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  • Start date Dec 21, 2023
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MalcSB

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  • Oct 19, 2024
  • #631
chiefdave said:
Where have you seen this? Just searched it on the usual socials and all that's coming up is people joking about needing to take bereavement leave and people complaining about how shit most companies bereavement leave in the UK are. Seems a lot of companies only allow you 3 days for an immediate family member.
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X - Twitter. Trouble is, how do you know if people are joking these days?
 

Johnnythespider

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 19, 2024
  • #632
chiefdave said:
Where have you seen this? Just searched it on the usual socials and all that's coming up is people joking about needing to take bereavement leave and people complaining about how shit most companies bereavement leave in the UK are. Seems a lot of companies only allow you 3 days for an immediate family member.
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You have to produce a copy of the death certificate where I work in order to be paid, that's an awkward question to ask I can tell you
 

MalcSB

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 20, 2024
  • #633
Paynos said:
I was off work due to an operation but went back early after the news. Couldn’t bare sitting at home.
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Clothes aren’t compulsory in the privacy of your own home, or do you work in a naturist resort?
 

RegTheDonk

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 20, 2024
  • #634
Houchens Head said:
Where did "tear drops" disappear to?
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Think he Exploded
 
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MalcSB

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 20, 2024
  • #635
Houchens Head said:
Where did "tear drops" disappear to?
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Paynos
 

ccfc922

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 20, 2024
  • #636
Johnnythespider said:
You have to produce a copy of the death certificate where I work in order to be paid, that's an awkward question to ask I can tell you
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Nice trustworthy place then
 
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MalcSB

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 20, 2024
  • #637
Johnnythespider said:
You have to produce a copy of the death certificate where I work in order to be paid, that's an awkward question to ask I can tell you.
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That will be in next weeks Daily Star.
 

ccfc922

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 20, 2024
  • #638
MalcSB said:
I’m glad it’s not just me who feels the coverage is totally OTT. Capped by the Leader of the House of Commons speaking about his death straight after referencing the death of Alec Salmond and the murdered Sir David Amis.Even MrsSB thinks its ridiculous and she is the nicest person I have ever met.
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He was part of a band that was heavily commercialised, which whether they were good or not, sells well. Their first song "what makes you beautiful" appealed to insecure girls, Simon Cowel played a blinder with that one.

It genuinely is a sad event, his age will ultimately play a huge part in the story and it's "sadness". I completely agree though the media coverage is OTT.

Comparing them with the Beatles though isn't even worth the discussion, different time and era and legacy. The Wanted were huge for a couple of years, but now everyone goes "oh yeah" and 1D will be the same I imagine, except to people who were 10 years or more old when they were about.
 
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ccfc922

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  • Oct 20, 2024
  • #639
Walking in the Wind said:
What
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What?
 

ccfc922

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  • Oct 20, 2024
  • #640
Walking in the Wind said:
You know the Wanted were around the same time as one direction and have also had a member pass away right?
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Yes I do, your point?

It wasn't to do with members passing away, more the level of success/fan base.
 

ccfc922

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 20, 2024
  • #641
Walking in the Wind said:
And did that death receive the same level of public grief as this one?
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Can't remember, bit different as the fella was terminally ill.

Welcome to the forum btw
 

ccfc922

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 20, 2024
  • #642
Who was that then? 36 mins a member
 

Paul Anthony

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  • Oct 21, 2024
  • #643
Paul Di'Anno, singer on the first two Iron Maiden albums, 66
 
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Grendel

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  • Oct 21, 2024
  • #644
Paul Anthony said:
Paul Di'Anno, singer on the first two Iron Maiden albums, 66
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Not in great health for a while - performed in a wheelchair.

The first two albums were very good. They just did not have the commercial appeal the band craved. He did not have the vocal range so got the boot.
 
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Gynnsthetonic

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  • Oct 23, 2024
  • #645
Geoff Capes has died aged 75.
Always came across as a gentle giant
 
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rob9872

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  • Oct 23, 2024
  • #646
Always liked him until he was convicted of tossing off a caber.

RIP
 
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Kneeza

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  • Oct 24, 2024
  • #647
Ron Ely - Tarzan. Apparently passed last month, but news seems to have only just made it out of the jungle.
 

