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Sigourney Weaver is 74.

Ray Reardon, the remarkable professional snooker player, snooker's greatest player of the 1970s, who won the World Championship 6 times: 1970, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, and 1978 (five titles in six years), the first player to be world number one when rankings were introduced in 1976, who was born and raised in the coal mining community of Tredegar in Monmouthshire, Wales, is 91 today.

CAE member Pan Jingfu dead at 93, the first CAE death in three months.

Scorpions should have had an extra point yesterday, when they went from 17 to 10. 08/10/23 5:08am 51 James — Sit Down 41 Seal — Crazy 40 Deee-Lite — Groove is in the Heart +4 34 B-52's — Love Shack 34 2 Unlimited — Get Ready For This 34 DNA Ft. Suzanne Vega — Tom’s Diner -6 32 Alannah Myles — Black Velvet 31 Kylie Minogue — Better The Devil You Know 17 Crystal Waters — Gypsy Woman 17 Nomad — (I Wanna Give You) Devotion 13 KLF — Last Train To Trancentral 09 Adventures Of Stevie V — Dirty Cash 

Sun 8 Oct 47 James — Sit Down 42 Deee-Lite — Groove Is In The Heart 41 Seal — Crazy 40 DNA Ft. Suzanne Vega — Tom’s Diner 38 Alannah Myles — Black Velvet +4 34 2 Unlimited — Get Ready For This 30 Kylie Minogue — Better The Devil You Know 23 B-52's — Love Shack 19 Adventures Of Stevie V — Dirty Cash 19 Nomad — (I Wanna Give You) Devotion 17 Crystal Waters — Gypsy Woman 13 KLF — Last Train To Trancentral 00 Scorpions — Wind Of Change -6 Thank you @TQR

When did he die?

Kindly get lost with your sympathy for Palestine. They have committed and supported mass murder today. I don’t care if they all get killed. Israel needs to make sure those cunts are gone for good.

08.10.2023 47 James — Sit Down 42 Deee-Lite — Groove Is In The Heart 41 Seal — Crazy 40 DNA Ft. Suzanne Vega — Tom’s Diner 38 Alannah Myles — Black Velvet 34 2 Unlimited — Get Ready For This 30 Kylie Minogue — Better The Devil You Know 27 B-52's — Love Shack +4 19 Nomad — (I Wanna Give You) Devotion 17 Crystal Waters — Gypsy Woman 13 KLF — Last Train To Trancentral 13 Adventures Of Stevie V — Dirty Cash -6

South Vietnam Lieutenant General Phạm Quốc Thuần (wiki) died in August at 96 two weeks short of his 97th birthday in Fountain Valley, California. Suprised he was still alive.

8/Oct/2023 47 James — Sit Down 42 Deee-Lite — Groove Is In The Heart 41 Seal — Crazy 40 Alannah Myles — Black Velvet +4 36 DNA Ft. Suzanne Vega — Tom’s Diner 30 2 Unlimited — Get Ready For This 30 Kylie Minogue — Better The Devil You Know 25 B-52's — Love Shack 19 KLF — Last Train To Trancentral 19 Nomad — (I Wanna Give You) Devotion 17 Scorpions — Wind Of Change 15 Crystal Waters — Gypsy Woman -3 13 Adventures Of Stevie V — Dirty Cash -3

Michael Chiarello, who was a Food Network regular in the 2000s and early 2010s before sexual assault allegations derailed his career, dead from anaphylactic shock aged 61. Was on the all-star season 4 of "The Next Iron Chef" in an attempt to wear the IC apron, further to discussion upthread, but lost to Geoffrey Zakarian (as well as future IC Alex Guarnaschelli).

Have you ever been to Palestine, or to Israel? I've been to both. Most Arabs and almost all Israelis are opposed.

I will say, obviously @The Old Crem is a fearmonger and has been wrong about pretty much every level of geopolitics since I've joined. BUT. There is no way Israel was attacked to this level without Iran knowing and approving it. Possibly funding it as well. Their parliament also just had a big circle jerk where they chanted 'Death to America' so...

The definition of Infomercials, Sports, and News Shows. I got the definitions from this page. Not sure if you mean the 'banned shows' (the shows that were selected last round and therefor won't be allowed this one) or if you mean the Master List that will be released when the game starts. Either way, yes alphabetical makes much more sense. I will do that for both!

See, I only left school in 2012, but even as recently ago as that, things were comparably dreadful. Attitudes toward LGBT+ people were still such that I didn’t “allow” myself to be myself until about five years after leaving, and I’m one of several in my year group who’ll say that. Ace people weren’t even a thing. ‘Trans’ meant dressing up as the opposite sex for a laugh. And among straight people (as I tried to be back then), it seemed to be a competition to lose your V’s, and sex was meant to be as it appeared in the most popular porn sites at the time. Any openness about sex that wasn’t either bragging or, I suspect quite often false, was just weird. I only went to college one day a week but it was the same there too. If Sex Education had been a thing back then, young people of my generation and earlier wouldn’t have felt so isolated, pressured, confused or insecure. There’s a lot that can be said for simply feeling seen. I haven’t been back to school since but it must’ve been great for you to see the positive change!

Everyone who i've talked to (including myself) say the same thing. It would have helped me a lot as I thought everyone was fucking around (I mean some were) and I thought it was weird to not feel ready to have sex aged 16-18. There wasn't even any LGBT+ groups at school or college at the time. Now when I went to college in my early 20's to retake my GCSE English I saw there was and it made me smile. I needed to hear this as a teenager:

If they manage to record something provable (i.e. something CGI couldn't fake) then everyone. It's odd that as camera coverage gets wider the evidence looks worse, mind. There's a Global Meteor Network (i.e. people all over the planet spotting and recording meteors and sharing the evidence), that network continues to grow with the sky all over the place being recorded. They've yet to come up with an alien spacecraft!

Current star of TalkTV and former Coronation Street actress Nicola Thorp and her partner actor Nikesh Patel, have announced they are expecting their first child together. https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/24211518/talktv-nicola-thorp-pregnant-nikesh-patel/

Until one of them dies, I reckon.

Brendan Croker dead at 70 after battling leukaemia. He was an English musician, who had recorded albums under his own name and with occasional backing band; The Five O'Clock Shadows. He was also a member of The Notting Hillbillies. During the late 1980s, he was an auxiliary member of The Mekons and a full-time member of Sally Timms and the Drifting Cowgirls. He had recorded with Eric Clapton, Tanita Tikaram, Mark Knopfler, Kevin Coyne and Chet Atkins. Love this song.

Gillian Hanna gets her well deserved Guardian Obit: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/aug/29/gillian-hanna-obituary

Dorothy Walker Bush decided not to be the mother of George H. W. Bush anymore on this day 25 years ago, aged 91.

Yes, the story had potential, especially once Joey Feek received an absurd amount of coverage. But this case never got beyond Fife Today. Though maybe the current death drought might lead to a Sun or Mirror article. Would be a nice compensation for Michel Delpech. I said a couple of months ago that I have no doubt that by the end of the year all the 20 people on my main team will be dead. Somewhat funnily, the one I would now give the best odds of surviving the year is Yoshiro Nakamatsu who was "supposed" to die late 2015. But then, I've come to suspect that he might be a little bit of a fraud.

Will Jimmy get a Newsflash on British TV when he goes?