Celebs who are now dead

[Giggles]

I was very confused, then I realised people weren't talking about Clive Anderson.

This post has only made me realise it’s not Anderson. I don’t think I know who Clive James was.

[phonics]

Gary Rhodes died of bleeding in the brain, family has released it after everyone started making up shit.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/nov/28/gary-rhodes-died-of-head-injury-family-confirms?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_b-gdnnews&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1574952017

[Disco]

Which only half answers the question, cue even more speculation.

[Yevrah]

I mean, I don't care how he died but that is a bloody odd thing to announce and then just leave it there.

[phonics]

It says he hit his head and got bleeding of the brain. It happens all the time. What's the mystery?

[Disco]

Where does it say he hit his head?

[phonics]

I saw 'head injury' in the headline and disconnected it from the specific bleeding assuming one caused the other despite not being quoted. My bad.

In which case I'm totally in on a massive insurance settlement incoming.

[Baz]

Jamie Oliver tweeted that he'd had a bad fall, literally straight after it was announced. I don't understand all the confusion.

EDIT: looked it up; was insta; he then edited it. :sorry:

[Gray Fox]

Derek Acorah.

I wonder if he'll send anyone some messages from beyond the grave.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Not even a short illness for Derek. A 'very brief illness'. It's coming for us all and it's coming tomorrow.

[SvN]

"An instant illness", coming soon to a celebrity near you.

[Giggles]

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[Pepe]

He was a beast of a drummer.

[Byron]

That's awful. Rush are up there with my all time favourite bands.

[Magic]

That is genuinely shocking. An absolute legend in the musical and drumming worlds.

[Giggles]

Rush are criminally underrated.

[Disco]

Should I have heard of Rush?

[Shindig]

Heard of them but I don't recall actually hearing any of their music.

[Giggles]

:cool:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa0C5Uxpd3c

[Pepe]

I would imagine that most people have heard Tom Sawyer.

[Giggles]

I would imagine that most people have heard Tom Sawyer.

Spirit of Radio would have got a lot of play too.

[Lofty]

The thing with Peart was that not only was he an absolute drum god but he also wrote the majority of the lyrics for the band when he joined as Lee and Lifeson weren't interested in that aspect as much. On top of all his he had a really tragic personal life where he lost both his wife and daughter, travelled around the world on bikes and found new purpose in life with his music. A true legend.

[Pepe]

The pizza lad was telling me about his trips the other day as I was waiting for my order. Pretty cool.

[Lewis]

I could never get into Rush. I have a lot of time for proper progressive rock wanker bands who embraced the excesses and stupidity of it all. Rush always felt to me like they were falling between not wanting to do that but not being heavy enough not to be that, so it all just sounded a bit po-faced and boring.

[John]

Tom Sawyer is quality, but in general I agree that they were a bit dull compared to most of their peers.

[Pleb]

BBC News - Terry Jones: Monty Python star dies aged 77
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51209197

:|

[Spikey M]

Hopefully any resulting Monty Python sales bounce will keep Cleese off our screens until it's his turn.

[Disco]

The most fitting of tributes I think we can all agree.

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[Spikey M]

Someone buy that man a fridge.

[Disco]

He'd rather you bought his.

[igor_balis]

RIP Nicholas Parsons. One small positive to come from his passing is this absolutely amazing anecdote that's been doing the rounds:

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.15752-9/83688217_3713433118699365_2092514019435872256_n.jp g?_nc_cat=101&_nc_ohc=aUVg4UQiFg8AX9qRNa7&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr3-1.xx&oh=28eee6797b4838bc41f11c9e854ff8ff&oe=5E94BC7A

[John]

That's great.

[Gray Fox]

Kirk Douglas.

[SvN]

103, what an innings.

[Yevrah]

Indeed. I wonder where that puts him in the list of oldest people ever?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Norman Lloyd (played the headmaster in Dead Poets Society) is still going at 105. Not sure if there are any older 'famous' people than that.

[Disco]

Thousands of people get to 100 or more, 103 isn't going to be very high on the list. He must have done the last 20 or so on spite alone which is pretty impressive.

[mugbull]

Indeed. I wonder where that puts him in the list of oldest people ever?

Probably like 100,000th. 103 is still very 'doable' but survival rate starts falling off a cliff around that age.

