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		Elton John's lover committed suicide after struggling to come to terms with sexuality, British food (telegraph.co.uk)		69
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feckingmorons

2010-03-13 09:39:40 PM

Ya know flinging yourself under a truck farks up not only your life but the life of the truck driver. If you insist on whacking yourself don't ruin other people's lives.

VelcroFez

2010-03-13 09:59:49 PM

feckingmorons: That is an excellent and insightful observation.

kmmontandon

2010-03-13 10:17:44 PM

Sounds like either way, he couldn't put up with so much Spotted Dick.

MacG

2010-03-13 11:50:08 PM

Barakku

2010-03-14 12:10:35 AM

feckingmorons: Ya know flinging yourself under a truck farks up not only your life but the life of the truck driver. If you insist on whacking yourself don't ruin other people's lives.

Suicidal people seem like very selfish pricks in some ways.

/Some people can't even kill themselves without farking shiat up
//Also, that was the best, least expected and most inappropriate British food joke I've seen on fark

Doops

2010-03-14 12:22:04 AM

What a queer thing to do

IronTony

2010-03-14 12:41:22 AM

Barakku: //Also, that was the best, least expected and most inappropriate British food joke I've seen on fark

I'm gonna second this. I've never actually laughed at a death headline.

bobwhiz

2010-03-14 12:42:14 AM

Goodbye red, yellow, brown, brick road.

Can you feel the truck tonight?

rock-dead man?

/two tickets plz.
//no one wants to sit beside me.

bobwhiz

2010-03-14 12:43:32 AM

frogger man?

/couldn't resist.

fearmongert

2010-03-14 12:55:25 AM

Elton John's lover committed suicide after struggling to come to terms with sexuality, British food, waking next to Elton John

Occam's Chainsaw

2010-03-14 01:03:10 AM

Suicide note:

I can't stand to wear another gold lamé suit. Goodbye cruel world.

What_Would_Jimi_Do

2010-03-14 01:12:55 AM

hey kids, plug into the faithless
maybe they're blinded
but Bennie makes them ageless
we shall survive, let us take ourselves along
where we fight our parents out in the streets
to find who's right and who's wrong

b-b-b....

Stradavus

2010-03-14 01:36:40 AM

FTFA:
The singer, 62, said he was deeply traumatised by the suicide of the man, with whom he had been involved in a relationship before he "married" David Furnish, a film-maker 15 years his junior, in 2005.

"Married."

NYRBill

2010-03-14 01:58:20 AM

Barakku: Suicidal people seem like very selfish pricks in some ways.

THIS
you take the "easy" way out no matter who it hurts
/and you royally fark up the truck driver
//same thing with trains

Zombalupagus

2010-03-14 03:01:34 AM

Cut the poor bastard some slack. He had to cope with Christianity so it's obvious his brain was pretty scrambled.

Forty-Two

2010-03-14 03:18:22 AM

NYRBill: //same thing with trains

I was going to post that if you hadn't gotten here first. My father works for the railroad, and though he's not an engineer, some of his friends are. One of them watched a woman commit suicide by train (standing on the tracks and waiting), and he said it's the worst feeling in the world to have a front row seat and be absolutely powerless to do anything.

It also farks up the police who have to process the carnage, and anyone who was a witness... Yeah, suicide by train is one of the most selfish ways to go.

/I think "suicide by leading a death cult" would have to be number one, though.

Dwight_Yeast

2010-03-14 03:20:41 AM

Stradavus: "Married."

Yeah fark the Telegraph.

chemical_angel

2010-03-14 03:21:23 AM

Another example of how sick organized religion is and how it promotes dysfunction. JESUS never said "If you find yourself attracted to anything but X then you are sick, disgusting and deserve to die" ... but the religious LOVE to say things like this for centuries.

chemical_angel

2010-03-14 03:22:37 AM

Stradavus: FTFA:
The singer, 62, said he was deeply traumatised by the suicide of the man, with whom he had been involved in a relationship before he "married" David Furnish, a film-maker 15 years his junior, in 2005.

"Married."

Yeah. An especially nice touch.

DeathByGeekSquad

2010-03-14 03:29:14 AM

Nobody should say anything bad, someone associated with a famous person died!

