Deathray

Must be shit living in a one-party state.

Police and Crime Commissioner elections - needless to say that one is getting spoilt.

Fernando Who? Jesus, stretching even the lax requirement hereabouts with that one. Still counts though.

Maybe the admins should lay off the booze a tad before starting new forums.

Likewise Zac Goldsmith, the Conservative candidate who is MP for Richmond Park. Sadiq Khan is MP for Tooting. While Boris has done the last year of his mayorship while also being an MP, I can't see either of them doing the same thing until 2020 so a by-election is virtually guaranteed. There is vested interest in the outcome, by my calculations 3 people (Rockhopper, The Engineer, VoYM) have Khan, while no less than 8 people (Deathray, Handrejka, msc, time, Maryport, Dead Cow, Manuel and myself) have Goldsmith. Not sure why there is such a difference, maybe because after the 2015 general election Goldsmith was the only serious challenger for the Conservative nomination for mayor while Labour had Tessa Jowell, Sadiq Khan and David Lammy to name but three..? Will the Voice of Young Maryport come out on top in the Maryport household once again? Goldsmith pledged to stand down if elected mayor.

Whenever I lose something, I always check in the fridge first. I lost summat extremely valuable once and I never did find it. lost yer marbles? The only reason why I check the fridge first is years ago I misplaced my front door keys. Didn't find them for 2 days. They were in the fridge the whole time. What happened was I was putting the milk in the fridge one morning, and I put my keys on the shelf while I rearranged the milk and a few other bottles. Closed the fridge and went off to work. I had totally forgot that I had left my keys in the fridge. No, me virginity! Didn't your uncle take that from you as a bairn?

Has that fucking spammer been banned yet (I'm assuming that's why this thread was deleted). Woke up to links to some chinky website at this first thirty odd threads two mornings in a row now.

What about them being relegated and winning the champions league? PR release I saw said only two 1,000/1+ singles have ever come in as a bet in history before this Leicester thing (some guy in the 60s got a 1,000/1 on man walking on the moon before 1970 and a 2,500/1 "my son will play international football" bet for some guy). Can this be true? Is this the famous Chris Kirkland bet? And wasn't it a friend of his father's rather than his father himself? That was only 100/1 going by this article. Harry Wilson's grandad however got 2,500/1 for his son playing for Wales by betting on him when he was an infant. This will be the one. (£125,000 from a £50 bet)

Thank fuck for that. Just about keeps our hopes of PL football alive for next year. Well done Leicester.

Relevant for our purposes. I'd keep him on the list next year if he makes it that far.

We're in a drought in DL terms.

I've never understood why Dundee needs two teams literally across the road from each other. In other news, I'm in the bizarre position where I need to support Chelsea tonight as that leaves Tottenham with slightly less to play for when we meet.

The Obamas and House Windsor are obviously reptilians. I was more shocked at what appears to potentially be a genuine smile from the Queen rather than a duty smile.

To be honest I think it'd be far greater if they won it in the King Power. I reckon they'd hear the celebrations in Old Trafford. I sort of agree, but then that would open the door for Chelsea to win the league for Leicester, and I don't want them to have that honour! Besides, it'd be nice to see LVG seeing the title won at Old Trafford. To be honest I've got enough to worry about with whether Newcastle will be a PL club next year to care about when Leicester win the league. Had a bit of a look at PL matches and points I see it going some thing like this: Newcastle (33 points) v Aston Villa (Away) 3 points v Tottenham (Home) 0-1 points (36-37 points) Sunderland (31 points) v Chelsea (0 points) v Everton (1 points) v Watford (1-3 points) (35-36 points) Norwich (30 points) v Man Utd (0 points) v Watford (1-3 points) v Everton (0-1 points) (34-35 points) That would take Norwich down and leave a point between us staying up and the mackems staying up with us going down on goal difference. Ideally that all happens, but we beat Tottenham. How Spurs will go if Leicester take the title today is hard to call. Sorted for the Champions League but nothing to play for might just take the urgency out of their game. I reckon they'd treat it as a need a win game a) a few of their players are challenging for the for England starts in the weeks after They will want to give their loyal away supporters who've traveled up a good last game of the season and c) getting beaten by a relegated side is a bit embarrassing.

