Yes, someone had picked him in Celebrity Sweepstakes.
So, the Crocodile Hunter has left us.
Some things about this, briefly:
1. I was never hugely enamoured of Steve Irwin. He might have been a noisy advocate of conservation, but he was also a bit of a fawning fanboy for John Howard. Not that I'm in any way suggesting that those who openly admire the Prime Minister deserve poisoned stingray barbs through the chest, I just didn't much care for the guy. GO EASY.
2. He has been offered a state funeral. Which makes this mock-up by the evil Will Fop all the more gasp-inducing:
3. This is one of the most retarded pictures I've ever seen in my life:
4. There's something utterly obscene and surreal about the fact that poor-quality jokes about the man's death were pulsing their way through the internet before his wife even knew he had passed on. I realise we're living in the Modern Age and the world wide web is an unstoppable bad taste tsunami and so on, but surely that makes us all feel slightly funny way down deep in our stomachs where the wild things are.
431 days til the next election.
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Jokes? What jokes?
those tickets are already fetching 250 on ebay, i'm going to wait for the new weekly 7 page photo spread
Still, I always thought he would get done over by a croc or a snake. I don't think I'm being heartless just truthful.
speaking of heartless
"it's what he would have wanted / who cares / it makes good financial sense"
You don't want to know the jokes, richardwatts. Trust me.
I think you were onto something with the idea that we should all hunt down John Howard and stab him through the heart with a pitchfork.
You did say that, right?
IF I DIDN'T THEN I MEANT TO.
i felt a strange sensation of sad and weirdly amused, i must confess. then my brain was flooded with lots of contrasting emotions - he had a wife and kids, he loved howard, he was passionate about the environment, he was a twat etc.
now i'm over it.
"He came on top of the stingray and the stingray's barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart," ABC News US
Came? Ewwww.....
I COMPLETELY understand the need for family/friends to somehow find comfort in the face of their tragedy, and, should something similar happen to one of my beloved, I'D probably say "S/he died doing what he loved best" (having a sharp object pierce his heart in this case; swallowing gallons of saltwater in the case of competitive sailors who drown; etc). But I don't think I'd really make myself feel much better.
Steve Irwin = Complete Tool
Exhibit A
Comment re John Howard
"In front of us right now is the greatest leader Australia has ever had and the greatest leader in the world."
Exhibit B
Using your own tiny baby as croc bait.
As top the manner of his death, let us wonder again at the way the Gods mock mere mortals.
I love the smell of Schadenfreude in the morning etc.
Irwin’s politics may have stunk but he was a significant conservationist.
And THAT is a sad loss.
'Coming on stingrays' is a hitherto unexplored kink, johnboy.
Who picked him in the Sweepstakes?
I know it is wrong but frankly it only took me moments to start cracking jokes.
It was my radio show co-host, Pauly P. Evil overlord that he is.
Like i said, i loved the guy. His political views put him on my GR3 but i tell you what, if everyone had as much passion as he did, then the world would be a far, far better place.
msfits: well, in its defence, the stingray did ask steve to make sure he didn't get any in its eyes.
I thought he was an annoyance and an embarassment. I had no idea how famous he was until I visited the States to discover he was a super-star. A State Funeral is a joke, and I hope that his family are allowed to greive in peace. Me, I am more concerned about my 50 yr old mate who works in IT who died yesterday morning coughing gouts of blood.
Doug
I'm waiting for the lead ...
At this sad time the federal government and Andrew Bolt have called on all muslims to demonstrate their embrace of australian values and attend dedicated memorial services for Steve Irwin planned to be held across the country later this week.
It's all getting a bit too silly for words and I wouldn't be surprised if something similar is frothed forth by our local neighborhood neo-cons.
an interesting piece by germaine greer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,,1865124,00.html
i don't like the fact that he was a howard fanboy, and also about the baby dangling croc incident, and he was kind of embarrassing but he was also charismatic i realised last night watching denton, i just couldn't look away.
now i just feel sad for his family, for his kids, and it makes me anxious that you can be so alive one minute, and then so dead the next.
No one has said it, so I'm gunna:
Harass wild animals long enough, and one day they're gonna turn around and bite you on the bum (or stab you through the hear...whatever).
The man liked to think he was a conservationist, and he did do some kind of good stuff, but he made his living and celebrity by unecessarily hassling wild animals!
Right. He "unnecessarily hassled" wild animals. Do some research you ignorant fuck, and give the man the respect he deserves. He was a man who worked tirelessly and passionately with the best interests of his country and his environment at heart, often digging deep into his own pocket in the process, and always wearing a smile on his face. And there's just not enough people like that left in this country of ours, as arseholes like yourself prove.
Fawning fanboy for John Howard or not, the whole makes me sad. And the fucktard in my office noisily singing "stingraaaay! stingray" ysterday made me want to stab someone else through the heart.
Book show... cute pigtails and cleavage for all the blog groupies. Came off sounding like abit of a wanker, but not enough that you probably won't get invited back again. Nice try though! :)
hey just saw you on tv you sure are cute!
I don't know if I win the bad taste award, but when an American friend said her daughter was worried a Stingray would kill me, I agreed with her (the friend, not the 5-year old.) In the old days flying stingrays were such a threat that you had lots of children...for decoys. Now stingrays have returned to the water, and only attack in they smell American on you.
whewww ... one wonders ... whatever your opinion a human being just died. As have so many in the past weeks so, ... so stupid. Some of the comments here so, ... so stupid. Makes me sad.
John Howard complicit as he is, is only the front man of an entire machine - as is the WA big belly in his own right. Some of the comments here so, ... so stupid. Makes me sad.
If this is a crosssection of our upcomming intellect ... so sad. Just sad.
Yes i'm aware that this is tasteless but as a pun master with a degree in clevitry i must enlighten you all.
WHAT DOES STEVE IRWIN AN SKY FROM NEIGHBOURS HAVE IN COMMON
THEY BOTH GOT FUCKED BY A STINGRAY.
Ouch..
Sensationalism! With Steve Irwin's death I feel the people in TV land have gone one step too far. They think we can take anything they serve up. But this is just too unusual and unexpected. It's not good TV. Where's the emotional connection? One moment he's a goose, the next? Dead.
In fact it's just seems like sloppy script writing. What a waste! There was no prelude. No lead up at all. Wham! And he's gone. National Day of Mourning.
TV didn't prepare me. I just can't make the necessary jump from seeing him as a bit of a right wing ham to bemoaning the loss of a national hero. Denton replayed an interview on Enough Rope as a tribute, but it was all too late.
I can't mourn. I feel ill-served.
guys and gals
Steve was a mad bugger but harmless!
political marshmallow
as for harassing animals, visited an abattoir lately.
oh, ms fits : book show
liked the dress
didnt like the book either no latitude
hard to get good tv here
thanks for the buzzcocks tip
fits, a final response to your dream about us waitering together.
i dreamed last night i moved into a share house with you. you, of course, had this fabulous room in this big old house, with a huge bed on a dais, and a whole other room as your 'robe.
i was to sleep in a room with about five other people. all very nice, and all very young. we were having lunch somewhere and this very nice young girl was trying to reassure me, saying our room had heaters.
Two years ago I did a cartoon about Irwin. You can look at it here, if you want to.
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