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Floyddroid
02-08-2015, 17:25
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment_and_arts
Very sad. At least she's with Bobby now.:)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment_and_arts
Very sad. At least she's with Bobby now.:)
Amen my brother.:(
Gordon Steadman
02-08-2015, 17:55
As a 68 year old I find anyone dying of 'natural causes' at 72 more than a bit frightening. As ever, once you get to my age, the obituaries seem to leap from the page.
Cilla was a good entertainer and did well to have such a long career. I was watching some clips earlier. Brought back some memories for sure. She never seemed to me to be a natural performer but made good use of what she had.
RIP.
She was very pretty and although not my taste, a good singer ... a very nice lass and am very surprised at this news. She always looked healthy. Guess you just never know when your time is up ..RIP CILLA
Spectral Morn
02-08-2015, 18:28
:(
As a 68 year old I find anyone dying of 'natural causes' at 72 more than a bit frightening. As ever, once you get to my age, the obituaries seem to leap from the page.
Well, Gordon, you know what they say about 'three scores and ten'........ However, people generally are living longer now than ever, due to healthier diets, etc, so it certainly needn't be 'curtains' when you hit 70. It does hammer home the message, though, of the importance of looking after yourself. Your health is certainly your wealth! :exactly:
I always liked Cilla, and apart from her singing career and relationship with The Beatles, I have fond memories from the 90s of her hosting the show 'Blind Date', which was always worth a giggle. Indeed, any show she hosted, her genuine warmth as a caring person shone through.
Also, like most celebrity scousers, she never let her wealth go to her head, and remained down to earth, always remembering and respecting her roots.
R.I.P, Cilla.
Marco.
Blind date was a good laugh.
Bye bye Cilla B.
Spectral Morn
02-08-2015, 22:55
Well, Gordon, you know what they say about 'three scores and ten'........ However, people generally are living longer now than ever, due to healthier diets, etc, so it certainly needn't be 'curtains' when you hit 70. It does hammer home the message, though, of the importance of looking after yourself. Your health is certainly your wealth! :exactly:
I always liked Cilla, and apart from her singing career and relationship with The Beatles, I have fond memories from the 90s of her hosting the show 'Blind Date', which was always worth a giggle. Indeed, any show she hosted, her genuine warmth as a caring person shone through.
Also, like most celebrity scousers, she never let her wealth go to her head, and remained down to earth, always remembering and respecting her roots.
R.I.P, Cilla.
Marco.
Well said :cool:
Regards Neil
There's some interesting comments on social media mostly from dockers and miners during the Thatcher era who don't seem that bothered that she's died.
Gordon Steadman
03-08-2015, 09:20
There's some interesting comments on social media mostly from dockers and miners during the Thatcher era who don't seem that bothered that she's died.
Indeed, in the papers too. The word 'hateful' was used rather often. Perhaps a dictionary definition would be useful to them. She may or may not have been an unpleasant woman but it is them that are hateful. Glee over any death seems perverted at best.
anthonyTD
03-08-2015, 09:36
The best memories i have of her was when she had her TV series in the 1960's, i was a little kid then, and remember watching the show with my Mam on dark winter nights, sad that she's gone, but she will live on in what ever memories we have of her, good or bad.
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There's some interesting comments on social media mostly from dockers and miners during the Thatcher era who don't seem that bothered that she's died.
Well, my message to those insensitive idiots would be to 'dry your eyes and get over it'.
I can't stand folk who continually harp on about what happened DECADES ago, and hold what seems like never-ending grudges against people! Bitterness is not an enviable trait. Did they know Cilla Black personally, or well enough to form any kind of factual opinion of her, or did they just blindly believe what she was purported to have done/said in the media?
Regardless, like Gordon said, to gloat over someone's death like that is crass in the extreme, and simply the behaviour of ignorant, superficially-minded scumbags.
Marco.
Tenuous link to famous person: Cilla Black grew up just around the corner from where we used to live, and would often pop into my grandmother's sweetshop on Scotland Road for a bar of chocolate or whatever. Confusingly, her real surname was White.
My mother didn't have a good word for Cilla, Tarbie, or any of the Beatles. She was somewhere to the left of Jeremy Corbyn, politically. Although you might therefore have expected her to approve of John Lennon, his left-wingness was cancelled out by his swearing and drug-taking.
My mother didn't have a good word for Cilla, Tarbie, or any of the Beatles.
Why - what was about her/them that she didn't like?
Marco.
Why - what was about her/them that she didn't like?
Marco.
Basically, with Cilla and Tarbie it was being Tories and moving down South. I think with the Beatles it was more the long hair and drugs, plus Lennon's 'Bigger than Jesus' comment didn't go down well with a staunch Roman Catholic.
