Post your 5. Points awarded for years below 100 if your celebrity dies.
Geoff Hurst
The Queen
Donald Trump
Gazza
Cat Stevens
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Post your 5. Points awarded for years below 100 if your celebrity dies.
Geoff Hurst
The Queen
Donald Trump
Gazza
Cat Stevens
Shakin' Stevens
Vic Reeves
Hopsin
Fred Durst
Tony Blackburn
Prince Philip
Murray Walker
Noel Edmonds
Rose West
Michel Platini
David Attenborough
Jesy Nelson
Dan Aykroyd
Mick Mars
Joanna Lumley
Jérémie Aliadičre
Morrissey
Chris Evans (born 1981, American actor)
Chris Evans (born 1966, British broadcaster)
Chris Evans (born 1951, British author of science fiction and children's books)
Chris Evans massacre.
6ix9ine
Lil Xan
Lil Pump
Trippie Redd
Lil Skies
Bill Oddie
Michael Heseltine
Princess Michael of Kent
George Alagiah
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
No point with Prince Philip as a) he's immortal and b) you've only got until June and then he scores no points anyway.
Lilly Allen
Shane MacGowan
Willie Nelson
Donald Trump
Harvey Weinstein
There must be another couple of notable Chris Evans' you can kill off?Quote:
Originally Posted by igor_balis
6ix9ine
Powfu
The Undertaker
Queen Elizabeth II
Paul Whitehouse
Larry King
6ix9ine
Rush Limbaugh
Dick Cheney
Donald Trump
I’m guessing rapper or wrestler for 6ix9ine.
Are you dumb, stupid or dumb?Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
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State of him lol.
Watch your mouth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
You would have to be an actual retard to be a fan of that.
Now I'm hoping that guy dies.
Just looked up Dick Cheney, how the hell is he only 79? I thought he was about that at point of election 20 years ago.
He can join the US politics immortal list with Henry Kissinger and Bob Dole.
I was amazed how young/healthy Karl Rove looked when he seeped out of the woodwork in the post election shitshow.
Joe 'William Harrison' Biden
David Attenborough
Ron Atkinson
Dick van Dyke
Michael Schumacher
George Alagiah
Prince Philip
Ian Huntley
David Jason
Mary-Kate Olsen
Bam Magera
Joe Biden
Jack Nickolson
Paul Hogan
Oliva Newton-John
Was it @Spoonsky a few years ago who nominated 5 Japanese centenarians, thus ending the year with negative points :D
Phil Jackson
Philip Schofield
Phil Collins
Phillip Jack Brooks (CM Punk)
Philip Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (easy 1pt if dead before June)
I'm going to say this SLAMS SHUT at the end of the week. Get your entities in by then.
Yoko Ono
Alex Ferguson
Ole Anderson
Ric Flair
Billy Graham
I thought Ric Flair had already died and had to google that he hadn't. I think I was thinking of Christopher Hitchens.
Harvey Weinstein
R Kelly
Chris Brown
Tony Adams
Antoine Dodson
I'm not sure those two people have ever been mixed up before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
but now he says it...Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco
Olivia Newton-John
Larry King
Jeff Bridges
Harvey Weinstein
The Queen
There's a Harold Bishop based Venn diagram to be had with the Flair/Hitchens intersection.Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco
Yeah, they are both people of whom I would have been blissfully unaware but for Harold's hero worship, hence the confusion.
Benny
GS
Lee
Samadini
Simon
Either that or Hitchens elbow dropped his own clothes more often than I remember.
Paul Simon
Alex Ferguson
Buzz Aldrin
Sandra Day O'Connor
John Fogerty
13 easy points.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bernanke
I'm going to need a spreadsheet.
Rack 'em up, bitches.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luca
RIP :( - he was a treasure.
I've still got this in my google sheets list:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kikó
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing
I've got a version but it's a bit simpler
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...t?usp=drivesdk
Now that’s a blast from the past. :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by hfswjyr
Wow, I really do go for Prince Philip every year. There's a couple in that were a tiny bit premature, as well.
I'm stunned Gazza is still kicking tbh.
Calling Keith Chegwin. :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by hfswjyr
Bam Margera is a pretty safe bet atm.
Today I found out Jackass is still a thing.
You’d think TikTok would be enough fuel for the imbeciles these days.
Rush Limbaugh was so obvious.
I've never quite known whether he and Newt Gingrich were the same or different people. I guess this confirms the latter.
A student I'm supporting disappeared completely a few weeks back, didn't even tell us she wasn't coming in anymore. I was a bit annoyed about it, as her clients were a bit fucked over after some of them have been waiting 6 months, and some of them even came in expecting to see her.
Turns out she's dead, so I'll let her off.
Prophetic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bernanke
Both of them were announced as terminally ill at the time.
Man if I can get Cheney too. :drool:
:drool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bernanke
If only the choice was available to everyone.Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
Comfortable lead built up by Bernie.
I always feel a bit bad about searching for terminally ill celebrities when these things roll around, seems a bit cheap.
Prince Phillip to be announced at 10pm, apparently.
I figured once Charles made the visit, he was probably on the way out.
Where did you hear that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
Nigel Farage's twitter.
