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  1. Posted

    39 minutes ago, Gooseberry Crumble said:

    There is no cure for baseless conspiracy theories  combined  with stupid. 

    Apparently the announcement of Charles Cancer is part of a plot to push experimental cancer treatments on the world as part of the new world order!! Lots of stuff like this online. 

     

     

     

    Aye well - loads of conspiracist bloggers and the like get fleeting tabloid mentions when they go in a Darwin Award stylee. Not many citations required on the Wiki page of anti-vaxxers who copped it from Covid

     

    Point being, there may be dead pooling benefits from anyone actually thinking the King's current predicament is more in David Icke's reality than the reality of a 75 year old bloke being caught up by the hand of fate. 

     

    Oh aye, reality check on that Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_of_anti-vaccine_advocates_from_COVID-19

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  2. Posted

    On 04/02/2024 at 16:14, The Old Crem said:

    Is it just social media making it easier to hear about it or are a lot more people collapsing in the crowd at sporting events. Feels like every few weeks someone dies in the crowd at a football match. 

     

    The first one, I think - not like it's that new. There's a discussion in Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch about an incident in - I think - 1971, the gist of it being a Crystal Palace fan has a fatal heart attack in the street and 15 year old Hornby and his mate push up to the front because they know something's kicking off and want to see it. What follows is thoughtful musing on the sheer stats of the whole thing. First off, they're disappointed that he just died, i.e. he wasn't "done" by "scousers" - the opposition that day - and secondly the grim realiity that the football season is way longer than the close season so the reality is most football fans die not knowing the outcome of the campaign they've most recently invested their time and energy into. If there's statistical significance beyond that I'd make some random guesses. 

     

    Football is stressful (anyone who thinks otherwise doesn't get the stupidity of telling us to "enjoy the game")

     

    There are other things than football impacting the health of football fans - like the tonnage of shite food Britain eats these days. 

     

    At the top end ordinary and young fans are often priced out, so older, fatter and wealthier types squeeze into small seats. And, just guessing, there are more DVT emergencies at games than there were when most fans stood.

     

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  3. Posted

    On 03/02/2024 at 18:18, Steve said:

    As a Port Vale fan it's definitely time for manager Andy Crosby to go. Head of recruitment David Flitcroft can follow him out of the door also. The way Port Vale is being run at the moment is embarrassing. Owner Carol Shanahan said that the club when promoted via the League 2 play-offs two years ago needed to be "Championship Ready". I question that we are even "National League Ready". Lost 3-0 away at Fleetwood Town today who were sitting bottom of the League 1 table. Vale are now in a relegation dogfight for certain. With hardly any strikers and appalling recruitment in the January transfer window Port Vale are doomed to life in the basement league of the EFL pyramid.

     

     

    Aye, you're currently the yardstick for Carlisle - seven players in during the transfer window but struggling to sort out the chaos on the pitch as we bed in a new line-up and yesterdays 3-2 defeat at Orient flatters us. First goal was a desperate clearance colliding with an oncoming Carlisle body (so we claim it), second goal was right at the death with us already buried and a blatant handball in the box which probably wasn't required given that we hadn't put them under too much pressure. We won't finish bottom because we will make some of the new signings work, but Vale's goal difference is ten better than ours so basically we're 11 points from safety with 16 games left to make up that ground.

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    Heard this discussed on the radio news whilst driving with Mrs MPFC. World Rugby is investing in smart mouthguard technology, basically the standard mouthguards have computer chips on board that'll give in the moment data on impacts and other incidents likely to have a bearing on head injuries. The idea is to make the game safer and get away from the early onset dementia and the like. The pair of us were speculating about what happens if the incoming information makes it so obvious that rugby is so unavoidably dangerous that brain damage is near enough guaranteed. The real problem in the union code has come since professionalism. The size of the players, the amount of training and the tonnage of collisions have increased significantly from that point. Human skulls and the rules of the game haven't noticably changed.

     

    https://www.world.rugby/news/875212/world-rugby-integrates-smart-mouthguard-technology-to-the-head-injury-assessment-as-part-of-new-phase-of-global-player-welfare-measures

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    That time of year for any club thinking to surge out of trouble. Carlisle went bottom again today, despite an incoming seven players in the transfer window. I'm still thinking the new owners will keep the faith with Simmo, though increasingly also thinking some of the familiar pubs of the past in Crawley, Gillingham etc. will be selling pints to London Branch of the support as the newbies gel and we storm to promotion from the second tier this time next year. 

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  9. Posted

    So, no prizes or owt but this seals second for Wannamaker, right? 

     

    Johnnie Irwin – bg, bk, cs, ed, gb, hl, im, jk, lf, ll, mn, mp, sn, st, tc, th, ti, tu, we, wm, ww

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  11. Posted

    1 hour ago, Slackhurst Broadcasting said:

    Is the hair still all genuine? Wearing a wig would have the advantage that he could just take it off and go unrecognised in public.

     

     

    Well, if he took his clogs off too that might work!

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    10 minutes ago, holyone19 said:

    https://apnews.com/article/glynis-johns-dies-3380091d508785048c5dfc8e485f4de0

     

    His mom passed earlier this year.

     

     

    No great fan but a mate recommended I read his autobiography and I'm glad I did. His mum comes in for some scathing treatment there! It's also dripping delicious gossip and inside tracks on otherwise misunderstood stories. A particular corker concerning a famous photograph of Princess Diana and David Furnish consoling a distraught Elton John at Gianni Versace's funeral. The press presented this as a tender moment when Diana wrapped an arm round him. According to the autobiography she was reaching for a mint David Furnish was passing behind Elton John and far from consoling him she actually said "I could murder a Polo." Particularly pointed when you consider how Versace met his end!

