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Similar age as Julian Sands. Perhaps in your sixties your mind writes cheques your body can’t quite cash. I’m starting to feel it myself. Could have been a fall or even a heart attack like Robin Cook. I’ll explain what a ‘cheque’ is some other time.

Michael Mosley's body reportedly found

I’m happy to be corrected on this but I think this year is the first year there has been no fatalities at the TT since 1982.

Maybe says everything about the terrain in that area that one of the police officers at the scene had to be stretchered away with a leg injury. https://x.com/davidhbrown/status/1799728501110780050?s=61&t=hkSjmZZYj4UaY8qO8XYzFA

Banana opens the round with Bangladeshi actress Rista Laboni Shimana. We've been a little short on those subcontinent names this year, haven't we? She was discovered in a casting show in 2006 and had been a steady figure in TV shows, commercials, modeling, and the like. A nasty brain hemorrhage unfortunately ended her life at only 39. In other news, wannamaker's joker Dr. Mazeika Sullivan already died in May, but it was only revealed on the 4th of this month. According to the rules then, wannamaker is "Out of luck", and has to continue without those joker points. But then, even if he had died a day later, there's no obit coming up. There's the legacy obit that doesn't count: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/dr-sean-mazeika-sullivan-obituary?id=55283305 If nobody else has the strong wish to take over, I will probably host for another year. And I think I have to set the bar for qualification for the academic types a little higher - I might even be doing the players a favour with this... But then wannamaker's first sub would have been Mamie Loverock who is "miraculously recovering". So, it's probably a wash anyway. GuyFromFuture 0-0 wannamaker Banana 4-0 max_bossetti

Funny that as I feel we have a moral mission to bring down this government! Couldn't believe Laura K was still defending Sunak over fucking off from the D-Day stuff. Even for her!

Oh I think a few bigger names will fall but if the task is widest defeat for a sitting MP then the former Scottish justice minister is a top candidate IMO! I thought Bridgen was standing for Reform but he's just an independent. Even Frank Field got gubbed as an independent and he ain't no Frank Field.

So it’s one mile to do the boring walk from Pedi back to Symi where they are staying. It’s hot but I’m bored with lying on the beach so I’m looking for something a bit more adventurous. What stands out on that top map as something a bit more interesting? It’s the roughly 3 mile walk round the coast to have a look at that island on the right hand side. That’s what I would have done and that’s what he’s done too. And then something’s gone wrong.

@TQR... I can't post my team right now, but 14 Cover Drive — Twilight is a missing option/song since yesterday.

I don't know about any of that but that Capricorn One film? Definitely a fake.

He’s a nutcase. Look at his post history. Let’s just hope he hasn’t reproduced.

I hope you're joking. The idea that two completely ideologically opposed superpowers engaged in a phantom space race that resulted in humans stepping on another world for the first time and neither took the opportunity to definitively prove their rivals are a fraud is frankly laughable. The space race was a logical evolution of the rocket technology pioneered by von Braun and others during World War 2 (guessing that was probably faked too...). Is the ISS also fake? Are the current tests of the Starliner and the Falcon Super Heavy also fake? Again, an evolution of what came before. Surely a conspiracy nut like Elon would be shouting from the rooftops if it turned out we'd never been to the moon the first time around? I swear there's only 2 reasons you lot make claims like this: either you're doing it for shits and giggles (most likely) or you have some warped idea that by continuously denying the existence of space travel and the shape of the earth, someone's going to invite you into a rocket to see space for yourself. Nobody can be this dense.

It's both amazing and horrible that society lets lobotomites access both electronics and the internet.

Maybe it's another Shelly Duvall? Since the actress spells her name Shelley.

