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Can't get the link to work but if you go on his wife Misty McMichael's instagram there is a couple of minute long video and he appears even worse.A TV pole is obstructing part of his face but when you get a glimpse of his eyes they both appear non reactive open and up at the ceiling .Mouth is wide open like a fish looks slightly paler and waxy in it.No indication of consciousness at all.Also he looks like he is struggling to breathe even though he is ventilated.He has gotten into the hall of fame I imagine because he is very close to the end.There are cameras all in his face when he appears to be actively dying.Quite distasteful.I have seen quite a few friends and family be at the very end and the last thing I would ever have dreamt of doing would be to fill their deathbed room with cameras .I doubt he knows what's going on at all or that he will last the week out. Edit :He is only a finalist and has to wait until 2024 which Misty says will inspire him to keep going.There Is am utterly horrendous photo in the Chicago Sun Times of her facetiming her visibly gravely ill husband.I won't even post the link though as it is clearly an unresponsive man dying on the screenshot.In fact if I came across someone looking like that I would check their pulse to see if they hadnt already expired The Chicago Sun states he is battling pneumonia and about to start a second round of antibiotics but it is behind a pay wall.

This appears to be the aforesaid Edward Toms' death notice: https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/toms-notices_53083 Says he was from Hythe in this article, which ties in with the notice: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/hythe/news/second-world-war-hero-celebrates-100th-birthday-238921/

I’d say there’s only a 27% chance he even existed in the first place. Wheels within wheels, my friend… (Not really. I just wanted to say “wheels within wheels, my friend” one time)

Louis Prima died on this day 45 years ago, aged 67. - Prima's mother loved music, and tried to train each of her kids to play an instrument. Louis started off with the violin. - Prima was signed to a label in 1934, and would relocate from city to city throughout the next few years. - In 1939, Eleanor Roosevelt attended a show of his in Washington DC, and he was invited to perform at FDR's birthday celebration that year. - Prima was not drafted into WWII, due to an injured knee. - Besides his musical career, Prima was also well-known for voicing King Louie in The Jungle Book. Disney had originally cast Louis Armstrong for the role, but due to concerns from civil rights groups about a Black man portraying an ape, Prima was cast instead: - Prima was diagnosed with brain cancer in 1975, and would fall into a coma following surgery. He never woke up, and died after three years of being in a comatose state.

24/08/2023 85 Britney Spears - Toxic 71 Gorillaz - Dare 69 Stereophonics - Dakota 65 Sugababes - Push the Button 63 Natasha Bedingfield - These Words +4 47 Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor 39 James Blunt - You’re Beautiful 29 Madonna - Hung Up 14 Usher ft. Lil’ Jon & Ludacris - Yeah! 00 Tony Christie ft Peter Kay - (Is This The Way To) Amarillo -6 Thank you @RoverAndOut

Times death notice for David Lawrence, 5th Baron Lawrence (wiki), aged 85. Crossbench member of the House of Lords (1968–1999). No heir, and thus the peerage is now extinct.

I know we're not supposed to, but I want to make some predictions here. I predict that Maria Branyas Moreira will pass away in summer 2024, aged 117 and the new WOLP will become either Fusa Tatsumi, Tomiko Itooka, or Inah Canabarro Lucas. Either way, I predict that at some point Inah Canabarro Lucas will become WOLP and live until at least her 118th birthday. I predict she has the potential to make it to 119, 120 and possibly 121. I predict that Juan Vicente Pérez Mora will live to see his 117th birthday in 2026, and enter the Top 10 Oldest Validated People Ever, but unfortunately he will not become WOLP, as he will be overshadowed by Inah Canabarro Lucas. I predict that Anisio Rodrigues Alves, Horacio Celi Mendoza, and Tomas Pinales will all become validated, and Pinales will hold the record of WOLM till his death on 24 September 2020. I predict that new information will come out supporting João Da Missanga's age, and he will live to the age of 116, passing away in 2024. He will hold the title of WOLM from Pinales's death on 24 September 2020 till his own death after 13 March, 2024. Unfortunately, his validation will come through in late 2024 or early 2025 and he won't live to see himself he validated, but his family will be very proud. In late 2024 or early 2025, with the validation of João Da Missanga, Juan Vicente Pérez Mora's time as WOLM will be dramatically shortened, but he will still hold the title for around a year, becoming WOLM at age 115 rather than 112 and becoming the first man to make it to his 117th birthday. No men from 1910 will succeed Juan Vicente Pérez Mora as WOLM, as the next oldest living man will be Gisaburo Sonobe who will gain the title either late in his 114th year or early into his 115th year. I predict that Sonobe will live to see late in his 115th year and possibly even 116 or 117. He will also be the last man from 1911. The last living person from the 1900s will be Inah Canabarro Lucas, but the last living person from 1909 will be Juan Vicente Pérez Mora.

