If you can read this, either the style sheet didn't load or you have an older browser that doesn't support style sheets. Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page.
Fark SearchWeb Fark

         more options... Create account

(Yahoo) Amusing Poll: 64 percent say too much Jackson coverage. The other 36 percent says that it's nice to hear 'Billie Jean' back on the radio   (news.yahoo.com) divider line 220
More: Amusing  
•       •       •

1287 clicks; posted to Main » on 02 Jul 2009 at 11:55 AM   |  Make this a Fark FavoriteFavorite    |   share: Share on OMGTWITTER WEB2.0share on StumbleUponshare on Facebook  more»   |    Get this fabulous T-Shirt and impress the methane out of your friends! shirt it!

220 Comments   (+0 »)


Archived thread
First | « | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | » | Last | Show all
 
tnpir [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 09:05:48 AM  
It IS nice to hear Billie Jean on the radio again. That's one of the top five pop songs ever recorded.

 
I Said [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 09:19:42 AM  
I'm in the 36 percent

 
DamnYankees [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 09:28:35 AM  
I've been reading the series of 5 Vanity Fair articles which went really in depth on Jackson - wow. I mean, wow.

 
Bored Horde 2009-07-02 09:53:38 AM  
Both sides are correct

 
Di Atribe [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 11:33:47 AM  
Last weekend was pretty awesome with VH1 Classic playing a bunch of his videos and hearing him on the radio all the time. I don't care much for the "news" coverage, though. Part of me says "leave that poor family alone!" but the other part says... "What a bunch of attention whores using his death like that."

 
HulkHands [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 11:53:58 AM  
DamnYankees: I've been reading the series of 5 Vanity Fair articles which went really in depth on Jackson - wow. I mean, wow.

Yeah, those are f-ed up.

Also longer than the LOTR trilogy.

 
DamnYankees [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 11:55:37 AM  
HulkHands: Also longer than the LOTR trilogy.

Yeah. About 75 pages total. But its worth it. Very good writing. The author only really presents the bad side of things (and maybe that in fact is the only side), so its hard to tell what the 'real' stories are, but its very interesting to read.

 
Sweet182 [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 11:56:45 AM  
Oh for fakr sake I'm so sick of hearing about it. He's dead. Move on.

 
LasssiterBeRight 2009-07-02 11:57:11 AM  
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07022009/news/columnists/shed_no_tears_for_this_twis ted_sicko_177187.htm

Wow. You go girl.

 
agwood18 [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 11:58:15 AM  
LasssiterBeRight: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07022009/news/columnists/shed_no_tears_for_this_twi s ted_sicko_177187.htm

Wow. You go girl.


Uh, link's farked?

 
cryinoutloud [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 11:58:15 AM  
I'm not tired of it. He was a very interesting weirdo. If you don't agree, you could do something radical like, oh, I don't know--stop reading the articles?

 
Marla Singer's Laundry [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 11:58:44 AM  
Sweet182: Oh for fakr sake I'm so sick of hearing about it. He's dead. Move on.

You got a Halo tat on your butt? Way to think long-term.

 
DeathByGrace 2009-07-02 11:58:50 AM  
Sweet182: Oh for Fark sake I'm so sick of hearing about it. He's dead. Move on.

i agree!

 
UpsideDown 2009-07-02 11:59:04 AM  
Can they play The Way You Make Me Feel next? And can nationwide please stop using I'll Be There in their commercials, it's just in poor taste.

 
Masso 2009-07-02 11:59:17 AM  
Personally, I want to hear more from Dangerous Album.

 
h2oincfs 2009-07-02 11:59:34 AM  
I heard an arrangement of "Annie Are You OK?" for strings yesterday. Was pretty grate, akshully, until the guy one aisle over attempted to sing it.

 
bongmiester [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 11:59:39 AM  
i wish this song stuck in my head would just beat it

 
TheShavingofOccam123 [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 11:59:47 AM  
we have a major major offensive with thousands of Marines in Afghanistan and NBC Today starts off with 30 minutes of Jacko coverage from run-down "ranch" in fore-closure.

 
NittLion78 2009-07-02 12:00:37 PM  
Seriously, it was the best radio day ever last Thursday. I haven't enjoyed listening to commercial radio in probably 15 years.

 
Car_Ramrod 2009-07-02 12:00:53 PM  
bongmiester: i wish this song stuck in my head would just beat it

That was bad. You know it.

 
Doktor Merkwrdiglieben 2009-07-02 12:01:20 PM  
Wait...what happened to Michael Jackson?

 
Spoonfed'sBuddy 2009-07-02 12:01:35 PM  
Marla Singer's Laundry: Sweet182: Oh for fakr sake I'm so sick of hearing about it. He's dead. Move on.

You got a Halo tat on your butt? Way to think long-term.


Halo is awesome. It will not cease to be awesome 20 years from now, it will be heralded as a classic. Kind of like Pong.