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  14. Posted

    55 minutes ago, odeon said:

    sounds like she’s doing alternative treatment which doesn’t actually work and she’s fooling herself while the cancer keeps growing. Also cancer in her brain? I’d be surprised if she lasted the year

     

     

    5th in the DDP Drop 40 with 155 teams standing to cash in

     

    LOADS of people would be amazed if she made next year's competition

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  15. Posted

    1 minute ago, Comped said:

    Oh a lot of Presidents ignored health advice... Just not a lot of modern ones.

     

     

    Fair point, so only Trump is that stupid in living  memory, right?

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  16. Posted

    5 minutes ago, BonScott said:


    Am not here as a Trump cheerleader, with all the legal issues etc hanging over him he should not be standing at all, nor should Biden on health grounds, neither should be on the ballot, but I would say Trump has a 70% chance of being alive in 2029 whereas Biden I would say 30% chance  

     

     

    I'm thinking one thing everyone hereabouts could agree on is that the best thing Biden could do for his health is decide not to stand again.

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  17. Posted

    13 minutes ago, BonScott said:


    Even before the election Biden was very confused and doddery, getting family members names mixed up, even at one rally he invited someone up on stage and called their name out several times and they had died in a car crash months previously so i don’t think it is just pressures of the job, I am not a doctor but having seen my late grandmother decline with dementia Biden showing all the signs, POTUS or not he is a certainty for my 2026 - 2027 list 

     

     

    Aye, I'll bow to your greater knowledge. I'm assuming he's checked out regularly by doctors whether he wants to be, or not. If he's that far gone, surely,  someone in his own party or family just steps in and stops the whole show by outing him. Fuck knows,  the consequences of not doing so are obvious. If the Democrats field a candidate they know can't cut it and let him loose in a live debate that's suicidal and they don't want to gift Trump an election victory. In extreme circumstances they'd commit regicide one way or the other, right? The only president I know who made a point of regularly swerving medical advice is Trump. 

  18. Posted

    So, last call on this - I'm seeing nowt to disrupt the top end of the scoreboard, I'll give it another 24 hours and if nobody throws up proof of a death anywhere that belatedly keeps this competition alive Banana can be enthroned for a truly impressive hat-trick of back-to-back victories, duly rewarded and then the entire thread can fuck off and die, or summat!

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  19. Posted

    4 minutes ago, BonScott said:


    Trump is likely good for another 10 years of life, a bit overweight but in his life has never had a cigarette, never had an alcoholic drink, drinks diet coke not full fat, Biden I don’t see living more than another 2 or 3 years, his dementia is being covered up by his handlers

     

    Last thing the world needs is a POTUS dying in office, would have massive effect on our economy too, as saying goes “when America sneezes rest of world catches a cold” 

     

     

     

    Not sure Biden's that far gone.I think one thing making the difference seem more than it is is that Biden's concerned with facts and trying to recall them, work through the remains of his speech impediment and get over the pressure of fielding press questions makes him seem worse than he is. That said, he's showing signs of age, the job's draining him and I don't think he's good for half a term, let alone the whole lot. Trump's much greater fluency owes a lot to the way he's never been that concerned with facts when he speaks. When he slips up it's less a sign of dementia and more blatantly that he never knew the key facts in the first place. Thankfully a few others were aware of the folly of trying to "introduce bleach to the body" to treat Covid. Trump's love of junk food offsets some of the other clean living choices. I don't think he has ten years left. 

     

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  20. Posted

    1 hour ago, Comped said:

    Barron seems normal though. Apparently according to people who have seen him play football (he was at DC United's academy for a while), he's pretty good too.

     

     

    Aye, oddly - football, as in a natural talent that gives you a strong identity amongst a bunch of people who aren't your immediate family, might be the best thing that could happen to him. Coincidentally, a book about Donald Trump and golf discusses his penchant for kicking the ball to a better position than the one it landed in. A habit he displayed so often at one golf course that the workers there who saw it nicknamed him Pele. Cover of said book shows just how much fat is swaddling his vital organs. Let's not forget - for all the diversions on this thread - we're dead poolers! 

     

     

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  21. Posted

    4 hours ago, Windsor said:


    Surely it’s a family tradition. Trump Snr got everything from his dad too…

     

     

    Trump's dad was a totally insensitive bully who basically terrified his kids, drove one son to alcoholism and left the Donald insecure to the point he doesn't know enough of the truth to tell it. That's a recipe for fucking up his kids and leaving them with the same problem of feeling the need to succeed but lacking the social skills. Those kids may come from a rich background but they're also shackled by the complexities of a business that's now being torn apart by legal investigation and also by the reputation of their own dad. The only way you could really cope in that situation is to have such a strong sense of your own identity you can separate and rise above it. The Donald coped by heading off in one direction (building an empire, building his own ego - albeit on the fragile base of needing constant respect and reassurance and paying for it when he couldn't get it on his own merits). In any family dynamic and in most family businesses there simply isn't room for two adult babies on such a scale. It's worth looking at the rise and fall of the various Murdoch children, outwardly successful but totally dependent on the structure with their dad at the top. I'd be amazed if any younger Trump presented as a credible presidential candidate once the Donald's demise has occured.

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  23. Posted

    14 hours ago, BonScott said:


    Pie in the sky, he is entitled to 2 more terms by which time he would be 86, if still alive 

     

    The succession plan from what i read while back is Don Jr the GOP candidate for 2028

     

     

    Yeah, well...that presumes Trump is so successful the country regards a succession plan as the right idea and - secondly - ignores his mafia boss style behaviour. It's in the nature of narcissistic dictators that they imagine their children have inherited their qualities and find out, often the hard way, that they haven't. 

     

    Has Donald Jr. achieved anything significant in his own right that didn't result from being a Trump?

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