/That's what the olbermann thread suggested
//Hope Elton has the balls to pay for the truckers therapy

FirstNationalBastard

2010-03-14 03:39:38 AM

chemical_angel: Another example of how sick organized religion is and how it promotes dysfunction. JESUS never said "If you find yourself attracted to anything but X then you are sick, disgusting and deserve to die" ... but the religious LOVE to say things like this for centuries.

...they believe there's a big man in the sky who watches over everything they do, and if they're good, they will get to spend all the time after they die with him, in a place with a lot of clouds and little cherubs with wings, and if they're bad, they'll go to a place with a lot of fire and brimstone controlled by a red guy with a pitchfork and a pointy tail.

Oh, and speaking of Jesus, his mother was knocked up without having sex, Jesus could do some nifty parlor tricks like walking on water and turning water into wine, and also, he was a zombie who rose from the dead after three days, and said his followers should eat him and drink his blood (does this make him a reverse zombie?).

So, taking into account that religious people believe all this stuff, you expect rationality and intelligence?

jimmycracker

2010-03-14 03:50:30 AM

jimmycracker

2010-03-14 03:52:48 AM

also, religion is the worst shiat to be smug about out of anything.

douchebag/hater

2010-03-14 03:53:39 AM

Zombalupagus 2010-03-14 03:01:34 AM
Cut the poor bastard some slack. He had to cope with Christianity so it's obvious his brain was pretty scrambled.

And THERE it is, the gratutious, moronic and childish smack at Christianity.

There is no reference to homosexuality anywhere in the New Testament, which Christianity is based on but it is my understaning that suicide goes against Judeo-Christian tenets so the guy obviously hadn't studied his faith enough.

This guy had bigger problems than his religious beliefs and for EJ to blame the Church is stupid.

Besides if he was a Muslim in the Mid-East he probably would have killed or jailed by his government.

And let's not forget about the Communists, they were jailing gays for decades and Castro still does it, especially if the gay has AIDS.

He Christian faith didn't make him do commit suicide, this is something he did using his free will.

chemical_angel

2010-03-14 04:07:09 AM

FirstNationalBastard: you expect rationality and intelligence?

No. It just really upsets me when I see things like that and I gotta b+tch.

AFWX

2010-03-14 04:07:18 AM

DeathByGeekSquad: Nobody should say anything bad, someone associated with a famous person died!

/That's what the olbermann thread suggested
//Hope Elton has the balls to pay for the truckers therapy

That's true, I was there....saying bad things.

Ebert

2010-03-14 04:11:17 AM

Gay Jesus couldn't help him out of his funk?

knoxvelour

2010-03-14 04:25:39 AM

yes...married...sheesh!

Mr. Potatoass

2010-03-14 04:44:36 AM

My mom threw herself under Peter Lorre, so I'm really getting a kick...

Dialectic

2010-03-14 05:24:05 AM

I imagine that in the gay dating world if some dude gets together w/ Elton John that must be pretty cool.

It definitely must have been the British food that pushed him over the edge.

angrygrizzly

2010-03-14 05:26:44 AM

Where's Healing Hands when you need them?

Highway61Revisited

2010-03-14 06:02:05 AM

douchebag/hater: Zombalupagus 2010-03-14 03:01:34 AM
Cut the poor bastard some slack. He had to cope with Christianity so it's obvious his brain was pretty scrambled.

And THERE it is, the gratutious, moronic and childish smack at Christianity.

There is no reference to homosexuality anywhere in the New Testament, which Christianity is based on but it is my understaning that suicide goes against Judeo-Christian tenets so the guy obviously hadn't studied his faith enough.

Ummmm.... Romans 1:26-27, Timothy 1:9-10, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10. Perhaps you're thinking about the fact that Jesus never mentions homosexuality in the NT. Paul sure as hell does.

This guy had bigger problems than his religious beliefs and for EJ to blame the Church is stupid.

You don't think that truely believing in a God who's holy book states (and, more importantly, your peer church members) you are an abomination isn't enough to fark someone up to the point of suicide? That's funny, because it's a pretty damn common.

Besides if he was a Muslim in the Mid-East he probably would have killed or jailed by his government.

There's the fatwa-envy....

And let's not forget about the Communists, they were jailing gays for decades and Castro still does it, especially if the gay has AIDS.

Proletariat-envy?

He Christian faith didn't make him do commit suicide, this is something he did using his free will.

