Do you know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

[Didactylos]

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away

YANBU - Truth! Freedom! Justice! and a hardboiled egg!
YABU - what are you talking about?

GNU STP

I hate this sentiment. Evil people will always be remembered/spoken about for far longer than good people.

When you're dead you don't live on just because people talk about you. You have no idea even of they do...because you're dead. Being remembered is a world away from being alive.

I also feel like this quote makes some people feel better if they feel they didn't treat their loved ones the way they think they should have when they were alive.

Interesting thread...i used to be happy in the knowledge we die and thats that. Its nice to think there may be an after life or heaven but thats just something to prevent us being terrified of death.

Although I did have that view challenged when my youngest became verbal. He told me consistently until he was around 4 or 5 that I was his new mum. Told a story of having a mum , dad and two brothers and living in a house in the woods and the soldiers came and shot them. He then came to me. Kept telling me i was his new mum. Doesnt know what I am talking about now when I mentioned it and he is 7

Show us on the rat onna stick where Sir Pterry hurt you.

Oh, Vime's Boots, Vime's Boots!

A man once said a vaguely sensible thing about the way the world works. Shall we quote it to perpetuity?

I met him once at a party. Nice chap. No more or less insightful than you or me.

Can we not have some original thoughts? I think that's the best way to honour what you would consider an original thinker.

Don't copy them. If you really consider Pratchet thusly.

Stop quoting. Start making.

Help! What is GNU?

I've not read any Pratchett. Where should I start?

Also, could someone tell those of us not in the know what GNU stands for, please?

Wear the lilac!

(except my lilac flowered early and has all gone)

What does GNU stand for?

Ooooh, someone’s got a rat on a stick up their arse!

*onna

Thanks for ruining the joke, autocorrect 🙄

This happened to my father, brought back round after an operation. He said there was 'nothing' after you die.

My question was , if there's nothing how do you know that.

Where should I start?

I started at the beginning of the discworld series (the colour of magic). You don't have to read them in order though. I haven't read them all yet and read them in whatever order they appear in a local charity shop.

Is this not basically just the plot of Coco?

@BenCoopersSupportWren

Thing is, Pratchet's not that funny.

Ah is it a Terry Pratchett thing? I've never read any of his books.

Jeez, is there nothing the fun sponges won’t come and be po-faced at? 🙄

This is quite obviously a thread where Pratchett fans are celebrating a date significant to us, some with poignancy, some with humour. Some people might not have picked up on that and are engaging with the topic at face value, which makes for a thoughtful discussion. But if you’re neither doing that nor are you a fan, there are roughly 8,740,000 other threads over there —> where you can sneer and act superior to your heart’s content.

I'm sure you find people funny that others think are shit 🤷🏻‍♀️ It's called having a different sense of humour.

My DDad always said similar that someone is not truely gone until memories of them are no longer talked about. He passed away in February and it makes sense now 💖

@butterpuffed hard to explain, best I can do is:
This is what it's like:
It's not like anything.
Think of something you didn't experience (maybe something that happened before you were born) and its like your experience of that.
Except not even because....you have knowledge that that thing did happen.
Maybe its better to say...it's like time skipped, and there's nothing in the middle.

I will always be grateful I got to share my love of Pratchett with my mum before she died. His books were a source of amusement and comfort. The only one I don’t have is Reaper Man, which is a shame, as I think his description of death at the end of that one is so moving.

Bollocks. People quote Vimes' Boots because it expresses a concept which is perennially relevant in an elegant and memorable way. I'm not going to bother reformulating that concept because my chances of doing a better job are negligible. I'll save my mental energies for other work.

Likewise there are several problems or fallacies which are much better addressed with a perfect XKCD cartoon than by trying to reformulate the issue in an almost certainly inferior way.

If there isn't already a great expression/analogy of what I'm trying to say then that's when I'll put the work in.

Quoting and making are not mutually incompatible.

This thread is enormous fun - even the fun sponges can't take it away. Thank you

What does "GNU" mean??

How do they rise up, rise up, rise up
How do they rise up, rise up high.

GNU Sir Terry. We keep that name moving in the overhead... Currently re-reading Going Postal, so that's worked out well, timing wise.

(And people can talk about my boots as much as they damn well please!)