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That's a nice one. I will send something. BBC international...does that mean foreign language BBC sites like BBC India?

There's a movie called "The Farewell" getting Oscar buzz, it's about a chinese grandma with terminal cancer, but she doesn't know it because her relatives are keeping the truth away from her. Anyway, it's based on a real story, and the cancer-stricken grandma is still alive, six years after the diagnosis: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/10017239/the-farewell-gran-cancer-secret/

Alain Robert arrested in Frankfurt: https://www.thelocal.fr/20190928/french-spiderman-arrested-after-climbing-frankfurt-skyscraper

Austrian pianist Paul Badura-Skoda dead at 91: https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/pianist-paul-badura-skoda-has-died-at-the-age-of-91 Hmm, my 54321 team draft is now so depleted I currently have Donald Trump on it.

Eh, okay... I've been wearing the name "reptile" on the internet for years... in fact, it must be 15-16 years now since I began using this alias as a young player of the Civilization strategy games on the internet. The origin is the song "Reptile" by American industrial band Nine Inch Nails. The "gc" was my former "guild" tag. Yes we had guilds even then, before World of Warcraft.

James Hetfield (of hard rock band Metallica) back in rehab: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/metallica-cancel-tour-james-hetfield-rehab-892158/

Rumor-mongering article on the health of Trong, who might not make it to the next National Congress in 2021: https://thediplomat.com/2019/09/is-vietnams-trong-still-going-strong/

When it comes to cool guitar music, I see St. Vincent as a "carrier of the torch". But Yeah, in terms of quantity, rock music has seen better days.

Chirac is my 16th hit. Baker probably the 17th.

Woops, just voted for Ginger Baker, forgetting that this isn't the thread yet...

There are no bad picks, only just a little ahead of time.

The barely living are excitedly watching Brexit and impeachment proceedings, I know I am!

Ah, I meant to react to it for a while - but I didn't really have the time lately... ...anyway, she did well to last a whole year in hospice.

I recently linked to a Chris Kirubi update and one of the commenters was pretty sure that Kirubi has prostate cancer which he apparently doesn't want to confess. Maybe it's a bit of a taboo in Africa because it signifies declining male virility.

His three predecessors were not exactly successful either, but if Johnson were to resign right now, he'd achieve new standards of failure that would be almost impossible to surpass. Did he even win a single parliamnetary vote?

He reminds me very much of Bernie Sanders right now. They were in the right place at the right time, giving the left-of-center parties a needed shot of energy to turn away from the automatised neo-liberalism of the 90s and 00s. But one election later, they feel a bit out of place, their programs adopted, and they themselves too old and stubborn. I still like both of them, though and give credit to Corbyn for keeping Labour together - so far! - in the past two years of this Brexit thing. But the time has come to pick a side, it seems to me.

Charli XCX's new metal album Charli, here's a single with Chris (of Christine and the Queens):

That Star Trek actor Aron Eisenberg, posted by YoungWillz already, died of AIDS. I wonder how people still die of it. What's the medical reason.. Edit: It seems Wikipedia removed that reason of death now..

Japan recently had a "Day of respect for the elderly", or something like that. Kane Tanaka was celebrated, too: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20190916_28/ Soeur André got a package of chocolate last week: http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/preghiera-e-cioccolato-io-decana-deuropa-1753230.html She doesn't move anymore and her main happiness is being able to pray daily (and chocolate). America now has another super-centenarian World War II again, so the new Richard Overton is Lawrence Brooks: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/news/veteran-3.html Switching to the oldest people with fame beyond age: Cecilia Seghizzi celebrated her 111th birthday this month: https://www.rainews.it/tgr/fvg/video/2019/09/fvg-Seghizzi-Cecilia-111-anni-75d28743-f1ef-49e1-a6fd-a22ecc36a010.html Still looking stable, sitting in that chair there. Renée Simonot turned 108 this month. Her daughter says that she's been living in a "maison", so I guess, a care home, for 2-3 years. But she isn't ill and there is still energy: https://www.programme-tv.net/news/cinema/239077-catherine-deneuve-ses-rares-confidences-sur-sa-mere-renee-agee-de-108-ans/ EIleen Ash got a picture of herself last month, she's still walking and looking pretty well even though she feels like 200: https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/1316483

Kind of sad Magdalen Berns wasn't picked in the DDP (if there was even any infomation on her health pre-2019)... She would have received the rarest of rare Morning Star Online-only QOs: https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/feminist-vivid-love-life-gone-too-soon

According to Wikipedia, Lady Anne Barry, founder of Rosemoor Gardens, has died: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Anne_Berry https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RHS_Garden_Rosemoor

Sounds like he had a wiggle fetish, and had to make it rhyme. Then he took it from there.

I'm not wanting to jinx it by congratulating on the win...so I just say, congratulations for this skilled pick.

Artistically, that's about right ( ba-dumm-tshh...).

I guess that Daily Mail article either comes today, or not at all. So it's a matchball for Death Impends today - who, after all, is in the comfortable position of not having to win any of his match balls but still win!