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Paddyfool, met charon. If you start from the principle that he officially hates every human breathing, then you can be pleasant surprised by the ones he doesn't. Whereas stuff like the benefits system and the NHS are just shock of the new to "Nelson", he remembers the Spanish Flu from the first time round.

Clearly not learned the lesson given so ably by Rod Hull, who was 40 years younger as well.

ftfy. Not a fan of 'fixed that for you' in general, it's altering what somebody else has said and is bordering on disrespectful of their intent. But for this guy I'll make an exception, so my apologies Charon. Never liked the stupid honours system either. One more reason why.

This makes me think of a person who decides that they are going in to swim with a Great White shark after saying 'Fuck off, cages are for pussies...

I can nearly see my kitchen table again, having delivered most of the loaded poppy boxes. Still got to sort the school one, but no rush as it's half term. They are getting a box of DIY poppies which the kids have to put together themselves, which they should enjoy. Also poppy pencils, sharpeners, erasers, rulers, bracelets, pin badges, balloons etc.

77 today! And still not on the Sunset Strip!* *Reference for older readers.

Yes, walk down narrow streets in Brussels looking for it only to discover it's about 18 inches tall and 20 feet in the air..."So that's it?". Mind you the little mermaid is hardly the Grand Canyon either. Hard to believe they have managed to make a pissing statuette even more tacky, however they do appear to have succeeded in some style. You know what? That appears to my eyes to be even more tacky than the aforementioned statuette. Remarkable.

Commemorating the fallen with the stench of charred flesh has never been so affordable.

You'll have to keep waiting for another Spanish flu to significantly dent human population. Every big viral outbreak worldwide in the past couple of decades has been effectively contained and stopped - see the big West african ebola outbreak, SARS, bird flu etc. Drug resistant bacteria, otoh, may be a bigger threat, but would not lead to any sudden population dip so much as a gradual decrease in life expectancy. As for what Brexit will do to UK population; yes, a small proportion of the population are leaving, but they tend to be people of working age, or people with young families to worry about. Whereas there's likely to be a countermigration of the elderly from the south of France and south of Spain in the absence of healthcare access. Sorry to hear about your cancer diagnosis, but as for your oncologist moving - how dare they! It's not like they're a human being with a life of their own, right? And as for the benefits system, it's utterly boned. The biggest chunk if the benefits spend is the state pension, and that expenditure only goes up and up and up each year. Plus it would be a brave politician that instituted a significant break on this rise, since pensioners make up a large and growing share of the electorate. @Nelson, If the only criticism you can level at my post is the source of one set of figures (which was picked as the most recent set of those figures, which every other recentish source broadly agrees with), then I don't think you really have much to say worth replying to.

English link: http://royalcentral.co.uk/europe/norway/breaking-crown-princess-mette-marit-of-norway-diagnosed-with-chronic-pulmonary-fibrosis-110887

Uh oh! Uh oh! Uh oh uh oh uh oh uh oh uh oh uh oh UH OH! Crap jokes aside, Deathlist candidate for sure.

I made a funny with 'oven ready' and nobody blinked an eye.

Some Khmer Rouge prison leader, Kaing Guek Eav, better known as "Duch", hospitalized with respiratory problems: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/convicted-khmer-rouge-era-prison-chief-hospitalised-phnom-penh-181024062720017.html Edit: Well, according to Wikipedia, he is also known as Kang Kek Iew or Kaing Kek Iev, romanized as Kain Guek Eav. Nom de Guerre Comrade Duch or Deuch - or Hang Pin.

My updated 2019 deathlist Keep Kirk Douglas Leah Bracknell Hernan Wouk Olivia De Havilland Duke of Edinburgh Betty White Javier Perez De Cuellar Pierre Cardin Stan Lee Stirling Moss Doris Day Bob Barker Leslie Phillips Jill Gascoine Vera Lynn Robert Mugabe George Bush Sr Mel Brooks Pope Benedict Sean Connery Louis Farrakhan Jimmy Greaves Clive James Olivia Newton-John Paul Gascoigne New/returning Nobby Stiles Queen Elizabeth II Jacques Chirac Doddie Weir I.M Pei George Alagiah Shane McGowan Rolf Harris Barbara Windsor Murray Walker John McCririck Willie Nelson Little Richard Ennio Morricone Harry Belafonte Nicholas Parsons Richard Baker Bill Treacher Sheila Mercier Emperor Akihito Douglas Hurd Bill Turnbull John Hume Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg Peter Oosterhuis

An admin on a deadpooling forum posting a thissiteisahoax link? Edit: I see it's filtered for me. Admins get the special privilege of falling for spam sites

Wow your sooooooooo edgy.

Fuck off smart arse.

This is the picture that was meant to be in the post above. End of the first world war commemoration Belgian style!!!

Three of those would be massive news stories and wouldn't leave much time to cover the implosion of the Conservative Party and the mid term elections. We could get all of those but I would guess no more than half

He's definitely very popular on Pornhub that's for sure!

Very popular in Japan. Apparently.

Thread for John Williams, born 1932, not just any composer, but possibly the best-known film composer of all time (Even Morricone barely a tie?). He scored Star Wars, Jaws, Close Encounter of the Third Kind, three Harry Potter movies, Superman, Indiana Jones, Home Alone .. and many more... Sadly, he's been recently hospitalized and was forced to cancel an event: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45965645 Note the ominous title: "A Celebration of John Williams In Concert". Concerts for November also cancelled. Also...hey committee!

Another Funk Brother leaves us: Wah Wah Watson, aged 67. Perhaps best remembered for his work on "Papa Was A Rolling Stone".

https://news.sky.com/story/hamleys-reaches-endgame-under-ownership-of-chinas-cbanner-11530330 Hamleys reaches end game apparently as chinese owners look to sell. That leaves smyths toys as only major toy chain left. Either they will stabilise like HMV did being the last big seller of CDs and music or fold with hamleys and toysrus.