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  1. 4 points
    I'm still hopeful that Hunt will snatch it in the last ballot. Historically, the front-runner stumbles in the final ballot and Boris is very stumble-able. Crikey. For Jeremy Hunt to be the hopeful option for our next PM is a desperately sorry indictment for this country, isn't it?
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    fyi, frontpage updates are gonna be a few days behind for the next few days as I've got some pretty big stuff going on elsewhere.
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    My theory: Johnson becomes PM. A Motion of No Confidence is tabled by Corbyn. 66% of MPs need to agree. Opposition benches ≈ 50% of MPs. >16% of Tories needed to rebel and force a General Election. Looking at how many Tories willing to do that (Clarke, Hammond, Grieve etc etc), that's doable. GE happens. Very hung parliament. Brexit Party gets votes, but only a single digit figure of seats, thus no feasible CON-BRX coalition. LD, SNP, GRN, PC (& IND if any) agree to support LAB in a minority govt on the proviso that a 2nd ref is called. Corbyn agrees. 2nd ref happens. Remain wins by 4-6 points. We end up with a propped-up LAB govt by accident, the last 3 years going down the pan. Deep-cut division remains. Everyone hates each other. Corbyn stokes the fire. New govt last about as long as a Chuka Umunna party membership. Corbyn is forced out mercilessly, as Johnson was. Another GE happens, between Gove (who'll somehow fuck Johnson over again when the first GE is lost) and new LAB leader Jess Phillips. Phillips looks popular and a dead cert to become our 4th different PM in the space of 18 months, having won over the public by rolling a fag during a televised debate hosted by a greying Fiona Bruce, but Gove wins in a Major-esque surprise landslide. PM Gove says he always believed in Remain and the 4% of the electorate who are bothering to vote anymore just resolve not to question him out of sheer world-weariness. He lasts nearly 2 years, before his wife tells him to come home because she's having to have an affair with a fellow spiteful Mail columnist, and his daughter is pregnant with a drug baby. Rory Stewart is elected the new leader unopposed, as there are no longer enough MPs willing to give a shit enough to even fight for a Cabinet position. The UK has been weakened so much by the previous few years that the EU is holding a vote over whether to force A50 to trigger again and Donald Trump has bought Westminster and plans on turning it into a golf resort with a helipad made of platinum and fragments from the atom bomb that hit China 2 months prior. Nobody here noticed that happened as we've no longer the money to import Chinese goods anyway.
  4. 2 points
    Well it's a cunt or a Johnson who's also a cunt.
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    Alex Trebek looking and sounding pretty good as the final presenter at the NHL Awards, aired live on Wednesday night. Was also seated in the front row when James Holzhauer helped present an award earlier in the evening, so a reunion of sorts.
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    Where's Guy Fawkes now that we need him?
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    That era's animators had very impressive endurance. At this time three years ago, Willis Pyle just died, and Ruthie Tompson, Milton Quon, Don Lusk, Tyrus Wong, and X Atencio were all still alive, plus Bob Givens for Warner Bros. All but the last two lived to be centenarians, and now just Tompson is left despite being the oldest of that lot. And that's not counting some of the early voice actors still left, thanks to Disney using child actors to voice child characters, or Marge Champion (used as a reference model for Snow White).
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    These 5 are fairly big names. Felton is the father of operating system GEORGE and a computer science pioneer who worked fo Ferranti. Wyrsch is one of the most revered living Swiss painters. Gruber was the first American archaeologist to lead an excavation in a Communist country (Czechoslovakia, 1966) I know Roothaan for useful Roothaan equations. Milton Quon, along with Ruthie Thompson, is the last pre-WWII Disney animator. I hope they all get their obits, they deserve them.
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    Indeed. Ruthie Tompson still alive and kicking. 109 this year!
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    Another 2 names to add: Clemens C. J. Roothaan, Dutch physicist dead at 100. Milton Quon, American animator for Walt Disney Studios dead at 105. Both awaiting reliable sources though it looks like Quon's son posted a tribute on Instagram.
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    Eddie Garcia dies aged 90. https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-eddie-garcia-dead-veteran-16546995
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    House isn't my area of expertise but Cassius were big, remember "1999" being all over the radio back in... well, 1999. He also produced what, imho, is one of the 100 greatest songs ever:
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    Jeopardy legend James Holzhauer donates his money to pancreatic cancer walk in honor of Trebek
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    Is this game going to run again?
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    Matt ‘cock is now backing Johnson in the leadership contest. In the interests of the people, you understand, not his career. Yeah. My arris. Unprincipled toilet.
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