 
Arthur Figgis 2009-07-02 12:01:46 PM  
I went out to a few places downtown on the night that MJ died, and literally every bar was playing one of his old hits. It really was great to hear the music again, and it was oddly moving. There's something profound about American culture losing (and subsequently celebrating) a near-universal reference point. It also made me remember what an actual, honest-to-God musical genius Michael was, all weirdness aside.

 
gorgor 2009-07-02 12:01:52 PM  
Let me know if his condition changes.

 
Weasel3322 2009-07-02 12:01:54 PM  
At this point I've tuned out all cable and network news due to the feeding frenzy on Jacko. Thankfully there's NPR.

 
Masso 2009-07-02 12:02:12 PM  
Car_Ramrod: bongmiester: i wish this song stuck in my head would just beat it

That was bad. You know it.


These stuffs are exactly black or white.

 
Marla Singer's Laundry [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:02:42 PM  
Spoonfed'sBuddy: Marla Singer's Laundry: Sweet182: Oh for fakr sake I'm so sick of hearing about it. He's dead. Move on.

You got a Halo tat on your butt? Way to think long-term.

Halo is awesome. It will not cease to be awesome 20 years from now, it will be heralded as a classic. Kind of like Pong.


Yes, because no one will ever make another video game that is popular, so I'm glad she's thinking ahead.

 
NannyStatePark 2009-07-02 12:02:57 PM  
The only MJ song I've caught on my radio was Beat It. Which is pretty much what I wish this story would do. This guy was a clusterfark of crazy and I can't hear his music without thinking about child molestation, which is gross and disturbing. So hopefully the media with STFUAGBTW.

 
Sweet182 [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:03:51 PM  
Marla Singer's Laundry: You got a Halo tat on your butt? Way to think long-term.>

It means something special to me... Also in my defense, it's one of the greatest games of all time. So yes. I was thinking long term.

But lets stay on topic here and leave the petty "profile attacking" for another time.

 
wylkyn 2009-07-02 12:04:16 PM  
Marla Singer's Laundry: Sweet182: Oh for fakr sake I'm so sick of hearing about it. He's dead. Move on.

You got a Halo tat on your butt? Way to think long-term.


Wow. Personal attack based on profile? Classy.

/and it's not going to bring the pedo back
//get over it

 
TiggaBob 2009-07-02 12:04:37 PM  
Masso: Car_Ramrod: bongmiester: i wish this song stuck in my head would just beat it

That was bad. You know it.

These stuffs are exactly black or white.


Not necessarily; take a good long look at the man in the mirror and let me know what you come up with.

 
Ned the Wookie 2009-07-02 12:04:59 PM  
I never got the part about the chair not being his son.

 
Sweet182 [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:05:03 PM  
Marla Singer's Laundry: Yes, because no one will ever make another video game that is popular, so I'm glad she's thinking ahead.


Oh would you fark off with your lame attempt at sarcasm.

 
Marla Singer's Laundry [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:05:12 PM  
NannyStatePark: The only MJ song I've caught on my radio was Beat It. Which is pretty much what I wish this story would do. This guy was a clusterfark of crazy and I can't hear his music without thinking about child molestation, which is gross and disturbing. So hopefully the media with STFUAGBTW.

But, the Elvis thing was great, right? I mean, he only died on the toilet of a drug overdose, having wasted the last 20 years of his life in a nightmare of dissipation and decay.

Pot, kettle, it used to be black, but it got a skin disorder.

 
Harry Freakstorm 2009-07-02 12:05:46 PM  
tbn2.google.com

What's all this fuss about Micheal Jetson? Did he even have a television show as good as his brother George? And like his brother, was he an abusive yet decent husband who yelled when the dressing machine put him in a dress? Did he appreciate living in a time of flying cars and angry, probably killer robots?

And what I want to know is, where is my flying car dammit?

 
Excen 2009-07-02 12:05:53 PM  
MICHAEL JACKSON WAS A PEDOPHILE

Lest we all forget that the media circlejerk is worshiping a man that got a 9-year-old hammered on "Jesus Juice" and slept with him in the same bed. I'm not saying 2 and 2 equals the kid from Home Alone getting his junk fiddled, but I'd be Excen the Shanked Pedo if I had the same info presented at trial that Whacko Jacko had presented at his.

/Ah, America. The only land where a black boy can grow up to be a white woman!

 
Marla Singer's Laundry [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:06:55 PM  
wylkyn: Marla Singer's Laundry: Sweet182: Oh for fakr sake I'm so sick of hearing about it. He's dead. Move on.

You got a Halo tat on your butt? Way to think long-term.

Wow. Personal attack based on profile? Classy.

/and it's not going to bring the pedo back
//get over it


White Knighting is gay.


Sweet182: Marla Singer's Laundry: You got a Halo tat on your butt? Way to think long-term.>

It means something special to me... Also in my defense, it's one of the greatest games of all time. So yes. I was thinking long term.

But lets stay on topic here and leave the petty "profile attacking" for another time.


Yes, like I said, no one will ever top that. Like, you know, Pong, Pac Man, Tron, Donkey Kong, etc.

Maybe you could get an Elevator Action tat on the other cheek. Or, the Atari Pac-Man port.

 
Rose Red 2009-07-02 12:07:22 PM  
wylkyn: Marla Singer's Laundry: Sweet182: Oh for fakr sake I'm so sick of hearing about it. He's dead. Move on.

