I've never heard the term "bender" but by your post the implication is that it means "gay". I never thought that being a fan of Michael Jackson makes you gay. If this is the case, then maybe gays are correct when they claim that all research, polls and studies indicate that homosexuals is about 2-4% of the population is vastly understated. Michael Jackson was the most popular pop start among both women and men.
Yes, kind sir.
"Bender" is the UK word for gay.
Well...one of them. "Poofter" is another one, but it's possible that both terms are out of fashion these days. I assumed that the term bender to denote male homosexuality, referred to men who bent over to receive anal sex, but a champion distance runner from my city told me that bender meant bent - as in, not straight. That would be a more straightforward rationale.
That said, if being a fan of Michael Jackson makes one a bender that means that I too [#MeToo] is a bender.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
No, I'm kidding - well...not about being a Michael Jackson fan - he was amazing. But about the insinuation that being a fan of MJ makes one a bender.
I can totally understand why the doctors of both Michael Jackson and Prince more or less did whatever they said. It must be incredibly difficult for a person to deny the influence of Michael Jackson...most people would have a difficult time with that. And no doubt, MJ used the drugs to help him perform...the sad thing, looking back, is that Michael Jackson should likely never have been assumed by fans and other observers to be a person who would have ended up living to become a senior citizen. I could be wrong here, but I feel that at that level of stardom, drugs are somewhat of a necessity.
Although Prince allegedly died from Fentanyl-containing fake Vicodin pills. That's sad if true, because Vicodin is not super strong. But to take something you think is [relatively mild] Vicodin, and for it to be Fentanyl...
Well...let's just say...it is not a surprise to me that Prince died.
In my neck of the woods in Thunder Bay, Canada, Fentanyl- [or more likely, Carfentanyl]-laced cocaine has been a thing for about the past 16 months or so. Pretty scary stuff - imagine doing $10 in cocaine, and to die because it turns out that it is laced with an opiate that it was not supposed to contain. That seems horribly unfair to the family members of your regular weekend warriors doing relatively small amounts of drugs. Also, while producing fake Vicodin pills with Fentanyl somewhat makes sense...HOW does it make sense for Fentanyl or Carfentanyl to be put in cocaine?
It's sad that more regular people need to die as a result of this. Back to MJ - it would seem to me that performing at his level came at a cost...I have to wonder if he would have done it over again if he knew that he was going to die only a couple of months shy of his 51st birthday...and again, given that Eminem will be 46 this year, I do wonder how much more time he has left. My brother said he was consuming up to 20 Oxycontin 80 pills at his peak opiate intake.
