Peaches Geldof is dead, age 25

[brogdale]

it's not my reading that's at fault but your sorry penchant for posting and posting on a subject while under the misapprehension that your views are somehow privileged. so when it looks like your stream of piss is terminated, you can't imagine the feeling of relief people feel.

"stream of piss" ha!..... tbh its Phil's "paruresis", under questioning, that's frustrating. I asked him, (in #609), to justify his claim that, simply on the basis of being exposed to the capitalist media, somehow gives him "licence" to blame victims of the system in the strongest terms?

 

[phildwyer]

"stream of piss" ha!..... tbh its Phil's "paruresis", under questioning, that's frustrating. I asked him, (in #609), to justify his claim that, simply on the basis of being exposed to the capitalist media, somehow gives him "licence" to blame victims of the system in the strongest terms?

Well I didn't realize I was "under questioning." Had you informed me of my situation I would naturally have been more forthcoming.

To wit: I do not blame the victims of the system, I blame the system.

Can I have a cigarette now please?

 

[Orang Utan]

People were upset when Deirdee Rashad got locked up and when Little Nell died. The psychos.

 

[Pickman's model]

Well I didn't realize I was "under questioning." Had you informed me of my situation I would naturally have been more forthcoming.

To wit: I do not blame the victims of the system, I blame the system.

Can I have a cigarette now please?

don't have just one cigarette, have the packet. one after the other.

 

[elbows]

I see the tabloids have resurrected the concept of the 'drug pusher' to liven up the story.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I see the tabloids have resurrected the concept of the 'drug pusher' to liven up the story.

She probably bought the gear off a pusher at the gates of her kid's nursery.

 

[Greebo]

People were upset when Deirdee Rashad got locked up and when Little Nell died. The psychos.

There was also wailing and gnashing of teeth about "the Ambridge One" ie. Susan Carter.

 

[ViolentPanda]

The true tragedy of this is that under the policy for drug users in the sixties she would have had a diamorphine script and may well have raised her children and gone on to live to a ripe old age whilst still using.But oh no they stopped it and made people go to that black-market resulting in deaths and misery all around.

If we conclude that she was a regular user, then sure, in a halfway decent world, she could have got a script.
Of course, if she was a recreational/occasional user, she'd probably have been likely to get fucked by black market smack. I had to call ambulances for mates who were weekend users more than a few times when the shit turned out to be purer or fouler than usual, and they went from nodding to nothing in the space of a couple of minutes.

 

[ViolentPanda]

i confess myself disappointed that dwyer seems have fallen below the lofty standards he expects from everybody else.

You must exist in a near-perpetual state of disappointment, then.

 

[ViolentPanda]

it's not my reading that's at fault but your sorry penchant for posting and posting on a subject while under the misapprehension that your views are somehow privileged. so when it looks like your stream of piss is terminated, you can't imagine the feeling of relief people feel.

Phil listened to a "black ultra-radical radio station". Of course his views are privileged!

 

[ViolentPanda]

People were upset when Deirdee Rashad got locked up and when Little Nell died. The psychos.

I laughed when Little Nell died, so I'm obviously not a psycho.

 

[phildwyer]

I laughed when Little Nell died

How original of you.

''One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing'' -- Oscar Wilde, 1898.

 

[ViolentPanda]

How original of you.

''One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing'' -- Oscar Wilde, 1898.

I took it for granted that everyone was aware of the Wilde quote, Pecksniff.

 

[Corax]

Was anyone else watching telly the morning of Diana's little shunt?

It was the day after my bestie's 1st stag do I think, and we all woke up in the lounge with whopping hangovers. Sticking the TV on it was wall to wall Diana death.

Except for channel 5, which was broadcasting a cartoon about a farcical royal family - "King Rollo" or something I think. Which at that age and in that still-a-bit-fucked mindset seemed bizarrely hilarious.

I also remember repeated claims on TV that people in every city and town all over the country were pouring on to the streets to express their grief together. So we went outside to take a look. They weren't.

