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After lurking for a good while, I thought I'd say hi too. After keeping an eye on the main deathlist for a couple of years, I discovered the forums. I didn't have high expectations, but as it turns out, there are very few forums with a "signal-to-noise" ratio as good as this. Every day I'm getting educated on gay porn stars and african despots alike while getting my morbid deathlist kicks. At the moment I feel very unprepared to contribute anything of substance, but maybe one day...

Well, we all live in hope that you fuck off very soon.

I'm still here, in the trees, watching, doing squirrelly things.

Congrats on lasting 15 years on the deathlist forum. I don't think I will last nearly that long!

I'm not prolific enough a poster to be noticed if something did happen to me (I mostly lurk), but I had a stroke 14 years ago this coming week, at the ripe old age of... 27. Yes, I nearly joined the 27 Club! Luckily, I made a quick and virtually full recovery - I have some slight (barely noticeable) reduction in sensation in my left arm as the only residual deficit. Are there any other deathlisters who've had their own brush with 'death', particularly at a relatively young age?

Robert Trump now dead:

A furious bison violently attacked a woman who got a little too comfortable with its herd Wednesday. Videos of the incident posted to Facebook... The motorcyclist, who is an unnamed 54-year-old woman from Iowa, then plops down just feet from the bison and begins to snap photos of a cow and her calf. In the disturbing video, you can see the animal catching her belt by its horn and swinging her around aggressively. “She was apparently saved when her pants came off and she fell to the ground unconscious,” says a report by the Custer County Chronicle that was shared on the sheriff’s office’s Facebook page. SC

I am annoyingly healthy.I have never been to hospital for any reason, never even get the flu or a cold normally, but I drink like a fish and eat junk food like a human dustbin !Never exercise or anything. I could live to 110 !

Esther Morales, the sister of former Bolivian dictator Evo Morales, has died of COVID-19. She was 70. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/bolivia-esther-morales-evos-older-sister-passes-away-20200816-0002.html

I think I spotted Richard Whiteley and Judith Chalmers.

Possibly Shaw Taylor, back left as the camera sweeps round. some other Bucks Fizz types (Mike Nolan?) And the blonde woman next to Nick Cotton - is she also an EastEnder?

Charles Porter, Australian high jump silver medallist at the Melbourne Olympiad of 1956, dead at 84 after a long cancer battle: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/melbourne-olympic-high-jump-hero-chilla-porter-dies-aged-84-20200816-p55mad.html

Pre -song Craig Charles?

Richard Gwyn, a prolific Canadian journalist who was a long-time columnist with the Toronto Star and authored several books, four of which were on first Canadian Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, has died. He was 86. Gwyn had long battled Alzheimers. https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2020/08/15/longtime-star-columnist-richard-gwyn-86-set-the-standard-for-canadian-political-journalism.html

Prospective 2021 AO Deadpool reject

Reports that Stuart Christie, Glaswegian anarchist writer and publisher who set out as an 18 year old to assassinate General Franco, has died: IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4414263/

His shingles ,might improve but his heart lungs and brain can only deteriorate at his age !

Well there you go, that's one tenth of the DL 2021 sorted.

90 y/o Mary Costa, voice of Disney's Sleeping Beauty, has penned another letter to her fans announcing that she'll no longer be able to respond to all the fan mail coming her way: https://insidethemagic.net/2020/08/sleeping-beauty-actress-letter-lp1/

Del Soulcondor, from one of Scotland's first hip-hop acts All Time High, seems to be in rough shape by the looks of his Twitter. The way things are going now I'd doubt a semi-obscure British hip-hop figure would get a QO, so I'm throwing it out there in case you need him for any other pools.

Dave Kidney for the List of the Missed: http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2011/celebs_K.html#kidned

Ignorant, lazy people on Facebook. If you're on Facebook, you have the access to the whole world-wide web. F'kin use it before you post crap & misinformation.

Jefferey Epstein did not kill himself one year ago today at the age of 66.

You show very little understanding of US politics in that post if I may be so bold. Joe Biden has been a centrist throughout his career. He's always been popular among the unions that are vital to winning the rust belt in the Midwest that killed Hillary's chances 4 years ago. Sanders and Gabbard are vastly to the left of Biden - Sanders wants medicare for all and a green new deal. I don't know enough about Yang to comment. I think it's perfectly plausible that Trump wins again. I also don't think Biden was the strongest candidate this time around by a long way. But your argument seems to revolve around the Democrats being too left wing and out of touch with the American people, and then in the same breath suggest that Sanders and Gabbard are more in touch with the American people - seriously? This is a country that sees socialists in the same way as anarchists. There is also no way that Biden is more 'erratic, racist and stupid' than Trump. He was a longtime member of both the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee, serving as Chairman of both and ranking member in between (when the Democrats didn't hold power). He was also Vice President for 8 years without serious incident. He has always had the ability to put his foot in it and has some very unhelpful views on race (as you'd expect from a nearly 78 year old white man) but his opponent promotes white supremacist content and has been recorded bragging about sexual assault. Compared to a competent politician, Biden comes some way down the list of desirable presidents (he barely got out of the starting gates on two previous runs for President) but compared to Trump, Biden is like manna from heaven, which is more a damning indictment of what Trump has done to the presidency than it is of what Biden brings to the table. Who'd have thought we'd look back on the days of Dubya with fondness?