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Smokey Robinson is 84.

Zhang Lixiong and Steve McMichael both seem very good examples of how much a life can be prolonged because family can't let go. Back in November Zhang's family thanked his medical team for "bringing him back multiple times during the last year" For context he is 110 years old, has been in hospital nearly continuously for three years on oxygen and nasogastric tube. There's an 2017 video somewhere on Weibo where he says he's forgotten a massive portion of his life including the names of most of his friends and family and he's afraid of forgetting even more. I can't decide which is worse, Mongo being lucid in his condition (that is only ever going to get worse) and undergoing surgeries, resuscitation or Zhang being an empty shell and having different tubes inserted into him.

"Man walks to church with wife" Very newsworthy.

Steve Wright is not fucking world famous at all.

Ina Okazawa (born 10 March 1910) has been validated by Longeviquest. She has become the 11th oldest validated person in the world, 4th oldest validated in Japan, and oldest in Ibaraki Prefecture, after the death of Seki Yoshida. Ina was previously unknown.

The only deaths I've heard of this month have been world famous types like Texas real estate mogul Welcome W. Wilson Sr., Nigerian literary scholar Folake Onayemi, Moldovan television host Elena Strâmbeanu, Tanzanian diplomat Diodorus Kamala, and Croatian musicologist Nikša Gligo. Meanwhile, in fast-paced January, legends like former British Virgin Islands Minister for Health and Social Development Carvin Malone were biting the dust like it was nothing. WTF Happened?

Father of and source of funds for his son Pedro Diniz to have a (surprisingly reasonable) formula 1 career.

Alvin Moscow, who wrote a best-selling account of the sinking of the ocean liner Andrea Doria and later collaborated on the memoirs of several public figures, has died. He was 98. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/books/alvin-moscow-dead.html

Birmingham City manager Tony Mowbray is stepping away from the role for the next six to eight weeks due to requiring medical treatment.

Another 99 years. Now, until then, cunt off.

Can this thread please just be locked for a bit? Even a week? It might give certain users a chance to do something other than obsess over the man.

Abilio Dinaz, a Brazilian retail billionaire, has died. He was 87. Diniz played a pivotal role in the history of Brazilian retail, serving most recently as vice-chairman of Carrefour Brasil and as a board member of the French group Carrefour. https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-02-18/brazil-retail-billionaire-abilio-diniz-dies-at-87

Look at Page 1. The thread was made by someone who just wanted arguments all the time because he hit a cyclist with his car. He also got brutally glitterbombed a few months back. It's staggering he's still alive tbh.

Although he doesn't have a wiki page, Allen C. Davis (b. Aug 1927) is also alive. He served as ambassador to Guinea and later to Uganda.

February 18th at 1144am 33 X-Press 2 ft. David Byrne — Lazy 33 The Black Eyed Peas — Shut Up 29 Rachel Stevens — Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex 29 Coldplay — In My Place 29 Benny Benassi PTS The Biz — Satisfaction 28 Dido — White Flag 28 Busted — Year 3000 28 S Club 7 — You 28 Shakira — Whenever, Wherever 26 Justin Timberlake — Cry Me A River 26 Lumidee — Never Leave You 26 Electric Six — Danger High Voltage 25 Blazin’ Squad — Flip Reverse 25 Pink — Get The Party Started 23 The Darkness — I Believe In A Thing Called Love 23 Girls Aloud — Jump 23 Kylie Minogue — Love At First Sight 23 Red Hot Chili Peppers — By The Way +4 22 Mis-Teeq — Scandalous 22 Dannii Minogue — I Begin To Wonder 22 Oasis — Stop Crying Your Heart Out 22 Oasis — Little By Little / She Is Love 21 Scooter — The Logical Song 21 Justin Timberlake — Rock Your Body 21 Kevin Lyttle — Turn Me On 20 Puretone — Addicted To Bass 20 A1 — Caught In The Middle 20 S Club Juniors — One Step Closer 20 Appleton — Fantasy 20 Liberty X — Got To Have Your Love 20 Holly Valance — Down Boy 20 Will Young — Don’t Let Me Down / You And I 20 Atomic Kitten — The Last Goodbye / Be With You 20 Kelly Rowland — Stole 20 Sinéad Quinn — I Can’t Break Down 20 Jennifer Lopez ft. LL Cool J — All I Have 20 Lisa Maffia — All Over 20 Big Brovaz — Favourite Things 20 S Club — Say Goodbye / Love Ain’t Gonna Wait For You 20 Ultrabeat — Pretty Green Eyes 20 Lemar — Dance (With U) 19 Beyoncé — Baby Boy  19 Girls Aloud — No Good Advice 19 The Darkness — Don’t Let The Bells End 18 DJ Sammy — The Boys Of Summer 17 No Doubt — Hey Baby 16 NSYNC — Girlfriend 16 Madonna — Hollywood 15 Britney Spears ft. Madonna — Me Against The Music -3 15 Justin Timberlake — Like I Love You 14 Britney Spears — I’m Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman 13 Kym Marsh — Cry 10 S Club Juniors — Automatic High -3 09 Blue — Guilty 

Maria Branyas Morera has now surpassed the age of Francisca Celsa dos Santos. She is now the 12th-oldest validated person ever.

Harry's about to discuss his dad's health on telly.Will likely use to same interview - with no sense of irony - to call out Piers Morgan for splashing royal secrets across the media. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68314330

He was the last surviving Icelandic Olympian from the 1948 and 1952 Games (Summer and Winter). Now the earliest surviving Icelandic Olympians are : Valdimar Ornolfsson (flagbearer) and Jakobina Jakobsdottir (1956 Winter), and Svavar Markusson and Gudmundur Gislason (1960 Summer).

Eleanor Fazan Kenyan-born British actress, dancer, and choreographer has died aged 93. Obit

I live in one of those red wall seats and everything the newspapers were scaring people into thinking would happen under a Corbyn government (record tax burden, startled volatile markets, record high debt) has come true under the Tories instead, so people have now woken up.

The numbers of seats is slightly misleading because they gamed the election (something the FPTP lets you do) he targeted specific Labour held seats with messages that were focused on a very specific demographic. Those Red Wall seats have now come to the conclusion they were used and the current Conservative party doesn't give a flying fuck about them.

How many decades until we find out what was in those letters? I have a feeling it might not be for another 50-plus years, by which point I will be certainly retired... And who knows if this site will exist by then.

An interesting video about the day the Queen died.