Ringo Starr beheaded in Liverpool

by Kev Kharas [Edit this content] ▾ 27 comments 11:16 April 8th, 2008

Sorry, Borrell, you’ve been topped – or rather ex-Beatle Ringo Starr has, by green-fingered vandals.

The drummer, you may recall, had the temerity to suggest on the Jonathan Ross show back in January that he missed nothing about the home city he’d serenaded at the ‘European Capital of Culture’ launch just days previously.

That’s the most obvious lead being touted after a topiary of the drummer was found sans bonce this morning, though there remains the possibility that the ‘beheading’ has more to do with Starr's vastly overreaching sense of his own importance just ‘cause the media can’t speak to the two dead ones any more and McCartney, well, he’s harder to get at.

That and the fact he wears sunglasses indoors.

On the other hand, we’re keen to dismiss a city whose collective conscience seems to mirror that of a weeping, unhinged mob boss recklessly perceiving everything as a slight against “the family”.

Still, that's pretty magnificent and sheer weight of numbers means we come down on the side of the city – the sculpture took 18-months to cultivate and had only been on show at Liverpool’s South Parkway for a fortnight. Fast work.

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so

will there be a minutes silence before the match tonight?

christs_chin | 8 Apr '08, 11:27 | X | Reply

any excuse for

a minutes fucking silence

theseabass @christs_chin | 8 Apr '08, 11:36 | X | Reply

exactly

Liverpool Football Club = World's Worst Bastards.

dexywashere @theseabass | 8 Apr '08, 11:56 | X | Reply

I'm from Liverpool....

..and see this as an embarrassment. So what if he doesn't miss anything? Is he not allowed to express an honest opinion? The level of vitriol with which his comments have been met is ridiculous and some of my fellow scousers need to get a life.

sharkboydave | 8 Apr '08, 12:12 | X | Reply

It's just Liverpool all over.

I wouldn't be surprised if this here article is discussed on Radio Merseyside with Roger tomorrow.

supersonic @sharkboydave | 8 Apr '08, 12:18 | X | Reply

i live in liverpool..

and think this is funny as fuck.
i kinda think the ill feeling towards the guy is more to do with his cynical attempt to cash in on the 08 stuff with that shit song, rather than anything he's actually said...but i think it's more of a collective joke, than any actual anger or anything...
then again, i don't actually read any local papers, or listen to any local radio, so my summary of local opinion might be completely off the mark.

signaturetune01 @supersonic | 8 Apr '08, 12:31 | X | Reply

Headline made me lmao before I read

and that pic is wonderful.

wrightylew | 8 Apr '08, 12:36 | X | Reply

David Shrigley

did it.

http://rumplo.com/assets/contrib/tees/0000/1333/1333-0.jpg

waspyone | 8 Apr '08, 12:41 | X | Reply

more to the point

how the fuck did that take 18 months. its shit.

signaturetune01 @waspyone | 8 Apr '08, 12:44 | X | Reply

anti-scouse crap

Quote - On the other hand, we’re keen to dismiss a city whose collective conscience seems to mirror that of a weeping, unhinged mob boss recklessly perceiving everything as a slight against “the family”.

I'm sorry, when did Boris Johnson start writing for DiS?

Never ceases to amaze me that when a community has a strong identity and feels passion enough to defend themselves against slurs, take acception to implications that there's nothing to be missed etc. that this is seen somehow as something to be mocked.

I'm from Wigan, originally, before we even go there and I don't live in Liverpool. I do however see more to be proud of in a community like that than one that takes cheap generalising shots based on nothing more than prejudice and an ill concieved/ offensive idea of what is funny.

F**k Ringo Starr, the guy's a fool and if this really is an example of somebody trying to ge thim back then yes it's obviously ridiculous but to slander an entire community because of the actions of potentially one idiot isn't funny.

UBiKrecords @signaturetune01 | 8 Apr '08, 13:44 | X | Reply

i'm amazed it took this long

for a scouser to bite

brusma @UBiKrecords | 8 Apr '08, 14:06 | X | Reply

THIS V

"On the other hand, we’re keen to dismiss a city whose collective conscience seems to mirror that of a weeping, unhinged mob boss recklessly perceiving everything as a slight against “the family”. "

Too true.
I fucking despise being called a traitor or some other such bullshit by a crying horde of 'proffesional scousers' whenever i object to anything remotely Merseyside related, despite the fact i was born and have lived here for my entire life.

FUCK OFF!

dead_fred | 8 Apr '08, 14:06 | X | Reply