I'm just saying.

Going commando with a cup of Joe in your hand beats the button down boys every time.

Sometimes.

I don't follow TMZ myself, so I didn't know until I saw it here. Which was some time before my first push came across my phone, and I do follow NPR. 😀

to see who scoops whom first, DU or NPR. Generally, DU is a whopping ten minutes ahead of NPR on breaking news stories. It is also our observation, NPR and DU mirror each other perfectly on all the news that is important to us.

At least from what I've been able to discern, it was the original DU source.

Like Rain Man, I never, ever, miss Jeopardy.

Many people are just nasty that way.

Grief is not a competition.

How do you define that?

No. I will not. Go figure it out yourself.

Got it.

You sure got me good. Enjoy yourself.

When you can't support your silliness, just admit it.

When you explain the crassly insensitive, attention-mongering of your OP, I'll continue to reply to you.

And I know how to express what I really think.

Two or three days later, eleventy-seven posts about the subject, and someone comes on and says "OMG! Did you hear that (insert name here) died!?" Meanwhile, Time has already put a special commemorative edition on the shelf at the grocery store.

Even then I jump the gun, but I admit it when it happens. It seems basic.

Do you really think all the people who are responding to the news of his death are narcissistic? A lack of empathy is a defining characteristic of narcissistic personality disorder. Empathy for others is one of the defining characteristics of liberalism.

If not, I'm sorry about that.

have a night to reminisce over the life of a great musician who is no longer with us.

Remember the "good neighbors check for duplicates" (or something like that) that used to be there when you went to post an OP?

I think it's silly to have 14 threads on the same subject. Just clutters up the board.

I'll have to go check.

It'll only last until the next big thing.

I'm not disparaging Prince at all; I was a fan back in the day.

My little Samsung, simply cannot handle a thread with 500 replies.

people who have empathy for people that are out of our normal reach?

I'm sad about Prince. Never knew the man personally, I didn't hear the news until way later in the day because I was in surgery with a full roster of patients today.

Is that okay? I mean to want to see and hear this type of news that is not "breaking'? Many of us do not spend all of our lives online every minute of the day.

They gravitate to place where they believe like minded people will be more if it's a death, over a joyous event.

We deal with death oddly, myself included. I'm not sure how to explain it exactly, but I do see people drawn to places they feel safest/most comfortable when one occurs they want to talk about.

everyone in the bar is excited and everyone explains exactly what they saw happen and what their reaction was. It is stupid since everyone was there, but people have a need to explain it anyway.

Spreading the news of something like a celebrity death is similar to that. People want to belong to the shared culture and be a part of what is happening.

My 2 cents.

Prince like Bowie was a master musician and performer. The world mourns at what it lost.

Less traffic.

Lots of posts on the same topic is a good thing. Makes it look busier.

Or how about trashing threads with the word "Prince" in it. There's a way to do that. But then you'd miss the many threads about Good Prince Bandar.

It's just not things many of us care to read. 😣

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Most other forums that I read have a big Prince megathread going on, and their mods will consolidate and lock any other threads outside it. DU has always been bad about tons of identical threads popping up to any big news item.

Smaller threads are easier to manage and seem to offer different aspects of a given topic. I won't even click on a thread anymore, once it reaches a certain size. The exaggerations being invoked over the number of threads on this topic, are much sillier, in my opinion.