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Helen Mirren: Isn't it sad that Kurt Cobain never used satnav
Helen Mirren: Isn't it sad that Kurt Cobain never used satnav
the "always say" is sending me
This just in: Helen Mirren really does always say that she's sad Kurt Cobain missed out on various technology.
Helen Mirren's silence on Kurt Cobain missing out on chatGPT is deafening. A damning indictment of the cultural relevance of generative AI.
idk I think I'm feeling some kind of vicarious gender dysphoria because every time I see he/him pronouns applied to Cobain it feels like the sound of nails down a chalkboard because idk if she'd have liked google maps but I feel like she'd have *loved* estradiol
Helen Mirren unboxing a new pair of airpods: gosh these are marvellous. It's a tragedy Kurt Cobain never got to use them.
UASC@stavvers I for one find it unfortunate that he never got to experience the wonders of duplex laserjet printing.
Sin Vega@gwylanarchaidd @stavvers did he ever get to press the button that made the thing in the window go along the rails in the museum
or was its absence the true lament behind his work
Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]@stavvers Princess Di never had a Fitbit, Helen. You never mention this. Why are you snubbing her? Why do you hate the people's princess, Helen? What have they told you? What do you know? Helen? Hello? Are you still there? Helen?
noodlejetski 
@stavvers GPS stands for Gender Preference System
Tom@stavvers Was there some kind of "sliding doors" moment for Helen, where should have instead been front man for a grunge band and she missed out?
Coles Street Pothole@stavvers It's just gobsmacking to think that Kurt Cobain missed out on Tamagotchi. If he had only lived to 30, he would have known the joy of feeding a digital pet.
jack@stavvers It's so sad he never got to update a Sharepoint page
historic drystone sheep dyke@stavvers every time i enter a six-digit authentication code in order to log into my cloud-based bookkeeping software, i think to myself: "kurt would have fucking loved this"
BrettHow out of touch is Helen Mirren? I'm very sure that Kurt Cobain had used computers before he died. Maybe not the internet so much but come on.
Like a year later the Smashing Pumpkins had a sample from Doom in one of their songs because Billy and James were playing it non stop for a while. I know different band and all but...she's acting like 1994 is 1974.
ahistorical immaterialist@bflipp @hannah @stavvers also - first in-car GPS nav system was in 1990 https://japanesenostalgiccar.com/mitsubishi-electric-mazda-eunos-cosmo-jc-ccs-gps/
Mitsubishi Electric, which put the world’s first in-car GPS in the 1990 Mazda Cosmo, is leaving the nav business
Mazda’s Eunos Cosmo was a car of many firsts, one of which was the world’s first in-car GPS system over three decades ago. The so-called CCS (Car Communication System) was developed by …
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Andres@stavvers Absolutely tragic that he never got to experience the sheer joy of selling Nirvana NFTs.
acb
Random Geek in limbo@stavvers It's weird for a second, but I think I get it. Behind the "marvels of technology" aspect, there's "if people could find help or community easier, if the people who loved them could find them more easily, would they still be with us?"
Still a little naive maybe given the last few decades of Internet, but I get it.
@stavvers But Cobain is so oddly specific, yeah. Guessing there's a connection or some intense admiration?
@randomgeek yeah, it's really weirdly specific, and I can't seem to find anything indicating they even knew each other
@stavvers One thought: there was a slice of Boomer folks that really latched onto Cobain, sort of seeing Kurt as a reincarnation of Jim Morrison or something. Not literally, but you know. A poet genius for the new generation, that kind of thing.
When Cobain died, it seemed to me the most broken folks around were teens and that slice of Boomers.
Maybe?
But yeah it's all guessing without more context.
🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳@stavvers @randomgeek
She has mentioned long term personal issues with anxiety and depression. Maybe the conection is she contemplated/attempted suicide when she was the age he killed himself.
She has mentioned long term personal issues with anxiety and depression. Maybe the conection is she contemplated/attempted suicide when she was the age he killed himself.
