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So, the complete changes to the 2021 DDP: FFBI picks BANNED As a result of the above, two other things aimed as the carrot part of this carrot and stick change. UNIQUE PICKS to be worth FOUR POINTS in 2021. Expanded Qualifying Obits (as far as is fair, but no NYT, Birmingham local mail, etc...) BBC*: bbc.co.uk/news (and all subsections, including the previously banned local news pages) bbc.co.uk/sport bbc.co.uk/newsbeat And from the UK versions of the following: telegraph.co.uk thetimes.co.uk ft.com theguardian.com dailymail.co.uk* express.co.uk* dailystar.co.uk thesun.co.uk* mirror.co.uk morningstaronline.co.uk inews.co.uk heraldscotland.com dailyrecord.co.uk *includes their Scottish equivalents of the same newspaper (As of 1/1/2018, the death announcements section of broadsheet websites, which members of the general public can pay for listings, are excluded) …and from these news sites: uk.reuters.com news.sky.com/uk skysports.com itv.com/news* (this includes local news pages, and STV/UTV) channel4.com/news independent.co.uk cityam.com uk.news.yahoo.com (must be a UK link) radiotimes.com economist.com The notice of death must be in written English. Video links are only accepted if the strapline mentions the celeb’s passing. Qualifying obit sources will be monitored in use and can be eliminated in future years if they promote dross picks unexpectedly. High scores on the teams pages was asked for. Don't hold your breath, we'll see if there's time in January. No daily bonuses as it would bugger up the system. No death announcements (Hatches, Matches, Dispatches) as they can be used to game the game, sorry Willz. And now all the Cmme need to do to prepare for 2021 is to panic over where the circa £80 needed to keep the website running for another year is coming from! (The mystery of why TMIB went nuts becomes less and less of a mystery with each open door backstage...) Sorted! See what a bit of sharing your stresses publicly can fix!

Yeah, I do too. I think Trump will get reelected; however, on the off chance that Biden becomes #46, I highly doubt that he will make it through his first term. Making him an excellent candidate for the death list of 2021!

Interesting place to go in the middle of a pandemic. But they probably have lots of masks and disinfectant to hand. They need them because of all the leaking vials of small pox and bubonic plague in their biological warfare department.

Not yet reported by the wider media but wikipedia and Twitter are saying former bassist for AC/DC Paul Matters has died.

India's first Oscar winner, Bhanu Athaiya, has died peacefully in her sleep aged 91. Won for costume desugn on Gandhi.

Jole Santelli, president of Calabria dies from cancer.

Strange fellow. Hired in 1975, only performed with them live but departed only a few weeks later. Retired from music immediately after and later became a recluse living on disability benefit. Only gave one interview and claimed the band didn't even give him enough money to feed himself.

Disney reportedly trying to get James Earl Jones to return to Star Wars despite JEJ being nearly 90 - not sure whether this is for the Kenobi series next year or something completely different...

Paul Matters: https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/former-ac-dc-bassist-paul-matters-dies/

Bill Bryson announces retirement from writing. Doesn't mention any health issues but you never know...

Richard Carpenter, from Carpenters, is 74 today

I found a reference on Twitter to Cleveland still working as a tribute act in 2015, but the link broke when it was clicked. His absence is odd, but otherwise, there's no evidence he's dead anywhere. Glad to help. I'm leaving Rose Royce to @YoungWillz if he's game - I'm better on the domestic front I reckon. Been looking into Sad Cafe - I assume you're aware Ian Wilson is still performing as Sad Cafe? Absolutely nothing online about a birthday though, which is frustrating. John Stimpson is far more slippery.

Former Exeter chiefs player Ian Stewart has died at 53: https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/former-exeter-chiefs-player-passes-4607220 I knew he had been ill for a while, but he seemed to have disappeared.

Ok, so here is a record that I think is Hugh Paul's death on Ancestry. His wife Julie's Twitter is based in Tyneside and this death is in Tyne and Wear. Puts his birth in 1955 and his death in 2013, a year before that tweet. I don't have access to Scotland's People so can't do any digging there, but copious stalking of Cleveland Jr.'s Facebook page threw up links which led to this page for Howard McLeod. From there, I found this page for Derek Henderson, which contains this photo from 2017: Howard on the left, Cleveland second in (so still alive in 2017?), Derek and Owen Wisdom. Can't add much else since they're Scottish-based. Strange that Cleveland is nowhere to be seen in any pictures on his son's or ex-wife's Facebook pages. He's originally from the Caribbean - wonder if he's gone back?

Steve Poss, a New York hardcore legend, who was a member of Cavity Creeps and, more recently Sheer Terror, has died. He was 53. Poss had been battling cancer. https://www.ghostcultmag.com/new-york-hard-core-legend-steve-poss-of-sheer-terror-has-died/

Goddammit. I saw Herbert Kretzmer's death this morning and thought nothing more of it. I spotted cricketer John Reid's death on here and realised he was probably a hit for people in Game 1 (he was - for you and Deathray) but it turned out it didn't make any difference to who had completed (you had already finished and Deathers still needs a Dr Who death). Never even checked Game 2. You are indeed correct - 4 months after it ended, we have a podium (sorry, @gcreptile). I won (somehow), Toast 2nd, Death Impends 3rd. Interestingly, aside from Rotten Ali who didn't take part in Game 2, the three people tied for second in Game 1 (with the death of John B. Anderson in the US elections category) were the ones who finished on the podium in Game 2. Maybe we have a knack? Time will tell - Game 3's already well underway!

Okay I did not pick Jacqueline last time, I did not actually know that she had died. I thought Loretta Ford was more famous

According to the GRO, born in or around April. Currell seems to be his mum's maiden name. He was born Peter C Brown so it must actually be his middle name, even though it's sometimes styled as a surname, "Currell-Brown". His son blogs that he had hip replacement surgery in 2015.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/anne-nolan-shares-fantastic-chemo-22840785 Anne reveals no sign of Cancer found during recent surgery. Linda is waiting for results of recent tests.

That is not denying it, she is merely espousing a theory on how to get through it.

And she'll be around 109 and 62 days when she has the last laugh at my attempts to win the HPDP

John Whittaker, Kiwi rugby league player who played on the national team from 1970-1982, has died aged 70. He was on the Kiwi squad for the ‘70, ‘72, ‘75 and ‘77 Rugby League World Cups.

Please note to avoid confusion for British posters this thread is not about our current Prime Minister

Fucking hell old people even think the porn was better in the old days....

Who needs a gender assignment test when we can humiliate them with a good old fashioned DL witch hunt.