http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 07:00:50 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101753 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:08:33 +0000 Nick McCarr 101753@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Worth re-quoting by ST: "Every pub does not have someone like CH. Every pub does however have it's fair share of miserable bastards who are so consumed by their own failures that they cannot bring themselves to acknowledge the success of others."</p> <p>You might not agree with CH but you couldn't easily ignore him. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101730 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:39:43 +0000 Golgo13 101730@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm the only atheist in the village. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101723 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:58:44 +0000 Scroat 101723@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'd just die if I had tributes from Richard Dawkins.</p> <p>Well I'd be dead already but... you know... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101656 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:12:48 +0000 Al OPecia 101656@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Dodn't Rutger Hauer play him in a film? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101653 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:32:20 +0000 the coarse whisperer 101653@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Good. All his films will be on TV now. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101638 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:05:46 +0000 bonjonelson 101638@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Winnie the Pooh must be devastated. Or am I getting confused? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101624 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:56:29 +0000 ronseal 101624@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I think they're both as bad as each other if you ask me </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101618 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:02:00 +0000 Golgo13 101618@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <br /> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101598 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:53:58 +0000 Al OPecia 101598@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nice one Shitsu. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101568 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:27:20 +0000 Poecheng 101568@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>God bless him. RIP </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101564 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:05:28 +0000 JohnA 101564@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I think that CH was someone who was willing to argue a case. Sometimes, as with Mother Teresa and Henry Kissinger, he was brilliantly correct. At other times, as with the disastrous Bush's disastrous War in Iraq, he was brilliantly wrong.</p> <p>But he could not be ignored.</p> <p>As for meeting his Maker, I think he would appreciate the irony and there would be a wonderful conversation.</p> <p>But I doubt that it would ever happen. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101558 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:21:39 +0000 shitsu_tonka 101558@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"he just liked the sound of his own voice. He echoed other peoples opinions and was not a groundbreaker. He made a small noise that didn't change anything at all in his lifetime."</p> <p>That describes most of us. Who does change the world in their lifetime? </p> <p>So much spleen being vented here about CH. I'd hate to live in a world where such a talented writer wasn't celebrated at the moment of his death. Every pub does not have someone like CH. Every pub does however have it's fair share of miserable bastards who are so consumed by their own failures that they cannot bring themselves to acknowledge the success of others. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101552 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:33:10 +0000 Iscariot 101552@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Agree with Scroat; every pub has one, and they usually die from alcohol induced cancers. Oesophagal cancer seems to be the preference of whisky drinkers. Hitchens was a populist loudmouth who just liked an argument. He liked to adopt a leftish stance if possible, but wasn't really that bothered, he just liked the sound of his own voice. He echoed other peoples opinions and was not a groundbreaker. He made a small noise that didn't change anything at all in his lifetime. </p> <p>Eulogy over. Now move along, nothing to see. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101545 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:35:41 +0000 Scroat 101545@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>He was just a bloke. Not some sort of fucking minor deity. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101533 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:01:41 +0000 dvo4fun 101533@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>JFR - good point. Not sure I'd have had much in common with CH but I do love the challenge to my own thinking of differing views.</p> <p>cheers </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101531 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:58:07 +0000 John Ffitch-Rucker 101531@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Despite being from a different area of the political spectrum, I admired Hitchens for being a free thinker, which is a rarity in this age. I don’t care a gnat’s fuck for the media, but when a true intellect dies, we are all somewhat the poorer, and the passing should be noted. If it exposes people (who would not have otherwise encountered it) to original thought, then let the media circus play on. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101524 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:32:29 +0000 dvo4fun 101524@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I think what pisses me off is that anyone in the media firmament gets a disproportionately large coverage when they shuffle off. Its not that their lives are more valuable, nor yet that they are more 'well known'; just that the news channels have more sounds stashed away in their archives. </p> <p>Bloody lazy, heads up their own arse, editorial policy in m' view. With CH they will have had the benefit of being able to prepare plenty in advance, but that doesn't make the coverage more balanced. Just easier 'journalism'. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101521 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:03:48 +0000 ronseal 101521@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Don't worry, we've still got Peter Hitchens, his more talented brother.</p> <p>Christopher Hitchens rarely got a piece in the Daily Mail, whereas Peter, his younger brother, had his own column.</p> <p>That must have really hurt.</p> <p>He tried all kinds of attention grabbing stunts, like attacking Mother Teresa and having a row with George Galloway on a prime time US reality TV show, he never managed to emulate his Mail on Sunday columnist sibling. </p> <p>Nevertheless, despite being left wing, and a so called intellectual, many people say he could actually be a fairly decent man. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101514 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:50:58 +0000 Al OPecia 101514@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yep me for one. A small balancing voice to those blaring unreason and ideology over evidence on the other side. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101505 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:06:14 +0000 dvo4fun 101505@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>FFS - he could write and used to spend his life getting pissed and slagging off other people. Apart from his friends and Interflora is anybody else going to give a F? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101500 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:57:54 +0000 John Ffitch-Rucker 101500@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-%26-technology/hitchens-cancer-not-intelligently-designed-201112164685/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-%26-technology/hitchens-cancer-not-intelligently-designed-201112164685/</a><br /> Absolutely. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101468 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:01:26 +0000 waylandsmithy 101468@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Why don't I hear about these people until they're dead? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101464 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:55:47 +0000 shitsu_tonka 101464@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Rest in peace, Hitch. The world is a stupider place without you.</p> <p>If anyone reading this hasn't read his book on Mother Theresa then stop everything and do so. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101443 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:03:14 +0000 Oxbridge 101443@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yay, Peter Hitchens is dead, got the b*stard at last ... oh ... bugger. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101418 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:52:17 +0000 Sinnick 101418@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Loss of a profound and brave intellect</p> <p>It's worth viewing his entire <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/9233571.stm">interview with Jeremy Paxman</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101406 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:52:09 +0000 John Ffitch-Rucker 101406@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"You can just imagine the scene”...<br /> you can <strong>only</strong> imagine the scene. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101387 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:45:57 +0000 Son of Barnabas 101387@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You can just imagine the scene:</p> <p>God: Welcome Christopher. This is your final chance. If you are prepared to admit my existence, you can live in eternal happiness. If not, you have in effect chosen to live in eternal nothingness. What do you say?</p> <p>Hitchens (with fingers inserted firmly in ears and eyes tightly closed): na nr na nr na nr I can't hear or see anything! There's no evidence! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101386 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:44:04 +0000 John Ffitch-Rucker 101386@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>No, just dead. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101376 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:21:37 +0000 riesler 101376@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>gone to a better place? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36107#post-101360 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:26:08 +0000 John Ffitch-Rucker 101360@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>and the voices of unreason have lost another challenger. A sad day. </p>