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Absolutely. Man is a legend. On occasion a potty mouthed inconsiderate blinkered view legend, but a legend nonetheless. In my view (and it might be just me) any community needs somebody who fills the blank empty spaces where the more reticent don't speak up. It doesn't really matter if it's utter claptrap, it keeps the whole thing moving along. I miss Z too....;)

The explanation is you have many folks on ignore, then don't get surprised if they put you on ignore too.

Gaston Glock, Austrian engineer and founder of the Glock firearms company, 91 in July

@Grim Up North I am nominating that for Post of the Year 2019 (though I am not embedding the damn thing)

It's gone

Quite right too. Whether you eat meat or not, unnecessary cruelty should not be tolerated under any circumstances, be that force feeding for foie gras or bleeding out whilst still alive for spurious religious reasons. I realise that's a simplistic answer in that whenever you delve into the production of any animal product it's almost inevitable that profits come before animal considerations. It should all stop. But halal and foie gras are low hanging fruit as targets.

I'd say the bold ones may be. The others are a bit of a stretch.

How dare you be so UK-centric on a UK-based forum with largely UK-based membership discussing deaths reported in the UK media. Oh, Happy Thanksgiving.

All things must pass, and with that George Harrison died at 58 years of age, 18 years ago today.

Eileen Ash (nee Whelan) [108- oldest ever test cricketer], John Manners (105 - oldest ever first class cricketer & only surviving first class cricketer to play before WW2), John Woodcock (93 - cricket journalist whose father was born in 1857 & whose paternal grandfather was born before the Battle of Waterloo), Sheila Mercer (100 - former Emmerdale actress & sister of Brian Rix), June Spencer (100 - actress in The Archers), Clarissa Eden (widow of a former prime minister), Michael Medwin (96 & actor & boss of Trevor Eve in Shoestring), Glynis Johns (96 & Mrs Banks in Mary Poppins but too frail for a cameo in the recent Mary Poppins film), Tony Britton(95 - actor), Peregrine Worsthorne ( 96 next month & former editor, journalist & political commentator - esp on election nights), Wally Fawkes (artist of Flook for 35 years in Daily Mail & then in Daily Mirror, Christopher Tolkein (94 & author), Desmond Morris (91 & naturalist), Doreen Mantle (93 & actress).

11 years since Mrs msc's one and only DL forum post as Guest anthro student:

Some more British Royalty with the Duchess of Kent, please.

Currently contestantless - so that's good news

George 'Johnny' Johnson is 98 today.

90 today!

Form Guide #11- Tulsi Gabbard Enemies of Hilary Clinton have some of the highest rates of suicide and depression.

Glastonbury headliners. The Killers and The Cure Won't they just cancel each other?

Over 10 years since I found the site iirc due to going "Randy Pausch? Who the hell was that? Googles..." Actually, a few days ago was the 10th anniversary of Mrs Msc's only forum post. We'd just moved into our first flat together at the time.

The Dolly Parton Tour Bus

Does there really need to be a single fucking thread for everybody that has a hospital trip or resigns.