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Reply | Russell Brand is guilty
at 21:12 12 Nov 2026
Seconded. Add The Sunday Times, under the brilliant editor Harold Evans, to the list for their role in exposing the Thalidomide Scandal. |
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Reply | Quick Answer - Classic Film For Tonight
at 18:14 11 Nov 2026
I never tire of Peter Sellers: Dr Strangelove is always worth a re-watch. Or I’m All Right Jack perhaps?
I always thought Heavens Above! (despite it’s rather absurd ending) was wonderful, although it did go under the radar a bit. |
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Reply | So what now ???
at 17:52 11 Nov 2026
Start posting frivolous new threads? Not that I’m encouraging that sort of thing, mind. |
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Thread | No subject
at 17:12 11 Nov 2026
Sorry. Spackman. |
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Reply | Ongoing dead celebs thread.
at 14:40 11 Nov 2026
TalkSport saying his ‘love of football, music and life was infectious’. A man after my own heart. Very sad news, which will affect many people, not least his great friend and broadcasting buddy Danny Baker.
RIP Danny Kelly. |
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Reply | Shin pads
at 17:01 9 Nov 2026
I’m surprised more footballers don’t wear ‘crown jewels’ protectors like batsmen in cricket. It’s not much fun when you get hit ‘amidships’, as the commentators are fond of saying. |
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Reply | Ongoing dead celebs thread.
at 16:43 9 Nov 2026
Came across as a good egg. He must have inspired thousands of us weekend bodgers to give it a go.
I bought an 18v cordless drill on his recommendation (my previous one could barely put a hole in a block of balsa wood) and even managed to tackle a bit of plastering on my own (with mixed results, it has to be said!) |
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Reply | Shin pads
at 19:37 8 Nov 2026
Seems our own Dave Thomas was something of a trailblazer! |
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Reply | Shin pads
at 19:33 8 Nov 2026
The grizzled ex-semi pro who used to prop up the 5th XI Old Boys side I played in at the tail end of the 70’s used to put folded up newspapers down the front of his socks. Another one used to wear his wife’s laddered stockings on cold days, but that’s another story. |
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Reply | Shin pads
at 15:43 8 Nov 2026
I saw that too. Wasn’t sure if they were some sort of adhesive that he then stuck conventional shin pads on top of though. Could be wrong.
I did notice that his pink socks weren’t actually socks, more like a sort of ‘tube’ that he seemed to roll down from his knee. At least they didn’t have holes in the back though. |
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Reply | Ongoing dead celebs thread.
at 20:32 7 Nov 2026
Thanks for the Vic Flick reminder. I must get around to tracking down a copy of his memoir Guitarman (hopefully via my local independent bookseller, not A**z*n).
I think journalist Richard Williams wrote a biography of Vic too, another one on my list (Richard’s music blog thebluemoment.com is worth dipping into from time to time). |
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Reply | Ongoing dead celebs thread.
at 11:34 7 Nov 2026
I hadn’t heard of the chap, TBH, but reading the obit I was struck by his sheer determination to keep doing something he loved and not give up; a real testament to the resilience of the human spirit.
It reminded me of soul legend Curtis Mayfield’s own personal battle after he was paralysed from the neck down in a freak onstage accident when a lighting rig collapsed on him. The story behind his final album New World Order is astonishing …
https://www.popmatters.com/cur |
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