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Week 36 update

Right, enough Bishop Briggs baiting. This week's sole death is Robert Mugabe. Obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/06/robert-mugabe-obituary

Quite the read, I'm sure you'll agree. On Friday when his death was announced I got to see in real-time the problem with today's news and its cowering fear in the face of presenting any actual facts. I was watching BBC Breakfast on Friday morning before work. At about five past six the news was announced that Mugabe had died. Now, obviously sudden breaking news like this is hard on live news channels in terms of the on-screen content. It's why you usually get a lot of repetition whenever there's something like a terrorist incident for example, as the same eight seconds of footage is repeated for two hours along with some literal scrambling for relevance by whoever is presenting at the time.

On Friday morning, and in a programme with a relatively fixed schedule, I got to see twenty minutes or so of them trying to shoehorn this in. A tweet was read out from someone who described Mugabe in vaguely diplomatic and neutral terms, that he was an architect of a country and it wouldn't be there without him. The replies to this tweet were, apparently, quite scathing. The bearded gonk presenting the programme approached this with as much tact as he could attempt in a display of bothsidesism that Donald Trump would raise an eyebrow at. "Public opinion.... split... on... him there... as you can see...." By the time midday came, the reporting was much more reflective of the whole dictator and mass killings of farmers and hyper-inflation thing you see in the obituary there.

I'm 27 years old. Things like the Berlin Wall, Yugoslavia and an apartheid South Africa were either gone or on the way out when I was born, so whenever historical subjects like this come up there's a sort of detachment from them for me. I can't really relate to them properly, my opinions largely being influenced by a latter-day understanding of them rather than a contemporaneous one. As a result, whenever I've heard the name Robert Mugabe in my life my first thought has been: bad. It's quite simple stuff, really. And here you have the state broadcaster in 2019, unwilling to call Robert Mugabe bad in case some zoomer emails them telling them they're a disgrace to democracy or something. What a time we're living in.

Before I get to the points I want to share two things he gave the world: A sense of style, and some hilarious bank notes. 

Image result for zimbabwe currency

I mean, the jokes write themselves here. I'm almost interested in learning about economics to understand how something like this happens. If you like the design and layout of this Monopoly money though you might also enjoy his taste in suits:

Image result for robert mugabe suit

I suppose if you rig a country so that you and only you can be in charge for 40 years, you start thinking you can pull off anything. Anyway, big Rab was 95 when he died, so he's worth 30 Base Points. He was picked by 13 people: @10menwent2mow, @Arabdownunder, @Bert Raccoon, @Billy Jean King, @cambozpar, @Lofarl, @Mark Connolly, @Meden89, @nessies long lost ghost, @pub car king, @statts1976uk and @Ziggy. He was also @Once A Rover always a Rover's Captain, so it's 60 points for him.

As a result, the standings now look like this:

1. Oooooft 605
2. Ned Nederlander 545
3. alta-pete 448
4. chomp my root 379

5. sparky88 328
6. Bishop Briggs 301

7. DBA 282
8. Once A Rover always a Rover 211

9. Lex 186
10. peasy23, cdisaaccie 185
11. Miguel Sanchez 171
12. Musketeer Gripweed 152

13. The Naitch 140
14. The DA 139
15. Savage Henry 137
16. Ziggy 135
17. Mark Connolly 130
18. Indale Winton 119
19. ICTJohnboy 118
20. lichtgilpead 115
21. 10menwent2mow 112
22. Melanius Mullarkey 110

23. gingette 105
24. JustOneCornetto 101
25. Arbroathlegend36-0, JamieStevenson 95
26. Ben Twilly 93
27. wellinwigan, BWAClyde, RadgerTheBadger 92
28. ICTJohnboy 91
29. Sweaty Morph 89
30. Lofarl 84

31. LoonsYouthTeam 78
32. HI HAT 76
33. Billy Jean King 75
34. Karpaty 73

35.   qos_75 70
36. Bold Rover, Ross. 69
37. Arabdownunder, Bert Raccoon 66
38. choirbairn 61
39. cambozpar, statts1976uk 57

40. Blootoon87,  Sergeant Wilson 49
41.  killiefan27, psv_killie, Willie adie,  Henderson to Deliver..., Kilbowie's Finest 46
42. expatowner 45
43. Bert Raccoon, Eedned, Fuctifano, ToBeSomeone 36
44. Meden89, nessies long lost ghost, pub car king 30
45. atfccfc,mathematics, MixuFixit 27

