Celebs who are now dead

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Shinners has beaten you to it.

[Disco]

I'm not sure anyone's quite got there yet.

[Spammer]

Carrie Fisher is everything I want to be. Resilient, quirky, fun and mad as a box of frogs, while remaining true to herself and her convictions. She never held her tongue, and stands up for what she believes in. She loves her friends, her dog, and her fans. She has written 8 books, 3 plays and 3 screenplays, and doctored the movie scripts for Sister Act, Last Action Hero and The Wedding Singer.

She is who I want to be in life. And I really, really want her to be okay.

:D

[Boydy]

Where's that from?

[Spammer]

Facebook.

[Pleb]

It's going to be a little bit awkward if they need to reshoot Episode 8.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I have no idea who Carrie Fisher is. Tonight is the first I've heard of her. Is this what being Giggles is like? I want more of it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Also, years don't kill people, severe diseases do.

[Browning]

She's now stable, supposedly.

[Spikey M]

I have no idea who Carrie Fisher is. Tonight is the first I've heard of her. Is this what being Giggles is like? I want more of it.

I know the name but no idea who she actually is.

[Spoonsky]

Carrie Fisher is everything I want to be. Resilient, quirky, fun and mad as a box of frogs, while remaining true to herself and her convictions. She never held her tongue, and stands up for what she believes in. She loves her friends, her dog, and her fans. She has written 8 books, 3 plays and 3 screenplays, and doctored the movie scripts for Sister Act, Last Action Hero and The Wedding Singer.

She is who I want to be in life. And I really, really want her to be okay.

:D

I really believed this was you until the smiley.

[Dquincy]

Back off, 2016. Leave Carrie Fisher alone. You already took Prince. You can't have our Princess.

Source: Twitter

[Raoul Duke]

I have no idea who Carrie Fisher is. Tonight is the first I've heard of her. Is this what being Giggles is like? I want more of it.

Princess Leia from Star Wars. Come on grandad, keep up

[Magic]

I quite like the idea of a celebrity heart attack death. Not often you hear that.

[leedsrevolution]

This better not delay the new Star Wars film.

[Queenslander]

They have figured out CGI technology it will probably be better without her.

[Shindig]

CGI Carrie to get iced by hologram Tupac.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Princess Leia from Star Wars. Come on grandad, keep up

Oh, the only one I've watched is Phantom Menace.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The very worst one.

[Gray Fox]

Episode 1 is great if you love trade negotiations.

The only real thing worth watching is the lightsaber battle of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan v Darth Maul. Oh and midichlorians.

[Magic]

Oh, the only one I've watched is Phantom Menace.

No wonder the Koreans hate you.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The machete order is a great way to watch the original 3 and prequels.

4, 5, 2, 3, 6.

Cutting out the first :drool:

[Browning]

Weird Al's song about 1 is better than the film and makes a suitable replacement if you need the story.

2 is still far, far worse than 1 though. I'll never watch 2 again.

[Lewis]

Rick Parfitt out of Status Quo is probably the most significant of the year.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think the idea that there have been more celebrity deaths this year is just the result of baby boomer idols reaching death age (baby boomers control everything in public discourse). Watch there be just as many next year, and the year after that.

[Magic]

Fucking Parfitt! When it came up on my phone I thought it would be massive heart failure. Momentarily felt bad for my earlier heart attack comment. It was an infection though so we're ok.

[hfswjyr]

I think the idea that there have been more celebrity deaths this year is just the result of baby boomer idols reaching death age (baby boomers control everything in public discourse). Watch there be just as many next year, and the year after that.

The number of celebrities in this day and age has risen exponentially due to the mass consumption of TV/movie/social media. A lot more names to get sad about when they pass.

[Spoonsky]

Most of the big ones this year were musicians who've been around decades, though. Jimmy's idea makes more sense to me, though I doubt next year will see as many.

[Pepe]

How many died this year? Can only think of Bowie and Prince.

[Magic]

Parfitt.

[Kikó]

Michael Jackson and Lilly Allen.

[Max Power]

I doubt more famous people have died, but some big guns went this year. Bowie, Prince, Ali and Cruyff are all pretty huge figures in music and sport.

