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UKIP have a new leader. His name is Richard Braine. Yep. Dick Braine. He fought off close competition in the membership ballot from another prolific member, Ray Cist.

Here's the uncensored version:

Shouldn't be an issue. Here is an obituary from the Italian edition of Rolling Stone. That should be sufficient. https://www.rollingstone.it/cinema/news-cinema/piero-tosi-e-morto-il-grande-costumista-del-cinema-italiano/472737/

I don't actually need to know anything about any of these nonentities.

God, no, me either. The original 'Barbados' was far more up my street

Mary and I went down that road many moons ago!

An important development to the Epstein case:

Just heard this news on the European Athletics on the TV Also held the marathon world record so worthy of note. He outlived the gold and bronze medalists by 50 years.

Don't know about obit requirements but Book looks to have a hit with Piero Tosi: https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2019/08/10/news/piero_tosi-233336871/&prev=search

''Blue checks'' on Twitter saying Epstein has been found dead in his cell. Just a day after evidence came out against people like Bill Richardson, Prince Andrew, etc. What a coincidence.

A Washington (state) woman, hoping an octopus on the face would make for a prize-winning photo, instead wound up with something she never expected: a faceful of pain and a trip to the hospital. Jamie Bisceglia was participating in a fishing derby in the South Sound near the Tacoma Narrows Bridge last Friday when a group of men in the competition snagged an octopus. Bisceglia, 45, recalled asking the men for the juvenile Pacific octopus they’d snagged, saying, “I’d like to eat it for dinner.” She asked a number of men to take a photo of her with the sea creature, intending to enter the snap in the derby’s photography contest: “It’s soft, it’s squishy, it doesn’t feel like it can hurt you — I put it on my face.” Jamie was sent to the hospital after posing for a photo with an octopus on her face last Friday. And at first, that wasn’t so bad. “The tentacles were squirming in my ear, my nose, it was just playing with me on my face,” she said. Jamie Bisceglia told Fox News she asked a group of men to photograph her with the octopus “And then all of a sudden its beak entered my chin and my eyes popped open wide and they could all see that I was getting attacked, and the photos are taken at the moment it was attacking me.” The sensation was vivid and unforgettable. “Oh my gosh,” she said, “when it bites you it feels like it’s barbed and if I pulled it out it was going to take out my flesh.” Once she eventually pulled the octopus off, she said, the pain was so intense, and the bleeding lasted for a half-hour. She still didn’t go to the hospital for two days, determined to finish two back-to-back fishing derbies first. Between derbies, she even went to a friend’s house, cooked the octopus for dinner and “enjoyed a beautiful meal that was delicious. I got a little revenge,” she added. The next day she competed in the second derby. But when she woke up after, she realized she had to see a doctor immediately. “I could tell I couldn’t swallow properly and I could tell when I opened my eyes it was kind of blurry, the left side of my face, my throat, my glands were swollen and it felt my left side of my face was paralyzed,” Bisceglia said. Doctors informed her the swelling could last for months. And “I have to take tons of medicine, three different heavy doses of antibiotics and I’m taking milk thistle, which is supposed to help with the venom.”

Apparently her dementia is getting worse and she's getting frailer: https://www.ibtimes.com/barbara-walters-update-famed-news-journalists-dementia-getting-worse-shes-very-frail-2811462

Gave interview to The Oldie in March, paywall busted here. Not much new, but since one of us thinks she died off radar...

Maybe you should. You must have noticed how utterly shit it has been in here for a good while now. Too many posters are, frankly, shite and bore the absolute tits off of me with their insipid crap that does absolutely nothing but make you yearn for the days when we had posters going off on one or taking threads and mangling the shit out of them by taking them in directions they were never meant to go. This was one of the first places i would log into when i lifted the laptop lid, it is now one of the last. I know, things change and people come and go but i wish a load of those that have come would just fuck off and go elsewhere. Go ahead and rant Deathers, might shake the fucking place up from its tedium or summat.

British silver medallist in the Marathon at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Basil Heatley, reported dead at 85: http://bmaf.org.uk/2019/08/04/the-passing-of-basil-heatley/

As Sir Creep was driving through wee Zephyr, TX...

Another culprit is Sean.

Steve Sawyer, a former executive director of Greenpeace International who narrowly averted injury in 1985 when the environmental group’s ship Rainbow Warrior was sunk by sabotage in New Zealand, died July 31 at a hospital in Amsterdam. He was 63. The cause was lung cancer, Greenpeace said in a statement. The American-born Mr. Sawyer was an Amsterdam resident. SC