Michael Jackson died

[mountaingal]

Re: Michael Jackson DEAD

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: monk</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i think i'd cry more if prince died. </div></div>

it shocked me to discover he is like 5 ft tall. </div></div>

yup, mr. tiny. big voice for a little guy. big ego too, but that's probably to be expected.

[Tuff Gong]

Re: Michael Jackson DEAD

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: More4us</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I still don't remember anything negative being said <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">at Bob's death</span>.</div></div>

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Short</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Bus</span> that is not what you said.
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Short</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Bus</span> this what you said:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: More4us</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You know what... <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">I don't remember anyone in Jamaica or abroad </span>speaking ill of him when he died.. </div></div>

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[sistacaf]

Re: Michael Jackson DEAD

i like prince 'music' more too, but that's irrelevant. he came out when we generation was already in we 20's. and he himself was a grown man when he came upon the scene.

michael's life and death has lifelong meaning for we, as an icon of we generation. he was brilliant from 5, and we grew up with him. he gave us the soundtrack of we childhood. (as someone so eloquently said)

thinking of him gone is thinking of we own childhood gone; as more and more of our memorable people pass it reminds us of we own destiny, as the people in our own private lives also pass. we have sadness and compassion for Micheal's death not just he 'the person', but also what he symbolized and meant to a whole generation.

it's like Elvis dying for we parents generation

i love prince but he ain't in it.
apples and oranges.
fireworks and <span style="font-style: italic">kryptonite</span>

[X]

Re: Michael Jackson DEAD

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Baker Street</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nylah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
I do understand this. I feel bad cause someone who gave me good childhood memories are gone and thus puts into perspective my own morality but all this crying business just goes over my head.

I feel for his family becuase outside of his being an entertainer he was someones' child and brother. Now their grief is public and I really feel bad for <span style="font-weight: bold">them</span>.

Same reaction I had to Lady Di's death. It was sad to read but the shrine's and thing were surreal to me. The only time it did affect me was when I watched the funeral and the camera zoomed in on the coffin and the flowers on top had the card that said simply <span style="font-weight: bold">Mummy</span>. That did make me tear up because again, all this public hoopla was put into perspective...at the end of the day, she was some kid's mummy nothing more....and which had the greatest meaning.

And these children had to suck it up for the public and put on a brave face. THAT hurt;s my heart, not becuase I feel for her or Michael but because I still can recall what it means to be a kid and how painful that must be for them.

<span style="font-weight: bold">If anything when you lose ppl you truly love, you are far more empathatic to other ppl's grief and what it means to grieve as a process and not necessarily about who is lost specifically.</span>


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Does anybody understand what Nylah just said? I don't. [/quote]

yeah
&quot;click, click, click, clock, click click click&quot;

[evanovitch]

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Like any other big story, dis is gristle fi yaadies chew pon n tawk bout ...yeah man, yaadie juss like di movement of discussion like dis...no real personal investment but nuff plot n subplot fi a couple cases of beer discussion...memories fi real...is a day like today fi deh yaad wid it being Friday,..is juss dis a lead fi chat

[mountaingal]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sistacaf</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i like prince 'music' more too, but that's irrelevant. he came out when we generation was already in we 20's. and he himself was a grown man when he came upon the scene.

michael's life and death has lifelong meaning for we, as an icon of we generation. we grew up with him, he gave us the soundtrack of we childhood. (as someone so eloquently said)

thinking of him gone is thinking of we own childhood gone; as more and more of our memorable people pass it reminds us of we own destiny, as the people in our own private lives also pass. we have sadness and compassion for Micheal's death not just he 'the person', but also what he symbolized and meant to a whole generation.

it's like Elvis dying for we parents generation

i love prince but he ain't in it.
apples and oranges. </div></div>

just saying what my particular reaction would be to mourning these two, and why. what u bring to the comparison of michael and prince's deaths belongs to u, and would not be relevant to me, per se.

[sistacaf]

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of course. i understand what nylah said just fine

[Shine_Eye_Girl]

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mi love oonu so till

sum ah oonu tek di cake an nyam ie by oonu self....lawd

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i think i'd cry more if prince died. </div></div>

I would definitely allow a single taer to fall if Prince died, but I would still remark on his peculiarities if it came up.

[mountaingal]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i think i'd cry more if prince died. </div></div>

I would definitely allow a single taer to fall if Prince died, but I would still remark on peculiarities. </div></div>
did u let a tear fall for Michael?

[sistacaf]

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yes mgee, of course.

can only speak for self, possibly for a few of those of us <span style="font-style: italic">of a certain age</span>

[mountaingal]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Like any other big story, dis is gristle fi yaadies chew pon n tawk bout ...yeah man, yaadie juss like di movement of discussion like dis...no real personal investment but nuff plot n subplot fi a couple cases of beer discussion...memories fi real...is a day like today fi deh yaad wid it being Friday,..is juss dis a lead fi chat </div></div>
choo dat. all like how mi memba years ago that Latoya said one of her other brothers called Michael the F-word. mi a wonder when all that a go come out, cause it percolated during the time of the first case he had with the youth, the one who could ID MJ's penis.

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i think i'd cry more if prince died. </div></div>

I would definitely allow a single taer to fall if Prince died, but I would still remark on peculiarities. </div></div>
did u let a tear fall for Michael? </div></div>No but I felt sad and I have always thought he was the best total musician in the world till I found out about Prince.

[mountaingal]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sistacaf</div><div class="ubbcode-body">yes mgee, of course.

can only speak for self, possibly for a few of those of us <span style="font-style: italic">of a certain age</span>

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cool.

i don't think we are far apart in age. but perhaps in circumstances. as a teen and a young woman, i always identified with and appreciated musicians who were slightly off the pop path, who showed a willingness to carve their own path and dare others to follow them. actually, that's one reason why i liked michael's Bad album, when he broke away from quincy and started exploring rock, for example.

[evanovitch]

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All LaToya did come yaad wid dem ...u should see fi har real face den too..matta of fak, chek out one a di yaad paper.. Dem a picture of har n MJ in Ja...