Sky News (don't judge me) are doing a debate feature called "We're turn into grief junkies" on their The Pledge show at 8pm. Might be of interest.

Also gambling again despite previously saying it almost drove him to suicide. Such a tragic story, his. Oh I don't know, I read that article from your link. He's still got a commentating job with the BBC that presumably pays more than shelf stacking at lidl or digging up roads, it says his 'house' is mortgaged and his cars (note the plural) are leased, he stuck 'only 20 quid' into a FOBT it was nothing.... I'm not saying a gambling addiction isn't bad news, unfortunate? Maybe, but his work and financial situation has some way to fall compared to a lot of the rest of us before it exactly qualifies as 'tragic' in my view. You've got to be able to borrow a million quid to get a million in debt, try that at the local HSBC and let us know He's still over a million quid in debt. A BBC Snooker commentary job is barely going to dent that as it's only for about 5 weeks a year - and he'll be paid per event not year these days. The comment about it being nothing is probably relative to the £20,000 he gambled on one bet at a race a few years ago. But almost all studies into addiction show that cold turkey works and if you keep in at a lower level you're going to be more susceptible to falling into addiction.

Beeb Top 10 stories at fault again. There was another year old death in it (Kieth Harris I think) this morning.

To be honest I think it'd be far greater if they won it in the King Power. I reckon they'd hear the celebrations in Old Trafford. I sort of agree, but then that would open the door for Chelsea to win the league for Leicester, and I don't want them to have that honour! Besides, it'd be nice to see LVG seeing the title won at Old Trafford. To be honest I've got enough to worry about with whether Newcastle will be a PL club next year to care about when Leicester win the league. Had a bit of a look at PL matches and points I see it going some thing like this: Newcastle (33 points) v Aston Villa (Away) 3 points v Tottenham (Home) 0-1 points (36-37 points) Sunderland (31 points) v Chelsea (0 points) v Everton (1 points) v Watford (1-3 points) (35-36 points) Norwich (30 points) v Man Utd (0 points) v Watford (1-3 points) v Everton (0-1 points) (34-35 points) That would take Norwich down and leave a point between us staying up and the mackems staying up with us going down on goal difference. Ideally that all happens, but we beat Tottenham.

To be honest I think it'd be far greater if they won it in the King Power. I reckon they'd hear the celebrations in Old Trafford.

Also gambling again despite previously saying it almost drove him to suicide. Such a tragic story, his.

Newcastle beat Crystal Palace. Sunderland draw with Stoke and Norwich are beaten by Arsenal. This relegation battle is going to the wire.

some idiot posted a fake Sun front page claiming there had been 4 celeb deaths in one day. it seems quite a few people took it seriously ... Let's all play a game of 'spot the fucking idiot for believing it'. Assuming it only appeared on the closed group FB page, lets all play 'who the fuck has access to that and posts as a guest' I wondered that as well.... Or is that a double bluff..? It was posted on the forum somewhere, I don't use the Facebook and remember seeing it on here before the site went down.

This was almost inevitable after the mention in the beeb, I actually said as much just got which rag would go for it wrong and the headline wrong: I might be wrong but I think we've had "bad" (I use the term loosely all press is good) press before and it's blown over. My response is I've learnt about the achievements of hundreds, if not thousands, of people they've probably never heard of through this site in three years. It's a shame that recognition has only arrived after their death but hey-ho. Nobody actively wants the celebrities who they picked in pools to die, we're just using common sense and a bit of nouse to say "it looks as though they might die." If 20 out of 20 of my picks in the DDP survived and maintained good health I'd be delighted at their resilience, given the reason they'd even made it into the list was that being a slim chance. On another note, we've been online for over a (if not two) decade(s), so why are we suddenly news?

Yes, or somebody had a severe attack of sarcasm syndrome. I suppose it could have been uncle fester from leicester or something or...... ach make your own up. I'd still sooner have him than Ronnie, at least he's not an arse (or obviously an arse anyway). It's because when he first come on the scene he actually laughed and joked at the table. That was before he became a grind merchant. Hoping for Ding V Fu. I want the best players in 10-15 years and only a Chinese win can guarantee that.

Struggling to work out what to make of this.