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catch@randomgeek @stavvers I'm wondering if an AOL CD arrived on her doorstep the same week that he died. Or something similar to that.
Tess, Joint Chief of Stiff@stavvers HUH.
It already sounds weird, was she even friends with him??
@diffractie I'm now desperate to find this out, it's so weirdly specific. Can't rule out it being a long-game bit that she's doing
@stavvers "Bet you can't mention Kurt Cobain in every interview you do"
Oggie@stavvers Maybe she has a number of friends who went through that big Nirvana revival, and the whole suicide aspect has her just musing on wasted potential and 'what comes next', and she can't think of other really big celeb suicides ( that are so unambiguous)?
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for a day, while . . . 🗽@floppyplopper @Oggie @stavvers
Too bad King Leopold never got to know about the ICC.
*jk, he wouldn't have had reason to care*
@floppyplopper @Oggie @stavvers
. . . and that's why religion was invented, to hope assholes are punished
internetsdairy@stavvers which one of these redditors is a Mirren alt, I wonder
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nirvana/comments/75bbkg/did_kurt_ever_use_the_internet/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nirvana/comments/75bbkg/did_kurt_ever_use_the_internet/
Sumana Harihareswara@stavvers I agree with her - GPS navigation is astonishingly neat, there are many wondrous things about the tech of the last 30 years, and I also wish Cobain were alive to experience and enjoy them.
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what the fuck helen
what the fuck helen
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can't get abe simpson's voice out of my head reading this.
can't get abe simpson's voice out of my head reading this.
@floppyplopper imagine acclaimed actor and certified national treasure Helen Mirren sidling up to you, pointing excitedly at the blue dot on google maps and then tearing up, "it's such a shame Kurt Cobain never lived to see this"
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kurt cobain was the singer in nirvana who were a popular rock and roll band of the time
kurt cobain was the singer in nirvana who were a popular rock and roll band of the time
thanks, that's good to know
L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ@stavvers Dame Helen walking down the street, phone in hand, accosting strangers: "Oh, just look at my little blue dot! Isn't it just the loveliest? I so do wish Kurt Cobain were here to see it!"
RomanceReviews@stavvers this is delightfully unhinged. I aspire to this level of random at her age.
cpoffers@stavvers Helen Mirren's "Carthago delenda est".
Brian Stafford@stavvers "always say" is a UK thing - it just means something like "of the opinion", or "I somethimes think".
samir, an unknown quantity@stavvers Well, this made my week.
Nick@stavvers Does… does she think Kurt killed himself because he hated using a road atlas?
SarcastiCanadian@Nickiquote @stavvers Well, to be fair....
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@Nickiquote @stavvers so many 90s heroes lost to the road atlas, Kurt Cobain, Jeff Buckley, River Phoenix...
Stuck HereIt reads as though Mirren is a paid spokes person for GPS navigation.
Ever watch an interview and the starring guest goes on some tangent and name drops a brand name ? Liquor, car, cleaning product, and such? They get paid each time it happens.
Is she still tapping into some Tom Tom cash? Garmin Benjamins?
Tom Bellin 
@stavvers it's going to turn out that Kobain was secretly her longtime pen-pal, and they shared a deep love for consumer technology.
The letters (lovingly preserved by Mirren) will be found by her executor and auctioned off to a reclusive Australian billionaire.
The story will be sold to Netflix, who will make it into a mini-series that inexplicably will have 3 seasons.
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Montessori Space Programme 🛸@stavvers His GPS device was found in a driving wheel, but his body never was found
John@stavvers I think she made a movie about it https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2057392/ but that might have been more about blowing up the little blue dots instead of admiring them.
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Rachel Lawson@stavvers weird and not even necessarily true - Garmin’s first handheld GPS device was released in 1991.
Michael J. Orlando@stavvers Sounds like an excerpt from an eight minute digression at a Trump rally.