Heath Ledger found dead at his house!!

[kinboshi]

His family quoted as saying "an accidental overdose"
Isn't that a bit like walking across the M1 in rush hour and getting knocked over by accident.

What a waste

everyone who is saying it's a "tragedy" is also exagerating a bit. A shame, and sad for his family..but a tragedy it most certainly isn't.

With respect, rubbish! Any loss of life is a tragedy, surely?

It is?  Someone dies every 6/7/8/9/10* seconds.   Are all those deaths tragedies? 

Although in the literary use of the word 'tragedy', I guess his life fits - tragedy: "a literary work that begins in prosperity and happiness and ends in adversity or misery."

Someone's telling me he looked like Johnny Wilkinson.  I still say more like Alan Shearer.














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[boldie]

His family quoted as saying "an accidental overdose"
Isn't that a bit like walking across the M1 in rush hour and getting knocked over by accident.

What a waste

everyone who is saying it's a "tragedy" is also exagerating a bit. A shame, and sad for his family..but a tragedy it most certainly isn't.

With respect, rubbish! Any loss of life is a tragedy, surely?

not at all. Someone who takes his own life is a wasted life but I can't see how it is a tragedy in this case. Not everything is a tragedy, honestly it isn't. Hell, I'd even go as far as say most people (including myself) are not that important in the grand scheme of things to warrant the term tragedy when they die. A tragedy is something that, when it happens, it has a big impact on life as we (the general we "the many people"..not the personal and individual we)  know it. The Tsunami in Asia was a tragedy for instance.

It's a pity, it's a shame but a tragedy it isn't in my book.

[kinboshi]

Stalin once said:

"The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic."

[AndrewT]

Boldie's right - it's a tragedy for those who knew him, it's sad for those who didn't, but were fans of his and it's slightly underwhelming for those of us who switched on Sky News last night to see them talking about a famous Australian actor who had died and thought they were talking about Russell Crowe. Heath Ledger was simply not on my radar at all.

[Snatiramas]

Now we've got a thread going.........
seconds out round 2

Chambers online

tragedy noun (tragedies) 1 a serious catastrophe, accident, natural disaster, etc. 2 colloq any sad event • an absolute tragedy when Aberdeen lost that goal. 3 a serious play, film, opera, etc in which the protagonist is brought down, usually by a combination of events, circumstances, personal flaws, etc, and which often involves them having to examine, and try to come to terms with, the extent of their own culpability in how things turn out. See also catharsis, hubris. 4 such plays as a group or genre. Compare comedy. 5 loosely any sad play, film, book, etc, especially one that ends with an unnecessary or untimely death, but that does not necessarily have the conventional elements of classical tragedy.



bugger it I think you may all be right

[TightEnd]

no I'm right

Boldie is wrong. He's German, he has to be wrong..its the natural order of things

[taximan007]

I thought Russell Crowe was a New Zealander?

[Snatiramas]

no I'm right

Boldie is wrong. He's German, he has to be wrong..its the natural order of things

Hmm seems like a case of scented candle inhalation leading to delusions of power supremacy methinks

[boldie]

no I'm right

Boldie is wrong. He's German, he has to be wrong..its the natural order of things

Hmm seems like a case of scented candle inhalation leading to delusions of power supremacy methinks

yeah, Tighty..you're power hungry!..unfortunately the German in me can not relate to that

[AndrewT]

I thought Russell Crowe was a New Zealander?

Born there - moved to Australia when he was a small child, so a cultural Australian (if that's not an oxymoron).

[kinboshi]

no I'm right

Boldie is wrong. He's German, he has to be wrong..its the natural order of things

Hmm seems like a case of scented candle inhalation leading to delusions of power supremacy methinks

yeah, Tighty..you're power hungry!..unfortunately the German in me can not relate to that

You have a German in you?

[Graham C]

Brokeback BoldieMountainsaments

[Snatiramas]

I thought Russell Crowe was a New Zealander?

Born there - moved to Australia when he was a small child, so a cultural Australian (if that's not an oxymoron).

Oxymoron kills all known Germs dead

[boldie]

Brokeback BoldieMountainsaments

and we're back to the guy that dies.

See? everything in life is connected.

[BigTomatoes]

 i think people should have some respect for the guy who died on this thread tbh.

 apparently he played a suicidal son in the film Monsters Ball which is sadly prophetic.

 RIP.