Celebs who are now dead

[Magic]

It was that bad I always thought she was putting it on more to sell themselves better to the yanks, until I heard her talking.

I really like local dialects coming through, similar to Glasvegas.

[Alex]

Mark E. Smith is dead. :(

The Fall are, in my humble opinion, the best band this country has ever produced. Gutted.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42811968

[Lewis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiduNJG-Ltk

[Alex]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH1KhxKh1YA

:cool:

[Henry]

Ursula Le Guin

:(

[The Merse]

Mark E. Smith is dead. :(

The Fall are, in my humble opinion, the best band this country has ever produced. Gutted.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42811968

This just broke my heart. Bowie was a shame, Michael was something of significance in spite of not being a fan, Cash... I was definitely not impacted by that imposter, but Mark E. Smith... Shit.

[Magic]

I've never listened to the Fall.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They're on a list of artists I'm too posh to understand, along with Ian Dury and Joy Division.

[Disco]

If that video is anything to go by they were stealing a living.

[Magic]

Oh well I hate Joy Division so fuck 'MES'.

Edit: lol Merse confirming I'll never listen to them.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He / they are nothing like Joy Division, it's just a different load of Manchester shite I don't get.

[Lewis]

Joy Division were mega. The Fall were crap.

[Browning]

If that video is anything to go by they were stealing a living.

Thank God someone said it. I lasted about a minute of it before I gave up.

[Magic]

Thank God someone said it. I lasted about a minute of it before I gave up.

:D

"Bleurgh" Nope.

[Shindig]

He / they are nothing like Joy Division, it's just a different load of Manchester shite I don't get.

Sam Riley played both Mark E. Smith (24 Hour Party People) and Ian Curtis (Control). The Fall were a shambles and it shows in their music. The only time they got it together regularly was when Brix was driving the thing.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Is the video meant to be a joke?

[John]

That Merse post reads like someone caricaturing a try hard div.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Assuming he means Johnny Cash, surely the best of the four. Although I've been somewhat turned against Bowie by the amount of boomers and luvvie cunts wailing when he died at 65 after being ill for years.

[Lewis]

As far as I'm concerned David Bowie retired in 1983 so it wasn't a massive loss for me.

[The Merse]

I mean Jonny Cash, yes. His epitaph is false as fuck.

[Alex]

They're on a list of artists I'm too posh to understand, along with Ian Dury and Joy Division.

More than likely a factual statement.


If that video is anything to go by they were stealing a living.

Actually the first thought I had the first time I heard them, incidentally performing that very same song.


Sam Riley played both Mark E. Smith (24 Hour Party People) and Ian Curtis (Control). The Fall were a shambles and it shows in their music. The only time they got it together regularly was when Brix was driving the thing.

The initial Brix period was, undoubtedly, excellent. They definitely "got it together" on various occasions before and after that, though.


Is the video meant to be a joke?

No.

[Shindig]

They had moments during their stint with Rough Trade as well. Fit and Working Again, Totally Wired, An Older Lover, Container Drivers, How I Wrote Elastic Man. That's five from a compilation of 25 songs, though. You have to wade through a lot of shit.

[phonics]

Reading the news yesterday I was thinking 'I've never listened to The Fall, I should give them a chance'.

After watching 30 seconds of that video, they're dead to me.

[Spikey M]

Another one I’d never heard of. Probably because his music was shit if this thread is anything to go by. Which begs the question, how fucking common do you have to be to get it?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Judging by twitter, you have to be left wing and northern.

[-james-]

Anyone who doesn't like The Fall isn't to be trusted. Legend. RIP.

[Disco]

They're a band I've never understood the appeal of. People like Bowie I never really liked but I can see why others do. The Fall just sound like something you might see in a pub on a random Thursday, although occasionally pub acts have a singer who can carry a tune so they've lost out there as well.

[Spikey M]

James liking a band is probably the best litmus test I have for whether I’ll like them or not.

[McAvennie]

Ursula Le Guin

:(

Agreed, I read her Earthsea stuff when I was 11 and loved it. I re-read it in my 30s and realised it was genius

[phonics]

Anyone who doesn't like The Fall isn't to be trusted. Legend. RIP.

