duke007 Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 15 minutes ago, Ashoka said: COVID? Quote Link to comment
bumblebee Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 3 hours ago, seven said: Diego Maradona. The greatest football player ever. May he rest in peace. I went with my dad to see Argentina play in Dublin about 40 years ago or so. Maradona was only starting out then, and I remember the excitement in the stadium when this much hyped young sensation eventually came on as a substitute. My dad said to me, “that’s the guy all the papers are talking about, he is going to be a great player in the future.” 2 Quote Link to comment
seven Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 Heres Gary Lineker( who is such a nice guy) on Maradona: 3 Quote Link to comment
seanbeag7 Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 The lead singer with Irish band Bagatelle Liam Reilly has died 1st Jan at 65 The band had many hits including "Summer in Dublin" (sorry can't include link) Quote Link to comment
Quietguy Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 1 hour ago, seanbeag7 said: "Summer in Dublin" 1 Quote Link to comment
seanbeag7 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 What a start to a new year, day 3 and we lost another amazing person from the music industry. Frontman of Gerry and the pacemakers has died, if you follow Celtic or Liverpool then you know "You Never Walk Alone" 2 Quote Link to comment
seanbeag7 Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Legendary talk show host Larry King has died at 87 R.I.P. 1 Quote Link to comment
Pdoggg Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 New York (CNN Business) Larry Flynt, the "Hustler" magazine founder and outspoken First Amendment activist who built an adult entertainment empire, died Wednesday at his Hollywood Hills home, his nephew, Jimmy Flynt Jr., tells CNN. He was 78. His exact cause of death was not disclosed, but Flynt Jr. said his uncle had been in frail health for much of the past 30 years and that his death was not related to Covid-19. "Larry was a rebel. He had a very complex personality. That's why they made a movie about it," Flynt Jr. said about his uncle. Flynt launched the pornographic magazine Hustler in 1974. A 2013 Hollywood Reporter profile of Flynt described Hustler as targeting a "more blue-color audience than Playboy," which had started in 1953. Hustler became famous for its graphic and controversial images including rape and mutilation. Flynt went on to found Larry Flynt Publications, which produced other pornographic magazines including Barely Legal and Beaver Hunt. He also started other businesses including the Hustler casino in Los Angeles. In 1978, Flynt was shot and paralyzed from the waist down in an assassination attempt by serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin. In a 2013 interview, Franklin told CNN that he was upset after seeing an interracial couple photographed an issue of Hustler. "It just made me sick. I think whites marry with whites, blacks with blacks, Indians with Indians. Orientals with orientals. I threw the magazine down and thought, I'm gonna kill that guy," Franklin said. Flynt ended up filing a legal motion with the American Civil Liberties Union requesting to stop Franklin's execution, telling CNN that he was against the death penalty. "The government has no business at all being in the business of killing people," he said. Flynt became an outspoken supporter of First Amendment rights and won his most significant legal battle at the US Supreme Court in 1988 after televangelist the Rev. Jerry Falwell brought a libel case. "I even took a bullet for the First Amendment," Flynt said to CNN in 2003, calling himself a civil libertarian. In 2012, Flynt wrote for CNN Opinion, "The best thing the arbiters of decency and good taste can do is to stay out of other people's lives. The greatest right that any nation can afford its people is the right to be left alone." Flynt lived a difficult life after being shot, but one that was marked by tremendous success, his nephew said. "He wanted to be remembered as a person who pushed the boundaries of free speech and that the First Amendment was the cornerstone of democracy," Flynt Jr. said. Flynt launched a brief presidential campaign, running against Ronald Reagan in the 1984 election. He later supported Democrats, including endorsing Hillary Clinton's presidential run. 1 Quote Link to comment
Pdoggg Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Rush Limbaugh passed away, lung cancer. 1 Quote Link to comment
seven Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 The architect of Trumpism. Good riddance. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/rush-limbaugh-dead-trump-ruined-america-1129222/ Rush Limbaugh Did His Best to Ruin America How the right-wing talk radio icon corrupted the Republican Party, spread hate, racism, and lies, and laid the groundwork for Trumpism 4 Quote Link to comment
soiboy Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 15 hours ago, Pdoggg said: Rush Limbaugh passed away, lung cancer. Good riddance indeed. A true piece of human garbage if ever there was one. Burn in hell forever for all the hate you spewed, Rush. 5 Quote Link to comment
globetrotter1 Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 On 2/18/2021 at 3:20 PM, soiboy said: Good riddance indeed. A true piece of human garbage if ever there was one. Burn in hell forever for all the hate you spewed, Rush. How is Glen Beck's health anyways or how about Tucker Carlson? 1 Quote Link to comment
seven Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 1 hour ago, globetrotter1 said: How is Glen Beck's health anyways or how about Tucker Carlson? Hopefully deteriorating rapidly. Quote Link to comment
Pdoggg Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor who created the first cassette tape, has died aged 94. Pub Quiz: In what year did Ottens invent the cassette tape? Quote Link to comment
stoolpusher Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 I wish he had also invented a player that didn't eat them 2 Quote Link to comment
Quinn Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 Mrs Grossman. (pictured with friend). https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/sally-grossman-bob-dylan-cover-icon-wife-manager-albert-dead-obit-1141275/ 1 Quote Link to comment
Pdoggg Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 On 3/13/2021 at 10:15 PM, seanbeag7 said: 1962-63 Well done SB7! 1963. And we didn't forget, working on Irish emojis. Quote Link to comment
seanbeag7 Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 10 hours ago, Pdoggg said: Well done SB7! 1963. And we didn't forget, working on Irish emojis. Thank u my good man Quote Link to comment
Pdoggg Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 Bernie Madoff died in prison. Quote Link to comment
seven Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 11 hours ago, Pdoggg said: Bernie Madoff died in prison. Another good riddance. Quote Link to comment
seven Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 RIP, McAfee. He might have been a crook, but a likable one. Antivirus mogul John McAfee dies by suicide in a Spain jail while awaiting extradition on tax evasion charges https://www.yahoo.com/news/antivirus-mogul-john-mcafee-dies-194051265.html 1 Quote Link to comment
blind boy grunt Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 6 hours ago, seven said: Antivirus mogul John McAfee dies by suicide in a Spain jail while awaiting extradition on tax evasion charges i guess he may not have wanted to die by a virus? Quote Link to comment
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