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We came second literally 2 years ago and it took a Russian madman invading his neighbour to deny us. It's a nonsense we can't win it, we just don't send good enough songs as a rule.

There are lots of words to describe Linehan. A fair few of which are anatomical, so let's pick the most appropriate one, the one that we all have in common, whether you're a man, a woman, an enby or anything in between, whether you're trans, not trans or just have gammon-infuriating pronouns. Linehan is an arsehole. Thread complete.

This strikes me as a great idea for a thread and one that'll surely bring disparate political sides together in an intelligent and cordial atmosphere. Can't wait to read it.

To address the title, 3/4 of them. Hint: not the first one. Transphobia is just simply being a pain in the arse for the sake of being a pain in the arse, as the statistics around the topic are showing over the years - and Linehan's constant bitching and moaning on the subject makes him all the more arsehole-y. He's up there with J.K. Rowling as someone who shot their career in the foot by being, as TQR said, an arsehole - and then had the bollocks to decry something that seems basic. "Cancel culture" isn't what happened here: it's the consequence of your own actions. Piss on your Cheerios and they're going to taste like piss.

I could be wrong but I think the UK still holds the record for second place. Don't know how we are doing on the last place stakes though. I guess a lot of people don't give a fuck about a lot of things. Like me and thrash metal or which celebrity is having a sprog. It's a fun annual event, free to disregard or have a look at the choons and make your own mind up. It's a bit of fun in a dirty world.

Dave Brock talking to the Telegraph, has newly diagnosed heart condition and has to keep the marijuana in check because of "chestiness" - some suggestion that the next 11 date tour depends on his next angiogram (I've already got a ticket for New Day where they're scheduled to headline Saturday) - he's 83 in August, three days after headlining New Day

Won't be on the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars.

Was idly working away this afternoon to the strains of the first David Gilmour solo album, incl.this, which I hadn't heard in ages:

She may not even have any cancer now. If she's had an IBD of some sort and they removed part of the bowel, then found cancer cells in it, it may have been confined to that section. This happened to my mother after having that op to remove a blockage. Unfortunately the cancer found was a blood cancer and it had already migrated elsewhere.

British professor, author, computer scientist, and security engineering expert Ross J. Anderson died at 67 years: https://therecord.media/ross-anderson-cambridge-professor-passes-away He headed the cryptography sub-program of the University of Cambridge's computer department.

Big Six. As usual in the order from last to first. Last: Italy. By no means the worst song, but I have two issues. Do not put a singer who looks like a heroin addict streetwalker to front it. And they have gone all out with musical tropes designed to appeal to the Eastern European countries. Why not pick a song that represents your culture? 5th - Sweden. They seem like nice boys. But it is such a late 80s throwback it rankled a lot with me. Not quite enough. 4th - Spain. Probably too understated and definitely an early 80s throwback I could have seen myself jigging to at my school dance. However, it does have join-in-ability, and if you have your audience onside.... 3rd - UK. It's not good enough, simply not. Olly Alexander's journey to trying to become the next Jamiroquai fails again. Why this? Some of his early stuff was great. It's mediocre at best, and that will not get the votes. 2nd - France. This was close to being my top of this group. It's so French I almost cracked open a bottle of Beaujolais and sat down with cheese and crackers. It has meaning, it has soul, it has, oh I don't know, that je ne sais quoi!!! In another time and another place to different beats this could have been done by anyone from Piaf to Aznavour. 1st - Germany. It's of it's time. In the mould of Sheeran and Capaldi with a husk to the voice, you can feel this guy's anguish littering the stage, but it's by no means a dirge. All the best to you, young fellow, you deserve a high spot in the rankings. After all this, I'm struggling to pick one favourite above all for me personally. Any number of songs I really do like. I know that's a cop out, but I couldn't pick a certain top ten. Nothing made me cry, that I can tell you - bleed from the ears, certainly, but not cry.

