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    Alt Obituaries Deadpool

    Ah nice, anyone placed above me has him, too?
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    Alt Obituaries Deadpool

    What happens when several players share the youngest hit, say...cough...6ix9ine? They all getthe bonus, or it's split, or none gets it?
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    So... What Games Are You Playing?

    I think, I've got to play Disco Elysium, and to a lesser extent, The Outer Worlds. I am now deeply in the phase of my life of wanting to play more than I actually can, while having the money to purchase new games. They just keep piling up. I guess, the time spent on deadpooling doesn't help.
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    Death By Numbers 2020

    I have received a few teams now. As with last year, I will not look into the mails until 1st of January. However, in the forum direct message menu you can see the first two lines of a recent message, so I can usually tell if it's a team submission or a question. Because of one such message I have to write the following here: Once submitted teams cannot be changed simply because other names become available. Only two exceptions: If your joker dies prematurely, you may choose another one. If you need new subs, you can add them at the end of the line.
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    Shadow Lists

    Paul Volcker got me to 17. Looking at the list, there must be at least one more?
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    Ginger Baker

    Thread for "Rock's first superstar drummer" and founder of Cream, Ginger Baker, turning 78 later this month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Baker He's still occasionally performing, in spite of decades of smoking, COPD since 2013, open heart surgery in 2016 and a fall in the same year. This is the most recent review I found: http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/music/glasgow-jazz-festival-reviews-ginger-baker-tony-allen-the-bevvy-sisters-1-4487474 It features the descriptions "sick man", "evident frailty", and "how (?) he still manages to play at all".
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    Holiday Thread

    Well-deserved year-end holidays. About to leave Berlin for Seville.
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    38. Harvey Weinstein

    Harvey Weinstein had back surgery to relieve him from excruciating pain: https://www.tmz.com/2019/12/12/harvey-weinstein-undergoes-back-surgery-now-recovering/ Eventually, we will have to move this thread from here to there.
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    Hollywood Possibilities

    TMZ knows it was Alzheimer's: https://www.tmz.com/2019/12/13/rip-torn-died-alzheimers-disease-dementia/
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    Death By Numbers 2020

    Jill Emberson is the first death on my team. Sub 1 moves into play....
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    Jeremy Corbyn

    I really liked the beard on him. Labour leaders should wear more beards, if they are men. Maybe they should also drink a little and eat meat occasionally. If they are women... they should have an idea of low-paid manual work. Give me a female bricklayer, or a cashier, or a bartender.
  12. Agreed... I see it in Germany (and somewhat in the USA), if the Left wants to do things out of the goodness of their heart, with long arguments, and as the idols of decency, that's not going to be enough.
  13. From the outside, I don't see a long Conservative majority as a certainty. With the Brexit question settled, things might readjust - but it depends on Labour changing, too. Labour's core problem, in my opinion, was not the socialism, but the waffling on Brexit. And the waffling was a consequence of the working class itself split on Brexit. There might have been a need for certainty, because to be honest, a second referendum would just have been another round in the circle. But then the Brexit, the Scottish question, new trade deals, etc..., this readjustment isn't over soon. And Labour could get ready to attack the inevitable frictions. And the Lib Dems are now completely out on the wilderness, too. Labour gets a little more breathing room on the social left flank.
  14. Ahem... who would follow Jeremy Corbyn?
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    Who Should Be On The 2020 Deathlist?

    Oh, and my suggestion? Doris Payne, "famous" jewel thief, 89: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Payne Maybe Rhonda Fleming, "Queen of Technicolor": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhonda_Fleming
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    Who Should Be On The 2020 Deathlist?

    Timely reminder, as we got an update just one week after that post: https://www.nhl.com/news/montreal-canadiens-henri-richard-impact-still-felt/c-312157220
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    The Dead of 2019

    Aww.... as I am going through my longlist I have to realize that Bill Palmer, who in 2015 rose to National UK fame as the "lonely listener" on BBC Radio, died in June this year: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-48527369
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    Dead Pop Stars

    Latest instagram post by Greg Gilbert, confirming that because of a genetic mutation his current treatment is his only chance, but well, if it works, it works!
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    Sinisa Mihajlovic

    Still battling leukemia, he's been made honorary citizen of Bologna: https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloeberesford/2019/12/10/still-battling-leukaemia-sinisa-mihajlovic-is-made-honorary-citizen-of-bologna/#54444c805a91
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    Barbara Windsor

    Her son was on TV and gave a small update: https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/barbara-windsors-husband-scott-mitchell-21079370
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    The Fringes Of Fame/family Of The Famous

    Is the cancer of Taylor Swift's mum getting worse? https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/taylor-swift-hints-mothers-cancer-21079079
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    Political Frailty

    Now Bolsonaro might have skin cancer (and canceled events because of exhaustion last week): https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-president/brazil-president-bolsonaro-says-he-has-a-possible-skin-cancer-idUSKBN1YF2MG
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    Boxing Clever?

    Win for Biblio if it happens..
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    Death By Numbers 2020

    My submission is now here, waiting for entries, good luck!
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    Hares Death Pool 2019

    New Zealand winemaker Andy Anderson is a hit for me, dead November 23rd. https://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/117945148/obituary-andrew-robert-laud-andy-anderson--september-4-1969--november-23-2019 THAT was the one I picked, not the The Cure guy. Edit: DDP pick (ahem...)
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