The official 2019 death pool
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@brie said in The official 2019 death pool:
@PJH You must have a hard time telling anyone what age you are.
I have never had cause to tell anyone what exact age I am.
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@PJH Have you ever had cause to tell anyone that you were the exact same age as them?
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@brie said in The official 2019 death pool:
@PJH Have you ever had cause to tell anyone that you were the exact same age as them?
No, because it wouldn't be true unless we were born on at least the same day.
The same age, sometimes. The exact same age, never.
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@PJH
Just abuse your mod privileges and award yourself a badge already
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@PJH said in The official 2019 death pool:
@brie said in The official 2019 death pool:
@PJH Have you ever had cause to tell anyone that you were the exact same age as them?
No, because it wouldn't be true unless we were born on at least the same day.
The same age, sometimes. The exact same age, never.
Why is "day" the finest resolution that you'd go? Not even twins are really the same exact age.
And I don't think the headline was being that when it said "exact same age", anyway.
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@brie said in The official 2019 death pool:
Why is "day" the finest resolution that you'd go? Not even twins are really the same exact age.
And I don't think the headline was being that when it said "exact same age", anyway.Using their metric of 'exact,' it's possible for two people to be born 365 days apart and be "exactly the same age."
If using a day as the basis for resolution is silly, as you assert, using a whole year is even sillier.
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@brie Depends on how pedantic we get on defining "exact age".
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@PJH said in The official 2019 death pool:
Using their metric of 'exact,' it's possible for two people to be born 365 days apart and be "exactly the same age."
Yes and? If they were both born ~76 years ago, that might be close enough for an ordinary comparison.
If using a day as the basis for resolution is silly, as you assert, using a whole year is even sillier.
I'm just asking why the sensible resolution is the one that's too but not the one that's too too .
@stillwater said in The official 2019 death pool:
@brie Depends on how pedantic we get on defining "exact age".
I thought the whole point of being is that the most wins the .
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@brie said in The official 2019 death pool:
Yes and? If they were both born ~76 years ago, that might be close enough for ordinary an comparison.
Ah, that's the "override the equals operator for DateTime objects" method!
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@brie said in The official 2019 death pool:
I thought the whole point of being is that the most wins the
.FTFY
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well-known celebrities
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Filed under: Two of the three "well-known celebrities" I'd never heard of
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@boomzilla Augh! I based my Fallout character on Daryl Dragon!
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@Gribnit said in The official 2019 death pool:
@boomzilla Augh! I based my Fallout character on Daryl Dragon!
+1 if the character is an actual dragon.
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@da-Doctah No. Just the hyperopia or whatever, the freaking huge eyes. Which are hidden by sunglasses all the time. I only wear the hat sometimes. But the character is always ashamed of their giant eyes.
I could not find the correct name for the physiology variant. Here is a bunch of people making fun of Daryl Dragon's eyeballs: https://forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?t=250453
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I'm not sure how famous he was, but it's a really fascinating article.
In 1972, Mr. Beard carried out what was then one of the largest drug raids in Hillsborough County history, netting 38 arrests. He drew criticism for letting the news media photograph the action, as deputies roused some suspects from sleep. But six months later, voters voiced their approval and gave Beard his third victory.
"I got more votes than Nixon that year," he said later.
Politically, Mr. Beard was a conservative. But he resisted extremes. In the early 1970s, he spoke against the Ku Klux Klan. "There's no place for them in our society," he said. At the same time, he decried what he termed "ultra liberals." He quelled student anti-war protests and carried out a court injunction to end rock concerts. He said he had nothing against organized labor, but that unions "have no place in police work."
Mr. Beard served in the Florida House from 1978 to 1980, and in 1979 was elected to the state Senate. In 1985, the lifelong Democrat became a Republican.