46. Everyone else 0         

The spreadsheet has been updated with everyone's scores (and Ziggy's has been fixed): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NlaNlT-7ZGlQGqszGFfBb49tVzFpWITUAR7BUjApJUc/edit?usp=sharing

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8 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

Week 36 update

Right, enough Bishop Briggs baiting. This week's sole death is Robert Mugabe. Obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/06/robert-mugabe-obituary

Quite the read, I'm sure you'll agree. On Friday when his death was announced I got to see in real-time the problem with today's news and its cowering fear in the face of presenting any actual facts. I was watching BBC Breakfast on Friday morning before work. At about five past six the news was announced that Mugabe had died. Now, obviously sudden breaking news like this is hard on live news channels in terms of the on-screen content. It's why you usually get a lot of repetition whenever there's something like a terrorist incident for example, as the same eight seconds of footage is repeated for two hours along with some literal scrambling for relevance by whoever is presenting at the time.

On Friday morning, and in a programme with a relatively fixed schedule, I got to see twenty minutes or so of them trying to shoehorn this in. A tweet was read out from someone who described Mugabe in vaguely diplomatic and neutral terms, that he was an architect of a country and it wouldn't be there without him. The replies to this tweet were, apparently, quite scathing. The bearded gonk presenting the programme approached this with as much tact as he could attempt in a display of bothsidesism that Donald Trump would raise an eyebrow at. "Public opinion.... split... on... him there... as you can see...." By the time midday came, the reporting was much more reflective of the whole dictator and mass killings of farmers and hyper-inflation thing you see in the obituary there.

I'm 27 years old. Things like the Berlin Wall, Yugoslavia and an apartheid South Africa were either gone or on the way out when I was born, so whenever historical subjects like this come up there's a sort of detachment from them for me. I can't really relate to them properly, my opinions largely being influenced by a latter-day understanding of them rather than a contemporaneous one. As a result, whenever I've heard the name Robert Mugabe in my life my first thought has been: bad. It's quite simple stuff, really. And here you have the state broadcaster in 2019, unwilling to call Robert Mugabe bad in case some zoomer emails them telling them they're a disgrace to democracy or something. What a time we're living in.

Before I get to the points I want to share two things he gave the world: A sense of style, and some hilarious bank notes. 

Image result for zimbabwe currency

I mean, the jokes write themselves here. I'm almost interested in learning about economics to understand how something like this happens. If you like the design and layout of this Monopoly money though you might also enjoy his taste in suits:

Image result for robert mugabe suit

I suppose if you rig a country so that you and only you can be in charge for 40 years, you start thinking you can pull off anything. Anyway, big Rab was 95 when he died, so he's worth 30 Base Points. He was picked by 13 people: @10menwent2mow, @Arabdownunder, @Bert Raccoon, @Billy Jean King, @cambozpar, @Lofarl, @Mark Connolly, @Meden89, @nessies long lost ghost, @pub car king, @statts1976uk and @Ziggy. He was also @Once A Rover always a Rover's Captain, so it's 60 points for him.

As a result, the standings now look like this:

1. Oooooft 605
2. Ned Nederlander 545
3. alta-pete 448
4. chomp my root 379

5. sparky88 328
6. Bishop Briggs 301

7. DBA 282
8. Once A Rover always a Rover 211

9. Lex 186
10. peasy23, cdisaaccie 185
11. Miguel Sanchez 171
12. Musketeer Gripweed 152

13. The Naitch 140
14. The DA 139
15. Savage Henry 137
16. Ziggy 135
17. Mark Connolly 130
18. Indale Winton 119
19. ICTJohnboy 118
20. lichtgilpead 115
21. 10menwent2mow 112
22. Melanius Mullarkey 110

23. gingette 105
24. JustOneCornetto 101
25. Arbroathlegend36-0, JamieStevenson 95
26. Ben Twilly 93
27. wellinwigan, BWAClyde, RadgerTheBadger 92
28. ICTJohnboy 91
29. Sweaty Morph 89
30. Lofarl 84

31. LoonsYouthTeam 78
32. HI HAT 76
33. Billy Jean King 75
34. Karpaty 73

35.   qos_75 70
36. Bold Rover, Ross. 69
37. Arabdownunder, Bert Raccoon 66
38. choirbairn 61
39. cambozpar, statts1976uk 57

40. Blootoon87,  Sergeant Wilson 49
41.  killiefan27, psv_killie, Willie adie,  Henderson to Deliver..., Kilbowie's Finest 46
42. expatowner 45
43. Bert Raccoon, Eedned, Fuctifano, ToBeSomeone 36
44. Meden89, nessies long lost ghost, pub car king 30
45. atfccfc,mathematics, MixuFixit 27

46. Everyone else 0         

The spreadsheet has been updated with everyone's scores (and Ziggy's has been fixed): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NlaNlT-7ZGlQGqszGFfBb49tVzFpWITUAR7BUjApJUc/edit?usp=sharing

Does @Shandon Par know Mugabe  is wearing his shirt?