[Lewis]

I read somewhere once that past a hundred the chances of you croaking double by the year. But then something similar presumably applies even earlier.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Oldest living person currently is 117. That's a solid effort.

[Yevrah]

Thousands of people get to 100 or more, 103 isn't going to be very high on the list. He must have done the last 20 or so on spite alone which is pretty impressive.

Given there’s been, what, 15bn people alive ever he’s going to be well high up the list.

[Yevrah]

Oldest living person currently is 117. That's a solid effort.

That must be one of the closest efforts to Jean Calment who is well ahead of anyone else iirc.

[Yevrah]

Although....

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-questions-age-worlds-oldest-woman-180971153/

:sherlock:

[Disco]

Given there’s been, what, 15bn people alive ever he’s going to be well high up the list.

Of everyone ever sure, but of people who live to a particularly old age (over 100 lets say) he's barely moving the needle.

[Yevrah]

I see how I could have worded my original point much better.

[Disco]

A cursory Google (which I'm going to believe because it's more fun that way) tells me that one in three people born today will live to over 100. I wonder if there's some upper limit to this sort of thing or will diminishing returns mean we top out at 150 or something.

[Shindig]

Human tortoises :cool:

[mugbull]

Given there’s been, what, 15bn people alive ever he’s going to be well high up the list.

There's been 100 billion but tbf the number of people living to 100 before about 1850 is going to be super small

[mugbull]

A cursory Google (which I'm going to believe because it's more fun that way) tells me that one in three people born today will live to over 100. I wonder if there's some upper limit to this sort of thing or will diminishing returns mean we top out at 150 or something.

I think we top out at around 125, unless someone comes around with some crazy telomere mutation

[Lewis]

Although....

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-questions-age-worlds-oldest-woman-180971153/

:sherlock:

I saw that somewhere else and I believe it. Scamming cunt.

[John]

Not everyone is convinced by these theories. Jean-Marie Robine, a gerontologist who helped to validate Jeanne’s age in the 1990s, tells Le Parisien the evidence is flimsy at best. “All of this is incredibly shaky and rests on nothing,” he says, pointing out that Jeanne was able to answer questions only she would have known the answers too, like the name of her math teacher, when he interviewed her. “Her daughter couldn’t have known that.”

:D

It's a good thing gerontology is so well funded and its researchers didn't need to milk the momentary fame afforded them by a prominent old person or that level of pure horseshit might seem suspicious.

[Yevrah]

She wasn't 122, was she? :sad:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Dodgy Russians or dodgy Frenchmen, who to believe?

[-james-]

Caroline Flack.

[Giggles]

We can all guess who done that one.

[Foe]

:cry:

Rubbish news.

[Waffdon]

Aye, the same media who will be pushing for ‘Mental Health Awareness’ over the next week.

[Shindig]

Love Island claims another victim.

[Baz]

Grim.

[Giggles]

Love Island claims another victim.

Twitter claims another victim.

[Waffdon]

Love Island claims another victim.

Wot

[John]

We really need a review of what constitutes 'public interest' in the press. It should have happened when some wanker ambushed Gareth Thomas' parents with the news their son was HIV+ before he'd had the conversation with them just so they could get some pictures of the shocked faces. Ideally it would have happened years ago but that should have been a rubicon. Now they've unequivocally played a significant role in the death of someone quite famous, it needs to happen.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Wot

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/8705713/love-island-mike-thalassitis-sophie-gradon-suicide-reality-tv/

It's the media though really.

[Gray Fox]

I recognise the name but nothing about her. What have I missed here?

[John]

I recognise the name but nothing about her. What have I missed here?

About a month's worth of front pages and headline news reports, apparently.

[Baz]

I recognise the name but nothing about her. What have I missed here?

She hit her fella. He didn’t want to press charges. For some reason she was still being charged. He said to stop because nobody was really hurt and said she was vulnerable. Now she’s killed herself.

[Giggles]

She hit her fella. He didn’t want to press charges. For some reason she was still being charged. He said to stop because nobody was really hurt and said she was vulnerable. Now she’s killed herself.

She clocked him with a lamp in his sleep didn’t she?

[Jimmy Floyd]

The reason 'the media' writes this stuff is that people are desperate to read it.

