Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

I don't think YouGov would ever publish a poll with data from regions of the country where a reasonably large chunk of the population loathe them, or want them abolished. That wouldn't be of any use to them.

the royalty is very popular in britain tbh.

That's why no-one gives a flying fuck about Harry's forthcoming wedding I suppose|?

wtf Dale Winton

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/dale-winton-dead-supermarket-sweep-12388152

what the hell

Randy Scruggs

https://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/randy-scruggs-musician-and-songwriter-dead-at-64-w519271

oh shit not dale, jesus fuck

Dale Winton has given a few interviews over the past few years talking about his mental health and depression, his mother taking her own life, the way that nobody wanted to date him. He's barely been on anything in recent years.

I don't think YouGov would ever publish a poll with data from regions of the country where a reasonably large chunk of the population loathe them, or want them abolished. That wouldn't be of any use to them.

― calzino, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 12:29 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

any data I've ever seen that breaks things down regionally shows that the area in england with lowest enthusiasm for the royals is by a long distance london.

sad about Dale Winton. RIP.

I feel strongly that if there were a royal referendum they would win, but it would be a much closer result than polling data suggests. Why do think SS uniform boy wants to depoliticise his wedding? Anyway I'll stop RIP derail!

I used to skip morning classes at sixth form to watch supermarket sweep. It was such an odd game show, so ultra stylised, Dale was obviously perfect for it. Can't say I've been a fan of anything since (christ his radio shows were not great) but still very sad news.

i love the mundane fantasy of loading up your cart with everything being free. it feels more powerful than someone winning a car, say. i would like to see a survivor-style remake of supermarket sweep where they had a few minutes to gather enough to feed themselves for a week.

Bruno Sammartino

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bruno-sammartino-wrestling-s-original-good-guy-hero-dies-82-n867321

When I worked at a big central London record shop, just round the corner from the Beeb, Dale Winton was a regular customer. He was very, very good with any members of the public who approached him - polite, engaged, interested.

and another TV hero of the '60s, Chuck McCann

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chuck-mccann-dead-comic-actor-kids-tv-host-was-83-1024097

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

I don't know if I've told this story here before but my mother and sister, at one point, thought I was Dale Winton's boyfriend and phoned me up to ask me about it. What had happened was that my mother was getting her hair done and was flicking through the latest issue of Hello, or whatever, and there was a paparazzi style feature on Dale Winton's latest love interest, with a snap of him sitting outside a cafe in Primrose Hill with a pale, shaven headed man in a long coat, not at all his type you might think. My mother was so convinced it was me, sharing a cappuccino with Dale, she bought a copy of the magazine and showed my sister and then they phoned me to ask me if I had anything to tell them. Also Primrose Hill is in North London and anywhere in North London is near to where I live, as far as my mother is concerned. Anyway, having convinced them I wasn't Dale Winton's boyfriend, I went down to a newsagent to see if I could find a copy of this incriminating magazine and, sure enough, the guy did look very like me and was even dressed like me. Nonetheless I have never been Dale Winton's boyfriend.

i’m sorry for your loss tom

possibly inappropriate lol!

I lol'ed too. Laughter through the tears.

aw, he seemed a nice type :(

I think you may have found one or two things to disagree with him on politically, Calz. But out of respect for Tom's grief here's probably not the place to go into them.

I didn't really plan to tbh. Quite an unnecessary post Tim, really ffs!

I meant for me to go into them rather than you. But please accept my heartfelt apologies anyway.

soz it thought it was a passive-aggressive dig, Tim!

hey it's been a rough day for us all

Finding out H Asperger cooperated with the T2 program has been like an RIP for my partner today, she's even taken down his quote from her wall.

T4 program, even, different terminators.

I've just been made aware of this article Dale Winton wrote about Trump during the 2016 and it really is something. https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/dale-winton-donald-trump-is-he-hero-or-villain/"> https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/dale-winton-donald-trump-is-he-hero-or-villain/

lol! what a dick!

oh dale! ;_;

he is now dead to me

As a tribute to the great man I'm going to shop-lift some expensive brand maple syrup in Asda later.

Lol! I genuinely thought Tom was crying earlier. I think I have a bit off an Aspergic humour bypass at times!

can't believe Dale Winton liked an orange bloke with funny hair

Do you mind, I'm not orange.

sorry i don't follow Hello!

can't believe Dale Winton liked an orange bloke with funny hair

wouldn't have thought ian paisley was his type tbh

bruno sammartino

a sad loss for the city of pittsburgh

i'm glad someone saw that through the obscure Brit figures that are clogging this thread now

i'm posting more Chuck McCann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5g4YW-6HsA

Yes, there's never any obscure Yank figures on this thread. ^^^^

ours are better

At dying?

Sometime in early 2000 I stayed overnight in a cheap hotel in Central London. It had been a pretty grim day for me and I was feeling miserable. I sat down on the bed and switched on the TV, and it happened to be some Dale Winton (possibly Lottery related) programme. Not my kind of thing but for some reason it cheered me up a bit.

^^^on the tombstone

That obit from some newspaper above had a Euro millions advert in the middle of it...

you've gotta be in it to win it!

just reading Dale's wikipedia earlier. His father died on the day of his bar mitzvah and his mother died from suicide after suffering depression when he was 21 :(

his mother was an actress and i think the last film she was in was eric sykes' 'rhubarb'

this was good: https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/4/17/17248358/harry-anderson-obituary-night-court-magic

here's a harry anderson magic special from 1986.
https://youtu.be/JlthbJTv39U