The weeping thread

Post by **dng** » Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:14 pm

Imagine what a cockney could do with a jellied eel that size

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:13 pm

blombluss wrote: Mon Jun 12, 2023 7:44 pm Oh no, Berlusconi's gone. :'(

Not just an inspiration, but also a close personal friend...

Wait he did?

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:50 am

ves

Silvio Berlusgone-y :'(

Post by **dng** » Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:09 am

oh no steve harley from cockney rebel is dead!

(the only thing i know about cockney rebel is mr soft and the only reason i know it is that excellent advert for trebor soft mints that used it)

Post by **dng** » Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:10 am

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

Post by **dng** » Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:10 am

still terrifying

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:24 pm

That's what Heaven looks like.

Post by **vom** » Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:19 am

M Emmet Walsh

weeep

Post by **dng** » Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:37 am

oh no. well that's awful

Post by **endar** » Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:39 pm

oh no Vernor Vinge

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:50 pm

weeep

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Apr 06, 2024 3:37 pm

Weep? Not this time! Ha ha!

"An 111-year-old man from England is now the world’s oldest living man and says the only diet he follows is eating fish and chips every Friday."

https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... -pure-luck

If fish and chips is the basis of a long life, then I expect to live until the year 2196!

Post by **dng** » Sun May 05, 2024 8:12 pm

oh no bernard hill is dead. weeep

Post by **dng** » Sun May 05, 2024 8:12 pm

one of those actors who you always wonder why they aren't in everything because they're so bloody good whenever they are in anything

Post by **endar** » Sun May 05, 2024 10:54 pm

ves weep

Post by **vom** » Wed May 08, 2024 4:24 pm

fuck, Steve Albini has died

that's a real shock

Post by **dng** » Wed May 08, 2024 4:53 pm

weeeeep. worst news ever

Post by **dng** » Wed May 08, 2024 4:58 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzDQWrp5VpA

Post by **dng** » Wed May 08, 2024 5:22 pm

shellac have a new album out next week too, oddly

Post by **dng** » Wed May 08, 2024 5:23 pm

worst promotional event since david bowie in 2016

Post by **dng** » Wed May 08, 2024 5:23 pm

and/or also leonard cohen in 2016

Post by **Pual** » Wed May 08, 2024 5:47 pm

Utter bollocks news

Post by **blombluss** » Wed May 08, 2024 7:50 pm

Christ, 61 is no age.

Post by **vom** » Sun May 12, 2024 8:59 am

Roger Corman, RIP

He made it to 98 though which is an extremely good innings

Post by **dng** » Sun May 12, 2024 9:03 am

he should have been immortal somehow

Post by **dng** » Sun May 12, 2024 9:03 am

also weeep

Post by **dng** » Wed May 15, 2024 3:04 pm

Can’t believe supergran is dead

Post by **dng** » Wed May 15, 2024 3:04 pm

Bad week for 98 year olds

Post by **blombluss** » Wed May 15, 2024 7:07 pm

She looked about 98 when she did Super Gran!

Post by **Pual** » Wed May 22, 2024 4:24 pm

David Wilkie - I had my photo taken with him at some sport event at school.

I had no idea who he was.

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Jun 09, 2024 3:26 pm

Telly doctor Michael Mosley RIP

Post by **endar** » Sun Jun 09, 2024 5:50 pm

ves

i didn't realise he was 67

i guess he didn't either

Post by **dng** » Fri Jun 21, 2024 1:41 am

donald sutherland (weeeeeeeeeep)

Post by **dng** » Tue Aug 13, 2024 6:11 pm

belated two year old weeep

https://www.theguardian.com/film/articl ... n-confirms

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Aug 31, 2024 7:47 pm

oh no Fatman Scoop did a Tommy Cooper

Post by **dng** » Tue Sep 03, 2024 10:40 am

weeep

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... es-aged-92

(i'd never actually heard of him before, i don't think, but man look at the things he wrote - dangermouse, chortle and the wheelies, jamie and the magic torch, count duckula)

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Sep 03, 2024 2:51 pm

Oh noes!

And I'd forgotten he'd presented Screen Test, an' all.

RIP

Post by **endar** » Tue Sep 03, 2024 9:41 pm

Weeeeeeep

Post by **vom** » Mon Sep 09, 2024 9:21 pm

James Earl Jones

One of the best

:'-(

Post by **dng** » Mon Sep 09, 2024 9:26 pm

ultra weep

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Sep 10, 2024 12:42 am

What a voice, what gravitas, what an actor!

RIP

Post by **endar** » Tue Sep 10, 2024 8:36 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgN1sLcAQnw

Post by **endar** » Tue Sep 10, 2024 8:40 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSIF7WvrxTo

chills

so epic

Post by **dng** » Tue Sep 10, 2024 10:28 am

he really is the best thing ever in conan, isn't he?

Post by **endar** » Tue Sep 10, 2024 10:31 am

very yes

Post by **Pual** » Tue Sep 10, 2024 11:46 am

Especially that wig

Post by **endar** » Fri Sep 27, 2024 12:00 pm

Clive Everton

147 weeps

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Fri Sep 27, 2024 6:09 pm

Alas Maggie Smith.
Much to my surprise, I found out recently that she went out with my great-uncle (grandmother's younger brother) when he was at university.

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Sep 27, 2024 9:39 pm

endar wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2024 12:00 pm Clive Everton

147 weeps

Him and Ted Lowe knew when to keep quiet, which is horribly unfashionable in commentary these days.

RIP

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Oct 23, 2024 6:09 pm

Oh no Geoff Capes

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/ ... es-aged-75

RIP the World's Strongest Man - I thought you were brill when I was a kid.