Somehow it's a whole year ago that Robin Williams died
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| Author: | miki [ Tue Aug 11, 2015 9:03 ] |
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When I was about 8 I kind of died of an acute asthma attack proper adrenaline needle in the heart, paddles "clear" never remembered any of it |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Wed Aug 12, 2015 8:48 ] |
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Somehow it's a whole year ago that Robin Williams died
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:14 ] |
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Yesterday. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:19 ] |
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There were so many things I was never told |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:20 ] |
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Like "People won't pay to talk to you" |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:25 ] |
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... Well, that was unexpected. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Wed Aug 12, 2015 10:00 ] |
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Grim... wrote: Yesterday. Yes, I only meant that it's hard to believe that so much time has passed. If you'd asked me to think how long ago it was, I'd have said about 5 months, maybe six. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Wed Aug 12, 2015 10:12 ] |
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Mimi wrote: Grim... wrote: Yesterday. Yes, I only meant that it's hard to believe that so much time has passed. If you'd asked me to think how long ago it was, I'd have said about 5 months, maybe six. Me, too. |
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| Author: | Cavey [ Thu Aug 13, 2015 17:45 ] |
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Poor old Stephen Lewis who played Blakey "I'll get you Butler" from On the Buses has just checked his last ticket at 88 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33914037 |
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| Author: | myp [ Thu Aug 13, 2015 18:00 ] |
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MaliA wrote: Mimi wrote: Grim... wrote: Yesterday. Yes, I only meant that it's hard to believe that so much time has passed. If you'd asked me to think how long ago it was, I'd have said about 5 months, maybe six. Me, too. You didn't die a year ago, you liar. |
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| Author: | DBSnappa [ Thu Aug 13, 2015 18:09 ] |
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Cavey wrote: Poor old Stephen Lewis who played Blakey "I'll get you Butler" from On the Buses has just checked his last ticket at 88 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33914037 I met him when I was a kid, he was doing a show at the Sherman theatre in Cardiff and staying with my aunt and uncle who ran the bar. Didn't recognise him at all without his 'tache, but then I was only about 10 or 11 at the time. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Thu Aug 13, 2015 20:14 ] |
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I thought he was long gone. I guess he was in lots of makeup as Blakey. |
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| Author: | JohnCoffey [ Thu Aug 13, 2015 23:32 ] |
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He used to appear at Pontins a lot IIRC. On the buses. Quite simply one of my favourite film series as a kid. RIP Blakey... Oh nooooooo! |
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| Author: | Achilles [ Thu Aug 13, 2015 23:42 ] |
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.......................................... |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Mon Aug 31, 2015 6:33 ] |
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Wes Craven has passed away. |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:46 ] |
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Mimi wrote: Wes Craven has passed away. Brain cancer 76, not really that old.Fucking cancer, is there anything you can't get cancer of? I saw Last House On The Left for the first time about five or six years ago, that's some strange stuff. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Aug 31, 2015 12:34 ] |
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Princess Diana's dead. (For 18 years today). |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Mon Aug 31, 2015 13:41 ] |
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She must have been dead half my life, then. You know those big events that everyone remembers? This isn't one. I knew she must have died at some point between me being 11 and about 25-26, but I have never been able to recall at what age, even roughly, I might have been. I remember it being on the radio, and someone telling me that 'The Princess of Wales' had died, but I had no idea who the princess of Wales was. If they'd said princess Diana, I'd have comprehended better as she was all over the news because of having sex in Harrods, and rugby, but I didn't realise they were the same person at the time. |
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| Author: | asfish [ Mon Aug 31, 2015 20:24 ] |
