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The Hitch

  • 26-11-2010 1:32pm
    #1
    MrPudding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭


    Nice piece in the UK Times today about an interview with Christopher. Taken from a Newsnight interview with Jeremy Paxman. Check out newsnight on the 29th at 2230hrs.

    Apparently he has only a 5% chance of being around in 5 years.

    MrP


Comments

  • #2
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    No linky for the rest of us who haven't seen it?


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Yeah, apparently he's pretty much screwed. :(

    I was shocked to learn how old he is recently; he looks/looked like he's in his 40s.


  • #4
    Zombrex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25,848 ✭✭✭✭Zombrex


    Afraid his life style has caught up with him, a lot of smoking and alcohol. Still he would probably say he enjoyed his life more than most.


  • #5
    PDN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,686 ✭✭✭✭PDN


    MrPudding wrote: »
    Nice piece in the UK Times today about an interview with Christopher. Taken from a Newsnight interview with Jeremy Paxman. Check out newsnight on the 29th at 2230hrs.

    Apparently he has only a 5% chance of being around in 5 years.

    MrP

    Really sorry to hear that. Cancer is a bitch.


  • #6
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I was shocked to learn how old he is recently

    Aye. For someone who smokes like a chimney, he looks great for his age.


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  • #7
    eblistic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 162 ✭✭eblistic


    MrPudding wrote: »
    Nice piece in the UK Times today about an interview with Christopher. Taken from a Newsnight interview with Jeremy Paxman. Check out newsnight on the 29th at 2230hrs.

    Apparently he has only a 5% chance of being around in 5 years.

    MrP

    Says 7.30 pm here...
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/11_november/26/hitchens.shtml


  • #8
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Beruthiel wrote: »
    No linky for the rest of us who haven't seen it?

    The Times is behind a paywall.


  • #9
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,077 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Have a look at the BBC website: it's on at the earlier time of 19:30 on Monday. I know it says "England, Scotland and Wales only", but the online TV Guide I use is set to "N. Ireland Digital" (which is always correct for me on NTL) and has it at the same time.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #10
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Don't die Hitch :(


  • #11
    MrPudding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    Beruthiel wrote: »
    No linky for the rest of us who haven't seen it?
    If you can tell me how to post a link to the recycle bin in the Santander building in Leicester I will post it immediately. :D
    eblistic wrote: »
    Says 7.30 pm here...
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/11_november/26/hitchens.shtml
    Stupid Times. Not sure what is going on there. 2230hrs is generally about the time Newsnight is on, this must be a special.

    MrP


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  • #12
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    MrPudding wrote: »
    If you can tell me how to post a link to the recycle bin in the Santander building in Leicester I will post it immediately. :D

    The Boards Admin Control Panel doesn't stretch that far. Yet...


  • #13
    stevejazzx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,247 ✭✭✭stevejazzx


    PDN wrote: »
    Cancer is a bitch.

    Missing a bus is a bitch; cancer on the other hand is a life threatening illness. Just saying is all brother..word. :cool:


  • #14
    mikhail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭mikhail


    MrPudding wrote: »
    If you can tell me how to post a link to the recycle bin in the Santander building in Leicester I will post it immediately. :D
    Which one?


  • #15
    ChocolateSauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭ChocolateSauce


    Beruthiel wrote: »
    Aye. For someone who smokes like a chimney, he looks great for his age.

    Not to mention the drink! I watch BIll Maher's show, and all the guests always have cups of water, but one of the times Hitchens was on he just had a large glass of brandy or something...I'm also pretty sure he's done some of his debates/interviews sloshed.


  • #16
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,428 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    mikhail wrote: »
    Which one?
    That's what's best about this forum -- nothing is left unchallenged :)


  • #17
    MrPudding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    mikhail wrote: »
    Which one?
    None of them. This one:

    http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.583395,-1.208907&num=1&t=h&sll=52.665556,-1.111679&sspn=0.184477,0.617294&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=52.583404,-1.208968&spn=0.007797,0.026157&z=16
    robindch wrote: »
    That's what's best about this forum -- nothing is left unchallenged :)
    Indeed.:D

    MrP


  • #18
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    ChocolateSauce wrote: »
    Not to mention the drink! I watch BIll Maher's show, and all the guests always have cups of water, but one of the times Hitchens was on he just had a large glass of brandy or something...I'm also pretty sure he's done some of his debates/interviews sloshed.

    I'm pretty sure he does most of his debates and interviews sloshed.

    Edit: Actually, here he is describing his daily imbibement:
    At about half past midday, a decent slug of Mr. Walker's amber restorative, cut with Perrier water (an ideal delivery system) and no ice. At luncheon, perhaps half a bottle of red wine: not always more but never less. Then back to the desk, and ready to repeat the treatment at the evening meal. No "after dinner drinks"—​most especially nothing sweet and never, ever any brandy. "Nightcaps" depend on how well the day went, but always the mixture as before. No mixing: no messing around with a gin here and a vodka there.


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