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Tabloids love coercing elderly people into fighting their culture war for them. Dad’s Army has been heavily repeated by the BBC in great slots for 40+ years, more than pretty much any other sitcom. All of the Dad’s Army episodes are available uncut on DVD, on Britbox and often repeated. The BBC just put a warning for a racial slur before showing the film recently. Sounds pretty fair to me.

Bernard tapie dead : Bernard au tapis ! + 1 for my list, quite huge but not shocking

Worth noting also that Samuel Lombardo died in June, aged 101. The four 100-year-old World War II veterans who participated in the coin toss at Super Bowl LIV in Feb 2020: Odón S. Cardenas (b. 1919) Samuel Lombardo (1919–2021) Charles E. McGee (1919–2022) wiki Sidney Walton (1919–2021) wiki

Sidney Walton, 102-year old WWII mentioned on this forum atleast three times before (twice on pools in 2019 and in this year's MMMDP) dead according to multiple sources: https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/wwii-veteran-sidney-walton-dead-at-102/2734033/ Was on a tour with the goal of visiting all 50 states of the U.S. and meeting all 50 governors. Apparently only got to 40 out of 50, his last one was Oklahoma on tuesday.

Next (solo) hit for theoldlady and her pick Bernard Tapie!

You forgot his family curse

Obviously impossible to say with certainty but of his close relatives who died a natural death: Joseph Kennedy (father) - 81 Rose Kennedy (mother) - 104 Rosemary Kennedy (sister) - 86 Eunice Kennedy (sister) - 88 Patricia Kennedy (sister) - 82 Jean Kennedy (sister).- 92 Edward Kennedy (brother) - 77 If the Addison's disease hadn't been fatal then I reckon he'd have at least made it to mid 70s so would probably have died in the early to mid 1990s around the same time as his old adversary Richard Nixon. I don't think he'd have made very old bones as his general health wasn't great but his genes were good and would probably have prevented an early natural death.

Ed Beauvais, the co-founder and former CEO of America West Airlines, has died. He was 84. His oldest son Mark and he were behind the company's 1981 birth. The name disappeared in 2005 after a merger with US Airways. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2021/10/01/ed-beauvais-co-founder-and-former-ceo-america-west-airlines-dies-84/5959075001/

Alfredo Jadresic, chilean olympic high jumper has died at 96 https://www.uchile.cl/noticias/180203/u-de-chile-despide-al-medico-y-profesor-emerito-alfredo-jadresic (in Spanish)

Tomorrow's Daily Star. 90-year-old Frank Williams still well enough to declare war on the BBC for censoring episodes of Dad's Army.

Vu Khiêu vietnamese professor dead at 105 https://vietnamnews.vn/society/1051002/professor-cultural-researcher-vu-khieu-passed-away-aged-105.html

Considering his Addison’s Disease, I reckon he would have died in January 1985, aged 67.

Phil Collins. Thank me in 2022 (if I don't die before then).

Well - we've got to consider the following: Likely re-election ahead of him. Immense stress put upon his shoulders. Constant cocktails of drugs, likely addiction there Addison's disease Back problems Risk taker with sporting And all of this culminates in a likely early death - he's unlikely to have made the 80s. Even if he had, he would be fully wheelchair-bound. He said himself he only expected to live to around 1957. Edit: Oh, and, autopsy had traces of Pott's disease.

Cross-posting here, because this time, the rumours were true!

Robert Mugabe's vengeful spirit is killing his enemies as they debate a re-burial, his family claims: https://www.newzimbabwe.com/mugabes-bitter-vengeful-spirit-decimating-foes-family-claims/

Robert Munsch: who previously battled alcoholism and a cocaine addiction (and suffered a stroke in 2008)... just gave an interview with CBC in which he indicates that he’s also suffering from dementia. “the stories will be the last thing to go” not sure how famous he is outside of canada, but could be a future DL contender

