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I also think it is off-topic. It will be covered by TV news, and I just can't imagine why deaths of famous people stimulate intellectual curiosity. I really li
by t0mk 7y ago
I also think it is off-topic. It will be covered by TV news, and I just can't imagine why deaths of famous people stimulate intellectual curiosity.
I really like what Terry Jones created, and I'm sorry that he's gone, but I don't come to Hacker News to read obituaries.
- krapp 7y agoIt's particularly egregious to see a thread mourning the death of a famous comedian on a forum that where humor is mercilessly stamped out and popular culture is often condemned as infantile and a cancer to the intellect.
- inopinatus 7y agoI beg to differ. I'm not afraid to post humorous remarks, and it's relatively rare that the mediocrity police decide to brigade them out of sight. Timing matters: the US timezones in particular appear to penalise irony, absurdity, and parody, so I check the world clock first.