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Personally I'd like a Tory leader who can lose around 350 seats in an election...

That quite frankly may have played a role in this happening I've seen the video - the first shot missed him and, while his bodyguards reacted fast, they were nowhere near fast enough for people meant to be guarding a major politician - got in position to protect him about a second after the second shot hit him. You'd imagine that if this was a country with more gun deaths (Japan has about 10-20 gun deaths a year - one year with about 40 was considered to be an abnormal high), the guards would be better trained to react between shots 1 and 2. That and, in terms of gun ownership, you really can't do much if the person is nuts enough to make their own tbh. It was a full on homemade shotgun, with rumors floating that the ammo was homemade as well. Ammo was def black powder based on the sound of the shots, and at that point, no amount of legislation banning gun ownership will help.

https://www.ynet.co.il/entertainment/article/s1lpcr7uq Topol (Chaim Topol) has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's according to ynet. Article behind a paywall.

Adam Wade (IMDB)reported dead:

Let's have a quick update, shall we? After all, we just got 4 quick hits in succession. There is Jose Eduardo dos Santos as another replacement hit, three people score. There's also Larry Storch, a hit for four people. Only CalebH and GuyFromFuture picked Caaaaaaan, And then there is sports commentator John Gwynne, also picked only twice. Banana extends his lead with the safe and sound Dos Santos replacement. Enough for him, his contenders went for the younger, riskier picks. Let's see if it works in the long run. Edit: Frank Williams added. Rank Team Score 1 Banana 1117 2 msc 997 3 Salmon Mousse 993 4 An Fear Beag 971 5 gcreptile 948 6 Joey Russ 889 7 Book 871 8 Predictor 799 9 Cpt. Chorizo 798 10 Death Impends 764 11 drol 724 12 MariNisia 637 13 DevonDeathTrip 616 14 Guy From Future 612 15 Great Uncle Bulgaria 510 16 Kenny 495 17 Sean 467 18 Theoldlady 457 19 Toast 447 20 JoeMoneypenny 412 21 YorkshireBanker 395 22 JohnKey 381 23 Torva Messor 353 24 Annami 327 25 Baby Blue 325 26 CalebH 318 27 Buffalo Phil 313 28 The Daredevil 309 29 The Unknown Man 297 30 The old crem 274 31 Wormfarmer 266 32 Bibliogryphon 206 33 Liz Lemon 199 34 Famous6Eva 181 35 Doulton 149 36 Pedro67 146 37 YoungWillz 130 38 markb4 107 39 keltos31 88 40 Hell 80 41 The Spinosaurus 64 41 Captain Hemlock 64 43 Gooseberry Crumble 61 44 chilean way 49

https://www.nrk.no/norge/kong-harald-skal-delta-i-vm-i-seiling-1.16030366 Will participate in the 2022 8 Metre World Cup in sailing like he did four years ago.

DDP pick FOR gcreptile even.

It’s ridiculous, isn’t it? The argument here is that May and Cameron stayed on whilst a leadership election took place, but the difference with them is they weren’t removed from office as a result of horrendous misconduct or a total and provable lack of integrity. Sure, they were both shite, but they weren’t a national security risk. Johnson definitely is. He should be removed NOW. By force, if need be. They should bring in Theresa May as caretaker PM until the conclusion of the leadership contest.

People don't put up with this sort of shit everywhere .... Thousands of protesters have stormed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's residence in the capital of Sri Lanka.

#GoNads!

Must not be a millionaire. Must not be public school educated. Must not be Oxbridge educated. Must not represent a London/Home Counties seat. Must not be a banker, hedge fund person or ever been a CEO/Director of a "large" (more than 250 employees) company. Must never have had a photo op involving a food bank. Must never have had a photo op dressed in hi-viz or a hard hat. Must never have campaigned or voted for the exemption from the rule of law of any person/group of people, such as Northern Ireland veterans or Owen Patterson, for example. And, just to rule out everyone else, must not be a cunt. Otherwise, fill your boots.

John Gwynne QO: https://www.skysports.com/darts/news/12288/12648617/john-gwynne-former-sky-sports-commentator-dies-aged-77

Darts guy John Gwynne gone: https://www.pdc.tv/news/2022/07/09/broadcasting-giant-john-gwynne-passes-away Edit: DDP pick @gcreptile.

Her father Vernon has died according to this link behind a EU paywall: https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/oprah-winfreys-father-vernon-dead-councilmember-says/ 2 days ago, Daily Mail had the news that he was battling cancer: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10989327/Oprah-Winfrey-throws-father-Vernon-surprise-celebration-life-party-suffers-cancer.html

Australien rules footballer Paul Dear has died at 55: https://au.sports.yahoo.com/afl-2022-paul-dear-death-tributes-hawthorn-great-dies-aged-55-041750245.html Edit: Hm, I thought Yahoo will do had picked him for the DDP... ah well.

Tony Sirico is not looking great, he’s dead:

Didn't expect this thread to end in this way when I started it.

Then there's our new Minister for Education giving the finger to the public. You really couldn't make it up.

Sunak does look like he is going to get close to making the final two but with Boris and his supporters hating him press backing could be a struggle.

Patel. It's just the sort of thing the tories would do.

Congrats @Grimgrass 1922 - Norman Lear/Juli Lynne Charlot 1923 - William P. Murphy/Diana Kennedy 1924 - Juan Ponce Enrile/Eve Marie Saint 1925 - Igwe Kenneth Onyeneke Orizu III /Lee Grant 1926 - Emmanuel Kardinal Wamala/Alix, Princess Napoléon 1927 - Benedict XVI/Rosalynn Carter 1928 - Noam Chomsky/Line Renaud 1929 - Benny Golson/Yayoi Kusama 1930 - Edwin Aldrin/Joanne Woodward 1931 - Mikhail Gorbachev/Eva Queler

Five days later Larry Storch is my sixth hit.

Hi just letting you know that Wikipedia lists Brian Jackson- The man from Del Monte , as dying on July 2nd not the 7th.

Your Latin is above average though.

Time for a month update, I reckon. Hardly seems worth the effort though, given that the Reaper seems to have gone on the piss for most of the month. These are the deaths I have noted since the last update on May 2nd. I will hold off on updating the leaderboard until tomorrow, to give anyone an opportunity of pointing out any that I have missed. 3rd May: Norman Mineta 6th May: George Perez 9th May: Qin Yi 14th May: David West 29th May: Lester Piggott 30th May: Boris Pahor That's it. 6 deaths in a month! I know I've said that this game really only gets interesting in September, but come on guys- give me something to work with!