[niko_cee]

She hit her fella. He didn’t want to press charges. For some reason she was still being charged. He said to stop because nobody was really hurt and said she was vulnerable. Now she’s killed herself.

So who's fault is this? The justice system? Isn't that what a lot of 'battered' people say?

It's obviously very sad news, but the need to immediately apportion blame is somewhat symptomatic of the culture that is apparently to blame itself.

[Lewis]

I saw some of the Sky News coverage in the gym and they were going to great lengths blaming body image and the X Factor vetting processes.

[Spikey M]

She hit her fella. He didn’t want to press charges. For some reason she was still being charged. He said to stop because nobody was really hurt and said she was vulnerable. Now she’s killed herself.

The Police prosecute Domestic Abusers because funny enough their victims often say what their abusers tell them to - or would want them to - out of fear.

And she didn't hit him, she wrapped a lamp around his sleeping head and covered the room in claret.

[Mellberg]

You can't stop prosecuting people because they claim they're vulnerable. You'd have serial killers walking free because they felt a bit sad.

Media and social media reform is what we should be looking at. These things must be extremely difficult to handle when played out in public, no matter what your general mental state is. The Sun is a disgrace (shock) and Twitter needs either policing properly or carpet bombing.

[Yevrah]

The worst thing to come out of this beyond the fate of the poor woman herself, is that the mental health junkies have latched onto it big time.

[phonics]

The problem with mental health awareness has led to absolute zomboids trying to turn everything into a mental health trauma.

I saw the other day that leaving a text message on read and not replying was 'emotional abuse' fuck off.

[Lewis]

I think a distinction has to be made between some poor cunt getting caught up in a media shitstorm (that weirdo in Bristol the papers thought killed that woman, your average poor thicko on Twitter, etc.) and people who are otherwise happy to court any sort of favourable publicity. Jesse Lingard weighed in on this warning against the 'pressure' or social media and press intrusion; but would it be naive to think that if he wasn't rolling all over various platforms building his brand then he would have very little direct feedback on what a wanker he is? There is an element of living by the sword to consider.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Mental Health Twitter is the shallowest of all twitters. Or rather, the thing where people go 'It's good to talk :thbgrin:' and then return to slating people they don't like the look of.

[Bernanke]

Andrew Weatherall :(

[Ian]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51567695

I mean he's not a celebrity but what a legacy.

[Jimmy Floyd]

We salute him.

[Baz]

He’ll never know how much he enriched my life.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

James Lipton.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwXGPar9kHc

[Gray Fox]

Max von Sydow.

[Mellberg]

True about Peter Whittingham? Seems to be. Fell down the stairs.

Joins Samuel, Ehiogu and Atkinson relatively recently. Real shame. We're in worse form than the Villa.

[SincereTheRebel]

Roger Mayweather. Former boxing world champ, trainer and Uncle to Floyd.

[John Arne]

Peter Whittingham, former Villa and Cardiff, amongst others. Apparently caused by falling down stairs. 35 years old.

[Magic]

The Staircase 2.

[niko_cee]

What's the deal with Whittingham then? Seems a remarkable lack of news about it if it's true, even given the current crisis engulfing the world.

Imagine facing the end of life as we know it from some new contagion only to go and die by falling down the stairs.

[Mellberg]

Strange one. Social media getting out of hand again? He's definitely had a fall and is bare minimum in intensive care, but no confirmation of death from official sources yet.

[Shindig]

I've only seen one news source report it which doesn't look like a news site.

[Browning]

It’s on BBC now as “in hospital”.

[Pleb]

Corona?

[Alex]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51928263

Gone.

Head injury from a "fall in a pub in Barry". :|

[Shindig]

Pissed, fell down some stairs.

[Baz]

Corona?Possibly one too many. :eyemouth:

[niko_cee]

I saw the other day that Willy Thorne has been diagnosed with Leukemia :(, is starting chemotheraphy :( and is currently in Spain :(, so he'll be one for this thread sooner rather than later.

[Lewis]

His Snooker Loopy verse sounds harsh now.

[Giggles]

Kenny Rogers.

[Yevrah]

Is it me or has there been a spike in elderly celebs dying?

[Giggles]

Go back to your thread.

[Alex]

Go back to your thread.

:D

[Ian]

The original Asterix artist has popped his clogged. :(

[Luca]

Floyd Cardoz (from COVID-19) :(

A legend of the NYC dining scene (Tabla, O Pedro, Bombay Bread Bar). Was just recently on Ugly Delicious S2.

