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Merged Whitney Houston dead

For people who are not interested in Whitney Houston, Complexity and Mudcat sure are posting a lot in a thread about her. :con2:

EventHorizon, thanks for posting the US National Anthem video. She may have sadly lost her voice in recent years, but it's wonderful to have such skill preserved for posterity.
 
Matthew Best said:
As you're confessedly not interested in the subject then I suppose it's no surprise that you're so spectacularly wrong.
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Oh? How am I wrong? Please be specific, try avoiding woo terms, and no sales charts if you please. Popularity =/= talent.

EventHorizon said:
Fits your posts here to a T.
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Hows that? Discussing her talent (or lack thereof) is very much on topic, and I am not "posting with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion".
 
Orphia Nay said:
EventHorizon, thanks for posting the US National Anthem video. She may have sadly lost her voice in recent years, but it's wonderful to have such skill preserved for posterity.
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I'm a Giants fan, I had to. :)


Mudcat said:
Hows that? Discussing her talent (or lack thereof) is very much on topic, and I am not "posting with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion".
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I'll give you the first one is somewhat on topic. But you absolutely are "posting with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response."
 
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Matthew Best said:
An MMO! :D
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What's wrong with MMOs?

Redtail said:
Good to great singing voices, good to great dancing ability ( though I would rate Houston as fair.) the ability to make millions feel emotion through performance.


To millions of people, yes. Hell, the ability to put emotions & intent to song alone covers all three quite well
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Woo.

Redtail said:
Like saying if you take away Einstien's, Dawkins', & Hitchens' intelligence nothing separates them from a Jr high science teacher.
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True. But the main difference here is that Einstein, Dawkins and Hitchens can, have and will do something useful, beneficial and practical with their talents even as Jr High Science teachers. Whereas Whitney, Elvis and Jackson probably would not have contributed anything useful, beneficial or practical with their 'talents'.



Redtail said:
Let's think about this for a sec... You threw Elvis & Michael Jackson into the mix. Most likely because you figured people would know who they are. One's been dead for what 30
years now?
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Michael Jackson didn't die that long ago (and that on my birthday) and even if I were to bring up a name like maybe Frank Sinatra I figured that the people in the discussion could at least use Wikipedia.
 
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Matthew Best said:
Admittedly none of them were as good as ... an MMO.
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What's your problem?

Some people Facebook. I eliminate orcs from 200 yalms out by blowing them up with magic, while chatting.

The subject of her death came up in the chat.
 
Mudcat said:
Whereas Whitney, Elvis and Jackson probably would not have contributed anything useful, beneficial or practical with their 'talents'.
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Totally subjective. I think making people happy is useful and beneficial (not so much practical). And since when is it a requirement that a talent has to lead to a useful, beneficial or practical contribution? I'm looking up talent in my dictionary and I don't see anything about that.
 
Agatha said:
48 is no age to die. (I am 48).

You don't have to be interested in her music or her as a woman to be sad that a talented person has died young, or to recognise that her death has an impact on others.
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My thoughts as well. Sad...


Complexity said:
Why bother? I don't live in your world, and I glad for that.

The deaths of people like these means nothing to me.
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Why are you posting in this thread then?? :confused: I don't think there was a stated requirement that you had to be sad or care. The best way to Show your indifference by not posting in this thread. ;)

If there was an artist I didn't give a damn about or didn't know I don't post in the thread.

Lord knows there was plenty of threads when Ronnie James Dio died but I didn't know much about the guy and didn't care much that he died but I see nothing wrong with creating a thread about the guy if you're a fan.
 
EventHorizon said:
Totally subjective. I think making people happy is useful and beneficial (not so much practical). And since when is it a requirement that a talent has to lead to a useful, beneficial or practical contribution? I'm looking up talent in my dictionary and I don't see anything about that.
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There is that, I retract my previous statement then.
 
Skeptical Greg said:
Drug addicts imbue your notion of culture?
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It imbues mine:

Lester Bangs, Mike Bloomfield, Lenny Bruce, Jimi Hendrix, Tim Buckley, Richard Burton, Paul Butterfield, Truman Capote, Daniel Webster, Dinah Washington, Ike Turner, Johnny Thunders, Rory Storm, Hillel Slovak, Ronnie Scott, David Ruffin, Sid Vicious, River Phoenix, Bradley Nowell, Jim Morrison, Jimmy McCulloch, Phil Lynott, Bruce Lee, Heath Ledger, Phil Katz, Janis Joplin, Howard Hughes, Abbie Hoffman, Lowell George, Judy Garland, Chris Farley, John Entwistle, Tommy Dorsey, Ted Demme, Jesse Ed Davis, Dee Dee Ramone, John Cassavettes, etc.
 
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