ITK mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7om
What a life. War hero, probably groomed the Queen, bowled about doing and saying what he liked for decades, and then had Princess Diana killed. :cool:
Might as well put THE MIGHTY BLADES in here after that shower of shite tonight :(
Seems they're deader than Phil.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spammer
Jelly and ice cream
Shut up you cunt, we might get a bank holiday out of this.
I can't think of anything more useless than a pandemic bank holiday.
I’m not big into conspiracies but this one is fascinating. Do you reckon THE FIRM could have had her bumped off?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
I’ll get double quantities thenQuote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
Glenn Roeder.
I didn't know West Ham sacked him a month into his brain tumour comeback. Imagine them now sticking with him through consecutive relegations to avoid looking heartless and getting shit on Monday Night Football.
Damn. He was a good firefighter for us and a solid captain.
That's a bastard. Sounds like he was a genuine guy from everything I'm reading.
Murray Walker at 97.
Simply the greatest sports commentator that ever lived.
He never lost his passion for it. Legend.
That's a shitter. :(
He came on via phone at one of the GPs last year and said his body was failing him, but he still had his mind and watched along to all the sessions.
What a man he was though.
Everyone goes on about the 'Murrayisms' or whatever but in recent years I've realised if you tune in to any random old race that he did and just listen to him commentate on often not a lot happening, you're listening to the very best at what he did. Incredible voice too that almost mimicked the engines in a way.
This by far my favourite few couple of minutes commentary in any sport:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFsD9NElDa4
Literally all that happens is Hill drives round one lap on his own at about 80% effort, but the commentary elevates it into something amazing, the rising and falling voice, the mix of fact and history and pure emotion, the way his voice breaks a bit when he sees Hill's wife on the pit wall, the admission that '...not the least of whom is myself', the poetry and rising inflection of 'He took the lead... he stayed there!' and ultimately the 'lump in my throat' line which has become iconic but was delivered in complete honesty and humility.
Just brilliant.
It blew my mind when reading Damon's book that his wife is actually called Susan.
Gutting. Martin Brundle mentioned him on commentary several times last season and said he still loved the F1.
Lucille Bluth :(
:(
Gob wont be invited I imagine. She never cared for him.
Probably just faked her death to avoid paying money to the Chinese
Or she came across some homosexuals that were far too flamboyant and dramatic so she made good on her threat.
Hot cops?
Damn, Arrested Development is so goddamn funny. Peak, peak comedy.
It should've stayed dead and pure.
DMX might be next.
Suffered a heart attack after an OD.
"He was on life support," the lawyer said. "He's been taken off of life support. He is breathing on his own but there is a little brain activity."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFSwIw-_-as
Paul Ritter
(The dad from Friday night dinner/scientist in Chernobyl)
:eek:
Not great, not terrible.
Now who's going to tell people they didn't see graphite?
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Originally Posted by Shindig
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Originally Posted by 7om
1 point.
DMX has died.
Busy few days. Someone check on David Jason.
Nikki Grahame dead at 38.
Damn. Always thought she was great. I mean she’s no Chantelle Houghton (still safe and sound afaik) but she was quality TV.
Anorexia. Brutal. Another needless Novid victim.
Christ, I've just seen a recent picture of her. Grim.
Link it then ffs
Jesus christ
I don't understand it. Your body gets to that point and you're still compelled to starve yourself? Grim.
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Originally Posted by John Arne
I thought you were Team Mental Health?Quote:
Originally Posted by -james-
Jesus tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7om
Holy fuck. Just scrolled down and saw the pictures.
It should have been put in the shameful lustage thread.
Well it's a mental health issue isn't it. She clearly didn't see herself like we all can. It's absolutely horrendous.Quote:
Originally Posted by -james-
Those photos in that article. Very grim.
Just have a kebab FFS.
If Prince Philip returns from the dead (as those south seas islanders reckon he will) does everyone lose their point?
And when it's that far along, it becomes a terminal illness from all the collateral damage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kikó
I know it's a mental health issue. I just can't think of anything else that makes you slowly kill yourself in the way anorexia does.
Really? Aren't most addictions doing basically the same thing?
Does looking in the mirror after starving yourself rig up your reward receptors in the same way drugs would? I suppose it might do. Always a bigger high to chase.
Yes. The same way narcissists get off talking about themselves.
I always thought it was associated with body dysmorphia, so she would be looking in the mirror and seeing a size 20 staring back at her.Quote:
Originally Posted by -james-
It can be both. Our anorexic claimants tend to have other mental illnesses (OCD, dysmorphia, autism, etc) on the books.
Makes sense. Aside from seeing the odd one in the street I don't think I've ever met an Anorexic.
Can be associated with trauma aswell.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shindig
Helen McCrory
Andy Fordham.
The Viking! :(
Never really was a picture of health. Guess shedding the weight didn't suit him.
He lost all that weight and still died at 59? Jesus.
Would be plenty of damage already done. Probably would have just died at 49 or something if he hadn’t lost it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
He put a lot of it back on again. Went from 31st to 16st but was back up to 24st in 2017.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
Poor bloke.
Nailed on heart attack then, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by randomlegend
Shows you that even Pro sportsman are at risk of an early death.
Tom O'Connor.
My only frame of reference is this.