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Mimi wrote: She must have been dead half my life, then. You know those big events that everyone remembers? This isn't one. I knew she must have died at some point between me being 11 and about 25-26, but I have never been able to recall at what age, even roughly, I might have been. I remember it being on the radio, and someone telling me that 'The Princess of Wales' had died, but I had no idea who the princess of Wales was. If they'd said princess Diana, I'd have comprehended better as she was all over the news because of having sex in Harrods, and rugby, but I didn't realise they were the same person at the time. I can remember exactly where I was, Manchester Airport doing some shop fitting on a load of new bars in what was an extension to one of the airside terminals. It was a Sunday and as I had the "airside" drivers pass I had agreed to pick these contractors up each morning When I went to pick them up one of them told me and I was shocked. As it was a Sunday and long before the internet had taken off you only had Sunday papers that were printed hours before to get news from, they had nothing as they had been printed before she has been confirmed as dead Odd how we all had to work a full day before we went home and turned on the TV to see the updates. These days you have updates all the time on any sort of news. Was never a huge fan but it made me sad for a while for some reason. |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Mon Aug 31, 2015 20:50 ] |
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I remember it as being significant for one of the first major pieces of news I learned from the internet rather than the telly. I turned my PC on and logged into a Yahoo chat room - (can't remember much about it at all, a UK based general blabber one or something, was that a thing? I genuinely can't remember) - and all the chat in there was about the death of Princess Di. 'It's a bad day for Mercedes' - said one wag in there. Turned on the telly and true enough it was all over the news of course. Cue all that shite with people crying in the streets and blubbing all over the place, like it mattered or something. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Aug 31, 2015 22:36 ] |
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I was DJing at a party, and we were still awake when it happened. It got a brief talking about, but not much, really. |
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Mon Aug 31, 2015 22:43 ] |
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I though I'd accidentally smoked heroin the night before* in a comedy misunderstanding. Which gave the rolling news through that sunday an understandably unreal sensation. Never found out if I actually did (although strongly believe I did) but even despite having gone through nearly all of all the drugs by that point was pretty much "BUT WHAT IF IM ADDICTED" all day. |
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| Author: | Malc [ Mon Aug 31, 2015 23:39 ] |
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I stayed over at my then girlfriend's ( now wife) place. We had left the radio on and had fallen asleep. When I woke up I said I dreamt that princess Diana had died in a car crash. Then quickly realised it was real! Very surreal, especially as I lived about a 15 minute walk from Buckingham palace, and worked about 5 minutes away (and actually on Buckingham palace road). It was an odd day working the day of the funeral I can tell you... |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Mon Aug 31, 2015 23:55 ] |
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I was annoyed as there was a massive banner on the screen on Nickelodeon, telling me to turn onto a news channel. All I wanted to do was watch the Rugrats. |
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| Author: | Satsuma [ Tue Sep 01, 2015 0:14 ] |
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I can't remember where I was or what I was doing. |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Tue Sep 01, 2015 7:41 ] |
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Saturnalian wrote: I can't remember where I was or what I was doing. WORST REMINISCE EVER. |
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| Author: | myp [ Tue Sep 01, 2015 7:58 ] |
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Grim... wrote: I was DJing at a party, and we were still awake when it happened. It got a brief talking about, but not much, really. I was also awake at the time, at a party. It wasn't the same party was it?* We turned on the TV at 4am to watch some cartoons but they were rudely interrupted by the news that the Princess of Wales has been injured in a car crash. I remember thinking 'pfft, she's probably just broken a leg'. *no |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Tue Sep 01, 2015 8:45 ] |
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I was asleep. When I woke up, my Dad told me. Then the country went insane for 3 months or so. |
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| Author: | Kern [ Tue Sep 01, 2015 8:47 ] |
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I had somehow managed to set my radio alarm to go off at 5 AM that day, and I remember being so confused by it all I barged into my parents' room, woke them up and demanded they put on the TV in their bedroom in case I was going mad. For many years as a student I had the (in)famous Diana issue of 'Private Eye' framed on my wall. It's one of the few I haven't thrown out. |
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| Author: | flis [ Tue Sep 01, 2015 8:49 ] |
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I was babysitting with a friend and we were watching TV, some nonsense on channel 4, probably a Eurotrash repeat or something - and it was interrupted by a newsflash. I thought those things only existed in movies. We also thought it was a joke to start with and no-one believed me early the next morning when I went home, I had to drag my mum in front of the TV for her to see for herself. I wasn't particularly sad but I remember feeling strange, like the heavy feeling when there's a thunderstorm. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Tue Sep 01, 2015 8:58 ] |
