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Harry Fransman, the oldest man in the UK, has died aged 108. The title now goes to John Tinniswood, also 108 years old.

Shitter + bath = Bathroom No shitter, bath = Bathroom Shitter, no bath = Shithouse Someone who calls a room with no bath a bathroom = Shithouse

Well, someone had to...

Or ‘comfort break’? I much prefer ‘I’m away for a shite’.

Margaret Nolan is a unique in the rapidly dwindling James Bond category for @Great Uncle Bulgaria giving him his first hit but that unique puts him two more uniques from victory

I'm not going to say "who?" because a mere glance at the rest of the internet shows this has exploded the internet and the band were clearly quite massive with teenage girls about a decade ago. (The late 00s equivalent of a Take That or McFly/Busted, I guess.) That said, did you ever feel completely out of touch?

Stop toying with us, say what you really think. I'm thinking of setting up a snacking (and possibly gifting) stand down at Peckham market and trousering the the proceeds, though I probably couldn't do that last part if I chose set it up in the US rather than Peckham since that would presumably be panting the proceeds which makes no sense, or rather, even less sense. Anyway didn't we do most of this in an Americanisms (or words we hate or something...) thread a bit ago? And winningest wonningmost by a margin. It drives me crazy too, but I'd imagine it's a now a Sisyphean task to stop this deluge due, I guess, to the dominance of the US in the spheres of TV, film and to some degree the internet.

This usage has only recently started to be common here in the UK, though. It is, as Lardy said, an Americanism. What was wrong with "give", which has been in normal use all my life? And when I see "Gifting" as a category in shops or adverts it boils my piss. It's "GIFTS" ! We've already got "snacking" instead of snacks, what's next? Trousering? Toying?

Ferrier, a politician and Cummings, a political adviser get caught red handed and neither resigns. Neil Ferguson, a scientist and scientific adviser to politicians, somebody with some actual useful knowledge - resigns almost immediately. Figures.

Israeli writer Yhoshua Kenaz died this morning from Covid aged 83

Glioblastoma for deadpoolers is like Fulham at home for fantasy football players.

Worlds Oldest thread has now reached 100 pages (2,500 comments)

The Independent has it but my phone is being a bigger. Will do an update shortly

Never needed this before in this game...

Former Leeds and Chelsea owner Ken Bates. Turns 89 in December. Will most likely get a QO

Schumacher matched Senna's mark of 41 at Monza, in 2000 which was a big deal (that's when he cried) but the Most Wins record belonged to Alain Prost at 51. He broke that in Belgium in 2002. While it's an impressive total, as is Hamilton's matching (and no doubt significantly bettering) of it, but neither are that surprising in the grand scheme of things. Both have had the benefit of being in significantly superior cars for the majority of their careers (Schumacher's Ferrari team won 6 constructors titles in a row between 1999 and 2004 and Hamilton's Mercedes have won every title since 2014 - even Vettel in joint-4th was with Red Bull, who won every title between 2010 and 2013). This is not unlike many of the top drivers in the past, but I would argue that with rare exceptions (Williams in 92 for example, McLaren in 88) the difference between the top 2 or 3 teams hasn't been as big as it has over the past 2 decades, even though the team winning has changed. The other major factor is the huge increase in reliability, particularly over the past decade but this was evident even in the mid-2000s. How many races did Prost, Senna, Mansell, et al lose because of car failures? Great drivers, consistently in the fastest cars, that rarely break down (Bottas's power unit today being a rare exception - his 4th reliability failure in 4 years at Mercedes - Hamilton's had 1 in that time) are always going to win most of the races. It'll be the same until Mercedes mess up or Hamilton retires and then someone else will likely take up the mantle - Max Verstappen is 23 and has 9 wins - if he gets in a dominant car for long enough he could well challenge Hamilton's eventual record in the future but we'll see. The race behind Hamilton-Bottas-Verstappen this season is thrilling, 6 teams and 11 drivers in a different order every week. And without wishing to be a downer (that ship sailed), Raikkonen's record won't last the test of time either - Alonso's back next year and just a season behind Raikkonen (although that depends when they both finally give it up) but Hamilton's just over 3 seasons behind Raikkonen and potentially got a good few more in him if he stays interested. Verstappen's already a third of the way to Raikkonen at 23! Kimi couldn't care less about the record, but it's impressive nonetheless - the power of being quick and not ruffling any feathers along the way.

Somebody had Margaret Nolan here. You'll need a more substantial report. It will come. Edit: This will do: https://variety.com/2020/film/news/margaret-nolan-dead-goldfinger-hard-days-night-carry-on-1234800660/

How about Jean Boht. Start getting rid of the whole Boswell family. She is now 88 years old

Just checking in to make sure you haven't drowned in the many tears you must have shed over this.

Actor Ronald Forfar is brown Bread https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/11/ronald-forfar-obituary

Reading between the lines she appears to have one of the less aggressive forms of Alzheimer's and it appears to be slower than for many dementia sufferers. With that in mind, she may still have a couple of years left.

Deserves a thread or deserves death?

Broken glass on the footpaths. Mostly from empty booze bottles, I fail to understand the drunks of today and their urge to smash the empty bottles right where people have to walk their dogs. Even if it were not for the dog walkers, I still don't get why they need to break the bottles, it's not something I ever did when I was a drunk although I did about 90% of my drinking indoors.