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Great to see Charlie dying just in time for his dad to go in Celebrity Big Brother.

At a risk of sounding like a complete twat I just don't think that Charlie Gard should be a TV news story - it is a personal tragedy for the family and a difficult legal case for the people involved but I'm not sure why I need to be getting regular daily updates and sharing the misery - we all have enough personal misery from time to time in our own lives. Seems to me the media just know that ill baby photos sell but sadly there are lots of young children dying every day and it is not practical or desireable to watch the news and read a newspaper with a roll call of dying infants and their photos.

You missed out Yasuhiro Nakasone

To give my humble opinion in reverse order: 2. I think "I did not collude" is going to rank up there with "I did not have sex with that woman." 1. I don't think he is. He will not lose the support of a certain hard core piece of the populace, but for everyone else he is burning bridges right and left. I hate to say it, but the only thing that might shore him up for a little while is another 9/11 or a war. Either way, though, he's probably going down like Nixon.

Agreed. Whenever people see "ill" and "baby/infant/child" in the same sentence (maybe altered a little bit differently), it drives clicks to the article and all you get in response in the comments or whatever is those annoying brit middle aged moms who put x at the end of each sentence. By the way I'm not saying sending prayers to ones family is a bad thing, it's that the x's peeve me.

Scorpio, Spade, and I like a girl with metastatic cancer and a guaranteed Times obituary.

I do listen to those albums. More or less. I have an embarrassing number of late 70s/early 80s compilations.

Was that just an excuse to post a picture of a car?

1982 #01 Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners #02 Only You - Yazoo #03 Mad World - Tears For Fears #04 The Look of Love - ABC #05 Dead Ringer For Love - Meat Loaf #06 Maneater - Hall and Oates #07 Run To The Hills - Iron Maiden #08 Blue Eyes - Elton John #09 Party Fears Two - The Associates #10 Senses Working Overtime - XTC #11 Wedding Bells - Godley and Creme #12 Reap The Wild Wind - Ultravox #13 Promised You A Miracle - Simple Minds #14 Young Turks - Rod Stewart #15 Spirits In The Material World - The Police #16 View From A Bridge - Kim Wilde #17 Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash #18 Landslide - Olivia Newton-John #19 Back Of Love - Echo and the Bunnymen #20 I Just Wanna Spend Some Time With You - Alton Edwards #21 Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd #22 Under The Boardwalk - Tom Tom Club #23 (Isn't One so picked another #22) Fireworks - Siouxsie and the Banshees #24 House On Fire - The Boomtown Rats #25 Head Over Heels - ABBA #26 Going To A Go-Go - The Rolling Stones #27 (Isn't one, so picked another #26) It's Raining Again - Supertramp #28 After The Goldrush - Prelude #29 Temptation - New Order #30 Bamboo Houses - David Sylvian/Ryuichi Sakamoto 1983 #01 Down Under - Men At Work #02 (Keep Feeling) Fascination - Human League #03 Africa - Toto #04 I'm Still Standing - Elton John #05 Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Bananarama #06 The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats #07 Love Cats - The Cure #08 Islands In The Stream - Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers #09 Blue Monday - New Order #10 The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up) - Level 42 #11 Undercover Of The Night - The Rolling Stones #12 Come Dancing - The Kinks #13 Last Night A DJ Saved My Life - Indeep #14 Twisting By The Pool - Dire Straits #15 The First Picture Of You - The Lotus Eaters #16 Shiny Shiny - Haysi Fantayzee #17 68 Guns - The Alarm #18 Oblivious - Aztec Camera #19 Last Film - Kissing The Pink #20 Genetic Engineering - OMD #21 I'm Never Giving Up - Sweet Dreams #22 Mind Up Tonight - Melba Moore #23 Music - D-Train #24 Rebel Run - Toyah #25 This Charming Man - The Smiths #26 She's In Parties - Bauhaus #27 Cry Me A River - Mari Wilson #28 Owner Of A Lonely Heart - Yes #29 She's Sexy And 17 - The Stray Cats #30 Not Now John - Pink Floyd 1984 #01 The Reflex - Duran Duran #02 Radio Ga Ga - Queen #03 Dancing With Tears In My Eyes - Ultravox #04 Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty Four) - Eurythmics #05 Drive - The Cars #06 Dr Beat - Miami Sound Machine #07 White Lines (Don't Do It) - Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel #08 Young At Heart - The Bluebells #09 Free Nelson Mandela - Special AKA #10 Shout - Tears For Fears #11 2 Minutes To Midnight - Iron Maiden #12 Closest Thing To Heaven - The Kane Gang #13 Just Be Good To Me - SOS Band #14 Love Wars (Womack and Womack) #15 Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed - Matt Bianco #16 2000 Miles - The Pretenders #17 King Of Pain - The Police #18 Eyes Without A Face - Billy Idol #19 Spice Of Life - Manhattan Transfer #20 Come Back - Mighty Wah! #21 Dance Hall Days - Wang Chung #22 Tour De France - Kraftwerk #23 This Is Mine - Heaven 17 #24 Calling Your Name - Marilyn (scrapes into 1984, charted higher in 1983, but hey, still hit 24 in 1984) #25 I Wanna Be Loved - Elvis Costello and the Attractions #26 Perfect Skin - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions #27 Hand In Glove - Sandie Shaw #28 The Politics of Dancing - Re-Flex #29 Give Me More Time - Whitesnake #30 Renegades of Funk - Afrika Bambaata and the Soulsonic Force

Cancer and my name is Larry...

Imagine they got him all the way there, and then he voted against their bill for the hell of it.

The last swing for Ben Hogan on this day 20 years ago, aged 84.

Aye, but a war or another 9/11 would oblige him to behave like a president. He can't manage the entire US military to attack another country via Twitter.

I would listen to those albums.

Heart surgery apparently,he must have that sinking feeling now.

Sad for the baby, but all the articles make it hard to research! I don't even know if the british care about this story, because I am ONLY seeing it in american media.

This stupid thing. Do you know how many times I accidentally mark the entire forum as read because on the main forum list page, the icon to the left marks the forum read, but in the forum itself the icon to the left takes to you to the first unread message. I hate inconsistency. Yes, I am bitching about my own stupidity. Move along if that's your only observation.

Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the good old U S of A, died 155 years ago, age 79.

He could be death. You never seen the two of them in the same place now...

20 years since Brian Glover got his final kick up the Aris

I regularly have large bugs strolling through my house like they own the place. I run screaming and my nephew takes care of them. Not sure what I'm gonna go when he graduates from college next year.