[Magic]

It's been covered in the year review I did thanks.

[Dquincy]

Best thread of the year.

[Davgooner]

George Michael.

[Magic]

Fucking hell! :(

Absolute creep but amazing voice. WHAM! :drool:

[Lewis]

Thousands of people furiously typing their 'Last Christmas' jokes.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Aids?

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Suicide?

[Magic]

Peacefully apparently.

[Spammer]

Kuru apparently.

[Shindig]

"Passed away peacefully at his home." Short illness?

Also, pour one out for the ENTIRE RED ARMY CHOIR! Plane crash.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

You mean the dreaded Short Illness.

[Pleb]

Best thread of the year.
We must be close to archive levels surely?

[Dquincy]

People are getting lairy at this 2016 fella on twitter. Apparently he's going round killing celebs.

[Dquincy]

We must be close to archive levels surely?
Think Magic has already put it to the mods to archive it.

[Spammer]

How can we archive an ongoing thread? People are going to die in the future too.

[Danny]

Rename and start again

[Pleb]

:D

[wullie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__MUf2Qv6_U

[Dquincy]

How can we archive an ongoing thread? People are going to die in the future too.

I was talking about Magic's Review of the Year thread.

[Magic]

2015 deaths. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/34870598?client=ms-android-samsung

[Pleb]

I completely forgot about Cilla Black.

That was a surprise.

[ScousePig]

The old woman in the Royal Family.

[ScousePig]

Sorry, the Royle Family.

[leedsrevolution]

95 is a great run.

[Giggles]

Carrie Fisher apparently hasn't seen it through 2016 in the end.

[Magic]

Another one. :drool:

[Dquincy]

But the dog.

[Bernanke]

https://media.giphy.com/media/L4TYWQn8rALRu/giphy.gif

[Pleb]

Carrie Fisher has popped it apparently.

[Giggles]

Carrie Fisher has popped it apparently.

Really? Cheers :thbup:

[Pleb]

Thanks just saw your post without looking at the last page :thbup:

[Pleb]

Oh and Richard Adams who wrote that Watership Down novel has popped it as well.

[Henry]

I liked Carrie Fischer.

It is unfortunate that none of the celebrities that I would gladly see dead are being affected by this apocalypse.

[Spoonsky]

That's pretty shit about Carrie Fisher. Facebook is taking it hard as well.

Paul Simon wrote Graceland about her you know.

[Magic]

Cocaine and alcohol addict dies!

Edit: that applies to basically this entire thread.

[Giggles]

That's pretty shit about Carrie Fisher. Facebook is taking it hard as well.

Paul Simon wrote Graceland about her you know.

Are they all angrily shouting at 2016 as if it were a person?

[Queenslander]

I remember when Stephen Fry interviewed her in his mental health documentary. Bi-polar must be pretty brutal to deal with on the back end of all that fame and drug addiction. :(

[Baz]

Smack rat dies. World is saddened.

Shall we do a 2017 death pool? I'll get making a spreadsheet and whack the thread up later/tomorrow.

[Queenslander]

Betoota Advocate with more wise words.

http://www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorized/baby-boomer-forced-to-confront-own-mortality-for-the-second-time-this-week/

[Yevrah]

Why is the click-bait part of internet awash (and has been for months) with stories of Richard Branson retiring/dying/turning into a fly?

If you're going to pick a celeb and make shit up about them to garner hits, why him?

[Raoul Duke]

Probably some general interest, SEO keyword effectiveness spike which someone noticed, and/or you've clicked on one at some point and see more of it due to targeting.

[Lewis]

Warwick Davis was on Sky News making out like they were bezzie mates.

'We never actually spoke, as such. Or met. But...'

[GS]

The news coverage of these things is becoming increasingly morbid.

Footage of flowers and candles left at a mourning location of perceived relevance, sombre voiceover repeats verbatim some words left on a note, interview with a member of the public who had never actually met the individual in question or, at a stretch, gave them their change when they worked at the newsagents talking about how great they were, someone famous they once worked with who hasn't spoken to them in over two decades speaking into a camera, perhaps through Skype, about how greatly were, before the newsreader rounds it all up in an equally sombre voice before moving onto the more upbeat news of the day, like the latest from Aleppo or the Zika virus.