You got a Halo tat on your butt? Way to think long-term.

Wow. Personal attack based on profile? Classy.

/and it's not going to bring the pedo back
//get over it


She's like that. Ignore her.

 
Sweet182 [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:07:29 PM  
Don't get me wrong. I dig his music...But I feel that America has more than paid respect and now it's getting redundant and annoying...

I guess anything to take our mind of War, Politics and the Economy.

 
budsterr 2009-07-02 12:08:34 PM  
img2.pict.com

 
DamnYankees [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:09:26 PM  
Excen: MICHAEL JACKSON WAS A PEDOPHILE



So? Can you explain to me what is gained by hating him after his death?

 
Spoonfed'sBuddy 2009-07-02 12:09:39 PM  
Marla Singer's Laundry: Spoonfed'sBuddy: Marla Singer's Laundry: Sweet182: Oh for fakr sake I'm so sick of hearing about it. He's dead. Move on.

You got a Halo tat on your butt? Way to think long-term.

Halo is awesome. It will not cease to be awesome 20 years from now, it will be heralded as a classic. Kind of like Pong.

Yes, because no one will ever make another video game that is popular, so I'm glad she's thinking ahead.


I imagine they will make a video game that is even more popular. They will likely make games that are even better than Halo (I sure hope so). I suppose a person could always get another game tattoo if games are what they're really into. Some people have Mario tattoos. Some of those people regret it, some may not. Halo is not so much a fad as it's simply a really great video game for its time. Star Wars is even older than I am and I guarantee you there are people with Yoda tattoos out there that like them just fine.

 
Masso 2009-07-02 12:09:51 PM  
TiggaBob: Masso: Car_Ramrod: bongmiester: i wish this song stuck in my head would just beat it

That was bad. You know it.

These stuffs are exactly black or white.

Not necessarily; take a good long look at the man in the mirror and let me know what you come up with.


Hey, you wanna be startin somethin? Leave me alone.

 
Marla Singer's Laundry [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:10:16 PM  
Excen: MICHAEL JACKSON WAS A PEDOPHILE

Lest we all forget that the media circlejerk is worshiping a man that got a 9-year-old hammered on "Jesus Juice" and slept with him in the same bed. I'm not saying 2 and 2 equals the kid from Home Alone getting his junk fiddled, but I'd be Excen the Shanked Pedo if I had the same info presented at trial that Whacko Jacko had presented at his.

/Ah, America. The only land where a black boy can grow up to be a white woman!


Elvis was a junky. Hendrix choked on puke. James Brown was hooked on PCP. Cobain was a depressed, addicted suicide. Charlie Parker was a junky, too, and Billie Holiday was thought to be in her 60s by the guy doing the autopsy.

Pat Boone is the artist for you. He's clean.

 
DamnYankees [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:10:46 PM  
Masso: Hey, you wanna be startin somethin? Leave me alone.

Mama se, mama sa.

 
Marla Singer's Laundry [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:11:06 PM  
Rose Red: wylkyn: Marla Singer's Laundry: Sweet182: Oh for fakr sake I'm so sick of hearing about it. He's dead. Move on.

You got a Halo tat on your butt? Way to think long-term.

Wow. Personal attack based on profile? Classy.

/and it's not going to bring the pedo back
//get over it

She's like that. Ignore her.


I think someone scared has me on ignore. Rose Red is pathetic.

 
Birth Control 2 Major Tom 2009-07-02 12:11:59 PM  
Marla Singer's Laundry: Rose Red: wylkyn: Marla Singer's Laundry: Sweet182: Oh for fakr sake I'm so sick of hearing about it. He's dead. Move on.

You got a Halo tat on your butt? Way to think long-term.

Wow. Personal attack based on profile? Classy.

/and it's not going to bring the pedo back
//get over it

She's like that. Ignore her.

I think someone scared has me on ignore. Rose Red is pathetic.


I bet if I quote you she can see that.

 
dewihafta 2009-07-02 12:13:02 PM  
I was just thinking this yesterday. That TV guide channel on Comcast was playing a tribute to MJ's top videos, and I couldn't help watching them for awhile (when I usually click off that damn channel as soon as I see what's on)(and I've found out that keeping it muted while I'm searching helps A LOT, especially when it's nothing but American Idol wrap ups for five hours).

However, at the same time, I think it's kind of funny to see all of these tributes. Until last week, I couldn't remember the last time I'd seen a pic of the black MJ, as opposed to the freakish white version.

 
Headless Medusa 2009-07-02 12:13:04 PM  
This just in:
Michael Jackson is still dead!
Stay tuned for more updates.

 
Sweet182 [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 12:13:17 PM  
Marla Singer's Laundry: I think someone scared has me on ignore. Rose Red is pathetic.

Can you stop being such a farking TROLL and stick to the topic at hand? I don't know what kind of boner you get trying to piss other people off, but there are other mediums for that.

Ok. I'm done giving you the attention you crave so much.

 
Displayed 50 of 220 comments

First | « | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | » | Last | Show all


[Continue Farking]