[SincereTheRebel]

Roger Mayweather. His health has been on the decline for a few years now.

[Danny]

Again?

[Shindig]

Bill Withers is no longer with us.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Stirling Moss. A proper giant of sport.

[Shindig]

Damn. At least we still have Murray.


Moss's passing was the result of a chest infection he caught in Singapore just before Christmas 2016 - there is no indication it was due to coronavirus.

That ... has to be a mistype, right?

[Lewis]

That 1955 Mille Miglia drive > a fifties Formula One title

[Jimmy Floyd]

Easily, the stuff about 'best driver never to win the title' is bullshit, he was miles better than most who have.

Probably only behind Jim Clark as an all round racing driver.

[Shindig]

I still wish he took the title instead of Hawthorn.

[Lewis]

He should have screwed him for Le Mans and then dined out on it for sixty years like Earl Hebner.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He could have had a couple of Fangio's titles as well as '58 if he was really bothered about it. Motor racing was different back then. Every interview I've ever heard with Moss he just went on about 'chasing crumpet'.

[Giggles]

Yeah the only reason British drivers didn’t win everything always is because they weren’t bothered some years.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Between Mercedes pulling out of motorsport in 1955 and the mid 70s, most of top level motorsport was basically a British victory parade.

[Giggles]

The corona has claimed Tim Brooke-Taylor.

[Browning]

Peter Bonetti gone too.

[Shindig]

I'm just thinking if Stirling Moss was the last survivor of those 1950's F1 grids. I don't think anyone else is still kicking from that era.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There are a handful left. Hans Herrmann is still around, he drove the the Silver Arrows in its classic form in 1954 and 1955.

Oldest race winner left I think must be Tony Brooks, he won races in '57 and '58.

[Bam]

Jimmy is a must need on a pub quiz.

[Spikey M]

Ted out of Scrubs :(

[Trancemeister]

Florian Schneider, one of the founding members of Kraftwerk.

[Trancemeister]

Little Richard

[Giggles]

Good golly.

[Shindig]

I'm stunned he has kids. EDIT: Ah. An adopted son.

[Bob Sacamano]

Frank Costanza :(

[Spikey M]

Jerry Stiller

[wullie]

He's going to haunt Del Boca Vista forever now.

[Trancemeister]

Serenity now. What a legend :(

[Alex]

"Stop crying and fight your father!"

:D

He always stole the show in any Seinfeld episode he was in. He was good on King of Queens too, albeit basically just playing a slightly modified version of the same character.

[Lewis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfaO3A-m13Q

[Gray Fox]

Willie Thorne :(

[Giggles]

Shit.

[niko_cee]

Yeah, getting cancer in Spain just as Covid took hold was never going to end well.

[phonics]

Jack Charlton.

[Giggles]

:(


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[phonics]

It was just fish n chips.

[Giggles]

Those were the days. We don’t have many good ones but he provided most.


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[Shindig]

Frig.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbOB6MklvtU

[phonics]

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[Alex]

:(

All time record appearance holder. One club man who won the lot with us. They don't come any bigger than Big Jack at Leeds.

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[Giggles]

We need new Jackie Charlton bank holiday.

[Giggles]

https://vimeo.com/130414914

[Trancemeister]

Grant Imahara from Mythbusters.

And yesterday Kelly Preston

[Shindig]

And that Glee woman drowned.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Grant Imahara from Mythbusters.

Fuck off :(

[Trancemeister]

Regis Philbin

[SincereTheRebel]

Regis Philbin

I never brag how real I keep it
Cause it's the best secret
I rock a vest prestigious
Cuban link flooded Jesus
In a Lex watching Kathie Lee and Regis
My actions are one with the seasons

[Giggles]

I thought John Hume had died years ago.

[hfswjyr]

Herman Cain, Pizza Chain CEO, has gone from COVID.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53600376

[Yevrah]

Updating the social media accounts of a chap dying in hospital must be a grim job.

[Gray Fox]

Chadwick Boseman.

This fucking year.

[Kikó]

Colon Cancer. Grim.

[Lewis]

Keeping it to himself is pretty impressive, and the mysterious dramatic weight loss articles from a few months ago suddenly make sense. Good for him. Hopefully they go down the 2Pac/Marlon Brando hologram route for the next Black Panther.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

4 years is a long battle too.

