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Fri 1 Mar 46 Coldplay — In My Place 44 X-Press 2 ft. David Byrne — Lazy 41 Busted — Year 3000 40 Mis-Teeq — Scandalous 37 Justin Timberlake — Cry Me A River 35 Kylie Minogue — Love At First Sight 35 Rachel Stevens — Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex 34 Pink — Get The Party Started 33 Dido — White Flag 27 The Darkness — I Believe In A Thing Called Love  33 Justin Timberlake — Rock Your Body 32 Oasis — Stop Crying Your Heart Out 26 Oasis — Little By Little / She Is Love 26 S Club — Say Goodbye / Love Ain’t Gonna Wait For You 25 Girls Aloud — Jump 25 Liberty X — Got To Have Your Love 25 Scooter — The Logical Song 25 Benny Benassi PTS The Biz — Satisfaction 24 Electric Six — Danger! High Voltage +4 22 Appleton — Fantasy 21 Lumidee — Never Leave You 21 Ultrabeat — Pretty Green Eyes 14 Kevin Lyttle — Turn Me On 09 Kelly Rowland — Stole 00 Dannii Minogue — I Begin To Wonder -6

The media are very fickle when it comes to latching on to a storyline. See also the recent musings on the possibility of Harry being welcomed back as a working Royal of which there is zero chance. Fuck off.

I think the sense of "another" in that sentence is singular as compared with "and another of the Strictly Come Dancing Alumni" which is explicitly plural.

A lot of this shit is stirred up just to make a story. There is an organised band of Sussex supporteers on Twitter who have been spreading ridiculous rumours about Catherine, such as that she is dead, William strangled her and it's being covered up. The media won't go that far, but it gives them ideas.

If a post-mortem reveals something like a heart attack or embolism, such circumstances wouldn't matter. I wouldn't expect talk of an inquest before a post-mortem. If on the other hand someone is found hanging for instance ......

Alumnus. Singular. A female would be an alumna. Which prompts me to wonder if we would get into trouble over using these m/f variations nowadays.

Dave Myers was my no. 2 sub, so please replace him with Sven Goran Eriksson. I guess he goes in at number 3 and Judy moves up?

And most of us, probably. I had Stan Bowles as well.

Thu 29 Feb 45 X-Press 2 ft. David Byrne — Lazy 40 Dido — White Flag 40 Mis-Teeq — Scandalous 40 Busted — Year 3000 38 Coldplay — In My Place 36 Justin Timberlake — Cry Me A River 34 Kylie Minogue — Love At First Sight 32 Pink — Get The Party Started 31 Rachel Stevens — Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex 31 Oasis — Stop Crying Your Heart Out 31 Justin Timberlake — Rock Your Body 28 Oasis — Little By Little / She Is Love 28 The Darkness — I Believe In A Thing Called Love 26 Electric Six — Danger! High Voltage +4 25 Girls Aloud — Jump 24 Liberty X — Got To Have Your Love 24 S Club — Say Goodbye / Love Ain’t Gonna Wait For You 23 Scooter — The Logical Song 23 Lumidee — Never Leave You 23 Appleton — Fantasy 23 Benny Benassi PTS The Biz — Satisfaction 21 Ultrabeat — Pretty Green Eyes 18 Kevin Lyttle — Turn Me On  17 S Club 7 — You 13 Puretone — Addicted To Bass 12 Dannii Minogue — I Begin To Wonder 10 Kelly Rowland — Stole -1 06 Atomic Kitten — The Last Goodbye / Be With You 00 A1 — Caught In The Middle -5

@Handrejka I've caved in and ordered the Series 3 DVD. It's on NOW but the only cheap offer is minimum 6 months. Also on Paramount where I could get a 7 day free trial, but I thought, hell, might as well buy it and have the extras. Film is not streaming anywhere, and hard to find on DVD/blu ray except for imports.

I think there are just too many songs most of them crap .

We can but hope.

The way it's being reported does suggest that possibility. There's talk of an inquest which is unlikely if he just keeled over from a heart attack or the like.

Wed 28 Feb 43 X-Press 2 ft. David Byrne — Lazy 42 Mis-Teeq — Scandalous 40 Busted — Year 3000 36 Coldplay — In My Place 35 Justin Timberlake — Cry Me A River 34 Pink — Get The Party Started 33 Kylie Minogue — Love At First Sight 31 Dido — White Flag 31 Justin Timberlake — Rock Your Body 30 S Club — Say Goodbye / Love Ain’t Gonna Wait For You 30 The Darkness — I Believe In A Thing Called Love 28 Electric Six — Danger! High Voltage +4 28 Oasis — Stop Crying Your Heart Out 28 Oasis — Little By Little / She Is Love 25 Girls Aloud — Jump 25 Lumidee — Never Leave You 24 Liberty X — Got To Have Your Love 23 Rachel Stevens — Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex 23 Scooter — The Logical Song 23 S Club 7 — You 22 Appleton — Fantasy 21 Kevin Lyttle — Turn Me On 21 Ultrabeat — Pretty Green Eyes 21 Benny Benassi PTS The Biz — Satisfaction -6 19 Puretone — Addicted To Bass 18 Dannii Minogue — I Begin To Wonder 14 Kelly Rowland — Stole 13 A1 — Caught In The Middle 11 Atomic Kitten — The Last Goodbye / Be With You 10 Girls Aloud — No Good Advice 

Oooh, she would be the sister-in-law (albeit briefly) of Lady Colin Campbell.

I think it has greatly cut down the number of birthday posts on the dedicated threads. Which are annoying as when you see there's been a new post you expect some news. So that has been reasonably successful. Unfortunately it has encouraged a few individuals to seek out people every day who were born on that date and post about them, just for the sake of it.

And there it is. Facebook. A few years ago you wouldn't even have known these people existed. My point perfectly illustrated. Yes, and a large part of that is because of delays. Delays in getting funding, delays in getting tests organised, you name it, a lot of these things spend months if not years sitting on desks with nothing happening. The difference with the Covid vaccines is that everything was fast-tracked and money poured into it because of the urgency.

I don't think so. If he'd died today, perhaps, but he didn't.

Have you got statistical proof of that? There have always been cases of sudden death in the young though. I knew someone who died in their sleep at 31 from an unsuspected heart defect, and have been surprised how many people have had friends die in a similar way, and I'm talking over 20 years ago not recently.. Because of social media we just tend to hear about more of them.

They are all of Constantine's generation though, so it makes sense that they would have been closer to him.

Fucking hell. Meghan Markle must have more voodoo dolls than I thought. This is sad - he can't be very old. Guessing this might have something to do with William's absence, I think the Waleses are quite close to them. Think their children all go to the same school. No, I'm wrong, it must be her brother's children. Some pics of their wedding here. Ella is the spitting image of her aunt, Princess Alexandra.

I had read it. Sad but not uncommon and not especially interesting.

Aha, we have a sugar among us.

The King is being treated for cancer so he may not be feeling up to a public engagement, or is at least keeping them to a minimum because he's immuno-compromised Alternatively he and Wills are meeting privately to discuss putting out a contract on the Sussexes.