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    Report here of the death of Tony Davis of The Spinners, aged 86. https://twitter.com/jazznorthwest/status/831275125454602241

     

    Wiki (mention): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spinners_(UK_band)

     

    Dirty Old Town: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FwRfXZ20QA

     

    Edit: TMIB will have to clarify whether this is the Tony Davis on the DDP, or that entry relates to someone else.

     

    Liverpool Echo has covered it at least: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/tributes-paid-former-spinner-tony-12603338

     

    I'd expect a Guardian obit at least...

     

    Possibly a Last Word entrant but more importantly a unique for me on the DDP.

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    Lord of the Rings with swearing.

     

    And women.

     

    Fair point. I've never been a fan but what little I've come across does seem light on gender balance. Must be Tolkein's christian outlook.

     

     

    LOTR (and The Hobbit) are extraordinarily lacking in female characters. There is really only Eowyn and Galadriel, and they don't feature all that much. Arwen is mentioned, but her part was massively increased for the film - she scarcely appears in the books. There are a few female hobbits mentioned on the fringes, but no female dwarfs (although T does acknowledge that they exist). Even the Ents, the tree people, are all male, their wives having all decamped somewhere years ago!

     

    It's odd because Tolkien had a long happy marriage, and he did have a daughter, so it isn't as though he was some fusty misogynistic old bachelor who never had any contact with women.

     

    I'd say he drew more on Norse mythology than on Christianity, and there are plenty of goddesses there.

     

    Nah, end of the day it's all about good vs evil. Christianity is inherently patriarchal. the Norse valued bravery and valour irrespective of who had it.

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    True.... But not being an afficienado of his work.... I couldn't tell you which he is :D

     

    You could always look. There's plenty of sites out there on which to do your research.

     

    In all honesty, I don't even look at porn on my computer. Don't want it getting full of viruses and nasty malware which these sites are full of.

     

    TBF, its better to watch porn and get a virus on your computer than to go out, get you leg over then end up with a nasty virus.................

     

     

    True that!

     

    But to fill your computer with porn and go on porn sites on a regular basis, does your average laptop as much good as smoking 40 a day does to a human.

     

    I smoked 20 + a day for 30 yrs, I gave up 2 1/2 yrs ago and ive felt more shit than when I smoked!

     

    As my old mum used to say, you'll be fine as long as you wipe it clean afterwards.

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    475 years ago Catherine Howard, 5th wife of Henry VIII, was beheaded at the age of 18 or 19, on a charge of treason following an adulterous affair with Thomas Culpepper.

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    Her execution was followed by that of her Lady-in-waiting, Jane Boleyn, sister-in-law of Henry's second wife Anne, also on a charge of treason for facilitating Catherine's affair.

    Culpepper, in an unusual display of clemency by Henry, was merely beheaded instead being hung, drawn and quartered. Softy.

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