Captain Sir Tom Moore DEAD

[Ha-lucy-nation]

Also Lucille how was Marseille? You were there when I was on holiday

Fabulous darling, I’m not the one criticising others for travelling!

 

[ButterTart]

who was looking after those charity funds?

Gerry and Kate kindly stepped in last minute.

 

[KNT]

Probably not a great day for British Airways' influencer marketing guy.

 

[Ellie]

Have any other no.1 acts died within a year of hitting no.1?

God we need @Eileen back.

Roy Orbison? Or was that posthumous?

 

[Say Sheena-na-na]

I don’t want to be mean but I feel the same way as some earlier- the whole thing grates with me and I’m sure he was personally a lovely bloke and feel sorry for his family and all that, but I don’t get the outpouring of grief...

 

[Ha-lucy-nation]

Who here wouldn’t have FUCKED OFF to Barbados in December if they had the chance!

 

[Hard Rock Ag-elujah]

Roy Orbison? Or was that posthumous?

I don't think he had a number single since the 1950s or 60s.

 

[Soldi Elektronike]

Fabulous darling, I’m not the one criticising others for travelling!

I think a family who took their 100 year old relative to sit on a beach on the other side of the world when the law said not to are a bit worthy of SOME criticism.

 

[Peekaboo]

I don't want to shit on the man because he was A CENTURY OLD and whatever, but his family created a Twitter account, a .org website and a FOUNDATION in his name quicker than the McCanns created the FIND MADDIE FUND

 

[octophone]

Roy Orbison? Or was that posthumous?

That was posthumous. Same with Bowie's "Blackstar".

 

[Hard Rock Ag-elujah]

I don’t want to be mean but I feel the same way as some earlier- the whole thing grates with me and I’m sure he was personally a lovely bloke and feel sorry for his family and all that, but I don’t get the outpouring of grief...

The fact he used his military status, just feeds into a long line of WW2 inspired nationalism. Again not him, I don't know his politics, but he was totally used as a tool in that never ending campaign. The BBC gushing over him right now is pretty cringey.

 

[octophone]

That was posthumous. Same with Bowie's "Blackstar".

I was sure Orbison's album made #1, apparently it didn't. #2.

 

[Hard Rock Ag-elujah]

34 viewing now. So many queens dash here for the Moopy take of 'big deaths'.

 

[COB]

Where DO all the guests come from? They can't ALL be former posters who stropped off, surely.

 

[octophone]

I'm not going to knock him for what he did - however wittingly or unwittingly, he exploited the fact that an elderly war veteran could spunk a load straight into a child's hamburger and still be "one of arr 'eroes". There's no doubt it was his ex-military status that got the money out of people's pockets. But so what? My problem is that Boris Johnson spent it all on a bung to a finance company that had never supplied PPE in its life and delivered a pile of useless crap for which the country never got a refund.

 

[octophone]

Where DO all the guests come from? They can't ALL be former posters who stropped off, surely.

At least half.

 

[Soldi Elektronike]

Where DO all the guests come from? They can't ALL be former posters who stropped off, surely.

I’m somewhat tempted to move it to the community forum and see if anyone logs in

(i won’t obviously)

 

[octophone]

I’m somewhat tempted to move it to the community forum and see if anyone logs in

(i won’t obviously)

We've done that before. We may have done it when Michael Jackson died...

 

[Hard Rock Ag-elujah]

GAGGED that the BBC gave him a proper news flash.

 

[dzjermlaw]

I just hope Peter Sutcliffe will be wearing a black tie when reporting about this on the six o'clock news.

 

[ButterTart]

I don’t want to be mean but I feel the same way as some earlier- the whole thing grates with me and I’m sure he was personally a lovely bloke and feel sorry for his family and all that, but I don’t get the outpouring of grief...

Oh Christ, they’re gonna make us clap for him.

 

[Hard Rock Ag-elujah]

It's like LONDON BRIDGE IS DOWN!

 

[Peekaboo]

The statement about his death on THE FOUNDATION's website is quite something, reading it you'd think he was SAINT TERESA OF CALCUTTA and had devoted his WHOLE LIFE to feeding the lepers.

I see he also had a book out and a partnership with Squarespace for the #WalkWithTom initiative. The whole thing is just so unsavoury.

 

[Hard Rock Ag-elujah]

Downing Street is flying the UNION JACK AT HALF MAST.

Fucking hell. Poised to cringe at TOMORROWS PAPERS.

 

[Ha-lucy-nation]

Squarespace! At least we were spared his ‘Squatty Potty’ collab!

 

[octophone]

There's no doubt he was exploited but we can't really tell the extent to which he was a willing participant.

That said, I have a feeling we'll find out exactly how much the family have creamed off when they have to publish the accounts.

 

[Kate]

Downing Street is flying the UNION JACK AT HALF MAST.

Fucking hell. Poised to cringe at TOMORROWS PAPERS.

Oh dear god, seriously?

 

[Hard Rock Ag-elujah]

Oh dear god, seriously?

Apparently so.

 

[Hard Rock Ag-elujah]

BBC reporting he had a CATCHPHRASE.

I just cannot.

 

[lolly]

BBC reporting he had a CATCHPHRASE.

I just cannot.

Was it 'can you change my bag, please?'

 

[Hard Rock Ag-elujah]

Oh dear god, seriously?

 

[Hard Rock Ag-elujah]

He's BIGGER THAN BOWIE ON MY FACEBOOK.

 

[Hard Rock Ag-elujah]

 

[Peekaboo]

He's BIGGER THAN BOWIE ON MY FACEBOOK.

DELETE YOUR FACEBOOK.

 

[Soldi Elektronike]

Oh god he’s well known in Eurovision Twitter circles as a nationalistic cunt

 

[Hard Rock Ag-elujah]

How would they even do HAIRY EARS on a 50p?

 

[dzjermlaw]

You know that thing that everyone stopped using a year ago for some reason? We want a special one of them.

 

[Kate]

God I hate people

 

[Star]

Downing Street is flying the UNION JACK AT HALF MAST.

F*cking hell. Poised to cringe at TOMORROWS PAPERS.

Well they'll have to give us a day off for his funeral now

 

[Kate]

Well they'll have to give us a day off for his funeral now

Would be fine with this though