09.06.2024 52 John Newman — Love Me Again 47 Lorde — Royals +4 44 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 42 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 41 Coldplay — Paradise 41 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky 40 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker 40 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum 39 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball 31 Avicii — Wake Me Up 31 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 31 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 31 Jessie J — Domino 29 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent) 28 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone 27 Rihanna — Diamonds 25 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 25 OneRepublic — Counting Stars  23 Katy Perry — Part Of Me 23 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 23 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 22 Little Mix — Wings 21 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now 20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 19 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child 15 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La 14 Cover Drive — Twilight 14 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know 12 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful 10 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX — I Love It -6

9/6/24 52 John Newman — Love Me Again 44 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 43 Lorde — Royals 42 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum 42 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 41 Coldplay — Paradise 41 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky +1 40 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker 39 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball 31 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent) 31 Avicii — Wake Me Up 31 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 31 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 31 Jessie J — Domino 28 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone 26 Rihanna — Diamonds 25 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 24 OneRepublic — Counting Stars +3 23 Katy Perry — Part Of Me 23 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 23 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 22 Little Mix — Wings 21 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child 21 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now 20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 15 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX — I Love It 15 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La 14 Cover Drive — Twilight 13 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know -6 12 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful Cover Drive correction added.

Honeymooners reference!

Chet Walker, who played for the Philadelphia 76ers (1962-1969) and Chicago Bulls (1969-1975), dead at 84. He was a 7-time all-star, won the NBA championship in 1969, and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012.

9/6/24 52 John Newman — Love Me Again 44 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 43 Lorde — Royals 42 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum 42 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 41 Coldplay — Paradise 40 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky 40 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker 35 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball 31 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent) +4 31 Avicii — Wake Me Up 31 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 31 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 31 Jessie J — Domino 28 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone 26 Rihanna — Diamonds 25 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 23 Katy Perry — Part Of Me 23 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 23 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 22 Little Mix — Wings 21 OneRepublic — Counting Stars  21 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child 21 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now 20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 19 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know 18 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful 15 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX — I Love It +4 15 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La 00 Ellie Goulding — Bum -6 Oooh that was satisfying. Thanks @Clorox Bleachman

https://twitter.com/PoliticsMoments/status/1796556148688265262/photo/1 Let the Bar Chart wars recommence...

And so they then were, until Putin decided to do his best Hitler tribute act. I realised today that it never occurred to me the other day how symbolic the photo of Cameron, Macron, Scholtz and Biden was. The German Chancellor is actually representing the enemy on D-Day. The transformation in European relations since 1945 is astonishing. We cannot let the nationalist fervour sweeping Europe take over. It is a tragedy that Russia is being brainwashed back into a Cold War mentality.

Remember when the Tories were claiming Starmer having a day off from campaigning meant he was too old to be Prime Minister? Well, while still campaigning, guess who is the only party leader hiding from the press today? It won't take you long... I actually watched Thursday's D-Day ceremony on BBC1 this morning, as I was at work and missed it. Very moving, clearly a massive international effort and a real sense of fraternity between the different countries and troops. How on earth Sunak ever came the decision (general election or not, and it was "not" when he made the decision apparently) that it would be ok to skip the international ceremony because he'd attended the UK ceremony is beyond me. The whole point of D-Day was that it was a full-scale Allied invasion. Brits, Canadians, Americans, French and Polish, not to mention Australians and New Zealanders and others were involved in the Normandy landings. It was the very definition of international cooperation in the face of a common enemy. Sunak came in, did a little reading, spent a bit of time talking to the veterans and buggered off. He embarrassed us on the world stage on the last significant anniversary the D-Day veterans will see. Bravo Prime Minister. Thankfully, you won't be around for the next one.

