Derby Dead Pool 2021

[Grim Up North 3,771]

1 minute ago, msc said:

 

Leon Spinks dead now. That must rattle the top of the pool.

Yeah - if Sadpara and Snorri are both dead and also QO then I’ll still get my 5 minutes of glory at the pinnacle  before plummeting down the order - similar to their probable fate.

[Death Impends 8,043]

Leon Spinks marks the 100th lifetime hit for TJS. One of my last big DDP goals reached!

 

Weirdly if my two past LotLers got their obits back in the day, then Trebek would've carried that distinction.

[Ulitzer95 12,894]

4/40 in the Drop40 gone.

Two in the last 24 hours alone. Beginners luck though I reckon.

 

Still, I can see there being another 10–12 from that list before the year is out.

[Banana 865]

Just for some confirmation, does ANY UK Yahoo link count as a QO? Because the rules state uk.news.yahoo.com links count, not uk.*.yahoo.com. 

 

Because if it's the latter, that's a pretty bad catch-all ruling imo. Not a single one of the 3(!) uk.*.yahoo.com links that Josh Evans got were written by someone in the UK. Not to mention he got 3 from that catch-all, but nothing anywhere else. 

[Joey Russ 7,267]

Just now, Banana said:

Just for some confirmation, does ANY UK Yahoo link count as a QO? Because the rules state uk.news.yahoo.com links count, not uk.*.yahoo.com. 

 

Because if it's the latter, that's a pretty bad catch-all ruling imo. Not a single one of the 3(!) uk.*.yahoo.com links that Josh Evans got were written by someone in the UK. Not to mention he got 3 from that catch-all, but nothing anywhere else. 

Evans did get the Mail AP so the point is moot for him. 

[Banana 865]

1 minute ago, Joey Russ said:

Evans did get the Mail AP so the point is moot for him. 

 

Do you have a link, because I can't find one.

 

And then if it does exist, why not just have the AP as a QO source instead?

[Joey Russ 7,267]

Just now, Banana said:

 

Do you have a link, because I can't find one.

 

And then if it does exist, why not just have the AP as a QO source instead?

Link definitely exists

[Banana 865]

Just now, Joey Russ said:

Link definitely exists

 

I literally just couldn't find one through google

[Death Impends 8,043]

Mail is weird like that, a lot of their articles don't pop up on Google. You often have to go on the Mail website itself and use their own search function.

[Banana 865]

1 minute ago, Death Impends said:

Mail is weird like that, a lot of their articles don't pop up on Google. You often have to go on the Mail website itself and use their own search function.

 

Could be its their wire links that don't show up through Google. 

 

Which begs the question: should dailymail.co.uk/wires/* links count as QO sources? It just seems counter-intuitive to accept all these "UK" sources that clearly aren't UK sources. Otherwise, just have the AP.

[gcreptile 11,084]

Major upheaval of the scoreboard. All the balls are shuffled in the box, or something.... Jackie Treehorn comes out on top.

Depending on what time exactly the QO articles appeared, GUN's K2 theme team might have virtually lead for a few hours between the QO of Skatov and the QO of Susan Bayh.

[Ulitzer95 12,894]

9 hours ago, Banana said:

 

Could be its their wire links that don't show up through Google. 

 

Which begs the question: should dailymail.co.uk/wires/* links count as QO sources? It just seems counter-intuitive to accept all these "UK" sources that clearly aren't UK sources. Otherwise, just have the AP.

We can choose to be really pedantic about this or we can agree that anything with a Yahoo UK or Daily Mail stamp on it qualifies, in order not to complicate things.

 

Check you trying to depreciate ppl of points though. Petty. 

[Toast 16,239]

1 hour ago, Ulitzer95 said:

10 hours ago, Banana said:

 

Could be its their wire links that don't show up through Google.

Which begs the question: should dailymail.co.uk/wires/* links count as QO sources? It just seems counter-intuitive to accept all these "UK" sources that clearly aren't UK sources. Otherwise, just have the AP.

We can choose to be really pedantic about this or we can agree that anything with a Yahoo UK or Daily Mail stamp on it qualifies, in order not to complicate things.

Check you trying to depreciate ppl of points though. Petty. 

 

We can be pedantic about the phrase "begs the question" too.  It does not mean what some people think it means.

What he was trying to say, I think, is that it prompts the question.

[Salmon Mousse 473]

If a mountain climber dies climbing a mountain is the death really unnatural?

 

Sheriff Ed Tom: "It sounded like these old boys died of natural causes."

Deputy Wendell: "How's that, Sheriff?"

Sheriff Ed Tom: "Natural to the line of work they was in."

[Grim Up North 3,771]

26 minutes ago, Salmon Mousse said:

If a mountain climber dies climbing a mountain is the death really unnatural?

Yes.

 

Much more likely but very much unnatural.

 

Ditto TT racers, F1 Drivers, known drug addicts etc

 

(clearly I’m biased but I think my answer is correct and I also think if you try and construct a team of these people most years you will get a miserable hit rate and so the bonus is deserved).

 

Save some of your outrage for when Tamara Lunger falls off some other mountain on her birthday and I get 44 points For one hit. 

[msc 18,556]

An 100ft fall is an unnatural death if it happens on Everest or out a window...

[Death Impends 8,043]

When you think about it terrorists getting droned to smithereens are as "comes with the territory" as mountaineers dying in mountain accidents, and have always carried the unnatural bonus.

[Banana 865]

11 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

We can choose to be really pedantic about this or we can agree that anything with a Yahoo UK or Daily Mail stamp on it qualifies, in order not to complicate things.

 

Check you trying to depreciate ppl of points though. Petty. 

Im talking about for the future of the pool if that wasn’t glaringly obvious 

[Ulitzer95 12,894]

50 minutes ago, Banana said:

Im talking about for the future of the pool if that wasn’t glaringly obvious 

There's a suggestion box in the waiting area of DDP HQ where I'm sure your opinion will be valued. 

[Sir Creep 7,071]

The foxes are in charge of the henhouse, I see.

 

If I put together a team of lion tamers, and one gets eaten by a lion, was that an unexpected death?  Asking for a friend.

[gcreptile 11,084]

1 hour ago, Sir Creep said:

The foxes are in charge of the henhouse, I see.

 

If I put together a team of lion tamers, and one gets eaten by a lion, was that an unexpected death?  Asking for a friend.

"Unexpected"? That depends on what you expected, I'd say.

Still unnatural, though.

[CaptainChorizo 1,991]

The only unnatural death that seemed iffy to me ,was when random 90 year old dies from *death from a fall* .A human standing on their own 2 hind leg's is a natural everyday occurance unlike say  taming a lion,jumping out of an airplane,shooting a lethal dose of opiuds into your arm,plane crash etc

[Sir Creep 7,071]

1 hour ago, CaptainChorizo said:

The only unnatural death that seemed iffy to me ,was when random 90 year old dies from *death from a fall* .A human standing on their own 2 hind leg's is a natural everyday occurance unlike say  taming a lion,jumping out of an airplane,shooting a lethal dose of opiuds into your arm,plane crash etc

Yeah that one was utter shite.  
Speaking of falling, how about people falling who are climbing mountains?  

[msc 18,556]

Read the standing orders and understand them, Jackie Weaver.

 

 

No, wait, that's for the zoom call, not here...

[Banana 865]

How hard is it to distinguish “unexpected” from “unnatural”