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I think Kobe's death is the most surprising celeb death in the past 20+ yrs.
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Date: January 28th, 2020 3:04 PM Author: narrow-minded charismatic menage Two days have gone by and I still can't believe it. This has never happened with other celebs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502304) |
Date: January 28th, 2020 3:16 PM Author: vengeful internal respiration stage Yeah, truly insane. 2pac was bad too. Shit like Michael Jackson or Prince or Whitney Houston is like yeah duh, they were all on shit so it made sense. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502366) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 3:17 PM Author: adventurous sepia cumskin elastic band Michael Jackson hit me 20x harder than Kobe did.
Prince hit me a lot harder than Kobe too.
With Kobe I was just like "WTF that's unbelievable! Totally sucks" but it didn't have the same effect on my life as MJ and Prince. |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 7:40 PM Author: big tank average straight white male in 2020, ladies and gentlemen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503791) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 7:42 PM Author: startled resort striped hyena (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503796) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 3:18 PM Author: Appetizing candlestick maker Biggie's death was harder on me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502383) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 3:21 PM Author: Bateful sanctuary I fundamentally cannot relate to being affected by any celebrity’s death. Not like we know any of them. How could you be impacted then? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502405) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 3:23 PM Author: Disgusting self-absorbed chapel community account (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502431) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 3:24 PM Author: histrionic brilliant church building wagecucks *human's BEEP BEEP BEPP |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 3:25 PM Author: Mint indirect expression because the people itt are losers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502452) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 3:27 PM Author: ebony hell idk, because you admire the person? holy shit state your autism quotient. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502469) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 4:39 PM Author: Chocolate idiotic puppy trailer park (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502876) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 4:41 PM Author: adventurous sepia cumskin elastic band I was pissed because I never got to see either Prince or MJ live, and both were extremely important to me musically. I fucking grew up loving both of them since i was 6 years old. I'm sure both were insufferable in person (or maybe they were cool, either way), and in that regard you are right it didn't affect me. But seeing literal childhood heroes die, who I still admired greatly and wanted to one day see live, was a big hit to me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502887) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 4:59 PM Author: Tan abode regret you know who was impacted? Kobe when that helicopter hit the fucking ground :) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502969) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 5:13 PM Author: Fishy Travel Guidebook Dog Poop It's not grieving like the death of a friend or family member but i think one can be affected in a few ways:
1. empathy for the surviving family members. sure it's easy to say people die all the time but when faced with a specific example it's natural to feel for the family who just lost a young dad and 13 year old daughter.
2. empathy for the deceased. same logic as above. guy had half his life in front of him. gone in the blink of an eye.
3. feeling of personal loss. yes, i did not know kobe bryant personally. i admired him as an athlete and entertainer for the 20 years he was in the NBA. there is an eerie feeling that a part of my own life history or experience is gone. it's also a reminder of my own mortality that even iconic figures like Kobe Bryant still just return to dust like the rest of us. sure this is a narcissistic perspective but i think natural nonetheless.
4. you have aspergers. |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 5:19 PM Author: Mint indirect expression your moniker is "dupa". it's something akin to a substance i would rub off my shoe after walking out of an extremely dirty public restroom.
you're also jewish |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 6:00 PM Author: doobsian range rigor I think it’s mostly 3
The others are obviously terrible but thousands of other people experience grievous tragedies every day as well |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 5:59 PM Author: doobsian range rigor i associate kobe Bryant with my teenage years more than almost anyone else. for whatever reason he evoked strong emotions in other people
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Date: January 28th, 2020 6:58 PM Author: Garnet demanding point cuckoldry it's because you as an adult man, no longer have heroes that you worship irrationally. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503579) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 7:03 PM Author: passionate garrison fortuitous meteor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503598) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 7:24 PM Author: Fishy Travel Guidebook Dog Poop Your so cool and alpha bro. Very masculine. Impressive. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503679) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 7:34 PM Author: Garnet demanding point cuckoldry let me know what other rich shithead strangers that would not piss on you if you were on fire inspire you such that you will be moved to tears on their passing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503748) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 7:58 PM Author: Fishy Travel Guidebook Dog Poop Yeah man everyone who is a little sentimental or sad is literally in tears. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503880) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 11:13 PM Author: exhilarant clown piazza I mean sure. Part of my sadness is the realization that my youth is also fading away, that my childhood hero can die like that with his 13 year old daughter and her friends & family who should've had a full life ahead of her.