My parents watched a lot of Crosswords (turns out it was called Crosswits) or whatever it was called. Something ITV came up with compete with Countdown. He hosted that and always had Kate Copstick on it who wound up producing tat for Bravo.
Joey Jordison. :(
Didn’t he have MS or something?
Who?
A member of the band slipknot apparently.
My guess before googling was 'drummer from a 90s metal band', I'm getting so good at this.
Drummer.
Was also in Murderdolls who did that It's A Nice Day For White Wedding cover that was always on Kerrang.
I'd have guessed some sort of TOWIE twat from the name.
ZZ Top's Dusty Hill, dead at 72.
Hopefully this gets a few bump viewings.
Christ :D
You've posted that before :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
I love it. A thousand views per year is shocking.
Sean Lock. :(
Didn’t even know he had cancer.
No me neither but it would explain his sudden change in appearance. I quite liked him.
What the fuck?
Grim.
There was a point where his voice had really gone raspy and he didn't look right at all but then he seemed to be ok again afterwards.
Pretty shocking really.
10 Storeys High is still one of the best sitcoms around.
Hopefully 8 Out of 10 Cats does Countdown dies with him.
Oh fuck. That's awful.
Absolutely brutal.
Genuinely gutted about that one. I just assumed he had some sort of cancer when his voice went to shit and his appearance changed, but I also assumed he had beat it.
He had already beaten (skin) cancer before he became a comedian.
That one hurts. 8 out of 10 Cats is never going to be the same again.
two thirds of the way thereQuote:
Originally Posted by Disco
Really? So it is, I wonder how long I've been getting that wrong.
It's like you've been playing the umbrella for 20 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco
Our mate, our friend
https://i.imgur.com/4OBHue4.png
In his honour. You all know what to do.
Blimey, Chris Moyles. I'd forgotten he existed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waffdon
Actually shouted "What?!" at the car radio when it was announced. Didn't know he was ill. Pretty gutted. Favourite comedian by some distance.
I didn't have him down as that old. Finding out he worked with Baddiel and Newman blew my mind.
Charlie Watts. :(
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58316842
Curly must be gutted.
I wonder if they will carry on without him? Presumably they will. Jagger must have miles left on the clock yet. And it will no doubt take some sort of extension level event to take out Keith Richards.
They have been shedding members over the years so they definitely will.
Aren't they basically Triggers broom at this point?
Not really, no. They’ve had effectively the same line up since 1975 when Ronnie Wood joined.
Bill Wyman packed it in on bass at some point in the nineties I think and they replaced him with a new guy, who they inexplicably never acknowledge as part of the band even though he’s still with them today.
Other than that they’re basically unchanged for 46 years.
Yeah, but they were already past it by then, so it's the long-standing shit roster.
Never heard of that guy, and going off that story he looked like a corpse/Vincent Price in the late 80s so he's done well to have made it this far.
I've just had a look at Bill Wyman's Wikipedia, had no idea he was a colossal nonce.
Sarah Harding, Girls Aloud singer, 39 :|
Had cancer for a while hasn't she? Pretty shit.
She was a bit of a horrible cunt from what I've heard previously.
Still, 39.
Serious points on offer.
Oooooffff :D
Go on Max Clifford.Quote:
Originally Posted by Offshore Toon
She was the Stockport bike.
What lovely eulogies.
That PSG player in a coma for 39 years has died. Jean-Pierre Adams.
I mean really he died 39 years ago, but let’s not sour today.
They kept someone in a coma alive for 39 years? Fuck me.
Went in for a routine knee op, get brain damage. Absolute nightmare.
https://www.theguardian.com/football...ling-into-coma
Michael K. Williams.
Oh Indeed.
That is absolutely horrific. :sick:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kikó
Police on their way to question Thuliso Dingwall now
Aw no :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
He was so majestic in that. Might be the greatest character ever on TV.
Obligatory posting of this scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIQbd3SF17k
Though I also remember him for this one, in which the Bunk kind of steals the show but I still always think of it as a great face-off between them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wmgghlEagA
Oof. This hits. :(
Just finished a rewatch of The Wire. Such a don. Regardless of how often it happens I still find it crazy that somebody in that position can be a heroin addict.
Shit :(
I’m absolutely fucked by this. I have to get clean. Immediately. Im sitting downstairs cause I don’t want to go up to my flat because there’s a gram of coke on the table. But I don’t want to throw it out. I need to get clean. Fuck.
https://youtu.be/zweq4ZabNd8
So cool :(
Why? Was he your relative or something?Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
Sign up to the werewolf game to take your mind off it. :hug:Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
Are you back in the UK yet? I don't know what circles you're moving in, but it sounds like you need to get out of them and into rehab / support groups. I'm not being a prick here, I've just noticed a few comments where you've said you need to stop, but clearly you haven't.Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
If you need the help, get the help. There will never be an easier time to stop than today and you know this time next month will be that much harder.
I appreciate being serious is off-brand for both me and TTH, but seriously, get the help, make the change. Do it now. Not tomorrow, or the next day, or the next day, or the next day. My dad was always going to stop drinking "tomorrow" and he did eventually, at the bottom of his stairs, covered in vomit, dead.
Yeah grow up Joe you private school melt.
I'd echo what Spikey said. No idea what help is available, but get it and good luck.
