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False start Roey, get back in line

Me preparing at the starting blocks in the race to pick Pei-Tsun:

Corbyn, Leave voter, saves us from Remainer May's Brexit railroading...yeah, cunt off mate. We're fucked.

You V Spade...the most anticipated battle since Mayweather V Pacquiao

Fucking woe betide anyone who has to face DI in future rounds...21 points! Christ on a fucking bendy bus. I was quite content with my meagre 3 point lead over Book until I saw that utter bloodbath.

Verne Troyer's life was cut short 1 year ago today, aged 49.

My thoughts are with all the Sri Lankans who’ve been killed around 7 times each as a result of this horrendous attack.

The death toll is worse than originally thought:

You mean to say in the next round of the Deathlist Cup I can't just include 'Diabetic Steve from Middlesbrough'? Dammit. There goes my chances of success.

"Cheeky glass or 3 of vino with this one #nomnom #blessed" Why, Facebook, is there a 'like' button but not a 'this post just gave me cancer' button?

Repeat of yesterday, expect it's a Chenin Blanc with some friends and this 90s gem currently playing:

The canteen closed for Victoria Wood on this day 3 years ago, aged 62.

Why's everyone so bloody healthy this year? God sake.

Sitting in the garden this glorious evening with a Viognier and this currently playing:

Pol was burnt and put in a Pot on this day 21 years ago, aged 72.

'God', I presume, was your Grindr date who waited for you to drink yourself to sleep before slipping you one.

Some South American Sixties Shizz. The chorus definitely doesn't sound like a Rolling Stones song released 3 years earlier.

In light of recent astronomical imagery:

So my 2018-19 effort was really rather amateurish. And this...is probably about the same. RUNNING TOTAL: 2,155 Lee Kerslake Leah Bracknell (+450) ??-09-2019 Greg Gilbert Sam Lloyd Fernando Ricksen (+300) 18-09-2019 Sprent Dabwido (+275) 08-05-2019 Bob Hawke (+250) 16-05-2019 Tim Conway (+225) 14-05-2019 Kathleen Blanco (+200) 18-08-2019 Alex Trebek Terry Jones (+160) 21-01-2020 George Alagiah John McCririck (+120) 05-07-2019 Pope Benedict XVI Jean-Louis Trintignant Herman Wouk (+70) 17-05-2019 Kirk Douglas (+55) 05-02-2020 Javier Perez de Cuéllar (+50) 04-03-2020 Bill Turnbull Danniella Westbrook Lindsay Sandiford SUB1) Loretta Lynn SUB2) Barbara Windsor SUB3) Prince Philip

Looking very well! She's as sharp and as eloquent as a near-nonagenarian as she ever was. Amazing lady.

We die horrible, agonising deaths.

Saw something a bit surreal in Penge today. Car that looks exactly like this (not this one; this is just a Google image search). Vicious looking McLaren, bombing about at 4 times the speed of sound, you could hear the thumping from the stereo approaching even before the snarling engine. Anyway, it stops at the lights, this shithouse of a geezer in sunnies has his tattooed arm hanging out the window, looking like a bit of a helmet. What sort of music d'you reckon he's playing? Some kind of rap drivel that's equally gangster, perhaps? Hard rock, possibly? Maybe some bass-heavy dub?

Heard the news that Heine had died on the radio at work. Thought I’d jokered him. Came home. Apparently I hadn’t. Bugger. Still, I’ll savour this moment of being in the lead!