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Thanks for that, I'm stuck at home waiting for a package so these'll keep me occupied!

My pleasure. And if you haven't already seen it, here is what I found to be a really cool documentary on the guy.

Hated's great, i bought that on VHS from Forbidden Planet about 15 years ago, i couldn't believe what i was seeing. Bit of trivia i only found out recently, the documentary is directed by Todd Phillips, who went on to direct The Hangover.

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Thank fuck live TV's changed quite a bit since the 80s, eh?

 

 

Fuck Noel Edmonds. Fuck him right in his whore fucking mouth.

 

It's not surprising that show eventually got cancelled when someone actually died because of Noel and the BBC not giving a fuck about the safety of the stunts:

 

Death of Michael Lush

 

On 13 November 1986, self-employed hod carrier Michael Lush was killed during his first rehearsal for another live stunt. The stunt, called "Hang 'em High", involved bungee jumping from an exploding box suspended from a 120 ft-high crane. The carabiner clip attaching his bungee rope to the crane sprang loose from its eyebolt during the jump. He died instantly of multiple injuries, and the Breakfast Show was 'cancelled as well as all future editions' on 15 November. This led to Edmonds's resignation.

 

Although the inquest recorded a verdict of misadventure, the jury were informed of several failures on the part of the BBC. Graham Games of the Health and Safety Executive stated that the clip could have been opened by the weight of a bag of sugar, and demonstrated that the clip sprang loose 14 times in 20. David Kirke, a bungee specialist from the Dangerous Sports Club, stated that a similar stunt he had been involved with used three ropes, as opposed to the one rope used by the BBC, and shackles in the place of carabiner clips.[7] There was no safety officer on hand, and no supervision or demonstration from a trained stuntman. There was also no way for Lush to contact the ground once he was in the air, and nobody in the air with him in case he changed his mind; the jury heard that he delayed for almost two minutes before finally being instructed to make the jump. Furthermore, despite advice against it, the BBC production team had insisted on the use of an elasticated bungee rope.

 

The BBC made an ex gratia payment of approximately

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Ok can someone explain that?

In the documentary "King Of Kong", a guy mentions to all the people that a "Donkey Kong kill screen is coming up". That's when the game crashes as it has gone through all the levels. The guy in my sig is the

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