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Nail in the coffin rather than the tipping point, imo. Although, arguably, the bigger tipping point was whoever convinced him that he didn't win the nomination through being John McCain and had to be more like a typical Bush era Republican after 8 years of Bush. Still think he'd have lost though, given his opponent.

Think she got a mention last time out? Though the archive appears to be bollocked so can't check right now.

Count the votes, guy with the most wins. Ok, not in Glasgow (we have STV elections...) but trying not to complicate matters. Right, ok, I'll try: Nah, the local elections are for the whatever council area you come from. So me, every 5 years in Scotland, I'd vote for who I want running the bin deliveries and schools and what not in Glasgow. The BBC counts the number of councillors won, but they're all for the various different councils, and no two councils have the same number of councilors. As no one gives a shit about elections other than who gets to be PM, around about 30% of British voters bother to turn out to actual vote in them. And, people might not vote in any way like they'd vote if it was to determine the Prime Minister. You might think Theresa May is a complete cunt, but that Bob Tory down the road does a good job of getting the bin men to take you rubbish away, and that when Johnny Come Labour Guy was previously in charge, the bins were late, and that bit over the road was full of rats. So you vote for the local guy you like, even if he's in the same club as the PM you hate. Or vice versa, you think Jeremy Corbyn is as nutty as squirrel shit, but Councillor Johnny Come Labour Guy is really good at getting potholes fixed or what not. So really, it means absolutely feck all. Which is why everyone tries to make it the most meaningful thing in the world. It's all back ground noise, except perhaps in Barnet, where specifically it looks like enough people were scared that Corbyn wants to get rid of the Jews to swing it for the Tories. But that's an outlier, not the norm. If you want trends, the places that really want Brexit are still voting for Brexit, and those who didn't aren't. And in the three actual Tory vs Lib Dem council fights, the Tories got their arses handed to them. Which was really funny. (Sorry Sean) In short, Labour won the most councillors across all of England, but didn't pick up any net gains of councils (ie they lost one more than they won), the Tories lost councillors but won enough off UKIP (who are dead) to make it look like they did OK (and they still are in power anyhow), the Lib Dems did very well compared to Clegg era but they always do well in the locals, UKIP died a death, and we don't get to vote on the Prime Minister until 2022 most likely, but that wont stop every politician and media outlet treating everything like it was a referendum result on that. Ok, hope that helps.

Hmm, Benny's going to have take one for the team (and Deathlist) then.

It really is an ugly tie.

Congratulations to Gcreptile on his inevitable win, but try not scare Heef away with algrebra requiring points tallies now.

Career advice. Don't become a nursery teacher if you think they can count in hundreds at nursery age. Or indeed, wont get distracted by you mentioning sweets.

Loudon Wainwright didn't sing "Dead basketball coach in the middle of the road" as it wouldn't fit the tune nor would it be historically accurate. However, Larry Hunter is dead, and it's unique points for The Dead Cow. If that's the weirdest attempted segue in Cup history yet, then blame a stupidly busy work. Is it the weekend? Thank god. Tempted to give everyone a 10 point bonus for it being Friday, but you'll just have to accept that in spirit, and in reality it's: Dead Cow v Sir Creep 4-0 DDT v Deadsox 0-0

You'd have loved 2014 - one of our forum members (I forget who) was predicting ebola would spread world wide and have a million/billion cases within 6 months. As you can tell from the streets full of ebola victims in Breaux Bridge, this prediction was completely 100% accurate. When folk were panicked about ebola that summer, I tried to calm them down by pointing out how there's various strands of bubonic plague (ie Black Death) around the world still, something like a dozen cases per year in the US (on average, iirc), and some are drug resistant, and no one's died en masse yet. For some reason, it didn't stop the panic...

For Joey. And others I guess.

Aye, think we all saw her case last year. Anyone I pick for the Pan Breed team interests me in some way or other, whereas this was just a sad story*. Think there's enough interesting folk or good picks out there, the best picks** are the ones you want to read more about, and there's not more want to read about a tragic nonentities cancer case. imo, of course. *There are 1 or 2 exceptions over 6 years, but remember I am a hypocrite. ** Insert "The best picks are the ones that die" before anyone else does.

