YoungWillz

*sigh* Let us be absolutely clear. We are all agreed that two consenting human adults of whatever gender who are in love should be equal, right? To equate that with anything other seems to me a great leap. When I was at university, it was quite clear regarding the major political party's positions on homosexuality - I'm talking about the so-called centre of the 1980s. Thatch saw us as AIDS spreading scum and openly and brazenly denied rights, took away some and actively encouraged her fascist state police to arrest on sight for mere hand holding or kissing in public. The Labour Party quite clearly embraced gay rights as a political sop - their so-called face of minority rights on the face hid an underlying hatred also. After all, they had miners' and steelworkers' jobs to fight for, they weren't exactly forward at opposing Section 28 or Thatch on such rights - if you want to get elected, you don't get into bed with minorities. So it's not a left or right argument. Things have changed, yes laws have changed. Attitudes less so, I'd say. There are still women who are paid less than men, still people who fear other people for the colour of their skin or their accent, still people who see anything other than their straight line from birth to death via marriage and kids as abnormal, abhorrent and can only lead to the breakdown of society. On a site where death is our preoccupation, how people get there is nobody's concern. It unifies us all, levels the population at it's most basic condition. So do try and get along, tolerate a bit more and take a deep breath when seeing something outwith your definition of normal as the end of the world. Imo....

Dead. https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lefigaro.fr%2Fflash-actu%2F2017%2F08%2F25%2F97001-20170825FILWWW00271-deces-de-l-ancienne-resistante-jeannie-de-clarens.php&edit-text

Yeah, I think I was the first to wonder out loud whatever happened to Peter Skellern on this forum. Then gcreptile pointed out the cancer, and everyone was all over him like a rash...

I'm on a strong 9 hits. Every one of them has a BBC Obit.

Fifteenth Leaderboard 2017: (*=Joker) 1st: JoeyRuss - 1298 Points [11/25] (Snuka; *Wetton; Westhuizen; Langhorne; Morano; Pirsig; Bayldon; Allman; Sallis; Campbell; Kristal) 2nd: Grim Up North - 1260 Points [10/25] (Wetton; Westhuizen; Coward; Skellern; Morano; Christie; Fawkes; Campbell; Forsyth; Meads) 3rd: Sir Creep - 1218 Points [11/25] (Soares; McGiffin; Wetton; Skellern; Morano; Lakovic; Carey; Christie; Van-Zandvliet; Campbell; Meads) 4th: The Unknown Man - 1185 Points [7/25] (Wetton; Noakes; Christie; Kohl; Campbell; Meads; Lewis) 5th: msc - 1057 Points [12/25] (Snuka; B. Simpson; McGill; Wetton; Coward; Skellern; Hewlett; Lakovic; Sallis; Christie; Van-Zandvliet; Meads) 6th: Toast - 1042 Points [8/25] (Sims; Westhuizen; Sumner; Coward; McGuinness; Sallis; Campbell; *Forsyth) =7th: JiroemonKimura - 924 Points [8/25] (*Snuka; Cordero; Mohren; Skellern; Christie; Hofer; Del Rio; Campbell) =7th: The Dead Cow - 924 Points [8/25] (Sarstedt; D. Carrington; Westhuizen; Skellern; Morano; Sallis; *Van-Zandvliet; Campbell) 9th: Book - 851 Points [6/25] (Sarstedt; Tyler-Moore; Kohl; Bergmann; Campbell; Wain) 10th: Death Impends - 814 Points [10/25] (Youguang; Nakamura; Hale; D. Carrington; Corey; Skellern; Rockefeller; Sallis; Hart; Forsyth) 11th: Shaun Of The Dead - 803 Points [7/25] (Hollingworth; Skellern; Kaufman; Noakes; Sallis; Christie; Meads) 12th: drol - 757 Points [7/25] (Soares; *Snuka; Bossom; Clifton James; Sallis; Hart; Campbell) 13th: RadGuy/Phantom Of The Midway - 713 Points [7/25] (Snuka; Tyler-Moore; Westhuizen; Morano; Sallis; Christie; Kristal) 14th: gcreptile - 600 Points [8/25] (Hollingworth; Youguang; Snuka; Mohren; Rockefeller; Morano; Kaiser; Kristal) 15th: Rotten Ali - 573 Points [5/25] (Hurt; Wetton; Christie; Kohl; Blazer) 16th: Pedro67 - 505 Points [4/25] (Skellern; Walcott; Sallis; Lewis) 17th: Deathers - 491 Points [5/25] (Westhuizen; Kaufman; Berry; Morano; Campbell) 18th: Widows Peak - 458 Points [1/25] (*Forsyth) 19th: Whoaml - 453 Points [6/25] (Sarstedt; Hale; Westhuizen; Berry; Rockefeller; Lewis) 20th: YoungWillz - 376 Points [3/25] (*Snuka; Bayldon; Campbell) 21st: Bibliogryphon - 375 Points [4/25] (Dalyell; McCowen; *Freeman; Norman) 22nd: ImNotHades - 307 Points [2/25] (Fresco; Sarosy) 23rd: Rockhopper penguin - 223 Points [3/25] (Westhuizen; Berry; Dreyfus) 24th: Captain Chorizo - 156 Points [3/25] (Hollingworth; Suzuki; Morano)

Remember him...awfully sad news.

