[mrjonathanr]

The Trumpton Riots. It's like being a sixth former again
Any apparent reference to the Toxteth Riots, some 5 years previously, is purely coincidental.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trumpton_Riots_EP

[sdm]

I was worried for a minute when I saw on the Recent Posts feed that Half Man Half Biscuit were being discussed in this thread.

Glad to see it was a false alarm!

[Oldmanmatt]

One last, little, OT thought, sparked by the death of a Monkey.

I kid you not…

I put down a copy of the Times, leaned back into a red leather, wingback, chair. Surrounded by grand portraits of great Admirals and ships of the line; with a tasteful, twinkling, little Xmas tree below. Moved my leg a little away from the crackling fire, before pushing my reading glasses a little further up my nose and opening UKB on my phone to write the above. All dignified, establishment and, frankly, old.

The fucking irony.

I don’t think 18 year old, no rank scrote me, could possibly have imagined 50 year old me sitting in the Wardroom of HMS Excellent, drinking Espresso…

[Johnny Brown]

One last, little, OT thought, sparked by the death of a Monkey.

Did you hoy it in the sea?

[teestub]

One last, little, OT thought, sparked by the death of a Monkey.

Did you hoy it in the sea?

Well it did eat his fags.

[JamieG]

Richard Rogers

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/dec/19/richard-rogers-lord-rogers-obituary

[mrjonathanr]

Read this article today, quite an interesting take on race issues from an historian I had never heard of (not that I know a great deal about history, to be fair).
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/02/race-class-freedom-liberty-and-work-of-historian-tyler-stovall

https://news.fordham.edu/university-news/tyler-stovall-dean-of-the-graduate-school-of-arts-and-sciences-dies-at-67/

[cowboyhat]

Peter Bogdanovich!

[Andy W]

Bogdanoff twins! If you have never heard of them, which i hadn't, a google search will reveal...

They climbed too!

[cowboyhat]

Yeah they were quite strange, but I don't think they had quite the same cultural impact.

I've seen a lot of his movies before but only recently got into him as a man, he was a cool guy. The plot thickens podcast is excellent, and I know I've said it before but; The other side of the wind and the accompanying documentary.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/06/peter-bogdanovich-a-loving-cineaste-and-fearless-genius-of-cinema

[lagerstarfish]

Bogdanoff twins! If you have never heard of them, which i hadn't, a google search will reveal...

They climbed too!

Igor's Instagram has plenty of pictures of him in Font

[mrjonathanr]

 Sidney Poitier

[lagerstarfish]

Bogdanoff twins! If you have never heard of them, which i hadn't, a google search will reveal...

They climbed too!

Igor's Instagram has plenty of pictures of him in Font

From his bleau.info profile, it looks like he was bouldering 7A age 70. Good effort!

[SA Chris]

Bob Saget, American comedian.

if you think he just did funny animal voiceovers and Full House, look up some of his stand up stuff, or "The Dirtiest Joke In The World" on youtube, definitely as NSFW as you can get.

[cheque]

James Mtume, disco/ funk producer and sideman to Mile Davis amongst other jazz blokes.

[andy popp]

Ronnie Spector

[Johnny Brown]

Marvin Lee Aday aka Meat Loaf. RIP Meat.

[Duma]

Thích Nhất Hạnh

[tommytwotone]

Beat me to it Duma - wasn't aware of Thich until COVID lockdown etc. I stumbled across one of his talks via an "accidental ASMR" video on YouTube.


I've never really got on with mindfulness / meditation but this one made the penny drop a bit for me. I must have listened this this video (and the related ones) about 1000 times over the last couple of years.

[SA Chris]

Marvin Lee Aday aka Meat Loaf. RIP Meat.

I'm a bit gutted about this, but given his health he managed to hang in there a while. We had a Mealoaf listening session when we were away, so many amazing songs.

[andy popp]

Tony Moulam: if nothing else (and there are actually many good reasons) he deserves remembering for the FA of the peerless Mur-y-Niwl:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/26/tony-moulam-obituary

[webbo]

Tony Moulam: if nothing else (and there are actually many good reasons) he deserves remembering for the FA of the peerless Mur-y-Niwl:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/26/tony-moulam-obituary

It would also appear that Tony had the gift of time travel as in the picture of the FA of Green crack he is wearing EB’s.
A sad loss but a great life.

[andy popp]

Tony Moulam: if nothing else (and there are actually many good reasons) he deserves remembering for the FA of the peerless Mur-y-Niwl:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/26/tony-moulam-obituary

It would also appear that Tony had the gift of time travel as in the picture of the FA of Green crack he is wearing EB’s.
A sad loss but a great life.

I noticed that ...

But yes, one of those relatively unsung but very influential figures.

[SA Chris]

Bamber Gascogine

Father of Paul*

Joining his mum in heaven after she was tragically shot by that hunter (old Young Ones joke)

*not really

[shurt]

Bamber Gascogine

Father of Paul*

Joining his mum in heaven after she was tragically shot by that hunter (old Young Ones joke)

*not really

The university challenge Young Ones episode is pure class