The RIP Thread

[SJN-Fox]

RIP Carolyn Grace. I guess she won’t mean much to most people but she was Britain (and the world’s) only female Spitfire pilot.

Britain's only female Spitfire pilot killed in car crash in Australia

Carolyn Grace, 70, was driving her Suziki car in the city of Goulbourn, southwest of Sydney, when she collided with a silver Hilux on Friday.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[bocadillo]

RIP Carolyn Grace. I guess she won’t mean much to most people but she was Britain (and the world’s) only female Spitfire pilot.

Britain's only female Spitfire pilot killed in car crash in Australia

Carolyn Grace, 70, was driving her Suziki car in the city of Goulbourn, southwest of Sydney, when she collided with a silver Hilux on Friday.

www.dailymail.co.uk

That's very misleading. At that age she can only have piloted Spitfires long after the war. At the time they were built women were regularly delivering Spitfires and other planes to their units for use in the war effort.

 

[Jeff]

That's very misleading.

Only if you make assumptions after reading the headline.

 

[jb5000]

Only if you make assumptions after reading the headline.

Tbf, whilst the article talks about her getting started restoring Spitfires in the 1980s, it completely ignores the delivery pilots of WW2. It would have been correct to headline her as having been "Britain's only living female Spitfire pilot".
That said, the article is so badly written it simultaneously claims that she was from Cornwall and Australia so what can you expect?

 

[fox58]

Jet Black from the Stranglers aged 84

 

[give_us_a_wave]

Jet Black (Brian Duffy)

Intellectual, artisan, drummer, storyteller & eccentric gentleman.

84...unbelievably the same age as my Mam, but decided to abandon his generation in favour of the next because it looked more fun.

It's 41 years since their extended encore at Loughborough Uni resulted in me having to walk home to Leicester, frozen to the bone & unable to even light a fag to keep warm due to sweat soaked matches.

No ****er was going to give a lift to some amphetamine eyed **** with blue hair wearing a Swedish army greatcoat either. I felt like shivering death when I got home. The bastards.

Almost a year & a half later I was part of their road crew, breaking various olympic sprint records to just barely make it into a fast departing truck pursued by 20 or so furious neo-nazis in Hamburg.

It's a good job I liked the music so much.

RIP Jet

 

[Orifice]

 

[give_us_a_wave]

I'd forgotten that existed. Must be over 20 years since I last saw it. Cheers

 

[Blaarev]

It was only yesterday I was wondering which LP I should get as a Xmas present to my vinyl-loving son in law. I decided to have a look for Rattus Norvegicus at my local record store. Definitely going to look for it now!

 

[tedfoxxx]

Jet Black (Brian Duffy)

Intellectual, artisan, drummer, storyteller & eccentric gentleman.

84...unbelievably the same age as my Mam, but decided to abandon his generation in favour of the next because it looked more fun.

It's 41 years since their extended encore at Loughborough Uni resulted in me having to walk home to Leicester, frozen to the bone & unable to even light a fag to keep warm due to sweat soaked matches.

No ****er was going to give a lift to some amphetamine eyed **** with blue hair wearing a Swedish army greatcoat either. I felt like shivering death when I got home. The bastards.

Almost a year & a half later I was part of their road crew, breaking various olympic sprint records to just barely make it into a fast departing truck pursued by 20 or so furious neo-nazis in Hamburg.

It's a good job I liked the music so much.

RIP Jet

My dad was at the same gig, 20 years old, although he says he had a considerably shorter walking home down Valley Road.

 

[give_us_a_wave]

My dad was at the same gig, 20 years old, although he says he had a considerably shorter walking home down Valley Road.

Thanks for that.

I wasn't feeling my age particularly this morning until reading that.

Your DAD FFS !

Still, then I realised that I was just about to turn 17 at the time so at least I'm younger than your dad, which is something to hold on to I guess !

 

[H T B]

Still, then I realised that I was just about to turn 17 at the time so at least I'm younger than your dad, which is something to hold on to I guess !

Depends where he’s from

 

[bocadillo]

Ruth Madoc has Hi-de-Hoed.

I remember when 79 seemed old. It doesn't now!

 

[homer]

Hi de died

 

[tedfoxxx]

Hi de died

Hello corpses.

 

[Blaarev]

Sinisa Mihajlovic, 53.

Sinisa Mihajlovic, Serie A and Serbian football favourite, dies aged 53 | Serie A | The Guardian

Sinisa Mihajlovic, a former standout footballer in his native Serbia and then Italy, has died three years after being diagnosed with leukaemia

amp.theguardian.com

 

[Blaarev]

Sinisa Mihajlovic, 53.

Sinisa Mihajlovic, Serie A and Serbian football favourite, dies aged 53 | Serie A | The Guardian

Sinisa Mihajlovic, a former standout footballer in his native Serbia and then Italy, has died three years after being diagnosed with leukaemia

amp.theguardian.com

 

[Jeff]

Terry Hall

Terry Hall of The Specials dies aged 63

His distinctively dour voice can be heard on hits like Ghost Town, Gangsters and Too Much, Too Young.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[pork pie fox]

Martin Duffy

Martin Duffy: Primal Scream and Charlatans keyboardist dies at 55

"Another tragic loss of a beautiful soul," Charlatans singer Tim Burgess says about the keyboardist.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[homer]

Terry Hall

Terry Hall of The Specials dies aged 63

His distinctively dour voice can be heard on hits like Ghost Town, Gangsters and Too Much, Too Young.

www.bbc.co.uk

Ah that’s sad - first saw them at the de mont in about 79/80 along with the Selector , the Bodysnatchers and the Beat (?). Think it cost a quid

For some unknown reason I wore my uncle’s white suit jacket to go in. What a tosser I must have looked

Happy days