YoungWillz

I love a lot of ABBA. I love musical theatre and musicals. Chess is an amazing piece of work - I defy anyone not to listen to Anthem and not be moved. I saw Mamma Mia in the cinema, and laughed all the way through at how dreadful it was. It is awful.

Sooner we abolish the House of Lords to fix this basic misunderstanding of their role, the better.

Crikey, another Batman alumnus.

Former human rights lawyer Lord Joel Joffe, Baron Joffe, has reportedly died aged 85. https://twitter.com/BBCWiltshire/status/876799445366648832 Was a defence lawyer at the Rivonia Trial of the ANC leadership in the 1960s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivonia_Trial Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Joffe,_Baron_Joffe

" On ‎8‎/‎15‎/‎2005 at 21:26, Guest Sir To You said: You know, it was profoundly dispiriting to come across this petty, odious and venal message board whilst researching the 1962 Richard Burton/Elizabeth Taylor Cleopatra and wondering what had become of the brilliant child actor who played Ptolemy." Other websites are available for that sort of thing!!! I prefer "chance upon" in this context.

Following on from recent discussions, who else in there these days? I see that the non-QO Steve Clark was in before he died earlier this year.

Too many lectern appearances, too many minutes of silence...

Death reported now: http://edmontonjournal.com/storyline/former-edmonton-ufc-fighter-tim-hague-dies-following-boxing-match

Interesting. No Roger Moore?

I come to not praise or bury the Committee. I'm not offended at all either by the posts above or on behalf of anyone, but I swear it is an annual thing where the same names, the same misses, "why did they pick them?" blah blah blah are trotted out year after year. Could all be settled by a one-off post in the Statistics section. Yeah, maybe we should have Biggest Misses by the Crowdsourced Deathlist, etc etc. That is more fun and it certainly is more apt as users of the forum. And we could bewail our own picks (such as me dropping Noriega from 2016! Doh!). For we have much more diverse picks because of the spread of nationalities, interests etc. And it would be new and interesting imo. Had to put my head above the parapet though....

They are untouchable. I'm sure they don't care about this annual hand-wringing you all do on their behalf. It's their list, their rules, their forum. As users of this forum however, what would be a more interesting exercise might be if we all published our annual shadowlists, complied with the same rules that the Committee set down for themselves, then we could all discuss each other's lists with the mahoosive benefit of hindsight in 5 years or so. But that might be unworkable. Maybe sometimes we all have picks we are not proud of or who might be laughable in others' eyes, safe in the knowledge that next year it will all be lost to history. That makes you guys untouchable...

Quite frankly and with the greatest of respect to fellows on here, this is all bollocks isn't it? IIRC, the Committee were roundly applauded for their list this year, then someone like Roger Moore or Helmut Kohl pops off and you all point and say ooh, look that's a big miss, followed by the inevitable soul searching about previous lists that the Committee compiled. I do my usual gentle teasing in the annual (probably now bi-annual) poetry section, but you guys are taking all this way too seriously. Whilst it is all about life or death, it isn't actually life or death. Wow.

And as far as I can gather, here is a list of the survivors of the credited cast of A Clockwork Orange (and yes there are a couple who are not British born): Malcolm McDowell (b.1943) Carl Duering (b. 1923) Clive Francis (b. 1946) James Marcus (b. 1942) John Savident (b. 1938) Steven Berkoff (b. 1937) Michael Tarn (b. 1953) David Prowse (b. 1935) Jan Adair? Gaye Brown (b. 1941) Richard Connaught? Prudence Drage (b. 1943) Carol Drinkwater (b. 1948) Cheryl Grunwald (b. 1948) Gillian Hills (b. 1944) Craig Hunter? Shirley Jaffe? Virginia Wetherell (b. 1943) Katya Wyeth (b. 1948)

I see Pauline Taylor died back in March 2017 aged 81. http://www.farnhamherald.com/article.cfm?id=120516&headline=Accomplished actress dies aged 81&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2017 IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0852996/ Here she is as the Psychiatrist in A Clockwork Orange:

Patrick Harvie seems ok.

I voted for Brexit. I already got a fucking grip. To clarify, the Brexit that will be delivered will be horrendous.

Oh I'm not restricting contempt to the Tories, as I've said before they are in power so they get the hardest kicking. I do remember the utter contempt Labour had for devolution in the 1970s, the utter contempt when Labour MPs went down to London having taken Scottish votes for granted for decades, the sheer contempt of Jack McConnell in the Scottish Parliament forcing through Blair's unwanted agenda, Smug Jim Murphy, etc etc etc should I go on? My mates who are not Tories are quite glad they got back in on a reduced majority. It is they who will carry the can for the horrendous Brexit agenda whatever that is or will be, they who will carry the can for all the black holes in their proposed economic plan, they who will ultimately carry the can for the break up of the UK. To them the people don't matter, we are all just an accounting exercise. Financial crash of 2008 was the start of the failure of the economics started under Thatcher and Grenfell is the peak of that failure. Get them "aw tae fuck".

How much more contempt for the voters does this Government have to demonstrate?

Ant McPartlin checks into rehab for drink and drug issues: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/40318604/ant-mcpartlin-checks-into-rehab-for-alcohol-and-drug-problem

Caption: William: Daddy, why are the Red Arrows making that delivery? I thought you cancelled that order for the new cladding....

Maybe something like "My diversity quota's better than yours, Tezza".

Thank you Shaun for the update. It's good to be polite I say.

Coming up to the swap deadline I believe. If players decide to proceed with that option, is it to be done on 30th June (BST)? I presume the swaps are only effective 1st July onwards too. Be good to get an up to date scoreboard before then too. Anyway, enjoying this one, my most successful pool to date.

MMA fighter Tim Hague has been placed in a coma following a boxing match: http://www.bjpenn.com/mma-news/tim-hague/update-ufc-veteran-tim-hague-following-brain-injury-ko/ Rumours are circulating on SM that he has been declared brain dead or indeed has passed away, but awaiting confirmation. Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hague