 

[Orang Utan]

The telly that day was abysmal. Both BBC 1 and 2 were showing the same rolling news show with royal 'experts' trotting out platitudes about how sad it was. They cancelled a rather dramatic EastEnders omnibus to show this.
I actually rang the BBC to complain. I was livid.

 

[brogdale]

The telly that day was abysmal. Both BBC 1 and 2 were showing the same rolling news show with royal 'experts' trotting out platitudes about how sad it was. They cancelled a rather dramatic EastEnders omnibus to show this.
I actually rang the BBC to complain. I was livid.

The funeral day was a joy, though. Near empty roads, no trouble parking on the S. Coast....in the end we took the littl'un to Cuckmere Haven to escape the wall-to-wall wailing...lovely it was.

 

[brogdale]

I do not blame the victims of the system, I blame the system.

I'd hope so too, but frankly that is the polar opposite of your posting throughout yesterday..

...Yes I suppose you could say I'm blaming the victims, but I believe the fact that I acknowledge myself to be prominent among them gives me licence to do so....there's nothing wrong with using strong terms to describe pernicious delusions...

...and how is that claiming to be a victim gives you particular "licence" to blame other victims?

 

[Corax]

 

[brogdale]

No, no...he told me he wasn't a troll...

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

i don't understand why people are so shocked - how did people think she'd died? surely when a young person is found dead with no apparent cause, drugs are more likely than sudden adult death syndrome?

terribly terrible sad

 

[lizzieloo]

Several years ago, on these boards, I started a thread entitled "Is Peaches Geldof A Junkie?"

I suspected the truth even then. So now I wonder why others did not. In any case it is very sad.

The fact that she died of a heroin overdose isn't proof she was a "junkie". Heroin would be my choice of a way out if it came to it, I'm not a junkie.

I expect I'm going over stuff that's already been said in this thread, CBA to read it all cos of the sniping.

 

[souljacker]

They cancelled a rather dramatic EastEnders omnibus to show this.

Football was cancelled too. It was a fucking disgrace.

 

[phildwyer]

Football was cancelled too.

Why did the heavens not darken?

 

[souljacker]

Why did the heavens not darken?

Sorry, can't remember what the weather was like.

 

[Cid]

I see the tabloids have resurrected the concept of the 'drug pusher' to liven up the story.

And the obsession with evil music trope. Elliott Smith in this case.

 

[brogdale]

OB attempt to clear up confusion they helped sow...

Police have confirmed that drugs paraphernalia was found in Peaches Geldof's home following her sudden death, and added her husband Thomas Cohen is not under suspicion of any involvement.

Kent Police released a statement following reports the star's house had been searched after her death, and no drugs found.

They also said Ms Geldof’s husband, who found her dead at the start of this month, is not under suspicion of any involvement.

Police said musician Mr Cohen has not been arrested or interviewed under caution and "there is no plan to do so".

Detective Chief Inspector Paul Fotheringham said he was making the position clear following recent speculation in the media.

 

[amonkeyscousin?]

Demonization-o-mondo of illegal drugs I reckon.

 

[twentythreedom]

Do we know who Peaches' husband asked to go and check on her, before he got there? Also, did that person not discover her dead before the husband did? All a bit sketchy, there's been very little reported but that person is surely of major interest (plod and press).

 

[amonkeyscousin?]

Do we know who Peaches' husband asked to go and check on her, before he got there? Also, did that person not discover her dead before the husband did? All a bit sketchy, there's been very little reported but that person is surely of major interest (plod and press).

Let's say I gave my wife a litre bottle of vodka, she downed it and died of acute alcohol poisoning! Would I be a massive cunt facing 8 years in prison?

 

[Frances Lengel]

Let's say I gave my wife a litre bottle of vodka, she downed it and died of acute alcohol poisoning! Would I be a massive cunt facing 8 years in prison?

Yes. Regardless of vodka.