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Helen Mirren: Isn't it sad that Kurt Cobain never used satnav

It was here that Mirren said she wished Nirvana musician Cobain for example, could have seen the invention of satellite navigation.

“I always say it’s so sad that Kurt Cobain died when he did because he never saw GPS as it’s the most wonderful thing to watch my little blue spot walking down the street. I just find it completely magical and unbelievable,” she said.
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@stavvers
can't get abe simpson's voice out of my head reading this.

Another Angry Woman

@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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@stavvers
kurt cobain was the singer in nirvana who were a popular rock and roll band of the time

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.

Chrisshy Keygen

@stavvers The wild part is she does, tho. She mentions Kurt Cobain and the technologies he never used ALL THE TIME

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".

Another Angry Woman

This just in: Helen Mirren really does always say that she's sad Kurt Cobain missed out on various technology.

The following year she told Cosmopolitan, "I was thinking about Kurt Cobain the other say and he died without knowing the internet, and I'm totally blown away by that. 

And, in 2016, she told the Daily Mail, "If I'd died at age 27, the age that Kurt Cobain died in 1994, I'd have never even known there was an internet! Incredible things are happening all the time and I can't wait to see what comes next."
The actor has frequently referenced Cobain in the past when discussing the interface of technology and ageing. In 2014, she told Oprah Winfrey, "Look at Kurt Cobain - He hardly even saw a computer! The digital stuff that's going on is so excited. I'm just so curious about what happens next."
Nick

@stavvers Does… does she think Kurt killed himself because he hated using a road atlas?

Slowly Fading #FreePalestine

@stavvers this is what happens when the zionist brain worms get you

James Graham

@stavvers How was he meant to come as he was when he didn’t know where to do? It’s a problem.

Dec.tar.bz2

@jamesgraham @stavvers
Underneath the bridge,
Can't get any signal.

D. B. Stuck

@stavvers

It 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 :picardfacepalm:

@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.

Souvlaki Space Station 🛸

@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 m.imdb.com/title/tt2057392/ but that might have been more about blowing up the little blue dots instead of admiring them.

econads

@mrkeen
Just reading the blurb, that seems like an unrealistic scenario. No one apparently seems to care about civilians these days.

@stavvers

z3z

@stavvers this is so utterly random. I can't stop laughing 😂

Rachel Lawson

@stavvers weird and not even necessarily true - Garmin’s first handheld GPS device was released in 1991.

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@rachel @stavvers
scratching Sat Nav off the list of things that could have fixed Kurt Cobain.

Patty Kimura

@stavvers Was this AI Helen Mirren? Sure sounds like AI Helen Mirren. AI Dead Kurt Cobain also recently mused that it's too bad Helen Mirren lived too long to avoid AI Helen Mirren.

Michael J. Orlando

@stavvers Sounds like an excerpt from an eight minute digression at a Trump rally.

tipap

@stavvers Yes, that's the most important thing Kurt Cobain missed. Not seeing his daughter grow, not seeing the birth of his grandchildren. No, it was truly just GPS he missed. 🙈

aaron

@stavvers Is it drugs? I'm gonna go with drugs as the only explanation for this.

Rachel Greenham

@stavvers i find myself doing this a bit with Carl Sagan, like, wouldn't he be so excited about Enceladus, or the Huygens probe (and soon Clipper) on Titan, or, wow, everything we're still learning about Mars, and... Exoplanets! We found them! They're everywhere!

him stepping onto Neil deGrasse Tyson's Ship of the imagination, looking around and saying “You've redecorated... I don't like it." (Doctor Who reference)

… the mass bamboozlement of the US is getting pretty bad though…

Gilbert Pilz

@stavvers I think she has a point. I feel sort of the same way whenever I see someone riding a Onewheel. The pace of worldwide enshittification is accelerating an alarming rate, but there are people zooping around on those things. It is, IMO, the foremost argument against suicide. Who knows what you might miss?

Kera Vortiwife

@stavvers Helen Mirren acting like a side character in Gibson book

Amanda Bee

@stavvers if there's context that makes this make sense, I don't want to know

PS Jen

@stavvers Surveillance is not magical Helen!

CheapPontoon

@stavvers I am sad Kurt never had Google Ads target him with all the things he might want. It's just amazing how they know.

Theriac

@stavvers@masto.ai
I didn't know Curt Cobain, just as I didn't know his predecessors in the Savage God cycles: Ian Curtis, Sylvia Plath. Or have a deep and meaningful relationship with the died-too-young-dandy narrative of Young Werther

But Helen Mirren, any respect I ever had for you, just turned to smoke.

Rainer König

@stavvers

Isn't it said that people looking on the little blue spot on their smartphones think that they do "navigation" and have never spend a thought about the foundation, for example the longitude problem that took a long time to be solved?

amr.longitudeprize.org/the-his

Mister Moo 🐮

@stavvers So sad Tutenkkhamun died when he died. He would have loved OnlyFans.

Chris Real

@stavvers

This is just the emotional inverse of "[fill in the blank] must be rolling in [his/her/their] grave . . ."

People also used to say "If Elvis were alive today . . ." and put words in his mouth, too.

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