Sell it (once you've diluted it with laundry detergent). Make double bubble.Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
No idea what help is available. None at all. Not me. No idea. Never needed it, see. But if I did...
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Originally Posted by Kikó
Ah France. Never change.Quote:
On the day of Adams' operation to repair a damaged tendon in his knee - suffered while on a coaching training camp - many staff at the hospital in Lyon were on strike
I've got a bad knee. :( Not going back to the quacks now. I'll stick with my spirit crystals and leeches thank you very much.
I’ve spoke to someone close to me who’s the only one who’s cared about me this whole time and she gave me some narcotics anonymous lines to call. I’m going to call them tomorrow. I never did it before because I just don’t want to sit in a room with a bunch of no hope junkies and have to pretend my privileged experience is anything like there’s. I’m just a well off kid with access to drugs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
This coke. I don’t have the balls to flush it. Is giving it to one of the coke heads downstairs a good or a bad thing.
When you say 'balls to flush it', how do you mean/why not?
Because within 5 seconds of it not being there I will be wanting it and calling someone for more. If I leave it there I have the option not to take it.
Won't that be the same outcome as if you give it to downstairs though?
They’re very scary people downstairs and I’m not alpha enough to ask for it back.
But you can still call for some more. Flush it and be done with it.
It's got to start somewhere.
Very sad about Michael K Williams. Omar is obviously iconic but was always great in anything I saw him in no matter how minor the role, incredible presence.
He was great in Boardwalk Empire.
I caught him in a twenty second appearance in CSI SVU last week.
Norm Macdonald :(
Aye, he'd been battling cancer for a decade.
fuck :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXFGwfbfBK0
Sir Clive Sinclair. Inventor of the ZX Spectrum, that electric trike nobody in the 80's wanted and pocket calculators. And an accomplished gambler.
I genuinely thought he'd died a good 10 or 15 years ago.
He only started living ten or fifteen years ago. :cool:
Man, that article definitely laid it out. He had a type and that type was incredibly young.
Making up for doing all of his ageing in the first half of his life.
Jimmy Greaves.
Shit, that one's got me a bit.
*Checks on David Jason*
Jason and Attenborough are going to be tough to take when they go.
And there goes Boycie.
I can't help but think that's Yevs fault.
Was about to come in and express the very same sentiment.
Damn. :sad:
Perfect.
A truly great character.
At least on my twitter, Boycie has stolen Greavesie's thunder a bit, which as someone slightly too young makes me realise how MASSIVE Only Fools must have been.
It was absolutely huge. Essentially everyone in the country liked it. If we'd done a TTH top X TV shows back then it would have not only beaten Partridge, but won by a fair margin.
I must be too young to remember that. :cool:
On the subject of Jimmy Greaves, not being of that era either I find it hard to imagine him in any other way than his jovial Saint & Greavsie mode and naturally assumed that's what he looked like as a professional footballer as well. They can keep the stony faced middle distance stare shots of his youth.
I'm the other way with Greaves, too young to remember him on TV but old enough for my dad to bore on about what a player he was.
Only Fools and Horses is ace. And would've have achieved the rare goal of being on for ages and good until the end if they hadn't shat out that last trio of episodes.
It always amazes me how well it's aged. Especially compared to the likes Harry Enfield and Little Britain which are absolute horseshit when watching now.
Little Britain. :harold:
Don't underestimate how big it was at the time. You couldn't leave the house without hearing "I'm a Lady", "I don't like it" or "computer says no" for about 5 years. "Computer says no" is still occasionally used now.
It is terrible though. It must be the quickest anything has ever aged. I've had bread that's stayed fresh longer.
It's remarkable how ancient it seemed within a few years, despite it being huge for a period.
It's really interesting being an "outside" to the UK when these sorts of things come up. I can honestly say I've never seen an episode, nor even seen it advertised.
All the gags about blacks and poofs from the episodes they stopped showing haven't done quite so well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
I'm assuming you mean Only Fools and Horses? If so, I don't think it would translate too well to a foreign audience. Alot of the humour would be lost if you don't understand the slang or social dynamics / politics of 1980's Britain.Quote:
Originally Posted by hfswjyr
It's PC gone mad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco
You say that and I would have agreed with you until yesterday, when I saw this trailer:Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElBqjVuLzQA
They probably only like the racist bits like Disco.
It's huge throughout eastern Europe, I've heard, the theory being that 1980s working class London was pretty relatable to them.
It's pretty striking how run down and shit a lot of the country was when you watch stuff set, news footage etc. even into the nineties.
Did something happen in the 90s to change that? Someone get elected or something?
Jimmy's Blairy sensors are tingling.
Nah, late 90s all looks washed out and shit as well. It'll come for the 2000s in time if it hasn't already.
Already has. Anything from the early 00's looks ancient to me. It'll continue to feel that way unless some AI bots decide to upscale 9/11 to 1080p.
00s will eventually look worse than the 90s because of the swap from film to digital. You can’t upscale it so you’re stuck with 720p dirge for the rest of time.
Anyone got Katie Price? She is trying her best it seems.
Will she outlive Lorraine Kelly though?
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:D
Hang on. Have you been copying her hair all these years?
Gunther.