[Lewis]

He probably saw how the revisionists have smeared Lance Armstrong over the years and decided against raising any awareness.

[Kikó]

Erick Morillo.

[Spikey M]

What? Fuck off. :(

[Giggles]

I thought it was the last from Rage Against the Machine first. No idea who this lad is.

[Giggles]

Actually is the lad from ratm already dead?

[Gray Fox]

Actually is the lad from ratm already dead?

No they're all alive and even supposed to be on a RATM reunion tour, but you know, Corona.

[Spikey M]

If they were worth 2 fucks they'd be doing the tour anyway. "Won't do what you tell me" indeed.

[Giggles]

It's Cornell. The whole Ratm/audioslave thing was clouding things.

[niko_cee]

Aye, he did himself in a few years ago. As, by the sounds of it, maybe 'Erick' has done.

[Luca]

Probably a good bet. He was charged early last month for engaging in some noncery involving a female DJ.

[Baz]

Mike Sexton has “started home hospice.” :thbdn:

[Giggles]

Probably a good bet. He was charged early last month for engaging in some noncery involving a female DJ.

Ding ding so.

[Spikey M]

Probably a good bet. He was charged early last month for engaging in some noncery involving a female DJ.

How old was she? It says 'woman' on the article I read.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Diana Rigg.

Lannisters got to her.

[Giggles]

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[Lewis]

He has a great job that bloke, just going to rugby matches and whatever other shite he has to show his face at, and all without having to justify himself like royalty does. Does anyone dislike him for any reason?

[Giggles]

He’s mostly liked but then again it’s 2020 and he’s a straight white man.

[Boydy]

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:(

Aww

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54365778

19 year olds are now dying of "Short Illness" :uhoh:

[Spikey M]

What a plonker.

[Giggles]

Eddie Van Halen.


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[Giggles]

Bobby Ball :(

[Giggles]

Nobby Stiles.

[Mellberg]

Sean Connery :(

[Mellberg]

And Kevin McCarra in less sensational news.

[Giggles]

Didn’t think he was 90.

[Lewis]

What a life he must have had. :cool:

[Manc]

Horrible bloke.

[Shindig]

Must've been a rough last couple of decades with his dementia.

[Baz]

Pretty sure I’ve only ever seen him in Indiana Jones. :sorry:

[Gray Fox]

Uncultured swine.

[Shindig]

I like The Untouchables but it just isn't Oscar worthy.

[Mike]

Pretty sure I’ve only ever seen him in Indiana Jones. :sorry:

Get The Rock on, just to hear him say snorkel.

[Spikey M]

John Sessions.

It's been a big week for celebrity deaths.

[Lewis]

It's only John Cleese left then.

[Spikey M]

His legacy could have done with him going about 10 years back.

[Lewis]

I remember discovering Stella Street repeats when I was younger and people thinking I had imagined it. I hate impression comedy so the fact half of them were knowingly shit made it ideal.

[Shindig]

I was into that as well. The only good thing Phil Cornwell's ever done. Fuck Dave Clifton's Suspension Quiz.

[Pleb]

Alex Trebek :|

[Manc]

Who?

[Spikey M]

Some yank.

[mugbull]

Have brits actually never watched Jeopardy?

[Jimmy Floyd]

No, and I doubt Americans have watched University Challenge or whatever our biggest quiz show is.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've seen clips and know of Trebek.

I'd be a mess if we lost Richard Osman.

[Offshore Toon]

Do you actually like Richard Osman? Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, but he's absolutely dreadful.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I don't understand the fascination that the general public seems to have with him.

I think he's alright and inoffensive and he seems to have some decent quiz show ideas that would probably be better with someone else presenting them.

[Jimmy Floyd]

You can't knock the success of his shows, but everything he does is so unbelievably calculated and inoffensive that it puts me off him.

EDIT: lol, we both went inoffensive.

[Giggles]

Peter Sutcliffe.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Much missed.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmsNcGuXMAExg5s?format=png&name=900x900

[Ian]

Well that's an odd fucking picture.

"Now Frank, if you think this lad's a bad'un..."

[Spikey M]

There is alot to unpack there.

[Shindig]

Refusing treatment for Covid-19. Magic would be proud.

