Grim Up North

The kind of teams that would have Jody Gormley as their joker don’t start entering teams till after Xmas.

Don’t talk bollocks - little chance perhaps but not ‘no chance’.

You did! But it was necessary and i learned a lot of skills doing it for 3 years. Cheers

Hi everyone - wasn’t sure where to post this but here seems as good a place as any. After a few false alarms I am finally being made redundant on 31st December and at 56 and a half I plan to try and eke out a fun existence on what I have so unless I get bored my redundancy will double as my retirement. With incredible bad timing whilst I was planning to spend the next 10 years hiking all the Wainwrights and having a jolly good time my wife has been busy developing a heart condition - still awaiting a final diagnosis but she’ll be on meds forever by the sounds of it (she’s not obitable before @maryportfuncity asks). Anyway I’ve decided to also retire from Deadpooling and being a member on this site - get on living rather than monitoring who might be dying. I don’t think the two are mutually exclusive, I’ve had some great fun reading and posting on here but I also want to try and reduce the time I spend staring at a computer/phone and this site is definitely something that pulls me in. Somewhere on here there is a post by @Spade_Cooley that says something like ‘it won’t be the last one’ when I won the Hares Pool. In actual fact as it turned out it was my one and only. Thank you to everyone for all the wonderful posts, less so to those of you who are obsessed with old and obscure people, and also to those of you who have run the Dead Pools on here that I have very much enjoyed taking part in. I wish you all many happy years living and deadpooling until, like me, you have tired of it (deadpooling) and wish to fill your lives with something new. I’ll still be around until 19th but I won’t be entering a team in this year’s DDP - I think that site and the people who maintain it is amazing and a real labour of love. Take care you wonderful bunch of strangers! Cheers, GUN

Well how wrong could I be! Crowds!

I wonder across the western/democratic world how many people who were leaders during covid managed to get re-elected? Not just covid but also global fuel rises and inflation hitting people in the pockets.

So sad he died before her - feel quite affected by this one.

Neither they are both shit. That’s Death is the only acceptable option using the KISS principles.

I saw that - it’s hard to imagine anyone turning up to watch a box containing Janey Godley going past but it was also hard for me to imagine anyone paying to listen to her try to be funny - perhaps she has a large family? (In number I mean :-))

FTFY (but very sad I would be horrified as well)

(6) Foot (under) injury?

Less than 6 months between thread creation and death on a 40 year old illness with no new news - I’m impressed.

December 1st {if I was tech savvy I would create an advent calendar with 24 coffins and day one would open and there would be Janey looking out.} but I’m not so December 1st

Coincidentally the turtle’s head just poking out so I’m off for a Tommy tit.

Die While We’re Young would seem to be the obvious one. Whether famous or not 31 is no age to die. RIP.