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Aye, tbh I was trying to lighten the mood - which I see I did really well! Any anxiety here is mostly needle based, which I think is a fairly sensible dislike - and anticipation of an event. I just want to note for fairness that I didn't mention you by name last night, and mark this thread as read instead of reading it. Like the Harry stuff (this forum was in danger of a name change at one point) if it sticks to its designated parts of the forum, it can be easily ignored! Although tbf life is pretty draining at the moment. Asked to shield on health condition for a year, then Boris changes the rules so you wind up in the neverland of being on the vulnerable list to covid but not a vaccine priority, a red tape issue which befell thousands of Brits. Then he shuts down a lot of the business, but has the rules such that millions of small businesses like mine just fail to qualify for the furlough scheme. Having done that, his government send out weekly mail about how great furlough is for folk like me. Trolling bastard. Also because he couldn't be arsed sorting out some basic trade red tape with over a year to deal with some basic page 1 stuff, he cut off valuable income from abroad for small businesses at the same time he wasn't financially supporting them. Meanwhile people with far more manageable conditions than mine we knew dearly got covid and were just snuffed out within days. Funerals we couldn't go to, people who could only be comforted by Facebook message. Limited savings taking a battering because income is down and shop prices have a pandemic brucie bonus on them. It's a bloody miracle I've kept this house debt free in the last 18 months, thanks to this Prime Ministers continual inept reactions to everything. (And as someone who has managed to turn ill fortune and ill health destroying his career prospects into dragging himself to becoming a tax paying member of society, I think I'm allowed a small rant about it now and again!) And this entire thing is his fault. Boris. He knew about covid before we did, and did nothing. He could have shut flights in January 2020, but didn't. He could quarantined folk with it when they were numbered on a single hand, but chose not to. He could have traced the virus when it was miniscule and killed it at the source before it spread throughout the UK. He chose not to. (Note that had he done these three we'd have avoided such a long lockdown. Or indeed any lockdown...) He could have suspended flights in February 2020. He chose not to. He could have avoided sending people into the hospitals or care homes. He chose not to. He could have acted sooner than end of March 2020. He chose not to. He could have acted firmer last summer to starve the virus. He chose not to. He could have restricted travel to India when the known Indian strain became apparent in March 2021 but not only did he chose not to, you can still get direct flights from the UK to most of India as of this week. As noted throughout a lot of our more illustrious bits of history, we are a fucking island. We could have New Zealand'd that bastard. But every step Boris has taken is the worst possible move, designed seemingly to do nothing but spread illness. He's Typhoid fucking Mary the Prime Minister. (Its only hindsight if you are the general public, when you are Prime Minister with all the security details and hidden information, this is your job! A job Boris has fundamentally failed at every step of the way.) Anyhow, I'm taking the jab - even a 0.0001% risk factor (that's timing the deaths by 100 like you suggested) is still far better odds than me getting the covid which keeps munching its way round Glasgow! (And its far better odds than some medicine I've taken to save my own life in the past, let alone the chemo many of the DDP picks take.) Oh, and one lighter note about Children of Men prophecies. As that book showed, and as my own experiences do, no medical prognosis's are infallible! In my teens, I was given an accidental overdose of medicine which led to weekly blood tests (yeah, that's why I don't like needles!) and I was told I'd be unable to have kids. 20 years later, in 2021, it turns out they were quite wrong about that: I am very, very tired Dad.

I'm sure Susie Dent knows a suitable word or two. I'll check her Twitter feed, she usually has something pertinent to the the current politicking. Here's one to start.

I think its about time for an update, before Deathers creates yet another alter-ego with which to berate me. A quiet month by my reckoning, with only 4 hits, although 2 of them were amongst the most popular.. Norman Lloyd 11th May Mike Carter 15th May Yoo Sang-Chul 7th June Noel Conway 11th June. If I have missed anyone, please let me know, before I go to the trouble of posting up a scoreboard.

Last 6 or 7 post a moved from the euro thread. Keep politics out of sport and sport out of politics.

Am I right in saying Anatoly Chukanov, part of the USSR's 100 km team time trial-winning team at the 1976 Olympics, gets the honour of being the first miss in this contest?

Feel free! Also tbh I'm mostly thinking of Boris the Killer Tomato. Or to give him his full Glasgow name, "that cunt Boris Johnson". (As seen in Willz posts, he is also called Bawjaws up here, not in a friendly way, but also as seen in Willz posts, that doesn't seem to translate beyond the Clyde valley! It's a chap who talks on and on and says nothing but shite, which sums up Johnson quite well imo.)