You just like noise. Fucking Sigur Ros.

[Disco]

Earthsea was great, such a refreshingly different style to most of the other fantasy I'd read. Probably time to have another read through.

[-james-]

You just like noise. Fucking Sigur Ros.

Noise is brilliant. Sigur Ros are neither noise nor good.

[McAvennie]

Noise is brilliant. Sigur Ros are neither noise nor good.

Agree that noise can be great, but have to disagree on Sigur Ros, they are marvellous

[-james-]

They're alright, I just generally find them repetetive/predictable.

[phonics]

Noise is brilliant. Sigur Ros are neither noise nor good.

Who was the one that had an absolute boner for them in the Music thread?

[Lewis]

Fry Gayola.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Cry Frayola.

[Spikey M]

I reckon Fry was Scoobs.

[Boydy]

Judging by twitter, you have to be left wing and northern.

Not sure if I really count as northern but that video upthread was a load of shite.

[Boydy]

Where's the best place to started with Ursula Le Guin? I've been meaning to read some of her stuff for ages but there's so much of it.

[McAvennie]

A wizard of Earthsea, if fantasy isn't your bag then the Left hand of darkness is great scifi

[Boydy]

Yeah, more the scifi stuff than the fantasy stuff for me.

Cheers, I'll check it out.

[Giggles]

Was rumoured a time back, but he's apparently been in a bad way for a good while.


962090453985263617

[Shindig]

That's rough. Also, that student that died in town (in apparently ridiculous circumstances) had sailed for Britain in the European Championships. Meaning that she jumped straight to the BBC front page.

[Giggles]

Only diagnosed in November too.

[Spikey M]

Christ.

[Shindig]

He'd probably not that long retired, too.

[Giggles]

I think he was playing in the US up to some time last year.

[Magic]

He was and I think he was still under contract?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43012424

Rob Delaney's two year old son :(

[Giggles]

Fucking hell, awful.

[Magic]

Jesus Christ.

[Giggles]

He was and I think he was still under contract?

Real Salt Lake apparently. Not sure what their season is though so not sure on the contract.

https://www.rsl.com/post/2018/02/09/club-statement-regarding-liam-miller

He was immense the season he spent here with CC.

EDIT - He was seemingly brought in to be an assistant manager for their lower league affiliate Real Monarchs.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Reg Cathey :(

[Lewis]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43012424

Rob Delaney's two year old son :(

Not really a celebrity in his own right, was he?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Reg Cathey :(

His character in The Wire was a properly underrated boss.

[Max Power]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhj2nQIiAnU

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I fucking loved his voice and laugh.

[Pleb]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/bill-paxton-family-sues-hospital-doctor-for-wrongful-death/ar-BBJ6hG0?li=AA9SkIr&ocid=spartanntp

:sherlock:

[randomlegend]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43183354

[Lewis]

What are 'natural causes' when you're fifty-three? She wasn't even Scottish.

[Magic]

Davide Astori (Fiorentina captain) found dead in hotel room.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

How does a physically fit 31 year old have a heart attack?

You'd imagine drug free as he gets tested.

[Giggles]

How does a physically fit 31 year old have a heart attack?

You'd imagine drug free as he gets tested.

An unknown defect. It happens more than you'd think.

[Magic]

Roger Bannister.

[Lewis]

Davide Astori (Fiorentina captain) found dead in hotel room.

I had him at Milan as bench fodder on one of my Football Manager games, so I'm going to leave the old game outside and post a picture online. #putoutyourdiscs

[Shindig]

An unknown defect. It happens more than you'd think.

Yep. Milklos Feher, Marc-Vivien Foe, Antonio Puerta, Pavel Srnicek. And then there's David Ginola and Fabrice Muamba who luckily survived. I just remembered I bought the guy once on Pro Evo. He was pretty competent. Funny how that's my point of reference.

[ItalAussie]

How does a physically fit 31 year old have a heart attack?

You'd imagine drug free as he gets tested.

Presumably it happens because they're physically pushing themselves to the limit, so any defects will cause problems?

It's really sad, whatever the reason.

[Magic]

Presumably it happens because they're physically pushing themselves to the limit, so any defects will cause problems?

It's really sad, whatever the reason.

A lazy Italian centre back? Doubtful.

[Foe]

Presumably it happens because they're physically pushing themselves to the limit, so any defects will cause problems?

It's really sad, whatever the reason.

Any high profile examples from other sports?

Can imagine sports like american football, basketball, track sprinting, pentathlon, marathon running etc would all have similar issues.

[Pepe]

College football players die every five minutes don't they?

[Lewis]

The names Shindig mentioned all croaked during games/intensive exercise. Going in your hotel room is a bit unusual, and my first thought was all those cyclists who were dying in their sleep when EPO first became massive.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Could have been a normal person death, like a brain haemorrhage or something.

[Giggles]

Could have been a normal person death, like a brain haemorrhage or something.

Easily a possibility too. Clot, anything like that.

Could have simply choked on something.

[wullie]

They're looking into the possibility of manslaughter with Astori now, blimey.

[Kikó]

They're looking into the possibility of manslaughter with Astori now, blimey.

Standard procedure apparently.

[wullie]

Ah, there goes checking the Fiorentina squad to see who looks most shifty.

[SincereTheRebel]

Vincent Laurini. Looks mad suspect and shifty to me. That smile is a dead give away.


https://ssl.c.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000kQj151U_uRI/fit=1000x750/Vincent-Laurini-01.jpg

[phonics]

That man is 30% neck.

[wullie]

There must be something about the Fiorentina photographer as most of the players seem to have necks for days

https://i.imgur.com/oazqQvn.png

[Magic]

Bill Turnbull has incurable cancer. :(

[Baz]

Ken Dodd’s dead.

Reunited with his dads dog, at least.

[Lewis]

He got married on his deathbead for one last massive tax dodge. :cool:

[John Arne]

Stephen Hawking.

Did well to last this long.

[Magic]

Think that deserves its own thread.

@Ital

[Giggles]

Think that deserves its own thread.

@Ital


https://i.imgur.com/V87xrXE.png

[Shindig]

Have Paddypower opened the betting on which museum gets his wheelchair?

[Henry]

Hawking was a fucking legend.

"Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up."

[hfswjyr]

Where's the death list?

[Lewis]

Have they tried turning him off and on again?

(I've just woken up, so if that has been posted elsewhere - which it probably has - get lost mate)

[SincereTheRebel]

Regardless of what you mean say, I still feel the technology is there to put Schumacher in Hawkins mode.

[Disco]

One had a degenerative physical condition and the other has a head injury the extent of which we don't know. They aren't really comparable.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fuck you, the technology IS THERE.

[Lewis]

http://i66.tinypic.com/zmjnle.png

He has inadvertently structured that in the lollest way possible.

[Magic]

Jim Bowen.

[SvN]

Ah goddamnit, I liked Jim.

[Shindig]

Super. Smashing. Great. :(

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I hope he finds all the boats that were never won on Bullseye in the afterlife.

[Yevrah]

Schumacher fascinates me, in that presumably he's being kept alive until such time when science has moved on to a level where they can transfer whatever giblets of him are left into a new host.

[Magic]

And exactly four years on from his crash, reported healthcare figures suggest his home care bills have now passed £20m.
Jesus.

[Pepe]

Speaking of, who here is into cryonics?

[Disco]

Schumacher fascinates me, in that presumably he's being kept alive until such time when science has moved on to a level where they can transfer whatever giblets of him are left into a new host.

Not much good if he's not really in there anymore.

[Spikey M]

What a shit day.

[Shindig]

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

Find me another Oxbridge graduate with flow like this.

[Dquincy]

Have they tried turning him off and on again? 8

(I've just woken up, so if that has been posted elsewhere - which it probably has - get lost mate)

The fact that you've posted that second bit, clearly means you have nicked it. Cringe.

[Spikey M]

Find me another Oxbridge graduate with flow like this.


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

[Pepe]

Find me another Oxbridge graduate with flow like this.
Boydy.

[Magic]

Nevertheless am I dressed for the occasion
It’s Oxford reject no.1 now here’s the situation
If the job moves you city then don’t get off at the station
Pack your bags cause we’re leaving Ballymena on a permanent vacation
Well, I’m a disaster
An HNC master
Put on your website and rock your ad block blaster
It’s not about the money, cars, hotels, or resorts
Because I can't afford shit and I wear cut off shorts

[Disco]

Oh my. :D

[Boydy]

:D

ffs

[Shindig]

Excellent. :D

[Lewis]

The fact that you've posted that second bit, clearly means you have nicked it. Cringe.

From where, mate? From where?

[Dquincy]

My watsapp account for starters. And don't deny it.

Let's move on.

[Lewis]

I don't use WhatsApp so lol at you.

[Magic]

I faxed it to you three hours ago.

[Lewis]

I posted it like ten hours ago, so you must have copied it off me in the first place.

[John]

And exactly four years on from his crash, reported healthcare figures suggest his home care bills have now passed £20m.
Jesus.

They'd have bought all the machines they needed on day one, so about eighteen million of that goes in the first year.

[SincereTheRebel]

Im sure schu would take hawkins body and wheelchair in a straight swap deal

[John]

Im sure schu would take hawkins body and wheelchair in a straight swap deal

It wouldn't help him. Hawking is dead and Schumacher has a brain injury.

[Disco]

He'd be swapping an ostensibly healthy body for one that (even before yesterday) was almost completely useless.

[Shindig]

Just how useful is Schumacher's body after these years? He's not been seen in public since and any mention of improvement is completely shat on by his PR.

[Disco]

More useful than the body of a dead pensioner with motor neurone disease.

[Magic]

Greengrass. :(

[Baz]

He’s far from dead but bloody hell Dynamo is in a bad way (https://news.sky.com/story/and-for-my-next-trick-getting-back-to-health-dynamo-suffering-from-arthritis-11305784). :(

[Lewis]

You shouldn't laugh, but 'Dynamo has revealed impact of Crohn’s disease on his magical abilities' is such a lol sentence.

[Pleb]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/arnold-schwarzenegger-rushed-to-surgery-for-emergency-heart-operation/ar-AAvi1f3?li=AAmiR2Z&ocid=spartanntp

:sorry:

[Danny]

http://people.com/movies/arnold-schwarzenegger-first-words-after-heart-surgery-im-back/

:cool:

[Magic]

Uncle Fester Wilkins fighting for his life.

[Lewis]

They should lead with those Tango adverts when they review his life.

[Pleb]

Is he REALLY the Terminator now? :drool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Ray Wilkins still close. I don't think football is ready for his highlights reel.

[Shindig]

As soon as the news broke, BBC dug out his cup winner. They're ready.

[Gray Fox]

Ray Wilkins is gone.

[Magic]

Shame. Did like him but taken a shade or two off since I found out about his drink driving shite.

[Kikó]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fAcsdLcldo


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

And his greatest moment


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

[Lewis]

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

[Pepe]

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

[Spikey M]

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

[Kikó]

Anyone seen the Tango vid?

[Pepe]

What video?

[Mike]

Wasn't he in some fanta advert or something?

[Lewis]

You mean Tango.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That's the first time I've actually seen 'and Smith must score', yes it was a glorious chance but the keeper did narrow it and there wasn't that much space. I'd always heard it talked up as some Ronnie Rosenthal moment.

[Boom-Boom-18]

Eric Bristow has gone.

[Gray Fox]

Twenty, double top. Just how he would have wanted.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Any darts player that makes it to 60 has done well.

[Lewis]

That night Twitter piled him because he called the football nonce victims wimps was quality. What sort of unfulfilling existence do you have to lead to stay up abusing Eric Bristow over the internet?

[randomlegend]

What sort of unfulfilling existence do you have to lead to spend your time having a go at abused children?

[Disco]

He was only 60! What on earth has he been doing for the last 25 years?

[SvN]

Drinking himself to death, it seems.

[Disco]

What a fucking waster.

[phonics]

Alexander of Macedonia had the last laugh it seems.

[John]

Isao Takahata.

[Lewis]

What sort of unfulfilling existence do you have to lead to spend your time having a go at abused children?

He's just one saddo (who was probably drunk). There were thousands of people telling him off and trying to get him sacked.

[Giggles]

He's just one saddo (who was probably drunk). There were thousands of people telling him off and trying to get him sacked.

The SJW brigade are outstanding entertainment.

[randomlegend]

Isn't people responding what other people post basically the whole point of twitter?

[Lewis]

When and where necessary. It seems like a bit of a waste of your life attempting to educate Eric Bristow off of the darts on the finer points of victim sensitivity and/or screeching for him to be sacked.

[randomlegend]

When and where necessary. It seems like a bit of a waste of your life...

When is responding to literally anyone on twitter not a 'waste of your life'?

[Lewis]

I suppose when you are learning something or having a banter, as is the case here.

[Pepe]

When lols are had.

[Baz]

When is responding to literally anyone on twitter not a 'waste of your life'?You could replace ‘twitter’ with a number of things (Reddit, TTH, etc.) but we all still do it.

[randomlegend]

You could replace ‘twitter’ with a number of things (Reddit, TTH, etc.) but we all still do it.

Well yes, precisely.

[Giggles]

But, TWITTER.

[igor_balis]

I know the SJW outrage machine whirring into life can be a massive pain in the arse, but sometimes thick celebrities getting called out for being twats is to be applauded. If some Tory MP got caught on camera saying nigger I fucking bet a decent minority on here would respond by smirking and rolling their eyes at the idiots getting upset about it.

[Giggles]

Ken Barlow. Maybe. The Mrs just said it but her source might be Facebook.

[Bam]

https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/947989/Bill-Roache-Coronation-Street-dead-dies-false-rumours

[Giggles]

:cool: Ken.

[Magic]

Dale Winton.

[Browning]

The BBC article says:

He presented a wide range of shows, including Family Fortunes and In It To Win It.

Did he? Must have missed that.

[Giggles]

I've forgotten that too. Les Dennis and Vernon Kay are all that stick out for me.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He never did.

Monkhouse was once a host.

[SvN]

Have celebs always been prone to seemingly drop dead out of nowhere? If feels like it's happening more and more the last few years.

[Lewis]

He looked a weird shape the last time I saw a picture of him. Maybe that had something to do with it.

[Dquincy]

Aids.

[Shindig]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhG3t4FjYg8

[hfswjyr]

Have celebs always been prone to seemingly drop dead out of nowhere? If feels like it's happening more and more the last few years.

My theory is that there are way more celebs now, what with the 15 minutes of fame these days.

[Magic]

DJ Aviici. 28 y0

[Giggles]

Thought he was way older than that. Must have been a teenager when he was mainstream famous.

[John]

Thought he was way older than that. Must have been a teenager when he was mainstream famous.

Very early twenties. His first mainstream hit was in 2011

[Magic]

So what we saying. Suicide? Runs? It was in Oman after all.

[Spikey M]

Fucking hell.

[John]

So what we saying. Suicide? Runs? It was in Oman after all.

He was born in Oman.

I'd guess drug fuelled misadventure.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He was born in Oman.

I'd guess drug fuelled misadventure.

Wasn't he born in Sweden?

[Spikey M]

Apparently he’s been suffering from depression.
.

[John]

Wasn't he born in Sweden?

One of the big Swedish DJs was born in the middle east, and I could swear it was him.

[Spikey M]

Wiki says Stockholm.

[Giggles]

One of the big Swedish DJs was born in the middle east, and I could swear it was him.

I was trying to search to see which one but it's near impossible to get anything else back from 'swedish DJ oman' at the moment.

[Trancemeister]

One of the big Swedish DJs was born in the middle east, and I could swear it was him.

His manager Ash is Iranian. Him you thinkning of?


Also RIP Tim

[mugbull]

No celebrity death has ever affected me as much as this. Very shocking

[Trancemeister]

One of the big Swedish DJs was born in the middle east, and I could swear it was him.

Steve Angello was born in Greece. Only one I can think of born outside of Sweden

[Magic]

He was born in Oman.

I'd guess drug fuelled misadventure.

Really? Playlist deleted.

[Dquincy]

Apparently him and Dale had a pact. :( Close friends.

[Baz]

Omg I assumed I’d misread it. Aviici is dead? That’s fucked up. :(

[Bam]

He was born in Oman.