Kneeza

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  • Oct 24, 2024
  • #648
Gynnsthetonic said:
Geoff Capes has died aged 75.
Always came across as a gentle giant
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I recall an apprentice (Herbert's Edgwick) friend of mine talking about him back then in the early seventies. Geoff was the local copper in Holbeach , and my mate lived in the next village, Pinchbeck.
He seemed to rate him as a decent, fair, PC - which probably means he'd normally only clout you if you actually asked for it.
 
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MalcSB

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  • Oct 24, 2024
  • #649
rob9872 said:
Always liked him until he was convicted of tossing off a caber.

RIP
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Your certainly on a roll at the moment.
 

Gynnsthetonic

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 24, 2024
  • #650
Kneeza said:
I recall an apprentice (Herbert's Edgwick) friend of mine talking about him back then in the early seventies. Geoff was the local copper in Holbeach , and my mate lived in the next village, Pinchbeck.
He seemed to rate him as a decent, fair, PC - which probably means he'd normally only clout you if you actually asked for it.
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A proper Copper, sounds like PC Joe O' Brien who served the Binley and Willenhall community
 

Kneeza

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  • Oct 24, 2024
  • #651
Gynnsthetonic said:
A proper Copper, sounds like PC Joe O' Brien who served the Binley and Willenhall community
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There were a few about. Ours was a good lad back in the sixties. If you heard his Velocette LE coming you stopped what you were up to though.
A particular well-known Leicester Tigers back row was a nasty fucker in the eighties. Another mate of mine, who had just signed up to be 'Special' described a night when they were on patrol in Lutterworth, and he (the PC) spotted a target, leapt out of the car, dragged said mark into a doorway, and beat the crap out of him.
My mate, who was too nice the be associated with that shit, was told to keep it shut if he knew what was good for him.
Arsehole.
 
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Oct 24, 2024
  • #652
Kneeza said:
Ron Ely - Tarzan. Apparently passed last month, but news seems to have only just made it out of the jungle.
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They heard it on the grapevine?
 
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Flying Fokker

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 25, 2024
  • #653

Grateful Dead founding member and bassist Phil Lesh dies aged 84​

 
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Houchens Head

Fairly well known member from Malvern
  • Oct 25, 2024
  • #654
Flying Fokker said:

Grateful Dead founding member and bassist Phil Lesh dies aged 84​

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I always thought the Grateful Dead was a necrophilia club!
 
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thekidfromstrettoncamp

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  • Oct 31, 2024
  • #655
For those of a certain age Trevor Whymark 74 RIP suffered from that terrible disease Alzheimer's.
 
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oscillatewildly

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  • Nov 1, 2024
  • #656
Gynnsthetonic said:
A proper Copper, sounds like PC Joe O' Brien who served the Binley and Willenhall community
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Old school Irish copper. Tragically lost his life on the road bridge on Willenhall lane.
 
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oscillatewildly

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  • Nov 2, 2024
  • #657
Janey Godley the Scottish comedian, aged 63.
RIP.
 
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Evo1883

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  • Nov 4, 2024
  • #658
Quincy Jones 91
 
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thekidfromstrettoncamp

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 4, 2024
  • #659
Evo1883 said:
Quincy Jones 91
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Worked with the best for many ,many years Sinatra is the one I remember younger people remember him best for producing "Thriller " and "Off the wall".
 

SomersetSB

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 4, 2024
  • #660
What a guy, so much talent worked with the best
RIP music legend!!
 
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Nov 4, 2024
  • #661
I was sure Quincy Jones was already dead.
 
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Mcbean

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  • Nov 4, 2024
  • #662
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
I was sure Quincy Jones was already dead.
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He is now officially
 

Houchens Head

Fairly well known member from Malvern
  • Nov 4, 2024
  • #663
Evo1883 said:
Quincy Jones 91
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I liked him in that tv programme - Quincy MD.
 

eastwoodsdustman

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  • Nov 5, 2024
  • #664
Houchens Head said:
I liked him in that tv programme - Quincy MD.
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He was very good a solving crimes in those days. You’d have thought he would have clocked on to Michael Jackson a bit earlier wouldnt you.
 
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Sky_Blue_Daz

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  • Nov 5, 2024
  • #665
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
I was sure Quincy Jones was already dead.
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If anyone has time there's an interview with him in GQ Magazine from 2018, highly recommended
 
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