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Somehow. This was Nigel Starmer Smith (formerly a big imposing kind of guy) Christmas 2021. Unable to eat or drink for himself, struggling to breath, not recognising anyone. Meant to have considerably gone downhill SINCE then too.

Tbh whenever I flick to the BBC coverage it's been oddly funereal today. You'd think we were back in the days of Atlanta when UK won one gold medal and a few other medals all games, not the 5th most successful Team GB in Olympics history. Primarily when watching the Heptaphlon events KJT has looked defeated and low in confidence all morning in contrast to yesterday. It's all a bit Southgate taking England to a Semi final.

Of that generation there is no way I'd have seen Sullivan snuffing it before Flair or Lawler.

Did you see the mini reunion at Glastonbury? The Damned and Queen have the best tunes here, though there's a lot of good bands with not their best work ie Bronski Beat, Moyet.

Brisco was once the source for his own premature death announcement on Twitter when he got confused and texted DDP the wrong info (he'd recently suffered a stroke at the time). I'm not sure he's a massively reliable source!

That's such a whiplash post next to this entire thread so far...even by the standards of your Asian politician comebacks!

He was also in Assault on Precinct 13, a John Carpenter regular. Alas I picked him every other year in the DDP and this was an off year so list of the missed.

Didn't look safe to gravity challenged me! But this is the thing, judging appears to voting higher for intent that didn't come off more than safer and accomplished. There were a lot of crashes in the BMX, several actually made us cringe.

@RoverAndOut my error, not the skateboarding, Charlotte Worthington in the bmx freestyle was eliminated before the final in the event she won gold in Tokyo for as her didnt crash routine ranked lower than her earlier crash score and the scores of several others who actually crashed. So many sports my brain is merging them all.

Suggestions elsewhere the judges marked her down for being too safe. But there's been a lot of weird judging these Olympics, boxing matches the judges saw contrary to the punches, the poor skateboarding lass who got a lower score for not crashing, the shooting gold denied because the judge couldn't see the target had been hit. Just to name a few.

Four years off it, not convinced he'll make that tbh.

Still on the DL but still likely to go in 2024: 1. Jimmy Carter - you may have heard of him. 2. Francis. Some say he's looking better lately. I say he's one bad bout of pneumonia away from punching Benny in the balls again. 3. Cleo Laine. Very old and BBC and Sky Arts have ran tribute nights in recent months, maybe they know something. 4. Chomsky. Frail, survived bunch of strokes, when not if in near future. 5. Robert Wagner - has COPD and id haunted by a vengeful ghost 6. Starmer Smith. Bedridden for years and been near death since 2022. 7. James Whale. Moody bugger with slow terminal cancer but you can't outrun prognosis forever. 8. Joanne Woodward. End stage dementia since forever. 9. Le Pen. Meant to be very frail. Not enough for my liking. 10. Denis Law. Very ill and quiet. And I forgot about him for Scavengers. 11. Hans Blix. Said to be in poor health 12. Tom Brokaw. Severe cancer last year, unusually quiet of late? 13. Linda Nolan. See James Whale. 14. Norman Tebbit. Frail and quiet for ages. 15. Willie Nelson. Frail and visibly slowing down. 16. Esther Rantzen. Dying of lung cancer. 17. Roberta Flack. About to approach usual prognosis time for her age group with als. 18. Sly Stone. How is he still alive? Imo around half of them are gone by Hogmanay. Add in 2-3 random old age deaths and that's yer DL 2024. Now watch all of the above live and Dick Van Dyke randomly cark it instead.

tbh I didn't see it - TQR says too much wind, Rover says too little, I haven't a clue what's going on now!

Can't think what you mean.

tbh I misread it as too much wind, hence the reference! But like you, I am not an expert (or even a dilettante) on sailing!

These things are more tightly regulated after the Fastnet disaster in 1979.

There's a demo of I Want to Break Free out there which is a Freddie Mercury a capella version which is just sensational. Big fan of that song since I heard that version. But then, there are a few bands and singers you could write a top thirty songs and still be leaving out material that would be the best work for most others and Queen are certainly one of those. Cyndi's one of the weak links there by comparison which is no slight on her.

All of the songs are great. Riddles the weakest. Bronski Beat, both Tina's, Queen, Ultravox all proper eighties classics.

I've just read the lyrics to that one and can't understand why she can't just have an affair with him like a normal pop star...

Hearing COVID is writing her an apology letter as we speak.

Sorry but I can't resist the obvious answer... Absolutely correct. An Israeli patriot would obviously nuke a country where Jerusalem would be in the direct fall out zone of the Israeli bomb attack.

@TQR - to quote the wise @TQR, ignore him.

Personally with a 20 point deficit and a bunch of shared picks with Octopus and Banana I'm starting to really regret dropping Draper and Tony Lloyd in late December now!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coste This chap, who's now a qo cert. (Hey we were all thinking it.)

Even I think this thread is shit.