As the old saying goes, the only well-balanced Scouser is one with a chip on both shoulders.
Lol... Well, personally, I'd never judge anyone on their political stance or views, only on whether or not I thought they were a nice person. I couldn't give a toss who anyone votes for.
No offence to your mum, but I think it's rather misguided judging people like that. It smacks a little of sour grapes.
Marco.
Lol... Well, personally, I'd never judge anyone on their political stance or views, only on whether or not I thought they were a nice person. I couldn't give a toss who anyone votes for.
No offence to your mum, but I think it's rather misguided judging people that way.
Marco.
Ah well, she's been dead these 15 years or so, so no doubt she's giving Cilla a piece of her mind!
Yes, I can hear it now....... :eyebrows:
Marco.
Lol... Well, personally, I'd never judge anyone on their political stance or views, only on whether or not I thought they were a nice person. I couldn't give a toss who anyone votes for.
No offence to your mum, but I think it's rather misguided judging people like that. It smacks a little of sour grapes.
Marco.
Liverpool was a little different back then. Almost everyone was politically aware, it was the norm.
Cilla's mum must have moved to the better half of town as I recall as a small child we would occasionally run into her at the shops, my mother and nan both knew her quite well. This was in Garston in South Liverpool, a long way from Scotty road.
Liverpool was a little different back then. Almost everyone was politically aware, it was the norm.
Sure, but do you think that mentality existed exclusively in Liverpool? Politically aware? Politically bigoted, more like. I can assure you that pish was also alive and kicking in Glasgow! We avoided folk, like the plague, who thought that way.
However, even though what you're referring to happened, that doesn't make it right. I'm sure that Joe's mum was a lovely lady, in her own way, but I'm sorry, I can't abide jealousy or resentment directed at people who've simply sought to better themselves, and have been fortunate to have found the wherewithal to do it.
Folk should be encouraged to do well in life and better themselves, even if that leaves insular thinking, unambitious locals behind grumbling about 'who does she think she is, moving down south with her fancy ways', which based on what Joe and you have said, appears to be the case with Cilla Black. That sort of petty, insular-thinking does my nut in.
That's one thing I like about Americans - they CELEBRATE and RESPECT success, which is exactly how it should be!! :clap:
Marco.
well up to a point id agree but not to the stage of looking down their noses. not that im saying Cilla did but i have known a few who did after getting on in life and were rolling it cadh they started with this im better than tjose types and am not going to have anything to do with them" attitude.
Personally i say good on anyone that gets wealth and improves their lot as long as its not to anyones detriment and they are not too greedy like some multimillionaires lol
It was the 'became a Tory' bit rather than the 'doing well and moving down South' bit that pissed my mother off. And yes, she was a lovely person. So was my father-in-law, though he made Alf Garnett sound like a bleeding-heart liberal.
(My father was also lovely, but he was Scottish so he never said much).
It was the 'became a Tory' bit rather than the 'doing well and moving down South' bit that pissed my mother off. ).
Yes that was the issue, not her making a few quid which no-one normal resented
Fair enough, but I just can't relate to people who place such importance on who others vote for, or revolve their lives around political beliefs. 'You're a Tory [or insert other party here], so I hate you'. What a load of bloody nonsense! :rolleyes:
For me, that sort of stuff is utterly meaningless, in terms of me liking a person or not, to the point of insignificance.
YMMV.
Marco.
well up to a point id agree but not to the stage of looking down their noses.
Absolutely. I find that as abhorrent as those who jealously resent others who've managed to better themselves, either financially or otherwise. Obviously, I didn't know Cilla Black personally, but for me she certainly didn't come across as if she was looking down on anyone - quite the opposite: she struck me as a rather warm and caring person.
Marco.
Ninanina
03-08-2015, 20:47
I find that as abhorrent as those who jealously resent others who've managed to better themselves, either financially or otherwise.
Marco.
+1
Some folk will seek to keep you as downtrodden as they are, Bev, simply out of selfish resentment of you trying to better yourself. I've seen it happen in working class housing estates all around Glasgow, where the prevalent attitude is: 'If you're no longer one of us, you can fuck off'... :wanker: :rolleyes:
Brain-dead idiocy of the highest order. One should always be pleased about someone else's [legal and moral] good fortune.
Marco.
Ninanina
03-08-2015, 21:40
I cannot abide by any form of jealously at all...
If I had a friend who won the lottery and got a nice new Porsche (or other super car!!) I would be the first to say can I take a look around it and a ride in it? I just don't 'do' jealously.... ;)
Me neither. Jealousy is for maladjusted underachievers.
Marco.
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