Cher’s mom, singer and actress is still alive at 95 : https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Holt Maybe one to watch

Its called a tribute and mark of respect, idiot features.

Sue Barker's mother is 100 in a few days.

Team GB competitor from the 1996 Games in Atlanta in the marathon, Scottish distance runner Karen Nicolson (nee MacLeod) has died aged 63: https://athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/olympic-marathon-runner-karen-macleod-dies-1039945841/ Represented Britain in the World Championships and Scotland in the Commonwealth Games.

6 weeks of freedom from July - that's overly optimistic isn't it? They've yet to lift restrictions yet and with talk of them continuing till mid / late July nothing much is going to change

What way did it help to cancel our programs to announce his death? Coulda just announced on the regular 1.30 news program. We didn't benefit in anyway to find out any soober

Benny Goodman, American extraordinary clarinetist responsible for multiple hit singles as a bandleader, died from a heart attack in his home at New York on this date in 1986. He was 77 years old. Known as the "King of Swing", his orchestra was one of the first to perform jazz at New York City's famed Carnegie Hall. Goodman was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in 1957. In 1986 he was honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He continued to play until his death. A longtime resident of Stamford, Connecticut, Benny Goodman was interred in the Long Ridge Cemetery in Stamford.

Hi I have more info on footballers of 90 plus John Babes diedBelfast 27th April 1999 Arnold Jackson is not the footballer in an earlier post so he is alive David Proctor died Belfast September 2011 Geoffrey Sellers died Trafford July 2019 David Lemon Wilkinson died Sunderland Jan 2012 Rober Brian Williams died Wigan April 2019 born 1927 John Morris Jones died Surrey march 2019 Russell Crosslet died Arbroath 2018 Ronald Patterson died Aveyron France 7th November 2018 1928 James Donnelly died greenmount Cork 19th December 1959 George Thompson died Lisburn 5th of June 1980 born 5th November1913 michael

I pissed and shit myself all over my neighbours floor and carpet Could it be vaccine related? Only time will tell.

If it makes you feel better, I had my first Pfizer jab a fortnight ago and am still here. For now at least. Utterly painless and over and done with in seconds. A slightly dead arm for a couple of days afterwards, but soon back to normal. I was also a little apprehensive beforehand despite being 100% pro-vaccine, simply because of the amount of bullshit scare stories designed to put us off.

England 1 - 0 Croatia Austria 3 - 1 N Macedonia Netherlands 2 - 2 Ukraine

All downhill from here!

Bob Richards is another throwback pick. I picked him in the first round as he was a presidential candidate under some fringe white nationalist party, several decades after his Olympic career.

Actor Jeffrey Hunter died on this date in 1969. Perhaps Hunter's most notable film work were those films in which he collaborated with director John Ford. His first and most famous collaboration with Ford was "The Searchers". Hunter would again work with Ford in "The Last Hurrah" and "Sergeant Rutledge". In 1969, in Spain, he was injured in an explosion on the set of his new film. He began complaining of dizziness and headaches. Shortly afterward, Hunter suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died during surgery to repair the skull fracture. He was 42 years old.

Sydney Pollack, the Academy Award-winning director of "Out of Africa" who achieved acclaim making popular films such as "Tootsie" or "Yakuza", died of cancer at his home in Pacific Palisades on this date in 2008. He was 73 years old.

Italian singer Renato Carosone died on this day 20 years ago, aged 81.

Ronald Colman, one of my favourite actors, one of Hollywood's golden era greatest but now seemingly not so well remembered stars, died from acute emphysema in Santa Barbara, California on this date in 1958. He was 67 years old. Colman, became a vastly popular star of silent films. His elegant accent and beautifully characteristic charming and modulated stage-trained voice, very important to the film industry, made him one of the most popular actors in the 30's. He would have been the perfect Max de Winter in Hitchcock's "Rebecca". A pity he declined the role... He said: "A prolonged future doesn't excite me. It would have to have a point". He was interred in the Santa Barbara Cemetery.

American cinematographer Gordon Willis, ten days before his 83rd birthday, died of metastatic cancer on this date in 2014. Despite his reputation as one of the best and most influential cinematographers in the business, his iconoclastic ways were not fully appreciated until his influence on subsequent generations of cinematographers became undeniable. Willis, whose moody aesthetic and technique of using shadows earned him the nickname "The Prince of Darkness", is best known for his work on Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather films. He said: "I believe in the relativity of moviemaking, which includes a world of light and dark, big and small, high and low, good and evil".

Actor Lee Aaker, who is famous from his work on the program, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, died at 77 years: https://deadline.com/2021/04/lee-aaker-dead-adventures-of-rin-tin-tin-child-star-1234733916/