Lemonade

I’m coping ok, my wife has mild symptoms so we’re in full-on self isolation for two weeks, can’t even go out for a walk or go out for milk. I’m pretty good at entertaining myself though and I’m actually kind of loving all the extra time to read books and read comics and play games. Classic introvert, ha. Obviously I am worried about my family and it sucks being so far away from them. It’s a scary ass fucking time, I think it’s important to concentrate on keeping yourself sane and doing whatever you need to do to get yourself through it. Spend as much time as you can doing things you enjoy, find escapism in whatever means works for you, try not to spend too much time reading the news sites and scrolling through social media because you’ll only freak yourself out. There’s literally fuck all you can do but concentrate on self care and look out for your loved ones.

Also a tuna-squeezer that you can tip a tin of tuna in to and squeeze all the fishy water out of it without getting it all over your fingers. It would look a lot like a potato ricer. Tbh I just use a potato ricer for this and it works perfectly but I could rebrand it, maybe put a fish on the handle. The Tuna Skweez.

Things have been invented since this thread was started #2. I think they’re reading it and stealing our ideas.

Shame but hopefully he's done well off the sale of the building. And yeah there must be stock buried in there that hasn't seen the light of day for 40 years. Its a warehouse sale on its own.

Honey Boy. Shia LaBeouf's autobiographical film about his shitty childhood, in which he also plays his own alcoholic abusive father. Bleak. As. Fuck. ****

The problem with Arsenal is they try to walk it in.

I'm a month off 40

Is it actually still open? I'm back in the city for a couple of days next month, I must go in for a look around.

16 years is my favourite thread revival ever, well done

I didn't do this. Maybe the 40th.

I'm still here, just kind of watching over nothing. I deleted some spam the other day, that was sort of exciting. I feel a bit like Holly at the start of Red Dwarf, like it's just been me on my own for 3 million years. Don't leave Dan, I'm ever so lonely.

OK, let's get started. ----- CAROL CHANNING Age 97: 5 points Bonuses: Lucky 13 (+/2 days): + 1 point Trio bonus (picked by three players): + 1 point. That's 7 points each for Ryan, Alex and Amanda. ----- WINDSOR DAVIS Age 88: 6 points Bonuses: Unique Pick bonus: +3 That's 9 points for Matt. ----- BABIKER AWADALLA (former Prime Minister of Sudan) Age 101: 4 points. Bonuses: Unique Pick bonus: +3 Kai nets 7 points. ----- GORDON BANKS Age 81: 6 points Bonuses: Lucky 13(+/-1): + 2 points Queen & Country (died in the UK): +1 Unique Pick bonus: +3 A tidy 12 points for Anne. ----- LYNDON LAROUCHE Age 96: 5 points. Bonuses: Lucky 13(+/-1): + 2 points Unique Pick bonus: +3 10 points for Alex ----- Player Number of predictions Number of Unique Predictions Average Age Points 1 Alex D 2 1 97 17 2 Anne J 1 1 81 12 3 Matt D 1 1 88 9 4 Kai S 1 1 101 7 5 Amanda H 1 0 97 7 6 Ryan S 1 0 97 7 7 Adam M 0 0 0 0 8 Anders V 0 0 0 0 9 ca_gere 0 0 0 0 10 Cameron M 0 0 0 0 11 Colin B 0 0 0 0 12 Del F 0 0 0 0 13 Ewan R 0 0 0 0 14 Gareth T 0 0 0 0 15 Graham K 0 0 0 0 16 Hayley D 0 0 0 0 17 Kirsty S 0 0 0 0 18 Kris R 0 0 0 0 19 Matthew F 0 0 0 0 20 Phil L 0 0 0 0 21 Raquell S 0 0 0 0 22 Rebecca M 0 0 0 0 23 Richard C 0 0 0 0 24 Robin W 0 0 0 0 25 Scott McL 0 0 0 0 26 Scott Mu 0 0 0 0 27 Sophie D 0 0 0 0

Quantity over quality for sure. Somehow they seem to be going through something of a revival at the moment. Pacific Daydream was well received and it was nominated for a Grammy (imo its their worst album, and I'm not just using hyperbole there). White did really well too, and the whole Internet was jizzing over that terrible Africa cover. Somehow Weezer are relevant again. Rivers must have made a deal with the devil, its the only explanation.

Exactly my thoughts. They haven't put any of their own stamp on it. It sounds like Rivers singing karaoke over the original backing tracks. The last album was fucking shite as well. I'm not hopeful for Black.

A mix of bizarre and shite. I don't really see the point. The songs are all exactly like the originals as well. It's like a wedding band.

10 year old thread bump, but whatever bro, it's cool I ain't mad.

Sorry should have mentioned this, teams of 30 this year with a captain and vice captain. I'll hold the deadline for you since that's my fault.

Closing date for 2019 entries: 21st Jan.

No offense Jake but are you not a bit old to be getting money for Christmas? Once you're earning your own money I don't know if you should still be getting money.

My main present was one of these from my wife. It's pretty cool.

Only one person had June Whitfield, that was @ca_gere, who scores 8 points; 5 points for her age (93) plus 3 for a Unique Pick bonus. Barring any last minute tap-ins from the Grim Reaper tomorrow, this will probably be your final 2018 table. Player Points Number of predictions Average Age 1 Flights 47 4 78 2 Delboy1969 40 6 89 3 colb 39 6 90 4 Lemonade 37 3 79 5 Bigsby 25 3 81 6 Camie 23 4 87 7 Adam Easy Wishes 23 3 76 8 cahinton1 20 3 77 9 mezzosophano 20 3 88 10 Mr_Itch 17 3 86 11 Dennis Waterman's Showbiz XI 17 3 88 12 Scubby 17 3 88 13 Kirsten 16 1 60 14 ca_gere 13 2 95 15 AVB 12 2 86 16 Kai 11 2 88 17 Lucius 11 2 88 18 FSDanmac33 11 2 89 19 James Broonbreed 10 2 95 20 Alan Cynic 8 1 90 21 annewolves 6 1 82 22 iAmanda91 6 1 95 23 Long Haired Mackem 5 1 94 24 Scottboy 5 1 94 25 Becca 5 1 95 26 Graham Knight 5 1 99 27 iron_odin 1 0 0 28 Jim McGymersun 0 0 0 29 smurdoch 0 0 0

Kenwood was started by a man called Ken Wood. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wood_(manufacturer)

Rules are tweaked slightly for next year, provisional new rules: Unique pick: +3 if you were the only competitor to pick that person. Duo: +2 if you were one of only 2 competitors to pick that person Trio: +1 if you were one of only 3 competitors to pick that person Unlucky 13: +3 for a celeb who dies on the 13th of any month. Lucky 13: +2 points for an competitor who dies 1 day either side of the 13th (so 12th or 14th of the month), and +1 point for any competitor who dies on the 11th or 15th. Pinch, Punch: +2 points for any competitor who dies on the 1st of the month. Unnatural causes: +3 for murder, suicide or accident. For Queen and Country: +1 for any competitor who dies in the UK (including Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, but not overseas territories) Party pooper: +4 for a celeb who dies on their birthday or between 24th - 31st December. Lock & Key: One point for each time a competitor is arrested Captain: Total score from the above is doubled for that pick Vice Captain: Total score from the above x 1.5

Now taking entries for 2019 so DM your teams on to me and start scoring points from Jan 1st. For 2019 you need to pick 30 names, with 1 captain and 1 vice captain. Feel free to invite friends (no arseholes though).

Poor effort from me this year, only got through 23. Should manage one or two more by year end but still not great.