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Oh aye, and... Lee Rigby’s murderer is fighting for his life in hospital after getting COVID. Thoughts are with Diane Abbott & Jeremy Corbyn during this difficult time.

Arik Brauer dead at 92 https://www.vienna.at/wiener-kuenstler-arik-brauer-starb-mit-92-jahren/6875177/amp

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lee-rigby-killer-29-fighting-23377940 Michael Adebowale, one of the convicted Killers of British soldier Lee Rigby ,is on oxygen in hospital after contracting coronavirus.

I think he'll resign once global circumstances allow. He won't willingly cause a conclave in the current climate IMO

Alberto Grimaldi, producer of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, Gangs of New York amongst others has died aged 95.

I watched Atlantic Crossing and decided to read a bit about the characters. King Harald V had two sisters: Ragnhild (1930-2012) and Astrid (born 1932) who is going to be 89 in february. Ragnhild's widower, industrialist Erling Lorentzen is still alive and will be 98 on the 28th of this month. He is still in good shape. Died 9th March 2021

Austrian painter Arik Brauer (92) is dead. Very sad, but not unexpected. Obituary in German: https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000123574520/universalkuenstler-arik-brauer-92-jaehrig-gestorben

The trouble is that they are the kind of people that put themselves forward for election in the first place so it ends up being them that rise to the top as all the 'good' candidates are off someplace doing 'good' work and don't have enough time to dedicate to getting elected to high office.

A poll simulating the French Presidential Election due next year puts Marine Le Pen in the lead. Do they not see from the UK, Brazil and the last 4 years in the US that having a bigoted, idiotic, fascist lunatic as your leader tends to turn your country to shit? (Not saying that Macron isn’t a twat btw; he is.)

I am well aware that I need to catch up on the remaining 6 obituaries from last year, but unfortunately my wellbeing still isn't that great. However, I will try to keep up with the current year's list and hopefully not have a backlog like last year.

LARRY KING DEAD, ONLY ON CNN* 1/50 23rd January 2021 Talk host legend Larry King has died at 87 to bring its first score to the crowdsource list. He began his career back in 1957 for a local Miami station, and went through various gigs in that time frame. From conducting an interview with Bobby Darin to being a color commentator for the Miami Dolphins he slowly began to rise in the ranks in local TV, although his career was briefly in jeopardy when he was accused of grand larceny. Eventually, he began his show Larry King Live in 1985. The topics that he covered was really wide topics including UFO conspiracy theorists to interviews with celebrities and politicians. Perhaps his most important interview was when Ross Perot announced his candidacy for President in 1992, which lead to the most successful run of a third party run since John B Anderson, ie absolute garbage. He quit doing Larry King Live in 2010, where he was unfortunately replaced by twat Piers Morgan. Outside of his talk show appearances he was known for his seven wives, which made him a male version of Elizabeth Taylor. He also made an appearance in WWE Raw in 2012, and had the pleasure of taking a four minute phone call during Dave Rubin's live show. In recent years, his health became a major focus on his life. First he faced a cancer bout in 2017, and then went into a coma for a few weeks. However, it was COVID that seemingly ended it for him (although the cause of death is not officially confirmed despite the likeliness of what caused it). Really, how the fuck did the committee not bring him onto their list? This was his second appearance on the crowdsourced list, jumping all the way to 12th on the list. *tribute to a DDP team sadly no longer playing

Pope Francis looks to be reducing his appearances now

Johannes Edvaldsson, an Icelandic football star for Celtic from 1975 to 1980, has died. He was 70. https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/6580873/celtic-johannes-edvaldsson-dead-70-tributes/

Reports coming in that one of the first physicians to discover the immune deficiency later to be identified as AIDS, Joseph Sonnabend, has died:

Gertrude Annie Kingston, who has lived through two World Wars and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, has received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccination at the age of 111 years and 357 days. Mrs Kingston is the second oldest living person in the UK after Sarah Lilian Priest, who turned 112 in November last year. Mrs Priest, who lives at York House care home in Swanage, Dorset, had the vaccine on Tuesday. https://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/news/33439/111-year-old-woolton-hill-resident-gertie-receives-coronavirus-vaccine.html

Happy 110th birthday to Amy Hawkins, the oldest person living in Wales! All 3 countries of Great Britain now have at least one person aged 110+. Been a few years since that last happened.

Ever thought about not posting it?

Stuart Maconie just announced it on his show - loved their first two albums; really great cover on album two

Joyce Hill, who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League for five teams from 1945 to 1952, died at 95 years: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/kenoshanews/name/joyce-westerman-obituary?pid=197579443 She appeared in the end of "A League of Their Own," starring Geena Davis, a movie about the formation of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

Daisy Loongkoonan died off the radar in 2018, @Bibliogryphon and @WEP need change for a sub.

Do you have to be a cunt to me because I don’t see eye to eye with you on this? I’m not downplaying anything. It’s a deadly disease IF you’re over a certain age or if you have other morbidities. It’s a flu for everyone else. I stress, again: 388 people under 60 with no underlying health conditions have died from it in 12 months in the U.K. About 1600 people in that age bracket die in road accidents over a 12 month period. Should we permanently close the roads?

What it shows is that there are always genetic outliers, nothing more. The number of people under 60 with no underlying health conditions who have died from COVID-19 in the UK is only 388 (as of 27th December 2020). That's across 12 months and millions of people within that age bracket. Once they knew the risk factors associated with morbidities i.e. age, cancers, type 1 diabetes, obesity, all those who were vulnerable should have practiced shielding, whilst the rest of us got on with our lives. These repeated lockdowns are far more devastating long term. According to the Centre for Economics and Business Research, lockdown is costing the UK economy £2.4 billion per day. It's utter madness. In 20 years time we will look back at this and acknowledge we heavily overreacted.

This thread was originally named in honour - sort of - of Gordon Lightfoot's song Sundown. That 81 year old has just released a new album