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Ringo Starr is a kids TV fave. I didn't know he had a music career till I were about 10 or 12.

So WW2 was triggered by a worldwide financial crisis, and lots of nationalists having a chip on their shoulder? Not quite sure that's as reassuring as you'd like! A "new" war starting depends on perspective of course - British troops have been at war or deployed in battle permanently since WW2! Technically you need to go back to the "splendid isolation" policy of 1897/8 to find a period where they weren't, but they probably were if I had time to think about it.

I remember when Saddam Hussein was going to start WW3. Before that it were Castro, Iran, Nasser, etc etc.

Test with self-portrait... Nah, auto-embed still works here. Ditto videos?

Nah, it's Deathray-ge.

RIP My pretense that people like my inane posts for non-ironic reasons.

Everything on the internet fits under the topic title.

That's cool. When I got the choice for my book project for Standard Grade, I just picked Douglas Adams!

You've changed your avatar too! This is too much confusion for a Sunday...

Did the forum just change colour/font/stuff mid-thread read, or have I had a stroke?

Ah, all my internet posts from when I was 15/16 have been long lost. Thank fuck.

Aye, because he got sacked from...I forget who, for it. Telegraph? Never rule out the schizo-mood swings of the Guardian editorial staff, though.

Fair point, though I'd also suggest breathing at 111 years old is going strong, too.

Hah. Like Zsa Zsa, he has to go someday.

He's been gone for a while. My thoughts: either he's on the road out before Christmas, or The Guardian have sacked him for being in a recent book about climate change denial, or he quit because apparently he's fed up with leftist media. All of which sounds like the chemo is adling his brain, tbh.

Well, same of the BBC, Guardian, etc etc, and you can't rule them all out. It's the way of the world.

Chamberlain was a legend, mind you. Totally outsmarted Hitler in the long game.

Because it's one of the major newspapers in the UK, for good and bad. And has been since the First World War, at least. One of the old dames of British media.

Why ruin a perfectly good Glaswegian cesspool?

Can't find Only An Excuse's Fergus McCann going "Yer resigned" on youtube, so just imagine it in this post here for comedic effect. Thanks.

He returned to the stage iirc. Of course, Aki Hintsa had stomach cancer, returned to work, went off my longlist...

Yes, but in a... actually, no, it's a slightly bigger role in that Doctor Who. But then, there were Cybermen, so who cares about the rest of the guest cast? Hah.

Yes, he is, but it's a small role.

I believe he has.

So he voted to allow the debate, which meant McConnell and co thought he'd vote for the bill, and then allowed it to have all the flaws pointed out on the floor... then voted against it? Sounds like the chap with the debilitating brian cancer's still cannier than a lot of his colleagues, tbh.