[Latina]

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a182257/gary-barlows-father-passes-away.html

i don't know if it was explicitly mentioned before 8am, i'm guessing it wouldn't be - very sad for gary, especially as he's been doing so much good for others recently

I have to admit, I googled to see what had happened after Chris mentioned "bereavement" this morning. Poor Gary.

And I had been looking forward to his appearance as well... Lots Chris could have asked him about - Robbie, Stephen Gately etc.

[Yudster]

Apparently this article has generated so many complaints that the Press Complaints Commission website has crashed. Good old Daily Mail, how predictable was this?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1220756/A-strange-lonely-troubling-death--.html

[Boboff]

Very Balanced Article that.

[MK Chris]

That article has changed at least a bit - when this blogpost was written, the headline was "Why there was nothing 'natural' about Stephen Gately's death". Another abhorrent article from the Daily Mail.

[Yudster]

Apparently there is a big row brewing over this - a lot of Daily Mail's advertisers are pulling their ads in protest. It could cost them a LOT.

[Munki Bhoy]

When the Daily Mail newspaper dies, it should get its own thread. No "oh no" from me about that one.

[Yudster]

I wish I didn't think that the phrase "When the Daily Mail dies" is absurdly optimistic.

[McGuinness-89]

What a lovely person the person who wrote that must be.

[Johnny 1989]

Apparently there is a big row brewing over this - a lot of Daily Mail's advertisers are pulling their ads in protest. It could cost them a LOT.

Fingers crossed it does, nasty, horrible c*nts. Can't stand that paper & it's scaremongering headlines & articles telling you that everything gives you cancer & that 6million foreigners are invading the UK daily. Hateful load of shite.

[foot-loose]

The moment Stephen Gately came out in 1999, selfishly mortifying legions of young female fans in the process, I had him marked as a dead man walking.

Through the recent untimely demises of Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger, and Richard Whiteley, fans have become resigned to finding out that their heroes were probably at least a bit gay and thus doomed to an early grave. There are few things as sad as a young girl finding out that the idol whose image adorns her bedroom walls has died - or even worse, is homosexual. Sadly, it is becoming all too common to find that, inevitably, both are true.

There are millions of household names out there that are ticking timebombs of fatal gay. Their damaging lifestyle choices only lead to one thing - certain death, whether it be of one of those gay diseases you read about like Herpes, or just gay itself (a proven immune system inhibitor).

Danni, Simon, Cheryl, Louis - especially Louis - we all know they're at least 12% gay. And it's not hateful to anticipate, or even look forward to, their terrible end at the hands of modern gay: a pink shirt, an appearance at Pride, or a scarf that's just that little bit too dainty, all herald impending doom.

That fateful morning after 12 hours binging on mojitos and 'Slippery Nipples' (or strong brown ale if it's a lesbian), a body is found face down in the gutter, an outline of sparkly body paint marking the place at which gay finally caught up with the sufferer and the soul was taken from the body by angels in denim hotpants. We've heard the story countless times before.

And yet, somehow, most people never expected it of Stephen. Not the cute one with the big blue eyes from Boyzone. He was all the things that homosexuals aren't: clean, nicely dressed, and polite. People thought he was safe, because he wasn't that gay. But let's be clear - it doesn't matter how queer you are. Even the merest hint of mincing in a man's stride, or glancing at another chaps's todger in the gym shower or those deadly honey-traps of unsuspecting straight men everywhere, the gent's lavatories, is enough to usher imminent death.

And so it was with Gately. After going out "clubbing" (a euphemism for hanging around the loos with a tell-tale pink feathered hat, the accepted sign of availability), he and "his" husband retired to their hotel room with a pretty young Bulgarian boyman. Now I'm not homophobic, but it's safe to assume they weren't just going back for a quick game of snakes & ladders. More like just plain old snakes, if you know what I mean. In case you don't though, I mean gay stuff. You know what they're into - hanging each other like that other possibly gay Hutchence man did, spanking, dressing up as ladies, knife swallowing, and bear-baiting. If one is to indulge in such dangerous persuits of carnal pleasure, one must be prepared for the consequences. Did we learn nothing from the hapless Sodomites?

Precisely what happened before, during, or after the salacious triumvirate returned to their hotel I don't know, but it's quite obvious that it was something icky that almost certainly led to poor Stephen's death. I'm no expert, or medical professional, nor do I know most of the facts, and I haven't really bothered reading about the case or asking anyone, but with cases like this you don't need to.

