24 thoughts on “Monday’s Papers”

    1. Rosette of Sirius

      I see Ed Asner died too. Name probably won’t mean too much if you’re of a younger age but if you were a child of the 70s you’d know him from the MTM show, the spin off Lou Grant and more recently, for the kids, he played Santa in Elf.

      1. Daisy Chainsaw

        For our younger viewers, he also voiced Carl Fredricksen in the beautiful Up and will be heard again in Dug Days. His IMDB page shows he had a plethora of roles lined up for the next 2 years. At 91, he had no intention of retiring – may we all be so fortunate to reach that age and still be active. RIP.

      2. ian-oG

        What a sad morning, two greats gone. I only real knew Asners later work like Elf, Up etc. but he seem to pop up as a guest star in a lot of stuff as well. Reading up on his personal life, he seemed like a really decent, conscientious sort.

        As for Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, I was a long time fan of his and am genuinely sad to hear of his passing.

        :(

      3. V aka Frilly Keane

        Anyone else just always call him Lou Grant
        No matter what he was in later on
        After Mary T Moore

        He was always Lou Grant, never Ed Asner

        anyway, a vigorous energetic Labour and Cooperative Activist in his time
        RIP Lou

    1. Fergalito

      A true icon and talisman.

      Did you see him perform with The Congos in Tripod i think it was about ten years ago? There was something seriously transcendental about the whole thing. I hadn’t experienced anything like it before nor have I since.

      Rest in peace indeed.

      1. scottser

        i saw him with mad professor on sound in the red box jayz, would be almost 20 years ago now. band, sound and tunes were amazing but he was no singer, that’s for sure.

  5. upsidedownandsideways

    I’m tired of this.
    Sean Lock and Lee Scratch Perry????
    – within 10 days of each other?/???.
    And James Cordon hosts a talk-show on a major US TV channnel

    Am I on the correct planet????????

  6. eamonn

    Lee Scratch Perry
    The man who put the wise in dubwise.
    One Love, One Heart,One blood.
    sunset for the upsetter, moonrise for the upsetter,
    into a new realm for the upsetter.
    new realm be better with the upsetter.

  7. Verbatim

    Harrowing read in Irish Times “Flawed weight-loss operations abroad creating ‘huge problem’”
    Plane loads of adults going to Turkey for weight loss operations every week, a quick fix with devastating long-term consequences. DuckDuckGo it…
    The major food industry (comparable to pharma industry) definitely don’t want their produce looked at too carefully, taken off the shelves or banned as most of what they sell and advertise can hardly be called “food”. How come there isn’t a continued concerted effort to educate people on the addiction of sugar and carbs and really take an interest in tackling childhood obesity? A lot of children’s mental health issues have to do with eating junk food, how it makes them feel and the consequences of being overweight in a society that tells them that it’s “OK to be fat” or “you’re not fat” – there is so much denial.
    It seems the only problem the health ministry has is getting everyone, including children, vaccinated for a virus most people will shrug off (except, those with co-morbidity, the obese).

    1. Fergalito

      When i was a gosson a treat was a bag of Sam Spudz Crinkled Crisps at the weekend – Smokey Bacon flavour if you must know. These days it seems a treat is a course that follows all kids’ meals – well, if they were let anyway.

      We bang on about sugar processed, or otherwise and its ills yet festoon kids with junk-food, sweets and chocolate for Christmas, Easter, birthdays, bar-mitzvahs etc… ! You’re absolutely right about education, dangers of over-consumption just as deadly as alcoholism or drug-abuse in my opinion.

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