En Passant

Justice James Robertson Justice. "M'lud with the deepest respect one is surely extracting the Michael?"

And some are 15 years behind the times.

Best GUN, you'll be good mate. I've liked your post, but you know what I mean. Sad doesn't seem right somehow? Maybe that's just me?

So you added your own

hm. zero deaths attributable or reported? I have a feeling that by the time we are on the downside of this, getting any sort of accurate reporting is unlikely? Once it's down to a trickle (relatively) where are we going to get the information? Can't see them being reported daily if down to single figures longer than a month or so. So, 1st June as the first day none are reported, even if sometime later they are attributed. And I've confused myself now too.

True but with a worldwide pandemic the like of which hasn't been seen for 100 years and that has just put our PM in intensive care, plus pretty much all of the list having "underlying conditions" you're saying you require that option? Ok, I'll see your no more deaths and raise you any two on the same day and a big row and much obit checking over which was technically first and thus the 8th.

No emoji to give you the finger TQR, had to settle for a grin.

It is a bit curious indeed, we bang on about death constantly, but the act that brings life....not so much please. Though obviously only the vagina part of that has much chance the other two far more hit and miss.

I may have seen a better candidate for the abbreviation tl:dr but I'm damned if i can recall it.

Aye, Carly Simon

Oh but we do. Our Deathers is a fucking institution. Nobody does it better.

And no time soon are 3 unused palaces going to be used as temporary hospitals. I mean, they are bound to be a good bit cleaner than your average hospital what with all the cleaning staff. A footman as a hospital porter... Don't get me wrong I think Liz does a fantastic job and had zero choice about her life, but the whole thing in principle is anachronistic. We need Charlie "Covid? I laugh it off" boy, get a republic soon enough.

Because your predictions up to this point have been bang on?

I don't know any Prines and I'm fast becoming proud of it, .... or indeed primes which is a stupid game people good with numbers play. I am happy to report I care equally about primes and prines. i.e. not much. Chef. ha fair point, it may well have been that.

Dream on. Remind me is tinder the straight or gay one? It's straight from your original heading isn't it? Well, the one I remember when I thought it was Lenny Henry or somebody and you had to tell me it was Ainsley....

TLDR: yes, but who is he?

This crusade brought to you from deepest Essex. A current bugbear for our Basildon meat rubber. However, bloody right too, you ain't nobody without one.

I still don't know who John Prine is btw. No, I'm not looking it up on gargle, that's a cop out. And I'm a lot older than you Deathers, so it's not just that you're too young.

Don't worry about it. Some around here won't give you the time of day unless you've been signed up since 1895. However my view (and it may just be my view) is that being new isn't a handicap. Hmm, ok, thinking longer (15 whole seconds) it IS a handicap, but one that can be overcome with diligent posting and due deference to those who've been around since the ark (i.e. signed up sometime before 2020).

You'd need to be A: about 20 or 30 years older than you are to even have a clue . B: probably American. It's that whole arse end of the sixties Woodstock thing. Which for the unintiated doesn't refer to the place near Oxford.

Aside from as a place on the southern coast of Louisiana that I felt a bit uncomfortable driving through some time before it was mostly blown away by a hurricane? No. no, because at 1 above no. Basically fed up with this place getting all American again. Sort your own damn board. Stroppy? Moi? Sancerre, I'm not used to it.

You don't even have to be particularly regular here to know "your" angry tone Deathers. It's one of the few reasons I check in occasionally

You can like or dislike their public persona, exactly the same as with any famous person. Some people who are absolute shits in real life are very good at PR (or pay somebody else to be), some people who are extraordinarily nice in real life are just terrible at PR and say the wrong thing at the wrong time every time even with the best intentions. Mind you, Max Clifford who was a PR guru turned out to be a complete cunt, who'd have guessed? Robbie Savage who comes across as a Porsche driving football dickhead donates thousands to charity, quietly. You can't tell in the end. Only go on what you know.