I'd guess drug fuelled misadventure.

He died in Oman you fucking pleb, read Wiki right before commenting.

[Spikey M]

I’d probably read the thread to ensure I’d understood the context of a statement before I started chucking stones like that about.

[Dquincy]

He died in Oman you fucking pleb, read Wiki right before commenting.
:D

[Trancemeister]

Mini-Me Verne Troyer

[igor_balis]

Avicii had pancreatitis. It's quite scary, a girl I'm really close to (good friend and former romantic interest) got diagnosed last year. At her latest checkup the doctor said it looks like her pancreas has basically stopped producing enzymes. She's only 26 as well.

[Bam]

I’d probably read the thread to ensure I’d understood the context of a statement before I started chucking stones like that about.

Oh right, go on. Tell me how I've got this wrong.

[Magic]

Oh right, go on. Tell me how I've got this wrong.

Reason no. 1: you're a cunt

[Magic]

Verne Troyer.

[Giggles]

Verne Troyer.

On the ball there.

[Magic]

On the ball there.

Destroying Whamster was more important.

[Spikey M]

Oh right, go on. Tell me how I've got this wrong.

He was saying that he was in Omen because he was from there. He wasn’t getting place of birth and place of death confused. Pretty simple to wrap even my little head around.

[John]

Verne Troyer.

Wee shame.


He was saying that he was in Omen because he was from there. He wasn’t getting place of birth and place of death confused. Pretty simple to wrap even my little head around.

This is it. Though I wasn't saying he was from there, he's the most Swedish looking man to ever draw breath. Just that he had a preexisting connection to the place.

You're adorable, Bam. Every time you have a pop at someone it's like when a kid who wants spaghetti for dinner asks for 'pasketti'. The intention is fine but you just don't have the words to follow through or the intelligence to know where you fucked up.

[Spikey M]

Bam wouldn’t eat that foreign muck.

[Bam]

Born in Oman doesn't mean place of birth, riiight. :henn0rz:

Magic, you're a fucking jock so I wouldn't be calling anyone a cunt.

[Bam]

Wee shame.



This is it. Though I wasn't saying he was from there, he's the most Swedish looking man to ever draw breath. Just that he had a preexisting connection to the place.

You're adorable, Bam. Every time you have a pop at someone it's like when a kid who wants spaghetti for dinner asks for 'pasketti'. The intention is fine but you just don't have the words to follow through or the intelligence to know where you fucked up.

Took you all day to come up with that did it? Aye ye wee coont.

[John]

Nope. Mobile browsing means no quote notifications and if I see you as the last poster in a thread I generally don't click on it.

As if to confirm my point, you've had the context explained to you now and you're still making a tits of it. You're thick as fuck, Bam.

[Magic]

He was saying that he was in Omen because he was from there. He wasn’t getting place of birth and place of death confused. Pretty simple to wrap even my little head around.

That's a good omen.

[Shindig]

Magic, you're a fucking jock so I wouldn't be calling anyone a cunt.

Aren't you the guy who took his wife's surname?

[Bam]

Aren't you the guy who took his wife's surname?


What?

[Baz]

Jeez. Bam made John look a mook and Giggles did the same to Magic. Move on.

And wasn’t it Byron who was on about doing that?

[Shindig]

What?

It was probably Byron. You both have had West Ham avatars at some point.

[Dquincy]

Jeez. Bam made John look a mook and Giggles did the same to Magic. Move on.

And wasn’t it Byron who was on about doing that?
He does that all by himself to be fair.

[John]

Bam made himself look a mook by not understanding things. You've done the same to yourself now too.

[Foe]

My theory is that there are way more celebs now, what with the 15 minutes of fame these days.

This is definitely the case. Although, the word celebrity is very loose.

Social media, the expansion of the mass media market (i.e. thousands of TV / radio stations / films / artists) and televised sports has basically meant that 'someone you've seen in something somewhere = celebrity'. Talent is largely disconnected from the word celebrity these days, which is a shame.

[Spikey M]

This is definitely the case. Although, the word celebrity is very loose.

Social media, the expansion of the mass media market (i.e. thousands of TV / radio stations / films / artists) and televised sports has basically meant that 'someone you've seen in something somewhere = celebrity'. Talent is largely disconnected from the word celebrity these days, which is a shame.

