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Gordon
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Apr 12, 2020 05:43AM
Tim Brooke-Taylor - of At Last, The 1948 Show, The Goodies and I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue fame - has died of coronavirus at the age of 79.
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Stirling Moss, aged 90, after a long illness.
That’s really sad. Very funny, clever and a very nice man. They must have a full panel up there now with Humph.
Lez wrote: "That’s really sad. Very funny, clever and a very nice man. They must have a full panel up there now with Humph."Barry Cryer must be getting nervous.
Hilary Heath, actress, producer & counsellor, has died aged 74 from Covid19.Started as a stage actress, before progressing to the silver screen during the 1960s & '70s, best known for her roles in Witchfinder General & Wuthering Heights. She then went on to become a producer in the 1990s, making films like Nil by Mouth (Gary Oldman) and An Awfully Big Adventure (Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman).
Her most remarkable re-invention was in her mid 60's when she gained a masters degree in psychology, and became an addiction counsellor specialising in CBT, She worked at clinics all over the world, often for free, often with very deprived and distressed individuals, and she regarded this as her most valuable work by far.
Coronavirus knows no boundaries with whom it chooses to take. :(
Gordon wrote: "Lez wrote: "That’s really sad. Very funny, clever and a very nice man. They must have a full panel up there now with Humph."Barry Cryer must be getting nervous."
Not to mention Graeme Garden :-(
"Coronavirus knows no boundaries with whom it chooses to take." - it seems pretty picky to be fair as the disproportionate toll of over 70s, those with underlying health conditions and BAME NHS staff might attest? No-one's safe but only about 50 or so of the daily 8-900 death toll (care homes conveniently excluded at present) have no prior underlying health issues.Oh, and it spat Bozza out! ("Shut up Brass" - nocheese)
Brass Neck wrote: "Oh, and it spat Bozza out!."More's the pity.
Sad to hear that Peter 'The Cat' Bonetti has died today aged 78. It was only a few weeks ago that I was explaining to my 9 year old son, a keen goalkeeper, all about him.
SussexWelsh wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: "Oh, and it spat Bozza out!."More's the pity."
I’m saying nothing.
Tim wrote: "Stirling Moss, aged 90, after a long illness."Long after he retired his name was synonymous with fast driving, legal or otherwise. Rikki Fulton’s ‘Supercop’ made ‘Oot the car, Stirling’ his catchphrase, as in this classic sketch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-SLL...
That's a new one on me, nc. Loved it...... it appears to have been filmed in a public toilet.
SussexWelsh wrote: "That's a new one on me, nc. Loved it...... it appears to have been filmed in a public toilet."
That’s no way to talk about Glasgow.
nocheese wrote: "SussexWelsh wrote: "That's a new one on me, nc. Loved it...... it appears to have been filmed in a public toilet."
That’s no way to talk about Glasgow."
ROFLMAO
nocheese wrote: "Tim wrote: "Stirling Moss, aged 90, after a long illness."Long after he retired his name was synonymous with fast driving, legal or otherwise. Rikki Fulton’s ‘Supercop’ made ‘Oot the car, Stirlin..."
And before this I thought folk from Donegal talk weird...
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Maybe St Peter will allow Rikki to greet Stirling at the Pearly Gates with 'Right Stirling, oot the car'.
nocheese wrote: "Long after he retired his name was synonymous with fast driving, legal or otherwise. Rikki Fulton’s ‘Supercop’ made ‘Oot the car, Stirling’ his catchphrase, as in this classic sketch:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-SLL..."
Love Rikki Fulton!
"We canna let him gi awa wi' murder"
"I dunno. Sydney Devine's bin gettin' away wi' it fer years."
Jazz saxophonist Lee Konitz. Covid-19 pneumonia at the age of 92.
Former Leeds United and England half-back Norman Hunter. Covid-19 at the age of 76.
RIP to the actor Brian Dennehy who died on Wednesday aged 81. Talented man.
