YoungWillz

I'll never understand it. Croatia out? Ukraine through? Belgium's song about a stolen T-shirt in the final? I fear the mental health effect of the COVID is worse than we all imagined....

Charles Grodin? Yes.

Why aren't you watching the first semi-final? Staging has been on the whole - AWESOME! North Macedonia might have done enough, even with some cheap tricks, ha! Difficult to see who's not making it to the final so far...

She's coming home, she's coming home: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/gail-porter-ready-come-home-24132580

Toby reporting that stunt performer and actor Roy Scammell has died: Hugely associated with Who. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0768882/ The only person to have stunt doubled for Kenneth Williams and Susan Hampshire I'm guessing?

Ray Allen, the driver who won the very first Formula Ford race at Brands Hatch in July 1967 in a MRS Lotus 51, reportedly died: https://forums.autosport.com/topic/217818-vale-ray-allen/ Edit: His sponsor Lord Charles could not be found for comment. (Silly jk).

I think possibly they would have had far more variety had they made it an Americas Song Contest - include Central and South America and Canada. They could ensure the variety by picking certain contributors to make it to the Grand Final by some sort of league system. Otherwise sounds like it might be a choice of songs from a homogenous group of folk. Odd - how do you encapsulate the "sound" of Maryland as against the "sound" of Oregon? Europe's diversity almost instantly sells itself.

Oi! First President I was aware of was Ford, although Carter is more memorable. But yeah, join the ranks of posters ready to attack me for a reasonable enquiry! Or indeed any post.

Any reason why the discussion on President's Men could not be on the dedicated thread for that purpose, rather than being buried in here? Most of them aren't politicians, I think.

Joe Mercer QO as the BBC romp home: https://www.bbc.com/sport/horse-racing/57148338

Joe Mercer, the man, the myth, the legend, dead at 86: https://www.racingpost.com/news/latest/riding-legend-and-brigadier-gerards-jockey-joe-mercer-dies-at-the-age-of-86/490348 DDP Pick, QOs guaranteed.

Obituary for Toni Dalli, Italian born but brought up in Sheffield, only to become an international singing sensation in the late 1950s/early 1960s, died back on 28 April: https://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/people/singing-star-and-proud-sheffield-lad-who-became-a-household-name-dies-at-home-in-spain-3239388 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0198081/ Here's Alma Cogan, trying to keep up:

DDP pick (well he was last year, I haven't checked) Salvador Sobral, releasing new album, says Eurovision is history to him, Has had the Covid, has regular check-ups and medication regarding his heart, all seems well: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57088352 Love that guy!

Thomas Dolby T Shirt. Must be a good guy.

Well, I'm guessing here, but perhaps some black lacy underwear from Ann Summers under the housecoat?

Just out of interest. Her sister in law, Patricia Davis, died back in February: https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/patricia-davis-nurse-nancy-reagan-obituary-20210226.html And now her brother (and husband of the aforementioned Patricia), Richard A Davis, has died: https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/richard-davis-neurosurgeon-brain-operate-professor-golf-president-first-lady-20210514.html

Is Netanyahu handling this precursor to war quite well? And perhaps if we enter a war footing, time for his own dedicated thread?

Celebrity winner Stephen Bear charged with sharing sexual images without consent: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-57113872

Airdrie and Shotts held by the SNP. Increased vote, reduced majority. Yep, system works, ha! Also, the writ was moved for Cheryl Gillan's seat the other day.

@Ulitzer95 You've referenced Pervis Staples in the preamble to the entry for the Staple Singers here, although he had been replaced by the time of their UK hits. Turns out he's being reported dead: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pervis-staples-staple-singers-dead-obituary-1168693/

Robert Horatio Walpole (known as Robin), 10th Baron Walpole, a descendent of the UK's first Prime Minister, dead: https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/obituaries/tributes-paid-to-lord-robert-robin-walpole-7968206 Retired from the Lords in 2017.

Well, yes QO: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/news/norman-lloyd-dies-st-elsewhere-211339277.html

DEAD. Reportedly. https://deadline.com/2021/05/norman-lloyd-dead-st-elsewhere-actor-1234754280/

Just a point - if we were all part of an equal UK, nobody would have been left behind. Nobody would need levelling up. What level? It's all pish. Anyway, back to the speech - we will create jobs, look at social care, draw up measures on this, propose on that. It was bloody awful. I think the only definites were lock people up for longer and make it harder for people to vote. These are their priorities after this past year? C'mon, Betty should have stood up and walked away.

Let's just say, if they are in the DDP, it helps to point this out to the Committee in your posts. They are overworked and underfunded - they are our care workers equivalent.