Round Up #21 (Cycling Can Be Bad for Others' Health As Well As Your Own Special) Susanne Cameron-Blackie: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/9034-the-dead-of-2017/?do=findComment&comment=320221 Awaiting Obit. (Carried Over) Karl Otto Gotz: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/6496-art-for-deaths-sake/?do=findComment&comment=320990 Awaiting Obit. (Carried Over) Bea Wain: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8294-the-100-club/?do=findComment&comment=321001 Telegraph Obit: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/08/29/bea-wain-singer-obituary/ (Carried Over) Margot Hielscher: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/7873-foreign-personalities-from-stage-screen-politics-and-life/?do=findComment&comment=321116 Awaiting Obit. (Carried Over) Terri Roberts: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/857-authors-last-a-long-time-but/?do=findComment&comment=321272 Awaiting Obit. (Carried Over) Skip Homeier: From the List of the Lost Guardian Obit: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/aug/24/skip-homeier-obituary Mireille Darc: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/7873-foreign-personalities-from-stage-screen-politics-and-life/?do=findComment&comment=321777 Daily Mail Obit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4829646/French-actress-filmmaker-Mireille-Darc-dies-79.html Richard Anderson: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8952-class-of-1926/?do=findComment&comment=322195 (Mail Obit In Link) Shelley Berman: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/7820-comics-comedy-writers/?do=findComment&comment=322229 Daily Mail Obit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4844446/Shelley-Berman-comedian-bard-everyday-life-dies-92.html Cyril Frankel?: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/9009-derby-dead-pool-2017/?do=findComment&comment=322451 Awaiting Obit. John Ashbery: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/3723-dead-poets-society/?do=findComment&comment=322458 Guardian Obit: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/03/poet-john-ashbery-dies-age-90 Holger Czukay: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8270-stairway-to-heaven-highway-to-hell/?do=findComment&comment=322631 Guardian Obit: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/sep/06/holger-czukay-bassist-with-can-dies-aged-79 Edward Du Cann: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8677-political-frailty/?do=findComment&comment=322675 Telegraph Obit: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/09/06/sir-edward-du-cann-controversial-conservative-politician-businessman/ Nicolaas Bloembergen: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/6349-nobel-prize-in-death/?do=findComment&comment=322684 Awaiting Obit.

Well, floss my fanny for a fortnight, Guardian Obit: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/aug/24/skip-homeier-obituary

Had a carpet salesman who used to be a porn star round today. All he left me was underfelt.

Tony award winning writer of Annie, Thomas Meehan, dead at 88. http://www.playbill.com/article/thomas-meehan-tony-winning-writer-of-annie-dies-at-88 Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Meehan_(writer) IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0576070/ IBDB: https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/thomas-meehan-8874

About time. There's never been a former UN Secretary-General companion...

Casually racist: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/41010324 On the basis of those remarks, he should be up for the Grand Wizard's Presidential Medal of Honor...

Seems the family have rowed back on their tweet.

Don't normally post here but with all these hits:

I have a message for them, if they are watching (Hein too):

Just find it interesting that he comes out swinging now after 7 years. Wasn't that visible even during the junior doctors' strike...hmmm.

Been thinking about Hawking's recent defence of the NHS. Now, normally people only come out in public defence of this glorious institution in 3 capacities: 1. Politician attempting to look sympathetic to the public. 2. Just had some recent treatment and are grateful. 3. Had some bad news and by praising it hope it will save them. He might be in Category 3, and on that basis if he survives the year, he's on my list for next year.

Bea Wain hits a high note for one team. Hare's Pool going through a Deep Purple patch....

Washington Post good enough for the Hare's Pool and probably 10/10: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bea-wain-girl-singer-from-big-band-era-who-jammed-with-pavarotti-dies-at-100/2017/08/21/6ef5fd7c-8670-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5_story.html?utm_term=.e2a8bad7d034

As is the way with Derren Brown, he probably already knows that....

Another of America's darkest days under Trump....

Report of the death of US big band singer Bea Wain, aged 100: http://greatentertainersarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/rip-bea-wain.html Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bea_Wain

On his birthday...

If folks are taking it that seriously, Joey.... I will reveal that the lead could change among the top 5 players with just one hit. If that hit is a Wildcard, that extends to the top 8 players. For my part, I'm holding out for Christmastime Carnage...