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Hate it when the guy on the news says "Parliament has been dissolved" and you wait for him to say "..... in acid" but he doesn't.

It would be interesting to test this probability. So below is a list of 20 randomly selected 96-year old women without any regards to specific health problems that they might have. Let's see how many are still with us on March 30, 2016.

My favourite typo of the day is contained in this report on Peter Stringfellow's "secret battle with lung cancer". (just below second photo, shortly before the reference to "the Big V"). Warning - contains photographs & video of Peter Stringfellow

Wankers!!

AFAIK you are not from across the pond so stop using shitty Yank expressions. He's been doing that from the get-go, LFN...

AFAIK you are not from across the pond so stop using shitty Yank expressions.

Czech cinematographer Miroslav Ondricek dead at 80: http://variety.com/2015/film/news/miroslav-ondricek-dead-amadeus-cinematographer-milos-forman-1201462236/ A frequent collaborator with Milos Forman, he is probably best-known for his Oscar-nominated work on "Amadeus".

As promised here's an update: After just about three months in play and 14/233* dead here's the scores on the doors. Death Impends 243 (Irving Khan, Jerry Tarkanian, Lee Kuan Yew, Little Jimmy Dickens, Sam Simon) The Unknown Man 189 (Leonard Nimoy, Sam Simon (W) ) Estuarian Float 174 (Ahmed Givens, Leonard Nimoy, Sam Simon) Rotten Ali 147 (Lee Kuan Yew, Sam Simon the_engineer 146 (Ethel Lang, Sam Simon (W) ) Eesti 132 (Sam Simon (W)) deadsox 131 (Ahmed Givens, Ethel Lang, Sam Simon) Whoam 123 (Leonard Nimoy, Sam Simon) CaptainChorizo 117 (Ahmed Givens, Sam Simon) Bibliogryphon 114 (Jeffrey Segal (W), Louis Jordain) Shaun of the Dead 110 (Pamella Cundell, Sam Simon) maryportfuncity 80 (Ethel Lang,Sam Simon) Book 70 (Terry Pratchett) msc 68 (Stuart Wagstaff) gcreptile 46 (Heinrich Windelin) Toast 14 (Ethel Lang) *Also I'd like to give a special shout out to Estuarian who's team member Prince Bernhard died in 2004.

So she's 'deeply saddened' by the death of her mother in a FIRE? Fuck me, I'm 'deeply saddened' when I open the fridge and there's no cheese, or when Eastenders is cancelled because of fucking football. If my dad died in a fire I'd be fucking inconsolable and highly traumatised, not 'deeply saddened'. I guess it depends on how close to her mum she was. If they haven't seen each other in years, it doesn't have the same impact as if you had regularly contact with them Having had a period of quiet reflection, you of course are absolutely right - I have no idea how she gets along with her mum, and if it were my mother, I wouldn't give a flying fuck, so I hereby retract my possibly harsh words. As you were.

Yes, some sort of factor or summat...

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My Mum used to watch Pebble Mill at One everyday and she went to an open day and Bob Langley actually picked me up and held me whilst he talked to my Mum. I must have been about 5 at the time but still have vague recollections of it. Boy, you were lucky. Another time, another place and you could have been held by Jimbo or Rolf!!

I fucking love you. I was made to go to Sid's Cafe in Holmfirth while on a holiday when I was about 14 and a goth - you can imagine my utter enthusiasm and delight at being subjected to such an experience. I would gladly have rolled every old person in the place down a massive fucking hill in a bath to their deaths.

Does this work well? That question is a bit tricky to answer. The differences with FPtP are large in effect. Since the proportion of seats a party gets roughly represents the proportion of the vote it attracts, rather than the proportion of constituencies it wins, it's very hard for any party to win an absolute majority. A 'hung parliamnent' is the natural state of things. The system has both advantages and disadvantages: Advantages: Representation of parties attracting small proportions of the vote Just a few percent of the vote is not represented Easy access to representation for new parties Disadvantages:Representatives are selected by their parties, not the electorate (with some refinements); there's little personal contact between voter and representative. Permanently hung parliament, so always a coalition government/executive Winning the election doesn't necessarily mean being part of that coalition Coalition negotiations can take very long. Several weeks is normal, several months not uncommon Junior parties find few of their polling issues realised in coalition agreements Neutral or both:Electoral change rarely results in major policy changes Government coalitions rarely hold for the full parliamentary term of 4 years, early general elections are pretty normal Polls rarely have the drama UK general elections have, which is a bit of a shame. The statistical models analists use are so good, that after a few municipalities have declared results, they predict the final result to within on or two seats of the eventual result. Often the outcome is pretty clear an hour after the polling stations close. In the Netherlands a cabinet position is incompatible with being an MP. This also means that cabinet members can be recruited from outside parliament and often are. Occasionally parties push useless dweebs1 in cabinet positions and some coalitions fall apart soon after formation. Junior parties in the coalistion often have a disproportionately large influence on policy. I think it all works reasonably well. There's room for improvement, but it seems to suit the Dutch quite well. 1After coalition formation this regularly leads to hilarious situations. Especially parties new to government, but the established ones as well, often fail to screen their candidates well. This has led to several occasions in which cabinet members resigned, hours after being sworn in, because the press dug up ugly facts about them, such as porkies on their CV. ETA: Can somebody shoot the person who programmed the new IPB editor? It screws up my edits

If you read it right, its 'Peter Perves Valerie Singleton', so yes, statement of fact.

The surgery is going to take place around May 7th: http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2015/03/25/rob-ford-set-to-have-cancer-surgery-may-7.html A good day for removing unpleasent tumours

Makes her the Womb Raider SC

In all the excitement I completely missed that Prosper Ego died 23 January 2015. He was a propagandist for the almost-fascist right of the variety that prefers shouting and bullying to reason. Nasty people deserve an obit too.