RIP someone or another

[mikeymad]

[guzziguy]

RIP Bernard Fox.

[Craig Sawyers]

Port Talbot in Wales is home to a massive steelworks and docks, and has a current population of 30-odd thousand. It is not a particularly nice place, frankly. And includes Aberfan, where the coal spoil heap slid into a school 50 years ago killing 116 children and 28 adults. Yet from it has come a stream of first class actors:

Bernard Fox

Richard Burton

Anthony Hopkins

Michael Sheen

No one has any idea why this is the case. But in any event - RIP Bernard Fox.

[Knuckledragger]

I posted this as an FB status, but it's relevant here as well.  I had an hour's conversation with my ma. She'd talked to her friend Alan.  Alan is quite a guy.  He went to college with my uncle.  Alan has been a huge success in life.  He runs a company that does (something I don't understand) and has made a small fortune doing so.  All this while keeping his business in the US and employing actual Americans.  He's owned at least two yachts in the time that my mother has lived on the Vineyard (5 or so years.)  On a couple occasions he's sailed in to visit her.  

His wife took her life this week. She hung herself. Suicide by hanging is particularly brutal on those one leaves behind. Someone has to find the body and cut it down. I explained to me mum that I'm familiar with this concept because it's covered pretty thoroughly in a folk song that I had on a Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem record from about age 4. I still have said record, as well as a clean digitized copy (it has never been released on CD) some saint uploaded to what.cd. There's a moral here somewhere. Listening to folk songs (Irish or otherwise) prepares one for the harsh realities of life.

 

[skullguise]

So sad....do you know how old she was?

It's tough to ever know what is in the hearts and minds of people.  Hope she found peace.

[Voltron]

Dr. Henry Heimlich maneuvered to age 96. 2016 decided that was enough. RIP to a real lifesaver.

[Torpedo]

RIP Dr Heimlich. We talked about him during lunch this afternoon. He was a thoracic surgeon, he had designed his famous manoeuvre theoretically and hadn't ever put it in practice until he was rather old and living at a residence. He saved the life of an old lady with his own hands even retired

[Wmcmanus]

What an amazing contribution to the world. RIP, Dr. Heimlich. 

Also, one of my favorite Beavis and Butthead episodes...

https://www.watchcartoononline.io/playlist-cat/126731/beavis-and-butt-head-season-5-episode-4-choke

[swt61]

RIP Dr. Heimlich.

[robm321]

RIP Dr. Heimlich. I sucessfully used his maneuver a dog . So, his life saving expanded to animals too.

[n_maher]

RIP Dr. Heimlich.  A lifesaver for sure, but also a pretty weird dude.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/273532-heimlich/

[Craig Sawyers]

RIP the maneuver man - who lived to a ripe old age, and contributed greatly. Not a lot of people end up with a life saving technique named after them.

[kevin gilmore]

zsa zsa gabor died at 99 years old. rip

 

[Voltron]

RIP Zsa Zsa, at 99. Couldn't let her hit 100, could you 2016?!

[skullguise]

RIP Dr. Heimlich.  A High School friend saved his grandmother with his maneuver.

And RIP Zsa Zsa, a lovely and classy woman.

96 and 99 are great old ages, but 2016 does indeed still suck royally.

[robm321]

RIP Zsa Zha.

[Knuckledragger]

2016 ain't over yet.  She certainly lived quite a life.  I remember an ad that ran on Nick At Nite, in the early 90s.  It was a promo for Green Acres.  It had a line in it that went something like "Remember, Green Acres stars *Eva* Gabor, not Zsa Zsa.  Eva will not harm you."  I thought it was pretty funny at the time.

[Craig Sawyers]

She certainly lived a full life in the fast lane! Quite a character. RIP Zsa Zsa.

[Torpedo]

RIP Zsa Zsa. 

[guzziguy]

RIP Dr. Heimlich and Zsa Zsa.

[HemiSam]

RIP Zsa Zsa.  What a women you were...

RIP Dr. Heimlich.

HS

[Craig Sawyers]

RIP the victims of the Berlin truck attack on shoppers. 9 confirmed dead so far.

RIP The Russian ambassador to Turkey, gunned down by an off duty police officer.

WTF just happened in the last few hours? 

[Dusty Chalk]

Fuck cancer

Fuck terrorists

Fuck people who aren't terrorists but still kill people like terrorists

Fuck 2016

[skullguise]

  The world is getting uglier and uglier.  RIP to all.  And worried about how Russia reacts.....

[Craig Sawyers]

Erdogan and Putin have issued similar statements to the effect that the murder of the Russian ambassador is "nothing but a provocation". So, although essentially dictators in their own countries, they are allies and are talking and agreeing a form of words.

So there will be no Russian reaction.