[Lewis]

'Members of the public who have never met the individual in question have started to leave flowers and candles at a location of perceived relevance...'

[phonics]

Why is the click-bait part of internet awash (and has been for months) with stories of Richard Branson retiring/dying/turning into a fly?

If you're going to pick a celeb and make shit up about them to garner hits, why him?

It was a meme several years ago due to something on twitter that's so inane even I can't remember it.

[GS]

'Members of the public who have never met the individual in question have started to leave flowers and candles at a location of perceived relevance...'

Whilst delivered in a very sombre voice.

I assume this trend away from a few relevant clips from, and a recounting of, their career started in 1997, when the need for public display became paramount. Further evidence for your Year Zero hypothesis.

[Browning]

And now Debbie Reynolds has been hospitalized following a suspected stroke. Fucking hell.

[Magic]

Carrie Fisher's mum?

[Browning]

Carrie Fisher's mum?

Indeed.

I don't really know much about her, but that's really shit timing.

[Spoonsky]

2016 outdoing himself if that happens.

[Giggles]

Fuck you 2016! You're such A CUNT!!!!111!!1!!!!

[wullie]

Mother-daughter combo, kinky bastard.

[Baz]

Mother-daughter combo, kinky bastard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WxU9Fw9TxY

[Dquincy]

2016 outdoing himself if that happens.

Stop that right now. It is not a person. It is a year.

Kids today are such twats.

[Pleb]

Debbie Reynolds officially dead now.

Jesus Christ.

[Magic]

Come on, need another huge one before the year is out. :drool:

[Dquincy]

Debbie Reynolds officially dead now.

Jesus Christ.

She was 86 yrs old. Not that shocking really.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Come on, need another huge one before the year is out. :drool:

I dreamed last night that Archbishop Desmond Tutu got harpooned by a Japanese whaling boat, if that helps.

[ItalAussie]

I dreamed last night that Archbishop Desmond Tutu got harpooned by a Japanese whaling boat, if that helps.

He needs to make it to 2017 for my death pool to come off.

[Spikey M]

Twitter is saying that the Queen is dead but that there is a 24 hour news 'blackout'.

99% sure its bullshit.

[Raoul Duke]

How would that even work? Idiots

[Jeet]

Onslow from Keeping Up Appearances has died :(

edit: Ignore - died 2012 :D some twat shared it on fb..

[Pleb]

Yeah in 2012 I believe.

[Kikó]

Another one gone, Elvis has left the building.

[Gray Fox]

Some nutcase has just shot John Lennon. Hope he pulls through.

[Shindig]

I hear Franz Ferdinand's just been assassinated. Hope this resolves itself quickly.

[-james-]

Twitter is saying that weird bloke from Nazareth has been done in. Crucifixion apparently, bit harsh. Should boil over fairly quickly though.

[Magic]

RIP Uggah Uggah 10000BC-9987BC :(

[Kikó]

Caesar stabbed in Rome.

[ScousePig]

Something about dinosaurs.

[Magic]

Fucking RIP nothingness thanks to the big bang amiritelol

[Magic]

DIM MATTEI SCORED A FUCKING GREAT GOAL IN THE SAN SOROOO g

[Dquincy]

BREAKING: the queen is on top of Buckingham palace firing a rifle into the air shouting "one is going to survive 2016"

Source: Twitter

Although I can't verify it.

[Disco]

Graham Taylor.

[Adamski]

Remember Dquincy?

[Disco]

Not really.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Can we not knock it?

:(

[Yevrah]

:sad:

Came as a surprise to me that he was 72.

[SvN]

Do I not like that.

:(

I was a bit too young to remember Bobby Robson as England manager (despite having faint memories of Italia 90), so he's the first England manager I can really remember.

[Lewis]

The whole turnip business may well have been the first modern meme (at least in football circles). They should have Sport Bible and all those wankers shut down.

[Boydy]

I just found out today that Zygmunt Bauman died at the weekend. I'm surprised the Guardian didn't report on it.

