The RIP thread...

Rabbi Avrohom Pinter has died, of Covid-19. He was very important up here in North-east London. I hope someone can step into at least a part of his shoes. RIP.

https://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/hackney-s-rabbi-avraham-pinter-dies-of-coronavirus-covid-19-1-6605838

This is nice:

RIP Jo Brown. A climbing legend.

Fell off his perch...

Brian Dennehy.

RIP Brian Dennehy. I’ll never forget First Blood.

Yes, great film. RIP.

Aw man. As someone who worked renting VCR tapes back in the 80s I think I saw a staggering amount of his output - F/X being a particular highlight. A really great actor.

Very sad news and absolute legend
Norman Hunter
MOT always

Legend. A late receiver of a World Cup winners medal. He was up against Jack Charlton and Bobby Moore for a place in the winning team and they were never going to be dropped.

You know if he had played that German goal wouldn’t have crossed the line

Gene Deitch - animator for Tom & Jerry and Popeye
(yesterday)

Just don't read the book it's based on... Some of the worst lines I've ever read in a 'grown up' book...And totally different ending too.

I think the book was based on the film. Don’t quote me on that. Great film - maybe my favourite.

Book was pre 1974.

The other way. David Morrell wrote it, Stallone liked the story, which then lead to the film.

I did say don’t quote me. lol. Perhaps the second film?

I've just seen that John Forester died on the 14th April. He was 90. No news articles or obituaries yet. He's probably best known as the father of cycle training (although he always said that everything he wrote about cycling was not of his own invention but well-known to club cyclists as strategies for dealing with increasing motorisation decades before), and his 'Effective Cycling' is a key book, but he also wrote on transport planning, as well as a biography of his father, C.S. Forester.

Sad news.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forester_(cyclist)

Huh, I didn't know (or had forgotten) that he was related to the Hornblower Forester.

I knew of his work, though perhaps mainly through his antagonistic position towards Dutch-style cycle infra design, as summed up by the John Greenfield cartoon:

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Well, that cartoon is just bollocks, best to ignore it. If there's one thing it doesn't do it's summing anything up. To be fair, Forester was his own worst enemy in some ways.

I dont expect many people to know him but George Georgiou, the owneer of Toffs on Muswell Hill

https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/george-georgiou-muswell-hill-tributes-for-toff-s-owner-1-6619454

Well, the cartoon was mainly a joke; care to elaborate on the bollocks? Certainly the bits of Forester I've read on cycling infra did come across as cranky; while much of the vehicular cycling advice is sensible and helpful, it always seems to ignore the differential in ability to cause harm between the various types of vehicle on the road, as well as the fact that a certain percentage of drivers just don't give a shit about the safety of cyclists.

This is really sad news. We've got two original cells from Tom & Jerry, hand painted and signed by him. Such a talent.

Only one of them is in good enough condition to display.

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Found this Forbes article from the linked Wikipedia page that looks to have been uploaded around the same time you posted. https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2020/04/23/death-of-a-dinosaur-anti-cycleway-campaigner-john-forester-dies-aged-90/#4c0376311cc3

Have to say though it's very heavy handed and feels like it has quite a large amount of prejudice from the writer.

Owner of the Blue Lamp in Aberdeen, the legendary Sandy Brown 74 - I hope the cheese board is well stocked for you guv

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/obituaries/2162461/pub-landlord-hailed-as-aberdeen-institution-dies-aged-74/