I would say I feel bad for Alec Baldwin, but after he went on mass rants about how there should be huge intricate screening processes to make sure guns don't fall into the wrong hands....He left THIS person in charge of actual guns on the set of his movie....
Normally I'd give somebody the benefit of the doubt, but seriously would you leave this gomper in charge of fire arms that other people were going to be using? It was her job to monitor, and regulate these guns. They were on a movie set, there should never have been any live ammo on set alongside those guns! Simple as that!
But looking at the state of this gimmer, I wouldn't really be surprised if there isn't something funny going on...
Alongside the "Alleged (Sorry you have to say that now incase you get sued) stories of cast,and crew members taking the guns off set on lunch breaks, and using them for target practice out back, and once again"allegedly this dopey bint loaded the bloody guns for them to do it!
You'd think in a situation like that somebody who has the title "Armourer" would have the savvie to make sure the guns they'd been treating like toys weren't loaded once the actual adults came back, and it was time to go back to work...
Back to celebrity deaths, this one hits home a bit more than most.
In last year's CSSCGC, my brilliant idea to submit a game that required a disc system larger than what the +3 offered with the flimsiest excuse possible to fill it, resulted in +D Blue Peter. For this, I had to obtain and BMP2SCRify pictures of all the presenters of Blue Peter from past to present. Obviously, these days being what they are, my first port of call was Wikipedia which listed them all in order, and I found out a few things I didn't previously know about some of the presenters who I thought I knew better than average, given that I was an ITV kid back in the day and didn't habitually watch Blue Peter.
Not all of the presenters from past to present are still alive, as we know - and their deaths have been handled in highly variable ways. Michael Sundin was barely given a cursory mention, given the way he'd been elbowed out of the presenting team - whereas Caron Keating was given the kind of glowing tribute usually reserved for the Royal Family and former Prime Ministers, along with the 2004 presenting team trying to explain what death really meant to an audience that was, on average, younger than it had been in Caron's days.
Of all the presenters who were still alive, the one who I'd predicted to be the next to die was Christopher Wenner. That he was well into his 60s, had repeatedly put himself in life-threatening situations throughout his later career and was ravaged by throat cancer pretty much sealed the deal. He looked as skeletal as Alex Higgins did in the final days of his life.
He didn't last long on Blue Peter - 1978 to 1980 - and wasn't known for being one of its more popular presenters. And, if we assume that the current crop of kids who were watching (on the distant annexe of the CBBC channel) were born between (let's say) 2011 and 2015, many of their parents wouldn't be old enough to have been watching Blue Peter at that time (some of them wouldn't even have been born) and wouldn't remember him, but their grandparents would in turn be far too old.
So what kind of tribute will the Blue Peter team do for Christopher Wenner?
RIP Christopher Wenner.
I'd no idea he'd gone on to such noteworthy things after his short time on Blue Peter (using a different version of his name).
I've got his autograph, along with then fellow presenters Simon Groom and Tina Heath, from when I was one of the winners on a Blue Peter cookery competition! It was judged by Delia Smith and all the recipes chosen were published in a book.
I was not informed I was a winner until after the event and I'll never forget the day watching the results show with Delia on and they had all the winning dishes laid out in a row and there was mine with my name on TV! Everyone else in my family missed it and didn't believe me - thought I was making it up!
I never did get a Blue Peter badge though. You only got one of them if you went on the show in person....
And what was the recipe?
Beef and Guinness Hot Pot!
I still can't believe I won a Blue Peter competition aged 11 with a Guinness Stew recipe! :D
It is delicious though, and I still make it to this day!
Post the recipe, and I'll make it. We'll call it the WOS tribute to an unlikely face from an obscure game.
Guinness in a Blue Peter cookery book! I ask you. Kids those days... they'll become... 50-somethings posting on websites about historical computers. I meant... alcoholics.
Oh, no. Every time you turn up something monumental and terrible happens.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
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Around the mid-1990s, Malcolm Dome reviewed an album he found boring, and ended the review with "Now, where did I put that video about watching paint dry?" Little did he know that I'd bought my brother what he was looking for as a joke birthday present - it was from "John Major's Grey Collection", along with two further titles, "Waiting For Christmas" and "Watching Grass Grow". Yes, these did actually exist, and WHSmith had been desperate to get rid of them. Obviously, my brother didn't want the videos, so I threw "Watching Paint Dry" in a Jiffy bag, addressed it to Malcolm Dome at the Metal Hammer offices and let the Royal Mail keep their part of the bargain. I am still imagining the look on his face as he opened the parcel...
You could order those from the Viz if I remember rightly, dunno if they were exactly the same, but the ones in the Viz were called Paint Drying, and Grass growing The Movie.
I couldn't think of a good thing to say, but that type of feeling is the reason I no longer have pets....It's sometimes just too much when they have to go. My worst ever feeling was after my mother died in 2014, and I was still in England having to rehome the last 3 cats, 2 of which were hers, and 1 which was mine. Migit kitty as I called her she was 15 years old, but didn't look a day past 6 months, was absolutely tiny, and used to sit on my shoulder. My best friends dad went out of his way to find a place that wasn't an animal shelter to take them, because at the ages they were I did not want to put them in an animal shelter, that would've been a death sentence.
But I have sat with many of my cats, and dogs, and even a lizard, on their last moments on earth, and it's genuinely heartbreaking, yes they are family, yes they are friends, and yes you should remember them dearly.