[Mellberg]

Graham :(

Brought in Paul McGrath (and apparently managed a man with many demons impeccably). For that alone I'll always be grateful.

[Giggles]

Graham :(

Brought in Paul McGrath (and apparently managed a man with many demons impeccably). For that alone I'll always be grateful.

McGrath always credited him with saving his career.

EDIT: Actually, was just reading this about it earlier too. Quotes McGraths book.

https://www.balls.ie/football/graham-taylor-paul-mcgrath-aston-villa-356430-356430

[Disco]

Relatedly, when did we stop hating Koeman for being a dickhead in 93?

[Giggles]

I hated him for scoring against Sampdoria in the European Cup final but I can't remember if it was 1993.

[Disco]

This one probably won't apply to you.

[Giggles]

It was 1992 anyway.

[Disco]

Whatever, the WC Qualifier thing.

[Offshore Toon]

Relatedly, when did we stop hating Koeman for being a dickhead in 93?
Just looked this up. Jesus, what a disgrace.

For those who also didn't know:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUPbB0n8Y4U

[Lewis]

What the fuck was our man in nets doing for that goal?

[Shindig]

And? I'd still run OIe Solskjaer over.

[Disco]

What the fuck was our man in nets doing for that goal?

Beginning a proud tradition of goalkeeping errors in an England shirt.

[Offshore Toon]

So what? Professional fouls happen all the time.
The ref, obvs.

[Danny]

And? I'd still run OIe Solskjaer over.

:drool:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkAz5CT6apM

[Spammer]

I just found out today that Zygmunt Bauman died at the weekend. I'm surprised the Guardian didn't report on it.
I was most surprised that he lived in Leeds. I might have walked past him in Morrison's.

[Reg]

There's something "The Office" about that Platt interview.

[ScousePig]

I was most surprised that he lived in Leeds. I might have walked past him in Morrison's.

Which Morrison's do you go to?

[Baz]

Larry Steinbachek from Bronski Beat. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38597071 xxx

[Pleb]

Lord Snowdon.

[Spammer]

Which Morrison's do you go to?

It used to be Yeadon or Guiseley, but I live in Beeston now. Nowadays it's either Hunslet or the one in town.

I've covered so much ground that I must have bumped into him at some point.

[John]

Miguel Ferrer, cancer.

[Magic]

Who? FFS Albert from Twin Peaks.

[Yevrah]

In a horrible case of art imitating life, he was in an episode of ER playing a man who found out he had terminal cancer.

[Disco]

Given that Allo Allo was better than Star Wars or anything Bowie ever did 2017 is already objectively a better murderer than last year.

http://i.imgur.com/EjvRh3B.png

[Raoul Duke]

#triggered


Come on!

[Baz]

WorldStarHipHop Founder Lee ‘Q’ O’Denat Has Died (http://news.hiphopearly.com/worldstarhiphop-founder-lee-q-odenat-died/).

[Magic]

WORLD STAR BABY.

capitals

[Shindig]

She looks just like Buddy Holly.

[Boydy]

John Hurt.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

What a bollocks. He did look very frail of late.

[Baz]

He never recovered from his cat being hanged (hung?) in Midnight Express.

And neither have I. :(

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38827688

Mr Morrison, dreaded short illness.

[Yevrah]

85's quite old to get struck down by a 'short illness', unless it actually was a short illness, like raging flu or something.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's when people under 60 die of the short illness that I start bricking it.

[Disco]

85's quite old to get struck down by a 'short illness', unless it actually was a short illness, like raging flu or something.

I always wonder if it's some kind of journalistic shorthand (like tired and emotional or Ugandan discussions) for something like a massively debilitating stroke that they really shouldn't have survived.

[Spammer]

New page :cool:

Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva is dead :(. She was the First Lady in Brazil

[Spammer]

New page :cool:

Jose Antonio Alonso Suarez is dead :(. He was a prominent Spanish politician.

[Spammer]

New page :cool:

Étienne Tshisekedi died yesterday, I didn't realise :(. He was the Congolese Prime Minister at one point.

[Yevrah]

I always wonder if it's some kind of journalistic shorthand (like tired and emotional or Ugandan discussions) for something like a massively debilitating stroke that they really shouldn't have survived.

