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Reply #60 posted 07/07/16 5:27pm

Hifidelity67

Those splits were badass .. man rocked it fully, it was beautiful to watch.
Make sure that carpet work



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Reply #61 posted 07/07/16 5:33pm

morningsong

DMarieIsMe said:

I guess all the cheerleaders & ballerinas in the world are dead. The title of this post is weird. LOL.



I hadn't even thought about them. That's an interesting, case study project or whatever.

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Reply #62 posted 07/07/16 5:34pm

luvsexy4all

these threads will stop when enough reasons why he's dead will satisfy ....

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Reply #63 posted 07/07/16 8:44pm

LBrent

kristy said:[quote]

Dibblekins said:

The hips may well have been worn out, yes - but the moves that concern ME are the ones shown in the 'Little Red Corvette' video - when he bounces down onto his knees, with his lower legs splayed out. Your knees are NOT designed to do that, unless you have some element of hypermobility - which, in turn, can be part of syndromes like Ehlers-Danlos (which in some cases, incidentally, can lead to digestive problems like those suggested by P's chef).

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Anyway, I'd wager that if he had hypermobility, that might explain why there were scars on one hip / lower leg as opposed to evidence of full hip / knee replacements...Maybe they were investigating his issues - but there is little to be done for hypermobility - and it can and does lead to later issues like arthritis / pain.

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Just my thoughts - based on the fact that his energetic 'knee-crashing' makes me wince a lot more than his doing the splits!



In addition to your concern for his knees, after seeing him perform live where he'd jump off the huge risers and giant speakers, in heels, often directly into a split, REPEATEDLY in the half dozen Purple Rain era concerts I saw. And those concerts had several curtain calls. I done think he stopped dancing long enough to take a swig of water.

In later years he wasn't quite as much of an Olympian, but by then the damage had likely already been pretty bad. I cringe thinking about the jarring impact from landing from those heighs.
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Reply #64 posted 07/07/16 9:15pm

PeteSilas

i read that when james tried to do a split in later years, he had to lay in be the next day. No one wants to get old but you gotta accept some things.

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Reply #65 posted 07/07/16 9:35pm

morningsong

luvsexy4all said:

these threads will stop when enough reasons why he's dead will satisfy ....




What's enough though?
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Reply #66 posted 07/07/16 9:43pm

RJOrion

so it wasnt Fentanyl that killed him?
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Reply #67 posted 07/07/16 9:46pm

morningsong

RJOrion said:

so it wasnt Fentanyl that killed him?



Where are you going with this line of questioning??



Or are you serious?
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Reply #68 posted 07/07/16 9:48pm

RJOrion

suomynona said:

OMFG R U SAYING TAFFY WAS A FURRY? DID HE DO DA BANANA SPLITS? ALL OF DEM AT DA SAME TIME? DID HE DIE FROM DOING THE BANANA SPLITS? OMFGBBQ OH NOES cry





LMAO...WTF?...


Suomynoma is in rare form tonight...
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Reply #69 posted 07/07/16 9:52pm

RJOrion

morningsong said:

RJOrion said:

so it wasnt Fentanyl that killed him?



Where are you going with this line of questioning??



Or are you serious?



i remember the autopsy report...i dont remember High Heels being charged with murder...or even being mentioned as a suspect
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Reply #70 posted 07/07/16 9:52pm

morningsong

RJOrion said:



LMAO...WTF?...


Suomynoma is in rare form tonight...



Seems he got banned. Inevitable I guess.
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Reply #71 posted 07/07/16 9:56pm

morningsong

RJOrion said:

morningsong said:




Where are you going with this line of questioning??



Or are you serious?



i remember the autopsy report...i dont remember High Heels being charged with murder...or even being mentioned as a suspect



Oh. Ok. Yeah I agree.
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Reply #72 posted 07/07/16 10:20pm

PeteSilas

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so it wasnt Fentanyl that killed him?

what they are trying to say is pretty simple, that he had chronic pain from the splits and he ended up hooked on opioids. We don't know that for a fact but lots of people are saying it. MJ started on pain pills after the pepsi accident. of course it wasn't the commercial itself that killed him , it was the burns that led to his taking pain pills which in turn progressed throughout the remainder of his life. He wasn't a heavy user at the end it seems but he still was abusing drugs. Funny thing is, was a time when both men had a strict antidrug image.

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Reply #73 posted 07/08/16 1:26am

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RJOrion said:

so it wasnt Fentanyl that killed him?

It was the pain which led to the use of pain patches that killed him. neutral

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #74 posted 07/08/16 1:34am

jaawwnn

He could have sat at a desk all day and got DVT. He lived as he lived.

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Reply #75 posted 07/08/16 4:24am

Robert3rd

Splits? Nope. Jumping off of pianos and risers? In the words of Björk: Possibly Maybe.
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Reply #76 posted 07/08/16 4:54am

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Robert3rd said:

Splits? Nope. Jumping off of pianos and risers? In the words of Björk: Possibly Maybe.

Thank you. Morris had hip replacement surgery and I do not remember him doing splits. There are dancers a plenty that do splits every day, as well as professional cheerleaders.

Prince died due to pain medication overdose that was not managed properly. Should he have slowed down long ago....definitely, but he was a control freak and a perfectionist and when he took the stage he wanted to give his fans everything that he had in him to give.

Unfortunately giving us all he had included his life.

Because of their half-baked mistakes, we get ice cream, no cake; all lies, no truth; is it fair to Kill the YOUTH ~~ Party Up
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Reply #77 posted 07/10/16 1:52pm

seand67

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OMG...... eek

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