Grim Up North

I thought that must be a piss take but they are the lyrics!

Can you see what it is yet?

Jim Redmond has died You won't know the name but most of you will know the clip. He's the dad.

Yes you're right. There are some good ones on that list that have been ignored - scrapping HS2 for example.

Just as an observational point (I'm not political I think they're all shit and the system they work within makes them shitter). Any govt is elected by max 40% of voters - so in a population of 70 million people it should be possible to get a million people to sign a petition calling for a General Election no matter who is running the country. Particularly with the obsession with social media - probably two clicks from signing the petition. I wouldn't know I don't do social media either.

If Liz had planned to do a speech like her hero Thatcher she's rather blown it this morning. Health Warning - for those of you of a delicate political disposition the link sends you to a 30 second clip featuring Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher not for turning

When Hitler was in his bunker if he had nuclear weapons what would have happened? It’s hard to know if it’s better if Russia win or lose the war.

Yeah whereas if Gooseberry felt a nuke enema coming on we'd all be hitting the cellars (we don't have).

 Harsh

There's no detailed rules to this pool but @gcreptile already picked her in May 2017

Ashima Shiraishi (American rock climber)

ALS Treatment Only works for 2% of cases but wouldn't it be wonderful if one day this thread could be closed because no one died from this terrible disease any more.

She was yawning and then her mam nipped her subtly but hard in back of her neck and the tears flowed.

Oh god no - I hadn’t seen she was the chosen replacement and I didn’t see it but just no.