Walter Smith
Knew it was coming when he was photographed playing golf the other month. Looked about 6 Stone
Alex Ferguson offering him the United assistant job at a funeral is the most Scottish manager story ever.
Greatest assistant manager of all time.
Lionel Blair.
Is it bad I've a Notes page on my phone, making a list of my guesses for next year? :baz:
Honestly surprised he was still alive
How the hell was he 92?
Gerald Sinstadt has done his final 90 minutes.
Lizzie Windsor might well have already gone, given the odd reason given for her absence today after weeks of 'light duties'.
Frank Williams.
Frank Fucking Williams to give his full name.
Sir Frank Fucking Williams O.B.E.
Who?
Frank Williams.
Thanks for clearing that up.
I used this cool website called "Google" to find out. They're saying it's the new Ask Jeeves.
My netscape navigator wouldn’t connect to that.
There's probably an AOL keyword that could help you out.
Virgil Abloh
Sir Virgil Abloh OBE
Who?
I used this cool website called "Ask Jeeves" to find out. They're saying it's the new Microsoft Encarta.
Can I open that in Lotus?
Jeeves is dead. His son confirmed it on his GeoCities page.
That's crazy. It feels like he'd basically become a non-gammon household name overnight and then this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waffdon
Masayuki Uemura. Creator of the NES and SNES.
Jethro's gone.
Oh no, I didn't know anyone outside of Cornwall knew who he was.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. :DQuote:
Jethro, real name Geoffrey Rowe ...
That might be his funniest joke.
Desmond Tutu.
I'd rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu to be honest.
John Madden :(
I hope they've got an all black Madden bus for the precession. And a field to drive it on so he can reach the end zone one last time.
Without him there'd be no FIFA games. Or atleast they wouldn't be as they are now.
On the flipside, without him Yev would be a millionaire.
Hopefully they’ll make a non shit Madden game again in his honour.
Death did nothing for Tom Clancy's games. :D
He was offered 10% of EA back when they were worth 30 million quid. EA is currently worth 37 billion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
I'm not sure being responsible for FIFA should be considered a good thing, they've pioneered some of the worst practices in the entire industry.
Madden isn't responsible for the FIFA games.
Fifa came about as a result of the Madden games.
I think FIFA games would still have come out regardless.
That's why I said "Or atleast they wouldn't be as they are now". They would have made some kind of game, but god only knows how good or bad it would have been and what road they would have taken from there.
We could have ended up in an International Superstar Soccer dominant universe.
I wish we had. Pro Evo's gone to shit now. I bought FIFA this year but I'm bollocks at it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
FIFA is basically a big sticker album now that has a side soccer game built in. Absolute magnet for idiots.
Sadly so. The Alex Hunter thing was good, but I think I'm right in that it's now gone back to just the dull career mode if you want to do anything other than the Untimate Team shite?
The Alex Hunter thing was shit, the story was far too boring.
The main modes are career (I think it's just a reskin every year, with no changes), Ultimate Team and VOLTA (street 3v3 football thing for the kids).
"Go on Alex. 'cor blimey, you can football." Goal had a more impressive plot and that starred a 45 year old Anna Friel trying to play a teenager.
A very, very weak soccer game at that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
You wouldn't know it's a billion dollar company who've been doing this for decades other than the license.
I have FIFA this year for the first time in over a decade. It's a good game in terms of the actual football. The Ultimate Team stuff is incomprehensible garbage, probably aimed at exploiting children as far as I can see. As an average to poor player I enjoy the career mode playing on 'professional' AI, gives me the sometimes-win-sometimes-lose challenge that makes it fun.
When I say it was good, you have to read "good" with the understanding that I bought it every year for about 4 years and must have played each version for about 10 hours over the year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
The Alex Hunter Stuff had me playing every evening for a couple of weeks, then I got bored again. I miss my childhood ability of being able to play "Road to the World Cup" for a solid year without tiring of it.
Fuck Fifa and Fuck EA Sports
I won't go into it again as I vented my spleen enough in the relevant thread but I thought the most recent version of FIFA I played was a really quite poor football game. Even taking aside all the horseshit they've draped around it which is now basically the game and it's all built for gambling addicts.
Agree with the view that Fifa is a bit shit these days, but I think this is more to-do with us getting old rather than the game itself.
It’s because it’s nothing like actual soccer, and has become further from it as the years have passed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dquincy
I went back to PES today and bumped it up to Superstar. The thing that kind of takes the wind out of my sails is how Top Player now feels a touch too easy. Superstar still feels like a fuck you. Losing games on the counter whilst you've not got enough space to put chances away. In the absence of a proper new one, this will have to do.
I got quite into ultimate team for a few years there, but a couple of years away is enough to look back and think what the fuck was I thinking. I remember my IRL mate telling me in detail how easy it was to make money if you just spent about 5 hours a day on the web app tracking players like a stockbroker and I thought I might have to get him sectioned.
If I had a child and I caught them watching FUT pack opening videos I'd put them up for adoption.
I'm more than happy to admit when I realise I'm just being a grumpy old shite, which is often, but in the case of FIFA I think I'm actually right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dquincy
People buy it because there is literally no competition and they want a football game.
Even if there was credible competition, you're asking them to break the habit of a lifetime. If you grow up playing FIFA, you expect FIFA things. Vice versa with Pro Evo.
