which thread each ripped person belongs in

And a poll thread to decide each time

Itll be good

The poll threads could called

Tell me quick
Aint that a rip
In which thread

The more obits the merrier, imo.

https://images.amcnetworks.com/uk.amc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Talking-Dead.jpg

Looking into Michael Alig, I didn't recognize his name (am bad with names) but I'm pretty sure I know his story from some recentish telling of it and it's now bugging me where that was. Definitely wasn't the Macaulay Culkin movie and I don't think it was the Glory Daze documentary either.

Man, has any actual decedent in 2020 received as much commentary itt as Michael Musto? Grade A ILX right here, I tell you.

A reminder that Michael Musto is not dead (afaik).

Musto been someone else

Ali G iirc

RIP michael musto. heaven needed another person who I have never heard of. I wanna run 2 u big man

You're telling me that this isn't an aggressive way to frame something that no one with any sense would give a shit about?

There’s just something aggressively anti-intellectual about not having heard of a four-plus decade chronicler of NYC nightlife and queer issues

Reads as pretty aggro to me.

― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 12:40 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah me too. however, its only half of the sentence. maybe you didn't understand what suzy was saying?

Can we take it to the 'Michael Musto: Class Act or Who's That?' thread so the dead can RImotherlovingP already