I stand corrected! Aberdeenshire Council is headquartered at Woodhill House, in Aberdeen, making it the only Scottish council whose headquarters are located outside its jurisdiction. Aberdeen itself forms a different council area (Aberdeen City). Well, that's just needlessly complicated. Only been in that neck of the woods once in my life, on way to see a game in Peterhead. And time in what I was going to say was a nearby pub, only Google tells me its nearly 60 miles away and shut now. Anyhow, I digress...

^ That's as may be but Cove Rangers (ie the champs who might go up) are from Aberdeen iirc

Highland league used to have 15 teams in it when I got into football iirc? With Fort rock bottom, of course. If that's an issue, Banks 'o Dee applied in 2009, or there's Deveronside (Banff) who voted to join the league or just replace Cove with another Aberdeenshire club. I vote for Theologians, based on the name alone.

For Sir Creep - this post is a direct reference to this post directly above mine, with a death notice AND name. PS If you are wondering why he's not had a proper obit in 2 weeks, it's because he's a complete nobody and Spade's Rusbridger/Risbridger gag would be one of the great bits of DDP chicanery if more folk had jumped on the Underwood bandwagon.

In what is still relatively a rare occurrence (despite press rumours every ten seconds of party split), he was also the former Labour MP for Leominster!

So he lasts 3 years at Stage IV under the tlc of his girlfriend. Dumps her in Feb, announces he's going to become a priest. Dies weeks later. Who knew shagging would be a better cancer drug than relying on God?

Game doesn't open till 31st May and it's a free for all. One name per person. MPFC is usually on hand to take immediate note of who picked who, so cheating is unlikely to prosper.

The Weiss family are bloody game at naming folk. There's Czechoslovakian international (and Olympic silver medalist in 1964) Vladimir Weiss. His son, Vladimir Weiss, became somewhat better known as a Czech/Slovak international in the 90s, and later manager of Slovakia, Georgia and Artmedia Bratislava (but I can't recall them doing anything of note when he was in charge in 2005...). And his grandson, Vladimir Weiss, played for Man City, played in a World Cup, and could have been a top talent if he'd been arsed. He also played for Rangers. The Old Firm just keep showing up in this bloody post. Anyhow, the oldest of the three footballing Vladimir Weiss's has died aged 78, and here is his obit in Slovakian. He's dead, he was liked in his homeland, but he's not going to get an English obit. Christ, practically 15% of the way to a Sir Creep theme team there!

Agreed. imo if its mentioned by the BBC, it should count.

Death Impends's win in the 2017-2018 Windy City Deadpool has been added to the list. He's now on 9 forum deadpool wins, and no DDP title (yet) - only person to win more than 3 deadpools without one. Only a matter of time.

Think every regular on this site would piss that show, tbh. Even if they brought up stuff nobody knew like Coronation St*, they'd be able to sneak through using their brains/logic, I'd assume. *

Aye, very sophisticated. Boringly, I started on Tennants (like pissy water tbh), moved to Guinness, and found a quick fondness for whisky/vodka/other spirits. Although I remember my first time in the pub with the Auld Yin. I was an antisocial git even as a teen so he's apparently thinking it wont be a long visit. Enter the pub, and first thing we hear is a loud cheery voice going "Msc?" (Yeah I know, but for retelling sake.) I'd been at school with the barman. It really is a small world. Some of my old teachers used to drink in that pub (Heraghty's) though that's going back 25+ years now. Auld Yin got the scoop off one, one night, on who were the 2 up for the heave at my school. As it was the teacher that hit kids and the one that smelt of wine after lunch, no much of a scoop admittedly. Anyhow, I digress.

Well done DI! And enjoy the rest Rad.

ITK his odds of seeing 2019 are very slim, but I *knew* others would have twigged on him - Sir Creep confirmed that earlier.