If anything the contrary is true. Won a Nobel Prize for a groundbreaking discovery? Never heard of them. Said something stupid on a shit TV show, ‘oh yeah, I know him’.

[Disco]

It's all subjective, half the people in this thread I've never heard of. Take the Swedish dj as an example, I could have sat for hours guessing who he was and I'd never have got anywhere near but he seems fairly well known on here.

[Foe]

If anything the contrary is true. Won a Nobel Prize for a groundbreaking discovery? Never heard of them. Said something stupid on a shit TV show, ‘oh yeah, I know him’.

Either I'm not understanding your post or I'm not very eloquent but that's a pretty good summary of what I was trying to communicate.

[Byron]

It was probably Byron. You both have had West Ham avatars at some point.

Yeah, was me. Well in so far as we talked about it but we ended up going with my surname.

[John Arne]

Chauvinist pig.

[Baz]

Aviicii confirmed as suicide.

Have they said what happened to Dale Winton yet? :sherlock:

[Magic]

Frightened Rabbit singer. Also suicide.

[Magic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGsYK3xSkio

Probably should have given them a clue...

"And fully clothed, I float away(I'll float away)
Down the Forth, into the sea
I think I'll save suicide for another day."

��

[wullie]

Inevitable, but shit.

[Shindig]

As long as we don't lose RM Hubbert the same way.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44115166

Margot Kidder aka Christopher Reeve's Lois Lane.

Had Superman not been dead he'd be flying round the planet now to turn back time.

[Shindig]

Also, Dennis Nilsen died in prison the other day.

[phonics]

Jlloyd Samuel, car crash after dropping his kids off at school.

[Magic]

Horrific, looks like he burned to death in his RR.

[Lewis]

Those infamous Jaguar Land Rover electrics strike again. Well in, Mellin.

[Mellberg]

Whoops. Corporate manslaughter charges ahoy.

[Giggles]

Dale Winton buried today. What the fuck do you be doing over there that it takes so long? He'd have near decomposed by now.

[Shindig]

Dale Winton? He's made of varnish. You could stick him in a glass case and make him our Lenin.

[Disco]

They left him the freezer aisle.

[Magic]

Big Peter Stringfellow.

[Spikey M]

Nonce claims incoming

[Baz]

The media doing their best to portray him just as a business man, not a sleazy bastard. :chortle:

[niko_cee]

He was great on Come Dine With Me.

[Lewis]

If he managed to avoid any allegations when it was all kicking off a few years ago he must have been squeaky clean, because he would have been a pretty obvious and high-profile target. Good for him. And he kept his illness a secret instead of bealing all over the papers about it. Legend.

[phonics]

Anthony Bourdain. Suiciide.

:(

[Mazuuurk]

Shame. And weird, he never seemed like the depressed type when on TV but I guess that's typical.

[phonics]

He was a smack addict, if you're coming out of that without some sort of mental issue you're one in a million.

[Jimmy Floyd]

This is a good example of my entire twitter feed going into deep mourning but I've literally never heard of him.

Is it just that I don't watch American TV?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bourdain :(

He had been off the smack for years.

[phonics]

This is a good example of my entire twitter feed going into deep mourning but I've literally never heard of him.

Is it just that I don't watch American TV?

You should read his book Kitchen Confidential, it's some of the best writing you'll ever read.


Bourdain https://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/images/smilies/sad.gif

He had been off the smack for years.

Being off it doesn't mean you aren't still an addict.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

"We were high all the time, sneaking off to the walk-in refrigerator at every opportunity to 'conceptualize.' Hardly a decision was made without drugs. Cannabis, methaqualone, cocaine, LSD, psilocybin mushrooms soaked in honey and used to sweeten tea, secobarbital, tuinal, amphetamine, codeine and, increasingly, heroin, which we'd send a Spanish-speaking busboy over to Alphabet City to get."

I thought it was only heroin, christ.

[phonics]

At one point he was peeling paint chippings off the wall and snorting that. He was deep.

[Magic]

phonics you should do that when you're trying to come up with something for some PR bullshit on Twitter.