The Pie and Bovril Dead Pool 2024

[Miguel Sanchez]

And while I'm here

On 10/12/2023 at 22:27, alta-pete said:

I like you chief, but copying someone else’s homework is not - in my eyes - fair game. Sorry. Originality usually wins. 

I'm sure this wasn't posted in complete seriousness, but picking a team of people who have a history of staying alive against apparently insurmountable odds isn't that much of a winning strategy imo.

[Miguel Sanchez]

And while I appreciate everyone jumping to the Dead Pool's defence,

5 hours ago, Steelly said:

You cannot mention the word leftie or if you happen to mention someone's skin colour this place goes mental but it is okay to make jokes about cancer. 

I'm sure most posters have been affected by this horrible disease. I have lost family members to it so to see people making sick jokes about it is unbelievable. 

Disgusting.

I do not believe you post on this forum in good faith. You have 100 posts and the majority of them seem to be in non-football sections, complaining about what other people post. I have been on the internet a long time. This is not normal internet behaviour. People don't sign up to forums and complain about threads or discussions they have no part in. If you genuinely thought P&B to be unconscionable, you wouldn't be here. 

However, I realise the concept of a Dead Pool can appear morbid or disrespectful to an outsider. With this in mind, I'd like to make three points:

1. Nobody's forcing you to post on P&B. Nobody's forcing you to read this thread. If you don't like it, don't pay it any attention. This advice can be applied to increasingly great amounts of modern life.
2. Over 100 people play this game every year. Do you really think none of them have had a relative die, or suffer? I'd love to remember the post but an early justification for the Dead Pool I remember from when I started playing was, well, everybody dies. You may as well have some fun with it.
3. With this in mind, ever since I started running the game in 2019 I have been at pains to give the deceased as much sympathy and respect as they deserve. I've learned a lot about a lot of people, and I'd hope other posters have too. Nobody in this game genuinely celebrates or hopes for death. I know there are other games similar to this out there on the internet and from what research I've done I think I do a good job of keeping the thread respectful, informative and engaging.

After all of this, the only other thing I have to add is a repeat of my first point. If you don't like it, don't post.

 

[Steelly]

21 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

And while I appreciate everyone jumping to the Dead Pool's defence,

I do not believe you post on this forum in good faith. You have 100 posts and the majority of them seem to be in non-football sections, complaining about what other people post. I have been on the internet a long time. This is not normal internet behaviour. People don't sign up to forums and complain about threads or discussions they have no part in. If you genuinely thought P&B to be unconscionable, you wouldn't be here. 

However, I realise the concept of a Dead Pool can appear morbid or disrespectful to an outsider. With this in mind, I'd like to make three points:

1. Nobody's forcing you to post on P&B. Nobody's forcing you to read this thread. If you don't like it, don't pay it any attention. This advice can be applied to increasingly great amounts of modern life.
2. Over 100 people play this game every year. Do you really think none of them have had a relative die, or suffer? I'd love to remember the post but an early justification for the Dead Pool I remember from when I started playing was, well, everybody dies. You may as well have some fun with it.
3. With this in mind, ever since I started running the game in 2019 I have been at pains to give the deceased as much sympathy and respect as they deserve. I've learned a lot about a lot of people, and I'd hope other posters have too. Nobody in this game genuinely celebrates or hopes for death. I know there are other games similar to this out there on the internet and from what research I've done I think I do a good job of keeping the thread respectful, informative and engaging.

After all of this, the only other thing I have to add is a repeat of my first point. If you don't like it, don't post.

 

You don't know me mate so shouldn't be making complete untruths and assumptions about me.

You keep the thread respectful, well imo you do not. Some of the posts already are sick imo. I posted that I recently watched my sibling pass away in a hospice but some sick poster down voted it. That is just horrible. 

Anyway you lot crack on with your sick game. 

 

Edited December 12, 2023 by Steelly

[Brother Blades]

26 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

And while I appreciate everyone jumping to the Dead Pool's defence,

I do not believe you post on this forum in good faith. You have 100 posts and the majority of them seem to be in non-football sections, complaining about what other people post. I have been on the internet a long time. This is not normal internet behaviour. People don't sign up to forums and complain about threads or discussions they have no part in. If you genuinely thought P&B to be unconscionable, you wouldn't be here. 

However, I realise the concept of a Dead Pool can appear morbid or disrespectful to an outsider. With this in mind, I'd like to make three points:

1. Nobody's forcing you to post on P&B. Nobody's forcing you to read this thread. If you don't like it, don't pay it any attention. This advice can be applied to increasingly great amounts of modern life.
2. Over 100 people play this game every year. Do you really think none of them have had a relative die, or suffer? I'd love to remember the post but an early justification for the Dead Pool I remember from when I started playing was, well, everybody dies. You may as well have some fun with it.
3. With this in mind, ever since I started running the game in 2019 I have been at pains to give the deceased as much sympathy and respect as they deserve. I've learned a lot about a lot of people, and I'd hope other posters have too. Nobody in this game genuinely celebrates or hopes for death. I know there are other games similar to this out there on the internet and from what research I've done I think I do a good job of keeping the thread respectful, informative and engaging.

After all of this, the only other thing I have to add is a repeat of my first point. If you don't like it, don't post.

 

Unless it’s a very close battle at the end of the year. 

Other than that, fantastic post.  

[falkirkthebigclub]

My first ever attempt. In keeping with my interests, I opted for a mixture of figures from the worlds of television, football, politics, music & adult entertainment. Here's to their health*

 

 

 

 

 

Here's to healthy turn-outs at their funerals, that is!

