Ozzy Osbourne has died • Hacker News Board

Re: Ozzy Osbourne has died

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Post by upghost » Tue, Jul 22, 2025, 10:09 PM UTC

rudasn wrote: post #126

deagle50 wrote: post #119

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war pigs

https://youtu.be/IB6jbWoGtlA?si=kPUYfTnwoY4_qJUU

N.I.B. for me. Greatest love song of all time. https://youtu.be/NsXEb-NOs88

Changes. Saddest song of all time. Can't listen to it without crying. https://youtu.be/dOz_dLmpT9A

Re: Ozzy Osbourne has died

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Post by Ken_At_EM » Tue, Jul 22, 2025, 10:30 PM UTC

hypertexthero wrote: post #60

Goodbye, Ozzy :( Two of my favorite Sabbath songs: Zeitgeist, 2013 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ofrYzMU6cw Planet Caravan, 1970 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm2N2nHqITY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyNuUQs8w4Y

Paranoid. I love the Sabbath version, but Randy crushes it with Ozzy in 1981.

Only 3 years with Ozzy, and Randy is still top 10 in the minds of many a metal guitarist today. What an insane impact.

Re: Ozzy Osbourne has died

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Post by nubinetwork » Tue, Jul 22, 2025, 11:45 PM UTC

Permit wrote: post #83

joshcsimmons wrote: post #66

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Many (probably not most, but close to it) death announcements on Hacker News are not tech related: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... In recent posts I see Brian Wilson (musician), Sly Stone (musician), Frederick Forsyth (author) and Michael Madsen (actor) all with over 50 points.

Just because the moderators don't follow their own rules, doesn't make it right to spam obituaries about random celebrities

Re: Ozzy Osbourne has died

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Post by hnpolicestate » Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 12:02 AM UTC

Black Sabbath and 1st two Ozzy solo albums aged well imo. Timeless.

Re: Ozzy Osbourne has died

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Post by tmtvl » Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 12:24 AM UTC

hypertexthero wrote: post #60

Goodbye, Ozzy :( Two of my favorite Sabbath songs: Zeitgeist, 2013 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ofrYzMU6cw Planet Caravan, 1970 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm2N2nHqITY

Falling Off The Edge Of The World and Computer God for me.

Re: Ozzy Osbourne has died

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Post by EvanAnderson » Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 3:23 AM UTC

FireBeyond wrote: post #122

thr0waway001 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please implore your children and children’s children to leave a better world for Keith Richards.

Keith Richards actually died sometime in 1983, but the doctors forgot to tell him.

I once saw him described as an animate assemblage of drugs.

Re: Ozzy Osbourne has died

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 3:28 AM UTC

nubinetwork wrote: post #133

Permit wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many (probably not most, but close to it) death announcements on Hacker News are not tech related: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... In recent posts I see Brian Wilson (musician), Sly Stone (musician), Frederick Forsyth (author) and Michael Madsen (actor) all with over 50 points.

Just because the moderators don't follow their own rules, doesn't make it right to spam obituaries about random celebrities

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Re: Ozzy Osbourne has died

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Post by torham » Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 6:07 AM UTC

tmtvl wrote: post #135

hypertexthero wrote: post #60

Goodbye, Ozzy :( Two of my favorite Sabbath songs: Zeitgeist, 2013 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ofrYzMU6cw Planet Caravan, 1970 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm2N2nHqITY

Falling Off The Edge Of The World and Computer God for me.

These are both with Ronnie James Dio, are they not?

Re: Ozzy Osbourne has died

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Post by raydev » Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 6:37 AM UTC

thinkingtoilet wrote: post #10

potato3732842 wrote: post #8

Kinda funny that after everything he did Parkinsons was what got him.

It is astonishing, isn't it? I'm reading Sirens of Titan right now and luck is such a big theme in it. You can always increase your odds by healthy living, but nothing is guaranteed. It really comes down to dumb luck.

> It really comes down to dumb luck

Let's not forget Ozzy's immense wealth that allowed him the best medical care and health/fitness programs in his later years. He stopped living "hard" by the 2000s, at least by his 1980s standards.

Had he kept living hard he wouldn't have made it.

Re: Ozzy Osbourne has died

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Post by card_zero » Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 7:17 AM UTC

sillysaurusx wrote: post #64

I’m coming in from a position of ignorance here, so I was hoping the community would help me understand: the only thing I know about Ozzy is that he’s bitten the heads off of various animals, including doves and bats. That happened before I was even born. But, looking over the comments, no one seems to be talking about it. My question is, is it just not a big deal? If someone did that today, they’d be crucified in th…

I'm fond of pigeons, I don't want a rock star to bite their heads off for preference. However I don't think it matters very much. I probably wouldn't watch it more than once if that had been Ozzy's act, which it wasn't. But "crucified in the courts of public opinion" is just some bullshit. Public opinion shouldn't have a court, and courts shouldn't crucify people. So the most you'll get out of me is mild disapproval with a note about mitigating circumstances, regarding whatever addled headspace Ozzy was in in 1981. I think his career (and sanity) was somewhat shaky at that point, although the much admired Blizzard of Oz was released the same year, which makes up for the doves thing, which as I say I'm inclined to regard as somewhat trivial given that he didn't make a habit of it, wasn't in his right mind, and we eat them anyway.