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Take your point but the election is in November and looks like it's two old men, one frail the other quite possibly certifiable and in danger of a custodial sentence before then. The overwhelming public opinion - way ahead of any one candidate's poll rating - is that voters are appalled at these two being the main choices in the first place. You'd be an idiot at this point to believe that the polls today are even predicting the two candidates who'll fight it out, let alone be accurate in ten months time once the campaigns have played out.

Aye, well, should any of us win after this we'll doubtless lend the glittering trophy to a local museum for a year and donate the entire £100,000 cash bonus to medical research aimed to put dead poolers out of business.

Shit happens both ways, mind and when those of us looking into the abyss of backing a list of the missed pick were contemplating the lack of a qo a few days back we - pretty much -shrugged it off and cried a little into our collective beers. I'm guaranteeing now, I won't moan if the DDP world and his dead pooling dog are celebrating Drop 40 bonus points for Esther Rantzen later in the year whilst I'm left out having left her out.

One of Australia's leading cancer specialists has a terminal diagnosis (suggesting he won't see the end of 2025) and has become a public guinea pig in research on the condition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Scolyer

So, the author isn't exactly an admirer of Trump but some good points here in terms of how things might go to shit for him. A basic but solid argument being his current behaviour and life-events are turning off the undecided middle voters and his absence from major social media after the storming of the Capitol might have done him a favour that's now being undone as his charmless rants remind some undecided types of what he's really like. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/26/trump-is-vulnerable-biden-way-to-win

My bad on the DDP thread - slight adjustment for Jason Smith's actual date of death makes no difference to the running order and Stuart Gray points (provisionally 339 on today's date) don't boost anyone into the sharp end of competition, Sideik still in prime position to squeeze over if sharing a pick with anyone in the chasing pack. Three players one hit away. But - watching Maidstone United earlier - who knows when some unfancied sort suddenly turns it on and storms to victory? Sideik - 1778 Banana - 1777 Wannamaker - 1775 An Fear Beag - 1428 msc - 1418 Drol - 1417

Bit harsh on the stay-at-home cancer mums much beloved of the Daily Mail in December, innit? Are you saying their sterling efforts to avoid paid employment or public service count for nothing?

Thanks, significant in a small way because it takes a point off Sideik and puts two teams into a tie for the lead. If their joint picks keep dying we might go into the first Deathrace head to head tiebreak. I mean, obviously the fourth round of the FA Cup couldn't compete with that nail-biter! I'll tweak the leaderboard later on after watching Maidstone humble the Tractor Boys

BBC step up with Jason Smith q/o 22 DDPers cut down on laundering underwear! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c191endrkdko Oh aye, and...death confirmed as earlier this month so the provisional date and points on the Deathrace stay where they are until anything definite emerges.

Anyone seen Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey? Found the thought of it amusing when it came out but wasn't remotely bothered. Given the fact it's now lined up for Golden Raspberry gold I'm thinking we could be in spectacularly dire territory, so bad it's worth seeing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh:_Blood_and_Honey#:~:text=Winnie-the-Pooh%3A Blood and Honey is a 2023,to A. A. Milne and E. H.

Risky strategy though all the shouting and grandstanding must feel great in the moment and fits the life-script Trump has for himself, so it probably feels like what they should be doing. Then again, the same approach has brought its low moments, Rudi Guiliiani seeping hair dye and ranting in front of a garden centre being a particularly ill-conceived moment when you're trying to project effortless power. Another likely hefty fine coming and if Trump continues to rant about E Jean Carroll being a liar now he's been hit with this fine then more could be levied on him. All of which will stoke the conspiracy narrative but it might be a bit early in a long legal year to be leaking sums on this scale.

Sorted, The Immortal surges from 13th to 11th place!

Totally concur, but less than top teams - like mine - have riskier picks too. Sometimes pay off.

