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I wouldn't exactly trust Dalgleish to be impartial on this issue, during the height of the pandemic he lobbied for certain companies to be given contracts for the vaccine whilst holding shares in those companies plus he has repeatedly claimed that organisations that have disagreed with him are controlled by China, to the extent where he tried to get the UK government to spy on certain scientific organisations. Bearing in mind, he has also previously worked with right-wing lobbying groups and was a UKIP parliamentary candidate in 2015, I would say he would be very biased. Plus John Campell has a reputation for spreading misinformation on his Youtube channel, and would never be my go to source. It's one very complex, multifaceted theory, something that hasn't properly been disproven but also hasn't been 100% confirmed, and within that theory there are disagreements on if it was accidental or not, the intentions behind it and collaborators.

With the local elections fast approaching, this morning a leaflet was delivered to my door outlining all the candidate's pledges and the such, most of it was pretty standard stuff but the penultimate candidate was an independent who had 3 top priority pledges one of which was to stop any further lockdowns. Firstly it's 2024 I genuinely don't think I've heard the word lockdown in at least a year, it's hardly a relevant issue and secondly does a mayor even have the power to do that. Reading the rest of his manifesto he's just nicked a lot of the Reform party's ideas, so I assume he's either delusional and thinks that we are still at the height of the pandemic or is trying to get the votes of those delusional conspiracy brain nutjobs, or possibly a combination of the two.

With the amount of problems he's had in the past few years, dare I suggest he should get his own thread???

Of your big 5, I'd swap out George Burns with Gloria Stuart, and if Eva makes it to her 100th I'd say she'd take Glynis Johns place. On the tier below I'd 100% add Nehemiah Persoff, Earl Cameron and maybe Caren Marsh Doll.

Earlier today one of my friends reminded me of a mistake I made a few years ago. For context for one of my A-levels I studied British Politics from 1951-2007, with a key part of that being the troubles in Northern Ireland. One time I came into class and the teacher had put a collage of significant people from the course on the wall, one of whom was Gerry Adams, I sat there for the next five minutes staring at this display wondering why there was a picture of Rolf Harris on the wall. In hindsight they don't look that similar.

Actor Ron Thompson from ABC's Baretta (1975-1978) has died aged 83, he also played the lead roles in 1981's American Pop.

Why not change things up and not do music, who fancies a Kill or Save on forum users.

I wonder what mango's notification sound is. Ping? Beep? Buzz?

Watching the TV coverage of Simpson's death and I was surprised to find out that Ron Goldman's father, Fred, was still alive, I never realised how young Ron actually was.

I'm upset that I won't hear his famous 'hey Twitter world, it's me yours truly' anymore, anyway rest in piss.

My Nan has owned this 'woke' reverseable scrabble board for as long as I can remember, she got it when my sister and I were very young so that we could play. I can't wait to tell her that all her efforts reading the Daily Mail have been in vain as she is now woke and hates Britain.

I'm house sitting for my Nan again and this time she's left me a bottle of champagne and a roast beef dinner. I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've actually had champagne and I don't get what the big deal is.

Here's a few lesser mentioned names to consider. Michael D. Higgins (b.1941) - The current President of Ireland has been in and out of hospital quite frequently in the past few years, has been having mobility issues as of late, looks older in every new picture of him, will be retiring next year. Alan Rothwell (b.1937) - I was watching an interview with him from 10 years ago and he looked awful then, I can't imagine how he looks now. Has been retired for 5 years. Try Sutrisno (b.1935) - Rumoured dead in hospital towards the end of 2022, looks awful. Rowena Cooper (b.1935) - Retired from onscreen acting last decade, hasn't done any voice work recently, lost her husband of just shy of 60 years in 2023. Barbara Knox (b. 1933) - Her role as Rita in Corrie has been massively scaled back in the past year, very slow on her feet nowadays and is looking quite thin. Quentin Blake (b.1932) - Wasn't looking the best in his 2021 BBC special and hasn't been seen much since.

I like the fact that in this hypothetical scenario Jimmy's death isn't being treated like his wife's was, instead he's getting the same treatment as paedo presenter Rolf Harris.

I've just watched Scoop on Netflix, the new film about the Prince Andrew interview. It was fine, well directed but Billie Piper as the lead character is just a bit boring, she puts in a fine enough performance but there was nothing for me to connect to. It also felt weirdly sympathetic towards Andrew at points and I don't know if that was intentional. There's a solid ten-fifteen minutes of just recreating the actual interview which is near perfect but at that point you might as well just watch the real thing, in fact that probably applies to the entire film, just watch the original news-night special instead.