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Eh, I think Williams had a lot more effect on most of our lives than Diana. He and Carlin were my two favorite stand-up comics, and they're both gone now.
Not shedding any tears for someone I never knew personally, or even saw in person for that matter, but still... Sucks that he's gone.
EDIT: I think a lot of the media coverage is from one of two camps... 1) People who knew him personally and are genuinely mourning him. 2) People who think posting something sad about a well-liked celebrity will make them more popular or get them some more hits/followers/likes/etc.... Mostly #2.
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Ian Shlasko wrote: I think Williams had a lot more effect on most of our lives than Diana
The effect on our simple lives is nothing; but the effect on the different charities that her foundation is supporting is important.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Ian Shlasko wrote: I think Williams had a lot more effect on most of our lives than Diana.
AFAIK neither of these people had any effect on mylife. I had no interest in Diana, or her shenannikins. Robin Williams was a reasonable actor IMHO, but not the greatest that ever lived (who is?).
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Agreed. His stand-up was amazing, though.
Anyway... Being entertained by them is being affected by him. Not saying he changed our lives or anything, but he was definitely more interesting than some woman who just married into a famous family.
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Ian Shlasko wrote: Being entertained by them is being affected by him.
Looking at it from that point of view, I totally agree with you. I was meaning not affected to the extent that I want to rush out and place flowers, or some mawkish poster, on some hastily created "shrine to the great man".
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Sure hope George Burns never dies.
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Yes, I hope he lives to be a hundred.
/ravi
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The only reasonable explanation is that most humans aren't reasonable to begin with.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I'm not sure what to think, a small part of me agrees with the 'entirely his own choice' phrase, though a larger part of me thinks that he died as a result of an illness not unlike cancer or the flu. Nobody wants to be depressed, it just unfortunately happens to some. The biology of it (and treatment of it) is probably just as unknown as that of other diseases.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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jeron1 wrote: an illness not unlike cancer or the flu.
Very true, and the treatment (in the UK at least) is at best, mediocre. People suffering from depression tend not to vote so they don't have much of a voice.
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The question of how much depression (or other mental illnesses) is 'not unlike cancer or flu' and how much people with those conditions still have free agency and can be considered to be making their own choices like everyone else is a tricky one, not least because most mental illnesses are a line on a continuum from 'normal' to 'severely X' and it's not an objective diagnosis.
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mark merrens wrote: He was funny. He died. Get over it.
That's a pretty cold way of looking at life man. It's not like people are "unable to go on" just because they post a "that sucks" message on FB. You yourself are taking part of it too with this post. So it's a bit counter intuitive.
Just because it's a lot of people posting doesn't make them bad, stupid, or anything to say a quick RIP to someone who had an impact on their life, even if on TV. Seriously man, you might want to get over it.
Now if it was Justin Bieber, you'd have a point.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Now if it was Justin Bieber,
I'm still trying to organise that room.
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You miss the point: I am over it and I am sad that such a great comedic genius has now shuffled off this mortal coil. What I am talking about is the great outpouring of public grief.
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mark merrens wrote: You miss the point: I am over it and I am sad that such a great comedic genius has now shuffled off this mortal coil. What I am talking about is the great outpouring of public grief.
I did not miss the point. It's only been like one day. You really must hate people to whine about them saying RIP already. If it were weeks, I'd agree with you. One day, and you're just cold.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: One day, and you're just cold.
And yet you to continue to miss it; were you around when Diana went? It was ridiculous. And now, everywhere you turn, people going on about Robin Williams; somehow his sad passing is more important than anything or anyone else. I presume you'll be taking full page ads to bellow your heartfelt grief?
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Have fun arguing with yourself. Tootles!
Jeremy Falcon
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne
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Holy men tell us life is a mystery.
They embrace that concept happily.
But some mysteries bite and bark
And come to get you in the dark.
-- The Book of Counted Sorrows, Dean Koontz
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The newsreader just read this earlier this evening
"Robin Williams is believed to have committed suicide after a long battle with depression.....people often described Mr* Williams as an unstoppable life force." Do they even think before they write this guff?
*Radio 4 Don'tchaknow
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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The fact that a man who had such an amazingly positive affect on the world would be so poisoned with depression that in spite of the joy the mere thought of him brought most of us who grew up watching everything from Mork & Mindy through his innumerable movies to his standup decided to kill himself is heartbreaking.
Any number of the millions of lives he touched would've been willing to help him, but for the knowledge of how.
Depression is a horrifying prison, utterly inexpressible to those who haven't had to suffer through it.
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Well said.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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I hope people who don't understand depression never have occasion to.
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It's terrible stuff, I hope people can come to understand it enough to remove the stigma of it,and look on it as they do other ailments.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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