It'll be cancer.

[SvN]

I'm not sure that's always true. This sums it up nicely, I think:


A short illness is a nice way of saying they died of a condition which didn't take them suddenly and they didn't fight for years. The were diagnosed with pneumonia or something similar and died a few days later despite efforts to save them.

For example author Sue Townsend is described in several places on the BBC website as dying "after a short illness". The truth is that she died a few days after suffering a stroke.

The "short illness" description is used because BBC policy is that an obituary celebrates the life of a person and doesn't focus on their death. The actual illness that took her life isn't really relevant so it's glossed over with a phrase that makes it clear her death wasn't sudden or prolonged but doesn't dwell on the detail.

[phonics]

Hammer, you are fucking dogshit at counting mate. How do you make 4 posts and still not end up on the next page.

[Disco]

You've already bullied one member off the board this week phonics, leave him alone.

[Magic]

I like phonics. :drool:

[Mellberg]

Who the hell? Surely being bullied by Phonics is similar to melting steel with a lightbulb.

[Disco]

http://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/showthread.php?1459-The-EU-Politics-Thread-(Sponsored-by-Bruhnaldo-s-incompetence)

[John]

That was probably my fault. I changed the title and Bruh took it out on Phonics.

[Spoonsky]

Who the hell? Surely being bullied by Phonics is similar to melting steel with a lightbulb.

Your mistake is thinking that Bruh is steel, when in fact he is a field of delicate flowers.

[Magic]

Weeds, you mean.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/showthread.php?1459-The-EU-Politics-Thread-(Sponsored-by-Bruhnaldo-s-incompetence)
Christ that's good.

[Jimmy Floyd]

New page :cool:

Étienne Tshisekedi died yesterday, I didn't realise :(. He was the Congolese Prime Minister at one point.

Etienne Tshisekedi was the hero of my 68-rated third year dissertation. RIP, big man, you'll be missed.

[Baz]

http://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/showthread.php?1459-The-EU-Politics-Thread-(Sponsored-by-Bruhnaldo-s-incompetence)FFS he was genuinely one of the better posters. Has he stopped posting? I assume removing his avatar means so. :(

Come back bruhnaldo.

[Spammer]

Hammer, you are fucking dogshit at counting mate. How do you make 4 posts and still not end up on the next page.

It was on the next page each time I posted it but someone is in the habit of deleting posts to thwart my valiant efforts.

It's a shame that it's happening, but nothing worth having ever came easy and I am determined to continue the fight for as long as it takes.

[phonics]

It was on the next page each time I posted it but someone is in the habit of deleting posts to thwart my valiant efforts.

It's a shame that it's happening, but nothing worth having ever came easy and I am determined to continue the fight for as long as it takes.

I already explained it to you. No-one is deleting your posts you nutter, you aren't counting the amount of posts correctly as vBulletin will automatically move your post to a new page based on average posting times to allow for fresh posts to come in while you were posting.

[John]

It'll be a shame when you get banned for spamming.

[Giggles]

I already explained it to you. No-one is deleting your posts you nutter, you aren't counting the amount of posts correctly as vBulletin will automatically move your post to a new page based on average posting times to allow for fresh posts to come in while you were posting.

No he means that his post shows on the top of a new page (post 51, 101, 151, etc) but then someone deletes a previous post of theirs to make it post 50, 100, 150, etc and thus at the bottom of the previous page.

:cool:

[phonics]

I can see every deleted post. It's not happening. I'm just trying to get him to stop trying tbh.

[Magic]

Phonics is a cunt. Like my wife.

[Spammer]

No he means that his post shows on the top of a new page (post 51, 101, 151, etc) but then someone deletes a previous post of theirs to make it post 50, 100, 150, etc and thus at the bottom of the previous page.

:cool:

:cool:

[Giggles]

Phonics is a cunt. Like my wife.

Some day you'll be posting in the death thread for real. With a hammer in your other hand.

[Shindig]

Someone should warn Hammer.

[Boydy]

It'll be a shame when you get banned for spamming.

:eyemouth:

[Magic]

Tara Palmer Tomkinson. :happycry:

[niko_cee]

Brain cancer she revealed last year.

