22 November 2021

Wow

The crop of pansy dancing monkeys we have these days...

[Oliver] Reed died from a heart attack during a break from filming Gladiator in Valletta, Malta, on the afternoon of 2 May 1999. According to witnesses, he drank eight pints of German lager, a dozen shots of rum, half a bottle of whiskey and a few shots of Hennessy cognac, in a drinking match against a group of sailors on shore leave from HMS Cumberland at a local pub. His bar bill totalled a little over 270 Maltese lira (almost 450 GBP; about 590 USD). After beating five much younger Royal Navy sailors at arm-wrestling, Reed suddenly collapsed, dying while en route to hospital in an ambulance.

One wonders if those sailors were brought to the masthead and flogged.

"One old man out drank the five of you?  The honor of Her Majesty's Ship Cumberland has been stained!"

Posted by Angus McThag at 08:15
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  1. Beans23 November, 2021 01:58

    Yeah, our Navy has two split-tails in a pissing match not talking to each other and managing to ram a commercial ship with their destroyer.

    Or a major general bitching because she can't have long colored nails.

    Or a ROTC commander commanding his male cadets to walk in high-heels for charity.

    Or or or...

    Damn. Oliver Reed was quite the man, wasn't he? (and he's related to Alan Parsons, who looks a helluva lot like him.)

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