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Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark dead at 85.

Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark (Wiki) dead at 85

To be honest, I'm so sick of the lot of them I wish they'd just fuck off completely for 5 years. Who bloody cares who leads them or 'unifies' them? How do you unify a disparate bunch of self-serving narcissists anyway? What's the collective for narcissists? Can you even have a group for narcissists? "These and other questions will be answered in the next episode of...." (quiz, what's the show? Only those of a certain age need apply )

Jim Davis, creator of Garfield, is 79.

Sun 28 Jul 41 Queen - I Want to Break Free 40 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 40 Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey - Together in Electric Dreams +4 40 Bronski Beat — Smalltown Boy 38 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill 37 Nik Kershaw - The Riddle  37 Ultravox - Dancing with Tears in My Eyes 36 Tina Turner - What’s Love Got to Do With It 30 Tina Turner - We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) 26 Madonna - Like a Virgin 25 Stevie Wonder - Part-Time Lover  15 Bananarama - Robert De Niro’s Waiting 12 The Commodores - Nightshift 12 U2 - Pride (In The Name of Love) 11 Elton John - Nikita 11 Dee C. Lee - See the Day -1 09 Madonna - Material Girl 00 Baltimora— Tarzan Boy -5 My mum was pretty homophobic. Although if she liked a gay person she would overlook them being "like that", to use her terminology. She loved 'Smalltown Boy' though. She never realised what it was about.

I left the US in 2019 after living there for 23 years. For most of my time there I had the idea that Americans kept guns for hunting animals for food, for target practice (inanimate objects), and self-defense, or when their freedoms and liberties were threatened. Could be some of them even told me this. Turns out that for the frequency of their discharges of firearms toddlers are considered "well-regulated militia"; school children, cafe patrons, churchgoers, and mall shoppers are Constitutional threats because why else would they be shot, with their hands full or attention elsewhere; but some doddering, compromised, convicted felon running for nation leadership and a mostly conservative Supreme Court are no cause for anxiety and no impetus to preserve freedom and liberty, according to a large number of Americans. Either that, or collective untreated mental illness has accumulated over the last quarter-century in the U.S.

There was an article in the Independent suggesting that Cruella is having difficulty getting the 10 nominations together for a leadership bid. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/suella-braverman-tory-leadership-robert-jenrick-b2585995.html

He reportedly was the last living great-grandchild of King Christian IX of Denmark (r. 1863-1906)

Saw this last night at Wembley. Nobody's uploaded it yet, so Stockholm will have to do. I love Nikita ! Interestingly it's a song that was "of its time", but sadly that time has come around again. Also of its time, he chose the name Nikita because most people would think it was about a woman.

28th July 49 Lewis Capaldi — Someone You Loved 44 Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa — One Kiss -6 38 Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper — Shallow +4 38 Benny Blanco, Halsey & Khalid — Eastside 36 Jess Glynne — I’ll Be There 34 Lil Nas X — Old Town Road 31 Ava Max — Sweet But Psycho 28 Ariana Grande — Thank U, Next 28 Stormzy — Vossi Bop 28 Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello — Señorita 23 Calvin Harris & Sam Smith — Promises 20 Dave ft. Fredo — Funky Friday 18 Ed Sheeran ft. Stormzy — Take Me Back To London 17 Ariana Grande — 7 Rings 16 Ed Sheeran ft. Khalid — Beautiful People 16 Ariana Grande — Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored 06 Demi Lovato ft. Clean Bandit — Solo

Gail Lumet Buckley, author who chronicled her family history in two volumes, died 18 July, aged 86. Not insignificantly, the family is the Horne family, whose number included Buckley's mother, Lena. The Lumet in her name is from director Sidney, to whom she was once married.

Martin Phillipps, only constant member of Dunedin band The Chills, dead at 61. https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-national/chills-martin-phillipps-dead-61

And coincidentally Sir Garfield 'Gary' Sobers is 88 today!

I'd love to own a few pairs as well. Preferably after I'd removed them from some of those gymnasts.

https://www.ewrestlingnews.com/news/wwe/abdullah-the-butcher-hospitalized-in-georgia Abdullah The Butcher not doing so good apparently.

Thread for Namibia's founding father Sam Nujoma. Currently hospitalised with infection, and has already been hospitalised twice this year. Last African president born in the 20s and last "founding father" left in Africa. Led a war against South Africa for 23 years, and was president for 15 years. Behind his mask as a respected statesman, he is a cunt who launched large scale repression and deportation of homosexuals in Namibia in 2001, spent his retirement defending Mugabe and called multiple times for every German person in Namibia "to be shot in the head" and for English to be "hit with a hammer". The amount of hate for him on social media is impressive. Could be a 2025 DL candidate.

Wagner Group's military leader and longtime Africa warlord Anton Yelizarov has reportedly been ambushed and killed in Mali by Tuareg rebels.

True, although McMichael and Carter's jokers are negated somewhat by sheer numbers of people picking them, so they wont make the final difference. Although Barr was worth less points than Burrow, Irwin, Draper and Doherty, arguably it was the biggest gain overall due to just 1 other of the top 25 picking her (20 point gain, compared to 13 for Burrow and 12 for the other three).... If this makes sense?

Very sad news. The Lyn Scully era was around the time that my Neighbours fandom was coming to an end but she was amazing as Reb Kean in Prisoner. RIP.

Video here of Abby in the hospital.

28/7/24 46 Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa — One Kiss 45 Lewis Capaldi — Someone You Loved 38 Benny Blanco, Halsey & Khalid — Eastside 34 Lil Nas X — Old Town Road +2 32 Jess Glynne — I’ll Be There 31 Ava Max — Sweet But Psycho +2 30 Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper — Shallow 28 Ariana Grande — Thank U, Next 28 Stormzy — Vossi Bop 24 Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello — Señorita 23 Calvin Harris & Sam Smith — Promises 22 Ed Sheeran ft. Khalid — Beautiful People 20 Dave ft. Fredo — Funky Friday 20 Ariana Grande — 7 Rings 18 Ed Sheeran ft. Stormzy — Take Me Back To London 17 Ariana Grande — Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored 09 Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds — Three Lions 09 Demi Lovato ft. Clean Bandit — Solo -6 08 Drake — Nice For What

It’s nice to catch up on old posts now and then.

Who cares? Seriously. Let people talk amongst themselves. I don't find myself agreeing with Windsor often but he is 100% right here. It's a website and not a job and people gossip about whatever the hell they want to if it relates to the subject at hand. A huge part of what makes this forum the place it is that it's a great place to find information and the banter amongst ourselves also does that. I dunno what this sudden change is about. Has someone told you that you are been considered for mod on this site? For real, this site isn't losing anything by having a relaxed enforcement of on topic rules. I don't see any threads anywhere about how deathlist is losing it credibility because of off topic discussion. The only thing I do see this site losing is visitors if you ever become mod here. Like seriously, a site can become so overmoderated that people lose interest.

It should because I created it. This isn’t a serious job. It’s a fucking website.

An interesting pool and a very nice host. I'm ready to play again!