RIP Gary Speed
 

I don't follow football but was completely shocked by this :(

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8918...ound-dead.html

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Shocking news isn't it.

May he rest in peace :(

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Dreadful news, Bernieboy will be gutted, big part of Leeds he was :(

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Bloody hell, I was watching him on football focus yesterday morning and he seemed in good spirits. Thoughts to his family and friends.

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Bernie's in Leeds at the moment - went up for yesterdays match. He's stunned, said they were only talking about him yesterday :(

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He choked, hardly surprising given the teams he has coached.

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SPEED KILLS........himself

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You can tell Bernie that he was the first person I thought of! He should think himself very important ;)

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Nice try ;)

It's not my dodgy humour btw, I blame sickipedia, it's corrupted my innocent mind ...

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Yeh, I'm convinced he's impotent too.

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Aye, mate - thought you were going to mention the Speed limit is 42 as you cross the Welsh border...

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I would never be that insensitive ...

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Thanks, passed on and much appreciated by our Irish pal :) he's just stunned.

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Sorry, don't understand the joviality.

RIP.

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Don't worry yourself about it, it's not for everybody.

A well-hung Welshman, whodathoughtit?

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Don't push it too far mate, some people knew Gary Speed personally.........

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OK, message received ...

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Very sad indeed.:(

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It's being human.

Happens all the time in sadness. How the hell dya think comedians get by and why the hell they are comedians in the first place? huh?

- and for the record, it's very sad indeed. May he RIP.

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You were funny once now yer just plain boring,you ****wit.

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Wow, groundbreaking stuff, never looked at it like that before.

You confuse knowledge with understanding - a simple mistake.

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I love you too.

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Real tragedy. A proper footballer, and seemed a nice chap. Just goes to show you never know what's really going on with people.

Don't approve of the jokes in this instance as genuinely sadden in this instance but normally I am all over them so criticising would be fairly hypocritcal!

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Every now and again you see some news that really shocks you and this has shocked me.Very sad for Gary Speed as he must have had some real problems going on and his poor family.

I find it in bad taste about jokes on the same day that something like that happens but I guess we are all different.

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It's a day later now so is he fair game?
I'll chuck in this one:
Latest News "Gary Speed given promotion from Wales job"
Or
In keeping with Christmas tradition they're leaving him up until 12 night so he can look down upon everyone from above:blink:

:popcorn:

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Do you know something we don't?

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Very sad, and shocking. What a waste.

(And to add, ogling Gary Speed was the only thing that kept me going through the Leeds matches to which I used to be dragged.......)

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No,but I would imagine you don't commit suicide if everything is wonderful?

It makes me think of the girl at my daughters school that suffered for years with things going on in her family before killing herself.Most of her friends did not know how bad things were until afterwards.

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As I said we are all different and I would imagine you don't care what I think!

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Still feel shocked about this news. I feel terrible for his family, I hope that his sons and wife can get through this.

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Has it been established that it was suicide?

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Not necessarily. The problem with proper depression/mental illness is that it can't really be linked in a logical way to anything tangible going on in ones life. Its something that goes a lot deeper than that.

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I understand humour, and making light of a situation, but come on folks. Someone took their own life and personally I think it's a little too early for tasteless jokes.

Suicide isn't funny for those that are left behind, particularly when it's so fresh. And full disclosure, it's hard for me to be unbiased having had a family member take her life, so I couldn't sit by and watch some of the rather tasteless remarks I've seen being posted.

So fair dues, if you are going to joke ok, but at least wait for the dust to settle a little eh? ;)

Thanks

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Now then Vim, don't throw yer guns out the pram.

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The guy was a selfish wanker, he took the cowards way out. Leaving two young innocent children without there dad and a shattered family. Cruel and selfish.

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harsh but true - what a twat

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whilst I wouldn't put it as harsh as that mate cos depression is an ugly illness, at the end of the day I agree if he did hang himself and leave a wife and kids then it is the most selfish act:(

Whatever was the cause it'll no doubt all come out in the wash and for his family it's a very, very sad time. We should respect them and their sad loss.

RIP is the very least we can offer.

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All logically thinking goes out of the window when you suffer with depression, and you don't think about what hurt you are causing to the people around you. All you want to do is to stop your own suffering.

If he has committed suicide (not been confirmed that I can see) then I not only feel for his family who have to pick up the pieces but for the suffering he went through before making this tragic decision. I wouldn't condone a person for it as unless you have lived in their head and gone through what they go through you can not judge the decisions he made. Its a terrible shame that he didn't get the help he needed to avoid this.

RIP Gary Speed

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Hardly. It'll be whatever the media wants us to know.

I dont think its very fair to criticise Gary Speed over taking his own life. Noone knows what goes on in another mans mind. Unfortunately people are too quick to make up their minds on what they believe happened.

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Well said.