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Ozzy cortege to make final trip through Birmingham
BBC ^ | July 30, 2025 | Will Jefford Amy Cole

Posted on 07/30/2025 9:24:13 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 07/30/2025 9:24:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
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The Lord Mayor

Now there’s another very English name


2 posted on 07/30/2025 9:27:46 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Red Badger

BTW My ggm was born just 20 miles from Birmingham in Wednesbury

She’s so much more important to the world

Her birth led to the birth of ME !!!

:)


3 posted on 07/30/2025 9:32:15 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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BTW My ggm was born just 20 miles from Birmingham in Wednesbury

She’s so much more important to the world

Her birth led to the birth of ME !!!

:)


4 posted on 07/30/2025 9:32:45 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Red Badger
Very touching YouTube clip from the live stream. Ozzy and Sharon truly loved each other.

Sharon Osbourne breaks down in tears at Ozzy's funeral as Kelly holds her up

Quite the sizeable crowd who showed up to pay their respects.

Say what you want about Ozzy, he went out like a champion. Held it together as best he could to give his hometown fans one final show with his old bandmates and then departed this earth.

5 posted on 07/30/2025 9:52:50 AM PDT by Drew68 (I haven’t seen the Democrats this mad since yesterday. Save some tears for tomorrow.)
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To: Red Badger

Birmingham, a Muslim/Hindu majority city.


6 posted on 07/30/2025 9:54:43 AM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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It’s not Ozzy’s Birmingham anymore, nor Jeff Lynne’s for that matter.


7 posted on 07/30/2025 9:55:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Drew68

The Jazz Band New Orleans Style was a nice touch...........


8 posted on 07/30/2025 9:55:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Looking on, I did’nt expect all the Pomp and Pageantry around Ozzy’s funeral. I’ve never been much into his music or public persona, but apparently many others were.

One also has to remember that even though England has had a gigantic influence on popular music, going back to the ‘50’s, geographically, England is not all that big of a nation, compared to the USA.

So, what we often see (even now, after all the unwanted immigration) is a small country, a cluster of villages, now celebrating one of it’s Sons.
When viewed that way, it makes sense that the country would do it all up to collectively say Goodbye.


9 posted on 07/30/2025 9:56:00 AM PDT by lee martell
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First thing in my head was “ Krull” and the guy saying “Only the Lotd Marshal has those keys!”

Rats.
Now I wanna watch that movie again.


10 posted on 07/30/2025 10:04:06 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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To: Red Badger

This was to happen five hours ago.


11 posted on 07/30/2025 10:18:01 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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They are eight hours ahead of us in England..............


12 posted on 07/30/2025 10:34:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Ozzy Osborne! A vulgar, alcohol-addicted, drug-addicted ass. Why do supposedly ‘intelligent’ people almost worship him?

I simply do not get it.


13 posted on 07/30/2025 10:40:23 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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I believe The United States is 40 times larger in size than England.


14 posted on 07/30/2025 10:41:43 AM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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Yes. At least 14 x >


15 posted on 07/30/2025 10:42:30 AM PDT by lee martell
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5 hours ahead of EST. Its now 6:45pm in London.


16 posted on 07/30/2025 10:44:26 AM PDT by chuck allen
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I think some folks admire/support/worship such vagabonds as Ozzy, because he represents their Alter Ego.
Ozzy says what they can’t say. Does what they can’t do.
Lived a hedonist, proudly debauched life (on camera!) in a way they would never do in a thousand years!

So, one could say, he is their Anti-Hero, who thumbed his nose at convention and mostly got away with it, all the while getting rich enough to spend his days getting soused in a mansion with Maids and Butlers.


17 posted on 07/30/2025 10:47:36 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: chuck allen

8 hours ahead if one lived in the Pacific time zone


18 posted on 07/30/2025 10:48:41 AM PDT by xp38
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I simply do not get it.

Ozzy was closer to God than most of those sharing your sentiments.

19 posted on 07/30/2025 10:49:06 AM PDT by Drew68 (I haven’t seen the Democrats this mad since yesterday. Save some tears for tomorrow.)
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14 = 40 x greater than the US.


20 posted on 07/30/2025 10:49:44 AM PDT by lee martell
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