patrick moore dead
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- detritus0
To the moon, big guy.
- ..on the back of a sri lankan rent boyebertzjaw
- Nah man, Moore lost his fiancee to the war - poor old codger spent his life being faithful to her memory, I imaginedetritus
- ..imagine.
like to think, at least - who knows anything?detritus - the dead fiancee? he couldnt remember her name in an interview a few years back.ebertzjaw
- Shocking headline -
OLD PERSON
FORGETS SOMETHING
More at tendetritus
- NonEntity0
Watched Sky At Night religiously since forever, going to miss that theme tune late at night once a month!
Proper, one of a kind, old-school fine & decent chap. Went peacefully at least...
- detritus0
"going to miss that theme tune late at night once a month!"
I don't mean to be nasty, but tbh I've been long waiting for him to either pop his clogs are hang up his gloves. SaN has been floundering for a long time now given that, whilst he was able and willing, he HAD to be its figurehead.
I actually hope it'll modernise now and become a programme that can reach out and be more immediately engaging to younger audiences.
Anyway, le Roi est mort, vive le Roi!
- NonEntity0
^ I know what you mean but...
...it was the fact that it was an oasis of musty, rickety, lo-budget, lo-fi, has-been TV from a different era — surrounded by a desert of cynically wham-bam visual-led bubblegum pseudo-science progs with no content (like what Horizon became) — itself that made me love it.
It was technically unapologetically crap as a TV programme, but still authoritative and accessible to all. Something very old school British about that.
And the Sibelius was on the money! :)
- waterhouse0
Loved Moonraker.
- Horp0
"Hello Director General, thanks for seeing us... with Sir Patrick Moore passing away we thought we'd get some archive material together with some interviews with his surviving friends and loved ones and pul it into a tribute programme for screening sometime in the next week or so. It seemed fitting... what do you think?"
" Ermmmmmm, lets see what the police and newspapers say first. If the coast is clear twelve months from now, we'll see about giving you a slot "
- Standard conversation at the BBC from here onwards.Horp
- uranuscraigatkinson
- detritus0
“Rumors are he used to bum young sri lankan lads with Arthur C Clarke”. Maybe yes, maybe not - we'll never know for sure. Mindlessly regurgitating rumour's hardly high-minded enterprise though, is it?
That flavour of rumour's a favoured gas of the mindless chattering classes, the ones too vapid and bitter to appreciate that people who have strived in life and made something for themselves can move abroad to some weird corner not because they have something to hide, but because they're worldy and curious enough to step outside their familiarity zone.
We can be an incredibly bitter little race of people sometimes, we Brits, featuring a particularly unsavoury disregard for people who've made an effort for themselves.
Hence why our country has lolled around in the doldrums feeling sorry for itself these past few decades.
*spits*
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Of course, then there are the Saviles and Glitters of the world, whose paedoism has practically dripped off them all these years.
- The British point-and-moan mentality was just made for internet commentary. See local newspapers for xlnt examples.mikotondria3
- Heaven fucking forbid if anyone 'like you' is doing something you feel compelled to stop yourself doing. Stone them !!!mikotondria3
- *not meaning being a paedo, obv.mikotondria3