Missed points.

[Magic]

For the 'Who?' lot:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/12/22/158C7C88000005DC-2883056-Tara_Palmer_Tomkinson_was_arrested_at_Heathrow_aft er_reportedly_-m-29_1419211595231.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/05/article-2022944-0D3196BD00000578-265_468x539.jpg

No? Me neither.

[Disco]

Her family was very friendly with Prince Charles, I'm sure some kind of royal connection was the basis of her initial notoriety.

[wullie]

She was basically the prequel to Made In Chelsea.

[John]

The BBC are running with 'found dead', which makes it sound more like an overdose than a cancer death.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Another blow for the 1997-2005 world order.

[Baz]

She was fit for a bit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

She was fit for a bit.

But she was proper mental, probably constantly coked up though.

[Spikey M]

But she was proper mental, probably constantly coked up though.

She was rich, of course she was coked up. The Houses of Parliament probably has mirrored toilet seats.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-38983931

I can't imagine a perforated ulcer leads to dying 'peacefully in your sleep'.

[Spikey M]

You know when you stub your toe and it knacks no much you can't even swear? It's probably like that.

[Cord]

I'm sure we all long for a world with entirely accurate obituaries.

'She died in excruciating pain, covered in several of her own bodily fluids and terrified of the aching chasm of nothingness opening up in front of her. The funeral will be held on Wednesday, floral tributes welcome'.

[Spikey M]

People usually shit themselves at the end too.

[Boydy]

Where the fuck have you been, Cord?

[Magic]

People usually shit themselves at the end too.

That's the best thing about cancer/Alzheimer's/MND. There's nothing left to shit.

[Magic]

Dr Hayward from Twin Peaks. Dropping like flies from that series.

[Dark Soldier]

Bill Paxton. Game over man.

[Magic]

Ffs only 61. :(

[Giggles]

Who? I googled it and got some House of Representatives fella but no mention of his death.

EDIT: I'd googled Bill Paxon. Though I don't ever recall seeing that (actually dead) actor before either.

[Disco]

He was Hudson in Aliens.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The ultimate badass.

[Giggles]

He was Hudson in Aliens.

So I see. Never seen it though.

[Giggles]

I see on Wikipedia he is a lead in the Training Day TV series. Is that it fucked then? I was going to give a couple of episodes a watch.

[Adamski]

And people say you're heartless.

[Giggles]

What now?

[Manc]

Apollo 13, Tombstone, Twister, Vertical Limit. Top contribution.

[Yevrah]

I never realised he was one of the hoodlums in Terminator.

[Gray Fox]

Only person killed by an Alien, Predator and a Terminator if I remember right.

[Adamski]

Of Twister and True Lies fame :(

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-39095305

Geezer who played Mag the Mighty in GoT.

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/gameofthrones/images/8/84/Mag_charges.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140609172538

:(

[Magic]

Chuck Berry. 90. No age.

[Lewis]

That is a massive one that. You could make a very strong case for him being the most significant musician of the twentieth century.

[Giggles]

That is a massive one that. You could make a very strong case for him being the most significant musician of the twentieth century.

No case required. He shaped it all.

[wullie]

Who's left from that era now? Little Richard's the only one I can think of.

[Lewis]

Jerry Lee Lewis is still going, and Fats Domino seems to be death proof.

[Kikó]

Martin McGuiness.

[Shindig]

Northern Irish politics is going to be weird without the old Sinn Feinn lot.

[Lewis]

Don Rickles (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZblPwNLH6hg) is dead. What a legend.

[Shindig]

I don't think I've ever seen Dean Martin on TV sober.

[ItalAussie]

It won't mean much to the non-Aussies, but John Clarke is dead at 68. :(

I'd say unarguably the funniest person in the country, and one of the all-time masters of political satire. Anyone not Australian should get themselves a copy of The Games and watch it from start to finish. A huge loss.

[niko_cee]

Those mock interviews he did were always cracking.

[Magic]

Is he the cunt that does that Ozzy man commentary videos? Glad the cunt is dead.

[Disco]

He's the guy who did that 'the front wasn't supposed to fall off' interview right?

