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  1. Posted

    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

     

     

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    3 minutes ago, Salmon Mousse said:

     

    As pure an FFBI as there ever will be.  Hell, the town I grew up in has 5 thousand more people in it than this guy's ward and I certainly wouldn't consider anyone on the 4-person council who oversees it anywhere near famous.

     

    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?

     

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    1 hour ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

    Was just.coming to post this. If you check X, he died on the day the Chronicle first reported it.

     

     

    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

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    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.

     

     

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    17 minutes ago, Windsor said:


    There was a theory that Trump deliberately acted up in court precisely to ensure the Jury threw the book at him. 
     

    Having  listened to his lawyer just now that might not be so far fetched. They are ramping up the narrative that this is Biden and the Democrats rigging the system against Trump, when the reality is that Trump is just a massive cunt who was found guilty. 

     

     

    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. 

     

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    4 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said:

     

    He says he is running out of energy. I am inclined to take him at his word but the question will be how many of his squad are staying because of him. Will the lure of Arab money become less difficult to resist for the likes of Salah?

     

    Also they will probably go through at least two managers before they get the next right one

     

     

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    7 hours ago, Banana said:

    The way I see it with these kind of picks is that the top teams on average depending on the year have about 3-7 survivors. That gives about 3-7 picks you can try and be a little riskier on, but this number also changes depending on the strength of the 13-17 other picks.

     

     

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

  10. Posted

    On 29/12/2023 at 13:30, Miranda lass said:

    I still go with Eileen being 93 instead of 92 if you type in Eileen Derbyshire born October 6 1930, there are plenty to support that

     

    William Roache at 91 isn't the oldest tv soap star, as William Hayes (Days of our lives) is 98 and still appears in his show :o

     

     

     

    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

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    20 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

    Personally, I don’t understand the interest in this so called “celebrity”.

     

    Yer local councillor isn’t really on a par with Melanie Safka or even toothless from Deliverance on a national level.

     

    True, there have been some noteworthy local officers with some interesting achievements or infamy (Derek Hatton for example) but the guy who had a vote on whether your conservatory goes up…well, how did he pass the DDP sniff test?

     

     

    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!

     

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  12. Posted

    34 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

    Depends imo if there's a "paid tributes to" article for the funeral etc ... but yes, I'd say the probability is now below 50%

     

     

    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!

     

     

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  13. Posted

    21 hours ago, maryportfuncity said:

    The death of Councillor Jason Smith has put a trio of Deathracers one hit from victory - https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/citylife-news/tributes-paid-former-newcastle-councillor#:~:text=Tributes were paid today to,away after bravely fighting illness.&text=Jason Smith%2C who represented Lemington,a wife and four children.

     

    Local reports, should be followed by BBC in due course 

     

    22 DDP teams fielding this talent

     

     

    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

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    1 hour ago, BonScott said:


    Don’t think he will do that, not his style, he clearly believes, deluded or not, that he is innocent, pardoning himself would be the equivalent of Prince Andrew paying off that girl, hardly anyone i know thinks Andrew is innocent now, Trump will want his day in court imho, maybe am wrong

     

     

    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. 

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    19 minutes ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

    One more to point out:

    Steve Smith, picked by myself for my sporting theme team, is the former Huddersfield Town player now with dementia, not the drummer from Journey.

     

     

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

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  16. Posted

    9 minutes ago, BonScott said:

    If Trump wanted to pardon himself he could have done it last time round for future convictions, he never, he is the type to have his day in court and stand and fight, a pardon will be seen as a presumption of guilt. Not Trump’s style, he loves grandstanding in a courtroom too much for that, plus you can’t pardon state level charges too only federal

     

     

    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. 

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    30 minutes ago, Comped said:

    That's about what a lot of people said were his odds of election in 2016...

     

     

    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.

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  18. Posted

    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.

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  19. Posted

    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.

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    8 hours ago, Toast said:

    I never understood that song.

     

     

    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

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    1 hour ago, Thatcher said:

    Evening Chronicle write up for former Cllr Jason Smith.

     

     

    That's saved me posting a shite meme to keep people entertained, a few q/os out there to hit our woefully low standards, nobody confirming a date of death - provisionally I'll give points for yesterday because that's my best guess. Earliest social media I can find first thing this morning and he was a public figure, his council commemorated him tonight.

     

    I've also tweaked some earlier mistakes on the points, but we've got a few within sight of completion now - Sideik continues to storm it, just, with their joker still alive

     

     

    Sideik - 1779

    Banana - 1778

    Wannamaker - 1776

    An Fear Beag - 1429

    msc - 1419

    Drol - 1418

     

  25. Posted

    37 minutes ago, DCI Frank Burnside said:

     

     

     

    This is embarrassing even by the Telegraph's standards. Amazing to think it was a relatively reputable paper once

     

     

     

    Aye, that'll be the same YouGov that was co-founded by Nadhim Zahawi and once spiked a poll in 2017 before rejigging it more in favour of the Consersvatives. Indeed desperate times for the Tories, and The Telegraph. Onwards and downwards, then.

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