Not a celeb.
One of New Zealand’s greatest cricketers and cousin of Russell. Very much a celeb.
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RIP Martin.
Wtf.not a celeb.not a significant person either
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In the current spirit of remembering Aussie sports people than no one knows barely heard of, RIP Sarah Tait.
I’m done with celebrity adjucating @ChocolateMice buddy.
Be they alive or deceased.
Despite the numerous requests via PM to save the celebrity spotting thread I’ve decided my time with my family is more important to me and therefore have hung up my adjucators whip for good.
A close friend of Martin Crowe claims the cricket star was self-medicating with liquid marijuana to ease his pain.
Crowe died at the age of 53 on Thursday after a long battle with cancer.
Selvey says Crowe told him he was sleeping 15 hours a day and using cannabis oil rather than undergoing more chemotherapy for his second bout of lymphoma.
“He had been diagnosed with follicular lymphoma a couple of years previously but appeared to be in remission, cleared, until the cancer returned, in the virulent terminal form of double-hit lymphoma,” Selvey wrote.
"The apparently hale nature of his condition was a camouflage. When he was awake, he said, he did indeed feel good, but rather than undergoing yet more chemotherapy he was by then self-medicating with liquid marijuana and sleeping 15 hours a day. Happy hours though, he said.
“That day, he had told me that he had been given a 5 per cent chance of living for a further year. The odds were correct: he was 13 days shy of that 12 months when he passed away peacefully.”
Selvey also used an email exchange between Crowe and Indian cricket writer Dileep Premachandran to highlight how Crowe was dealing with his plight as the reality of his terminal condition hit home.
"It was late last September, the occasion of his 53rd birthday, and Crowe was making sense of his condition, about how he felt of facing the imminent prospect of death. ‘It’s a fine line mentally,’ Crowe writes, ’ do I judge my life as a joy or as sitting in death row?’
“It is both philosophical and rhetorical: I don’t think I have ever come across someone who has faced their demise with more rational fortitude and acceptance,” concluded Selvey.
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It was a very good article Selvey wrote about Crowe.
Take it to the bespoke sports stars death thread
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Paul Couch, the 1989 Brownlow Medallist, has died from a heart attack.
Couch was riding his bike with friends along the Great Ocean Rd, near Apollo Bay, when he fell from his bike. It’s understood he went into cardiac arrest and could not be revived.
Jesus Christ, who are these cunts?
this is the celebrity thread, is it not? You’d have to have heard of them for them to be celebrities.
Apparently one of them played Cricket, FFS. The other fella won a medal. Fair fucks to him. Now fuck off out of this thread with this shit.
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You just knew that gormless cunt, Fitzy, would be in the middle of it.
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sure that dullard chucks is as bad
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RIP Couchy.
Lolz 
Was he sofa away from a hospital
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Nancy Reagan RIP
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Aaron Ramsey strikes again
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Sir George Martin, aged 90. RIP