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I found out in the morning, then went to watch a band at the watering hole that evening. It was very warm and we sat outside rather than watch the band. |
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| Author: | RuySan [ Tue Sep 01, 2015 9:37 ] |
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I woke up, turned on my computer and went to IRC. That's how i found out Diana's passing. Yes, i'm that old school. |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Tue Sep 01, 2015 9:46 ] |
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IRC? Where's that? |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Tue Sep 01, 2015 10:10 ] |
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Beex has IRC: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=92&p=522#p522 One of the things that annoyed me most is that Radio 1 stopped their normal programs for two days or so "as a mark of respect". I was driving a tractor around a field during those days, and it was about five songs (the same five songs) with no words over and over again, and then a repeated news announcement telling everyone what happened, and then Newsbeat. Want to relive it? The Internet has got your back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zumTOb6Z47Q |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Tue Sep 01, 2015 14:53 ] |
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I had recently won a Euro 96 pager at a Virgin Megastore by being good at Actua Soccer or some such thing. It worked as a normal pager, but it also gave football score updates for the Premier League and international matches, as well as transfer news. Sometimes my friends would send me pages that were just designed to wind me up, saying Aston Villa had signed some terrible player, or that our best player had broken his leg or whatever. So when my pager went off to tell me that the football schedule for the day was cancelled because Diana was dead I thought someone was taking the piss. I got out of bed and went downstairs to find some of my housemates still up from the night before. They had been drinking and smoking weed since the previous day, and had seen the news, but we're absolutely convinced that it was an extended Chris Morris spoof announcement (the previous year he had done one announcing that Noel Edmonds had murdered Clive Anderson). So we were all sat around thinking it was a hoax, until we realised that actually it had really happened. Which was a weird way to come to a realisation. |
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| Author: | myp [ Tue Sep 01, 2015 15:32 ] |
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Curiosity wrote: until we realised that actually it had really happened. Great ending. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Tue Sep 01, 2015 15:45 ] |
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It's a reverse "it was all a dream" plot! |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Tue Sep 01, 2015 16:20 ] |
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Curiosity wrote: I had recently won a Euro 96 pager at a Virgin Megastore by being good at Actua Soccer or some such thing. It worked as a normal pager, but it also gave football score updates for the Premier League and international matches, as well as transfer news. Sometimes my friends would send me pages that were just designed to wind me up, saying Aston Villa had signed some terrible player, or that our best player had broken his leg or whatever. So when my pager went off to tell me that the football schedule for the day was cancelled because Diana was dead I thought someone was taking the piss. I got out of bed and went downstairs to find some of my housemates still up from the night before. They had been drinking and smoking weed since the previous day, and had seen the news, but we're absolutely convinced that it was an extended Chris Morris spoof announcement (the previous year he had done one announcing that Noel Edmonds had murdered Clive Anderson). So we were all sat around thinking it was a hoax, until we realised that actually it had really happened. Which was a weird way to come to a realisation. So you didn't think that it was a bit of a coincidence that your mate decided to play a hoax on you that happened to be exactly the same subject matter as the spoof show your housemates were watching? |
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| Author: | myp [ Tue Sep 01, 2015 16:28 ] |
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Mimi wrote: So you didn't think that it was a bit of a coincidence that your mate decided to play a hoax on you that happened to be exactly the same subject matter as the spoof show your housemates were watching? That would have involved him thinking. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Tue Sep 01, 2015 16:42 ] |