Betty White
I thought she died a couple of years back.
Cursed her they did.
No points for her anyway, so who cares.
1 point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bernanke
Her 100th wasn't for another 2 weeks.
We doing a dead pool for 2022? I've a Notes, er, note that I've been adding to all year. :rosebud:
Gotta a) check none of them are dead and b) whittle the list of 12 down to 5.
I look forward to you skimming through wikipedia articles and seeing if they're referred to in the past tense. :D
I'm pretty sure that Bernanke won unless someone died on that list since big Phil.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...t?usp=drivesdk
My original 2022 list wasToggle Spoilerbut I’ve whittled it down to:
Rob Burrow
Denis Law
Jeff Bridges
Tony Slattery
R-Kelly
It's only fair I go early as the winner. 2022:
Dick Cheney
Ghislaine Maxwell
Gary Glitter
Woody Allen
Soros
June Brown
William Roache
John Lydon
Shigeru Miyamoto
Alain Prost
Ghislaine's not going near my list. She's not a talker and she keeps marrying rich blokes.
Prince Harry
Harvey Weinstein
Shane MacGowan (I swear I've picked him for the last 10 years)
Pele
Bam Margera.
Ozzy Osbourne
Keith Richards
Sir Garfield Sobers
HM the Queen
Jimmy Carter
Ric Flair
Doddie Weir
QE2
Gene Hackman
Bernie Ecclestone
The Queen
Attenborough
Bobby Charlton
Rob Burrow
Pele
Bam Margera
John Howard
Olivia newton-john
The Queen
Ghislaine Maxwell
Anthony Joshua
Ray Mears
Paula Abdul
Dwayne Johnson
Sienna Miller
His funeral today. My oddball brother in law is watching the live stream and posting blow by blow commentary and screenshots into the family group chat despite everyone ignoring him. Probably turn out he is doing it in work and be another contributing factor in his eventual dismissal (he turned up last Monday an hour late with his daughter in tow :D).Quote:
Originally Posted by SvN
My 2022 picks:
Charles Dance
Sheridan Smith
Joe Biden
Alan Sugar
Ron Jeremy
Billie Eilish
Drake
Lewis Hamilton
Gianni Infantino
Lil Uzi Vert
Pete Doherty
Morrissey
Glenn hoddle
Andrew Neil
Paul Simon
Bob Saget gone.
Damn, I was actually close to including Robert Durst in mine.
He looks about 98.
Shebby Singh.
Apoarent heart attack whilst out riding his bike. 61.
Former Malaysian national team player and sports broadcaster. Probably best known in the UK as being involved in the Blackburn Chicken takeover.
Thoroughly decent bloke.
Ronnie Spector, former lead singer of The Ronettes. 78.
Gary Waldhorn off've Vicar of Dibley yesterday too. They're running out of original cast members.
Meatloaf.
What a fucking weirdo he was. RIP. :(
I'll wait for a reputable source to confirm.
It'd be a weird joke if his social media team announced it just for a laugh.
:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
BBC Breakfast news not reputable enough?Quote:
Originally Posted by Manc
If his own family aren't I assume Manc's waiting for the man himself to announce it on TV.
I've popped my head over the fence. TBC.
Get Queenslander and his temp gun to confirm if he's really dead.
His name was Robert Paulson.
Apropos of Meatloaf dying, I was looking up how long his I Would Do Anything for Love song was number 1 for (7 weeks, I thought longer) and it led me to 1993 being somewhat of a 'banger' of a year for music. No Limit, All That She Wants, Mr Vain, What Is Love, Informer, Boom Shake The Room, Whitney, Suede, In Utero, Automatic for the People, East 17 [we'll gloss over all the Take That wank], Chaka Demus & Pliers, probably just a function of age but good stuff.
I've checked and it's not all misty-eyed nostalgia, as, by comparison, 1994 was an absolute wasteland. Almost half a year of Wet Wet Wet at number 1 amongst other trash.
I suppose you have your Rhythm of the Night, D-Ream and Stiltskin [cracking riff in that, or whatever, did it feature heavily for Sky in some way or other] and I believe Definitely Maybe came in '94 so it wasn't all bad.
Music got worse with each passing year of the 90s. Probably went the other way for a while in the 2000s. No idea since then.
To be fair to the rest of the 90s, 'Turtle Power' by Partners in Kryme coming out in 1990 gave the rest of the decade an impossible act to follow.
Ah, but...Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeTK4AbeTow
Yeah, that was going on the '94 shitlist. I suppose, in its favour, it did rile up Spurs fans quite a lot.
Stiltskin was on a Levi advert.
Schmeichel, Parker, Pallister,Quote:
Originally Posted by SvN
Irwin, Bruce, Sharpe & Ince
Hughes, McClair, Keane & Cantona,
Robson, Kanchelskis & Giggs
Typed all of that from memory. Absolute banger of a song :cool:
I used to sing Andrei Kanchelskis and Giggs so Robson never got a mention.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raoul Duke
Not that I sang it often. :uhoh:
Can confirm Meatloaf is indeed dead.
Have you let his family know?
I see he was an antivax and died from Covid. Things you love to see.Quote:
Originally Posted by Manc
Are you OK to amend my post back to the original quote now Giggles?
