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    [Brazelton] Michael Gambon

    No more Dumbledore,
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    [Brazelton] Sinéad O'Connor

    No more angry bald lady. Besides her music perhaps best known for being one of the first to so openly and publicly attack the Catholic Church for the continuous sexual abuse of children and massive cover-ups, as well as being a big fighter for women's rights in show business. Her personal life...
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    [Brazelton] Berlusconi (86 years old)

    The Italian proto-Trump is no more, and nothing of value was lost.
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    [Brazelton] Jerry Springer, grandfather of trash tv

    Dead at 79 If it wasn't him, it'd have been someone else a few years later, but still, ugh, what a show.
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    [Other] Do we even deserve a general mental health thread?

    I have a feeling quite a lot of us are dealing with depression/anxiety/fear/ADD/other mental health issues. They crop up regularly in the rant and whine threads, sometimes in the Fitness and Health thread,... I thought maybe it would be sensible to have a thread dedicated to this? It may make it...
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    [Brazelton] Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid etc)

    Haven't seen an English language article on it, but yeah :( Here you go
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    [Brazelton] Dame Angela Lansbury (Murder She Wrote etc)

    Dame Angela Lansbury has died, aged 96. You can claim she's most famous for "Murder, She Wrote" all you want, media, I still know her best as Misses Potts from Beauty & the Beast.
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    [Brazelton] Pretty symbolic, the Russian leader who ushered in a new age has left us (Mikhail Gorbachev)

    Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet president who took down the Iron Curtain, dies
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    [Brazelton] No more summer nights... (Olivia Newton-John)

    Olivia Newton-John dead at 73, best known, of course, for her role in Grease
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    [Brazelton] Trump

    Ivana, not Donald. Sorry for getting some people's hopes up for a few seconds.
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    Echo chambers, pushing away members, stifling discussion, etc

    Since this discussion was derailing the Funny Pictures thread, but I still wanted to give my opinion, I thought, hey, new thread. If they feel so inclined the admins can move a bunch of the posts from there over to here. Anyway, while the definition of an "echo chamber" is one thing, I...
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    [Brazelton] Meat Loaf (the singer, not the dish)

    Has gone to return the bat to sender.
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    Merry Christmas everybody

    I don't know where you are, time zone wise, but it's Christmas here, and I just want to let you know that you all deserve a great Christmas day, and some good luck and happy tidings in the coming year. But that's for next week - for now, I just hope the next week can bring some nice food, nice...
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    [Brazelton] John Miles - Music was his first love

    There goes the Night of the Proms.
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    [Brazelton] Charlie Watts - Rolling Stones drummer - 80 years old

    As the title states. The only one not completely pickled and steeped in drugs is no more. BBC article
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    Tokyo 2020 Olympics

    Well, I'd assume some people here will be following things around here. So far, Belgium has already managed to get one silver medal! Huzzah! We've also seen some of our most likely medalists go out quickly, in skating, judo, taekwondo and tennis.
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    [Brazelton] Diego Maradona

    He died a few weeks after brain surgery, recovering at home
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    Secret Santa 2020 - Have a Very Covid Christmas

    Well, I dunno. I've been expecting the appearance of a thread on this for a while now, it's usually posted around Halloween. Let's all give @Emrys something to do! Make sure all the Doomies deliver on time! Anyway, I'm in. Third time's a charm - two years ago I got nothing at all, last year...
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    [Brazelton] Robert Fisk - The Independent - Middle East correspondent

    As The independent writes. he died from a stroke. Best known for....well, a whole metric crapload of really good reporting in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel, Egypt, and so on and so forth.
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    Reactions?

    I only seem to have like and dislike now ; was still working about an hour ago. I'm going to assume @Dave broke it.
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