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The DQ verdicts were all made, as hinted by Reptile in the DBN thread. As we're in the home stretch, and in interests of transparency, here's the poor nonentities you all tried to sneak past us this year: Mike Mora - Already explained earlier in thread, not notable for photography career Edith Kwoizalla - First German woman to be vaccinated against COVID. We already excluded the UK equivalents last year. Esther Waitherero - Sister of President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya. No actual coverage that indicates notability. Andrew McAslan - Minor runner who has not had coverage independent of his cancer Phil Rossall - Wheelchair world record not good enough, nor is his fundraising amount Esther Lee - Mentioned her as a no go in the salvage lot thread, reiterating that she is essentially a "family of X" pick even if she's the physical therapist to rather than a relative of Serena Williams Mike Edwards - His football club is too minor a level Robyn Free - I already said she wouldn't count in thread, as "one appearance on a game show" picks have a really high bar, to pass as a pick. She was indeed a pick, so now DQed Dave Marsh - Member of a no-name 60s band who only got coverage as Kym's dying dad. Look if they're a 60s musician and I never heard of them... Martha Sepulveda - Our toughest decision, and there was a lot of backing and forthing. In the end we decided that a case can be notable, but the person at the centre of it not necessarily so. If she fought for the change in that Colombian euthanasia law, it might have been good enough, but in the end she was just the first person to "benefit", for lack of a better word, from a law change that was made irrespective of her Mia Macklin - Social media pick with nowhere near enough followers Brian Morris - Golfer whose PGA "career" was one game, after a terminal illness. Not notable for his actual career, which was very local pre-illness Tiffany Youngs - This came close to sneaking by, as she was in the database pre-FFBI ban. But no, only in the spotlight as Tom's wife

Has he tried replacing the batteries?

Peter Seabrook now pushing up the daisies. Peter Seabrook dead: Legendary Sun gardening guru dies aged 86 (thesun.co.uk)

Says small minds discredit people, then does his pathetic best to discredit me. This after accusing most of us of having small minds, whilst exhibiting a mind so small that he ignores the vast portions of articles he reads and quotes that disprove his hideous and dangerous rhetoric. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, The Engineer.

Japanese wrestler Shozo "Strong" Kobayashi (wiki) dead at 81. Performed with the likes of Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant during his career, but better known internationally as one of the henchmen in Takeshi's Caste (aka Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, if you're in the States).

You’re going to carry on thinking you’re on the right side of this no matter what, so could you please, for the sake of everyone else, just write us all off as lost causes* and never post about any of this shit again? *Heh, said as if quoting a nutty bastard like Maajid Nawaz doesn’t make you a lost cause

Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, former President of Mali, dead aged 76.

Some big Hollywood names to consider for 2023 Robert Wagner (if he makes it...) Michael Caine Gene Hackman (he did almost have a heart attack over 30 years ago) James Earl Jones Jack Nicholson Lee Grant Eva Marie Saint Gina Lollobrigida Walter Mirisch (oldest living Oscar Winner, so should pass famousness test) John Williams Norman Jewison Roger Corman Quincy Jones However, I wouldn’t suggest Robert Duvall or Clint Eastwood quite yet. Maybe, Duvall for 2024 and Eastwood for 2025 or later.

As I mentioned before on the Statistics thread: 8 days- Terry-Thomas 6 days- Rudolf Nureyev, Lou Rawls 5 days- Brian Johnston 4 days- Gerry Rafferty

Posting here, too: Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta "IBK", Prime Minister (1994-2000) and President (2013-2020) of Mali has died at the age of 76: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/malis-ousted-president-ibrahim-boubacar-keita-has-died-says-former-justice-2022-01-16/ He was deposed during the 2020 Malian coup d'état by Colonel Assimi Goita who is currently the acting President of Mali.

No!! I didn't think he was that old!!

Leo Beenhakker made the headlines last week when it was announced he would be lijstduwer for the 50+ party (aimed at senior citizens) for the local Rotterdam elections in march, but stepped back a day later, because he didn't want any media attention.

Report of the death of Joe Dunne, stuntman in most of the Panther films: Stuntman on such as the first two Police Academy movies and a couple of Bond movies. On TV, The Avengers, The New Avengers and The Professionals required his services. Also has an acting credit as 1st Tower Guard in the Checkmate episode of The Prisoner.

https://www.cpfc.co.uk/news/club/paul-hinshelwood-1956-2022/2022-01-15/ Paul Hinshelwood, Crystal Palace stalwart and twice capped for England under 21's back in the day, has died, aged 65.