“He came from an era when principles and integrity and courage of your convictions were an essential ingredient for public service,” said Republican Tom Lee, who succeeded Beard as state senator from east Hillsborough and is now serving another stint in that chamber. “I tried to model my own approach to public service around his value system. It wasn’t until I got to the Senate that I realized what a giant of a man he was.”
He gained a reputation for making, at times, candid remarks.
"We used to shoot 'em when they ran," he once quipped about criminals who flee from law enforcement.
“If they get the death penalty, then the recidivism rate is zero,” he said another time, referencing repeat rapists.
In 1993, during a chaotic session, he said the Legislature looked “worse than a circus.”
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@boomzilla ERR_NOT_POSSIBLY_AN_ENTRY
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@Gąska said in The official 2019 death pool:
@Lorne-Kates said in The official 2019 death pool:
Still hoping for a certain this-will-get-me-on-a-list person in power to stroke out.
Thankfully, she'll be leaving politics soon anyway.
Merkel? May??
Filed under: that's what "confused face" is supposed to look like?
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@topspin said in The official 2019 death pool:
@pie_flavor said in The official 2019 death pool:
Queen Elizabeth. That's my guess.
The internet gives her 4 more days.
Looks like she made it so far. Again.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The official 2019 death pool:
this-will-get-me-on-a-list
I wonder if my random browsing and shitposting didn't already put me in some list
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@sockpuppet7 said in The official 2019 death pool:
@Lorne-Kates said in The official 2019 death pool:
this-will-get-me-on-a-list
I wonder if my random browsing and shitposting didn't already put me in some list
You were but it got deleted.
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@boomzilla I got to meet her once, about 10 years ago. She was still performing.
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Prince Philip almost managed to be eligible for this thread...
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@remi well, technically, that's still an open question. It's only January.
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Meant to post this earlier..
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@PJH Wrong thread :)
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@kazitor Bother...
Fixed.
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Is it too late to add guesses?
Because I just thought of Dr. Ruth as a distinct possibility. Although sex is probably key to a long life, so maybe I shouldn't add her to the list.
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Comedian #2...
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Perhaps we need a separate "official 2019 'Brits I've never heard of' death pool" thread.
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@HardwareGeek
But ... it's Richard Bucket!
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@Luhmann said in The official 2019 death pool:
@HardwareGeek
But ... it's RichardBucketBouquet!FTFH.
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@Luhmann said in The official 2019 death pool:
@HardwareGeek
But ... it's Richard Bucket!I've heard of the show that was, apparently, his chief claim to fame, but AFAIK I've never heard of the actor or the character he played.
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@loopback0
Is your first name Sheredan?
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@Luhmann Is this an allusion to another British sitcom I've never seen? Google is failing to find any results for anyone with the first name Sheredan, except some British probation officer.
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@HardwareGeek
Same one
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@HardwareGeek said in The official 2019 death pool:
@Luhmann Is this an allusion to another British sitcom I've never seen? Google is failing to find any results for anyone with the first name Sheredan, except some British probation officer.
The Belch cocked up the spelling.
Sheridan was the son (IIRC mentioned but never actually seen in the show) of the Buckets in Keeping Up Appearances.
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@loopback0 Ah. I was very puzzled as to why he was asking if I was an obscure civil servant in Hull, UK.
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@HardwareGeek said in The official 2019 death pool:
an obscure civil servant in Hull
It's official policy to keep Hull as obscured as possible, in order to preserve what little remains of everyone else's sanity.
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@dkf said in The official 2019 death pool:
what little remains of everyone else's sanity
Brexit — nothing remains, nothing at all, of anyone's sanity.
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Sheridan Bucket is Hyacinth Bucket's (unseen) son in Keeping Up Appearances.
Her husband's name (the guy who died,) is Richard.
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Dingell first entered Congress in 1955, succeeding his father who had died earlier that year. He went on to serve as Congressman of the 12th District for 59 years, until his retirement in 2014.
Debbie Dingell, his wife, has held the position since then.
Father, son, wife. A little nepotism, anyone?