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If she was on the Titanic she'd be wearing an I love icebergs T-shirt. Useless. This joke brought to you by whisky.

Its not just those who follow politics pissed off. Its the people who don't tend to follow it outside elections and usually give the guys they like the benefit of the doubt. You don't win those folk back when they turn on you as PM. His premiership is, to quote some wanker, dead in a ditch.

I'd be worried if they sent me to a palliative care doctor for nits! Just as a general addendum rather than outright to yourself though: my dad was a medic. We still ask his advice on a lot (and he was an expert in his field) but he does warn us that there's a lot of areas of medicine and health that he'd know fuck all about, because your expertise is usually specific, not general. So a doctor not knowing X, Y or Z isn't that usual.

As an addendum to arghtons info, he had a stroke just before Christmas so I was tempted to pick him in the DDP given his prior issues. Also survived covid. Will probably go before many of the older names on the list tbh.

Yeah, and it's not even a rebate despite them calling that. It's a LOAN. Beeb: They are giving folk money they aim to charge them for next year. So its even worse than it looks.

There was a false alarm on social media yesterday (see the World Cup thread) which suggests he's no a well man to me.

RIP Christos Sartzetakis Please replace him with Maurice Norman, thanks.

Popular 70s TV actor Donald Gee has died aged 84. Z-Cars, plus all the usual stamps of acting nobility - Yes Minister, Forsyte Saga, Corrie...

Speaker Hoyle, though:

I'd never heard of this Jann Wenner before today but from the little reading since he sounds like a proper cunt.

They're waiting for Ry Cooder to sing their eulogy. And while a lot of this discussion is obviously personal taste/opinion, DICK DALE not being in the HOF is practically a crime. Most of their inductees wouldn't exist without him! Zevon is fantastic. If you have the sense of humour to post on this forum and haven't heard Warren Zevon's albums about dying, go find them now. They're brilliant.

Still no Iron Maiden.

Six more weeks of winter, aye? The things that Groundhog will do to try and rig the competition when its behind on the DDP...

She'd been ill longer than several of the posters on this bloody forum had been alive!

I mean, he's a pal, someone I co-ran the DDP with and genuinely one of the nicest people on the forum, but still, it would really help my meagre Cup chances if you could KO @gcreptile, thanks.

The problem is the host has to have their team in before anyone else sends their team in. I used to send mine to Cat but that is no longer possible, alas.

I can't stand Blackford but he is a useful person to have fall on the "lying liars a liar" sword, letting others (say the Leader of the Opposition) get on with their jobs instead of getting chucked out the Commons. Although Starmer got away with calling Johnson a liar in the Commons last week by attributing it to a quote from a constituent, which was quite a clever loophole, I thought.

I think we all know that cricket is not my strongest topic, by far. However, I am reliably told by friends that Sir Garfield Sobers showed up during the recent England/West Indies game, looking "considerably frailer" than he used to. Guardian seems to agree: "The cameras find Sir Garfield Sobers, looking frail but cracking a smile." Anyhow, a name big enough that I know of it, so passing the seemingly unreported chatter on.

That'd be a weird signing, and evidence of Gooseberry Voodoo imo. Also, that dark horse call of mine for the Euros above was fucking fantastic given they made the Semis even after the whole Captain/cardiac arrest/nearly dying in front of them thing.

Thanks for running this one!

AFAIK she's meant to be a proper Cilla diva to folk. You can see the mask slipping on live tv now and again. Not a fan. Like Jackie Bird but no ones heard of her outside of Scotland!

He comes across as someone whos entire personality is an act and they are probably a right cunt off camera. You know, like a Lorraine Kelly.

Jana Bennett got a big bit on Last Word yesterday. So she'd got a BBC obit which counted in the end.

Its called independent but it wasn't actually independent, it was in-house. Sue Gray's boss is Boris Johnson. That she found evidence to spring the Met into action is already above expectations. Slightly overanalysing the "conspiracy gets you more than the act" comment there but I'd just point out in that scenario the party would have come out 2 years ago when it happened, before anger was allowed to ferment. Dominic Cummings pretty much got away with his castle spotting trip and he had far less "political capital" than Boris Johnson did at that time. I stand by my earlier comments - he's fucked. It doesn't matter if he resigns today or in a years time in this specific regard, it wont change the matter.

Ah, so what you're saying is that Sisters weren't doin' it by themselves?