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  2. Posted

    Hmmm, stuff about various folk here. I've never heard of some of these people. Actors in Shameless? They're having a laugh.

     

    So here's a short deathlist for next year chosen from a quick look at Twitter:

     

    Euan McGregor,

    Jose Mourinho

    Avram Grant

    Ryan Giggs

    David Schneider (weird-looking actor)

    Gordon Ramsey,

    Hugh Bonneville.

     

    I've crossed off Jemima and Jeremy since they say its just good publicity and Andrew Marr has outed himself. Can any names be added?

     

    I take it people have to fork out £50,000 for a super-injunction. Money down the drain and considerably more than a session with a prostitute if these stories are to be believed. The judges must be laughing all the way to the bank (or wherever they go for their own peculiar pleasures). Gagging orders? A license to print money, I say.

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    Where are all these tweets that are causing the latest fuss? Anyone got a link?

     

    I'm getting a bit confused now between the real gagging order stories and the tittle tattle about Jemima Puddleduck and Euan McGregor. Or was it Alan Shearer? Anyway none of it is believable. Ryan Giggs is such a nice man, as is Gabby Yorath, not like that horrible Clarkson bloke who probably started the rumour. Maybe we could throw a judge in to the pot for good measure. And then there's that bloke from Downton Abbey, what's (who) he supposed to have done?

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    It's interesting that the highly litigious Lib Dem MP John Hemming is leading the campaign against hyper injunctions. He may well be trying to get the press on his side. When his estranged wife's trial - on a charge of burglary - concludes next month, then who knows if the Daily Mail will choose to publish the damning interview she gave about him and his rather odd mistress a few months ago... :shoot2:

    Cat burglary no less.

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    Personally I don't give a shit who's banging who.

     

    If, for example, Ryan Giggs was banging Imogen from big brother, I fail to see how it is in the public's interest to know about it.

    I have some sympathy with these sentiments but the danger is that expensive gagging orders might be perceived by the rich and famous as a kind of "license to shag" with impunity while projecting a saintly image to an otherwise unsuspecting public.

     

    I'm sure that Americans felt safer in their beds when J Edgar Hoover was running the FBI, but imagine the harm that could have been done had Hoover been blackmailed using images of him dressed in high heels, stockings and a fluffy black dress (although these stories may not be true).

     

    Once you start gagging the press you create fertile ground for the rumour mill that flourishes among the Twitterarti and bloggerdom.

  12. Posted

    I'm wondering if there is an appetite for discussion about all the gagging orders going around recently and, if not the gagging itself, those the courts are seeking to protect. I raised the issue in the football thread but, as Andrew Marr disclosed today, we're not just talking about footballers but all kinds of prominent people.

     

    It's hardly death related, unless exposure were to drive one to suicide, but at the very least it may help to satiate Deathlisters' curiosity.

     

    Can anyone else name names, or at least links to names? It would be a nice way to tell Mr Justice Eady where to stick his contra mundum orders.

  13. Posted

    Haven't been around much lately but I haven't seen any discussion on all these gagging orders that have been passed recently by the judiciary. Mr Justice Eady seems particularly fond of his Contra Mundum powers. Anyway there's a bit of background discussion here on the England captaincy. I wonder who the unnamed party is in the Imogen Thomas case?

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    So Jiroemon Kimura of Japan becomes the new world's oldest man. He is also the last known living man born in the year 1897 and the only documented man still alive who was born before 1900.

     

    The article in the link is a couple of years old, but at least we get a picture.

    I was booking a flight on EasyJet yesterday and I noticed the online birth date options started at 1850, so there's nothing to stop him travelling as long as he doesn't mind paying for each piece of luggage, in flight meals, priority bath chair etc. It's really inclusive of them to have an upper age limit of 161.

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    The FBI are sending in surveillance aircraft(!) to help catch him: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1519806...al-killer-probe

     

    This US journo has been watching too many films.

     

    The swirling fog and drizzle accentuated the spookiness of the location and the physical challenges facing police as they race the onset of spring, when foliage will make the scrub even thicker.

     

    Cape Fear? Sooner or later they're going to be quoting the local mayor telling everyone it's safe to go back on the beach.

     

    Here's the real problem for the hacks:

    Despite the absence of hard facts, local newspapers are quoting unnamed police sources on lurid details that point to an ever-more complex case.

     

    Quote for next report? "We're going to need a bigger digger."

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    If moderators believe he isn't worthy of his own thread please add this to a general serial killers thread if there is one. I thought there was but couldn't find it.

     

    I thought there was a serial killers thread too. Apparently there is a new nutter on the loose in New York, the "Bodies on the Beach" murderer. He has killed at least eight prostitutes so far:

     

    http://abcnewsradioonline.com/national-new...d-on-beach.html

     

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40656155/ns/us...ime_and_courts/

     

    So will he be caught or kill himself?

    Reading that first report I could imagine US readers reacting more to the mention of "tick infested" scrub and poison ivy than the discovery of bodies. "Hey Marlene, says here, twenty police officers been treated for poison ivy. Can't be too careful. And them darn ticks are bad this year." It's like something out of a Larson cartoon.

  20. Posted

    I deleted my last post about having to learn to drive because I have a more important question.

     

    New Grand C-Max or Grand S-Max? I'm going to be looking at both tomorrow so I'd appreciate advice from Clarkson-esque DLers.

    Don't ask us Bou, ask good old Honest John.

    . What Car readers
    but generally positive, without having driven it..

  25. Posted

    Feverishly checking Glancing casually at the scoreboard I noticed that only one of the top ten teams had Dame Liz. So while DDT keeps his 6 point lead with joker in hand, the chasing group is bunching up. Keeping a close eye in the meantime on developments in Lybia.

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