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  1. Posted

    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. 

  2. 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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  3. Posted

    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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  4. 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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  5. 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

  6. Posted

    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. 

  7. Posted

    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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  8. 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. 

  9. Posted

    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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  10. 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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  11. 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.

  12. Posted

    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

     

  17. 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.

  18. Posted

    So, Trump laid into Nikki Haley as "an impostor" in his victory speech. Seems remarkably spooked by someone 12 points down on him. News discussions this morning suggest firstly that Haley might simply hang in there thinking a combi of the prosecutions of Trump plus the financial drain of campaigning and fighting multiple and massive legal cases might do for him. Secondly, that maybe she's already a busted flush, New Hampshire was her best chance and in a month's time in Carolina with a state firmly behind Trump she might be forced to pack it in. 

     

    Interesting times etc. etc. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-68010551

  19. Posted

    1 hour ago, six feet blunder said:

    Charlton manager Michael Appleton sacked straight after losing 3-2 at home to Northampton

     

     

    Useless hereabouts as well, since it was the guy before him who counted for selection. He has a 100% record managing Leicester (two games as caretaker)

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  20. Posted

     

    Thanks for running this pool

     

     

    1 - Andy Taylor

    2 - Billy Connolly

    3 - Dave Myers

    4 – Joe Bidon

    5 - Michael J. Fox

    6 - Buzz Aldrin

    7 - David Attenborough

    8 – Theo Burrell

    9 – William Shatner

    10 – Willie Nelson

    11 – Ozzy Osbourne

    12 – Bruce Willis

    13 – Clint Eastwood

    14 – Dick van Dyke

    15 – Phil Collins

    16 – Cleo Laine

    17 – Robert Wagner

    18 – Donald Trump

    19 – Denis Law

    20 – Janey Godley

    21 – Rupert Murdoch

    22 – Bob Newhart

    23 – Pope Francis

    24 – June Spencer

    25 – Eve Marie Saint

    Sub: Dennis Skinner

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  21. Posted

    1 hour ago, The Old Crem said:

     

    An attempt to bring back Truss or bring in Badernoch or Braverman before the election?

     

     

     

    They're staring oblivion in the face so it seems any desperate measure is to be considered. 

     

    Like I said on this thread not that long back, if they go through with this every PMQs for the newbie includes every other party leader opening up their alloted time by pointing out that's three in a row unelected by the people and not so much asking for as demanding an election. 

     

    The lack of anything innovative in Tory policy tells you all you need to know about their private polling turning up nothing by way of a useful idea of what they could do to convince the public to elect them next time. 

     

    Tory toast by way of a few blistering by-election defeats, more internal meltdowns and a damning verdict when they finally face the electorate, Sunak's present predicament is little more than a distraction. 

     

     

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  22. Posted

    FFS this is a war of attrition  now

     

    Will there be more scoring Deathrace deaths before I run out of dodgy bad taste mock ups of well known toys used in inappropriate ways? 

     

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  24. Posted

    Totally random but thought I'd share. Was copied into this photo earlier today. Charisma Records five-a-side team from just over 50 years ago. Phil Collins in fine shape, the two standing next to him are members of the band Capability Brown, the guy front left is the label's booking agent and the one bottom right is Peter Hammill (still recording aged 75 and obitable). Hammill amazes me tbh, intense and angsty beyond all reason on his best known albums, never thought to see him chipper and cheerful in a team photo. This line-up, apparently, were very effective and won a few games with ease.

     

     

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