Nitpick: Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow, not former wife (which would imply that they divorced).
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Oh dang , you can edit titles on Lemmy?!
Yes
Isn't that open to abuse somewhat?
Nah not more than editing comments, and I'd say its worth it cause the plethora of typos in titles
(if you really care you can loom at the logs for the original title too)
That feels like it would be very open to abuse: OP can edit the post later to read:
"Upvote and comment to show your respect for the Proud Boys who are staying strong! The government has become our Yoko Ono!"
Then readers will all wonder if this is new code talk and be surprised by the votes and engagement.
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Because Yoko Ono is a cunt. And I hate that word but completely describes her.
Yes I know John was very emotionally, mentally, and physically abusive to her.
Australians wouldn't agree with you on your stance on Yoko. She's too bad of a person.
From what I’ve seen I envy Australians on their creative uses of that word.
But it’s seems as if it’s usually not really a derogatory term there.
It's both. The way the first commenter used it was unambiguously "they're a fucking shit person". There has to be a qualifier for it to be positive.
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John Lennon was abusive to his first wife, not Yoko.
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Is there anything Yoko can't ruin?
To be fair, John himself was also a colossal piece of shit to Julian.
Paul McCartney wrote Hey Jude originally as a song to Julian to comfort him from John’s abuse and affair with Yoko. Paul was more of a dad to Julian than John was.
Julian only had to buy these things at auction because John intentionally left him out of his will.
If I remember correctly (I don’t want to look it up right now), John was physically abusive to one of his wives as well (Cynthia?).
Also, imagine being Julian and seeing your dad go on about being a family man in magazines and doting on his new son… when your dad essentially hates you. You’d see all the pictures in magazines, too. Covers of albums. It’s gross.
John and Yoko were kind of monsters in a lot of ways, I lost a lot of respect for John Lennon when I found out about that stuff.
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She's an amazing singer at least https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdZ9weP5i68
My grandma loves this song, she fell down the stairs and she started singing this
lol at comment
The comments under that one were gold too: "You can use it as a home alarm system" lol. There was another comment on a different video that went
I love Yoko's voice. I also love fingernails on blackboard, squealing brakes on a train, smoke detectors on low battery, and the tortured screams of demons during a major exorcism.
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Here’s Chuck Berry’s reaction to her wonderful voice https://youtu.be/NgZiPO9V_aQ?si=1FXBnCHbvrpnnaox
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As much as I haven't found a single thing of hers I can stand to listen she's actually influenced a fair amount of amazing bands and singers, but I suppose sometimes it takes someone making an idiot of themselves to inspire others. All I know is for some reason I have her to thank for some influencing great bands.
"Wow that sounds terrible, I can do better than that"
Can you say what bands she influenced and how?
I believe she had an impact on the Beatles.
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Everyone do yourself a favor and watch this with CC on
I mean, maybe if she sing the notes in the correct order, something that looks like a song could arise from that.
Those subtitles make it a little bit better at least...
Make sure to watch with subtitles
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How shitty her reputation is?
I think she's scummy AF for this stuff, but she didn't break up The Beatles. People who say that have no idea what they're talking about.
Not saying you were saying that (though it seems heavily implied).
John broke up the Beatles. He's the one who chose to put his relationship above his band. That's his prerogative though, it's his life.
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There's a whole lot of fucked up with everyone involved. I have experiance with a family with a dead famous dude and there's fucked up shit going on there too. Apperently, it's quite common.
It’s common in non celebrity families as well. When someone dies it’s like everyone decides to be as shitty as possible to the ones who were closest to the deceased.
When my mom died her family broke into my house and took everything. My dad was left with nothing to remember her by. It was horrible. These were the same people who refused to talk to her for months prior to her death. Then they had the audacity to blame my father and I for her death. Like motherfuckers if you would have answered her calls at least once you’d know she was in severe physical pain when she died. It had nothing to do with us.
It’s not talked about a lot, but neuropathy kills all the time.
Fuck dude, I'm sorry for your loss and the shitty aftermath you had to deal with when you were grieving. I hope you and your father have found peace and happiness and that you don't have contact with those vultures at all anymore.
They don’t even have to be dead yet for this shit to happen.
We have a relative in a home in serious cognitive decline. We kept their stuff with his sibling. Friends are asking ‘what about the valuable X/Y he had’, ‘does he have much money in the bank?’ etc. Parasites seem to come out of the woodwork at these times. It’s disgraceful.
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Nah it's just people, doesn't matter if they're famous. I used to work in a law office and the family and estate cases were the absolute worst. Some people just turn into vile cretins when someone dies. Give me a good old criminal case any day over that nonsense.
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Fame is not healthy for humans. It makes them do weird, fucked up shit.
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My dad married just such a vindictive pos during his final years. It's fun having to deal with her as we process his trust. None of us can understand how he didn't see her for who she really is.
It's possible he did and just cared more about how it affected him than how it affected his family.
I'll be dealing with my dad's wife in the same way inside of 15 years, and it's not because he can't see how she is. He just likes her money more than he likes his own family, I guess.
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Reason #4368 why she made the world an objectively worse place to live.
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Dude should have filed a police report for stolen property, as they were clearly addressed to him. I bet she would have handed them over quickly when questions started being asked.
Doubt it. Probably would have burned them so there would be no proof she ever had them.
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