Ah, so that's what he wouldn't do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waffdon
:D
Indeed. What a knob.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
I would love to know what it is about artistic types that seems to make them so inclined to be anti-vaxx. It must be something to do with narcissism.
Does there appear to be there is a bigger proportion of them who're anti-vaxx or is it just that the anti-vaxxers are noisier?
You don't have to be clever to be an actor or a musician or whatever, they have the same incidence of utter morons as any other profession but with more publicity.
If you're old and fat and ridiculously unhealthy why would you not get it. Strange guy but his choice.
He sounded knackered enough for covid to give him the push, to be fair. Video removed by the uploader. Behold the power of the Meatloaf Estate.
That worse/better than I expected. When his voice went, it fucking caved. :D
Barry Cryer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60370984
Ivan Reitman.
https://metro.co.uk/2022/02/21/jamal...bute-16140393/
Heart-attack apparently :sherlock:
Cocaine induced.
Nah. Must be the vaccine innit.
Mark Lanegan. :(
Another one for the list of apparently very famous people that I've never heard of.
Outside of Meatloaf I'm having to Google most of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
Same. I know of Screaming Trees and plenty of QOTSA stuff but of the latter the only name I know is Josh Homme, and Dave Grohl when he was with them.
Yeah, I didn't even know he was in QOTSA. That's Josh Homme, Nick Olivieri + two other guys.
In The Fade is one of the best songs ever. The guy from Procol Harum is dead too.
Va'aiga Tuigamala. :(
Fun fact: As a kid, James Roby used to have a dog named after him. (Inga, as in Inga the Winger)Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
It used to eat stones.
Shane Warne.
WhatQuote:
Originally Posted by phonics
Heart attack.
Do you mean the much older, much deader ex Australia cricketer, Rodney Marsh?
Doesn't look like itQuote:
Originally Posted by igor_balis
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/ot...-dead-26387355
That's truly shocking.
Holy shit.
No. It's Warne. Well, Warne as well as him.Quote:
Originally Posted by igor_balis
Warne was posting a heartfelt message about his death a mere 12 hours ago.
This year's definitely taken a turn for the worse in the last ten days.
I guess the question is are Russia prepared to lose, in order to win?
100% vaxxine.
I reckon he’s taken a drug overdoseQuote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
He was on a ventilator when he had Covid last year, apparently and it is known to cause heart problems.
In Thailand... probably some hooky plastic surgery.
He has put all sorts of filth into his body over the years - drink, food, cocaine and all the rest - but he's such a vivacious and ever-present figure that it's incredibly shocking.
That's mental. Genuine double-take seeing that headline.
I saw a tweet from KP saying RIP King. I did not expect that to be Warne. What the fuck.
Oh shit sorry Phonics, my bad. Bloody hell.
And yet you still haven't paid your respects to Warne.Quote:
Originally Posted by igor_balis
Fucking prick.
RIP Warne.
Cocaine absolutely fucks up your heart.
Does that mean we're going to see some sort of mass dying in a few years when the current generation of 25-35 year olds hit 50?
The World all started to go wrong when Harry Kane was put on corner duty in Euro16.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Is it that odd for a hard partying 52 year old to have one?
Honestly after the way I treated my body in the second half of my twenties, if someone offered me a heart attack at 52 I'd at least consider it. Make it 60 like maradonna and I'd probably sign the contract right now.
Seems with heart attacks where you have them is mega critical. A doctor friend once hit me with a frankly alarming stat about how unlikely you were to survive one outside of a hospital environment, but on your own in a hotel room is probably a worst case scenario.
Was he still having it away with Liz Hurley? Steve Bing, Shane Warne, look out Hugh, I guess.
I still reckon I’ll never see 52 and I’ve never took a drug other than a joint when I was around 20.
Man peaked when he shagged Liz Hurley.
Fingers crossed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
I’d haunt you only it would be the brightest part of your angry miserable existence.
What age are you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
Yeah, I thought he was older than that as well.
59.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
Who knows what they put in the hair regrowth and teeth whitening he put himself through.
Genuinely crazy though. 52 is no age.
He was absolutely bailing coke into himself for decades wasn’t he?
Giggles Button :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
Someone had a heart attack in the block next to me at Sunderland last Tuesday. They were working on him in the stands for about half an hour but unfortunately he died a couple of days ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
Seems everyone goes to the football to have a heart attack these days.
Shane Warne dying is a big one: not many cricketers are more iconic to me than him. Maybe only Brian Lara being the bigger name when I was growing up.
I think the difference is that everything stops now, whereas it never used to and you might not even have known anything happened.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben
For us white folk he's the biggest cricketer ever, really, alongside Botham I guess. Both have the rambunctious personalities to go alongside the cricket too.
Kevin Piertesen would be the one I’d know best but I’d be an extremely casual follower.
I think you've fallen into the very common trap of conflating a cardiac arrest with a heart attack (myocardial infarction).Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
Cardiac arrest means your heart stops and there are a variety of things which can cause that to happen.
