Friend 'sobbing in the kitchen' over Ozzy Osborne

[lronWoman]

I'm not generally a mean spirited person but I just can't take this seriously!

My friend has never been a Black Sabbath fan and I've never heard her mention Ozzy once in the 20 years I've known her. However, her and her sister are apparently 'beside themselves with grief' over his death.

I just don't understand this type of performative grief over A list celebrities that people have never met. It's sad and I get that it kind of marks the end of an era, but the guy lived to a ripe old age in the lap of luxury and was one of the most celebrated rock stars the world has ever known. It's not like a present day star has suddenly been cut down in their prime and will no longer be releasing new albums. They'd already released all their famous stuff before we were born.

She wasn't sobbing in the kitchen when an old mutual workmate died unexpectedly in his late 30s a fortnight ago. Guy wasn't a close friend of ours but we were friendly. Used to go to the pub as a group and he helped us move house, refusing to accept a penny for it. Really nice bloke! We hadn't seen him in close to a decade but both felt sad about it for a few days. But no sobbing in the kitchen!

Latest comment is "he's up there at the bar with gramps". I'm finding it hard not to make an inappropriate joke tbh!

I suppose everyone is different. I lost my dad at a young age, so now when someone famous dies, even if it's someone I really liked.....I just think oh well, and possibly, that's a bit sad and move on. Especially if it's someone who lived until a ripe old age. I found people describing the Queens death as tragic a bit distasteful.

Where did I say everyone was wailing? I'm saying the wailing, performative ones being interviewed were invariably southern English.

Obviously people conducting themselves with restraint would have been far less interesting journalistic cannon fodder.

Just to point out,the people wailing at the palace gates weren't just 'southerners', people HAD travelled. From the interviews conducted at the time, there certainly were people who had travelled all the way from Scotland just to put a wreath down and for the ridiculously OTT funeral.

In addition when you make comments like this,what you really mean is 'londoners' or people from the South East, I suspect. There's a whole lot of 'South' you know, that isn't the SE.

Totally agree with this.

If she has memories that link back to her teenage years then there may also be a keen emotional impact.

I was devastated when John Lennon was murdered because the Beatles were such a key part of my life growing up on Merseyside. I felt a genuine sense of loss and immense sadness. I also felt the loss of what might have been as he was brilliant musically and killed in his prime.

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Fine, I will amend to south East and/or Londoners. However, I doubt that will end the barage of 'it wasn't just us' type posts.

And yes, I know people had travelled - but the wailers being interviewed that I saw were invariably of a particular demographic.

I think there's a big difference between shedding a tear/sobbing in your kitchen privately and informing other people that you're doing so.

Why share that information?

Yes, I used to think he was an absolute sweetheart until I started reading his autobiography. I couldn't get past the first couple of chapters.

All I really know about his bad behaviour was to do with the bat. He (hopefully) wouldn't have gotten away with that these days.

My mum was choked up when the Queen died, which really surprised me.
She didn’t shed a tear, but there was a little catch in her throat.

I think it just made her think about her own late mum.

People also know him from The Osbournes so it’s not just Black Sabbath.

She wants attention and ChatGPT just doesn't cut the mustard.

This. It's why a Day of the Dead is suggested by some people.

Just step away if they're bothering you.

There has always been hysteria over celebrities. Google Rudolph Valentino's funeral. When Michael Jackson died, one woman at work (in her late 40s) walked around blubbering for days.

Hang on, Bruce Forsyth is dead?!

Time for a 'RIP Brucey. I am sobbing in my kitchen. Up there with the greats. Why did no-one tell me?' FB post?

Yes always happened. A lot of emotion when Elvis died for example.

How old is she? Perhaps BS & OO reminded her of something sentimental in her life? It is the passing of an era as it has been and will be with other long term artists. She is allowed. Go into the other room if you can't stand it. Who are you to control what she cries over?

IMO it’s pure attention seeking - oh, look at me, I’m such a sensitive person, overflowing with such desperate grief…

An ex work colleague of mine took a week off sick when Jackson died!

It doesn´t affect you in the slightest, so just let her crack on.

I didn't see anyone irl crying over Diana, only on TV. I cried in my car when I heard on the radio that the driver was over the limit

I just don’t understand how people can be shocked that someone who abused their body with drugs and alcohol for decades finally dies in their 70s. I’m actually amazed he lived that long.

I think most people know him due to the reality show about his family, as opposed to his music, but either way, my social media is full of ‘RIP Legend’ and ‘Gone too soon’ bollocks and I’m having to sit on my hands.

No, it probably won't, largely because it wasn't. Of course a greater amount of people from the region would have been there, since it was on their doorstep.

If you don't want the 'barrage' don't make stupid prejudiced generalisations. And no, I'm not from the South East, but I do know people who are, and they weren't weeping and wailing at the time either.

I was hugely upset, but then I grew up with his music and always wanted to see him in concert, some people are just very dramatic.