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So, she's aged. She's 77. What do you expect? Happens to us all unless we invest, and even then it catches up eventually. Why is life a bastard about this? She's still alive. She's happily married. By all accounts she's generally happy and healthy. Her kid's a nut, but so is mine and that's not the end of the world. She writes children's book and hangs out on her ranch. We should all hope to be in as good a place when we are 77. This sort of attitude bothers me because 1) it places unrealistic expectations on women just because they are beautiful when young, 2) it implies that a woman has no value beyond her ability to walk in front of a man and have him fall over his erection, and 3) it holds that aging and death are enemies to us when they are the natural path of life. Many of us are beautiful when we are young. We have children and get stretch marks and a belly. Our breasts succumb to gravity. Our thyroids head out and we gain weight. Menopause wreaks havoc. Despite all the exercise, creams, lotions, potions, tucks and tallies, we are going to get old. We are going to die. All of us. The loss of youth does not correlate to a loss of value. I don't know about anyone else, but my grandmother was the most beautiful woman I ever knew. </rant>

Boasting about totally beating cancer, eh? *listens to Sir Creep's first rule of deadpooling* *adds Sir Creep to 2018 shortlist*

He was bloody selfish to have those kids at his age anyway.

Falling from a cliff while celebrating being cancer-free. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/devoted-dad-fell-death-celebrated-10939285

One never wants to upset Sikhs, a lesson I learned from Indira Gandhi...

At least he was the first Rolling Stone to have a womb. SC

Old school "friends" getting in touch out of the blue just so they can try to sell things to you.

TBF, the same thing could be said about London, Manchester etc. I have always wanted to visit Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo and Scandanavia in general. Maybe one day I will get the chance. Mind you I did find this stonking old car on a Finnish classic car website and I have checked a route which would have me on a ferry across to Holland, a drive to Hamburg, a ferry to Helsinki, into Finland, get the car and retun the same way. The only real bastard is the ferry journey between Germany and Finland is some 23 odd hrs. Id probably have to do that one on my own. Im itching to do it tho, a PROPER road trip!!!!

My brother is taking his family to Norway on holiday later this month but he's going way up north somewhere to the Lofoten Islands I think. He was working in Norway last year and fell in love with the place.

Notes to self: if it comes back, he doesn't want chemo. Further note to self: if it comes back, he probably wont tell the press in advance.

Becuase they got them Americano guns,without Americano vetting system

Good points well made.

I'm 43 and fit as fuck.

Sounds like a massive load of bullshit to me.

From Stats: 2285 to end of 2016. From Scoreboard: 156 in 2017 (not including August hits) I'd say 2441 on that basis (with a couple to come).

Ah, in tribute to the headliner: I remember Hywel Bennett best from the Endless Night adaptation from 72. Agatha Christie wasn't a fan, and I couldn't understand why as I was watching it: it was keeping fairly faithful to the book. (Especially compared to recent ITV offerings...) Then, suddenly*, with 10 mins left, Britt Ekland takes all her clothes off! Poor old Hywel Bennett was somewhat overshadowed. *As suddenly as you can get for 70s film with Britt Ekland in it...

At long last, an update...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny reckons he's got a fifty percent chance of being killed for daring to speak out against Vladimir Putin. Navalny is only 44 and, with an unnatural death bonus on offer as well, he could potentially be a good DDP pick.

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True. But it was their music that dragged me into gay dance clubs, and I'm neither gay nor can I dance. But I DO enjoy a man buying me a drink. Goddammit Lardy, I'm JUST LIKE YOU! SC

Masterlist for Round 10: Shaun of the Dead Malcolm Young Pete Frates Nanci Ryder Paul Alcock Ian Martin joeyruss: Stephen Hillenburg Linda Nolan Dean Francis Simon Ricketts Vladimir Putin Death Impends: Rayya Elias Toast: David Van Day Marieke Vervoot Greg Gilbert Michael Schumacher Marie Frederiksen Bibliogryphon Frank Miller Jane Campbell Andy Bell Buster Bloodvessel Eddie Kidd The Old Lady 1. Michael J. Fox 2. Chaz Bono 3. Michael Moore 4. Lindsay Lohan 5. Charlie Sheen The Dead Cow: Ami Brown Matt Callander Phil Oakey Jessi Zazu Vanessa Goodwin gcreptile: Kevin Murray Aundrea Bannatyne Matt Capotelli Boy George TotalBiscuit Fixed Business Kenny Sansom (B. '58) Kassie DePaiva (B. '61) O.J. Brigance (B. '69) Shannon Doherty (B. '71) Daisy Berkowitz (B. '68) List of those who haven`t entered this round and the picks they will lose claim to if they do not reclaim them this round: The Quim Reaper Sinead O'Connor Paris Jackson Kim Jong-un Courtney Love Mr T Zsa Zsa`s leg: 1. Leah Bracknell 2. Heidi Loughlin 3. Eberhard Van Der Laan 4. Connie Johnson 5. Gord Downie New entries welcome as always.

For some reason, this reminds me of years ago, Channel 5 (I think) did a tribute to Judi Dench for her 70th. Lots and lots of pretentious Arty types talk about her "brave acting choices" and "gravitas" and all that rubbish they like to talk. Up comes Brian Blessed. "JUDI DENCH IS THE SEXIEST WOMAN I HAVE EVER MET" He roared, "AND SHE STILL DRIVES ME WILD WITH LUST! OH YES!"

Don't you want him on your team? Don't you want him, ohh...

To lose one Batman in a year may be regarded as a misfortune - to lose two seems like carelessness.....

Watched the documentary last night - it was an exemplary example of the genre, IMO: http://www.bbc.co.uk...ics-and-frauds. Absolutely worth 85 minutes of your time - much more than just a run-through of his exposés of frauds and charlatans. It's incredible to think that people are so desperate to keep on believing even now despite the fact that he showed - time and time again - that it's all bunkum. Reminds me of how a lot of senior management works at places I've jobbed in... The highlight: When he was still a young man appearing in Toronto nightclubs and pretending to predict the future, Randall Zwinge created what he hoped would be his greatest trick. Each night before he went to bed, he wrote the date on the back of a business card along with the words “I, Randall Zwinge, will die today.” Then he signed it and placed it in his wallet. That way, if he were knocked down in the street or killed by a freak accident, whoever went through his effects would discover the most shocking prophecy he ever made. Zwinge kept at it for years. Each night, he tore up one card and wrote out a new one for the next day. But nothing fatal befell him; in the end, having wasted hundreds of business cards, he gave up in frustration. “I never got lucky,” he told me.