En Passant

It makes no difference to the excellent detective work, but as I am originally from Barnet and know exactly where that club was, it was no work to google map it for a more up to date pic as I was curious if it was still there. But its now gone, or at least relocated.

I can find childlike or religious type meanings that probably pass muster for all of them unless one deliberately misconstrues/double-entendre's them, bar one.... That one though is extraordinarily jarring next to that picture.

Neither. PC. And if you could get any of it, AMD zen 3 5600x / ryzen 6800xt or nvidia 3080. But since you can't, not. Well, not yet. FWIW both new consoles run on custom variations of AMD hardware (last gen in the case of the cpu;s and rdna2 gpu;s, not that i suspect anyone much cares ).

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indeed, yet you felt the need to point it out.

Can't exactly say why, but I'm certain I detect a faint whiff of schadenfreude here.

I'll say.

I thought you were packing this place in? I've not been quite as harsh a critic as some of your posts, but if this is your new standard for entertainment since you can't leave and stay left, its a definite uptick.

Although that seems a little harsh on mssrs Johnny Clegg and Mark E Smith. Still, we don't know for sure they weren't.

Not my business OoO, (or toast) but for the avoidance of bad feeling amongst people I respect I rather think Toasty was referring to the (mis)use of the word 'decimates' than any demeaning of the position you sadly seem to have been put in.

Oh I'm pretty sure there are some people more likely to than others. Depression for a start affects a whole raft of folk, some are well known for it, Stephen Fry springs to mind. And towering ego's don't generally fit it in my view, unless they are brought to the kind of bump stop Jeffrey Epstein was, then I reckon it flips to even more likely than standard depressives when they can no longer maintain the façade (to themselves crucially). Incidentally that same effect may in my view also now apply to Harvey Weinstein and for the same reason. Who amongst us would be truly surprised if say, Sinead O'Connor did? Even her thread is sub-titled 'unstable'. Posted fully in the knowledge that my honorary Degree in Psychology from the University of The Isle of Sheppey may not be worth the paper it's printed on.

Oh absolutely, All of mine are that as I said earlier. The are however all over, um, this is the extent of my checking. they're definitely all over 70 and probably all over 80. (with 1931 as a baseline, they can't be over 90, saves me checking that anyway).

I've always said @BuffaloPhil was a man of impeccable decision making qualities. Ok, I understand his recent court case hasn't cast him in the greatest of lights, perhaps with damn good reason. But he doesn't strike me as the suicidal type because of it. Yet no less than 2 of our more esteemed colleagues pick him? What am I missing here? Long story short, Huh?

I do wish this thread wasn't posted with the results set private (and not just this iteration) Is there really a reason to hide who voted for whom?

Ah, see I told you I'm no good at this. Has to be explained in baby steps. You'd marvel I've been around this place 7 years (apparently) and still don't get the basics. Then again, maybe you wouldn't. My lot are so healthy you could start in Dec 2021 anyway and I'd still not be concerned.

Why? It's not going to end until 2035 anyway

Maybe you'll actually get more original picks because you posted what's already in?

I'll start giving it some serious consideration on the 26th may 2024....

Bill Russell: An American basketball star. A sport with practically zero impact nationally in the UK and no tv presence. Jenny Craig: An American Company founded by an Australian. quote from wiki "The company has more than 700 weight management centers in Australia, the United States, Canada, and New Zealand" So, no presence at all in the UK according to that. Why should Toasty know it? Why this assumption anyone in the UK should know either of these without looking them up? Please quit calling people stupid or worse for not conforming to your clearly US centric view of the world. Doing my best to be polite here, that may not last.

That's 'you're' a dumbass. Dumbass. As a former pedant I'm trying very hard to gloss over typo's and grammatical errors, heck, I do it enough, but in this instance.... Hey ho.

Seems not, I looked him up on wiki and it's definitely a pic of that bloke out of The Shawshank Redemption.and Se7en.

Oh fear not, you're hardly alone. I looked at this and thought the only thing likely to run longer is the 50/50 one is it called? Where everyone had to be born in 1950 or later. Further, as I'm lazier than a dog in front of the fire there was no attempt to skim the sickness rules as closely as possible so as far as I know I have 5 famous folk in the rudest of health, they're not even all 1931 vintage. That's my moth to your street lamp matey.

Well, it is an absolutely fabulous name, so there's that.

Given the recent tax, er, issues that have come to light and his recent electoral defeat I wonder if we are all going to bow down to your prescience in a couple of months? I'm impressed anyway.

Ok, I'm bored and I can't sleep again. How do you know there isn't an American amongst the four that aren't TQR himself? Incidentally, whilst I know who Ted Turner is, can you name the owner of a tv station or network outside America without recourse to google? Just curious.