RIP 2025
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Bloody hell! Downvote.
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Longtime Colts owner and CEO Irsay dies at 65
Jim Irsay, who had led the Colts since 1997 and presided over one of the storied franchise's greatest eras, died Wednesday.
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Unsung hero. His creative, off-the-wall thinking inspired untold thousands of engineers and businesses.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/space/ed-smylie-dead.html
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Former Black Caps coach David Trist dies aged 77
Trist was coach when NZ famously won the Champions Trophy in 2000.
Before we won the WTC there was Trist and our Champions Trophy win
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I loved MASH back in the day, even if at times I might have been too young to fully grasp the themes.
Her passing reminds me of a joke...
What do Nikki Lauda and Hot Lips Houlihan have in common? They were both fucked by Major Burns
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Rod Temperton
The Invisible Man: “Thriller” songwriter Rod Temperton has died aged 66
“He’s like an invisible shadow over the whole music business, the whole culture.”
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@MiketheSnow 2016
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@MiketheSnow 2016
Jesus
Didn't even see that
It popped up on my feed this week
Ooooops
Still a cool story though
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Frederick Forsyth.
Author of The Day of the Jackal and much much more. Didn't know he was a top-notch journalist who reported on and publicized the Biafran war in Nigeria when other media outlets had failed to do so.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RIP 2025:
Frederick Forsyth.
Author of The Day of the Jackal and much much more. Didn't know he was a top-notch journalist who reported on and publicized the Biafran war in Nigeria when other media outlets had failed to do so.
Author of my favourite ever book, The Devil's Alternative. I mentioned it elsewhere, maybe in the book thread.
Didn't realise he was that young.
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So many great tunes that stand the test of time
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Brian Wilson. The genius of geniuses behind The Beach Boys. Had a few mental issues but battled back to do some amazingly good stuff later in his life.
George Martin called him a true musical genius and the Mozart of his age. Not going to argue
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Feck
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This just came up on my feed.....could easily go in the Awesome thread.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RIP 2025:
Brian Wilson. The genius of geniuses behind The Beach Boys. Had a few mental issues but battled back to do some amazingly good stuff later in his life.
George Martin called him a true musical genius and the Mozart of his age. Not going to argue
Their best song.
RIP
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One of the country's most prolific and well-known writers, Gee wrote more than 30 novels for both adults and children.
Under the mountain was a great book
