RIP 2023
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Terry Venables: Former England manager dies aged 80
Venables was in charge of the England men's national team between 1994 and 1996. During that time, the side reached the semi-finals of the 1996 European Championships, where they were knocked out by Germany on penalties.
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Venables was in charge of the England men's national team between 1994 and 1996. During that time, the side reached the semi-finals of the 1996 European Championships, where they were knocked out by Germany on penalties.
Legend
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@MiketheSnow said in RIP 2023:
Venables was in charge of the England men's national team between 1994 and 1996. During that time, the side reached the semi-finals of the 1996 European Championships, where they were knocked out by Germany on penalties.
Legend
I know sod all about Football, but he took over in '94 and turned England into a bloody good team.
IIRC, he got the boot by the FA as his face didn't fit - too open-minded, modern and successful I guess.
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Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's Trusted Partner, Dies At 99
Charles Munger, the billionaire businessman and attorney best-known as Warren Buffett’s right-hand man at Berkshire Hathaway, died on Tuesday at the age of 99.
Buffett's running mate gooone
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Henry Kissinger, secretary of state to Richard Nixon, dies at 100
The towering diplomat and Nobel prize winner shaped decades of US foreign policy but was seen by critics as a war criminal
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Ouch: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/
WOW
Can't wait to read the Rolling Stone Tony Blair obituary
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Alastair Darling - former Chancellor who cleaned up Gordon Brown's economic mess in 2007-10.
Loved the story he told in his book about senior Labour MPs wanting to visit the RBS vaults to see what the £billions in cash the bank held in savings accounts actually looked like.... Told you all you needed to know about their financial acumen.
Former Labour chancellor Alistair Darling dies aged 70
Politician of 'unimpeachable integrity’ served under Gordon Brown for three years and led 2014 campaign to keep Scotland in UK
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67546785
Hasn't looked after himself
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Dropping like flies today
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@MiketheSnow said in RIP 2023:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67546785
Hasn't looked after himself
I’ll be sure to not listen to the radio as I bet his dire Christmas tune will be all over the airwaves even more than it usually is this time of year
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i fucking haaaaaate that song.
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Kissinger has a lot to answer for, and in a just world probably would have faced consequences for the shit he approved
But laying the full blame for Cambodia on him seems like letting those evil motherfuckers the Khmer Rouge off the hook. And all it took was a nice bit of PR like a guy who was in the KR, and ruled Cambodia for four fucking decades, saying he joined KR because bombing.
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@mariner4life said in RIP 2023:
i fucking haaaaaate that song.
Indeed.
It’s up there with Michael Buble, Snoopys Christmas and the Mariah Carey song to me.
Just awful.
I know the guy has just died and everything and maybe I should be a bit nicer……but every time I saw him I couldn’t help but feel he was a sloppy drunk who couldn’t sing for shit and had the worst set of chompers I’ve ever seen.
It was bizarre to me that people actually liked his music.
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@mariner4life You can condemn Kissinger for the extension of the Vietnam War and the carpet bombing of Cambodia and still want Pol Pot and his cronies to burn in hell for eternity.
Great country Cambodia. Lovely friendly people. Shame you still to this day can't explore it properly without risking losing your legs.
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