Clearly done just to make the others seem less conspicuous, like that would actually work. Makes me wonder why he couldn't wait for the birthday honours for all of these, though, unless Rishi doesn't think he'll still be in office come June, when those announcements are made. Makes you think...

He nearly died of COVID in 2020 and looked extremely frail last April: https://youtu.be/rZGxgUFTPdU?t=811 He wasn't gonna make 90. Should have been on the list IMO. (Which I'm allowed to say given I argued for him to be picked and he's on my shadow list. )

29/Mar/2024 27 Manic Street Preachers — Your Love Alone Is Not Enough 27 Gwen Stefani ft. Akon — The Sweet Escape 26 Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse — Valerie 26 Plain White T’s — Hey There Delilah 25 Cascada — Everytime We Touch 25 Chamillionaire ft. Krayzie Bone — Ridin’ 25 Kate Nash — Foundations 24 Fall Out Boy — This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race 23 Bodyrox ft. Luciana — Yeah Yeah 23 Arctic Monkeys — Brianstorm 22 Mary J. Blige & U2 — One +1 22 Maroon 5 — Makes Me Wonder +1 22 Ida Corr vs. Fedde Le Grand — Let Me Think About It +1 22 Mark Ronson ft. Daniel Merriweather — Stop Me 22 Red Hot Chili Peppers — Dani California 22 Christina Aguilera — Ain’t No Other Man 21 Corinne Bailey Rae — Put Your Records On 21 Embrace — Nature’s Law 21 Infernal — From Paris To Berlin 21 The White Stripes — Icky Thump 21 T2 ft. Jodie Aysha — Heartbroken 20 U2 & Green Day — The Saints Are Coming 20 Booty Luv — Boogie 2Nite 20 Just Jack — Starz In Their Eyes 20 Avril Lavigne — Girlfriend 20 Mutya Buena — Real Girl 20 Take That — Rule The World 19 The Killers — When You Were Young 19 Rihanna — Unfaithful 17 Eric Prydz ft. Floyd — Proper Education +1 17 50 Cent, Justin Timberlake & Timbaland — Ayo Technology 17 LL Cool J ft. Jennifer Lopez — Control Myself 17 Justin Timberlake — My Love 16 Rihanna — SOS -6 14 Fergie — Big Girls Don’t Cry 14 Shayne Ward — No U Hang Up / If That’s OK With You 12 Chris Brown ft. Juelz Santana — Run It

Did AP seriously need to clarify that a 99 year old man in hospice care wouldn't be attending a political fundraiser nearly a thousand miles away?

Regarding recent discussions on what (or who) exactly is a 'nonce', according to someone on Xwitter it stands for "Not on normal courtyard exercise". Which is as convoluted (and inaccurate) a backronym as "chav" standing for "council house and violent/ce"

Looking fantastic for 95

looks alive to me

Open casket leopard print coffin time soon.

1. Tin Oo 2. Celine Dion 3. Pope Francis 4. King Charles III 5. Linda Nolan 6. Ozzy Osbourne 7. Harald V of Norway 8. Danniella Westbrook 9. Shannen Doherty 10. Billy Connolly Subs: 1. Joe Biden 2. Simon Cowell (X Factor)

1Fritz Wepper 2.Nelson Acosta 3.Alexander Mitta 4.Jose Mujica 5.Milos Ziman 6.Tin 0o 7.Daniel Barenboim 8.Pope Francis 9.Imelda Marcos 10.Zhang Lixiong subs James Whale Willie Nelson

