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Two members of the House of Lords had their memberships renounced yesterday due to non-attendance i.e. they failed to show up for at least one sitting in the last parliamentary term. They were: Lord Amir Bhatia OBE (wiki), 91, businessman and former Crossbench peer (later a non-affiliated member) – was suspended for 8 months in 2010 due to dodgy expenses, also had a separate scandal involving "misappropriating" £600,000 from a charity. Lord Robert Dixon-Smith (wiki), 89, farmer and former Conservative chairman of Essex County Council, forced to apologise in 2008 after saying "N-word in a woodpile" during a debate (not the last time a member of either house has used this idiom). Anyway, members normally do whatever they can to hold onto their membership. They can take a leave of absence or merely show up to single sitting. Getting kicked out usually means they're very ill. Both of the above names will get QOs so decent DDP suggestions.

After years of you telling us to get him on the list. Are you ever fucking consistent?

L. K. Advani is 96 today.

Last week's performance on The Late Show On the Stephen Colbert show last week

Ewan Hooper, Scottish born actor known for various things but Camp Controller Alec Foster in Hi-De-Hi and the caretaker in the factory in Kinky Boots stand out, apparently died way back in April: http://www.ashburnhamtriangle.com/2023/05/ewan-hooper.html I briefly toyed with picking him this year, given the lack of an obit, rather glad I didn't! Other film roles include How I Won The War (featuring John Lennon) and Dracula Has Risen From The Grave. TV includes Coronation Street, Hunter's Walk, Boon and Casualty, among others. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0393739/

No. He. Is. Not.

Advent Avalanche Form Guide #8 Jayapataka Swami His Holiness Jayapataka Swami is the highest-ranking leader of controversial Hindu religious organization ISKCON. Born Gordon John Erdman II into an upper-class family in Milwaukee in 1949, he joined newly-founded ISKCON in the late 1960s around the same time George Harrison started funding the growing organization. Jayapataka, quite soon after joining, became one of the highest Swamis. The founding guru died in 1977, leaving Jayapataka and other still very young gurus to lead ISKCON. Some of them died, others were kicked out leading to Jayapataka becoming the "guru in charge" of ISKCON. In October 2008 he suffered a massive brain stem stroke, putting him into coma and "very critical" conditions for weeks or months. Since then his health has been quite bad, or as ISKCON says, "compromised": Already before his stroke he had cirrhosis (apparent complication from a blood transfusion in 1989 following an attack on a Madrid airport) finally leading to liver & kidney failure some years later. Skipping the waitlist he got new kidneys and a new liver in 2018 but as usual that didn't help much. He's been hospitalised a number of times since with heart problems, kidney problems, pneumonia, leg infections, covid, blood clots, skin cancer, UTIs, an "extended spectrum multi-resistant bacteria", pulmonary edema, ascites, skin lesions, trachea compression and other ailments, while he's survived his previous illnesses very well, this year he seems to have had more ailments than in the past ten combined. He's been in hospital twice within the last month and dedicated, educated ambulance chasers/corpse hounds know that pulmonary edema tends to return, and while he's a Swami, he's only half-Indian. He also looks like what I'd imagine the drowned ocean corpse version of Chef Tony would look like.

American singer Guy Speranza died on this day 20 years ago, aged 47.

Hopefully next year they actually put Nobel Prize winner Robert Solow on, since he'll be turning 100 in August.

You might be interested in HG Tudor's commentary on TS's strategy in producing and distributing her own film. He has identified her as a high-functioning ("Greater") narcissist, and has done many more videos discussing her.

I own that movie! The director was taken to court cuz ppl thought this actor were killed in it.

I'm a closet Swiftie. In that, I don't own any of her albums, I am not going to the cinema to see the Era Tour, but can't help but admire her cultural significance and the fact she seems to keep churning out decent music at an alarming rate. It is quite incredible to see - in the USA, Scorsese's latest masterpiece debuted at No. 2 in the box office BEHIND Taylor Swift, who's already been out a week! This is an insane, if not unhealthy, level of fandom, and while she must be incredibly grateful on one level, it must be exhausting and unnerving on another. And I accept the inevitable counter argument that she invites a certain level of "celebrity" on herself. *Confirming my lack of Swiftie credentials, I have absolutely no idea what that acronym is meant to mean...

It’s up to the member of this forum to click on the link or not. I’m not here to hold his hands.

I was just thinking of the score at the end of next year. There is four on there and a hit is a hit. Not every post has to be one of those above listed. if it did I would assume no one would be conversing. I don’t know them either.

No offence to you at all but he could easily have scrolled by. A forum about death and he has to babied about a post.

Susan Sullivan, actress best known for her role on Castle, has lung cancer: https://tvline.com/news/susan-sullivan-health-today-lung-cancer-diagnosis-photo-1235062665/

If you didn’t want to read it then why did you read it! I suggest that.

Severe Back pain is a very suspicious reason to withdraw as well.

American novelist Louise Meriweather (Wiki) dead at 100

does anyone have a knife and a fork?

A pallet containing large boxes of alligator meat fell off of a truck onto the 600 block of the NE Evangeline Thruway, according to a spokesperson for the Lafayette (LA) Police Department. SC

Margaret Ann Neve who lived on Guernsey met a French general who was born in 1739 so a span of nearly 300 years from the general to Kane Tanaka. (via Neve)

AP has the English obit: https://www.apnews.com/ac005afeade84f87a07b87a2713e4231

Prolific comedian Dercy Gonçalves single-handedly crashed the Brazilian cosmetic industry on this day 10 years ago, aged 101.

Sorry to learn you've lost your father, LG.