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All this raging at millennials... it's easiest to stereotype people if you are far removed from them. Thus it's easiest to apply negative stereotypes to "baby-boomers" if you're young, or negative stereotypes to "millenials" if you're old. Which doesn't stop it being a fundamentally bitter, mean-spirited, and self-deceiving way to talk and act either way. (Statement of bias: I'm too old to be a millennial, and much too young to be a boomer). As for the "secret cancer cure"" nonsense - cancer is not all one disease; it's a broad spectrum of different diseases of different cell types overpopulating the body in different ways. Anyone who did have a magic cancer cure would have the world beating down their door, and it would be ludicrous to imagine them hiding it. In any case, prevention is better than cure, hence why the HPV vaccine, smoking cessation, air pollution reduction, promoting exercise, preventing obesity etc etc are all good ideas, insofar as they are achievable. As for the claim that doctors are overpaid in the UK... have you seen how much they're paid in other countries (https://naibuzz.com/10-countries-highest-doctors-salaries-world/), and how few doctors per capita the UK has compared to other rich countries (http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Health/Physicians/Per-1%2C000-people)? For too long, we've failed to train nearly enough doctors or nurses, and with an aging population with growing health needs we need to both train more and continue to attract more to come from abroad. Never mind the additional occupational costs of the medical profession in indemnity, training, exam fees, and so on.

The Golden Dagger award is presented by the UK Crime Writers' Association for the best crime novel of the year. There are thirty two surviving winners from its 58 year history. Here are the longest surviving since their win 1961 Mary Kelly (b.1927) 1963 John Le Carre (b. 1931) 1967 Emma Lathen (Martha Henissart co-author (b.1929) 1973 Robert Littell (b.1935) 1974 Anthony Price (b.1928) 1975 Nicholas Meyer (b.1945) 1981 Martin Cruz Smith (b.1942) 1982 Peter Lovesey (b.1936) 1983 John Hutton (b.1928) 1985 Paula Gosling (b.1939) After this there is a gap of eight years where there is no surviving winners. All should obit.

Oh, on my longlist as well. I wouldn't rule it out - as a maori leader (him, not me).

Paul Biya re-elected in a landslide at 85: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/22/paul-biya-cameroon-85-year-old-president-wins-re-election-landslide I like his wife's style:

Reminds me of the graffiti back in the day.

Another of the last living Monuments Men, Harry L. Ettlinger, dead at 92. Not yet updated for Ettlinger's death, but the Monuments Men Foundation website helpfully notes the remaining survivors: Richard M. Barancik (b. 1924) Nicholas Defino (b. 1924) Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite (b. 1927) Rouben Sami (b. 1921)

Could have an effect on Vince McMahon's health,the old man must be heartbroken

Surprised to hear the Man from Del Monte is still alive, assumed long gone. AKA actor Brian Jackson, 88 next year. Made error of telling this exciting find to Rad, who as a American teenager, has probably never heard of the ad campaign.

Yeah...I don’t think he was hospitalized for that one I posted a couple weeks ago.

More subs: 1)Winnie Ewing 2)Hugh Downs 3)Rolf Harris 4)Wilford Brimley 5)Olivia Newton John 6)Shane MacGowan 7)Val Kilmer 8)Bruce Anstey 9)Michael Schumacher 10) Artie Lange 11)June Brown 12)June Spencer 13)Jean Kennedy Smith 14)Ethel Kennedy 15)Sidney Poitier 16)Harry Belafonte 17)Stuart Hall 18)Chris Denning 19)Malcolm Hebden 20)Jean Marie Le Pen

My provisional shadow 2019 list 1)Leah Bracknell 2)Herman Wouk 3)Kirk Douglas 4)Vera Lynn 5)George H W Bush 6)Olivia De Havilland 7) George Alagiah 8)Clive James 9)Bill Turnbull 10)Nobby Stiles 11)Javier Perez De Cuellar 12)Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh 13)Tim Conway 14)Murray Walker 15)Robert Mugabe 16)Valerie Harper 17) Jill Gascoine 18) Jacques Chirac 19)Stan Lee 20) Betty White 21)Doris Day 22)Nicholas Parsons 23)John Paul Stevens 24)Sheila Mercier 25)Trevor Peacock 26)John Hume 27) Baroness Trumpington 28)Douglas Hurd 29)Bob Dole 30)Leslie Phillips 31)Glynis Johns 32)Barbara Windsor 33)Jimmy Carter 34)Henry Kissenger 35) Desmond Tutu 36) Gerd Muller 37)Martin Peters 38) Jimmy Greaves 39)Joni Mitchell 40)Paul Gascoigne 41)Kenny Sansom 42)Barbara Walters 43)Stirling Moss 44)Pope Benedict 45)Valery Giscard D'estaing 46)Jean Louis Trintignant 47)Billy Mcneill 48)June Whitfield 49)Daniella Westbrook 50) Terry Jones Sub:Billy Connolly

You know sometimes i do wonder if ignorance is bliss. I look into my childrens eyes and it sucks one day they'll be as bitter as me with regards to life. I'm only into my early 30s but i feel as though i'm were my grandparents were with life in their retirement. I think the internet has helped alot of people mature and find the truth about life quicker. Usually you would of had to have lived and long life to figure everything out. Cancer is curable but not economically viable. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/goldman-sachs-says-curing-diseases-may-not-be-economically-valid/ Charities are a business. Organisations there to help children no doubt we're there to take advantage of vulnerable children.Childline , children in need and jimmy savile pedo rings The government is the enemy and wants you either dead or earning them money via tax. TV is fake even reality tv and the news I could go on and on and i often do so i'll leave it there

What's a pension?

Don't use their escalators, their lifts and watch out for drivers who cannot tell the brake from the accelerator. Be safe!

Thread's for British actors...or am I wrong?

TBH even if he's a "mere" 100 that doesn't make his ability to rebound from hospital trips like nothing any less impressive.

Those wee robot guys are really going to have pick up the slack with the housework till he recovers, then.

Wikipedia now tells me that yesterday we had the deaths of Kok, Kwok and Ngok.

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Shagging your sock doesn't count.

2 years ago today my virginity was no more.

Worked for Rosie Flores at a small private gig yesterday. She was backed up by Ruby James (guitar, backing vocals & percussion), Tommy Vee (bass), Bennett Vee (drums), and Clay Williams (slide guitar). Tommy Vee is one of the sons of the late Bobby Vee, and Bennett is Tommy's son. The gig was a pre-birthday celebration for Rosie's 68th birthday which is today.

Nasty, that.

Yay, more helpful news from the National Enquirer...

R.I.P; William M. November 28, 1963 - October 21, 2018 Thank you guys for all of your kind thoughts and comments. It honestly helped me through his final hours and now that he is dead. I honestly think that I will be okay. I have to be strong for my mom, brother, and sister. I will make you proud dad, I promise. Don’t forget guys to eat right, and get some exercise once in a while.