Some might say the death and the fact that the deathee was gay are unconnected. To them, I say: 'no'. Look at the facts - he died, and he was gay. Therefore he died of gay. If a young, healthy man dies whilst suffering from a cold, obviously nobody would suggest that the cold had killed him, but with gay it's different. Medical reasons, and that. Isn't it? Yes, I think it is.

The post-mortem 'established' that Gately died from fluid on the lungs. I'm sure he did, but why is nobody asking the crucial question: 'How did that fluid get there? Was it from gay?' Let's be clear, these are no 'natural causes'. Normal, heterosexual men of 33 don't just climb into their pyjamas, curl up and cease to be. First of all, they don't wear pyjamas because they're straight. But most importantly, people under the age of 50 just don't die.

Do you know any straight people under the age of 50 who are dead? I don't. Well, I used to know this chap, but he died at 29 from cardiac arrest, a distinctly non-gay thing to die of. Anyway, I don't know him now, so the point is valid.

Gately's family has maintained that drugs had nothing to do with their son's death, but, as everybody knows, drugs and homosexuality go hand in hand like two lesbians at a stripclub. Another recent gay death proves it. Kevin McGee, the former husband "of" Little Britain star Matt Lucas died after a homosexually charged drug binge.

The dubious events (by which I mean gay stuff again) of Gately's last night raise troubling questions. It is important that the truth comes out - and not "medical" truth, or the ruling of some officious, poorly trained foreign coroner, but a string of ex-boyfriends to tells us all the dirty secrets of Gately's past. Only then can we be safe in the knowledge that this tragedy was all because of gay.

http://www.dailyquail.org/2009/10/jan-m ... tural.html



(doffs cap at the person who linked me to this )

[MK Chris]

The Daily Mail often has a go at the recently deceased though... this is nothing new, it's just a bigger backlash this time. Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of heaping undeserving praise on someone just because they're dead, but they really stick the boot in to people who just haven't done anything to deserve it. Not long ago when that chef who was missing (presumed dead) was in the news, they published an astonishingly insensitive piece about how the woman's 'friend' had come out and said that she enjoyed picking up men in pubs. How exactly is it in the public interest to publish something like that - whether it's true or not?

They are just hateful scumbags, particularly one Paul Dacre, who should be put on an isolated island with all the knuckle-dragging BNP supporters.

[John22]

Ludovic Kennedy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8314778.stm

[Sunny So Cal]

I think this thread should be deleted, a post had already been put into the "On no, they've died!" thread 38mins before this new thread was created.

The reason Footloose started "Oh no, they've died!" was because Chris had originally said that it would restrict these sort of posts to one place. So i'm not sure what Chris & Console think about it and if they would agree?

Do we even have mods on here these days? Console seems very quiet and Chris must have other things on his plate. Sunny is always on the nightshift as well.

I'll do it. I'll be fair. Honest.

I agree, we really could do with someone who's more of an active poster with the power of the mod.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yeA7a0uS3A

Yes, I've been a slacker, alright? But you're all big boys (well, most of you), one would assume you can mod yourselves. Come on, keep it together.

[foot-loose]

Do we even have mods on here these days? Console seems very quiet and Chris must have other things on his plate. Sunny is always on the nightshift as well.

I'll do it. I'll be fair. Honest.

I agree, we really could do with someone who's more of an active poster with the power of the mod.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yeA7a0uS3A

Yes, I've been a slacker, alright? But you're all big boys (well, most of you), one would assume you can mod yourselves. Come on, keep it together.

Zoot posted that a fortnight ago. Ironictastic.

[Sunny So Cal]

I've not been on! Sheeesh.

[Latina]

Oh... so no new death then. That's a relief.

[bradcali]

The actor who played Phil Archer on the Archers has died. He was the longest serving actor in a sopa opera anywhere in the world. Started in 1950 . http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... ed-85.html

[MK Chris]

Edward Woodward has died, oh no.

[Yudster]

Thanks to Stephen Fry, the late Mr Woodward will forever be remembered by me as "Ewar Woowar". RIP Ewar.
Oh no.

[Boboff]

He lived in the same village as me for a while. Would he? Would Edward Woodwood, a comedy name has died...shame.

[chrysostom]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/200 ... -21836567/

not a person, but still

[Latina]

Aww. 14's a good old age though, even for a small dog.

[MK Chris]

Am I the only one who thinks that's non-news? People's pets die all the time and of course it's upsetting, but realistically, only for the people who own, care for and look after them. Obviously it's very sad that a dog has cancer, but that the dog belonged to Paul O'Grady doesn't make it any more upsetting, nor does it make it news.

[Latina]

I assume it's considered celebrity news because viewers of his show would be familiar with the dog.

[Yudster]

Its a dog. Someone else's dog. Just a dog.