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Misread that as he’s about to go in an hour!

Seems the right thread for this.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/may/04/i-killed-a-man-gyles-brandreth-says-rod-hulls-death-was-his-fault

"he wanted to watch the football, but his Sky aerial wasn’t transmitting properly."

tbf it was actually Rupert Murdoch who was indirectly responsible for Rod Hull's death, it was one of his employees who did a shoddy Sky installation and that's why the fucker died!

the one time I had Sky, the installation was abysmal. The dish was hanging off my wall because it had been fixed to the rendered insulation rather than to the house bricks. When a sky employee arrived he said he can't fix the problem because Sky don't supply him with long enough coaching screws to fix to the brick. He said if you just pop down to B+Q and get some 100mm coaching screws then I will come back today and fix it. I said ffs please tell me this is some kind of fucking joke, no he was completely serious.

Speaking to John Cleese on the latest episode of his Rosebud podcast, Brandreth said: “I killed a man. It was Rod Hull, the emu man.”

Imagining Brandreth saying this like Robert Shaw delivering the "Mr Hooper, that's the USS Indianapolis" line in Jaws

> his Sky aerial wasn’t transmitting properly.

transmitting?

(we have the same problem at home. then my dad goes outside and scares the jackdaws away and that fixes it)

ghastly thread