Did I just get trolled?

Candygram for Mongo

2010-03-14 08:31:58 AM

Elton John's lover committed suicide after struggling to come ~~to terms with sexuality, British food~~

There. Now you'll have that image in your head all day.

Already Disturbed

2010-03-14 09:00:40 AM

Country comfort's in a truck that's going home

StrikitRich

2010-03-14 09:26:54 AM

PresentCompanyExcluded

2010-03-14 09:33:38 AM

Shameless plug for an ill-fated play.

Dear Jerk

2010-03-14 10:35:35 AM

My uncle is an undertaker and he laughs about some of the gruesome suicides he's had to put back together, but he also drinks a lot.

downtownkid

2010-03-14 10:46:48 AM

So you're saying he didn't like Spotted Dick?

joeyromeo

2010-03-14 10:48:53 AM

This truuuuuck don't stop
This truuuuuck don't stohohop
This truuuuuck don't stop here
Anymore

downtownkid

2010-03-14 10:53:11 AM

Highway61Revisited: You don't think that truely believing in a God who's holy book states (and, more importantly, your peer church members) you are an abomination isn't enough to fark someone up to the point of suicide? That's funny, because it's a pretty damn common.

Please define "common". Are we talking:

"It's commonly accepted to be an anti-religion bigot on Fark"

or is it more like

"It's common for Farkers to bullshiat their way through inaccurate arguments by using nebulous, unsupported quantifying terms like "common".

Dear_Leader

2010-03-14 12:04:44 PM

I call bullsh*t on the story
His being a homosexual victim has made him paranoid and delusional
I think its all the lube

TeddyRooseveltsMustache

2010-03-14 01:21:22 PM

Well, you're married now, Elton. Let it go.

leland242

2010-03-14 01:27:29 PM

downtownkid: Highway61Revisited: You don't think that truely believing in a God who's holy book states (and, more importantly, your peer church members) you are an abomination isn't enough to fark someone up to the point of suicide? That's funny, because it's a pretty damn common.

Please define "common". Are we talking:

"It's commonly accepted to be an anti-religion bigot on Fark"

or is it more like

"It's common for Farkers to bullshiat their way through inaccurate arguments by using nebulous, unsupported quantifying terms like "common".

yes, its such an amazing leap of faith to think that someone who is gay cannot reconcile this with religious belief, instruction, brainwashing. why cant you reconcile this? i suppose it might have something to do with them being labeled "abomination" and cursed to eternal hellfire for acting on their own normal feelings.

oh yes, hate the sin, love the sinner.

one way to love the sinner is to help them stop sinning, say, by dragging them behind a truck.

/bigot?
//fine
///suit fits

FuryOfFirestorm

2010-03-14 01:32:43 PM

If only someone saved his life that night, then EJ wouldn't be having a funeral for a friend. I guess "sorry" really is the hardest word.

CK2005

2010-03-14 01:55:39 PM

Suicide isn't a complex issue and different from person to person or anything so we can just call it "selfish" and be done with it! Yay for us! :D :D :D

TimeWaste

2010-03-14 02:57:28 PM

FirstNationalBastard: ...they believe there's a big man in the sky who watches over everything they do, and if they're good, they will get to spend all the time after they die with him, in a place with a lot of clouds and little cherubs with wings, and if they're bad, they'll go to a place with a lot of fire and brimstone controlled by a red guy with a pitchfork and a pointy tail.

Oh, and speaking of Jesus, his mother was knocked up without having sex, Jesus could do some nifty parlor tricks like walking on water and turning water into wine, and also, he was a zombie who rose from the dead after three days, and said his followers should eat him and drink his blood (does this make him a reverse zombie?).

So, taking into account that religious people believe all this stuff, you expect rationality and intelligence?

I know, right? I hate how Christians generalize everyone and judges a person without getting to know them first? Don't you hate when they do that?

It's like, come on, there are so many non-Christians, it's impossible to lump them all into the same category, right?

Why do they fill the world with all their hate and bigotry and self-righteous attitudes? Can't they stop being so hypocritical and realize we all have different beliefs?

It's like they can't possibly see that anything you and I believe in could hold any value because of a difference of opinion. Annoying, isn't it?

SomebodyElsesShoes

2010-03-14 02:57:55 PM