A heart attack is where one of the arteries which supplies blood to your heart muscle essentially clogs up and some of the heart muscle stops receiving blood (and therefore oxygen). Heart attacks vary in severity depending on a number of things including which artery blocks. Heart attacks can cause cardiac arrest. It is one of the top causes of cardiac arrest in fact, but despite that most heart attacks don't lead to cardiac arrest.
Your chances of surviving a cardiac arrest outside of hospital are about 9%. Even in-hospital it's only about 25-30%.
Cardiac arrest is what you would do chest compressions/CPR and shocks for.
George Michael made it to 53.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
Bowlin' Shane, RIP.
'Dyin' Warnie!'
:D
I genuinely thought the headline was a mistake when I saw it this morning. That really came out of nowhere.
Going by the photos doing the round on WhatsApp, he was on a coke fuelled sex bender when he died. At least he went out a happy man.
I got sent those as well. At least one of those photos is old, but it wouldn't surprise me if the story is true.
Bonein' Shane.
Auntie Mabel from Come Outside.
That was a banging show. RIP.
Open All Hours as well. RIP.
I used to believe she genuinely went up in the plane with the dog. In some ways I still want to believe it now.
I was thinking of the show the last few weeks due to Great British Menu (someone needs to make a dessert based on the show).
RIP.
William Hurt.
William Dead more like.
The pain is over now. :(
Scott Hall / Razor Ramon yesterday apparently. :(
Taylor Hawkins. Foo Fighters drummer.
Jaysus. Suicide or accident?
Found dead in hotel room is all I've seen.
Bugger. He's got a history of overdoses so it might've been that.
Alot of people die young and mysteriously when they're too close to Dave Grohl. :sherlock:
Was due to perform in Colombia soon, apparently. :sherlock:
He liked taking drugs, apparently :sherlock:
Drugs :sherlock:
Vaccine :sherlock:
"According to Paul Kidd, “Hawkins was reportedly an AIDS denialist and anti-vaxxer who believed HIV was harmless and vaccines caused autism, and previously was comatose following a drug overdose, so let the speculation begin.”."Quote:
Originally Posted by Magic
https://www.gistvic.com/news/was-tay...-what-we-know/
Lolwut.
It was a drug overdose. ‘ 10 substances in his body at the time of his death, incl. opioids, benzodiazepines, marijuana & antidepressants’
Drug meaning the vaccine.
baccine.
Say no to brugs.
Or say yes to less than ten.
That lad from The Wanted has died from brain cancer. 33. Bad times.
Looking up the type he had is grim reading.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
Quote:
The most common length of survival following diagnosis is 10 to 13 months, with fewer than 1 to 3% of people surviving longer than five years.[2][5] In the United States between 2012 and 2016 five-year survival was 6.8%.[5] Without treatment, survival is typically 3 months
Dot Cotton. She was on my “will probably live forever” list.
She was always good value in interviews. Nothing like her Character. RIP to the game old bird. :(
Smoked like a chimney through most her life, too.
Ramsey claims another victim.
George's mom from Seinfeld has also died. Bad day for the old ladies of television.
She’s the female Jimmy SavileQuote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
Pittsburgh QB Dwayne Haskins apparently.
Hit by a car this morning, poor fucker.
Yeah, that's shit.
If he'd been an Offensive Tackle we'd be mourning the Driver. RIP.
Gilbert Gottfried, 67.
Freddy Rincon.
Don't really remember his goal at the world cup, but do remember him at Real Madrid on champ manager back when they were pretty shit.
Mino Raiola
Missing that Haaland payday
He’s not dead according to other reports lol
Haaland suddenly back in play for many clubs now the Ł60m agent fee is no longer an issue.
Quote:
Originally Posted by randomlegend
Or not.
:cool:
He’s negotiating with death now amirite
Here we go!
RL using a shitty tier source, lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by randomlegend
:D
I even waited a bit to post it for a better source, but literally everyone had jumped on it.
BBC official now.
Tier 1 source, here we go.
Believing sources on Twitter. :harold:
I won't believe it until FootyTranzfer1999 confirms it on Reddit.
Good riddance
Yeah just throw it out there.
Dennis Waterman.
The queens dead, right?
Yeah they just don't know what to do about the bank holiday.
Wait for RL with a decent source before speculating please.
Here we go.
Nick Cave's running out of kids.
Yeah, was just about to say his life seems to be going from strength to strength.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben
Original comedy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
Is she going to make it through 2022?
Pick a thread you mongs.
Ray Liotta
Only 67, he didn't look great though.
Give Identity a watch if you haven't, one of his best and it rules
That's a shit one. :(
Will have to stick Goodfellas on tonight.
Rayli Otta.
Lester Piggott.
Billy Bingham
:rave:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-61777466
Former Dragons' Den star Hilary Devey has died aged 65.
Devey, who grew up in Leeds, died after a long illness on Saturday night, her publicist Benjamin Webb said.
The Bolton-born entrepreneur, who founded the multimillion-pound freight distribution business Pall-Ex in the 1990s, died at her holiday home in Morocco.
You would have thought she was older than that on the programme.
She sounded like she smoked 12 packs a day.
That was my first thought. She was ONLY 65? I thought she was pushing 70 in 2012.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
Yeah that's Joseph Minala levels of dodgy.
Whoever heard of a celebrity dying of a long illness.
James Caan. :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG10q77PPSA
I hope this is how he went out.