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  3. Posted

    1 minute ago, YoungWillz said:

    I am sure I posted Lilias Walker's death. Bruce Bould off the radar is a surprise.

     

    On 20/08/2023 at 21:10, YoungWillz said:

    Lillias Walker reportedly died back on 10th August: 

    The menacing Sister Lamont in Terror of the Zygons. Scared the bejeezus out of me.

    And I did so. ;)

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    7 minutes ago, Gooseberry Crumble said:

    Many thanks! I'm just waiting now for @YoungWillz to admonish me for dropping Daniel Dennett from the DDP  and potentially making him  a member of the list of the lost!

    Well, well, well -  dropped from your 2022 team.

     

    Not picked this year so List of the Missed. :sherlock:

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    2 minutes ago, An Fear Beag said:

    I understand why you would prefer that the UK were not involved, other than to protect the people of Gaza. However, I think that is naive and unrealistic. I would prefer that the US and UK were in there at least trying to hold Israel and Iran at arms length, even if it seems like a forlorn hope at present.

    I think in the great scheme of things, the UK couldn't bat off an attack on our own soil today.

     

    There's a reason why we don't send jets out to fight in other conflicts around the world, no matter the possibility of advantage to the other superpowers. It's naive and unrealistic to suggest we could fight those powers alone. I care naught here for the US and their participation, that's their issue.

     

    Netanyahu has got Israel into this mess. He won't stop here. Our support of him and his regime could likely draw us into a wider conflict in the region. What's the problem with remaining neutral? Israel has been around for too long not to be able to fight its own battles. If it cannot fight those battles alone, then it should concentrate on defence, not attack other sovereign states' soil.

     

    I've said before I have no issue with the existence of Israel. However, its current leaders have chosen a bellicose course which is their decision. 

     

    We shall agree to disagree on this, I personally see no problem with us leaving it to the US, and staying out while we shore up our woeful defences.

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    1 hour ago, An Fear Beag said:

     

    I don't think it is that simple, to be honest. The US and UK are committed to the concept of a Jewish state in Israel, and it is not that easy to just walk away from that. Israel is considered to be an ally of both countries, and allies stick together, regardless of how crazy the current leader seems to be.

    Its a bit like watching your coked-up mate trying to start a fight with some local scumbags, who you know are just itching to stick a knife in him. Do you walk away and leave him to his fate, however gruesome that might end up being, or do you stick around trying to talk him down until the coke wears off, knowing that you are probably going to catch a few bottles to the side of the head in the process. Very tempting to do the former, but its not what mates do.

     

    Onw way or another, the US and UK are going to be involved. I suspect that they are aiming to stay involved at arms length as they currently are, shooting down drones and missiles and trying in vain to calm the situation down. Because if a situation arises where the existence of Israel is genuinely under threat, make no mistake that they will become far more heavily involved than they currently are, or than they would like to be. 

    Your coked up friend has a machine gun.

     

    However, he insists on grabbing you and throwing you in front of him, while he shoots the innocent passers-by behind him (including your friends who were handing out burgers to the homeless), claiming they are all out to get him.

     

    As I said before, the actual withdrawal of support or the threat thereof might do the trick. If not, let their wonderful Iron Dome protect them. What the hell are we doing failing to provide air cover to defend Ukraine, but sending our aircraft into battle in Israel?

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    On 17/02/2019 at 21:59, RIP Wee Jum said:

    Don't think there is a topic for poker players, if there is feel free to delete this

     

    There are currently 56 people who have been put in the Poker Hall Of Fame, and 30 are still living

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker_Hall_of_Fame

      
    Crandell Addington    
     

    Crandell Addington reportedly dead: https://www.casino.org/news/poker-legend-crandell-addington-dies-age-85/

     

    List of the Missed @Death Impends, seemingly last picked in 2015: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2015/celebs_A.html#addinc

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    5 minutes ago, An Fear Beag said:

     

    I disagree with your assessment of Sunak's motives for getting involved. You are correct- this is not a vote winner. Getting involved in yet another unwinnable war in the Middle East would be deeply unpopular in the UK, as it would also be for Biden in the US. If you and I both know that, then you can be absolutely sure that Sunak and Biden know it too. The last thing they need during an election campaign is pictures of body-bags being taken off aircraft. 

    The only ones who benefit from an escalation between Israel and Iran is Netanyahu and his hard-line cronies. That's why he has been goading Iran for the past few months (not that those mad bastards need much goading). Iran has now kindly given Netanyahu exactly what he needed to cling on to power while his credibility over Gala tumbles. 

    I think the reason that the UK and US have got involved in shooting down Iranian drones and missiles is that they had very little other choice. What was the alternative? Allow the drones and missiles to strike Israel and give Netanyahu even more of an excuse to ramp things up? I may be completely wrong on this, but it seems like the US and UK are trying to dampen things down and prevent an all-out escalation, rather than getting involved in an unwinnable war themselves.