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Week 36 update

Right, enough Bishop Briggs baiting. This week's sole death is Robert Mugabe. Obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/06/robert-mugabe-obituary
Quite the read, I'm sure you'll agree. On Friday when his death was announced I got to see in real-time the problem with today's news and its cowering fear in the face of presenting any actual facts. I was watching BBC Breakfast on Friday morning before work. At about five past six the news was announced that Mugabe had died. Now, obviously sudden breaking news like this is hard on live news channels in terms of the on-screen content. It's why you usually get a lot of repetition whenever there's something like a terrorist incident for example, as the same eight seconds of footage is repeated for two hours along with some literal scrambling for relevance by whoever is presenting at the time.
On Friday morning, and in a programme with a relatively fixed schedule, I got to see twenty minutes or so of them trying to shoehorn this in. A tweet was read out from someone who described Mugabe in vaguely diplomatic and neutral terms, that he was an architect of a country and it wouldn't be there without him. The replies to this tweet were, apparently, quite scathing. The bearded gonk presenting the programme approached this with as much tact as he could attempt in a display of bothsidesism that Donald Trump would raise an eyebrow at. "Public opinion.... split... on... him there... as you can see...." By the time midday came, the reporting was much more reflective of the whole dictator and mass killings of farmers and hyper-inflation thing you see in the obituary there.
I'm 27 years old. Things like the Berlin Wall, Yugoslavia and an apartheid South Africa were either gone or on the way out when I was born, so whenever historical subjects like this come up there's a sort of detachment from them for me. I can't really relate to them properly, my opinions largely being influenced by a latter-day understanding of them rather than a contemporaneous one. As a result, whenever I've heard the name Robert Mugabe in my life my first thought has been: bad. It's quite simple stuff, really. And here you have the state broadcaster in 2019, unwilling to call Robert Mugabe bad in case some zoomer emails them telling them they're a disgrace to democracy or something. What a time we're living in.
Before I get to the points I want to share two things he gave the world: A sense of style, and some hilarious bank notes. 
_103199622_029217657-1.jpg&key=7bdcd3c44fd197394f4e19ca5bf3a037fe1201b54803716621faa9105df3fbe4
I mean, the jokes write themselves here. I'm almost interested in learning about economics to understand how something like this happens. If you like the design and layout of this Monopoly money though you might also enjoy his taste in suits:
8130166-3x2-700x467.jpg&key=0f2413ebc7374b28fddf9e82d7a20801dc228cfb01dbd6911559353ed363b55b
I suppose if you rig a country so that you and only you can be in charge for 40 years, you start thinking you can pull off anything. Anyway, big Rab was 95 when he died, so he's worth 30 Base Points. He was picked by 13 people: [mention=45777]10menwent2mow[/mention], [mention=46627]Arabdownunder[/mention], [mention=16976]Bert Raccoon[/mention], [mention=29985]Billy Jean King[/mention], [mention=31527]cambozpar[/mention], [mention=31374]Lofarl[/mention], [mention=37888]Mark Connolly[/mention], [mention=70674]Meden89[/mention], [mention=24280]nessies long lost ghost[/mention], [mention=8073]pub car king[/mention], [mention=37265]statts1976uk[/mention] and [mention=8409]Ziggy[/mention]. He was also [mention=2097]Once A Rover always a Rover[/mention]'s Captain, so it's 60 points for him.
As a result, the standings now look like this:

1. Oooooft 605
2. Ned Nederlander 545
3. alta-pete 448
4. chomp my root 379

5. sparky88 328
6. Bishop Briggs 301

7. DBA 282
8. Once A Rover always a Rover 211

9. Lex 186
10. peasy23, cdisaaccie 185
11. Miguel Sanchez 171
12. Musketeer Gripweed 152
13. The Naitch 140
14. The DA 139
15. Savage Henry 137
16. Ziggy 135
17. Mark Connolly 130
18. Indale Winton 119
19. ICTJohnboy 118
20. lichtgilpead 115
21. 10menwent2mow 112
22. Melanius Mullarkey 110