And another aspect is that to us, Kobe was this larger-than-life figure that if anyone were to survive a helicopter crash and save everyone onboard somehow, it was Kobe.
Just seeing the mortality of this larger-than-life figure was a bit of a shock.
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Date: January 28th, 2020 11:45 PM Author: Fishy Travel Guidebook Dog Poop Cr. It doesn't seem real that a young, virile Kobe Bryant could die. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39505191) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 7:52 PM Author: metal property partner You have autism (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503851) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 11:15 PM Author: exhilarant clown piazza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39505020) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 11:20 PM Author: mauve bonkers ticket booth incel For me the method of death is most chilling: he maed it, retired to raise his family, and died nonsensically with his daughter.
it's the celebrity version of a cop dying two days from retirement. |
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Date: January 29th, 2020 1:30 AM Author: coral dysfunction Except that it's awesome when a cop dies. ACAB (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39505643) |
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Date: January 29th, 2020 1:27 AM Author: coral dysfunction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39505632) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 3:24 PM Author: talented flesh brunch alpha i think it's because he truly seemed ascendant. you know that guy was destined for moar greatness. won a fucking oscar last year lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502442) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 3:25 PM Author: Judgmental Cruise Ship Windowlicker David Carradines death absolutely floored me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502453) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 4:31 PM Author: exhilarant clown piazza Being a millennial that grew up in LA - Kobe's death definitely hit me hard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502839) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 4:36 PM Author: diverse set It’s definitely powerful! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502861) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 7:07 PM Author: passionate garrison fortuitous meteor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503605) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 4:40 PM Author: Pearly gaped halford national Yea I'm pretty bummed out about it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502880) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 4:44 PM Author: talented flesh brunch alpha stop making it about you. all the instagram poasts on sunday were nauseating. people competing every which way to show how deep their connection was with kobe. bitch, i watched almost every game for 20 years. i know almost everything about the man. and yet i found out, cried in my fucking car while my wife paid for lunch, drove home and was sad the whole fucking day, and made not one tortured instagram poast. it's pathetic the lengths people will go to associate themselves with greatness. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502904) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 4:50 PM Author: exhilarant clown piazza weird post
Yeah it's dumb w/ the whole instagram generation shit, but at the same time, it got me to reconect w/ all my old friends over this and realize we could all die in a fiery death at any point in our lives
so fuck it man dont let xo affect how you do shit |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 5:27 PM Author: talented flesh brunch alpha it didn't, i talked to my brother and a couple close friends all of whom knew how important this was to me/us and we left it at that. sorry to take it out on you but i'm just so tired of people trying to personalize his death on a platform like instagram where all you can realistically get is shallow acknowledgement and nothing else. i know a couple people that HATED kobe irl and even they made these gay poasts like "even though i was a fan of the sacramento kings and you pushed our shit in for 20 years i always respected you as a competitor" it's like bro stfu (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503142) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 11:11 PM Author: exhilarant clown piazza I mean the thing is for me, growing up in LA, literally EVERYONE around me was a Lakers and Kobe fan.
It was the one thign that really bound my friend group together, the Lakers - I still talk to a lot of my HS friends mostly about the Lakers and to a lesser extent the Dodgers, and for all of us, KObe was our hero in middle school and high school.
Idk man as shallow as those IG posts could be, they also got a lot of us to reconnect & reminisce. For that alone, fuck it.
