Dougle 4598 Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 Read Geezer Butlers autobiography not long ago and some of his Ozzy stories were tremendous. The way they met was when Ozzy came around to Geezer’s parent’s house looking for a spot in his band, his brother said “there’s something for you at the door” There was the Oz, a skinhead at the time, wearing his dad’s work gown, bare feet, a chimney sweep’s brush over his shoulder and a trainer on a dog lead. Legend RIP 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 42149 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 Neil Kulkarni (RIP) reckoned Ozzy Osbourne was the nicest rock star he ever met Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonpack 15590 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 1 hour ago, Alex said: Neil Kulkarni (RIP) reckoned Ozzy Osbourne was the nicest rock star he ever met 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzler 16193 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 I still piss myself laughing at this 25 years later. I’ll never forgive him for inventing that style of reality telly that led on to Katie price and Kardashians like, but at least his was actually entertaining. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 12381 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 18037 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 Shades of Kimi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonpack 15590 Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 Hulk Hogan, wrestle in peace you Trumpy cunt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonatine 13477 Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 50736 Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 one less cunt on the planet. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 17238 Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 Hope there’s some of his stories compiled somewhere after this. One of the worlds greatest bullshitters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzler 16193 Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 Being alive? That doesn’t work for me, brother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzler 16193 Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 (edited) 19 minutes ago, Ayatollah Hermione said: Hope there’s some of his stories compiled somewhere after this. One of the worlds greatest bullshitters He’s about to be honoured by people who despised him yesterday singing his praises tonight. Edited July 24 by Dazzler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 7476 Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 Bam margera has a real opportunity here 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzler 16193 Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 14 hours ago, Andrew said: Bam margera has a real opportunity here Bam Margera probably accused Johnny Knoxville of murdering Hulk Hogan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonatine 13477 Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 Cleo Laine, thought she'd carked it years ago tbh 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 22496 Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 Crikey... @Sonatine I absolutely thought she'd died fuckin decades ago. One of my mum's favorites... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 28542 Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 Ray French. The voice of Rugby League Thanks for the commentary over the years 😢 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 12381 Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 Laura Dahlmeier: Olympic star dead after mountaineering accident in Pakistan - BBC Sport Ouch. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 50736 Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 1 hour ago, Craig said: Laura Dahlmeier: Olympic star dead after mountaineering accident in Pakistan - BBC Sport Ouch. Fair play to her for leaving instructions that no one should risk their life attempting to rescue or recover her. Looking at the mountain she’s died on, rescue/recovery would be incredibly risky. Judging by the height stated for the accident , she was a couple of hundred metres from the top. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 22496 Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 On 26/07/2025 at 17:21, wykikitoon said: Ray French. The voice of Rugby League Thanks for the commentary over the years 😢 Didn't know till he died that he'd started in union and had won 4 caps for for England. Took over from the frankly irreplaceable Eddie Wareing so it was big shoes to fill. RIP 👍 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 28542 Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 6 hours ago, Craig said: Laura Dahlmeier: Olympic star dead after mountaineering accident in Pakistan - BBC Sport Ouch. Holy shit! I love Biathlon and she was brilliant 😢 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 42149 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 The Karakoram range, where it happened, is particularly inaccessible. So you’re basically on your own with a small support team. Which will include some local ‘HAPs’ or high altitude porters and Sherpas from Nepal, as the locals don’t have enough money to buy the equipment or have the mountaineering tradition. K2 is the largest peak in the range and doesn’t even have a local name because you need to hike to an inaccessible and uninhabited place before you can even see it. This inaccessibility and the unspoilt wild beauty, along with the technical challenges is, of course, the attraction of the area to mountaineers. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 50736 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 My favourite mountaineering tale from the Karakoram range is of the first successful ascent of The Ogre by Doug Scott and Chris Bonington. All went well until , on the descent, not far from the top, Scott slipped on an abseil and went flying across the face of the mountain, smashing his shins when he hit rock. He and Bonington managed to abseil to a ledge where they spent a freezing night with no gear or sleeping bags, then made it back to their high camp below the West Summit where their two remaining team members, Clive Rowland and Mo Anthoine were. They spent 5 days stuck there in an ice cave, ran out of food, and eventually had to set of (in the middle of a storm), with Scott’s team members cutting steps for his knees where they could, him sliding and crawling otherwise. Due to the weather conditions, on this rescue descent, Bonington very nearly came a cropper by abseiling off the end of a rope, and broke his ribs. The two of them made it down, Scott then crawling for 5 days over broken stone and snow to get back to Base Camp. All this, with both his legs snapped below the knee, every single bump and movement causing him severe pain ( no painkillers left either), and Bonington struggling to breath with badly busted ribs. When they got there, ( Base Camp) it was empty, as the rest of the party had assumed all four were dead and left. Clive Rowland basically ran for a day or so and caught up with them, and they arranged a helicopter to pick up Scott and Bonington. It could only take one at a time, so Scott went first, and in its way back for Bonington it crashed so he had to wait days for another. Absolute epic. In over 20+ expeditions, it’s only been summitted three times I believe, the first being these absolute legends. Doug Scott was a fucking monster of a climber, the first UK climber to summit Everest, fucking nails, and also did an amazing amount of charitable work in the Karakoram and Nepal reducing child mortality and providing clean water to villages etc. Edit; Both he and Bonington were pissed off that their two rescuers, Rowland and Anthoine, got little credit at the time for saving their lives ( this was late 1975 -Bonington was probably the most famous climber in the world at the time, and Scott had just become the UK’s first Everest summiteer). Whenever either spoke about it, they went to great lengths to make it clear that without those two, they’d both still be up there. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzler 16193 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 2 hours ago, Monkeys Fist said: My favourite mountaineering tale from the Karakoram range is of the first successful ascent of The Ogre by Doug Scott and Chris Bonington. All went well until , on the descent, not far from the top, Scott slipped on an abseil and went flying across the face of the mountain, smashing his shins when he hit rock. He and Bonington managed to abseil to a ledge where they spent a freezing night with no gear or sleeping bags, then made it back to their high camp below the West Summit where their two remaining team members, Clive Rowland and Mo Anthoine were. They spent 5 days stuck there in an ice cave, ran out of food, and eventually had to set of (in the middle of a storm), with Scott’s team members cutting steps for his knees where they could, him sliding and crawling otherwise. Due to the weather conditions, on this rescue descent, Bonington very nearly came a cropper by abseiling off the end of a rope, and broke his ribs. The two of them made it down, Scott then crawling for 5 days over broken stone and snow to get back to Base Camp. All this, with both his legs snapped below the knee, every single bump and movement causing him severe pain ( no painkillers left either), and Bonington struggling to breath with badly busted ribs. When they got there, ( Base Camp) it was empty, as the rest of the party had assumed all four were dead and left. Clive Rowland basically ran for a day or so and caught up with them, and they arranged a helicopter to pick up Scott and Bonington. It could only take one at a time, so Scott went first, and in its way back for Bonington it crashed so he had to wait days for another. Absolute epic. In over 20+ expeditions, it’s only been summitted three times I believe, the first being these absolute legends. Doug Scott was a fucking monster of a climber, the first UK climber to summit Everest, fucking nails, and also did an amazing amount of charitable work in the Karakoram and Nepal reducing child mortality and providing clean water to villages etc. Edit; Both he and Bonington were pissed off that their two rescuers, Rowland and Anthoine, got little credit at the time for saving their lives ( this was late 1975 -Bonington was probably the most famous climber in the world at the time, and Scott had just become the UK’s first Everest summiteer). Whenever either spoke about it, they went to great lengths to make it clear that without those two, they’d both still be up there. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 42149 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 As my granny would’ve said, they must’ve been short of something to do 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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