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Let's please get away from "RIP", "R.I.P", "Rest In Peace"
July 09, 2022, 10:20 AM
parabellumLet's please get away from "RIP", "R.I.P", "Rest In Peace"
This has become so overused, it's lost almost all meaning. It's true- this phrase has become all but completely meaningless, and it's time to stop using it in this forum.
If you want to create a thread about the death of someone, use a subject line which plainly states "(name) has died" or "(name) has passed away" or something to that effect. Or, perhaps, "John Smith: 1946 - 2022"
The same goes for responding to such threads. Rather than a page and a half of "RIP", members might comment on their relationship to the deceased- what their life's work meant to you, or how you enjoyed their films, etc.
It's perfectly fine to mourn passings, but we should put a bit of ourselves into our commentary, lest the announcements and the responses become automatic.
July 09, 2022, 10:34 AM
ZSMICHAELHow about adding thoughts and prayers? Not so much here but in the media as a whole.
July 09, 2022, 10:45 AM
parabellumIf it becomes overused here, I'll address it, but, yes, that phrase is even more devoid of meaning than "R.I.P."
July 09, 2022, 10:49 AM
smschulzMaybe keep the celebs in the LAIR too (suggestion) but doubtful that will happen.
July 09, 2022, 11:02 AM
CQB60Understood
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July 09, 2022, 11:26 AM
0-0My apologies, i was in a hurry.
Not my usual.
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July 09, 2022, 01:00 PM
83v45magnaReceived and understood and I changed my title already.
July 09, 2022, 02:54 PM
4MUL8RI appreciate the suggestion that SF posts link a member's views, experiences, feelings to the event. We don't need a "news feed" telling us what is already known.
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July 12, 2022, 04:25 PM
dave7378Rest in peace RIP

Juvenile, I know but it has been a long day and I'm feeling punch drunk.

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May 31, 2025, 12:02 PM
parabellum.
May 31, 2025, 12:13 PM
ag111gaFor a while now, I've been thinking about proposing one thread titled "Light a Candle" where we could add a new names instead of new thread every time.
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May 31, 2025, 01:18 PM
parabellum POLITICS in an apolitical thread. Do you have any concept at all of how tired and unoriginal and
BORING this shit is?????
No one thinks it's funny, no one wants to hear it.
I can understand how you missed it, though. It's only been policy for more than fifteen years and I've only mentioned it about
six thousand times!!
May 31, 2025, 03:00 PM
ArtieSI like this.

"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.
May 31, 2025, 04:23 PM
OttoSigquote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
POLITICS in an apolitical thread. Do you have any concept at all of how tired and unoriginal and BORING this shit is?????
No one thinks it's funny, no one wants to hear it.
I can understand how you missed it, though. It's only been policy for more than fifteen years and I've only mentioned it about six thousand times!!
This post is like strawberry-topped cheesecake, I like all of it.
Nine years to retirement! Just waiting! May 31, 2025, 04:54 PM
BurtonRWquote:
Originally posted by OttoSig:
quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
POLITICS in an apolitical thread. Do you have any concept at all of how tired and unoriginal and BORING this shit is?????
No one thinks it's funny, no one wants to hear it.
I can understand how you missed it, though. It's only been policy for more than fifteen years and I've only mentioned it about six thousand times!!
This post is like strawberry-topped cheesecake, I like all of it.
You can tell the quality of most cheesecakes by the crust. This was just crusty enough.
-Rob
I predict that there will be many suggestions and statements about the law made here, and some of them will be spectacularly wrong. - jhe888
A=A May 31, 2025, 07:25 PM
LunaseeIf we didn't like someone, is Rest in Pieces OK?
May 31, 2025, 07:29 PM
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