Yeah the whole IG culture is stupid, but so is actively being pissed off about it when people want to reminisce and mourn for their childhood heroes
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Date: January 28th, 2020 4:36 PM Author: Flushed tattoo scourge upon the earth Anthony Bourdain's was probably the most shocking to me because I never saw him and thought suicide. Dude had it all and still thought this world was flame which is pretty disturbing to me. And worst of all, left his 11 year old daughter behind to deal with it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502865) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 5:02 PM Author: onyx razzle sweet tailpipe yarmulke (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502994) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 4:38 PM Author: abnormal grizzly theater place of business Philip Seymour Hoffman hit me hard because I had no clue that he was a degenerate drug addict. I just thought he was a degenerate. Like me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502873) |
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Date: January 29th, 2020 2:07 AM Author: Supple whorehouse trust fund That one was the most shocking I thought. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39505740) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 4:40 PM Author: Chestnut station stain Phil Hartman. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502881) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 4:58 PM Author: Dun crawly lay juggernaut . (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502965) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 5:05 PM Author: Bistre address hominid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503012) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 5:07 PM Author: Chocolate idiotic puppy trailer park (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503019) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 4:42 PM Author: Submissive aromatic theatre jap Ljl at the nigger worshippers itt. Kobe! No, Tupac! No, biggie! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502894) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 4:58 PM Author: aquamarine wonderful rehab circlehead xxxtentacion getting shot to pieces at age 22 was a lot more abrupt. kobe had been retired for years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502963) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 4:59 PM Author: Dun crawly lay juggernaut Not really. This is the second black celebrity to die from insisting on flying in an aircraft in dangerous conditions. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39502970) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 5:15 PM Author: onyx razzle sweet tailpipe yarmulke I think any unexpected suicide or drug overdose is more"surprising" than an accidental crash (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503067) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 5:50 PM Author: Jet-lagged Center Associate Cr. Other celebs it's not unsurprising because you know they abuse drugs or live a high risk lifestyle but Kobe was like tom Brady obsessed with living super clean and work ethic and shit and otherwise really healthy. Jarring that he'd die so young. But also weirdly appropriate because it's hard to picture him as an old man. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503257) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 6:00 PM Author: Scarlet library (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503302) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 6:40 PM Author: spectacular round eye I think Heath Ledger wasn't especially shocking since he'd already broken up his engagement with his drug use. But it was super depressing, mainly bc you thought about it repeatedly over an entire year-plus since Dark Knight didn't come out for another six months and then was the biggest movie that summer, and an award season contender for the entire six month period leading up to his own posthumous Best Actor. But he was also not even 30 and had a young daughter and there was the intrigue that it was a product of him going too method for the part. Overall it just had more of a sense of someone who was already a super A list star who still had potentially decades left to be at the top of his field, combined with the assumption that it was an accident. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503499) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 6:47 PM Author: titillating mother site Heath Ledger was pretty shocking but we're a little more used to actors and rock stars dying prematurely. Also, Kobe was just a step up in fame; he was probably the most famous athlete in the entire world at his peak. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503527) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 6:56 PM Author: spectacular round eye Yeah, that's all correct. But I think Kobe is sort of a litmus test for how much of a hardcore sportsnut you are/how much you correctly fear and avoid helicopters. Like I specifically remembered the story about him taking Steve Blake to the doctor from 2009 or whatever when I first heard, because I have devoted entirely too much space in my brain to sports trivia for the past 30 years. The moment in the afternoon when ABC was saying the daughters were on the helicopter made it 1000x worse, and then hearing that was wrong made it a lot less sad, then hearing that his one daughter was on the helicopter and it was 9 people total made it way worse again. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503570) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 7:24 PM Author: Hilarious Temple Kobe was a huge star with a family and a clean lifestyle, and he's remained in the limelight with his post-NBA work and Oscar win. All the artists/actors/rappers that have died I presumed were on drugs/booze and/or living a high-risk stupid lifestyle, so there wasn't anywhere near this same level of shock. Only other similar death I can think of is Roberto Clemente (Thurman Munson too, but he wasn't the same level of superstar). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503682) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 7:35 PM Author: Garnet demanding point cuckoldry Clemente died doing something 100% selfless and should be remembered for that.