Sorry for your loss Mike, let it be known I truly understand :(
Thankyou Boozy. It was kind of you to take the trouble to relate ro my loss. She was the last in a long line of dogs from infant to elderly and I doubt there will be another. She was the most important because when my wife took her monthly visits to NY for doctor stuff, she was often a week away and Herbert was my only companion. I've never owned a dog that guarded me like her, she prevented me from stepping on a copper head and faced down a young buck deer in rut with an attitude problem. A gentle friendly animal at all times except when she thought I was under threat and the transition from pet to wolf was a sight to see and hear. I loved her very much.
Brilliant! Poor old sod was local-ish to us, and use to host one of the fetes around here each year. He will be missed if they ever start up the fete again.
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All because Baldwin criticised his father.
Normally I'd give somebody the benefit of the doubt, but seriously would you leave this gomper in charge of fire arms that other people were going to be using? It was her job to monitor, and regulate these guns. They were on a movie set, there should never have been any live ammo on set alongside those guns! Simple as that!
But looking at the state of this gimmer, I wouldn't really be surprised if there isn't something funny going on...
Alongside the "Alleged (Sorry you have to say that now incase you get sued) stories of cast,and crew members taking the guns off set on lunch breaks, and using them for target practice out back, and once again"allegedly this dopey bint loaded the bloody guns for them to do it!
You'd think in a situation like that somebody who has the title "Armourer" would have the savvie to make sure the guns they'd been treating like toys weren't loaded once the actual adults came back, and it was time to go back to work...
In last year's CSSCGC, my brilliant idea to submit a game that required a disc system larger than what the +3 offered with the flimsiest excuse possible to fill it, resulted in +D Blue Peter. For this, I had to obtain and BMP2SCRify pictures of all the presenters of Blue Peter from past to present. Obviously, these days being what they are, my first port of call was Wikipedia which listed them all in order, and I found out a few things I didn't previously know about some of the presenters who I thought I knew better than average, given that I was an ITV kid back in the day and didn't habitually watch Blue Peter.
Not all of the presenters from past to present are still alive, as we know - and their deaths have been handled in highly variable ways. Michael Sundin was barely given a cursory mention, given the way he'd been elbowed out of the presenting team - whereas Caron Keating was given the kind of glowing tribute usually reserved for the Royal Family and former Prime Ministers, along with the 2004 presenting team trying to explain what death really meant to an audience that was, on average, younger than it had been in Caron's days.
Of all the presenters who were still alive, the one who I'd predicted to be the next to die was Christopher Wenner. That he was well into his 60s, had repeatedly put himself in life-threatening situations throughout his later career and was ravaged by throat cancer pretty much sealed the deal. He looked as skeletal as Alex Higgins did in the final days of his life.
My prediction was right.
He didn't last long on Blue Peter - 1978 to 1980 - and wasn't known for being one of its more popular presenters. And, if we assume that the current crop of kids who were watching (on the distant annexe of the CBBC channel) were born between (let's say) 2011 and 2015, many of their parents wouldn't be old enough to have been watching Blue Peter at that time (some of them wouldn't even have been born) and wouldn't remember him, but their grandparents would in turn be far too old.
So what kind of tribute will the Blue Peter team do for Christopher Wenner?
I'd no idea he'd gone on to such noteworthy things after his short time on Blue Peter (using a different version of his name).
I've got his autograph, along with then fellow presenters Simon Groom and Tina Heath, from when I was one of the winners on a Blue Peter cookery competition! It was judged by Delia Smith and all the recipes chosen were published in a book.
I was not informed I was a winner until after the event and I'll never forget the day watching the results show with Delia on and they had all the winning dishes laid out in a row and there was mine with my name on TV! Everyone else in my family missed it and didn't believe me - thought I was making it up!
I never did get a Blue Peter badge though. You only got one of them if you went on the show in person....
And what was the recipe?
Beef and Guinness Hot Pot!
I still can't believe I won a Blue Peter competition aged 11 with a Guinness Stew recipe! :D
It is delicious though, and I still make it to this day!
Guinness in a Blue Peter cookery book! I ask you. Kids those days... they'll become... 50-somethings posting on websites about historical computers. I meant... alcoholics.
*OLD MAN YELLS AT CLOUD*
Now, I feel targeted :))
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Around the mid-1990s, Malcolm Dome reviewed an album he found boring, and ended the review with "Now, where did I put that video about watching paint dry?" Little did he know that I'd bought my brother what he was looking for as a joke birthday present - it was from "John Major's Grey Collection", along with two further titles, "Waiting For Christmas" and "Watching Grass Grow". Yes, these did actually exist, and WHSmith had been desperate to get rid of them. Obviously, my brother didn't want the videos, so I threw "Watching Paint Dry" in a Jiffy bag, addressed it to Malcolm Dome at the Metal Hammer offices and let the Royal Mail keep their part of the bargain. I am still imagining the look on his face as he opened the parcel...
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Aw, to bad Mike. Sad to hear about someone losing their 'best friend'. Condolences mate.
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Losing one's old doggy is a sad thing indeed. Still miss my doggy real bad, so I know how you're feeling.
But I have sat with many of my cats, and dogs, and even a lizard, on their last moments on earth, and it's genuinely heartbreaking, yes they are family, yes they are friends, and yes you should remember them dearly.
Sorry for your loss Mike, let it be known I truly understand :(
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Looks like they've also got the celeb bullets boozy has when he mentions them on the internet
not Lionel Blair! He was great..touch of the old real showbiz with him shame. I guess he was old.
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