TLW Deathpool 2024

[Harry's Lad]

The last of the original members of The Four Tops, Abdul 'Duke' Fakir has died aged 88.

Singer Evelyn Thomas who sang High Energy has also gone aged 70.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

This is sad.  Beccy Barr, a former BBC North West Tonight presenter, who jibbed it off to become a firefighter, died of cancer aged 46.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c729jw3zl2qo.amp

[Harry's Lad]

8 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

This is sad.  Beccy Barr, a former BBC North West Tonight presenter, who jibbed it off to become a firefighter, died of cancer aged 46.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c729jw3zl2qo.amp

I remember her. Lovely looking girl. Sad news.

[Gruntfuttock]

Roberta Taylor ,Inspector Gold in The Bill and Irene Raymond in EastEnders,goes at 76.

[tokyojoe]

John Mayall gone at 90.

[Strontium]

John Anderson has gone on his final whistle. 92 years young.

[Bjornebye]

12 innocent kids went today. X 

[Strontium]

Ismail Haniyeh

[Creator Supreme]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c727p2mmzxpo

 

Fucking hell!

[VladimirIlyich]

3 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c727p2mmzxpo

 

Fucking hell!

Didn't even know he was ill. No age at all.

[Strontium]

Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe

[Creator Supreme]

Dunno if it's been mentioned on another thread, but ex-England batsman Graham Thorpe has gone at 55.

 

LBW etc etc.

[Harry's Lad]

20 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

Dunno if it's been mentioned on another thread, but ex-England batsman Graham Thorpe has gone at 55.

 

LBW etc etc.

Not a good innings. RIP.

[Creator Supreme]

2 minutes ago, Harry's Lad said:

Not a good innings. RIP.

It certainly wasn't, only 6 years older than me, fucking scary.

[Harry's Lad]

Just now, Creator Supreme said:

It certainly wasn't, only 6 years older than me, fucking scary.

6 years younger than me. Fucking scary indeed.

[Evelyn Tentions]

That murdering cunt William Calley died in April but it's only just been announced.

Couldn't be charged with war crimes because they were ALLIED civilians not enemy civilians.

[VladimirIlyich]

5 hours ago, Evelyn Tentions said:

That murdering cunt William Calley died in April but it's only just been announced.

Couldn't be charged with war crimes because they were ALLIED civilians not enemy civilians.

Interesting article about that here.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/06/william-calley-my-lai-massacre-vietnam/

 

[Strontium]

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/08/jack-karlson-dies-succulent-chinese-meal-death-democracy-manifest-dead-aged-82
 

Jack Karlson, who shot to fame after ‘succulent Chinese meal’ arrest, dies aged 82
 

The man who immortalised the phrase “this is democracy manifest” while starring in what has been described as the pre-eminent Australian meme, Jack Karlson, has died aged 82.
 

Karlson – although there are debates as to whether this was his real name or one of many aliases – was a serial prison escaper and small-time crook who shot to fame in 2009 after a news clip of his arrest at a Chinese restaurant in Brisbane’s seedy Fortitude Valley in 1991 was uploaded on to the internet.
 

“What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?” Karlson theatrically boomed as his bear-like frame resisted a string of police officers.
 

 

[Harry's Lad]

Poor fella. You have to feel for his family. Awful.

 

https://news.sky.com/story/graham-thorpes-wife-reveals-former-england-cricketer-died-by-suicide-13195870

 

Edit, Apologies. It had already been posted elsewhere.

[suzy]

2 hours ago, Harry's Lad said:

Poor fella. You have to feel for his family. Awful.

 

https://news.sky.com/story/graham-thorpes-wife-reveals-former-england-cricketer-died-by-suicide-13195870

 

Edit, Apologies. It had already been posted elsewhere.

Terrible I thought when I saw he’d died it must have been cancer. His family must be devastated.

[Harry's Lad]

25 minutes ago, suzy said:

Terrible I thought when I saw he’d died it must have been cancer. His family must be devastated.

I think most people thought along those lines. It just goes to show, you never know what's going on in people's minds.

[Jairzinho]

4 hours ago, suzy said:

Terrible I thought when I saw he’d died it must have been cancer. His family must be devastated.

 

I think quite a lot of people in and around the game had a decent inkling it was something like this. The confirmation seems to have hit me again though for some reason. Usually pretty unaffected by "celeb" deaths, but he was as close to a hero as I had growing up. His test career of 1993 - 2005 was basically seven to nineteen for me so he couldn't have possibly been any more "my era".

 

Just gutted. Horrendous for his family. I'd like to think in some small way it'll change a few minds about the severity of mental illnesses.

[Pete]

Just read how he passed.  Horrific.  

[skend04]

1 hour ago, Pete said:

Just read how he passed.  Horrific.  

 

Just seen the same. It's tragic.

[Harry's Lad]

Alain Delon gone at 88.