Master Obit

If I was staying in the same hotel as each of these ten people, and they started hitting on me, I'd be telling nine of these to fuck off. I can maybe understand the appeal of one or two others, even if they aren't my type. Other than that, I have grave concerns for anyone who voted for these people.

I really like the intelligent humour here.

Watch the circulated 50ps part of this video especially My Whole Coin Collection!!! 4 Years Of Christopher Collects!!! - YouTube (36:33 onwards). Way, way more than any one person needs. He jokes about "having a problem", but this is seriously in the realms of needing actual help for a hoarding problem.

I can confirm that I am alive and well.

That guy is one of the biggest twonks on youtube. Exactly what is wrong with "collectors" nowadays. I saw a video once where he was showing off his "collection", proudly boasting "I've got 574 Sherlock Holmes 50ps!", "369 Miss Tiggy-Winkles!" etc. Yeah, good for you. That's not a collection, it's a hoard. A high-standard collection doesn't contain masses of the same coin, especially common ones. He could release 99% of them back in to the wild, giving other people the chance to find them and also giving him funds to buy much nicer coins but no, he would prefer to just sit on a pointless hoard. I shudder to think how many really nice coins he's ruined with fingerprints because apparently he can afford to hoard thousands of pounds of coins but can't spare a tenner for some gloves to handle them. There seems to be some definite interest in coins in this forum (and even a few fairly avid collectors), perhaps people would appreciate a coin thread? Anyone on board?

There are dozens of non-circulating coins that they've churned out in recent years as a money-making ploy. Very much devalues the hobby and puts people off wanting to bother collecting.

And some Charleses want to be in the worst cunts (as a tampon).

The one he's shown the obverse of is the coronation 50p. It's actually quite a nice design imo.

Craig. It sounds horrible. Three of the most collosal twats I have ever known have been called Craig. Never mind Craigslist, Craig should be ON a list.

Confirmed that it goes up to 2022 before having a rather lovely meal. 2023 will probably land in the latter half of the year, around the same time as Q4 of the regular index.

Okay so a little bit of a deviation from the usual topics. As some of you know, I do quite a bit of research on British longevity (hence my mastery of the GRO index), and especially on the longest marriages. A number of the ones I was aware of have ended recently, which means the current list is now looking quite sparse. There's a reasonable userbase on this forum, so I figured it might be worth a shot to appeal here for if anyone has any knowledge of any British marriages of 75+ years, past or present. Fully expecting this topic to end up on 0 replies, but you miss all the shots you don't take. **Not suggesting anyone should share details of people without their consent, but even just having some sort of indication of whether they exist amongst people here would be useful.

They are still very interesting - George Ives was a fascinating individual, the last individual who was allowed to wear a Victoria medal.

Overseas deaths are excluded from the regular GRO index. There is an index that is housed at the archives that lists overseas deaths of British nationals, but I think it only goes up to 2021. I'm actually having a meal with someone in the vicinity of the archives tomorrow so will arrive a bit earlier and pop in to check (since it might somewhat dampen the mood if my best suggestion after a good meal and wine was to go and look at some microfiche).

If you're one of the Jehovah's witnesses that knocked on my door last week, I apologise for the somewhat creative language I used. Some of the words were probably a bit too complex for someone with your dangerously low intelligence quotient to understand. I'll simplify my language next time and just tell you to fuck off.

Ditto.

I do - George died 24 July 2018, shortly before their 78th wedding anniversary. Phyllis died 25 January 2022. Helpfully the article showed their 75th anniversary card from the queen, allowing an exact length to be calculated from the date. A lot of couples on my list are missing an exact date of marriage because ancestry only gives the quarter.

He's rather outshone by a couple of the hunky backing dancers, lets be real.

Sadly Eileen died not long after that article, and Ron died in 2015. There are still plenty out there to be found, and I'm convinced there must be people on here who know some.

Yeah I was more focused on the backing dancers too.

Nothing that would merit me being picked in a deadpool.

Yes, I'm not quite sure why I was so bothered by that. I'll ascribe it to irritability caused by an infection I currently have. My apologies.

You strike me as someone who is probably neurodivergent. Takes one to know one and that. Doom mongering is not an acceptable way to counter your personal problems, just in the same way that it wouldn't wash for someone on a mobility scooter to run over people's feet as a "way of coping with the fact they can't use their legs". If you have genuine psychological problems, then the effective way to counter them is to seek therapy if it's extreme enough, or at the very least find something productive to do instead of posting shite on this forum and subjecting others to the same fearmongering that you seem to enjoy wasting your time reading. Get rid of all the notifications on your phone from the Daily Fail, the Sun, and any other scummy, tory-run media outlet. Delete twatter, and actually make a conscious effort to find productive things to do. I know it's a big barrier to get over, but is the best you want out of life really to be a doom-scrolling clown? Wouldn't you rather get up each day and feel like life has more purpose? Wouldn't you rather have hobbies that you're relaxed by? I would happily unblock you permanently on here and engage with you, and I'm sure others would follow suit, if you actually showed you was making some effort to behave in a constructive way. But ignoring repeated efforts to make you aware of how unproductive you are being, then trying to write it all of as a "coping mechanism" is not reasonable. I'm happy to show some leniency where there might be a case for someone being genuinely incapable of discriminating between what is and isn't acceptable, but you don't seem like you're even willing to try.

Slight nitpick, but can somebody on Wikipedia, maybe @Ulitzer95 edit the death date to 2 May 2024? Doesn't look very aesthetic having birthdate as day first, then death date as month first. I can just about cope with month first dates on Wikipedia (even though it's the wrong way of writing them) if it's consistent across the article, but that's a horrible mish-mash. I appreciate it's a strange thing to be so bothered by, but surely my repeated assisting with finding death dates for people on here gives me a little bit of leverage to get my way sometimes

I would expect so, though I rather hope I'll be dead before it becomes a concern that my list is too short.

Gerontology Wiki is run by idiots. Almost nothing is accurate on there now. OldestinBritain is very much accurate. Please don't apologise - it was very nice of you to take the time to respond, since this stimulates discussion and might get the topic more noticed!