Leaderboard

Me too she was talking about the letter from the Queen the other week Then I am confident that she will get it. My grandmother lived to 100, it was an ambition, nay a certainty she held ever since she had her fortune told as a young woman, and was predicted to live to "three figures". And she did. My father used to say he would throw a big party for her 100th birthday because I would be 21 in the same year. Sadly he died himself long before those milestones. Life is strange, and death is part of it. Please don't be offended, Mike, we are mostly respectful here although we do enjoy a bit of banter and running jokes.

Imagine that conversation now. "Hi Aretha, sorry to hear you have end stage cancer, I know how you are feeling, having briefly had an easily treatable different cancer years ago. Oh, that's not making you feel better, is it?" "Hi, sorry to hear you are about to be executed, but I feel your pain, I once lost a pet gerbil as a kid. We share a similar pain..."

Been a while, so maybe I'm allowed. Much wringing of hands on the news today about our world class honours system. You know, the way that the UK confers knighthoods/damehoods, Lordships/Ladyships and a whole range of medals on folk who are in the main, cronies of political parties and the odd Interfering do-gooders who populate our communities. Well, turns out the taxman has been advising for years on who should get one. "Oh my god" I hear you cry, "how someone arranges their tax affairs shouldn't have any impact on whether they should get a medal from Her Maj!" Well, frankly, it doesn't. Plenty of Lords in the past and even now have their accounts offshore, celebs are always looking for loopholes to jump through, and it didn't stop Gary Barlow, Ken Dodd and the like all getting honours. Christ, even Mo Farah has moved to the US to avoid UK taxes. So it's a non-story. Unless it's your local lollipop lady or food bank trustee. Then it might matter. "Anyway" you rage, "it's not the dumb celebrity's fault, it's their pesky accountants who are to blame!" Nah, they're all in it together. If you hire a hitman, you are as much to blame for the murder of your intended victim. Anyone colluding in the avoidance of tax is indirectly responsible for some old dear waiting for twelve hours on a trolley in a hospital corridor. Anyhoo, pardon me for not having much sympathy here, even less that someone would voluntarily join a club of medal holders who are in the main, a bunch of people who have repatriated your hard earned cash into their rather less hard earned cash that they don't pay tax on. See you in 2019.

Thats why I couldn’t join DL until Dec 2014.

Saw this thread was updated and thought Oh no she has died :/.Relieved to hear she is still with us.A fantastic actress and TV legend.I hope she is doing well!

Death is a taboo topic and you're not the first relative to visit but we mean no harm.We don't celebrate or wish for death on anyone.Well Ian brady aside. Hope your nan gets to 100 and sorry about your other losses.

Oh I did so much more than read a pamphlet friendo.

Elizabeth Kishkon, the first and only female mayor of Windsor, Ontario, has died. She was 87. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/elizabeth-kishkon-first-female-windsor-mayor-obit-1.4804367

Somebody read a pamphlet during their Summer hols

The example I heard was Stürmfürher PG Wodehouse. Fucked off to France for tax reasons in the 30's, not 'honoured' till very late in life. Who cares? They're all a bunch o' cunts.

Co-wrote the bits of Graham Chapman's autobiography that Chapman was too drunk to write. Also, this brilliant news story:

I think the committee could justify her inclusion as a political and military matriarch.As well as John her husband was highly notable as his her granddaughter Megan.If Cindy goes for John's senate seat and wins themccain name will be further established.Rose Kennedy and Elizabeth Edwards were on the list in the past so there is a precedent.

Pipped me to it Roey

Bishop to Beverly Hills. Checkmate perhaps.....

Thanks I appreciate that. My dad probably would’ve found this quite funny but I’m still a bit sensitive it seems.

Ha ha well I’ve reached out to them, if they want a wake up call I’ve offered it. I appreciate the kind words I’ve got tonight and although I still don’t understand or in any way approve of it I wish you the best.

Sorry you're offended but we don't wish death upon Mrs Mercier but unfortunately at her age she is very lucky to be alive and more likely to die than most celebs which is why she has a thread her. Naturally I wish Mrs mercier could live forever but we are all on a limited amont of time. We here don't wish death but rather we predict death. Btw my condolences about your father.

Best cover ever, imo: The original is also very nice: Maybe both will join the same DL in the future

Holy shit!!!! We've got a point Breedon highland league Full time score Fort William fc 1 v Strathspey Thistle F.C. 1 Only -8 now

Should have been 82 today, so close

Wonder if those friends include the surviving members of Raoul Moat's merry little band of outlaws

Boris is interested in Boris. If he has the slightest competence at all it's in getting voters to believe something different. In fairness as alluded to above by msc he's hardly alone in that. Farage is the same with but with less of the faux charm. Ditto Rees-Bogg, Ditto Gove. Cameron's another, he called the referendum in an attempt to get his own dissident back-benchers in line, it was nothing to do with the good of the country. From his perspective he made a fatal error. You may be on either side of the brexit argument, but don't deceive yourself it was ever called on behalf of the populace, it was political maneuvering. These guys cough, we catch a cold.

Khaled Mohieddin, last member of Egypt's 1952-1956 Revolutionary council who brought Nasser to power and fierce opposer of Sadat and Mubarak has died aged 95.

Albert Speer became a tragic victim of the Grim Reaper on this day 37 years ago, aged 76.