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In light of many of our Deadpools being condemned, I'd just like to congratulate Wormfarmer on making this competition that isn't a pile of shit

Rick Stein - not the UK chef. Nor a man to let death get in the way of practical jokes if his obituary is anything to go by.

Goodness, all these new posts on pool topics - I thought somebody must have died. But it's just another Deathray rampage. Been a while.

Wow, theoldlady, I didn't realise you were that old.

All those people (inc. me) who voted for Bracknell, and once again, they'll all be wrong. This competition is a pile of shit.

If TJS holds on, or DITD win, it'll be the first DDP winner with a unique hit since 2014.

Could he not have bought tickets, for, I dunno, a Piers Morgan lecture tour instead?

Not radical enough. Legalise the lot for adults. Just under 50% of the entire US prison population is directly drug related (source). And that's not counting offences committed to pay for drugs or violence surrounding the supply because everyone involved is by definition operating illegally. The total budget for US prisons in 2016 was just over 7 billion dollars (source). On a pro-rata basis that's about 3.5 billion dollars annually for drug related crime, again not counting crimes committed peripheral to drug use. Spend some of the money on education about the dangers of drug use (as is done with alcohol). Spend the rest on healthcare or housing or parks or space programmes.....not on locking up non-violent offenders who now won't be offenders anyway. US sources used as easier to find in the 20 seconds I spent looking.

then again …

Shit on it! Courtesy of a ludicrously busy time at work, I've missed yet another meltdown on here

Banned after 3 posts. Love this place.

Nooo-ooo FFS - get him better for the 02 I should mention at this point that the mate who actually bought us Ozzy tickets has form (having once secured us tickets for Motorhear/Saxon/Girlschool cancelled when Lemmy died a month before and also having bought tickets for him and his wife to see Jacko's This is it tour) All that bollocks about these things happening in threes is just bollocks, right?

LOL well spotted @Deadpool

Newton looks more like Frank Skinner is a wig to me.

Bruce Whitman, Chairman, President & CEO of FlightSafety has died aged 85. Mentioned primarily because I used to work for them.

Neighbour who found her said it was a Grissom discovery.

Jacques Chirac replaces Doug Ellis on my 2019 list.

Valerie Harper.

1987: Osbourne (1/31) 1989: Bruno, Ditka, Osbourne, Brian Wilson, Jenkins (5/32) 1990: Queen Elizabeth II, Alliss, Ditka, Williams, Winfrey, Waite (6/42) 1991: Beenhakker (1/40) 1992: Ryder (1/37) 1993: Bennett, Kissinger, Ray Kennedy, Lineker, Jerry Lee Lewis (5/56) 1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Shilton (3/50) 1995: Holly Johnson, Connery (2/50) 1996: Mr T (1/50) 1997: Kirk Douglas (1/50) 1998: (0/50) 1999: Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50) 2000: Farrakhan (1/50) 2001: Tutu, Minelli, Wouk (3/50) 2002: Kirk Douglas (1/50) 2003: (0/50) 2004: Musharraf, Kirk Douglas, Mugabe (3/50) 2005: Karzai, Maradona, de Havilland (3/50) 2006: Kirk Douglas, Lynn, Bouteflika (3/50) 2007: Tim Johnson, Kirk Douglas, de Havilland, Lynn, Farrakhan (5/50) 2008: Kirk Douglas, Lynn, Watson, Karzai, Charles Taylor (5/50) 2009: Kirk Douglas, Cardin (2/50) 2010: Kirk Douglas, Wouk, de Havilland, Tork, Edrich, Bough, Lansbury (7/50) 2011: Kirk Douglas, de Havilland, Edrich, Khamenei, Dole, Cheney, Cardin, Lynn, Michael Douglas, (9/50) 2012: Kirk Douglas, Wouk, de Havilland, Mubarak, Lawson, Kissinger, Mugabe, Van Dyke, Randi, Gaddafi (10/50) 2013: Clive James, Bush, Prince Philip, Mubarak, Kirk Douglas, de Havilland, Lynn, Dole, Day, Stan Lee, Kissinger, Parsons (12/50) 2014: Wilko Johnson, de Havilland, Harper, Clive James, Prince Philip, Lynn, Kirk Douglas, Perez de Cuellar, Stan Lee, Randi, Bush, Van Dyke, Bennett, Asner (14/50) 2015: Wouk, de Havilland, Perez de Cuellar, Bush, Prince Philip, Douglas, James, Valerie Harper, Phillips, Kercheval, Dole, Day,Kissinger, Mubarak, Mugabe, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Lynn, Large (18/50) 2016: de Havilland, Wouk, Perez de Cuellar, Kirk Douglas, Prince Phillip, Randi, Clive James, Dole, Scales, Carter, Kissinger,Chong, Bush, Phillips, Lynn, Gall, Tutu, Piggott, Stan Lee, Walker, Greaves, Banks, Chirac, Gascoigne (24/50) 2017: Kirk Douglas, Lynn, Prince Phillip, Cardin, Stan Lee, de Haviland, Wouk, Dole, Bracknell, Carter, Phillips, Mugabe, Perez de Cuellar, Betty White, Stiles, Queen Elizabeth, Gascoine, Barker, Bush, Blackman, St John, Prowse, Gall, Benedict, Mubarak, Tutu, Akihito, Byrne, Harper (29/50) Updated for Doug Ellis.

Was in the school where Auntie Phil teaches the other week. On the library window there is still a sticker asking to keep looking, with the original picture of a wean. Honest tae fuck, a wee bit of effort required.

George Taliaferro, the first African-American to be drafted by an NFL team, has died. He was 91. Taliaferro was selected in the 13th round of the 1949 draft by the Chicago Bears. https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2018/10/08/first-african-american-drafted-nfl-george-taliaferro-dies-91-iu-hoosiers/1574059002/

If that were my theme team I would probably call it Slay Away

Uh, um...Apollo 13.

The Terminal

He did make a public appearance again, but by fuck the video in the link is awful. https://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/16966781.gers-ace-fernando-ricksen-speaks-at-ibrox-for-thanks-to-special-computer/ * he's in hospital since, 'suspected chest infection' as a result of over exertion at Greyskull..........