[Mellberg]

That photo :cab:

RIP Pete.

[Shindig]

I like How Bruno's just staring him down and Sir Jim'll is there to make sure nobody kicks off.

[Spikey M]

Des O'Connor

[Mellberg]

Genuinely thought he died about 10 years ago.

[Dquincy]

Ray Clemence. Age 72.

[igor_balis]

Osman was okay until everyone kept telling him how funny he is and now he's fucking well annoying. Especially when the zany riffing with "xander" stays in the edit cus the head to head doesn't go a third question and they need to kill time.

His philosophy as a tv producer/commissioner is fucking wack too. He had some sorta round table discussion with Frankie Boyle, where Boyle was saying you can make challenging, intellectually demanding tv and ppl will like it, nd Osman was basically, in as many words, saying you should just make mindless shit for the plebs. If the discussion was behind closed doors and Osman trying to diplomatically tell Frankie that tramadol nights was shit fair play, but you can tell he means it.

This was also the worst tweet in existence, and why i respect weird one nation tories like jim and fascists like lewis far more than deranged blairite lib dem freaks like him:

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[Lewis]

If you didn't know who he was you could tell his sense of humour and his politics from that avatar. He just wants the Grown-Ups™ back in charge. How many kids has Boris Johnson even got? He should drive to Bernard Cast... Barnard Castle, sorry. He should drive to Bernard Castle so he can check!

[Baz]

Huge respect for Greg Davies (although maybe not cos he probably had a part in getting Osman on the show) for when Richard Osman was on Taskmaster, often referring to the panel as "four comedians and Richard Osman."

[Disco]

He's clearly quite a smug twat but he does have a knack of coming up with inoffensive quiz formats that don't cost much to make so get used to him being on telly forever.

[Shindig]

Might I introduce you to Noel Edmonds? He made boxes opening exciting.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Might I introduce you to Noel Edmonds? He made boxes opening exciting.

Deal or no deal was offensive.

Mongs thinking that there was a system in a game of chance is a dangerous game.

[Disco]

Correct me if I'm wrong but Osman has never tried to con people with a box that cures cancer or actually thought anyone would give him enough money to buy the BBC.

[Shindig]

All part of the show. Sure, Steve and Sue have only been standing next to each other for an hour but 'over the course of this week they've really got no know each other'.

[Ian]

The only good thing about Deal or No Deal is when some smug cretin allowed themselves to be convinced it was anything more than a guessing game, thought they were the bee's knees and then went home with a tenner.

[Shindig]

Yeah, the £250k goes and then they've got to play the rest out. I love that.

[Spikey M]

Pointless would be whole lot less Pointless if they stopped talking to the contestants about their lives. There's fucking 8 of them. I don't care what their names are, what they do for work, what they'd spend the money on or what their hobbies are. Fuck off.

If they lost that and the 'xander' bants they could knock an episode out in 12 minutes.

[Boydy]

Osman's irritating but House of Games is very good.

[Disco]

Pointless would be whole lot less Pointless if they stopped talking to the contestants about their lives. There's fucking 8 of them. I don't care what their names are, what they do for work, what they'd spend the money on or what their hobbies are. Fuck off.

If they lost that and the 'xander' bants they could knock an episode out in 12 minutes.

This is why 15-1 remains the best quiz show (the proper one not the shit new one they tried to do), they barely even mentioned who the people were.

[Shindig]

The channel 5 banger 100% was the same. Kill the small talk with loads of trivia.

[Mellberg]

100% was superb. That dying a death, whilst a show with a giant fucking penny arcade machine thrives, says all you need to know about society.

[Spikey M]

The only time a contestants life / personality matters is in a show like Golden Balls. Who they are will actually effect what they do (and what you think they will do) at the end.

[Giggles]

Osman's irritating but House of Games is very good.

I do enjoy that.

[Shindig]

100% was superb. That dying a death, whilst a show with a giant fucking penny arcade machine thrives, says all you need to know about society.

I don't even think there was money involved in it. I'm sure they killed it because one bloke turned up, won every day and always came back for about 12 months.

[SvN]

I think it was £100 to the winner, or some other paltry sum.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Noted murderer CJ De Mooi was a titan on 100% at one point.

Osman is a good follow on Twitter, not so much for the content he barfs out, but as a means of understanding how these people think. You will often see him go out of his way to heap praise on TV shows that he clearly doesn't personally like, but which he nonetheless considers 'great TV' for their success in accessing pleb eyeballs. On the other hand, on the rare occasion he actually reveals his personal tastes which are in any way esoteric (liking the music of Sufjan Stevens, for example) he'll do so with a tone of great hesitancy and reluctance, as if he's pitching a TV show and a bad public reaction will mean cancellation.

In other words, his entire life is an attempt to be in step with broad public opinion, rather than to make anything that is good for its own sake, or to be relaxed about liking what he likes.

[Baz]

The only time a contestants life / personality matters is in a show like Golden Balls. Who they are will actually effect what they do (and what you think they will do) at the end.Until you realise there’s absolutely no reason not to steal them.

[igor_balis]

Yeah exactly Jim.

There is the cliche of being a hipster who only likes wholemeal fairtrade bands with 500 listens on spotify and pretentiously eating spaghetti instead of normal pasta shapes which I've deffo been guilty of at times in my life, but Osman is a good example of why trying too hard to NOT be that is just as bad.

You shouldn't be mocked for listening to ABBA but you shouldn't have to apologise for listening to Captain Beefheart.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There is the cliche of being a hipster who only likes wholemeal fairtrade bands with 500 listens on spotify and pretentiously eating spaghetti instead of normal pasta shapes which I've deffo been guilty of at times in my life, but Osman is a good example of why trying too hard to NOT be that is just as bad.

You shouldn't be mocked for listening to ABBA but you shouldn't have to apologise for listening to Captain Beefheart.

Indeed - I often think about this passage from Stewart Lee which I read in an interview with him years ago and which on its own turned me away from being the 'inoffensive centrism is good' guy:


He especially regrets the disappearance of the old “support networks”, such as the unemployment and housing benefits, that enabled artists to live cheaply and find their way. “It’s all over. There’ll come a point when somebody will suddenly realise – there’s loads and loads of Coldplay but there isn’t a Radiohead, there’s loads and loads of ITV1 sitcoms, and things with Robert Lindsay in a house, but there isn’t a League of Gentlemen. Someone will be reading an embossed novel about a missing artefact, and they will suddenly think, ‘Didn’t there use to be books that were not just a list of events?’ ” (Lee’s well-known parody of a typical Dan Brown sentence goes: “The famous man looked at the red cup.”) In 40 years, he reckons, people will be saying, “Where’s all that stuff gone that was … good?”

Now obviously there is lots of 'good' stuff out there at the moment but one can very much envisage this world where most people's greatest cultural stimulation is the idea that Bill Bailey is good at dancing and not shit.

[Pepe]

If only we could access stuff made in previous times.

[Shindig]

That's all cancelled now.

[Gray Fox]

2020 finally takes a big one in Heavy D.

[Dark Soldier]

Maradona apparently

[Spikey M]

He did well to make it this far tbf, the cheating cunt.

[Waffdon]

Too much coke no doubt

[Kikó]

He'll be where there is plenty of coke now. Club Purgatory.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He'll be where there is plenty of coke now. Club Purgatory.

Is it open?

Taz might fancy it.

[Kikó]

Another footballing legend gone, Papa Bouba Diop.

[Shindig]

The Wardrobe. :(

[Jimmy Floyd]

'Bouba Diop is there... oh, and Bouba Diop is there!'

One of my favourite goals of all time. RIP.

[SvN]

I celebrated that goal like it was United. No idea why, but I was so desperate for France to fail.

[phonics]

'Bouba Diop is there... oh, and Bouba Diop is there!'

One of my favourite goals of all time. RIP.

Imagine that being on in the cafeteria where half your school are french. So good.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That Senegal side may well have been the last great team of genuine unknowns at a World Cup. I don't think anyone in the English-speaking world had heard of any of them before the tournament, apart from freaks who had watched the preceding Afcon. Bunch of mid table and second/third tier French jobbers, donned their way into a quarter-final and were pretty well robbed by Turkey.

North Korea 2014, I guess, but they were shit so it wasn't the same.

[Spikey M]

And they're probably all dead now.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Maradona - dead
Papa Bouba Diop - dead
Georgi Ivanov - dead

It's only Roger Milla who stands between us and the total extinction of World Cup history.