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  1. 3 points
    Shagging your sock doesn't count.
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    The 5th year anniversary since her sister Joan Fontaine's death is fast approaching. Time flies like a DH.98 Mosquito, doesn't it? I made a few comments in this thread back in 2013 about Olivia reaching the age 103 (she was 96 at the time), and I'm glad not to have been wrong thus far. Long live Olivia!
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    He's not 18 until later this week I think, so underage. Should be on the Register IMO.
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    2 years ago today my virginity was no more.
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    Straight from Wikipedia, but too interesting: Dennis Hof, US brothel owner, dead at 72: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6283331/Bunny-Ranch-brothel-owner-Dennis-Hof-dies-aged-72-just-weeks-general-election.html He called himself the "Trump from Parumph". His partner was Heidi Fleiss, a.k.a. the infamous "Hollywood Madam". His corpse was found by Ron Jeremy a day after a birthday party with infamous Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
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    The people that follow them are the same people who buy from the Jacamo clothing range.
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    Awwww, that sad little face. The dog doesn't look happy either.
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    Caroll Spinney, who has played Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird on Sesame Street since its inception, is to retire.
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    So he's not alive for you, then. Hang on, a Godsmack member is now old enough to have a 34 year old son??
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    Slave !! Welcome back. Don't be a stranger.
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    Is that a euphemism?
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    According to 12 Disgusting Celebrity Habits You Probably Don't Know About, Donny likes to lick the salt off pretzels.
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    I presume this is a list of survivors. Whilst I realise this is a snapshot in time and they may all live to a ripe old age I'm struck by how young the list is - oldest surviving winner only 86 which is nothing based on life expectancy rates today. Who would have thought sitting on your arse all day typing (and possibly smoking?? - I imagine all authors smoking) wasn't good for your health.
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    Surviving Booker Prize Winners Salman Rushdie (1947) Thomas Keneally (1935) J M Coetzee (1940) Keri Hume (1947) Penelope Lively (1933) Peter Carey (1943) Kazuo Ishiguro (1954) A S Byatt (1936) Ben Okri (1959) Michael Ondaatje (1943) Roddy Doyle (1958) James Kelman (1946) Pat Barker (1943) Graham Swift (1949) Arundhati Roy (1961) Ian McEwan (1948) Margaret Atwood (1939) Yann Martel (1963) DBC Pierre (1961) Alan Hollinghurst (1954) John Banville (1945) Kiran Desai (1971) Anne Enright (1962) Aravind Adiga (1974) Hilary Mantel (1952) Howard Jacobson (1942) Julian Barnes (1946) Eleanor Catton (1985) Richard Flanagan (1961) Marlon James (1970) Paul Beatty (1962) George Saunders (1958) Anna Burns (1962) Updated for the 2018 winner.
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    Went to see A Star Is Born with the maw. I'm pretty sure I was the only unmarried male in attendance I went in with low expectations, but Lady Gaga's performance was spectacular. Bradley Cooper would make an engaging director if he made more films. The silent moments and long close-ups were a nice surprise. Willam and Shangela (from RuPaul's Drag Race) made the whole audience laugh in their scene. Maw said the new film was technically better, but prefers the Barbra Streisand version since that was the first film she saw after dropping out of school and therefore it has more sentimental value. (Aye, she's an old fart, almost as old as Cat! Imagine that!)
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    He needs to shorten that list down to 20 for the DDP.
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    *nearly has heart attack at thread bump*
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    Happy Birthday to Dame Angela Lansbury who turns 93 today.
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    M is for Mary and M is also for Midgley and Mistake
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    He did a 45 minute interview with Chris Matthews the other day looking back at his career. Many people don't know before becoming a shouting tv anchor Matthews worked in the White House during the Carter years as a speechwriter. Carter looks good and still as sharp. I still find him an enigma though - he was a conservative democrat for his era yet is now heralded by the left. It's taken almost 40 years for his presidency to get praise as opposed to him just being a great ex president. But also I know two people who have worked close with him - one passed away last year and had known Carter since he was running for Governor in 1966 (he was a local news reporter), and the other is an archivist in Georgia state politics who has had the chance to sit down with Carter as well as other significant Georgian figures like Zell Miller, Carl Sanders, Bill Schupp etc. The reporter says Carter was a great campaigner and was a man of the people type candidate but behind the curtain he was actually introverted and his campaign platform wishy-washy. It's not a surprise that the one job Carter has mastered all his life is teaching at Church. So in Georgia it was not a shock to political insiders that his presidency was full of crisis and his image was very weak. Back then in Georgia the governorship was one non consecutive term - there was no re-election but if there had been it has been argued he would have lost since a large group of people who voted for him because he was seen as one of their own (white rural farmers and the deep south) felt betrayed at his social and integration policies. But in the presidential election they all came out to vote for him because the south hadn't had a president for almost 150 years. He thought if he did things a certain way as president other people would follow him but in fact his micro-management rubbed people the wrong way since it made him seem like he didn't trust them. Also it was his wife who was really the political force and the ambitious one - she was against him giving the famous "Crisis of Confidence" speech because it was pretty much admitting he was overwhelmed by the job but he did it anyway. She was suggesting to take military action against Iran although most of the country were too eventually. During the 1980 campaign she was more optimistic than her husband and the defeat hurt her more than him. The other guy says Carter is a lot more outgoing as an older ex politician than he ever was as a politician. He didn't have many friends in politics because he didn't try to make them. Maybe because he's mellowed with age but I have a feeling he's privately happy not to have had a second term since he's been able to fulfill his goals and what he likes without the responsibility/burden of politics.
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    Surprised they haven't got "Colour of Meghan & Harry's 1st baby" with accompanying shade chart.
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    Was in the school where Auntie Phil teaches the other week. On the library window there is still a sticker asking to keep looking, with the original picture of a wean. Honest tae fuck, a wee bit of effort required.
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    Oli Herbert, guitarist and founding member of metal band All That Remains, dead at 44.
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