Continuing with the above list from 1930 to 1934. 1930 Gene Hackman: legendary actor, looks very wough nowadays. Gary Snyder: American hippy poet, quite frail. Stephen Smale: one of the greatest mathematician of the last century, and often suspected of un-American activities. Off the radar for a while. Clint Eastwood: A-lister filmmaker, doing well despite having recently declined a bit. Jasper Johns: contemporary artist, doing well? Buzz Aldrin: original moonwalker, recently declined a bit. Stay away from flying aircrafts! Marie Bashir: longtime governor of New South Wales. Bilijana Plavsic: Yugoslav war criminal, was in critical condition with COVID during the pandemic. Vigdis Finnbogadottir: Icelandic president, in excellent health. José Sarney: Immortal Brazilian dictator, has suffered many ailments inclunding pleural effusion, strokes and serious falls in recent years. 1931 Heisuke Hironaka: Great Japanese mathematician, doing great in May 2024, frequently interviewed by the media. Leslie Caron: actress and dancer, has been frail for a few years. Rupert Murdoch: Australian mogul, serious health issues do not seem to affect him that much. Roger Penrose: Mathematical genius, Nobel Prize winner and controversial philosopher, doing astoundingly well. John Milnor: huge mathematician of the 20th century, health has probably declined in the last few years. Willie Mays: HoF baseball player, doing well but a bit frail Edwin Meese: US attorney general, still active in law and politics. Norman Tebbit: decrepit right wing politician, in failing health for years. Marjorie Jackson-Nelson: Governor of South Australia and Olympic athlete. Quite off the spotlight now. Jean Berko Gleason: psycholinguist, doing very well. 1932 The Wizard of New Zealand: political activist and nutshell, frail but still active. Walter Gilbert: Nobel Prize, doing well like those old immortal academics. Jacques Roubaud: French poet and mathematician. Louis de Branges de Bourcia: French-American mathematician, not heard so much nowadays. Alvin Plantinga: huge American philosopher, still active? Lady Antonia Fraser: British writer, survived a serious fall some years ago, has been on borrowed time for a while. Erró: Iceland greatest painter. John Searle: philosopher and alleged molester, now quite under the radar. Roy Hattersley: Brit politician, doing well though a bit decrepit. John Williams: legendary composer, bounced back from rough health. 1933 Roman Polanski: director and nonce, doing depressingly well. Yoko Ono: pain in the ass, suffered from Lewy body dementia for years, fucking overdue. Amartya Sen: Nobel Prize winner, suffered from every type of cancer for fifty years, fucking overdue. Joan Collins: actress, doing extremely well. John Burgee: architect, disciple of Philip Johnson, a bit off the spotlight now. Michael Caine: legendary for his film with Steven Seagal, frail but overall doing well. Michael Heseltine: Brit politician, doing incredibly well. James Meredith: civil rights icon, fell last year during his 90th birthday celebrations and looks a bit frail. Michael Dukakis: losing presidential candidate, doing well. Not so his wife. Al McCoy: Pheonic Suns announcer, retired last year, but still ocasionally commenting. 1934 Alan Garner: British novelist, doing well? Brigitte Bardot: French sex symbol of the 60s. Multiple health issues, most recently on oxygen for respiratory failure. Bud Selig: baseball commisioner, looks good due to a pact with the devil and his hairdresser. Piers Anthony: science-fiction writer, the classic name who could drop dead at any moment. Ralph Nader: legendary political activist and a clean bill of health. Wole Soyinka: Nobel Prize for literature, prostate cancer sufferer, variously rumored dead. Tony Hoare: one of the greatest computer scientists, these guys seem to go on forever. Sophia Loren: Italian sex symbol, suffered serious fall last year but bounced back. Carlo Rubbia: Nobel Prize winner and senator, doing very well. Jane Goodall: legendary ecologist, doing incredibly well.

