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The brilliant Sex Education is back for a second series. I am rationing myself to one episode a day (fill in your own punchlines) It's the kind of show where just the expression on someone's face at a particular moment can have you laughing out loud. If you missed this, watch S1 first. Only 8 episodes.

I learned the other day that the aunt of one of my neighbours is a lady-in-waiting to the Queen. I am not planning to ask for any insider gossip though, as I doubt such would be forthcoming Shame though.

It wasn't. It was me. Look back a few posts.

That's so Fargo.

Perfect!

I give it a couple more years at most. She just isn't his type - look at all the girls he's been with before, he is definitely attracted to a type and Megan isn't it. Won't be surprised if this is an infatuation which will suddenly burst like a bubble. She'll be all right: she's got her meal ticket for life now, that will always have been the plan.

My strategy of only picking famliar names was a resounding failure last year. I may try a reverse ploy of only picking people I've never heard of.

I'd never heard of her. There are numerous nobodies who upload multiple videos online of them applying make-up, dyeing their hair etc. They are not "famous".

See, this is a perfect example of the need for a "shocked" reaction, which could express OMG! or WOW!

Apparently Doreen will be one of the sitters in Sky Arts' "Portrait Artist Of The Year", which starts on Tuesday (21 Jan). So we will have ample time to observe! Apparently she's scheduled for episode 4, along with Asim Choudhry and Russell Tovey.

But no gristle.

Can I ask how people are pronouncing P-Orridge? Are we supposed to say pee - orridge, or just porridge?

Jeanne Mockford is another actress with a long TV resumé who never got a decent obit. Wikipedia resorted to the probate index as a source for her death. She's probably best remembered as Senna the Soothsayer in "Up Pompeii" ("Woe, woe, and thrice woe!") https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0595154/ Oh, I say! The video embedding seems to be working again

If I fall over, it usually involves alcohol or the dog.

Another question. Is there any option to add or change the post reactions? 'Thank You' is useful, and the like and laugh get used a lot. I don't have much occasion to use the others but a OMG! one and a FFS-type eyeroll would probably get more use, if such are available.

This has been mentioned in the A Night To Remember thread, but I don't think we ever found an obit for Jane Downs, who played Sylvia Lightoller in that film and had a long list of TV credits over six decades! She had also been married to Terence Alexander and Gerald Harper. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236185/

The Committee pick whoever they feel like picking, my Lord, that's surely well established. I don't think they give a flying fuck about anybody else.

Bah. I knew I'd got him somewhere, but it was in the all-too-brief Poker pool.

Wish you'd stop doing this. Every time it gives the impression that the person has died, especially as it takes time to scroll down to the actual news.

That it's sad.

I really just meant a complete list of people picked by our ?mourners? -so that we all know who to cheer on from the sidelines, as it were.

Will you be posting a master list so we can keep tabs on pool hits? (Still not really sure how this works)

Why wouldn't we? We're only picking from a limited pool, not going to be any surprises. Better to get it out of the way than wait, forget, and miss the deadline.

Thanks, Cat, I'll try that. Doesn't seem to have worked, unfortunately. Says it's a Firefox bug, so it may get sorted out.

Yes, it's like "star" in the tabloids.