Whatever happened to stiff upper lip?

[BrilloPad]

Our public grieving over dead celebrities has reached insufferable levels

[The_Equalizer]

Our public grieving over dead celebrities has reached insufferable levels

Diana was a watershed, although I still think the majority found it all a bit distasteful at the time. New Labour era made it acceptable thereafter.

[TykeMerc]

Well grief whoring became fashionable with the explosion of "social" media.

There's so little content and people have to spam stuff on their twatter and faecesbook accounts just to appear to have a life. This behaviour isn't limited to deifying slebs of course.

[stek]

Same with crying at football games when your team gets relegated. Whatever happened to manning up and giving the other teams fans a good kicking?

[zemoxyl]

Same with crying at football games when your team gets relegated. Whatever happened to manning up and giving the other teams fans a good kicking?

Whatever happened to manning up and finding a better team? Loyalty? loyalty schmoyalty, meh !

[DallasDad]

There's money to be made out of it simple as that.
From selling and regurgitating the tripe on the front page to maintain the frenzy to mountains of over priced flowers,teddy bears, candles and trinkets rotting by the road side for weeks after the event.

For every stressed grieving sucker there will some bottom feeder capitalising from them.