En Passant

Sadly I discover I wasn't even the first person to think of fixing that. Not by quite a way. ETA, Oh and if you find logging on and off something of a pain, you can always use a different browser.

No? Not much of a fan of FTFY generally, well, not for spelling or general grammatical errors where the meaning is clear and it's just a typo, (largely because sooner or later I'll have egg on my face when I inevitably do it) but I can't get my head around exactly what you mean if you did mean to use prior.

The logic is damn sound so far as I can see. Statistically, we have only 29/365 days left so that's just 8% of the time now remaining. Further where there were 50 possibilities on Jan 1 there are now only 32 or 64% of the original field. The window is closing fast on fewer runners. However, sudden heart attacks pay no mind to statistics of course. NB, just waiting for some plank to turn up and tell me I can't do statistical analysis properly. Probably true, but I doubt they're any better

Rubbish, terrible job, think of all the shocking misses like Connery. Shocking.

Shit. That didn't take 3 minutes so with the spare 2 mins and 59 seconds I could do a song and dance routine if you like? PS your English is fine Lafaucheuse. C'est en fait beaucoup mieux que mon français

On the face of it pm is a common method, but the difference here is the 12 hour application window and limited pool of likely candidates. Everyone pm'ing Joey means he'd have to sit there monitoring pm for 12 hours straight or walk back to a possible shitstorm of posts and nobody knowing whether their pick was valid or not until he replied. Possibly multiple times due to the likely picks for the period being from a particularly small pool of candidates. Then, are they there when he replies so they know they are in or have to resubmit? and is he there when they reply to that? And what happens if somebody else posts the same name during that exchange?.... and so on. Everyone in this place might be considered something of a keyboard warrior, but this has a chance of quickly becoming ridiculous. Scan the previous posts, make your pick. Done. And nobody is in the dark or having to monitor pm for 12 hours. The need for a reserve is massively reduced anyway since there is at most a few hours between opening for submissions and the start line (although Spade still managed to give that a stern test, heh). TL:DR - A few crossed posts in a 12 hour period would be much less bother. The rules are clear enough that even I got it..

Assuming space and assuming not picked, (think I got in under the wire) Phil the Greek.

2 post, 2 pointless threads. Now that has to be a record. Ban Hammer coming sir.

10 minutes a member 1 post, 1 pointless thread creation. Probably not even a record, but a valiant attempt sir.

Oopsy, well, sorry, I did do a bloody search though dammit. Maybe I misspelled it or something oh well. Meh. Forgive me folks for I am a clot.

Not recent, but no search brings her name up. So... Charlotte Conant Fox (10 May 1957 – 24 May 2018) was an American mountaineer and the first American woman to reach the summit of three 8,000 meter peaks. She survived the 1996 Mount Everest disaster as a member of Scott Fischer's Mountain Madness expedition. She died of head injuries on May 24, 2018, after falling over a stairway railing at her house. Yes, that is the entire wiki entry for her, and no, it doesn't seem to have attracted any comments about irony (intended or otherwise) in the talk section. Further, yes, I was watching the supremely originally titled film 'Everest' from 2015 tonight and did a little digging as one does.

I see Uli's point, but - in the event that she does go - isn't obviating the need to wade through the inevitable 135,000 posts on 450 new topics and 240 existing ones all tediously spouting one variation or another of "A terrible miss by the committee' worth one measly place on the list? *PS Yes LFN i also know the committee pays no regard to chatter on here, even if only because I learned so many moons ago from yourself and the other fixtures in the halls of this hallowed place. If only all the those posting those fucking 'miss' posts also did, I could have saved this post.....

Far sooner an actually world famous Frenchman than yet another famous to Americans and thus deemed world famous by Americans* pick. *ok, not all, but plenty enough.

You won't come last, I've entered this year.

Shome mishtake shurely?

EFA. (on my own damn post, meh) I may know fuck all, in fact I pride myself on it. But, as the advert goes, I know a man who does know. Jeez Uli, the work you put in man, kudos.

If @Ulitzer95 doesn't comment, you're golden.

The amusement comes from the thread lasting (at most) a couple of days and not really who posted either the thread or the death. So sure Adrian gets a few likes as something of a by-product. And in any case, if you feel so strongly about it why have you posted this whilst not even backing up your own assertion by recommending either of the OP's posts?

Concerned? Not really, I'd imagine everyone is the same given that more and more of these bastard sites want an email just to view the front page it seems. It's not that hard to clean up, just a bit tedious. I cleaned mine up and for the same reason really. Since I was doing it I also finally got around to a using password vault so that each site has a different (strong) password all locked away behind one immensely strong (and best unforgettable...) master password. I used Bitwarden because it doesn't charge for sync across devices But there are several others that are free to use with some limitations, LastPass is a popular one and reportedly easier to use than bitwarden which is a bit geeky apparently.

Performed a lot better than... So it could be worse. And also better than the Nvidia 3080 or even AMD 6800XT that I have no hope of seeing this side of xmas.

Not so much FTFY, more Just saying like.

From whence did poor Cloris acquire this superfluous h? It makes her look like a diminutive of chlorine the poor thing. Stop laughing at the back @Clorox Bleachman

FTFY. Mind, you can add pretty much every other 'xmas' song to that as well. I don't habitually use my phone as a music source, but I'll make an exception if my local Supermarkets start up this nonsense. Working in retail is a thankless enough task mostly, subjecting your poor 'colleagues' to six weeks a year of this mental abuse should be a felony. I've drifted off your original point though, sorry. IMO all songs should be played in the original or not at all. It can mess with the original intent if you start changing words and sometimes its subtle, Creep (like it or loathe it) just isn't really the same meaning with 'very special' replacing 'fucking special'. :S At the risk of repetition I still feel I'm not really qualified to either be offended or not about faggot and slut but think that since they were in the original they should stay there, if people are offended there's the oft quoted 'off switch' (well, shops....but I've covered that ;).

I hear entirely what you are saying here and speaking personally as a non-LGBT person, I leave the discussion about how to feel about it up to those individuals, such as your good self, who have much firmer ground on which to argue the pro's and con's of the lyrics. I do however think no station should play any version at any time, Christmas or not - because it's shit.

Agreed. Not to mention one of the best adverts the world has ever seen for shaving the lot over dodgy combover