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What is going on is whatever is keeping your addled brain whirring at 2:37 am. Moot point, since for SC it wasn't 2:37am, it was anywhere between 4:37pm and 9:37pm depending upon his precise location (not allowing for any local daylight saving times that are due around now which I cba to look up). That's the internerd for you, people posting from just anywhere....

70 days later why am I reading this shit? SC You tell us. It is after all even titled the biggest deaths of 2014. N,B. On top of which you have now merely added to the new posts in it, causing those who use unread posts as a guide (as perhaps you do) to revisit it yet again. Ofc the same could be levelled at me now, but mine is is a humourous dig at you and worth a read

Socialism relies on private financial interests to generate the tax revenue for public industries. Stop feeding uncomfortable truths to a community full of lefties you like-whore! (oh wait you're just saying socialism should be replaced with full-on communism but whatever, it vaguely looks like you "admitted" something so I'm happy)

Socialism relies on private financial interests to generate the tax revenue for public industries.

That used to be my team name.

There ought to be a law that only people from nice places can post.

Cor look at them knockers

It's very possible Cardinal George will not get the required obit if/when he passes. The DL comittee usually avoids people that marginal No obit is required. The DL doesn't have to operate by the rules of the DDP, or any other dead pools. Yeah, the DL has a set of rules of its own, distinct from the DDP rules, but these include a "requirement" that the candidate should be famous enough "such that their death is expected to be reported by the UK media". Once they're on the list, they are considered a "hit" if they die, regardless of the number of obits, but people would still whine if one of the listed people died without an obit (in the mainstream media), since it'd prove that they weren't famous enough and that their inclusion was a mistake. Arguably, it'd damage the credibility and standing of the committee and the site itself (more than the low number of hits in an unlucky year), so they'd only pick people who are 101%, beyond-a-reasonable-doubt obit-worthy. And you'd still find some people whining if they are not household names, like in the case of Fergie Frederiksen. On the other hand, if they miss a big household name like Ali, people would whine even harder, even if no one knew much more than rumours in December. I don't think the DL committee give a toss about whiners.

I think the (lol) "rules" of the 27 Club have to be specific to music. Of course it all stems from the fact that Robert Johnson is the most entry level musician in the history of mankind, then you have the glut of late 60s/early 70s corpses topped up with Cobain and Winehouse. The Fortean Times has a decent article on it here. Of course then you get the musicians who died at 27 but aren't really famous other than the fact that they died at 27, like Freaky Tah or that one riot grrrl that got the arse raped off her then murdered. Anyway, nutjob permanently-coked-off-her-tits enemy of Somali gangsters Joss Stone turns 27 next year, and it's not as if she's of any use to anyone alive.