     

    I don't think for a minute that it will work. Netanyahu seems determined to dial things up to 11 regardless of the long term consequences, and the US and UK are in an almost impossible position of trying to both protect and dissuade their ally, who doesn't seem to be be paying them much attention. 

    Well, you are kind of agreeing with me if I'm reading that right.

     

    Netanyahu will not care a jot what the UK says. Sunak should realise that, and concentrate on building up our own defence forces so easily and smugly dismissed for years under this Government. Remember what we were told? We didn't need conventional forces, all new threats would be cyber, yada yada.

     

    Our enemies will be gloating at the draining of money and weaponry in proxy wars we need not be part of, although I agree with our involvement in Ukraine. This leaves us, an already weakened force both diplomatically and in arms, exposed, no matter how many expensive and non-usable nuclear weaponry we hold. We should concentrate on aid in Gaza alone imo. 

     

    Netanyahu will not stop at Lebanon, Syria and Iran. He's lost it and there's no talking sense into him or his group of fanatics. Israel should be able to fight the missiles and drones itself. If it cannot, then the withdrawal of support at least from the UK, might have an effect.

     

    If Netanyahu wants to turn his country to dust, that's his issue, not ours.

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    Sunak giving a speech on welfare. (Quelle surprise, those dirty benefits recipients).

     

    He has, give him his due, outlined the complete failure of this Government to tackle underlying issues of people ending up on benefits.

     

    Let me give him a clue or two. Many people who are working are still on benefits. And using food banks. The rights of workers have been stripped away. Employers are struggling with the downturn in growth and Brexit consequences. People are unable to access GP appointments and healthcare quickly. The lack of investment in mental health support has caused issues. Your sanctions regime caused the death of hundreds. There hasn't been job security in this country since the mid-1980s. Childcare support is already out of reach or unavailable to many.

     

    He has the audacity to talk about benefit fraud being treated like tax fraud. Maybe if tax fraud was cracked down upon like benefit fraud already is, things would be different.

     

    The man is so out of touch with how people are actually struggling to get by day to day under this pathetic bunch of multi-millionaires.

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    10 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

    I'm going to be very careful as to what I write on here so as not to get anyone in trouble but I spoke to a senior journo over breakfast this morning – his source is impeccable. Really not good news about the king. May have a year left, 2 if he's lucky.

    If Sven-Goran and His Majesty could drop at the same time, we could just do the double state funeral.

     

    In Liverpool.

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    On 14/03/2020 at 18:11, YoungWillz said:

    Henry Kelly doing that "Pointless Celebrities sitting down" thing.....

     

    On 14/03/2020 at 18:16, philheybrookbay said:

    Has he had a stroke?? Looks like it to me.

    Talk of Pointless Celebrities got me thinking again of Henry Kelly.

     

    Lo and behold it was his birthday yesterday. Came across this interview bearing to be from the end of March: https://www.distinctnostalgia.com/posts/ep-8-going-for-gold-memories-with-80s90s-quiz-show-king-henry-kelly

     

    Still the wobbly voice but sounded pretty strong actually.

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    4 minutes ago, Comped said:

    I can deal with Richard during Pointless Celebrities though. Mostly there to brush up on my C/D/E-list celebrities from the UK I've literally never heard of (don't recall anyone B-list on there by a long shot).

    Typical DL Forum as we end up discussing the tallest man on telly in the Munchkins thread! :lol:

     

    Anyhow, Osman is on the list of the things that I will not miss if he disappeared tomorrow. And in today's telly that's becoming a long long list! (See Joe Lycett's dreadful Friday Night show). I find most of them of little talent and therefore of little interest to me.

     

    Of course, I could just be a grumpy old man. :sherlock:

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    3 minutes ago, Comped said:

    I need to watch more Pointless Celebrities. I tend to watch the normal Pointless more, because the questions seem harder for some reason. I don't know why.

    I try and avoid Pointless Celebrities now.

     

    I've discovered a disliking for that Richard Osman. Yes, he says he is waving goodbye to Pointless but somehow he still manages to turn up for the celebrity edition. He has become one of those people who seems to think that shows involving punters are beneath him, preferring everything celebrity based. That House of Games is a rancid little show.

     

    Maybe if only celebrities bought his poxy second rate books, he might have second thoughts.

     

    Now I could be wrong, but you never see him without a group of celebrities. 

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    16 minutes ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

     

    Warwick Davis' wife, Sammy, who was also an actress herself, has died, aged just 53.

     

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68839035

     

    EDIT She was also the daughter of another dwarf actor, Peter Burroughs.

    Samantha Davis played a Gringotts Goblin in The Deathly Hallows Part 2.

     

    I'm assuming one of those briefly appearing who were counting the money and later didn't survive the dragon's escape from Gringotts.

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