Friend 'sobbing in the kitchen' over Ozzy Osborne

Very dramatic

I'll look out for the "I'm devastated that Ozzie died, I felt closer to him than my own father" thread.

Silly woman.

Wait until she sees some of the AI images going round of Ozzy being reunited with Lemmy/Kurt Cobain, etc at the Pearly Gates 🫣

Could it be 'gramps' your friend is actually grieving for, and Ozzy's death has brought her feelings to the surface?

I was 16, in England and completely embarrassed by the whoke performance. What we saw on TV was absolutely ridiculous, however people were hardly wailing in our suburban streets. It was all whipped up by the media, IMO. The film Evita had come out fairly recently and it reminded me of that. We should have had Oh What a Circus ringing out instead of that Candle in the Wind remake shite.

I can imagine being shocked at a celebrity's death, I remember being shocked by Michael Jackson's dying, but crying? And over a man who lived far longer than he should had done considering what he put his body through? Nah.

I’ll be inconsolable when David Attenborough goes 😢

So did I.

I think I would have burst out laughing at the ‘up at the bar with gramps’ comment. I think I would have said ‘Wait, what? Did your grandfather know Ozzy Osbourne then?’

I felt the same when Leonard Cohen went.

I've had too many tragedies in the past I don't tend to cry over celebrities, but I do get it. It can trigger memories and a certain nostalgia. I've seen it compared to homesickness for a place and time we can't revisit.

Theo from The Cosby Show died the day before Ozzy and I must admit I felt a bit sad, not only that his death was tragic but how I watched the show with a friend who also died young, so it was her I was remembering and missing IYKWIM and our youth, feelings of growing up and all that it entailed and not necessarily the death of Jamal Warner.

No matter how unfathomablle it may be, she's having an emotional reaction to his death for some reason. if she's still at others tomorrow then start becoming concerned and find out what's up or why she's reacted like this by talking to her.

You reaction to post about her reaction on an open public board, so lots of people would mock her, is odd behaviour too. Might be worth figuring out what drove you to do that to someone you call a friend.

Representing the South East here re the Diana sobbing. Nope. None was seen. I think people got on the train to London and held it all in until they could sob amongst kindred souls.

I have posted on here before that one of my colleagues called in sick when Michael Jackson died. True story.

I was abroad at the time and when the funeral took place so avoided the whole pantomime.

🤣 Jesus wept. Isn't this all a symptom of main character that seems to be so widespread? I'm so happy to not have social media🙄

I think you’ve got it spot on. . This is exactly what happens. X

Performative grief. Does she know how fucking cruel he was to animals?

So, was that you then?!

Yes, George Michael and, more recently, Steve Wright. Both represent my teenage years and were important to the music industry in different ways. End of an era.

Nope, goes back way, way further than that. Try the death of John Lennon. The mass outpouring of grief internationally. In America, the UK, Australia, etc etc. Every year at the anniversary of his gunning down there are pilgrimages to the Dakota building (where Chapman shot him), to Strawberry Fields in Central Park, even in Liverpool in the UK. The fuss over Diana's death wasn't even 200th percent anywhere near Lennon.

Funny you mention that. Ozzy quite enjoyed killing random cats that wandered into his garden and talked about how he did this during lockdown.

https://www.edmovieguide.com/news/ozzy-osbourne-kills-cats-birds-during-lockdown-good-fun-518288/

Oh shit I didn’t know about any of these things.He’s disgusting.

It's like when an old barn cat I semi adopted visited every garden in the village the day before he popped his clogs.

i think it was all the more poignant because he’d just performed his final concert for charity in his home town almost like he kind of knew he was nearing the end.

Screaming 🙀 at that!