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10 Dec 16
15:57
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God
Life is so short
Life is so short
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Sad news RIP
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...at least the queue at this years Pearly Gates should be an honour for him.
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always read his TV critic column in the Sn Times back when i read newspapers |
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rip, always enjoyed his restaurant reviews too
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Very sad news and a huge loss. I read of his death just as Paul Merson was busy mangling the English language on Soccer Saturday. Mr Gill would have been aghast.
RIP. |
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Very good writer and not afraid to say what he thought!
Remember him calling Clare Balding a **** on a bike |
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d y k e on a bike
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A genuine original wit. Loved reading his columns whatever he wrote about.
Doubt his family read this forum but sympathies all round. Used to look out for his stuff and won't be able to anymore. no sad smiley added. |
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thats dreadful . only 2/3 weeks ago a real upbeat article in the sunday times . his restaurant reviews were a must read , agree with him or not . a stylish man , a thinker, entertaining writer ...not many left .
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Such an outrageously talented wordsmith, made it look so effortless and in a way I think it might have been for him. Didn't agree with a lot of what he wrote, mind, but always had to read it. Faced the end with typical brio and brilliance, a massive void the sunday times will never be able to fill.
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sad news
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The guy that shot a baboon for fun.
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De mortuis nil nisi bonum? He post-dated my Sunday Times-reading era (pre-Murdoch). I can only recall Private Eye were sarky about him (signified by a bent umbrella, whatever that means). What has registered is the fawning faux-sincerity of the news channels - even though just a restaurant critic he was 'one of Us', a real media person, not a peasant, like the rest of us.
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I remember saying that before he died, bodil, but I was less polite.
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Ironic, the truth in a post-truth world.
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I remember that story about the baboon and his comments afterwards.
Summed him up for me. Selfish individual. |
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Another memorial thread trashed
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It's normally by you crags
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Don't be so stupid
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What is it with a few on here who want to twist the facts all the time?
'normally me'... pathetic and totally untrue. |
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I better apologise, I don't want you and culvin ganging up on me.
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^ moronic
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You had a bad day? Was yer dinner burnt?
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Actually, it often is by you crags. You have a selective memory.
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Any evidence?
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Can you ****s even name one?
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I remember a few where you've actually had a go at peep posting RIP.
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Just name one then!
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It would probably be more difficult to name one where you hadn't.
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Can't be bothered searching for them.
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Pair of bastards, and that's me being polite
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That reminds me crags, TGM wants to know if you want to take part in a scientific test.
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Would you like to name one where you haven't?
That should keep you busy for a while. |
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Oh, they are all trying to gang up on me now
 Cowardly coonts |
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You drunk? Would explain yer crabbit mood.
My post and you reply to bodil? |
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On radio 5 now talking about his brother and Alchohol
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I don't mean now as in right now ffs
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good
remember him killing a baboon just to see what it feels like according to him fk him |