RIP 2023
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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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@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.
no disagreement from me at all
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RIP 2023:
Snoopys Christmas
Wash your mouth out - it's a fucking great Christmas song.
Agree with your other choices though...
I think you’re getting confused with Wham!. George hits it out of the park with that banger.
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Denny Laine - brown bread. Surprisingly “only” 71.
A decent solo career, plus a founder member of the Moody Blues and of course his years with Wings: the band The Beatles could have been.
Alan Partridge. -
@Catogrande Obits all have him at 79
I assume you made a typo 71 would have him playing with the Moody Blues aged 12
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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.
Kind of agree, lovely place but never want to go there again. Phnom Penn I went to killing fields etc when I first went there, and to be honest put a damper on me , I just kind of just had it ruined by the thought of what man can do to man, and couldn't really shake it.
Siem Reap was great in surrounds Angor Wat etc, but wish I had never walked down the street full of pubs/ establishments with names like English pubs, funny put me right off it. Loved outside the city and went to floating village etc, and found the people as I did the people in Vietnam lovely.Still have never been to a country where I didn't in general like the people.
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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.
Kind of agree, lovely place but never want to go there again. Phnom Penn I went to killing fields etc when I first went there, and to be honest put a damper on me , I just kind of just had it ruined by the thought of what man can do to man, and couldn't really shake it.
Siem Reap was great in surrounds Angor Wat etc, but wish I had never walked down the street full of pubs/ establishments with names like English pubs, funny put me right off it. Loved outside the city and went to floating village etc, and found the people as I did the people in Vietnam lovely.Still have never been to a country where I didn't in general like the people.
I find the Killing Fields strangely commercialised, but I found the school (now Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum) to be really tough to get through, lots of dust around.
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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.
Still have never been to a country where I didn't in general like the people.
Never been here in Australia huh?
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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.
Kind of agree, lovely place but never want to go there again. Phnom Penn I went to killing fields etc when I first went there, and to be honest put a damper on me , I just kind of just had it ruined by the thought of what man can do to man, and couldn't really shake it.
Siem Reap was great in surrounds Angor Wat etc, but wish I had never walked down the street full of pubs/ establishments with names like English pubs, funny put me right off it. Loved outside the city and went to floating village etc, and found the people as I did the people in Vietnam lovely.Still have never been to a country where I didn't in general like the people.
I find the Killing Fields strangely commercialised, but I found the school (now Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum) to be really tough to get through, lots of dust around.
Yep my Mrs couldn't even go into the school, she was in tears as we walked around killing fields, just said she couldn't handle anymore when we got to the school, which I found really tough.
