Freddie Mercury - Freddie Mercury is always on Brian May's mind

[QUOTE] [b]GratefulFan wrote:[/b]

Expressing connections to the band members, even speculative ones, are for some people simply another means of expressing their emotional experience of the music and its importance to them. Contemplation of personal lives, even speculative contemplation, can be springboard for things people want to express about themselves or a gateway to bigger ideas and questions, or to building relationships and history on the boards. There are a couple of you that in my opinion really have to wise up to how poisonous your bully routines are to certain kinds of conversation and certain classes of forum participants.[/QUOTE]

Never a truer, or more eruditely put, post made

wrong on so many levels

firstly, if the "trolls" are allowed to voice these oft-repeated inane themes and their opinions are allowable, then so equally are the opinions of those who see it as regurgitated crap.

if i didn't know better, i'd say you've been on some workshops lately...but whatever the case...YOUR repeated preaching at the alleged "bullies" makes you a bully. what you're basically saying is "only my way is the correct way"

sorry, but no one died and made you God. so while you continue to lecture normal people with normal opinions, i will continue to oppose the mindless trolls who post vacuous crap.

I think Brenski, ,from reading your posts is that you have a great knowledge of rock music, particularly 70s, and a lot of points I would agree with but you are pretty hard towards "certain kinds of conversation and certain classes of forum participants"as Grateful Fan has expressed. So you could tone it down a bit if someone is posting something that might mean a lot to them. Im the cold light of day you surely cant say calling someone an idiot is a a good argument.

so basically you and GF are tellign me that these people can say what they want...but i can't?
guess again

[QUOTE] [b]AlbaNo1 wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]GratefulFan wrote:[/b]

Expressing connections to the band members, even speculative ones, are for some people simply another means of expressing their emotional experience of the music and its importance to them. Contemplation of personal lives, even speculative contemplation, can be springboard for things people want to express about themselves or a gateway to bigger ideas and questions, or to building relationships and history on the boards. There are a couple of you that in my opinion really have to wise up to how poisonous your bully routines are to certain kinds of conversation and certain classes of forum participants.[/QUOTE]

Never a truer, or more eruditely put, post made[/QUOTE]
Indeed.

But that post has nothing to do with this thread. The post I was responding to wasn't "contemplation" of Mercury's personal life. It was outright falsehood.

This is the same kind of mentality that allows political opinions unfounded in reality to count as much as empirically proven truth.

In other words - "live and let live" simply isn't good enough. When fact gets blurred, people who see through the smoke and speak up should not be silenced under the guise of "free speech." If we do not distinguish between fact and conjecture, our quality of dialogue goes to shit, and we might as well throw all of our non-fiction books away and rename truth to truthiness like Stephen Colbert, where the truth in your gut is as good as truth.

"you have to take it with a pinch of salt - that documentary was tremendously biased"

The thing that came to mind the first time I watched that documentary was that a lot of it could've been (and probably was) true, but it's truths that Freddie probably wouldn't have wanted known. Not because they're shameful or embarrassing but because it's his own business and people should have something better to do than soak up all of the minutiae of the life of some guy they'll never meet.

The whole thing (factual or not) was in bad taste. And the narrator was a stupid cow, too.

wow, quite a heated debate going on here!
Sorry to everyone if i was on the wrong thread, but i have every right
to use free speech, and there is no need for bitching.
why yous people get so heated about freddies personal life i dont know!
The world knew about freds personal life so its no big deal,
i suggest Brenski and co get there heads out of there asses and cool down a bit.

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[b]gerry wrote: [/b] wow, quite a heated debate going on here!
Sorry to everyone if i was on the wrong thread,[b] [i]but i have every right
to use free speech,[/i][/b][i] [/i]and there is no need for bitching.
why yous people get so heated about freddies personal life i dont know!
The world knew about freds personal life so its no big deal,
i suggest Brenski and co get there heads out of there asses and cool down a bit.
[/QUOTE]

i've already responded elsewhere in this thread to state that if "these people" can say as they feel then under the same "free speech deal" then surely i have the same rights?
FYI - i've highlighted where YOU seem to indicate that only people that agree with you have this right.

cheeky fucker. and hypocrite.

Well Brenski you say what you want, but we are not listening dear,
so go and spout off on girls aloud website, you arrogant liitle pond life! scaramouche!!!!

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

Well Brenski you say what you want, but we are not listening dear,
so go and spout off on girls aloud website, you arrogant liitle pond life! scaramouche!!!![/QUOTE]

that says so much about you ^^^. you dismiss opinions as them being pond life. as i said - free speech for you, but not anyone that disagrees with you. mind you, i'd rather be accused of being pond life - than being the mouth-breathing, right-wing bully that you appear to be.

btw - won't be replying to YOU again on this thread - as even us "pond life" have standards, and there's some mouth-breathing cretins that are well below my standards....count yourself in that club

Well you know theres a few guys on here youve bullied,
and im here to tell you that
you wont drag me down with your over blown opinions darling!
now instead of been all rightous go and get out there and save a few badgers dear!!
anyway the wind blows!!! xxxxxxxxxxxxx