And hardly surprising. They don't get elected anymore, often even when they're selected. 10 years of Thatcher completely altered the make-up of the country: the post-war welfare consensus was ripped up, the country became obsessed with money and private wealth, we became a nation of homeowners and the manufacturing industry was decimated in favour of a service industry. 18 years of losing meant Labour had to move to the centre in order to get back in power. Middle England has been brainwashed into believing money = prosperity and the only way to get that money is growth, which can only be generated by the rich getting richer. It does feel like we should be coming to a turning point on all these issues. The old system is clearly broken and the people are thrashing around for an alternative, but the old order maintains the control by turning everything into a culture war and ensuring Joe Public can't see how one issue (e.g. ULEZ) links directly to another (e.g. small boats) - the changing climate impacting on the number of migrants trying to get into this country, for example (not the only reason, of course). Short termism is everywhere.

If we’re talking cocktails, the Oyster Creek Kitchen in Sarfend does a Pineapple and Jalapeño Margarita (with a salty rim, ooooh) which is bloody lovely

24/08/2023 85 Britney Spears - Toxic 71 Gorillaz - Dare 69 Stereophonics - Dakota 65 Sugababes - Push the Button 55 Natasha Bedingfield - These Words 47 Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor +4 39 James Blunt - You’re Beautiful 32 Madonna - Hung Up -6 14 Usher ft. Lil’ Jon & Ludacris - Yeah! 09 Tony Christie ft Peter Kay - (Is This The Way To) Amarillo 

Oh, is it that time again?

He was in ICU at Christmas, and then back in ICU this summer, and while he did get out of hospital at some point, the updates suggested he's been in there for a few months. Yeah, he'll be down in the mud where the rivers all run dry soon.

By chance I won a bottle of Theakstons Old Peculier in a raffle a few weeks ago. It was a nice amber ale, tasting faintly of choclate to me (website claims it is cherry and banana). Enjoyed it after work and would certainly try it again, if I could find it!

Some similar ingredients to my favourite: homemade Singapore Sling (Lemon juice, cherry liqueur, angostura bitters, gin, pineapple juice, benedictine, cointreau, grenadine syrup)

Top 10 Oldest EVER Men: 10. Juan Vicente Pérez Mora (Venezuela) Lifespan: 1909-LIVING Age: 114 years & 86 days 09. Tomas Pinales Figuereo (Dominican Republic) Lifespan: 1906-2020 Age: 114 years & 177/184 days (Pending by the GRG) 08. Yukichi Chuganji (Japan) Lifespan: 1889-2003 Age: 114 years & 189 days 07. Walter Breuning (USA) Lifespan: 1896-2011 Age: 114 years & 205 days 06. Horacio Celi Mendoza (Peru) Lifespan: 1897-2011 Age: 114 years & 265 days (Pending by the GRG) 05. Emiliano Mercado del Toro (PR) Lifespan: 1891-2007 Age: 115 years & 156 days 04. João Da Missanga (Brazil) Lifespan: 1908-LIVING Age: 115 years & 161 days (Ongoing Investigation) 03. Christian Mortensen (Denmark) Lifespan: 1882-1998 Age: 115 years & 252 days 02. Jiroemon Kimura (Japan) Lifespan: 1897-2013 Age: 116 years & 54 days 01. Anisio Rodrigues Alves (Brazil) Lifespan: 1892-2009 Age: 116 years & 229 days (Pending by the GRG)

Yes exactly or like Prince Philipp and Queen Elizabeth. In France, we have lost our two oldest presidents in just more than one year apart : Jacques Chirac (1932-2019) and Valery Giscard D'Estaing (1926-2020), but their respective wifes (Bernadette and Anne-Aymone both born in 1933) are alive, it don't rest so much time for Bernadette before she joins her husband, in the contrary of Anne-Aymone, who is in good health at 90 years old.

He is now the oldest living ex-governor and is also older than all living ex-senators.

Grandson says they’re in the “final chapter” of both Jimmy and Rosalyn’s lives. https://people.com/jimmy-rosalynn-carter-health-update-exclusive-7692868

KInd of funny, Its a story about Jimmy and Rosalynn, but 2 pargraphs on Trump?

Thinking of May, makes you wonder what would have happened in British politics if she got the thumping majority she was predicted to get when she called the snap election in 2017.

Didn’t realise it was on the NHS

Doctor Who Advent Calendar. December 16 opened.

and news coming in, Michael Owen just fell off his horse

Those three years can't come soon enough...