R.I.P.

Buffon II

Denis Law.

Manchester United legend and Scottish international. A ballon d’or winner. Famously sent United down when playing for City in the 70s.

One of my all time favorite's one of the reasons alongside Charlton and Best i started supporting United when i first found football as a 7 year old. 

Buffon II

Jimmy Carter.

Did incredibly well to make it to 100 despite looking like a corpse for the past two years.

In Dallas in December for a few days, and came across a local who believed Jimmy Carter and JFK were the same guy.

Yes JFK wasn't killed in 1963, but was hidden away for 10 odd years, to reappear in the 1970s as a peanut farmer politician. The guy even pulled out a piece of paper that was half JFK's face & half Carter's joined together. I just nodded along politely. Best (craziest) conspiracy story ever!!

Then on the flight Dallas-Miami, 2 guys almost start throwing punches when guy in front reclines his seat. What a country.

Gene Hackman               RIP
A fantastic actor. 

Leggy

Gene Hackman               RIP
A fantastic actor. 

Santa Fe Police say at the moment there is no indication of foul play, but definitely suspicious circumstances considering he was found dead with his wife and their dog, very sad.

George Foreman               RIP
Tough guy.

RIP Grizz Wylie

Alex "Grizz" Wyllie, former All Black loose forward and coach, has died at the age of 80, at Karaka Heights in Picton, around midnight Saturday.

Wyllie played 40 games, including 11 tests, for the All Blacks between 1970 and 1973.

- RNZ

RIP Iceman

Banzai!...AIEEE!!!

RIP Iceman

Finally saw the heat around the corner. 

Iain Gillies  aged 90. Gisborne footballing legend & journo.

Pope Francis                  RIP

RIP Aaron Boupendza, Gabon footballer.

He died on the 16th, but after only just finding out tonight, I felt it was important to mention.

Aaron had spells in the Super Lig, MLS, Saudi and Qatar league, Ligue 2, Liga Portugal 2, and the Romanian Superliga. He also scored 8 goals in 35 matches (according to the team stats on his Wikipedia page) for the Gabon national team, and played alongside Aubameyang in the national squad on a number of occasions, a pretty decorated career.

Aaron was playing in the CSL before his death.

Loretta Swit         RIP
Well loved actress from Mash

Stu Wilson            RIP
A truly great player

Frederick Forsyth, adventurer and bestselling spy novelist, dies aged 86

RIP

Diogo Jota. Liverpool and Portugal forward. Died in a car accident with his brother.

Only 28 years old. Married last week.

Horrible news.

RIP.

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Diogo Jota. Liverpool and Portugal forward. Died in a car accident with his brother.

Only 28 years old. Married last week.

Horrible news.

RIP.

Fark. 
Puts a sharkty season in perspective. 
Never heard anything bad about the guy.

Mu aka DJ Fitchie 
An NZ and Wellington icon. I only ever owned live from the Matterhorn. But it was one of a few NZ albums I clung to before music streaming was a thing…

"The Prince of Darkness" Ozzy Osbourne So many memories a big part of my late teens early 20s particularly. Loved his concerts. RIP Ozzy free from the ravages of that horrible disease certainly a life well lived.

Was only a few weeks ago he performed his last ever show as well. Went out on a high.

ballane

"The Prince of Darkness" Ozzy Osbourne So many memories a big part of my late teens early 20s particularly. Loved his concerts. RIP Ozzy free from the ravages of that horrible disease certainly a life well lived.

another Wrestling legend gone!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/360769757/wrestling-legend-hulk-hogan-dies-aged-71
at least he made it to a decent age.

Damn. Two icons gone in one week.

Joe Bugner                RIP
Remember him fighting Ali and putting him down

The Duchess of Kent           RIP

Ricky Hatton.

Still remember his fight with Mayweather. Was absolutely massive at the time.

RIP.

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Ricky Hatton.

Still remember his fight with Mayweather. Was absolutely massive at the time.

RIP.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360823383/ricky-hatton-former-world-boxing-champion-dies-46

Robert Redfprd              RIP
A great actor

Leggy

Robert Redfprd              RIP
A great actor

And set up the Sundance Film Festival too. 
Legend. 

I remember deciding I was going to try to kick start my long neglected piano ability without returning to a teacher. I had access to a community piano for a time and I printed off the sheet music for ‘Solace’. I listened to the seemingly flawless 6 year old before me, awkwardly picked out a couple of bars with my right hand and  realised it wasn’t happening. Great tune and great soundtrack though. 

Charlie Kirk. A conservative whom held strong faith in God. A brilliant debater whom allowed his opponents the opportunity to put forward their case. Whilst some liberals may not have liked his politics,  it disgusts me that they laughed and cheered upon hearing of his murder.

LG

Charlie Kirk. A conservative whom held strong faith in God. A brilliant debater whom allowed his opponents the opportunity to put forward their case. Whilst some liberals may not have liked his politics,  it disgusts me that they laughed and cheered upon hearing of his murder.

Political views aside, he did not deserve to be asassinated. I often disagreed with his viewpoint, but really enjoyed they way he actually debated his views.

LG

Charlie Kirk. A conservative whom held strong faith in God. A brilliant debater whom allowed his opponents the opportunity to put forward their case. Whilst some liberals may not have liked his politics,  it disgusts me that they laughed and cheered upon hearing of his murder.

I can't understand or connect to any of his rhetoric or condone the violence that killed him...but there is something in him preaching to maintain the US's bizarre gun rules and him being shot. 

theprof

LG

Charlie Kirk. A conservative whom held strong faith in God. A brilliant debater whom allowed his opponents the opportunity to put forward their case. Whilst some liberals may not have liked his politics,  it disgusts me that they laughed and cheered upon hearing of his murder.