Dead as of 12 Jan, mind (Hayes, not Roache), thought I'd mention that for anyone looking in who missed it. So his final appearances might see the show re-branded Last Days of Our Lives

Well, my gamble - and well aware it was - was local headlines via BBC or ITV, more an announcement following his standing down and he was the kind of guy who clearly had respect across the floor of the council chamber. Outside bet, Other Lives in The Guardian. Really outside bet, 22 disgrunted DDP entrants have a whip round and stage a memorial gig that reunites Gazza with the surviving Lindisfarnes to sing Fog on the Tyne!

OOOhhh, could be a biggish DDP moment. I considered him a risk worth taking (nailed on he'd go, obit chances depending on news cycle) but those taking the risk include some traditional big dead pool hitters with DDP form, oh aye, and me! 2025? – no thank you! I’ll leave before Banana's Peel Slippers Carkers Convention 2024 The Love Boat Fade to Black Faster Than A Dead Horse La Faucheuse David Quantick's Showbiz Pals Going Underground GUN Fishing Octopus of Odstock Once You Go Black Pan Breed Pazuzu United Beat the Cost of Living Crisis with One Simple Trick! Smart Beta Heading Nowhere The Living End The Necro Files The Sound of the Underground To Kill A Gabor Sister Very Ill Turned Very Dead

So, re Jason Smith - anyone actually live in Newcastle and, like, listen to the radio, watch local telly or owt? Askin' for 21 friends, like

Exiting times either way, I think there may just be one or two pragmatic heads around him who realise too many days in court might mean he fails to get lucky. Al Capone was a talented gangster who ran a better operation than the competition, what did for him was steady, boring forensic accounting and - metaphorically - death by many small blows. 91 charges means a lot of witnesses, evidence and more chances that someone who worked for Trump will plea bargain. Trump doesn't seem to be considering that every time he slaps down a once loyal minion. But if he doesn't keep a strong team around him the Capone-style demise is still possible.

Yeah, but they realised he had dementia when he said he was the drummer from Journey, right?

Just a guess, he if delays trials long enough to get into the White House he WILL pardon everything he can for himself and his hangers on, justifying the whole lot as a rebuke to a blatant witch hunt.

Yeah, and it struck me as a big "IF" with regards "if he doesn't get the chance to pardon himself." To be fair to the guy "Scott", didn't get his second name, he did put this in context of so many people now feeling politics has failed them to the point that centre right parties are being taken over by the hard right and the "I am your retribution" message going down well in particular places. He also discussed Trump in the context of Putin and Netanyahu, i.e., basically populists who are now completely trapped in their own momentum and face prosecution and (in Putin's case) likely death if they back down from their current positions, meaning the collateral damage to world politics and the lives of many people will continue to be immense. Lively year coming up, significant overtime claims for political correspondents being about the only certainty.

A random but maybe relevant fact here - his wiki page mentions his skills at dancing the tango, a known boost for mental and physical longevity. Oh aye, and his fourth missus shares his birthday but was born the day he turned 41! Dull thread atm, mind - don't think he's going anywhere other than this planet anytime soon.

In other news, one of the guests on The Context on BBC News last night had clearly done the maths on the chances of someone with the tonnage of charges faced by Trump being acquitted in the states that are prosecuting him (incl. some with the highest probabilities of conviction). Taking out the curve ball of whether the cases come after the election and - therefore - allow Trump to pardon himself he estimated Trump's chances of being acquitted on ALL charges as around one in 700.

Yeah, it's an absolute outlier in her earnest hippiedom. Cracking story about how it came about, basically her high-flying hippie ideals led to a fast, and the smell of a McDonald's restaurant proved too tempting after 27 days of dietary restriction. After which the song came tumbling out in a whelter of remembered childhood incidents. Another of Those Careers in the days before streaming where one hit leads to a completely misleading idea of what the artist is like. See also Streets of London or Jig-a-Jig. Other than the obvious lock and key, sexual, stuff you could almost put the song down to drug influence of a different kind, i.e. the chemical hit from a full McDonalds on a dedicated hippie brain. So, maybe it's Eight Miles High but for burger fans. Wiki has more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_New_Key