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In case you haven't guessed yet, there's a new sheriff in town, after messaging MSC earlier today we've agreed that I'll be taking over the Crowdsourced Deathlist, with MSC still planning on publishing the full list of picks later on in the year, I'll be doing everything else from now on, including running next years.

Yes. It's not quite as mad as calling a game football where the only foot that ever touches it is a kickoff, field goal or punt.

Lynne Reid Banks dead: https://www.newschainonline.com/news/the-indian-in-the-cupboard-author-lynne-reid-banks-dies-aged-94-393770

It's official, John Tinniswood is the oldest man in the world recognized by the GWR, he was an accountant for Shell and BP in his life and retired in 1972, and his diet consists of fish and chips every Friday, he born in Liverpool and lives at The Hollies nursing home in Southport, Merseyside. In the Second World War, Tinniswood's limited vision confined him to an administrative role within the Royal Army Pay Corps. John Tinniswood (1912-Presente) - Página 2 - O Clube 110 (the110club.com)

And many thanks for a speedy and stress less succession. TCD will be in good hands.

Jesus flagshagging Christ. Genuine new campaign poster from the Tories: Problem is, by putting Sausagefingers III in the picture, the silly cunts have broken the law:

Don Wright (Wiki), American cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes, one in 1966 and one in 1980 dead at 90

Ahhh yes, so that's why cricket is short for cricket football.

Kurt Cobain died on this day 30 years ago, aged 27. - As a child, Cobain's influences included The Beatles, ELO, and The Monkees- a surprising contrast to the grunge genre he ended up pioneering. When he grew older, he got into rock bands such as Queen, Led Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath. Cobain also obviously was a fan of David Bowie: - Cobain's first band was formed in 1985 after he dropped out of high school- it was named "Fecal Matter". - Nirvana would be formed in 1987, but it had several different names beforehand- these were "Skid Row", "Pen Cap Chew", "Bliss", and "Ted Ed Fred". - Despite Nevermind topping Billboard's Hot 200 albums chart in January of 1992, it wouldn't be until April of that year that Cobain believed he made it as a band- with the release of Weird Al's "Smells Like Nirvana": A young Tony Hawk is one of the extras in the music video- his son is married to Cobain's daughter. - While not performing music, Cobain was often espousing his liberal activist views, particularly bringing up his support of gay rights and abortion often. He would receive a death threat once due to his opinion on the latter. - Cobain had a drug abuse problem, and he particularly took marijuana, LSD, and especially heroin, the latter of which caused a near-fatal overdose in 1992. - Cobain's suicide made him a member of the infamous "27 Club", and just before his death there had been rumors that Nirvana would break up, which it officially did following this. - Cobain's hometown of Aberdeen, Washington has since adopted one of his band's song's titles as their motto:

Ok so if I understand correctly, "rugby football" is the "official" name for the sport that everybody calls rugby ? Kinda like "association football" for football ?

Impressive how Remco Evenepoel, with less than a second's thinking time, managed to bunny hop over that ditch at around 40 mph before coming to grief.

99 Cent Store The Us discount chain with 371 stores largely across the West Coast will close all it's stores soon and will began liquidating their inventory.

X/Twitter reporting that former Major League Baseball pitcher and 1973 24-game winner Ron Bryant died last November, with the death only having come to light recently. Bryant sported a career 57-56 record from 1967 through 1975.

05/04/24 50 Manic Street Preachers — Your Love Alone Is Not Enough 47 Gwen Stefani ft. Akon — The Sweet Escape 35 Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse — Valerie 35 Corinne Bailey Rae — Put Your Records On +2 35 Plain White T’s — Hey There Delilah 34 Kate Nash — Foundations 33 Embrace — Nature’s Law 32 The Killers - When You Were Young 29 The White Stripes — Icky Thump 29 Mark Ronson ft. Daniel Merriweather — Stop Me 26 Booty Luv — Boogie 2Nite 24 Maroon 5 — Makes Me Wonder 21 Red Hot Chili Peppers — Dani California 20 Avril Lavigne — Girlfriend 19 Fall Out Boy — This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race 17 Mary J. Blige & U2 — One 14 Christina Aguilera — Ain’t No Other Man 11 U2 & Green Day — The Saints Are Coming  11 Rihanna — SOS -6 10 Arctic Monkeys — Brianstorm +2