Gordon wrote: "Former Leeds United and England half-back Norman Hunter. Covid-19 at the age of 76."It's getting hard to open this thread! Intimations of mortality abound. Norman was probably only popular among Leeds fans, but I was one. I've always been proud that I saw nearly every game they played in '71/'72 and I was there at Wembley when they lifted the F.A. Cup. I don't thing there were any harder centre-halves than Norman - he'd take your legs out sooner than look at you but you'd rather have him in your side than have to play against him. Lovely looking bloke too!
Awww, the former BBC 'TV AM', 'Breakfast Time' and 'Watchdog' Presenter and Cancer Campaigner, Lynn Faulds Wood, died at midday following on from suffering a massive Stroke last night. She was 72.RIP Lynn.
Actress Jill Gascoine (probably most famous for playing Maggie Forbes in The Gentle Touch and C.A.T.S Eyes) passed away yesterday in L.A. at the age of 83 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. RIP.
Irrfan Khan, Bollywood actor, who starred in hit movies, Jurassic World, Life of Pi & Slumdog Millionaire, died aged 53 from a colon infection. He had been diagnosed with neuroendocrine tumour,a rare cancer since 2018.Also, Robert May, a pioneering Australian scientist, whose work in biology lead to the development of chaos theory, has died at age 84.
Known as one of Australia’s most accomplished scientists, he served as the chief scientific adviser to the United Kingdom, was president of the Royal Society, and was made a lord in 2001.
Tech XXIII wrote: "26,097 others"It's a bit hard to forget when you get a daily death toll each day, Tech. And I'm pretty sure each and every one of us is thinking of them, and those that knew/loved/cared about them.
The great Tony Allen, the creator along with Fela Kuti of Afrobeat, has died aged 79. Once dubbed by Brian Eno as 'perhaps the greatest drummer who ever lived', Allen only picked up the sticks at 18 years of age, and was self-taught.https://www.theguardian.com/music/202...
“I try to make my drums sing and turn them into an orchestra. I don’t bash my drums. Instead of bashing, I caress. If you caress your wife, you’ll get good things from your wife; if you beat her up, I’m sure she’ll be your enemy.”
I'm not sure if anyone else has posted this up already? - but a Post that was put by Lez elsewhere has suddenly just reminded me of this ...Bhekizizwe Joseph Siphatimandla Mxoveni Mshengu Bigboy Shabalala, better known as 'Joseph Shabalala' - the South African Singer and Musician who was the founder and Musical Director of the choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo - died on the 11th of February at the age of 79.
RIP ... x
suzysunshine7 wrote: "I'm not sure if anyone else has posted this up already? - but a Post that was put by Lez elsewhere has suddenly just reminded me of this ...Bhekizizwe Joseph Siphatimandla Mxoveni Mshengu Bigboy ..."
nocheese posted this on Feb 11th. Message 598
Ohhh brilliant - thanks Lez ;o>I shall leave it up anyway by way of my own tribute to such a lovely man ... x
Tech XXIII wrote: "26,097 others"... and counting ... ;o<
So many lost and all so suddenly too - may they never be forgotten ... x x x
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Tech XXIII wrote: "26,097 others"... and counting ... ;o<
So many lost and all so suddenly too - may they never be forgotten ... x x x"
The numbers on the daily deaths graph don't mean anything until you convert them to a rate and compare Covid deaths per 100,000. Doing some basic fag-packet maths, which cabinet minsters and their scientific advisors would pooh-pooh and say it's unfair/don't know how deaths are being counted etc, the UK's current rate is around 43 per 100,000 which puts us second in the world to poor little Belgium on about 69 per 100K. Even Sweden with no lockdown and apparently pursuing a herd immunity policy (similar to Dominic Cummings alleged "some old people will die, so what?" laissez-faire espousal since strenuously denied by Bozza et al) is at about 23 per 100K (their Scandinavian neighbours however are all on low single figures of a bout 4-6).
Why is the UK in this scandalous position?
Edit - just redone the figures; 28K deaths/65,600K pop * 100K is 43 per 100,000 - just dreadful.
Even the USA, misled by the Idiot In Chief, is currently only on 19 per 100K.
