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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.

I do this every year (for the past eight years) Listed below are 20 old people who have not made an appearance in the DDP in the past eight years. The age group is narrow 78-82 so might be more use of where will we be in five years time but some might be useful for theme teams. When cross referencing the entire DDP rosta against my reserve list of 1100 names there is always the possibility of errors creeping in especially where people are listed in strange ways (normally by title) 1. Robert Swindells Writer (b.1939) 2. Tony Hatch Composer (b.1939) 3. John Gummer Politician (b.1939) 4. Margaret Drabble Writer (b.1939) 5. Jack Cunningham Politician (b.1939) 6. Peter S. Beagle Writer (b.1939) 7. David Hope Archbishop (b.1940) 8. Clive Doig TV Producer (b.1940) 9. Pauline Collins Actress (b.1940) 10. Esther Ofarim Singer (b.1941) 11. Sue McGregor Journalist (b.1941) 12. Eden Kane Singer (b.1941) 13. Lynley Dodd Writer (b.1941) 14. Stephen Yardley Actor (b.1942) 15. Wilf Lunn Presenter (b.1942) 16. Calvin Klein Designer (b.1942) 17. Judith Hann Presenter (b.1942) 18. Peter Greenaway Director (b.1942) 19. Frank Field Politician (b.1942) 20. John Challis Actor (b.1942)

Terrence (Terry) McVerry, a former U.S. district judge who'd also served in the state legislature, has died. He was 77. https://www.post-gazette.com/news/obituaries/2021/03/10/Terrence-F-McVerry-obituary/stories/202103100191 I guess that makes him McVerry dead.

BBC obit

Most celeb threads (fuck off with your birthday posts) Any of the "oldest living"-type threads Bovine Attacks UK Singles Chart Survivors/Your Personal Survivors Sickest Game in the world Shadow Lists (or at least I try to avoid) Threads of dead people Any thread in the string of posts from Sir Creep made at midnight I could go on about the most useless threads

Polkinghorne is a huge death in the academic world. Also a Templeton Prize winner. Don't we have a list for that somewhere? Think it was from before my time but sure I've read it on DL before.

Marianne Carus, an editor, publisher, education reformer and founder of Cricket magazine, has died. She was 92. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/85788-obituary-marianne-carus.html

John Polkinghorne, a physicist and president of Queen's College from 1989 to 1996, has died. He was 90. https://queens.shorthandstories.com/college-announcement-john-polkinghorne/

I mean, I probably should’ve said positive cube integers, but

Posters are more important to me than threads tbh.

This is why it’s a fucking good job I’m not admin: given that almost everyone in this thread has agreed that the Uni Pres thread is complete and utter toss, by now I’d have deleted the fucking thing and banned any active participants in it. I see the FFBI thread got a mention too. This forum could learn a lot from the DDP and bin that cunt off too. And hey, the ‘celebrity’ births thread is full of litter, but everyone berating it is what makes it fine by me! And hats off to Gooseberry too for laughing in the face of such criticism, what a legend

I agree with you. Some threads I look at regularly but many have me thinking 'why the fuck did they start a thread about that? That can also be said about my own.

University Presidents. Fuck off.