[John]

Is he the cunt that does that Ozzy man commentary videos? Glad the cunt is dead.

Yes. There was one man in Australia.

[Giggles]

The words political satire means I probably don't know his work.

[hfswjyr]

It won't mean much to the non-Aussies, but John Clarke is dead at 68. :(

I'd say unarguably the funniest person in the country, and one of the all-time masters of political satire. Anyone not Australian should get themselves a copy of The Games and watch it from start to finish. A huge loss.
For kiwi's he was also Fred Dagg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYvMeT2GC14


He's the guy who did that 'the front wasn't supposed to fall off' interview right?
Yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

[ItalAussie]

The Clarke and Dawe interviews are the pinnacle of political satire. How they managed to keep it going for so long is incredible.

The Games was also peak television:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17NKos-7GCo

"Now Mr Wilson, have you measured the 100m track?"
"It's about 100m."
"About 100m?"

[Kikó]

Charlie Murphy http://m.tmz.com/2017/04/12/charlie-murphy-dead-leukemia-eddie-murphy-brother/

[Giggles]

Well known NFL murderer Aaron Hernandez.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/american-sports/former-nfl-star-aaron-hernandez-found-dead-in-his-prison-cell-35635527.html

[Ian]

What a shame.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Thought he was set for life after he joined the Crips in jail.

I was surprised he did it after he was found not guilty of the double murders in Boston.

[phonics]

He was still guilty of the other one though.

My guess is it was a gang murder covered up as a suicide.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yeah, I didn't realise he got life without parole for the one he was found guilty for. He wasn't going to get out before death.

My guess would have been gang hit as he got some gang tattoos in prison but the door was blocked from the inside.

[John]

You've both watched far too many crime procedurals.

[SvN]

Fucking hell, talk about jumping to conclusions.

[wullie]

It sounds like his life has come to a tight end! Hiyo

[Adamski]

Not sure its fully confirmed yet but apparently Ehiogu has died after his collapse yesterday.

[Giggles]

Yep.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/39664839

[wullie]

Shit.

[John]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mOq_KmgVos

:(

[Adamski]

:cool:

[Giggles]

That's savage, hadn't seen it before.

[niko_cee]

Robert Miles.

:(


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC5ca6Hsb2Q

[Magic]

Ripped the start off 999 the shameless cunt.

[Lewis]

Remember when Oxide & Neutrino sampled the Casualty theme and brought that entire sub-genre to a juddering halt?

[Offshore Toon]

Garage is back, baby.

[Magic]

Remember when Oxide & Neutrino sampled the Casualty theme and brought that entire sub-genre to a juddering halt?

Oh wow that's the first time I've heard that. :sick:

[Offshore Toon]

Oh wow that's the first time I've heard that. :sick:
Really? It was MASSIVE. That, Little Bit Of Luck and Re-rewind are the big garage tracks I remember.

[Magic]

Do You Really Like It was massive too. But yeah was it really massive or just massively known for it's total and utter shiteness? You've ruined it for me, Lewis.

[Offshore Toon]

Do You Really Like It was massive too. But yeah was it really massive or just massively known for it's total and utter shiteness? You've ruined it for me, Lewis.
Ah, yeah. There are probably quite a few more tbf.

Apparently Sweet Like Chocolate was grage. :drool:

I don't know if it counts as garage, but this banger. :drool:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymNFyxvIdaM

[Lewis]

I bought the album with that on and it was absolutely appalling.

[wullie]

Piano Loco was as good as chart garage got. Flibbydibbydibbydibbydibby

[Offshore Toon]

I bought So Solid Crew's album based off 21 Seconds. I think I've still got it. Decent album tbh.

[phonics]

I have Oxide & Neutrino on Casisngle.

[Disco]

I bought So Solid Crew's album based off 21 Seconds. I think I've still got it. Decent album tbh.

I always liked them (not the music, I'm not mentally ill) purely for the fact they managed to get so many people to publicly admit they were in this group and take on a ridiculous name and take it so seriously. Like some kind of mass psychosis only with 8p in royalties and six months in Pentonville at the end.

[John]

Powers Boothe. :(