Here’s the 1960s list, following on from the post I did for the 1950s. Can’t be arsed to do any more. 1960 Harry Winter (1914-2001) Fud Leclerc (1924-2010) Katy Bødtger (1932-2017) Jacqueline Boyer (b. 1941) - Jacques Pills’ daughter from first marriage Wyn Hoop (b. 1936) Renato Rascel (1912-1991) Camillo Felgen (1920-2005) François Deguelt (1932-2014) Rudi Carrell (1934-2006) Nora Brockstedt (1923-2015) Siw Malmkvist (b. 1936) Anita Traversi (1937-1991) Bryan Johnson (1926-1995) 1961 Jimmy Makulis (1935-2007) Bob Benny (1926-2011) Dario Campeotto (1939-2023) Laila Kinnunen (1939-2000) Jean-Paul Mauric (1933-1971) Lale Andersen (1905-1972) Betty Curtis (1936-2006) Jean-Claude Pascal (1927-1992) - first gay entrant and winner Colette Déreal (1927-1988) Greetje Kauffeld (b. 1939) Nora Brockstedt (1923-2015) Conchita Bautista (b. 1936) Lill-Babs (1938-2018) Franca di Rienzo (French Wiki says b. 1938) Bob Day (1941-2013) - 1/2 of The Allisons John Alford (b. 1939) - 1/2 of The Allisons 1962 Eleonore Schwarz (b. 1936) Fud Leclerc (1924-2010) Ellen Winther (1933-2011) Marion Rung (b. 1945) Isabelle Aubret (b. 1938) Conny Froboess (b. 1943) Claudio Villa (1926-1987) Camillo Felgen (1920-2005) François Deguelt (1932-2014) Theo Rekkers (1924-2012) - 1/2 of De Spelbrekers Huug Kok (1918-2011) - 1/2 of De Spelbrekers Inger Jacobsen (1923-1996) Victor Balaguer (1921-1984) Inger Berggren (1934-2019) Jean Philippe (1930-2022) Ronnie Carroll (1934-2015) Lola Novaković (1935-2016) 1963 Carmela Corren (1938-2022) Jacques Raymond (b. 1938) Grethe Ingmann (1938-1990) Jørgen Ingmann (1925-2015) Laila Halme (1934-2021) on Simple English Wiki Alain Barrière (1935-2019) Heidi Brühl (1942-1991) Emilio Pericoli (1928-2013) Nana Mouskouri (b. 1934) Thread Françoise Hardy (1944-2024) Thread Annie Palmen (1926-2000) Anita Thallaug (1938-2023) José Guardiola (1930-2012) Monica Zetterlund (1937-2005) Esther Ofarim (b. 1941) Ronnie Carroll (1934-2015) Vice Vukov (1936-2008) 1964 Udo Jürgens (1934-2014) Robert Cogoi (1939-2022) Bjørn Tidmand (b. 1940) Lasse Mårtenson (1934-2016) Rachel Ros (b. 1942) Nora Nova (1928-2022) Cigliola Cinquetti (b. 1947) Hugues Aufray (b. 1929) Romuald (b. 1938) Anneke Grönloh (1942-2018) Arne Bendiksen (1926-2009) António Calvário (b. 1938) Nelly Croatto (b. 1941) - 1/3 of Los TNT Tony Croatto (1939-2005) - 1/3 of Los TNT Tim Croatto (b. 1936) - 1/3 of Los TNT Anita Traversi (1937-1991) Matt Monro (1930-1985) Sabahudin Kurt (1935-2018) 1965 Udo Jürgens (1934-2014) Lize Marke (b. 1936) Birgit Brüel (1927-1996) Viktor Klimenko (b. 1942) Guy Marcel (b. 1944) Ulla Wiesner (b. 1940) Butch Moore (1938-2001) Bobby Solo (b. 1945) France Gall (1947-2018) Marjorie Noël (1945-2000) Conny Vandenbos (1937-2002) Kirsti Sparboe (b. 1946) Simone de Oliveira (b. 1938) Conchita Bautista (b. 1936) Ingvar Wixell (1931-2011) Yovanna (b. 1938) Kathy Kirby (1938-2011) Vice Vukov (1936-2008) 1966 Udo Jürgens (1934-2014) Tonia (b. 1947) Ulla Pia (1945-2020) Ann-Christine (1944-2022) Dominique Walter (1942-2013) Margot Eskens (1936-2022) Dickie