Kobe is basically Aaliyah 2.0, except that he killed children in instead of just his posse. |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 7:40 PM Author: Hilarious Temple Yeah, but Aaliyah was just a rising star, not anywhere near the level of Kobe. She's more like Buddy Holly.
I stand by my Clemente comparison (despite the differing motivations for their air travel). |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 7:43 PM Author: Garnet demanding point cuckoldry star power wise yes, but it will soon come out that Kobe insisted on flying in the fog to avoid being late to his marketing opportunity and killed all those people, much like Aaliyah did with her luggage. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503804) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 7:49 PM Author: Hilarious Temple probably CR (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503837) |
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Date: January 29th, 2020 9:19 PM Author: galvanic nighttime hospital chad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39510606) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 7:37 PM Author: lake electric furnace Luke Perry is rolling in his grave imho, zero mentions itt wjw (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503767) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 8:12 PM Author: metal property partner *In his mushroom suit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503973) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 7:54 PM Author: lake electric furnace Also I was pretty shocked by Brittany Murphy. Her husband dying shortly after was also strange. Pretty sure no one knows - or cares - wtf happened. I am Jewish so I follow basketball but I am also a Film buff so maybe the Actors hit be harder.
Stage Stallone as well. The "guy who is roughly my age dying sudden;y of natural causes for no reason" shit is far more jarring because it is relevant to the Self, which is of critical impotortance to us all, even the, "wow just wow, IDC about celeberity deaths," crowd. "How did he die?" they ask, "was he FAT? Druggie? I hope I do not die irl," basically what everyone says/thinks. Kobe crashing into a mountain like something out of GTA San Andreas is more like, "haha, wow, nigger, I bet he didn't maintain his helicopter like a black guy driving a hoopty Cadillac, or it was flown by some inept hanger-on." He was also a humourous character in recent times, wearing suits and LARPing as a venture capitalist. Basically the whole thing is a joke as far as I'm concerned, analogous to Shaq starring in Kazzam, but for the element of morbidity. Just stating opinions. |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 7:58 PM Author: Smoky house persian Not as big obviously but I have strong memories from when Payne Stewart died. The whole idea of a guy having made it in life and just dying because his plane broke was sad as fuck. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503884) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 7:59 PM Author: Hilarious Temple The ghostflight aspect of it made it especially creepy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39503890) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 11:17 PM Author: Beady-eyed school cafeteria Creepily 180* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39505036) |
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Date: January 29th, 2020 1:36 AM Author: mahogany impertinent theater stage messiness I remember he was in the news for making a fake Chinaman voice a few weeks before (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39505660) |
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Date: January 29th, 2020 9:14 PM Author: Smoky house persian the story about how his wife tried calling his cell phone but he didn't pick up because they were all knocked out has stuck with me to this day. Also that CNN was following as the plane was flying and they had jets flying next to it and there was nothing they could do. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39510563) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 10:48 PM Author: Canary house-broken idea he suggested ratface Brandon Lee
Payne Stewart
Colin McRae
Kurt Cobain
Chris Cornell
Jeffrey Epstein |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 11:15 PM Author: exhilarant clown piazza Kobe's interview w/ Kimmel about his daughter was really fucking heartbreaking
and Shaq today just looked fucking devastated.
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Date: January 28th, 2020 11:17 PM Author: Beady-eyed school cafeteria Seeing Shaq made me sad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39505033) |
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Date: January 28th, 2020 11:18 PM Author: exhilarant clown piazza Yeah man I'm glad at least they got to make up a little bit before.
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Date: January 28th, 2020 11:24 PM Author: Zombie-like Corner Haunted Graveyard really broken up over Jeffrey Epstein brothers. Way too young (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39505064) |
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Date: January 29th, 2020 1:35 AM Author: coral dysfunction Nipsy Hustle, actually. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39505656) |
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Date: January 29th, 2020 1:38 AM Author: glittery awkward idiot True, gang member getting got is really surprising. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39505665) |
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Date: January 29th, 2020 2:05 AM Author: saffron lascivious church party of the first part Robin Williams (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4431967&forum_id=2#39505734) |