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Milka Mesić, 2nd First Lady of Croatia from 2000 to 2010, has died aged 85. Her husband, former President of Croatia Stjepan Mesić, will be turning 90 in two months. She is the second First Lady (out of 5) to die, after her predecessor Ankica Tudman, and the first to die before her husband.

"Influencer" ! She won't fucking influence me.

Geoff Capes should probably go in here too, as he was definitely a summer Olympian if never a medallist. For those too young, he was also the third most famous Brit of the 1970s, after Brian ‘squat thrusts and parallel bars dips’ Jacks and Dickie O’Sullivan, obviously.

Alan Sacks, who along with series star Gabe Kaplan and with Peter Meyerson co-created the 1970s sitcom "Welcome Back Kotter", has died. He was 81. https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/alan-sacks-dead-welcome-back-kotter-1236189049/

There is seriously no better place to put Geoff Capes, athletics legend, household name and world's strongest man, then the This is your life thread??

The worst kind of deaths imho

24/10/2024 46 Louis Armstrong— We Have All The Time in the World 43 Enigma - Return to Innocence +4 42 Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix) 42 Bobby Brown - Two Can Play That Game (K Klassic Mix) 41 Youssou N’Dour ft. Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds 41 Suede - Stay Together 22 Scatman John - Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) -4 22 Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey - Endless Love 18 Freak Power - Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out 18 EMF and Reeves & Mortimer - I’m a Believer  16 East 17 - It’s Alright  15 Wet Wet Wet - Julia Says  13 Nightcrawlers - Push the Feeling On -1 13 East 17 - Around the World -1

Mango isnt a troll, im afraid. He just has a severe case of OCD

24/Oct/2024 62 Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera — Moves Like Jagger +2 56 Katy Perry — Teenage Dream 49 Aloe Blacc — I Need A Dollar +2 45 Adele — Rolling In The Deep 31 Take That — The Flood -6 29 Labrinth ft. Tinie Tempah — Earthquake 28 Calvin Harris ft. Kelis — Bounce 28 Emeli Sande — Heaven 22 Rihanna — Rude Boy 14 Calvin Harris — Feel So Close 14 The Wanted — Lightning 14 Robbie Williams & Gary Barlow — Shame

Trump claimed at his latest rally that Jimmy Carter voted for him.

This is just incorrect.

Someone just edited the page of Nobel laureate chemist Rudolph A. Marcus (wiki) to say he died on October 22nd, aged 101. Looked quite frail in a picture of him in July when he was using a Zimmer frame. The editor's IP is Texas-based and has no previous edit histories. Let's just wait and see I guess...

I predict Trump will win all swing states. He might very narrowly win Minnesota and New Hampshire, although unlikely. If he wins Minnesota, he will be the first Republican to flip it red in 50+ years. In addition to that, if Trump wins this election then he will be the first US president to serve two non-consecutive terms in over 130 years (the last being Grover Cleveland).

Myra McFadyen (IMDb), Scottish actress who starred in Mamma Mia! as Elena, dead at 68. No idea who she was, but ppl won't shut up about her across social media so I assume some ppl recognise her.

I agree that the race is a toss up and could go either way, but of I am asked to choose between the two, it's slightly leaning towards Trump at the moment.

It really is going to come down to North Carolina and Pennsylvania. If Trump wins both, he's back in office. Right now, he is slightly leading in NC, and Pa is too close to call, but a few poll's show him leading. I'm personally predicting a Trump victory in November. Even Nate Silver has him as the favorite at the moment.

I'd say that's accurate - the only experts I trust are those who say you can't trust the polls because it's so tight and so vicious that those people talking to pollsters can't be trusted. Oddly, BBC did remind us that the pollsters pretty much got it wrong in the last two US elections. Clinton looked good to go eight years back. Basically, there are people voting for Trump who hate him but want more of their own money in their own bank account, other die-hard Republicans who can't stand him and will vote against him thinking a defeat now the best outcome for the political values that informed Republicanism before Trump, anyone sympathetic to the Palestinian cause might desert the Democrats because they see them as selling out on this issue (and typically muslims have gone Democrat in the past), and then there's Harris' problem of being largely unknown until the last few weeks. An absolute melting pot where anything could happen, the nightmare scenario is a Bush/Gore style photo finish that'd tip the country into complete instability, and that could easily happen.

All I know is that I don't want Trump to win.

Got a BBC breaking news notification.

Geoff Capes, strongest man and TV personality, reported dead: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/athletics/2024/10/23/geoff-capes-dies-aged-75-world-strongman-shot-put/

He released this song on his Youtube channel (13 million subs) 7 days ago. Nice timing, lol. The song he posted 8 months ago seems interesting, lol.

If any of you want a fun fact about Jimmy Carter's longevity, given that George lowered it's voting age to 18 in 1943, Jimmy is one of very few people to have to opportunity to vote for both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Kamala Harris.

I'd not worry about it, your finger is on the pulse compared to mine, I thought she sang 'I will survive'.

Ok, we get it, you don’t like the Yahoo UK rule. Can you end your pointless campaign? It’s already been established that you hold the minority view on this, so it’s unlikely the rule is going to change, no matter how much you scream and shout and stomp your feet.

CJ Sansom, British writer of historical novels featuring Matthew Shardlake, reportedly dead: