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Surely this should be in the Academics thread. No-one should be a University President without an academic background. Also in the UK we have Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors rather than Presidents

Or even better, don’t post about her at all?

Dickie Bird is looking a lot fitter than I would have expected in this recent video https://mobile.twitter.com/BBCLookNorth/status/1370077310259392513

His staying power actually sucks. Chao Kuang Piu dead at 100.

Well, now it's true, Goodwill Zwelithini dead: https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/breaking-news-king-goodwill-zwelithini-has-died-d50db7ab-9718-4af5-b698-ea7c5ef04543

Same here. Even though its title invokes pleasant memories and melodies of Wichita Lineman, I know in my heart it's just probably some worthy war stuff about Yanks assuaging their guilt for arriving late to two world wars, and of interest only to Sir Cunt. Neither am I much interested in those humourless lists/stats/polls threads that keep our more spectrumy members busy and off the streets. Not only are there plenty of threads I'll never click on, there are two entire (sub-)forums - dead pools and the xXx one (is that still extant?) On the other hand, I like the whingeing threads like this one, which obviously says much about myself.

Ah, but the Happy Birthday thread was a godsend, because before it was created people (mainly Gooseberry) spammed the name threads every time there was a birthday. You would see there was a post and assume the person had died, only to find the unnecessary information that it was their birthday and not their deathday. Having a dedicated birthday thread has largely concentrated that in one place. So it's avoidable now.

Fuck!! For a moment I thought that said that he had renewed his marriage vows with wife aged 7.

As an admin, I'm obliged to read them all (but sometimes I can't ) but the one I can't stand is the celeb babies, pregnancies. It's a fucking deathlist FFS.

I read as many as I can, but having never watched an episode of Star Wars, Dr Who, Coronation Street, etc, I'm less interested in lots of the TV and film stuff. Also, I think I'd been a member of the forum for a few years before I realised Richard O'Sullivan wasn't the person who presented the Crystal Maze.

I must click them all. It's a disease.

Don't worry, @Alex . Some people don't understand that this thread is supposed to be inclusive, for all of the year's deaths.

Goodwill Zwelithini on it for msc, I believe.

A bit strong. He's actually a very nice chap.

Cliff Simon (wiki), South African actor who portrayed Ba'al in seasons 5–10 of Stargate SG-1, dead at 58 following a kite boarding accident in California.

Eugene Hughes, the president of Wichita State University from 1993 to 1998, has died. https://www.wichita.edu/about/wsunews/news/2021/03-march/hughes_story_4.php

Only in her mind.

F (in this specific instance anyway) TFY. Agreed, even as one of the most vociferous of those berating he's been tremendous value in responses.

John Dickhead Magufuli airlifted to India according to the opposition leader Tundu Lissu, whose name is disturbingly similar to an Italian variety of tomato.

Friday: 167 - the only prime number that can’t be expressed as a sum of seven or fewer cubes. Ooh, say it again you dirty bitch.

Prince Philip. I'll wait until I see a bloody article announcing his death myself!

I very rarely set up a thread, but I am extremely proud of the Meghan Markle thread that I set up. Like baby Archie it is slowly growing and prospering into a big boy, and I look very dimly on anyone saying they won't read it which I might construe to be racist, and gingerist. Also if anyone slags off the thread it might make me feel suicidal, or at the very least, inclined to share my truth with the world. I actually set up the Markle thread 3 days before the actual one I set up, but I've never mentioned that before to anyone. Also, how come this website doesn't pay me. If anyone disagrees I will have them cancelled, especially that bitch Kate. Now I wonder if I should make a podcast about it?

Apparently this is now the Meghan Markle forum. With occasional celebrity deaths.