He met a guy on Grindr and supplied him with the telephone numbers of other MPs, staffers and journalists. No real context given as to why he would do such a thing, but by his own admission he’s ‘weak’. So the implication being he met someone and was blackmailed. Will’s already announced he’s standing down at the general but I struggle to see how he could face his colleagues after spreading personal contact details about to unsavoury characters. What I can’t yet fathom is if this story is linked to the one the other week about the state actor and the honeypot snares, or if this is a different kettle of fish. The cyber security analysts quoted say this specific incident is not sophisticated so likely an individual as opposed to state actor. In my opinion it’s a resigning issue. What Will does with his personal life is for him, but to dish out numbers and open others up to it is a step too far. He may well just tough it out but it’s a sorry state of affairs.

Put an end to her Suffering-gette 1/50 4th January 2024 Oscar nominated actress Glynis Johns died just under two months after turning 100. Best remembered for her role in Disney’s classic film ‘Mary Poppins’ in which she portrayed suffragette Winifred Banks, the mother of the central family, Johns’ career spanned across seven decades and earned her many awards and nominations. She won her first award in 1942 for Michael Powell’s ‘49th Parallel’, was nominated for best supporting actress at the 33rd Academy Awards for her role in The Sundowners (but lost to Shirley Jones), won a Tony Award in 1973 for Stephen Sondheim’s ‘A Little Night Music’ and in 1998 was granted Disney Legend status alongside Poppins co-star Dick van Dyke. Johns’ last appeared on stage in 1998 and onscreen in 1999, retiring from acting aged 76. In recent years most conversations about Johns haven’t revolved around her long career, rather they have focused on her longevity. She outlived all four of her husbands by 14 to 46 years and one of her children. In 2020 she became the oldest living Academy Award nominee for acting. She turned 100 in October 2023, with many calling for her to receive a damehood for her services to acting, something which alas was unable to happen. She was making her 8th appearance on the Crowdsourced Deathlist, this year at no.3.

If you want to talk about casting issues. May I direct you to Amazon's version of Lord of the Rings - The Rings of Power. Single black elf with short hair even though elves literally are known for their long hair. A single black dwarf - as far as i'm aware not even a mention as to why she married in the family etc Harfoot Hobbits are described as having brown skin so I have no issues with them. This Reddit post explains it well. "No one minds the existence of a black dwarf or black elf. What people have a problem with is that they appear to be the only black dwarf or black elf in the world. If you want to give us a black elf, show us a whole city full of them that explains where the black elves live, or at least reference that. "

The daughter of Chuwit Kamolvisit denies claims on social media that he has died, posts what is meant to be a fresh selfie with him: However, he's looking a lot better here than he did in those photos from the end of last year: I'm skeptical.

Fletcher and Randle appeared together in court yesterday.

The lack of major deaths better stop soon or else I'll be setting up permanent residence in the extracurricular section.

Paliath Ravi Achan was born in Chendamangalam and died in Thrippunithura, India aged 96, was an Indian cricketer who represented Travancore-Cochin and Kerala in domestic first-class cricket, was the oldest male member of the Paliam royal family of Cochin https://sportstar.thehindu.com/cricket/ravi-achan-passes-away-former-kerala-cricket-team-captain-news/article68017502.ece

Natalya Melyokhina was born in Chelyabinsk, she died aged 61, She became world champion in the women's team time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in 1987 and finished second in 1990. In 1990 she also won stage 5 of the Tour Cycliste Féminin de la Drôme and finished second in the general classification. https://www.championat.com/other/news-5492558-chempionka-mira-po-velosportu-na-shosse-natalya-melyohina-umerla-v-vozraste-61-goda.html

German singer and baritone Günther Leib (Wiki) dead at 96

The first link appears to be a bot site. The problem with these bot sites is that they're now starting to look like genuine news sites, because 1) the AI tools are getting smarter, and they can compile articles that read like a human 2) so much of the clickbait news pieces written by humans actually sound bot-like themselves! Jane Morgan had #1 hits. She also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which she laid not all that long ago. She's not going to die off radar.