En Passant

Don't forget this is the man who promoted disinfectant as a cure for covid.

No shit sherlock. But extreme right wingers have a way of saying things that ordinarily hides their actual motives. Genuinely what is the point of that post other than to wind people up? It's crowing because the comb-over idiot won. In this instance? Yeah I'll bite.

Troll 2024.

No, not really a facebook user much. But, this doesn't mean one of those things it can mean does it? I mean how would anyone know? Actually strike that, we heard the tampax tape.

Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, John F Kennedy........ Just saying like. Nobody has won yet, so you heard it here first, but 1 person has already had a pot shot this year and a second was on the equivalent of a grassy knoll. Oh and I needed to find a thread The Old Troll wasn't driving everyone crazy in, only to discover the immediate poster above in this one was? - F*ck me.

Completely agree with this. I'm utterly unimportant around here, I do a few deadpools when I can devote the effort to it and make some lame jokes - that's it. @GisoooYou put heaps of work in but in areas people like me have little interest in, obscure names to a lot of people and certainly me. So if I haven't thanked you it's only because the work you do isn't the sort of thing I can generally be arsed with, that doesn't mean it isn't extraordinarily useful to a bunch of folk hereabouts because it definitely is. TL:DR You do work I wouldn't touch if you paid me. I make dumb jokes and annoy trolls. Both kinds make the world go around.

Oh I think it was more than likely just old age.

Two wrongs don't make a right. Where does it end? Anyone who had any kind of fame ever has a dedicated thread because they might die? Still, we could match up two things I detest in one go, every entry in the 'who managed a fuck and is having a baby' can have a thread for their latest addition from the start. Last time I looked this was a site for deadpooling, and whilst I'm as likely to be dragged off topic as the next person (possibly even more so, I have the attention span of a gnat), I tend not to start these lunacies.

Yeah, but I'm staying in the running for being the absolute bottom of this. Next year I'm doing my lists for dp's and inverse exactly the same - with one crucial difference - once they're done I'm swapping them.

Semi-seriously? Not too soon for me personally. I've never really subscribed to the theory 'never speak ill of the dead', if you have criticisms of someone whilst they're alive why should this suddenly change the minute they kick the bucket? For their relatives and friends of course one bites ones tongue, quite rightly, no reason to give unnecessary offence. But that's mostly even true for people when they're alive anyway (though of course not always). "The Media" have to be careful because family and friends will probably be amongst those who read/see it. So to a degree from an outside perspective it always appears they are more likely to criticize the living than the dead. Of course exactly who they criticize whilst alive in the first place is open to debate .

Don't even mind Slade it's annoying but far from the worst - which leads me to... Thinking of doing Whamaggedon one way or another again this year (I really really don't like that song), might start a thread if I remember in a month. I've never ever made it, though I've been within 3 days - then Tesco, the bastards, did for me.

Oh you of all people know the answer to this Uli, it starts with P and ends in olitics.

I have nosh ideas wot you aresh talking aboutsh? Mate I love you, always have.

Must not... mention.....what....his... name....is...an.....anagram...of....bite...my...tongue...everyone...already...knows... Gah.

Oh, Ok. I'd feel a bit hard done by if I had to get 4 whilst others get 3. But since it's not me on this occasion (nor in fact anyone yet of course), fair enough

Nor does anyone except Mr Doom and Gloom pessimist is my middle name. Speculation again, and it's exactly the same in the Yank Election thread with 'gut feeling' and other emotive bullshit. The laugh is, it's not just here, it's goaded on by news media of all flavours who also have nothing substantial so they print supposition because it's all they have and they need an income.

At that point of course nobody else can win. Presumably you can start IV (including Spade and Hemlock with new teams) whilst the tiebreaker trundles on?

I have to admit as a child I liked the zoo. As an adult I agree with the premise that animals belong where their habitat is, not in a zoo (nor an aquarium/seaworld) with one possible exception - those that are close to extinction because of something we did in the first place. I appreciate this would mean kids of future generations might not be able to see these animals up close (at least not that easily), but that to me is the lesser of two evils. Just my 2p worth.

Not really. Long ago there was YTS and YOP which were the subject of quite a few jokes back in the day. These were later replaced by simply YT, which is also gone. They all failed in one way or another, arguably because all that happened was those nasty capitalist companies just used government funding (i.e. other peoples taxes) to pay most of the wages of young people they then just used for cheap labour citing it as on the job training. To be fair any discussion about that will have advocates on both sides because some companies were much better than this very low bar and did include proper training and day release for college courses and so on. Regardless of the reasoning, the schemes themselves are long gone. The latest I'm aware of was called kickstart and that was ended in January last year. Here's a report from a professor at the university of Bath (it's a bit of a long read). A more readable precis is available here (which although its a local report to the NE basically covers the topic nationwide.) TL:DR - Not that I'm aware of, but it's a damn long time since I was of an age where it was pertinent so younger posters hereabouts may be more up to date .

Should you at some point feel sufficiently dedicated to consider this - word to the wise - it's not pronounced 'mouse-hole' it's more like 'maosel' a sort of chairman mao'sel if you will. At least if I remember rightly from when I was there as a kid. A bit like that other Cornish uneven paving stone designed to trip up the grockles - Fowey which is I believed pronounced 'Foy'. Anyway, that's as close I can get until some 'alright my lover' west country type turns up to correct me.

Oh, and @Mango? Nobody needs to call you an idiot. You appear to do just fine on that front without aid - or it's just a massive troll you think is amusing - though I don't personally think you're funny. Answer me this though, because I'm struggling to see it. Are you hoping Jimmy Carter lives forever? Or is your obsession with him because you are on the edge of a tumescent explosion that will occur when he finally does die? I ask because Carter is the absolute antithesis of Trump, a man about whom everything I have ever read states he has selflessly tried all his life to do good for others before himself.

Dear Americans... Quote shamelessly stolen from a BTL Guardian comment. Vote Harris.

Tiny Mousehole AFC rises up football leagues – but potholes are a problem.... Not being much of a football fan I'm afraid I didn't bother reading far enough to learn about their possible live stream options. But surely this will interest you anyway.

Right, now you mention it - Forties, Fisher, Rockall, Cromarty, Dogger Bank, German Bight

To be fair, to those south of Hadrians Wall, that's just about everyone that isn't Celtic or Rangers.