[Jaspersharpe]

And Max Clifford. Oh no sorry, he's not dead.

[tregiffian]

Is there something somewhere about who should cast the first stone....?

[andy_e]

Yeah, in a storybook so I wouldn't take it as gospel 

[GCW]

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=oO_Ckg5ott8&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DoO_Ckg5ott8

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Indeed. Though women and immigrants didnt. Read his statements Alice.. You wouldn't be surprised if Nick Griffin said the same.. Sorry guys, I won't miss him.

Moore's thoughts re the Germans "bombed my girlfriend"  also moderately ironic considering his own career at the time…

[SA Chris]

Ravi Shankar - RIP Mr Sitar Man. Good innings tho'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-20690632

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Kenneth Kendall.

Edit. Apologies - spelt his name incorrectly.

[GCW]

Also Maurice Herzog.

[Oldmanmatt]

All the innocents of Newtown...

Dear America,
if guns are part of your culture, the root of your freedom; then you have no culture or freedom.

[SA Chris]

Gerry Anderson. Thanks for so much childhood joy. FAB.

[dave]

speaking of dead guys - a true legend bought it on xmas eve - Jack Klugman:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20840475

You may remember him from such forensic pathologist detective show as:



Many a university lecture I skived off whilst watching this show. Happy memories.

[duncan]

Bill Forrest

Inventor of the belt + leg-loops style climbing harness in 1969.  The same basic design as the one you are using today. 

Also ice-tools with replaceable picks and much more innovative gear in the 1970s. 

[slackline]

I thought it was Tony Howard et al. who designed the modern harnesses, albeit via refinement of the Whillans harness?

And wasn't it Ray Jardine who developed Friends and went into production with Mark Vallance (see History section), article doesn't say what Bill Forrest's involvement was. EDIT : Looks like Jardine lived with/rented space from him.

His Rope Sling nut looks like it'd be useful in soft sandstone though.

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Townie Grigg

[duncan]

I thought it was Tony Howard et al. who designed the modern harnesses, albeit via refinement of the Whillans harness?

You’re right in that Troll’s Whillans was the first harness widely adopted in the UK and, I think, in any country.  It popularised the idea of wearing a harness for rock climbing and was comfortable to fall in, relative to tying a rope around your waist, so an important factor in the rapid increase in climbing standards from the mid-70s.  It was originally designed for mountaineering not rock-climbing though and it’s ‘nappy’ style was an evolutionary dead-end: only a few modern harnesses, for alpine climbing or ski-mountaineering, are recognisable descendants. 

The only significant development of the Forrest design was adding the belay loop (on the Troll MkV, 1978).  Tony Howard claims this is the crucial ingredient, but I’d say Bill Forrest got 90% there.

[slackline]

Cheers, hadn't heard of Forrest before (always interested in a bit of history).

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Fontella Bass

[Falling Down]

William Rees Mogg - one of the greats of journalism.

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Christopher Martin-Jenkins - will be sadly missed.

[DaveC]

Christopher Martin-Jenkins - will be sadly missed.

Indeed. Wonderful piece in The Guardian by Mike Selvey:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2013/jan/01/christopher-martin-jenkins-cricket-best-friend

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

The UK's involvement in the Gemini Observatory.


What a bunch of shitty third-rate twats we've become as a nation.


http://apacificview.blogspot.co.uk/

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Patti Page. (85)

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Were you sitting comfortably? Because I've finished!

Daphne Oxenford - the voice of "Listen with Mother" dies at the age of 93.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20908822

[SA Chris]

Cricketer / Commentator Tony Greig was given out on 29 December too. Good innings though!

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Cricketer / Commentator Tony Greig was given out on 29 December too. Good innings though!

http://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,18343.msg388696.html#msg388696