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Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2023 10:11 pm
by dng
(and also the utterly terrifying man from lost highway)

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2023 10:11 pm
by dng
and probably more

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2023 10:11 pm
by dng
basically everyone is dead

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 1:58 am
by blombluss
RIP Bill Tidy. :(

I always admired your superquick drawing skills.

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 9:08 pm
by richschnauzer
blombluss wrote: Mon Mar 13, 2023 1:58 am RIP Bill Tidy. :(

I always admired your superquick drawing skills.
Pisss. Hardly worth bothering to get Private Eye any more.

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2023 7:36 pm
by dng
oh no lance reddick is dead. which is pretty awful. lovely lance reddick

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2023 9:01 pm
by endar
Well, fuck

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2023 9:05 pm
by dng
yes. how utterly shit

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2023 9:06 pm
by dng
who's going to stare at people now

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2023 9:06 pm
by dng
no one, that's who

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2023 9:12 pm
by endar
Also, natural causes at 60? wtf does that even mean

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2023 9:23 pm
by dng
Heart attack or stroke, I suppose

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:33 am
by vom
rubbish. I liked him a lot and that is definitely far too young

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2023 7:43 pm
by blombluss
Peter 'Usborne Books' Usborne has gawn. :(

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/ ... dies-at-85

RIP - you published some fab kids books!

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2023 9:28 pm
by dng
i didn't even know there was a mr usborne, let alone that he was still alive

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2023 1:28 pm
by blombluss
His coffin should be decorated with the lovely covers of their old computer books. Also - gravestone.

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2023 5:58 pm
by dng

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2023 12:41 pm
by blombluss
Oh noes.:(

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2023 12:40 pm
by blombluss
Deady Springer.

I'm not sure how I feel about him, to be honest. He seemed a likeable guy, but was he just a more colourful Jeremy Kyle?

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2023 3:25 pm
by endar
Far more classy than Kunty Kyle

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Tue May 09, 2023 3:07 pm
by blombluss
Terrence Hardiman RIP :'(

When he wasn't scary, he was terrifying.

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Wed May 24, 2023 8:29 pm
by blombluss
Oh noes Tina Turner. :(

A helluva life lived. RIP

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Wed May 24, 2023 8:55 pm
by dng
Blimey

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Thu May 25, 2023 6:47 am
by Mrak
She's gone to rule the thunderdome in the sky

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Thu May 25, 2023 7:10 pm
by dng
(Experimental/avant garde/entirely baffling film director) Kenneth Anger died this week. How he was still alive I do not know. His first films were from the 1930s

Re: The weeping thread

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

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

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2023 8:02 pm
by endar
i met him at a charity do once

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2023 9:39 pm
by blombluss
Hehehe! :D I expect he was surprisingly down to earth, and VERY funny. :D

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2023 8:19 pm
by vom
Cormac McCarthy :'-(

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2023 8:34 pm
by dng
weeep

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2023 10:22 pm
by Gravid
Oh no

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2023 2:54 pm
by Pual
Boo

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 8:26 pm
by dng

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 8:26 pm
by dng
rest in peace, essex terror's first ever cover star

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2023 11:03 pm
by vom
weep
poor Julian

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2023 12:27 am
by blombluss
I see Alan Arkin passed away, a few days back. :( He was always good value in films. RIP.

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2023 11:25 am
by dng
he was. weep

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2023 10:05 pm
by vom
Jane Birkin :'-(

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2023 10:13 pm
by dng
yes. weep

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2023 10:14 pm
by dng
on bbc news earlier for some reason when they were doing their bit on this the person talking about her finished by saying, "oh you interviewed her before didn't you" to the presenter and then she laughed and said, ""yeah lol it was the 90s i had no idea who she was" and then they went on to the next story

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2023 10:14 pm
by dng
it was kind of weird really

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2023 10:15 pm
by dng
bbc news is so abysmal now it's all kind of baffling

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2023 10:17 pm
by dng
half the time its not even tv news its just radio 5, but on camera

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2023 11:20 pm
by endar
Imagine watching the news

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2023 11:27 pm
by dng
I then watched scanners

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2023 12:44 am
by blombluss
endar wrote: Sun Jul 16, 2023 11:20 pm Imagine watching the news
#It's easy if you try,
No hell below us
Above us, only Sky
Sports.#

:D

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2023 12:47 am
by blombluss
dng wrote: Sun Jul 16, 2023 10:14 pm on bbc news earlier for some reason when they were doing their bit on this the person talking about her finished by saying, "oh you interviewed her before didn't you" to the presenter and then she laughed and said, ""yeah lol it was the 90s i had no idea who she was" and then they went on to the next story
Ugh, what a crappy way to finish a piece.

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2023 2:35 pm
by blombluss
Oh no Trevor Francis :(

The UK's first million pound player. A proper technical footballer, who did well in Italy, unlike most British players of the time.

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2023 2:43 pm
by dng
Lovely trevor

Re: The weeping thread

Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:13 pm
by blombluss
Sinead O'Connor :( Darn. :(