People whose death you will celebrate

Have at it

Margaret Thatcher
Rupert Murdoch.

brian lenihan first springs to mind for me

i think he is my thatcher, tbh

Thatcher - not really, it'll be insufferable, and her death won't do anything to change or undo what she did to the country.

Murdoch - still has potential to do a lot more damage, would rather he was somehow disgraced and locked up and his empire broken up, mind.

in fact, tagline should prob be 'your own personal thatcher'

Not sure I'd celebrate. But Thatcher easily.

tony
fucking
blair

True enough w/r/2 Thatcher, Matt, but I will still feel a sense of "good riddance".

Nacho Novo.

even the dude that played him in that tv movie abt the queen enrages me

Karl Rove

even the dude that played him in that tv movie abt the queen enrages me

Love the idea that Nacho Novo was in a film about the Queen

Is this the "Nominations for the Poll" thread?

Megatron

no point, the poll will be thatcher vs bush vs blair vs murdoch and nothing said here is gonna change that

Mugabe btw

the t1000 and that one elephant bloomps took down

Any one of Gaddafi's grandchildren, evil little bastards

i don't wish death on him because being unfunny isn't a capital crime, but if Dane Cook was to tragically lose his voicebox, I might be a celebratin' man...

yeah it seemed harsh but i considered leading with martin jol, purely for the lols mind

Trump

tbh I more pity Trump at this point, with his delusions of grandeur

nick griffin, adrian littlejohn, gary neville.

just joking about littlejohn and griffin obv

axis of considerable offensiveness right there

that's ok cuz idk who they are

actually tho can't imagine celebrating a death, more saying "good riddance" or "i never liked him"

thats just the reserved paddy in you, i mean if you even said that much at home you'd be ostracised

i want humiliation and shame for the people i loathe most in the world, not death. what use is death if they're not alive to endure it? but imagine the glorious schadenfreude of witnessing richard littlejohn reduced to public mockery and begging in the gutter.

i guess i'd feel happy in cases where it seems like an individual's death is necessary in some way (gaddafi now?)

Yeah I'd rather endless lakes of torture, fire and misery than the release of death.

But that said I coulnt give 2 shits about world leaders pretend. My loathing extends to people I actually know.

i guess i'd feel happy in cases where it seems like an individual's death is necessary in some way (gaddafi now?)

Yeah that's the thing with me. See also Mugabe.

general problem with this whole idea: death is moment of victory, sanctification etc, for many people, who get put relatively beyond criticism. Reagan might be an example. Maggie would be too. So would W, whom I hate more. In most cases, I want the people I hate to be alive and open to attack, critique, etc; rather than dead and canonized.

People who talk about rejoicing at Maggie's demise, as many have done for 20 years or so, I can't really identify with. It seems to miss the point.

I think what I feel is: I want Maggie to stay alive forever so that I can feel (however inaccurately) that the effects of Thatcherism are openended and alterable for ever -- when she's gone, it will feel sealed and completed.

not sure I can explain better than that.

it's an interesting thought but i can't believe that individuals like bush or thatcher are in any way affected by critiques of their actions, and especially not after the fact and they've got what they wanted.

Death's not a victory against them, it's true, but really against a malignant and untouchable elite, outliving them is usually the only victory you can get.

Spoilsports

Alito, Scalia, Thomas, but only if said death occurs before their respective retirements. otherwise like what's the fucking point.

Limbaugh. Genuinely feel the world would be an actual better place with his death.

joseph kony

outliving someone isn't really a victory

some ppl whom if i saw receiving a vicious beating i would not intervene:

frank luntz, r. murdoch, dick cheney, those three whistle-headed cunts on FOX & Friends

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_apuuyw-wGsE/SnCkn0l931I/AAAAAAAADMM/q9sCuc5QkMY/s400/glennbeck.jpg

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Glenn-Beck-Sweater11.jpg

Thatch's death is unlike the others mentioned because:

The reigning Conservs will be all "Let us all celebrate the life of one who gave us so much and..." and the people will interrupt and go "no let's have a good old riot during the processions and ..."

Street parties will have to state their position before allowing people in. Imagine going to a 'hray she's gone' one and finding it stuffed with sitting lords....

and so on.

(sorry scott, was the next pic an even bigger one I interrupted?)

agree that it will be divisive
but not that 'the people' are against her

lots of 'people' like her and voted for her, and for her successors.

John Higgins

celebrating a death isn't really supposed to have purpose, I don't think

Well, I didn't mean "All the people", just "a fair proportion of people who aren't Conservative MPs", etc.

'S up with John Higgins?

I can't really imagine celebrating the death of anyone, but

Alito, Scalia, Thomas, but only if said death occurs before their respective retirements. otherwise like what's the fucking point.

is a good answer, with the additional condition that it happen during a Democratic administration.

Yngwie Malmsteen

Higgins just represents this soulless, crushing inertia that smothers the life out of snooker, and makes Hendry look like Alex Higgins.

xxp And even then, I probably wouldn't "celebrate" as much as just feel hopeful.

i don't really want him to die obv

He's a Celtic fan, so he's awright with me

"(sorry scott, was the next pic an even bigger one I interrupted?)"

ha! no. i just didn't see the full sweater shot until after i posted the smaller one. and you need the whole thing to truly see its glory.

I celebrate Easter, does that count

N1ch0las van H00gstrat3n

wait, the Easter Bunny's dead?

honestly, though, there are some people like glenn beck who i actually believe are dangerous in ways that are hard to measure. like, i think he is actually psychically dangerous to the planet. he creates collective unconscious bad mood vibes that reverberate throughout our solar system. for the good of the planet i think he needs to pass from this mortal coil.

with the additional condition that it happen during a Democratic administration.

oh absolutely.

Re: Glenn Beck I generally agree except he's taken a huge hit over the past two months...people are starting to flee him

worryingly i did think of various and obvious right-wing hacks before anyone else...but yes they must suffer in life more

Van Hoogstraten is such a caricature of a classic villain that I will be disappointed if he doesn't die impaled on the top of a building, or eaten by his own pet sharks.

Anybody who has ALS and is in a state of perpetual suffering.

and a mausoleum designed to hold Mr van Hoogstraten's body for 5,000 years.

Never afraid of a fight, he has described taking on a nun at school.

outliving someone isn't really a victory

it is if you get their stuff

although I don't think I want Margaret Thatcher's stuff

she's got some pretty decent Patti Page bootlegs on 78

honestly, though, there are some people like glenn beck who i actually believe are dangerous in ways that are hard to measure. like, i think he is actually psychically dangerous to the planet. he creates collective unconscious bad mood vibes that reverberate throughout our solar system. for the good of the planet i think he needs to pass from this mortal coil.

― scott seward, Tuesday, May 3, 2011 11:32 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

i agree with this, he is a ghastly bad thing in the world.

I kind of can't wait for Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck to reveal that they are Communists

laura ingraham is another horror show.

First response hall of fame?

TBH, I don't know if I'm wired this way.

Will never be punk. ;_;

matt dc full of it