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His death has gone global

But it's not my birthday until tomorrow...

How about this for obscurest death of the year? Former Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Champion Gadiel Szleifer died in his sleep at the weekend.

Pointless thread closed.

I think my support just gave Tony Booth a 2% lead in a tight race.

No way is this gonna catch on amongst our beloved bimbos though, right? The consequences for dead pooling could be catastrophic.

Oh my goodness. Sorry for the loss of your grandfather. Hope your dad gets better soon as well - tell him to be aware of blood clots from the broken foot. It is more dangerous than many know. My step-son died from a clot to his heart after having a broken leg that was not set properly. He was only 41 with two children.

Leah Bracknell....

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Valery Giscard d' Estaing ex-president of France

I don't know how you are going to feel about this but over 150,000 people died today and you are getting upset over someone you had never heard of!

Unbelievably, Radar Online got one right: http://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/harry-dean-stanton-dying-deathbed-sick-health-crisis/

Jesus Christ on a cracker, Lardy. I'm glad you are OK. That was a day and a half from hell. And by the way - I depend heavily on Google Maps and rarely get into trouble following it regardless of which major US city I happen to be in. In the spirit of full disclosure, though, I will mention that a recent attempt to locate Berryessa/Snow Mountain National Monument in California using Google Maps ended up with me, my husband and my little car at a remote vineyard behind a ranch in the California Coastal Range, hemmed in by a river and the remains of a mudslide. The winery was neat, though - the main building was an old stagecoach stop. Never did find the monument. I will go sit my sanctimonious American ass down now.....

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Country bumpkins that don't know any better

So this could be a post for the Gigs thread, or the Family Deaths thread, but I’ll put it here as it’s a ‘status’ and a fucking half. We went to London Town yesterday to see the Foo Fighters at the o2. Three hour drive, safely done, until literally 2 minutes from the hotel, we were stopped at traffic lights, a van in front of us got impatient with the car in front of him, slammed his van into reverse to go round him and smacked straight into the front of my prized Scenic. Both parties jumped out, I did lots of arm waving and swearing, the van driver did lots of being calm and apologetic, we established there was no real damage and went on our way, but I was really quite shocked! Anyway, we carried on our way and checked in to the hotel. We made a plan to get to the venue, and the old man was really keen to go on that cable car thing across the river – I reluctantly agreed as I absolutely fucking hate things like that and am terrified – I was crying before I even got on it, and spent the whole ‘flight’ with a jumper round my head crying into his shoulder and shaking like a shitting dog. But, unsurprisingly, the cable car did not fall off into the river, or stop halfway, or get blown up, and we disembarked and made our way to the venue. Got through security fine because I ACTUALLY READ THE TICKET BUYING RULES unlike all these other absolute PISS-TUBES that cried about not getting in because they bought their tickets off touts. Took our seats and waited….and just before the band were due on stage, I received a text from my dad to tell me my Grandad had just died. This had not been unexpected however we didn’t realise it was quite so imminent. So whilst the gig was actually fucking amazing, a couple of the songs caught me off guard and I found myself in floods of tears a couple of times. Gig over and a taxi ride back to the hotel, with a very friendly taxi driver who was also a big Foo Fighters fan. Finally dropped off into a troubled sleep at 3am. Woke up at 8 to a text from my brother to say my dad had taken a very nasty fall down the stairs late last night after returning from being with my grandad, and that my brother and dad were currently at the hospital. Dad has broken his foot and has very nasty cuts and bruises, having landed in a very small space on top of a very large, heavy, and now very broken doorstop. Blood fucking everywhere. So we got dressed and left as soon as we could. The satnav had other idea. Rather than take us up to the M25, it took us through the actual centre of London – saw the Tower of London, the Embankment, the London Eye and Big Ben, The Strand, Trafalgar Square, oh yes we saw the fucking lot. Although to be fair I had previously moaned that we probably wouldn’t have time to see the sights – how wrong I was. Anyway, am now safely back home trying to help with funeral arrangements, Dad’s at home with his foot in a boot feeling very sorry for himself and I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Even if he gets out of the ring unscathed ( should he be granted a licence) he does appear to be a very angry bloke and this can be the start of a downward spiral. Hopefully he will remember that he has kids and come to his senses before they are knocked out of him.

My title defence, which was knackered, is now even more knackeredder.

I swear to God they are actually driving Dilip Kumar's corpse around in a car and pretending he's alive.

You're still my favourite...

As a point of interest, our Norwegian unemployment office has sent out a report that those working in stores, here in Norway, as a career, should go get an education in more modern fields since retail jobs will decrease here by 10,000 in the next 5-10 years. (We only have a population of a little over 5 million people, so that is a lot considering our unemployment is usually from 75,000-100,000 people in the last few years.) Edit: Just checked it. We are now at a little over 91,000 without work due to the oil crisis that hit us in 2015. The engineers are starting to return to work now though, so this should go down.

Work wise I encountered someone so far down the ASD line today he delights in the most inane puns. A favourite joke being... I climbed this big tower in France - but I fell (Eifell - get it?) This individual is likely to be part of my working life for at least one year - I try and avoid keeping you posted

Especially if you're Luke Halpin.