Why is the UK in this scandalous position?There are only two major European countries with a higher population density than the UK; one is the Netherlands and the other is Belgium. Any connection?
The worst hit place in the USA is New York, which has had 37% of all CV deaths (a rate of 76 per 100,000). The city is also the most densely populated place in the country, I believe.
I don't watch the daily programme of doom anymore than I have to (who needs to have clowns like Robert Peston cluttering up the telly?), but there has been use of the rate per 100,000 statistic alongside the raw figures IIRC. Why let facts get in the way of a good rant against the government though, eh? Join the BBC and Piers Morgan with BDS (Boris derangement syndrome).
Do you think Mr Cummings was correct in his initial 'alleged' view? Just asking.
"Why let facts get in the way of a good rant against the government though, eh?" - aren't per 100,000 rates facts and fairer because they take into account different population sizes? Where is the rant against the government; I might hold a view that our govt has failed the people but I didn't say it and asked the question "Why is the UK in this scandalous position?" to which you've offered a possible factor about population densities. I suspect that is not the main factor at work in producing such differing outcomes and invite other suggestions, gosh, facts even."Do you think Mr Cummings was correct in his initial 'alleged' view? Just asking." - do I think there might be a possibility of herd immunity building up as the younger and fitter catch and recover from Covid-19? Yes but the death toll amongst the poor, elderly and BAME communities would have been unacceptably high which is why it's a path the government didn't follow. Sweden, I would warrant, is a much more economically egalitarian society and generally fitter and healthier than the UK with our growing underclass living in abject poverty and overcrowding with grossly underfunded public services since they have much higher tax and spending levels. Of course I don't think Dom Cummings' alleged views are politically or morally acceptable. Just saying.
"clowns like Robert Peston" (don't recall him bragging about shaking hands with everyone on a hospital visit leading to a brush with death from Covid?), "Join the BBC and Piers Morgan" - I'd never watch the latter but given that I'm not privy to cabinet or COBRA meetings, where in your view should I be getting my information? Are you saying the BBC and ITV lying to us and shovelling fake news our way? I think in a mature democracy, and I'm not certain after the last few years we really have one of those anymore, it is vital that a free press hold the decision-makers who hold our lives in their hands to account for their (in)actions and policies, recognising what has gone well (hmmmm?) but very definitely calling out failures.
Quite. "Amen" to that, Brass.
RIP Dave Greenfield at 71, keyboard player in The Stranglers.Covid-19 strikes again. :-(
"...which puts us second in the world to poor little Belgium on about 69 per 100K. Even"I don't know, if you trust this graph (scroll down a litlle and tick on "deaths on 1m pop"), UK is on 4th place, first of course Belgium. I prefer not to take in account places like Andorra and Sint Maarten. Us comes next only after Sweden and Ireland, still top 10.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronav...
Forgive me if I make this grim subject look like totalizator.
Fair enough but we had time to prepare and organise as Spain and Italy led the European leg of the pandemic's march.
Just heard my mum's sister died last night. She lived 200 miles away from my mum, but even if it had been closer there wouldn't be a funeral service under these circumstances. That upset my mum more than the loss (her sister had been unwell for a long time and had had a couple of bad falls recently). Dave Greenfield dying was the end of a significant episode from my youth (I was a big Stranglers fan in 1977-80). It feels odd to then immediately hear about a death of someone in the family.
I'm sorry for your loss, Gordon. Good news is very thin on the ground at the moment.
The number of f***** times i've written something in response to this Covid debate and deleted it, is too damn high!PS Sad to hear about Dave Greenfield :(
Very sad to hear of the passing of Sam Lloyd (or the ever dour Ted from the fantastic Scrubs.) Wonderful character actor and singer in The Blanks. A Scrubs marathon has been part of my lockdown therapy and it will have added poignancy now.https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/sam-...
Hey Ya:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K0EA...
Millie Small of My Boy Lollipop fame has died at the age of 73 having suffered a stroke.RIP Millie
No? - how weird I've been keeping busy in the Kitchen and was actually singing this to Mitzi this morning?! ;oORIP ... x
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