Sod's Law

Says he will not run again in 2028 if he loses in 2024: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czj9ekdvxx2o I really don't think his heart could take it. In more ways than one.

He looks and sounds better than Blair and has done for years at this point. Wouldn't surprise me to see him outlive one or two of his successors even.

Tupperware files for bankruptcy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gdprv2ddxo I honestly didn't even know it was the name of a company rather than just a type of kitchen product.

Saddest death of the year by far for me. This man was the voice of so many great films of my childhood.

Ooh, I see mymango and his constantly bleeding forehead has broken free of the Jimmy Carter thread.

I've seen his face in the news over a million times and I still wouldn't recognise him even if I met him in the street and he directly introduced himself. Probably a good thing though. Starmer gets flack for being 'boring' but he still has a million times the relatability that Jenrick has. I prefer politicians who value substance over style but Jenrick's terminal lack of either isn't a good look for the Tories. Most people want something.

How the hell is Jenrick doing so well? He occupies the worst of both worlds in that he's both boring and dangerous. He's neither a roof-raising populist nor a moderate in his politics (just look at his asylum policy). Same with Cleverly to a slightly lesser extent. I'm really not sure who would vote for either of them in an election.

Oh well, at least while I was there, I got to meet the guy who was Liam Neeson's stunt double in The Phantom Menace... I'm also astonished that in the five years they've been holding that convention in Cromford, they've never had Brian Blessed there as a special guest. He's the patron of the Cromford Canal right next to the mill where it's held and he's often been spotted on his barge and in the cafe throughout the years. You'd think the con organisers would have his number.

How's Colin Baker getting on? He was advertised as a guest at the Cromford Comic Con in Derbyshire last month 'subject to availability' but he was a no-show in the end.

I did hear he received a bit of a backlash in some circles for his recent badger documentary. Hope he's not under too much stress at the moment.

Surprised that record doesn't belong to Juan Carlos or King Harald of Norway given how frail they looked at the funeral.

Steve McQueen (1930-1980), while he was seeking treatment in Mexico for terminal mesothelioma.

My dad's nan made it to 101 and died when my dad was 55 and my grandad (her son) was the same age as Sven. He loved saying that the only thing that made him feel young when he was in his fifties was that he still had a living grandparent who gave him chocolates and sweets at Christmas.

Looks like he's been spending too much time in that Dali melting clock painting.

On a similar note, that new Google Gemini ad. Specifically the man who says 'wowwwwwwww' because he generated a fake picture of a 'kersploosh' (whatever that is). Makes me want to slam the lid of his laptop really hard on his fingers over and over until he's saying 'wowwwww' for a very different reason.

Bizarre how someone with that background can turn out like her. She really does have 'grown-up Veruca Salt' written all over her.

She really comes across as the kind of person who daddy would have brought every pony in the catalogue for as a child, doesn't she?

He's had that for the last ten years and his band mates aren't exactly the kind of people he can rely on to tell him he made a questionable fashion choice.

Predictably, they left New Zealand out of the giant world map. Truly the Zoidberg of nations.

To be honest, if I walked in a room and found Huw Edwards strumming a harp and singing poetry, even I'd be calling for every mention of him to be scrubbed from the record...

For some reason my brain keeps conflating the songs All Night Long by Lionel Richie and Never Too Much by Luther Vandross. They each keep coming on the radio when I go into the office and I get confused by how the lyrics in one song don't show up in the other and vice versa. I also remember hearing the song Someone Like You by Adele for the first time and assuming it was sung by a man (probably James Blunt or one of those high pitched male indie singers who were everywhere at the time) until I watched the BRITS and found out who it really was. Yeah...

Well, this was unexpected. I would have put my money on Beshear any day.

Also makes me glad I have physical copies of Dr Who and sitcom episodes which feature actors later found to have engaged in some dodgy behaviour. Who knows how long it'll be before iPlayer and streaming services decide the public shouldn't be allowed to see them for their own good?

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Just as I thought it would, and the precedent for this doesn't sit right with me at all. Remove mention of his name, fine, but the idea that the public can no longer handle viewing a twenty second piece of historical footage based on the identity of the person announcing it seems perverse to me. Carry on this road and soon huge chunks of our media will be completely inaccessible because some extra in some scene in a movie was later found to be a rapist or something. You just can't always delete the fact that shit bags exist.