They should be chastised for this.
The guy had fun, get over it.
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> drank himself to death
Having a boozy lunch at 79 years old and happening to die that night isn't "Drinking yourself to death". It's called enjoying your last few years on earth.
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#24Threaded: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1584116278150602752.html >
What is the point of this website? I see it often but doesn't Twitter and Nitter etc automatically provide this functionality? Genuine question.
It does and it doesn't: first, twitter often only lets you see the first few posts if you are not logged in; and second, it groups the posts together into something you can read without distracting interspersed comments, like the forum posts of yesteryear.
Re: 27 years since the Financial Times killed one of England’s finest poets
#25They should be chastised for this.
American?
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#26Why does the article open with speculating that it might be the most expensive lunch ever. It even ends the first paragraph making it clear that it means expensive as in "final bill to the restaurant" and not a broader "loss to humanity". And what does the fact that menus weren't printed until 2003 have to do with discerning if this was an expensive bill or not?
I'm guessing that the FT has a long standing regular lunch interview column, which has included for the last two decades (but not previously) a record of what was consumed during said lunch.
"Lunch with the FT" is exactly this.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is the point of this website? I see it often but doesn't Twitter and Nitter etc automatically provide this functionality? Genuine question.
It does and it doesn't: first, twitter often only lets you see the first few posts if you are not logged in; and second, it groups the posts together into something you can read without distracting interspersed comments, like the forum posts of yesteryear.
>twitter often only lets you see the first few posts if you are not logged in
that would be a reason, but I've never personally encountered it. I see full threads even when logged out.
>you can read without distracting interspersed comments, like the forum posts of yesteryear.
I've never encountered interspersed comments on Twitter threads. they're visible the way they're visible in the thread reader website, one after the other. other comments come at the end of the thread.
Re: 27 years since the Financial Times killed one of England’s finest poets
#28I didn't know this story, as I had thought sitting for a lunch profile interview with a reporter only signalled the end of one's career.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
"as anyone can dream of" Viking warriors and co would probably disagree. Not the gloriest way to Valhalla.. (personally I rather care how good I live, than how I die)
I don't think you're necessarily talking about different things. I mean sure at the moment you take your last breath it doesn't really matter. But it sounds like this guy lived well into his late 70s with a partner, a social life and the means to enjoy retirement. That's clearly preferable to contracting some kind of cancer in your 50s, suffering emotionally and physically (and, in places like the US, financially I g…
Sure thing. My point was just, that I focus on living before death and yes, his death sounds like the life he had before was quite nice.
But I know there are people who actually care a lot about the moment of their death (like the vikings), which I do not.
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"as anyone can dream of" Viking warriors and co would probably disagree. Not the gloriest way to Valhalla.. (personally I rather care how good I live, than how I die)
There's probably a point in life at which the relative importance of those concerns changes for you.
I doubt it, I have been close to death already and I know it can happen fast and allmost any moment as a surprise. Or it can come after a long, lone suffering, whis is of course the scenario everyone would likes to avoid.