I don’t agree with his stance, but with all due respect, he’s more qualified than you. You must stop being so angry at the world and labelling ppl who don’t agree with you as “morons”. Oh and btw, maybe go read into some of the things he’s said before cursing at your computer monitor. On his Wiki page, I see they’ve locked it and stamped in this line in the intro “During the COVID-19 pandemic, Montagnier was criticised for using his Nobel prize status to "spread dangerous health messages outside his field of knowledge"[6] for promoting the conspiracy theory that SARS-CoV-2 was deliberately created in a laboratory. Such a claim has been refuted by other virologists.[7][8][9][10]” Now, is this that controversial? The theory was originally panned by the mainstream scientific community, and the media… mainly because the Trump administration was one of the first groups of ppl to push it, and so whatever they said, the opposite must surely be the case… even though, you know, China is a brutal authoritarian dictatorship with millions of its own citizens in concentration camps and we should not trust a single word they say. 26 months on from first being identitied as a new virus, not one zoological case of COVID-19 has been discovered. Its structure is that of a human virus, unlike SARS and MERS. Hence why when those viruses went worldwide they killed few ppl and fizzled out very quickly, because they couldn’t attach themselves to human cells as easily. The fact that Harvard University, the WHO, and the British Government are now exploring the idea that this has a laboratory origin at least gives Montagnier some credit of being needlessly silenced when asking the correct questions. Granted, the idea of it being intentionally leaked is mere speculation but the fact that we have a whistleblower, the Wuhan Labs had been doing research into coronaviruses since at least 2004, and they’ve now refused to let the WHO investigate this, gives weight to his theory. So the man doesn’t sound like a complete “moron” to me, rather someone who is actually shedding some light on a too often dismissed theory. The lab option is starting to gain more momentum within the mainstream. More information will surface, more whistleblowers will come forward. Let’s revisit this in a couple of years and see if Montagnier was really a total “moron” as you have branded him.

Indeed. The accuser has said a lot to the media over the years and to courts. So much so that her accounts of the fact differ, thus proving that she is either lying or remembering false memories. She used to deny categorically that she had sex with Prince Andrew - and this was after she had escaped Epstein’s chains and dragged him through court. The only thing that’s changed over that time is that the benefit of the doubt has sung massively the other way; that is to say that Courts (particularly in liberal parts of America) are now over compensating for the injustices of the past. I heard her lawyer saying that photographs don’t lie. I think the whole thing is a scam dreamt up by a single photo. A photo which she allegedly requested be taken. Not bad going for someone who portrays themselves as a trafficked piece of meat. I do agree thought that Andrew is a twat and only has himself to blame for his current situation.

Michael Jackson is dead, the legendary radio host of KABC... https://deadline.com/2022/01/michael-jackson-dead-kabc-host-radio-hall-of-fame-inductee-was-87-1234913413/

While Blair was born in Scotland he doesn’t identify as Scottish. Gordon Brown does. Plus the press have reported recently that he will likely go there in time. It won’t be as Controversial as Blair.

Luc Montagnier appeared at a big anti-vaxx convention in Italy. Beside being completely demented (anti-vaxxers will save humanity, people who had the vaccine will require constant medical care), he looks like a toad and rather frail. That, the fact he is likely unvaccinated and he was with thousands of morons not wearing masks quite pushes his luck.

Nino Cerruti, founder of the Cerruti fashion house, dead of surgery complications at 91: https://www.newsbiella.it/2022/01/15/leggi-notizia/argomenti/cronaca-5/articolo/morto-lo-stilista-nino-cerruti-aveva-91-anni.html

Conversely it is almost certain that Biden will make the list at some point as long as he doesn't go suddenly. I can't remember the last time a list did not have a US president, Vice-President or First Lady on.

I never get them correct so I voted for who I DON'T want to die David Attenborough

I'll vote for Teddy this time for gits and shiggles. Kissinger's been my top choice for a while, so knowing my luck this'll be when the bastard finally keels over.

Author and Novelist Sir Wilson Harris died 96 years http://demerarawaves.com/2018/03/08/guyanese-literary-giant-sir-wilson-harris-dies/