Tom Carroll, who played 64 games over three years, but holds the New York Yankees record for the youngest person to appear in a World Series, has died. He was 85. Carroll was 19 when he was used as a pinch runner in the 1955 baseball classic. https://www.mlb.com/news/tom-carroll-youngest-yankee-to-appear-in-world-series-dies-at-85

https://www.protothema.gr/greece/article/1167192/efuge-apo-ti-zoi-o-ioannis-palaiokrassas/ Ioannis Palaiokrassas, Greek Minister of Finance 1990-1992 dead aged 87. Also a member of the Third Delors Commission. Living Members of the Delors Commissions: Jacques Delors (1925-2023) First (only 1/18 alive, 1985-1988): Stanley Clinton-Davis, Baron Clinton-Davis (1928-2023) Vice-President, Environment, consumer protection and transport. Abel Matutes (1941-) Credit, investments, financial instruments and small & medium-sized enterprises. Second (5/17 alive, 1988-1992): Martin Bangemann (1934-2022) Vice-President, Internal market and industrial affairs. Filippo Maria Pandolfi (1927-) Vice-President, Science, research, development, telecommunications and innovation Ray MacSharry (1938-) Agriculture and rural development. Abel Matutes (1941-) Mediterranean and Latin American policy. Vasso Papandreou (1944-) Employment, industrial relations and social affairs. Christiane Scrivener (1925-) Taxation and customs union. Third (8/18 alive, 1993-1994): Martin Bangemann (1934-2022) Vice-President Internal market, industrial affairs and ICT. Marcelino Oreja, 1st Marquis of Oreja (1935-) Transport and energy. Rene Steichen (1942-) Agriculture and rural development. Abel Matutes (1941-) Transport and energy. Raniero Vanni d'Archirafi (1931-) Institutional reform, internal market and enterprise. Christiane Scrivener (1925-) Taxation, customs union and consumer policies. Padraig Flynn (1939-) Social affairs and employment. Joao de Deus Pinheiro (1945-) Relations with Parliament, culture and audiovisual. Hans van der Broek (1936-) External relations and enlargement. Delors is also the oldest out of all the living ones. Pinheiro is the youngest living one, however Peter Sutherland (1946-2018, Delors I) and Manuel Marin (1949-2017, all commissions) were born later. Before the Delors Commission: Thorn Commission (1981-1985, 2/17 alive): Étienne Davignon (1932-) Vice-President, Industrial Affairs, Energy, Research and Science. Christopher Tugendhat, Baron Tugendhat (1937-) Vice-President, Budget and Financial Control, Financial Institutions and Taxation. Michael O'Kennedy (1936-2022) Personnel and Administration. Jenkins Commission (1977-1981, 2/13 alive) Étienne Davignon (1932-) Internal Market, Customs Union, Industrial Affairs. Christopher Tugendhat, Baron Tugendhat (1937-) Budget and Financial Control, Financial Institutions - From before the Jenkins Commission: None.

Dead at 104 https://cooperativa.cl/noticias/pais/politica/democracia-cristiana/murio-renan-fuentealba-fundador-de-la-dc-y-firmante-de-la-carta-de-los/2021-10-01/182007.html (in Spanish)

I remember a time when he was slim and fruitarian. I can't watch him now because he's a fatter version of Trisha Paytas. The amount he eats in a week is stupid and he's an overdramatic bitch and that is an understatement. Edit: Yeah he is milking this:

He looks fine to me. How do you expect someone who is 82 to look?

Well, you know, Jim Marrs wrote a book on this, the Kennedy conspiracy, and he claimed that those behind it had killed dozens of people to keep the secret, from Hollywood to mafia dons and Popes. And you think, this conspiracy can kill off gangsters, Popes and Presidents, but somehow one crank writer is allowed to stay alive for 40+ years and expose it! (The question is never Who killed Kennedy - Oswald did. It's "why did he do it" and we'll never know for sure because that mob connected guy mysteriously killed Oswald within 24 hours...)

To be clear, not the Quantick tweet, but the reply. You'll never watch Blackadder in the same light again!

Lucile Randon has entered top 5 oldest ever after surpassing Marie-Louise Meilleur. Fun fact: Both Jeanne Calment and Lucile Randon come from towns of south France, which also have similar names: Arles and Alès. Their distance is only 75 kilometers.