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3 hours ago, drol said:

Yes, she looks awful and will be a miracle if she makes it to 2020. She is 102 so it won't be a sad day.

Not sure it would be a miracle.Looks not very likely but possible.Judging by the photos almost certainly this year or next

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She is a shoe in for top spot next year if she makes it

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6 minutes ago, Sean said:

She is a shoe in for top spot next year if she makes it

 

What if Kirk makes it too?

Or QE2 gets lung cancer?

Or Trump gets shot and is on a life support machine?

etc

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3 hours ago, Sean said:

She is a shoe in for top spot next year if she makes it

 

She can't get her shoes on, by the look of it.

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To be fair she's 102. Simply to be able to go outside and wave at that age is an achievement. I think she looks better than Kirk but could go at any time. 

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Her legs remind me a bit of that one picture of Sri Sri near the end of his life where his feet were super bloated. Granted, she doesn't look nearly as poorly as Sri Sri did in his final few years, but very very few people look that bad.

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Christ, Vera Lynn's declared war.

 

Time for a jolly old cup of tea and a sing song round the Joanna.....

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2 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

 

‘My mother has told the company “absolutely not” because she doesn’t drink gin and certainly would not put her name to anything alcoholic,’ says Dame Vera’s daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones.

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6 minutes ago, Lafaucheuse said:

Is it true ? 

 

The person who started the rumour on Wikipedia linked to a website that creates obituaries for living people, so no.

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On 08/07/2019 at 17:43, Toast said:

 

She can't get her shoes on, by the look of it.

That’s a pretty common complaint for people her age to be fair 

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1 hour ago, JR976evil said:

That’s a pretty common complaint for people her age to be fair 

 

Yeah, it was a play on words following the misspelling of shoo-in.  :rolleyes:

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Wouldn't it be ironic if Dame Vera died on the first day of British  'freedom' after Brexit.Would be a bit of a fly in the ointment of Brexiter celebrations!

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On 01/02/2020 at 00:25, CoffinLodger said:

Wouldn't it be ironic if Dame Vera died on the first day of British  'freedom' after Brexit.Would be a bit of a fly in the ointment of Brexiter celebrations!

Oh it's very hard to be sure to be honest!I wouldn't assume that Vera Lynn necessarily voted for brexit.Its easy to think of reasons why she may have done but it is far from a dead cert shall we say!

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1 hour ago, Gooseberry Crumble said:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11195980/vera-lynn-blitz-spirit-coronavirus/

 

Dame Vera Lynn has issued a statement or someone has on her behalf urging us to  stay calm and invoke the spirit of the blitz in order  to beat coronavirus .

Ah yes. The spirit of the blitz. Time to make some money. Haha. "Looting, Violence, Organised Crime – Britain in The Blitz"  https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/crime-on-the-home-front.html

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It is now March 20th in the UK.

 

:birthday: 103 today! :old:

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54 minutes ago, Drewsky1211 said:

It is now March 20th in the UK.

 

:birthday: 103 today! :old:

So  much for my prediction she would go the day before her birthday ! I guess I better wish her a happy 103rd then ! I'm actually quite glad she's still with us.We need her to help get through the corona virus crisis ! 

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1 hour ago, CoffinLodger said:

So  much for my prediction she would go the day before her birthday ! I guess I better wish her a happy 103rd then ! I'm actually quite glad she's still with us.We need her to help get through the corona virus crisis ! 

You never know, she might go the day before her birthday in 2021...

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She is trending on Twitter and this morning checking my phone I thought she had died, lol.

 

"As the war showed us so many years ago, we are all stronger than we think, and however desperate things may seem today, remember that we can still be kind, we can still laugh... and we can still sing."

 

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