Since the very notable names born in the 20s are fading out, here's a quick list, from 1924 to 1929, of the 10 people whose Wiki page was created the earliest, for each year. 1924 Jimmy Carter: former POTUS, Absolute King of Immortals, God of Deathlist Robert G. Shulman: American biophysicist, doing very well. Eve Marie Saint: American relic actress, in good health... 6 years ago. Tomiichi Murayama: Japanese PM, minor issues here and there. Khamtai Siphandone: likely on life support for a while, uberfrail. Charlie Smith Dannelly: North Carolina State Senator, doing well. Marshall Allen: Sun Ra Arkestra leader, doing unexplicably well for a hard-living character like him. William H. Webster: former FBI director, doing very well. Torsten Wiesel: Nobel Prize, doing very well despite having declined a bit recently. Lee Adams: Lyricist. 1925 Leo Esaki: Nobel Prize, still doing very well. Mahathir Mohamad: Malaysian legendary PM, extensive heart issues, miracolusly doing well. Daniel J. Evans: senator and governor, frail but recently less frail than before. Ann Fagan Ginger: political activist, still doing well. Dick Van Dyke: DL legend, still doing very well. Roy Haynes: Jazz legend, unexplicably alive despite hard living for 99 years. Peter Murray: British DJ and DL pick, quite overdue at this point. Alan Bergman: recently widowed composer. Adele Addison: operatic singer, Van Vetchen's portrait, not seen in a while? June Lockhart: Lessie's mum and perennial dead pool pick, not seen in a while? 1926 Mel Brooks: comedy legend, still well, but won't be a surprising death just in case. David Attenborough: Brit legend who is reportedly doing well, but I think he has vastly declined recently. Alan Greenspan: US economist, fading from the public scene quickly. Jean-Pierre Serre: French mathematical genius, still acting as he is in his 30s, but for how long? Tsung Dao-lee: Nobel Prize and Immortal, not seen in years. Lou Donaldson: Jazz saxophonist and another unexplicably longeve guy. Gyorgy Kurtag: legendary composer, still giving interviews last year. Abdoulaye Wade: Senegalese president and Immortal. Rumoured dead multiple times, but seemingly unsinkable. Roscoe Bartlett: Legendary US representative, now living off-grid. George Ariyoshi: Hawaii governor, very frail for years. 1927 William J. Perry: Secretary of Defense who was scammed by Theranos, doing incredibly well. Herbert Blomstedt: Swedish conductor, hospitalised in December, but still working. Vernon L. Smith: autistic Nobel Prize, unsinkable. John Kander: composer, doing very well. Pierre Alechinsky: fuck, is he still alive? Major avant garde artist. Doc Severinsen: Jonny Carson's sidekick, doing well. LK Advani: BJP patriarch, frail. Marcel Ophuls: another one "still fucking alive"? William Labov: apparently huge name in sociology. Leontyne Price: American soprano, a bit overdue at this point. 1928 Desmond Morris: ethologist, DL pick, doing well. James Watson: Nobel Prize who faked dying for years in order to avoid obvious controversies stemming from his ideas. Noam Chomsky: DL pick, on the brink of death for months. Tom Lehrer: legendary comedic songwriter, very reclusive. Jean Marie Le Pen: immortal patriarch of French right wing, hospitalised multiple times in recent years, bit overdue. Zhu Rongji: Chinese PM, has suffered from Parkinson's for the last ten years, permanently hospitalised for five years. Hans Blix: OH, NO, HANS BRIX! Elias James Corey: Nobel Prize, father of the retrosynthetic approach and known in the field to be quite a slaver. John Little: MIT professor, Little's law namesake. Dr. Ruth Westheimer: survived massive stroke last year. 1929 Jurgen Habermas: disfigured German sociologist, WW2 veteran. Frank Gehry: legendary architect. Len Deighton: British writer who feels a bit overdue. Bob Newhart: Comedic genius who has been dying for the last five years. Alfred Moisiu: Overweight Albanian president, doing incredibly well. Eddie Stobart: agriculture fuhrer of UK, not seen in a while? Hal Lindsey: apocalyptic prophet, not seen in years. Eric Kandel: Nobel Prize, doing well as you expect from decrepit academics. Jim Whittaker: legendary climber and mountaineer, going strong. Ramon Luis Rivera: Puerto Rican retired politician, looks frail.

8 reasons why Farage didn't stand as an MP: Eastleigh '94 Salisbury '97 Bexhill and Battle '01 South Thanet '05 Bromley and Chislehurst '05 Buckingham '10 South Thanet '15 Shit Useless '64-present