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Madhav Prasad Ghimire, nepali poet has died at 101 https://risingnepaldaily.com/main-news/rastrakavi-madhav-prasad-ghimire-passes-away

As mentioned on the Happy Birthday thread, Jimmy Carter's wife, Rosalynn, turns 93 today.

People who do know her from Big Brother will find this question quite funny.

I have no real opinion about her TV shows, and I can grudgingly accept every generation needs a YOOF documentary host who can at least try and widen the minds of the BBC 3 audience, but - Stacey Dooley's voice.

Let’s be Frank here, is it somebody that you want to Field onto you team?

Apparently Cy Town was up for a four hour interview recently - latest pic:

As I am recovering from my Covid scare I’m sitting here bored so thought I would throw my hat in the ring and predict what the full 2021 death list may look like should these candidates even make it to the starting line. I am also NOT saying that this will be my shadow list. 1) Prince Philip (DofE), 2) Captain Tom Moore, 3) Shannen Doherty, 4) Nobby Stiles, 5) Linda Nolan, 6) Leon Spinks, 7) James Whale, 8) George Alagiah, 9) Bob Barker, 10) Henry Kissinger, 11) Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 12) Barbara Windsor, 13) Clarissa Eden, 14) Bob Dole, 15) Jimmy Carter, 16) Leslie Phillips, 17) Pope Benedict XVI, 18) Willie Nelson, 19) Loretta Lynn, 20) Peter Sutcliffe, 21) Joanne Woodward, 22) David Crosby, 23) Jacques Delors, 24) Alex Trebek, 25) Glynis Johns, 26) James Lovelock, 27) Placido Domingo, 28) Jimmy Greaves, 29) Beverly Cleary, 30) Carlos Menem, 31) Pierre Cardin, 32) Robert Fyfe, 33) Rosalynn Carter, 34) Mikhail Gorbachev, 35) Buzz Aldrin, 36) Rhonda Fleming, 37) Diego Maradona, 38) Imelda Marcos, 39) Stephen Sondheim, 40) Ric Flair, 41) Harry Belafonte, 42) Prunella Scales, 43) Dick Cheney, 44) Rolf Harris, 45) Angela Lansbury, 46) Dennis Skinner, 47) Dilip Kumar, 48) Sean Connery, 49) Betty White, 50) Dick Van Dyke

I found Sid from Ice Age everyone.

I give him the Lycett Green route tbh. Wont be long before:

I’m going out on a limb here, but I think she’s famous for participating in Big Brother...? People your age wouldn’t understand the iconic stamp she has on history.

David Kevin Loader, cannibal killer, has died in prison in Australia after being diagnosed with aggressive cancer: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8639131/Cannibal-ruthless-killer-bragged-cooking-eating-victims-penis-dies.html Edit: Died in January but not sure if it was posted before after I did a search and turned up nothing.

Let's take an example of someone not picked for this year, getting up in age and a possible blind sider (and not going to be picked by me!). David Warner will be 80 next year, unpicked on the DDP for around 3 years. Very likely one of those if not picked the year he goes.

Whenever I play the forum popular game of "who's on the next DL" I find myself quickly with a shortlist of 200 odd names, and that's just from folk who feel DLy famous (proper fame, not Bill Gate's dad). Add yer various forum niche fandoms (Doctor Who, snooker, World Cup players to name but three) and you're drowning in names, of which easily more than a few teams of 20 are "old and frail" and "famous and sick" or "getting up in age but forgotten by the rest". Add in that non-British celebs can get QOs now (thinking of the Guardian interest in Australia and the Mails in US names) and people are spoilt for choice without even needing to google "tragic mum faces final Christmas..." stories... Of course, the Banhammer is on those picks now but you know what I mean...

@Steve Maybe you would like to join the DL Prediction Game for 2021? New thread will be opened in November.

Who (Huw) inspired who?

Dai by name, die by nature.

This Gavin Spencer edit made me laugh quite a lot:

Proving life has its ups and downs

American Idol alums from Season 16, Gabby Barrett and Cade Foehner, have announced that they're expected to become parents for the first time.

Just STFU and leave the thread clear for people who may want to enter this deadpool.

Five years since dancer & actress Yvonne Craig died aged 78. She's best known for her roles of Batgirl, from the 1960s TV Series, and the Orion slave Marta, from a 1969 Star Trek episode,

John Hume was a massive miss! Could have used the title ExHume Body or something ! I have a suggestion.Why not for once keep everyone still alive on the list for next year and just replace the dead ones! That is after all going to be a bigger number than usual ! I have noticed that a lot of people who are dropped tend to die compared to new ones just added. I think we wil get a bigger death toll than ever that way !

School uniforms are to prevent poorer children being bullied because they are not wearing the latest designer clothing. I think we all ( of a certain age ) remember that some kids came to school in £100 trainers while others wore Tesco specials. The uniform is as much a leveller between with wealthier and poorer families as the school identity it endeavours to portray. The interesting point is that, for whatever religious or cultural reasons, the burqa clad child turning up for school is immediately considered 'different' and in a minority. Fucking hell, why cannot people wake up to the whole idea that the whole fucking thing perpetuates social segregation, virtually, from the cradle? My primary school was a united nations of kids, all religions and cultures and NO child turned up wearing a Burqa and I never saw a single adult female wear one when I was growing up in North London ( Harringay ) so, this whole notion that it has to be worn 'It MUST be worn' is a bit bollocks. Is it REALLY so unreasonable to expect people, welcomed into this country, to understand that the face is a vital component in how we communicate to each other? We are now walking around shops in masks, do we truly feel comfortable wearing them? Are we really happy to? Would we welcome a life where we would have to wear then indoors and out? I don't think so, and it has bugger all to do with vanity but everything to do with how we go about our daily lives, reading each others faces as we walk past strangers, how we communicate our views, feelings and thoughts to people we meet daily etc. I am as much of a fan of religious and cultural expression as the next person but, sometimes, just sometimes, we have to draw the line and explain that, in order to feel part of the society you have chosen to live within, you have to make the odd concession just as we have had to in accommodating people who have a way of life that feels totally alien to a majority of citizens. It is give and take and, honestly, there has been much giving from some sections of society and much taking from others. Getting rid of the Burqa would not seriously compromise peoples religious beliefs or cultural needs but it would be a big step in telling people that they were open to facial communication, integration and understanding of a society and their cultural requirements. That is not racist, it is pure common sense.