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Post by jellyhead on Aug 18, 2024 9:37:05 GMT
RIP Jack
Looking about i remember more Great White tracks than i thought i would. I haven't thought about them for years but damn i definitely had a bunch of their tracks on my teenage mixtapes.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Aug 18, 2024 14:00:53 GMT
RIP Jack Looking about i remember more Great White tracks than i thought i would. I haven't thought about them for years but damn i definitely had a bunch of their tracks on my teenage mixtapes. I think they are more infamous for that horrific nightclub fire now than they were ever known for their music. |
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Post by JuniorFE on Aug 20, 2024 12:38:56 GMT
For the anime/videogame fans... animecorner.me/voice-actress-atsuko-tanaka-passed-away/Prolific VA whose notable roles include Bayonetta and Lara Croft, Major Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell, Lisa Lisa in JoJo, Caster in the Fate series, Kaine in NieR Replicant and many others. |
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Post by Ulythium on Aug 25, 2024 13:22:59 GMT
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 26, 2024 11:39:08 GMT
RIP Sven, fuck cancer!
As ToTP is over he'll forever be the only England manager to have a song performed on it about him, not quite the glory of international cup victory but unique.
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Post by mothercruncher on Aug 26, 2024 11:48:06 GMT
So Graham Thorpe jumped in front of a train.
That’s an atrocious thing to do to someone else on your way out.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Aug 26, 2024 11:49:04 GMT
Fucking hell.
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Post by minimatt on Aug 26, 2024 12:13:48 GMT
the mental mind is - by definition - in no way thinking straight and i'm not going to attach any blame to those so ill they think the best thing for them & everyone else is to jump in front of a train
at the same time, the figure i heard when i worked at railtrack a gazillion years ago was that 1 in 4 train drivers have hit a jumper by the end of their career and it Fucks Them Up so much it frequently *is* the end of their career. my office was opposite safety & standards who went out to all the worst shit and it damaged them
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Aug 26, 2024 12:19:11 GMT
Yeah, if you're in that state you're not thinking rationally about what your death will do to your family, let alone innocent bystanders.
My cousin took his own life last year, left behind a wife and two young kids. It's the most selfish thing you can do, but he probably (wrongly) thought it was the only thing to do.
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Post by eleven63 on Aug 26, 2024 12:23:59 GMT
RIP Sven, fuck cancer!
As ToTP is over he'll forever be the only England manager to have a song performed on it about him, not quite the glory of international cup victory but unique.
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Post by mothercruncher on Aug 26, 2024 13:13:19 GMT
Not all suicides are as emotional, some quite a rational decision. Can’t imagine a front row seat on an ustoppable object right in to someone, Jesus.
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Post by robthehermit on Aug 26, 2024 19:07:53 GMT
Sven-Goner Eriksson
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Post by simple on Aug 26, 2024 21:48:09 GMT
Ronald Reng’s biography of Robert Enke (A Life Too Short) is really good for trying to wrap your head around what might lead to stepping out in front of a train.
I hope history is kind to Sven. His time as England manager coincided with a real nadir of toxic tabloid and celeb culture around the squad, and he went on a real silly journey after that but his record previous to that stands up all on its own. And it really seems like he’s gone out with a lot of friends and goodwill.
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Post by Dougs on Aug 26, 2024 22:08:34 GMT
As I said to friends earlier, he was essentially "my" England manager, as his time in post coincided with me watching England home and away. He wasn't perfect and made some mistakes but still got us to the quarters in successive tournaments, which felt like progress.
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Post by rawshark on Aug 26, 2024 23:34:03 GMT
It’s a sad day. If I were him I’d have “banged Ulrika” etched on my gravestone.
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Post by nazo on Aug 27, 2024 9:05:12 GMT
For the anime/videogame fans... animecorner.me/voice-actress-atsuko-tanaka-passed-away/Prolific VA whose notable roles include Bayonetta and Lara Croft, Major Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell, Lisa Lisa in JoJo, Caster in the Fate series, Kaine in NieR Replicant and many others. Well that's a bummer, I just finished watching Friern the other night. I've seen / played several of those and never noticed they were voiced by the same person, shows how good she was I suppose. |
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Post by jono62 on Aug 31, 2024 15:20:24 GMT
Fatman Scoop, aged 53.
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Post by simple on Aug 31, 2024 16:18:14 GMT
The soundtrack to a thousand student nights where I was too scared to ask girls to kiss me
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Post by rawshark on Aug 31, 2024 16:47:06 GMT
I remember him as a guest on Buzzcocks. Had a good sense of humour. He always seemed like a decent guy. Sad to lose him.
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Post by robthehermit on Sept 3, 2024 10:11:12 GMT
Brian Trueman
Nope, me neither, but he wrote most of our childhoods - Jamie and the Magic Torch, Chorlton, Wind in the Willows, Dangermouse, Count Duckula etc.
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Post by mothercruncher on Sept 3, 2024 10:16:25 GMT
Kiss ass title sequence for Jamie and the Magic Torch iirc 🤘
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Post by nexus6 on Sept 3, 2024 10:19:43 GMT
‘Kick’
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Post by Garfy on Sept 3, 2024 10:23:52 GMT
James Darren
I think I'll listen to 'This One's from the Heart' tonight. I think I've still got the CD somewhere
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Post by robthehermit on Sept 3, 2024 10:25:19 GMT
Do kids today still put up with 2 minute intro sequences?
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Post by Vortex on Sept 3, 2024 11:21:07 GMT
Brian Trueman Nope, me neither, but he wrote most of our childhoods - Jamie and the Magic Torch, Chorlton, Wind in the Willows, Dangermouse, Count Duckula etc. Chorlton & the Wheelies was my absolute favourite. Although all of those you've listed were great to watch. Sadly, I now have the jamie and the magic torch theme embedded in my brain. Even without watching your video! Jay-mie, Jay-mie, Jay-mie and the(his?) magic torch... |
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Post by simple on Sept 3, 2024 11:22:18 GMT
Brian Trueman Nope, me neither, but he wrote most of our childhoods - Jamie and the Magic Torch, Chorlton, Wind in the Willows, Dangermouse, Count Duckula etc. We’ve watched some of the classic Danger Mouse and Duckula with my boy over the years and it legit holds up. I’d imagine most Cosgrove Hall stuff does as its obvious it was being made by people who wanted to do something really good and who took care in what they were making. It was a real nice change of pace from all the noisy cgi landfill that most commercial shows for younger children are these days. (The Alexander Armstrong CBBC Danger Mouse reboot is actually good too but a lot more action focussed and faster paced) |
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Post by Whizzo on Sept 3, 2024 12:16:24 GMT
Brian Trueman was so prolific, a ton of my childhood TV memories were written by him. A good innings of course and he'll live on through his work, not quite as good as living on through not dying but you can't have everything, where would you put it? Down a hole through spacetime created with a torch maybe?
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Post by killerbee on Sept 8, 2024 21:52:27 GMT
Herbie Flowers
Probably best known for playing bass as a session musician for Lou Reed on Walk On the Wild Side, and with David Bowie, T-Rex and many others.
But for me, I’ll always know him for writing this piece with instrumental rock band Sky. My Dad had (still has) the Sky2 LP and one of my earliest memories is listening to this.
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Post by baihu1983 on Sept 9, 2024 20:47:08 GMT
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