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Originally Posted by Stu

Oh give over for christ sake. It's entirely forgiveable and acceptable to be more interested in a dead, talented celebrity than something that's happened in Norway. Why are people pretending to care about Norway all of a sudden?

You answered your own concerns in that post. She's been all over the media for four years.

Sense of perspective? Unless someone is making a charitable donation what does it matter where their attention span is going? Sense of perspective? What about the current famine in Africa? That's killed more people than what happened in Norway.

Heck ... what about all the famines in Africa since we are going to go there? Who gives a crap about who gets to number one in the charts this week? Who cares what is number one at the box office? People are dying, damnit!

I hate to be so blunt but if you are going to start that car there is a lot of places you can take it. The vast majority of us demonstrably do not give a flying fuck about what is going on in the world.

No, I am not going to "start that car" - it is quite obviously far more shocking that a man disguised himself as a police officer and killed 80+ teenagers in cold blood than the death of somebody who struggled with addiction for at least four years in the public eye. People are quite obviously entitled to be interested in the death of a celebrity, but my point was that she's not actually done anything of note for half a decade; there were empty promises of new material for a few years and then apparently recently she had actually been working on new material - but going by her abysmal performance in Serbia, I'm not sure I believe that she was in the frame of mind to be producing all that much in the way of music. I care about Norway, it shocked me and I'm stunned that people are disregarding it so soon after it happened in favour of this. It's not like her death was out of the blue, when someone's that messed up it's more a case of predicting when rather than if, is that something that anyone can seriously deny? She's been all over the media for four years because she has problems, now she's dead because of her problems, so what's left to talk about? There's no new music to show (at the moment - I expect they'll put out posthumous stuff) - I'd be more understanding if she was on the promotional trail at the moment. Maybe I'm just cold hearted when it comes to her, I just have no respect for people who CHOOSE to play with fire like she did and who then suffer for it, and I guess that's been exacerbated by the fact she's famous for being, well, a mess, and is now going to receive even more attention for it. Leave the poor woman alone, I guess that's my thought on the matter ultimately.