Rock (b. 1936-2024) Domenico Modugno (1928-1994) Michèle Torr (b. 1947) Téréza (b. 1938) Milly Scott (b. 1933) - first Black singer to take part Åse Kleveland (b. 1949) Madalena Iglésias (1939-2018) Raphael (b. 1943) Lill Lindfors (b. 1940) Svante Thuresson (1937-2021) Madeleine Pascal (b. 1946) French Wiki Kenneth McKellar (1927-2010) Berta Ambrož (1944-2003) 1967 Peter Horton (1941-2023) Louis Neefs (1937-1980) Fredi (1942-2021) Noëlle Cordier (b. 1944) Inge Brück (b. 1936) Sean Dunphy (1937-2011) Claudio Villa (1926-1987) Vicky Leandros (b. 1949) Minouche Barelli (1947-2004) Thérèse Steinmetz (b. 1933) Kirsti Sparboe (b. 1946) Eduardo Nascimento (1943-2019) Raphael (b. 1943) Östen Warnerbring (1934-2006) Géraldine (b. 1946) Sandie Shaw (b. 1947) Lado Leskovar (b. 1942) Croatian Wiki 1968 Karel Gott (1939-2019) Claude Lombard (1945-2021) Kristina Hautala (b. 1948) Isabelle Aubret (b. 1938) Wencke Myhre (b. 1947) Pat McGeegan (1935-1987) - Barry McGuigan’s da Sergio Endrigo (1933-2005) Chris Baldo (1943-1995) French Wiki Sophie Garel (b. 1942) French Wiki Line Van Menen (?-2023) Apparently 85 at death. Paywall. Willy (Claude Boillod) - (?-2018). French Wiki for him and Line. Ronnie Tober (b. 1945) Odd Børre (1939-2023) Carlos Mendes (b. 1947) Massiel (b. 1947) Claes-Göran Hederström (1945-2022) Gianni Mascolo (1940-2016) Cliff Richard (b. 1940) Thread Lući Kapurso - Turned 81 in 2022 Hamo Hajdarhodžić (can’t find info, apparently dead according to some guy on Reddit) 1969 Louis Neefs (1937-1980) Jarkko Antikainen (b. 1950) Wiki for him and Laura Laura Antikainen (née Ruotsalo) (b. 1949) Frida Boccara (1940-1996) Siw Malmkvist (b. 1936) Muriel Day (b. 1942) Iva Zanicchi (b. 1940) Romuald (b. 1938) Jean-Jacques Bortolai (b. 1956) French Wiki Lenny Kuhr (b. 1950) Kirsti Sparboe (b. 1946) Simone de Oliveira (b. 1938) Salomé (b. 1939) Tommy Körberg (b. 1948) Paola del Medico (b. 1950) Lulu (b. 1948) Ivica Krajač (b. 1938) - part of Ivan and 4M Croatian Wiki Branko Marušić (1937-2012) - part of Ivan and 4M Saša Sablić (can’t find info) - part of Ivan and 4M Željko Ružić (can’t find info) - part of Ivan and 4M

Don't speak too soon, I believe the tories will get another majority at the next election, Starmer is too boring/wooden/out of touch with working class Britain to be a PM, too woke and indecisive too, just Ed Miliband with a bit more grey matter Boundary changes, ID cards, giving expats the vote, tax cuts, culture wars, will all combine to give Tories a majority, plus Labour losing the muslim vote too Starmer won't be PM after next election imho

Interesting, only just found this thread & I remember a week back finding out Sally Oppenheim, who used to be the shadow secretary of state for prices and consumer protection back in late 70s is Turning 96 in July! If I knew she was still about could've been a decent deathlist candidate.

Gerald Harper (title role in Adam Adamant & Hadleigh) is 93 next month John Barratt (BBC tennis commentator 1971-2006) is 93 in April - married to Angela Mortimer a former Wimbledon champion