Someone ran the numbers on whether 2016 was an especially deadly year for celebrities.
To boil it down: Yes, it was.
Btw, quite a number of German celebrities died, too. To the people who died this year count Hans-Dietrich Genscher (best foreign minister we ever had!), Walter Scheel, Guido Westerwelle (Politian, former foreign minister and leader of the FDP, died of Cancer), Erika Berger, Peter Lustig (and damn, did my childhood die with him....he moderated German children shows. The educational kind), Uwe Friedrichsen (and there went the second part of my childhood, since he used to moderate the German version of Sesame street...but he was also a very serious actor, one of the best, imho, I was once lucky enough to see him live on stage, it was great), Götz George (another great actor), Manfred Krug....and those are just the most famous names I have on top of my mind.
Oleg Popow dying kind of seems like a bad sign overall, even though it was kind of expected. But it fit into this year.
edited 7th Jan '17 3:17:36 PM by Swanpride
Plus, Death seemed to visit the guy who sang "Last Christmas" just for Christmas, and then wanted an autograph from the woman whose most iconic character repetitively utters "hope" as Arc Words at the year's end.
edited 7th Jan '17 4:11:26 PM by FluffyMcChicken
Well, that, and a nostalgic desire for vintage stuff. Vinyls are one of the peaks of popular vintage stuff in this day and age, and which has been proven to be one of the mediums with better sound quality (particularly in terms of warmth).
Besides, vinyl looks really cool. Especially the sleeves and artwork (not to mention the big liner notes, when they exist).
If only my record player was still working and vinyls weren't a bit too expensive for my thin wallet...
edited 8th Jan '17 7:40:49 AM by Quag15
My condolences to you and your family, that's awful to hear.
Anyway, I have no clue how 2017 won't be worse than 2016 at least for America. Rest of the world not sure. Trump will take office, and couple that with a Republican Senate, House, a cabinet filled with people just as bad as Trump if not worse, and most importantly the SCOTUS picks, i can't see how it's going to be good.
People way exaggerated 2016. Until the Election it wasn't really much worse than other years this decade.
edited 13th Jan '17 1:13:22 PM by WhatArtThee
Just another day in the life of Jimmy Nutrin
Yeah, but the US is not the world. It wasn't just the English speaking countries in which everything went wrong last year. This year there are a number of opportunities to do better. The French, Dutch and German elections for example are an opportunity to push back against the haters and the Anti-EU fraction. And while I don't like how it came surpass, there is a chance for peace in Syria.
If we make it to the end of the month without an epidemic outbreak it would already be a win.
edited 13th Jan '17 1:14:55 PM by Swanpride
2017's a lost cause for the US I feel. But 2018 has a chance to improve with Midterm elections.
I think lots of people exaggerated over Brexit, it's not happening until 2019 at the EARLIEST. It's not an immediate thing.
edited 14th Jan '17 9:09:49 AM by WhatArtThee
Just another day in the life of Jimmy NutrinEven if the British Parliament or government quietly dropped Brexit or even swore hand over heart to remain as part of Europe, would any EU state or institution ever quite trust them again? Or treat them as anything more than a loose cannon?
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
Is surprising they trust in britan in the first place since for a lot of time they were the "one who didn get alone", hell when brexit was a hot topic my mother said the same thing as Oliver: the UK have a deep desire in the heart to tell europe to fuck up.

@Swanpride - Don't get me wrong, I don't think we need a new thread YET, but when we do, I think it should be a seperate thread.