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Just read that Robin Williams has been found dead at his home - aged 63.He was one of my favourite actors.
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Robin Williams, hate to be a grunch, - a comic genius but a right misery in real life - met him in Lochinver in the hotel up there and he didn't come across in the manner they are eulogising him with, very different to Steve Martin, who I can not stand as an actor, but is a very charming and naturally funny man....However, one has to recognise that Williams was like Merton, the genius with this depressive side to him. It's tragic when it results in suicide though and thoughts must go out to his family.
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DTC - lochinver - Did williams have an English connection - other than he spoke a variety of er English ?
He did a teevee trailer thingey where I (mis) understood that he had done some time in Oldham poor fellow - but I think I must have been drinking and he really said - he would really like to do some time in a place like - well - Oldham....or some other sunny and friendly place
He did a teevee trailer thingey where I (mis) understood that he had done some time in Oldham poor fellow - but I think I must have been drinking and he really said - he would really like to do some time in a place like - well - Oldham....or some other sunny and friendly place
The art which the Depression sufferer learns early on in their condition, is concealment - the ability to disguise the agony and paint on a public mask which can fool almost everyone.
Fellow sufferers can see through it though, the empathy means that you can spot a fellow sufferer reasonably easily.
So a comedian and actor has an easier time than most in hiding his or her agony - painting on a personna is second nature - and we know how good Robin Williams was at doing that.
So sad that one more lost soul suffered the isolation that makes death a preferable alternative, and thank heavens that thus far we have had no posters trotting out cliched nonsense about him being 'selfish' or 'brave'.
You don't need to be selfish or brave to take your life - just desparate enough.
I hope we all remember Robin for the joy he brought to us, and not the pain that crushed him in the end.
Fellow sufferers can see through it though, the empathy means that you can spot a fellow sufferer reasonably easily.
So a comedian and actor has an easier time than most in hiding his or her agony - painting on a personna is second nature - and we know how good Robin Williams was at doing that.
So sad that one more lost soul suffered the isolation that makes death a preferable alternative, and thank heavens that thus far we have had no posters trotting out cliched nonsense about him being 'selfish' or 'brave'.
You don't need to be selfish or brave to take your life - just desparate enough.
I hope we all remember Robin for the joy he brought to us, and not the pain that crushed him in the end.
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no kval duty is duty
a p'liceman cant say " I was shoplifting but I was off duty ! "
or sqad say8ng ( horribile dictu etc ) oh s+d off all of you, there is nothing wrong with any of you today !
or a policeman to say - I WAS racially abusing you - but its all right, I WAS on duty.
oops sorry about that - yesterday's Manch Evg news.....
no kval duty is duty
a p'liceman cant say " I was shoplifting but I was off duty ! "
or sqad say8ng ( horribile dictu etc ) oh s+d off all of you, there is nothing wrong with any of you today !
or a policeman to say - I WAS racially abusing you - but its all right, I WAS on duty.
oops sorry about that - yesterday's Manch Evg news.....