23. gingette 105
24. JustOneCornetto 101
25. Arbroathlegend36-0, JamieStevenson 95
26. Ben Twilly 93
27. wellinwigan, BWAClyde, RadgerTheBadger 92
28. ICTJohnboy 91
29. Sweaty Morph 89
30. Lofarl 84

31. LoonsYouthTeam 78
32. HI HAT 76
33. Billy Jean King 75
34. Karpaty 73

35.   qos_75 70
36. Bold Rover, Ross. 69
37. Arabdownunder, Bert Raccoon 66
38. choirbairn 61
39. cambozpar, statts1976uk 57
40. Blootoon87,  Sergeant Wilson 49
41.  killiefan27, psv_killie, Willie adie,  Henderson to Deliver..., Kilbowie's Finest 46
42. expatowner 45
43. Bert Raccoon, Eedned, Fuctifano, ToBeSomeone 36
44. Meden89, nessies long lost ghost, pub car king 30
45. atfccfc,mathematics, MixuFixit 27

46. Everyone else 0         

The spreadsheet has been updated with everyone's scores (and Ziggy's has been fixed): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NlaNlT-7ZGlQGqszGFfBb49tVzFpWITUAR7BUjApJUc/edit?usp=sharing
Mugabe was scum, the world is a better place without him in it although that is no consolation to the millions of Zimbabweans of all creeds & colours who were affected by his murderous, greedy, despotic tyranny. Very few people can rouse the fury in me like that leech does.
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1 minute ago, Moomintroll said:
11 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

Week 36 update

Right, enough Bishop Briggs baiting. This week's sole death is Robert Mugabe. Obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/06/robert-mugabe-obituary
Quite the read, I'm sure you'll agree. On Friday when his death was announced I got to see in real-time the problem with today's news and its cowering fear in the face of presenting any actual facts. I was watching BBC Breakfast on Friday morning before work. At about five past six the news was announced that Mugabe had died. Now, obviously sudden breaking news like this is hard on live news channels in terms of the on-screen content. It's why you usually get a lot of repetition whenever there's something like a terrorist incident for example, as the same eight seconds of footage is repeated for two hours along with some literal scrambling for relevance by whoever is presenting at the time.
On Friday morning, and in a programme with a relatively fixed schedule, I got to see twenty minutes or so of them trying to shoehorn this in. A tweet was read out from someone who described Mugabe in vaguely diplomatic and neutral terms, that he was an architect of a country and it wouldn't be there without him. The replies to this tweet were, apparently, quite scathing. The bearded gonk presenting the programme approached this with as much tact as he could attempt in a display of bothsidesism that Donald Trump would raise an eyebrow at. "Public opinion.... split... on... him there... as you can see...." By the time midday came, the reporting was much more reflective of the whole dictator and mass killings of farmers and hyper-inflation thing you see in the obituary there.
I'm 27 years old. Things like the Berlin Wall, Yugoslavia and an apartheid South Africa were either gone or on the way out when I was born, so whenever historical subjects like this come up there's a sort of detachment from them for me. I can't really relate to them properly, my opinions largely being influenced by a latter-day understanding of them rather than a contemporaneous one. As a result, whenever I've heard the name Robert Mugabe in my life my first thought has been: bad. It's quite simple stuff, really. And here you have the state broadcaster in 2019, unwilling to call Robert Mugabe bad in case some zoomer emails them telling them they're a disgrace to democracy or something. What a time we're living in.
Before I get to the points I want to share two things he gave the world: A sense of style, and some hilarious bank notes. 
_103199622_029217657-1.jpg&key=7bdcd3c44fd197394f4e19ca5bf3a037fe1201b54803716621faa9105df3fbe4
I mean, the jokes write themselves here. I'm almost interested in learning about economics to understand how something like this happens. If you like the design and layout of this Monopoly money though you might also enjoy his taste in suits:
8130166-3x2-700x467.jpg&key=0f2413ebc7374b28fddf9e82d7a20801dc228cfb01dbd6911559353ed363b55b
I suppose if you rig a country so that you and only you can be in charge for 40 years, you start thinking you can pull off anything. Anyway, big Rab was 95 when he died, so he's worth 30 Base Points. He was picked by 13 people: [mention=45777]10menwent2mow[/mention], [mention=46627]Arabdownunder[/mention], [mention=16976]Bert Raccoon[/mention], [mention=29985]Billy Jean King[/mention], [mention=31527]cambozpar[/mention], [mention=31374]Lofarl[/mention], [mention=37888]Mark Connolly[/mention], [mention=70674]Meden89[/mention], [mention=24280]nessies long lost ghost[/mention], [mention=8073]pub car king[/mention], [mention=37265]statts1976uk[/mention] and [mention=8409]Ziggy[/mention]. He was also [mention=2097]Once A Rover always a Rover[/mention]'s Captain, so it's 60 points for him.
As a result, the standings now look like this:

1. Oooooft 605
2. Ned Nederlander 545
3. alta-pete 448
4. chomp my root 379

5. sparky88 328
6. Bishop Briggs 301

7. DBA 282
8. Once A Rover always a Rover 211

9. Lex 186
10. peasy23, cdisaaccie 185
11. Miguel Sanchez 171
12. Musketeer Gripweed 152
13. The Naitch 140
14. The DA 139
15. Savage Henry 137
16. Ziggy 135
17. Mark Connolly 130
18. Indale Winton 119
19. ICTJohnboy 118
20. lichtgilpead 115
21. 10menwent2mow 112
22. Melanius Mullarkey 110

23. gingette 105
24. JustOneCornetto 101
25. Arbroathlegend36-0, JamieStevenson 95
26. Ben Twilly 93
27. wellinwigan, BWAClyde, RadgerTheBadger 92
28. ICTJohnboy 91
29. Sweaty Morph 89
30. Lofarl 84

31. LoonsYouthTeam 78
32. HI HAT 76
33. Billy Jean King 75
34. Karpaty 73

35.   qos_75 70
36. Bold Rover, Ross. 69
37. Arabdownunder, Bert Raccoon 66
38. choirbairn 61
39. cambozpar, statts1976uk 57
40. Blootoon87,  Sergeant Wilson 49
41.  killiefan27, psv_killie, Willie adie,  Henderson to Deliver..., Kilbowie's Finest 46
42. expatowner 45
43. Bert Raccoon, Eedned, Fuctifano, ToBeSomeone 36
44. Meden89, nessies long lost ghost, pub car king 30
45. atfccfc,mathematics, MixuFixit 27

46. Everyone else 0         

The spreadsheet has been updated with everyone's scores (and Ziggy's has been fixed): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NlaNlT-7ZGlQGqszGFfBb49tVzFpWITUAR7BUjApJUc/edit?usp=sharing

Mugabe was scum, the world is a better place without him in it although that is no consolation to the millions of Zimbabweans of all creeds & colours who were affected by his murderous, greedy, despotic tyranny. Very few people can rouse the fury in me like that leech does.

^^^Bishop Briggs alias found

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7 hours ago, Moomintroll said:

Mugabe was scum, the world is a better place without him in it although that is no consolation to the millions of Zimbabweans of all creeds & colours who were affected by his murderous, greedy, despotic tyranny. Very few people can rouse the fury in me like that leech does.

You're going to have to up your game on the Mugabe hate if you want the title, you're sat on silver at best here mate and we might still get a last minute rant.

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You're going to have to up your game on the Mugabe hate if you want the title, you're sat on silver at best here mate and we might still get a last minute rant.
I have said my piece, it's not a competition, I admire anyone who hates the b*****d more than I do.
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4 hours ago, peasy23 said:

Brian Barnes, the only pro golfer I've ever seen down a can of export on the course. Famously beat Jack Nicklaus twice in the same day at the Ryder Cup.

https://www.scotsman.com/sport/golf/former-ryder-cup-player-brian-barnes-dies-aged-74-1-5001566

One from the "thought-was-already-dead" file.

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2 hours ago, Raidernation said:

I’m sure I remember him, in a playoff maybe, walking the course with a glass of brandy

He probably did. He was from the old school, the days when people, even newsreaders, used to smoke and drink on live television and normal people of the day did not give a flying f**k about it.

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I don’t know if Oil Tycoon, T-Bone Pickens would be British obit-worthy. But given that he’s possibly the only American billionaire who wasn’t an utter Canute and regularly stuck it to the Republicans*; I was genuinely saddened to hear they’ll be soon drilling 6 feet down. He was only 92. #toosoon.

• That and I didn’t have him on my team.

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