aw, he seemed a nice type :(
― calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:15 (six years ago) link
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.
― Tim, Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:27 (six years ago) link
I didn't really plan to tbh. Quite an unnecessary post Tim, really ffs!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:30 (six years ago) link
I meant for me to go into them rather than you. But please accept my heartfelt apologies anyway.
― Tim, Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:35 (six years ago) link
soz it thought it was a passive-aggressive dig, Tim!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:37 (six years ago) link
hey it's been a rough day for us all
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:45 (six years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:50 (six years ago) link
T4 program, even, different terminators.
― calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:51 (six years ago) link
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/
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 19 April 2018 10:54 (six years ago) link
lol! what a dick!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 11:00 (six years ago) link
oh dale! ;_;
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 19 April 2018 11:04 (six years ago) link
he is now dead to me
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 19 April 2018 11:05 (six years ago) link
As a tribute to the great man I'm going to shop-lift some expensive brand maple syrup in Asda later.
― calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 11:07 (six years ago) link
Lol! I genuinely thought Tom was crying earlier. I think I have a bit off an Aspergic humour bypass at times!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 11:11 (six years ago) link
can't believe Dale Winton liked an orange bloke with funny hair
― you're my luger not my rifle (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 April 2018 11:42 (six years ago) link
Do you mind, I'm not orange.
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 April 2018 12:04 (six years ago) link
sorry i don't follow Hello!
― you're my luger not my rifle (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 April 2018 12:07 (six years ago) link
wouldn't have thought ian paisley was his type tbh
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 19 April 2018 12:51 (six years ago) link
bruno sammartino
a sad loss for the city of pittsburgh
― mookieproof, Thursday, 19 April 2018 12:57 (six years ago) link
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
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
Yes, there's never any obscure Yank figures on this thread. ^^^^
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
ours are better
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:54 (six years ago) link
At dying?
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:58 (six years ago) link
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.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Thursday, 19 April 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
^^^on the tombstone
― imago, Thursday, 19 April 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
That obit from some newspaper above had a Euro millions advert in the middle of it...
― koogs, Thursday, 19 April 2018 21:33 (six years ago) link
you've gotta be in it to win it!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
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 :(
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 19 April 2018 21:38 (six years ago) link
his mother was an actress and i think the last film she was in was eric sykes' 'rhubarb'
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 19 April 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
this was good: https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/4/17/17248358/harry-anderson-obituary-night-court-magic
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 April 2018 00:12 (six years ago) link
here's a harry anderson magic special from 1986.https://youtu.be/JlthbJTv39U
― adam the (abanana), Friday, 20 April 2018 03:01 (six years ago) link
Avicii. 28 years old.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
what?!?
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
Link.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
jeez, poor guy
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
wtf
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:36 (six years ago) link
Oh no.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
Fuck. to get pancreatitis from drinking too much in your mid-20s seems insane to me. Really sad
― flappy bird, Friday, 20 April 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
I've not seen it, but Netflix had a new documentary about him out a couple of weeks ago? I saw the press release at the time, and it said something about how those close to him sometimes feared he'd be a member of the "club of 27" (dying at 27 like Joplin, Cobain etc).
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
So then the doc has a happy ending.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Friday, 20 April 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link
jeez louise eric 😳
― flappy bird, Friday, 20 April 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
This will add an undeserved poignancy to 'I Took A Pill In Ibiza'
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 April 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
I follow some Swedish news Twitter accounts because I'm studying the language, and there are comments coming out from the Swedish prime minister and the crown prince and princess and people like that - this is like a full-on national tragedy, it seems.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 20 April 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
rip aviici
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Friday, 20 April 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link
I'm like 7 months older than he was, it's almost unfathomable to me that in the same time I've been alive, someone else managed to become an incredibly successful performing artist, retire, and (apparently) drink themselves to death. I don't have that much energy.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 20 April 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
I have known quite a few people with a boundless energy for the drink and without the distraction of a successful career, who didn't manage to die from it until late 30's/early 40's.
― calzino, Friday, 20 April 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
Bix Beiderbecke also managed to drink himself to death at the age of 28, so it's not a unique case
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 April 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
definitely not unique and sometimes other underlying health issues could be a factor.
― calzino, Friday, 20 April 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
Considering my own state, I'm in awe at how Avicii managed to die of drinking at 28 tbh. Not in bad faith this, counting every new year as a gift.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 20 April 2018 21:42 (six years ago) link
a guy from my high school drank himself to death at age 20. it's not impressive.
― adam the (abanana), Friday, 20 April 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link