Society/Culture Chopper Read dead

[Dry Rot]

Interesting character

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/chopper-read-crime-figure-turned-legend-20131009-2v85e.html

 

[Upgrayedd]

I never got the Idol worship he got. Sure he was a pretty unique fish and you could mostly see where he came from, Disadvantaged, abused as a child and in/out of mental hospitals as a youngin.

 

[Partridge]

Interesting character

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/chopper-read-crime-figure-turned-legend-20131009-2v85e.html

When I see that photo of a completely innocent little boy, all I can feel is sadness.

Such a waste.

 

[AM]

Interesting how in death some people are given esteem they never earned in life. Sorry, but a thug who only those close to him should mourn.

 

[benchwarmer5]

Interesting character at the least

Always brings out the high horses ^

 

[Niximus]

Always brings out the high horses ^

If he is to be believed, he murdered over a dozen people...the horse wouldn't need to be too high...

 

[blackcat]

is it just me, or is the Uncle in Uncle Chop Chop, self proclaimed, less avuncular?

Atleast Uncle Chop Chop had good tatts. Shits all over the sleeves from Dane Swan and the pretenders of the AFL like Dane Beams

 

[Power Raid]

I had stars and moons on my ceiling as a 5 year old. I wonder if chopper grew out of that stage?

 

[evo]

If he is to be believed, he murdered over a dozen people...

In his defence, they were mainly Carlton supporters...

 

[Norwegian Blue]

No great loss. At least he didn't cheat some deserving recipient out of a liver transplant.

 

[blackcat]

Van Gogh could have got him for forgery

 

[blackcat]

Interesting how in death some people are given esteem they never earned in life.

Princess Di.

its not really that interesting.

It is a mirror of one's mortality. Think of it as a mid-life crisis, and instead of an affair with your secretary or a new Porsche 911, you buy a bouquet of flowers for Father Bob's funeral at St Pauls

if farkin a lot cheaper, and no divorce lawyers needed

 

[AM]

Princess Di.

its not really that interesting.

It is a mirror of one's mortality. Think of it as a mid-life crisis, and instead of an affair with your secretary or a new Porsche 911, you buy a bouquet of flowers for Father Bob's funeral at St Pauls

if farkin a lot cheaper, and no divorce lawyers needed

 

[Partridge]

Princess Di.

its not really that interesting.

It is a mirror of one's mortality. Think of it as a mid-life crisis, and instead of an affair with your secretary or a new Porsche 911, you buy a bouquet of flowers for Father Bob's funeral at St Pauls

if farkin a lot cheaper, and no divorce lawyers needed

Yeah Diana Spencer is always the perfect example of shallow and completely undeserved celebrity status. The land mine description was so apt.

 

[clogged]

What was the land mine description?

 

[little graham]

Chopper has so much more than Dianna. After all did chopper sleep with anyone to get revenge on someone else?

However what they both have in common is if you listen to their story, what we're taught in school is crap.

 

[Partridge]

What was the land mine description?

One that Hitch came up with a few days after her death:

“Princess Diana is the perfect metaphor for a land mine: easily laid, difficult and expensive to get rid of.”

 

[Gough]

Those photos of her in the "minefield", while they raised awareness of the issue actually did more long term harm than good. A mate of mine ran a private landmine clearance charity and he found that funding dried up after they were published, with people choosing to donate to Red Cross, where the money was dispersed over a wide range of humanitarian activities and didn't always end up facilitating landmine clearance, rather than the smaller charities where the money went directly to UOD clearance projects.

 

[little graham]

She only did that to create issues for the British establishment who were making many a penny from arms (including landmines) sales. She had a thing against them (not saying she was wrong)

Mark brandon Reeds sorte in writing was for similar reasons.

 

[Smiling Buddha]

Very tempted to watch Chopper tonight.

Only problem if I do is that I know I'll spend the next few weeks talking in an Eric Bana does Chopper Read kind of way.

And by 'problem', I mean 'extra reason to do it'.

 

[evo]

Very tempted to watch Chopper tonight.

Only problem if I do is that I know I'll spend the next few weeks talking in an Eric Bana does Chopper Read kind of way.

And by 'problem', I mean 'extra reason to do it'.

Neville Bartos is the best. Greatest scene ever in Aussie film:



"There's no cash here. Here; no cash. Cash ;no....Robbo?"

"No cash"

 

[Smiling Buddha]

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/chopper-read-crime-figure-turned-legend-20131009-2v85e.html

Thanks for the link. Very good read.

 

[Registered User]

who's gunna update his Wiki page?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_"Chopper"_Read

 

[skilts]

It is now possible to say, "for Chopper, read dead".