Political views aside, he did not deserve to be asassinated. I often disagreed with his viewpoint, but really enjoyed they way he actually debated his views.

And it's comments like yours that he encouraged. The Freedom to speak, to question, to debate and even to disagree. I've been watching him fir nearly a year now. At the end of the day he made you think about and reassess your own values or point of views. That to me is a good thing. 

Never had heard of the guy until his death.

Now his debates keep on coming up on my social media. He did speak well but can’t believe the lunatics and response from the Christian Nationalists on Fox News.

That country is one day going to explode with those nutters there.

But no one deserves to die.

theprof

LG

Charlie Kirk. A conservative whom held strong faith in God. A brilliant debater whom allowed his opponents the opportunity to put forward their case. Whilst some liberals may not have liked his politics,  it disgusts me that they laughed and cheered upon hearing of his murder.

Political views aside, he did not deserve to be asassinated. I often disagreed with his viewpoint, but really enjoyed they way he actually debated his views.

Yeah i also disagreed with a lot of things he said but i also enjoyed watching his debates and thought he carried them out in a calm and peaceful manner without resorting to shouting or name calling.

I also saw the video of him being shot on Twitter by accident and really wish i hadn't. Gruesome stuff.

I don’t think he deserves memorialisation ahead of the child victims of school shootings- one which occurred the same day, but is normalised to the point where it was scarcely reported- and the assassination of an elected official in Minnesota in June, which received very little press and the death threats and harassment that volunteers in the electoral system received as a result of the lies, that they knew were lies, about a stolen election. 

I’d never heard of this guy before the other day, but I did hear today that Trump had canceled the visas of the grandchildren of a minister in the Brazilian government and placed tariffs of 50% on Brazil because they found Bolsonaro guilty of an attempted coup. Trump’s government is punishing another country’s democratically elected government for not giving in to an armed insurrection. This is not normal behavior. 

Trump himself talked to a mob that stormed the capital about hanging opposition leaders and even his own vice president for his following a largely ceremonial role in the handover of power. 

And when the former speaker’s husband was attacked with a hammer there was talk about crisis actors and all kinds of hatred.

I’m all for denouncing political violence and extending empathy to its victims, but not selectively. 

And I have to be honest that I’ve avoided this and the fantastical US politics in general. But we’ve seen Trump’s Republicans try and break their country’s system with voting registration restrictions known to exclude voters and have little other effect, gerrymandering districts openly, abusing powers to get independent bodies to doctor statistics and results, and they’ve attacked the rule of law through judiciary appointments and resulting judgements, including the idea the the president is in effect above the law. 

And we’re seeing some of these actions, in terms of changing voting registration rules for no reason, creeping in, in New Zealand. 

So I didn’t know much about Charlie Kirk, and I also don’t know the name of any school shooting victims from this year.

I do know the trouble Ireland had removing violence from their politics and I’m grateful that the countries that I and my family live in have not had a normalising of violence, and particularly gun violence to such a degree. 

But don’t be fooled. Australia famously slowed gun violence, but guns and the political rhetoric of the NRA are returning there. We get to choose to try to keep this stuff out or to follow their examples. 

LG

Charlie Kirk. A conservative whom held strong faith in God. A brilliant debater whom allowed his opponents the opportunity to put forward their case. Whilst some liberals may not have liked his politics,  it disgusts me that they laughed and cheered upon hearing of his murder.

I don’t want to get dragged in, but I don’t know who has laughed and cheered on murder. There were probably some idiots. 

However this is the country that had parents whose children had been killed in a massacre at Sandyhook and survivors whose classmates were killed in front of them who were told that they were ‘crisis actors’, who had listeners to the hateful bile of Alex Jones stalk them and barrack them. They’d suffered an unimaginable fate and now had to move house as they were hunted by ‘truthers’ and be completely re-victimised because of this bullshark.

I can’t imagine a country that would let that happen. This is a sign of a country with a sickness in its soul and I don’t think a few stupid kids brought up in its social media dehumanisation machine and society in general are to blame for that. 

Mate…ya know I respect ya and love your Nix passion and straight talking, but I’m a little triggered for a dozen reasons but lastly, and I know there are so many other points that could be made, but when Trump is blackmailing and defunding universities and media companies, how can anyone with straight face be a free speech advocating Trump supporter?

Here he is today talking to a reporter:

 Trump told an ABC News reporter: “We’ll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. It’s hate. You have a lot of hate in your heart. Maybe they’ll come after ABC.”

As you say no one should have to worry about assassination. But quite separately that is one of the most powerful men in the world threatening someone who is not, for simply doing their job. And Trump is comparing what he had to go through with a journalist asking him a relatively standard follow up question, to someone else getting shot, which is also kind of spectacular. 

Uck. Ick. Yuck. All of it 🤮. 

Prayers for all of them and us. I don’t know who to exactly, but something is very rotten and far beyond what has been considered normal and beyond simple remedies. 

I'm another one who hadn't heard of Charlie Kirk or what he stood for/his beliefs, but to hear some are apparently celebrating his death is horrible.

On a different note, found out about Bolsonaro's verdict from reading martinb's post, thank fudgeing God, had been staying away from news about him before today. Trump throwing a temper tantrum because one of his piece of sh*t buddies got what they deserved and there's nothing he can do about it.

'Dickie' Bird legend of the game!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360833218/dickie-bird-charismatic-former-cricket-umpire-dies-age-92

Had the best seat in the house for the famous Gatting ball. Looked as bemused as everyone else.

RIP.

Fairly sure he was Hadlee’s favourite umpire too? Vague recollections from Rhythm and Swing. 

That’s over and time, Mr Bird. Thanks for your work and the memories.