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Mimi wrote: Curiosity wrote: I had recently won a Euro 96 pager at a Virgin Megastore by being good at Actua Soccer or some such thing. It worked as a normal pager, but it also gave football score updates for the Premier League and international matches, as well as transfer news. Sometimes my friends would send me pages that were just designed to wind me up, saying Aston Villa had signed some terrible player, or that our best player had broken his leg or whatever. So when my pager went off to tell me that the football schedule for the day was cancelled because Diana was dead I thought someone was taking the piss. I got out of bed and went downstairs to find some of my housemates still up from the night before. They had been drinking and smoking weed since the previous day, and had seen the news, but we're absolutely convinced that it was an extended Chris Morris spoof announcement (the previous year he had done one announcing that Noel Edmonds had murdered Clive Anderson). So we were all sat around thinking it was a hoax, until we realised that actually it had really happened. Which was a weird way to come to a realisation. So you didn't think that it was a bit of a coincidence that your mate decided to play a hoax on you that happened to be exactly the same subject matter as the spoof show your housemates were watching? Well, yes, that's how we realised it. You have to realise that they were absolutely wankered/high, and I had just woken up. |
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Tue Sep 01, 2015 16:44 ] |
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Curiosity wrote: Mimi wrote: Curiosity wrote: I had recently won a Euro 96 pager at a Virgin Megastore by being good at Actua Soccer or some such thing. It worked as a normal pager, but it also gave football score updates for the Premier League and international matches, as well as transfer news. Sometimes my friends would send me pages that were just designed to wind me up, saying Aston Villa had signed some terrible player, or that our best player had broken his leg or whatever. So when my pager went off to tell me that the football schedule for the day was cancelled because Diana was dead I thought someone was taking the piss. I got out of bed and went downstairs to find some of my housemates still up from the night before. They had been drinking and smoking weed since the previous day, and had seen the news, but we're absolutely convinced that it was an extended Chris Morris spoof announcement (the previous year he had done one announcing that Noel Edmonds had murdered Clive Anderson). So we were all sat around thinking it was a hoax, until we realised that actually it had really happened. Which was a weird way to come to a realisation. So you didn't think that it was a bit of a coincidence that your mate decided to play a hoax on you that happened to be exactly the same subject matter as the spoof show your housemates were watching? Well, yes, that's how we realised it. You have to realise that they were absolutely wankered/high, and I had just woken up to the fact that I'm a gullible twat. |
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| Author: | Warhead [ Sat Sep 19, 2015 18:42 ] |
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The odious but endlessly entertaining Brian Sewell will now be telling God how wrong he/she is about everything. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26924911 |
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| Author: | Cavey [ Mon Sep 21, 2015 10:31 ] |
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Warhead wrote: The odious but endlessly entertaining Brian Sewell will now be telling God how wrong he/she is about everything. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26924911 I remember watching him some years back on TV; he was a Rolls Royce car owner and was incredulous and disgusted in equal measure that some "trader from Southend could spend his week tarring roofs and then drive around in his 'Roller' over the weekend to 'pull the birds'" (he almost spat the last words out!) I laughed long and loud at that, not least because I identify strongly with 'trader from Southend' types.  RIP mate.
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Sun Oct 04, 2015 9:20 ] |
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Denis Healey has popped his clogs at the age of 98, which I believe is generally referred to as 'a good innings'. Decent obit at The Guardian, fills in quite a lot of detail about the financial problems of the 70s (it's not fair to blame Labour for everything, would be a reasonable summary, including that oft-quoted 'cap in hand to the IMF' stuff), seems to have been a pretty fine chap overall - including five years of proper fighting in WW2. Also 65 years of marriage and three children, solid family unit. (Marriage ended when Mrs Healey died in 2010.) Healey brows out. (I pinched the 'brows out' from DeathList.) |
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| Author: | zaphod79 [ Mon Nov 09, 2015 15:11 ] |
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Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34760060 |
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| Author: | Malc [ Wed Nov 18, 2015 1:42 ] |
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Jonah Lomu! 40! |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Nov 18, 2015 2:19 ] |
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Just came to post this. Fuck! |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Wed Nov 18, 2015 2:53 ] |
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| Author: | KovacsC [ Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:20 ] |
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Malc wrote: Jonah Lomu! 40! What a great man and player |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Wed Nov 18, 2015 10:37 ] |
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He must have been very well known, as even I knew that he was a rugby player, and I can name three: him, Jeremy Guscott (sp?) and, well, actually two - I know of three but have forgotten the third's name, but he was having maybe sex with... Princess Di...a..n...a... Actually, am I making that up? |
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