[pub car king]

Just to turn it back to the rule about not killing your own players. 

What if you kill a contestant on another dead poolers list, would there be some kind of stewards enquiry into this? 

 

[carpetmonster]

3 minutes ago, pub car king said:

Just to turn it back to the rule about not killing your own players. 

What if you kill a contestant on another dead poolers list, would there be some kind of stewards enquiry into this? 

 

‘Your honour, I assure you my client is not OFTW. The police found the chloroform in his glove box as he intended to administer it to himself should he chance upon Judi Dench crossing the road whilst he was driving’

[Melanius Mullarkey]

2 hours ago, Steelly said:

You don't know me mate so shouldn't be making complete untruths and assumptions about me.

You keep the thread respectful, well imo you do not. Some of the posts already are sick imo. I posted that I recently watched my sibling pass away in a hospice but some sick poster down voted it. That is just horrible. 

Anyway you lot crack on with your sick game. 

 

^^^picked Jimmy Carter imo.

[Willie adie]

My own what's app dead pool , is a 3 way title fight, 

Hopefully I can secure a top 50 placing next year on here,

My aim is to pick the weakest squad possible, too weak to last 12 months, 

I already have 11 signed on pre contracts 

[Left Back]

9 minutes ago, Willie adie said:

My own what's app dead pool , is a 3 way title fight, 

Hopefully I can secure a top 50 placing next year on here,

My aim is to pick the weakest squad possible, too weak to last 12 months, 

I already have 11 signed on pre contracts 

Failed their medicals then?

[Aim Here]

1 hour ago, pub car king said:

Just to turn it back to the rule about not killing your own players. 

What if you kill a contestant on another dead poolers list, would there be some kind of stewards enquiry into this? 

 

The main reason for doing so would be to prevent a rival player's picks from scoring in a way that accrued a lot of bonuses, and typically, that would mean stopping the picks from dying in December. So the most obvious symptom of this would be a rash of deaths in late November.

Now funnily enough, this November did actually have a St Andrews Day massacre of sorts, with Shane Macgowan, John Byrne and Henry Kissinger all dying mere hours before the Deadly December bonuses kicked in. There's no indication that any of these deaths were foul play, but then again, if there was that would accrue a different set of bonus points, defeating the object of the exercise. It would make sense for a dead pooler to cover their tracks.

On the basis of cui bono, I took the liberty of checking out which of the Dead Pool player roster stood to gain the most from the hypothetical assassinations of Macgowan, Kissinger and Byrne prematurely, as opposed to them dying in December, by noting the difference in score table placement between the current situation and the hypothetical December deaths scenario. The most likely Dead Pool assassins are listed in the table below. Now I'm not saying that any one of these guys did assassinate Shane Macgowan and Henry Kissinger, just that these are the ghoulish degenerates with the most reason to. Make of this information what you will.

Also, @El Guapo, can I just ask where you were on the 29th and 30th of November?

Player	Hypothetical Placing	New Placing	Places Gained
El Guapo	94	64	30
Arch Stanton	50	22	28
BillyAnchor	65	38	27
sleazy	51	25	26
pub car king	41	21	20
nessies long lost ghost	72	52	20

 

Edited December 12, 2023 by Aim Here

[BillyAnchor]

6 minutes ago, Aim Here said:

The main reason for doing so would be to prevent a rival player's picks from scoring in a way that accrued a lot of bonuses, and typically, that would mean stopping the picks from dying in December. So the most obvious symptom of this would be a rash of deaths in late November.

Now funnily enough, this November did actually have a St Andrews Day massacre of sorts, with Shane Macgowan, John Byrne and Henry Kissinger all dying mere hours before the Deadly December bonuses kicked in. There's no indication that any of these deaths were foul play, but then again, if there was that would accrue a different set of bonus points, defeating the object of the exercise. It would make sense for a dead pooler to cover their tracks.

On the basis of cui bono, I took the liberty of checking out which of the Dead Pool player roster stood to gain the most from the hypothetical assassinations of Macgowan, Kissinger and Byrne prematurely, as opposed to them dying in December. The most likely candidates are listed in the table below. Now I'm not saying that any one of them did assassinate Shane Macgowan and Henry Kissinger, just that these are the ghoulish degenerates with the most reason to. Make of this information what you will.

Also, @El Guapo, can I just ask where you were on the 29th and 30th of November?

Player	Hypothetical Placing	New Placing	Places Gained
El Guapo	94	64	30
Arch Stanton	50	22	28
BillyAnchor	65	38	27
sleazy	51	25	26
pub car king	41	21	20
nessies long lost ghost	72	52	20

 

Not guilty, guv, I was on the grassy knoll at the time.

[Miguel Sanchez]

19 minutes ago, Aim Here said:

The main reason for doing so would be to prevent a rival player's picks from scoring in a way that accrued a lot of bonuses, and typically, that would mean stopping the picks from dying in December. So the most obvious symptom of this would be a rash of deaths in late November.

Now funnily enough, this November did actually have a St Andrews Day massacre of sorts, with Shane Macgowan, John Byrne and Henry Kissinger all dying mere hours before the Deadly December bonuses kicked in. There's no indication that any of these deaths were foul play, but then again, if there was that would accrue a different set of bonus points, defeating the object of the exercise. It would make sense for a dead pooler to cover their tracks.

On the basis of cui bono, I took the liberty of checking out which of the Dead Pool player roster stood to gain the most from the hypothetical assassinations of Macgowan, Kissinger and Byrne prematurely, as opposed to them dying in December, by noting the difference in score table placement between the current situation and the hypothetical December deaths scenario. The most likely Dead Pool assassins are listed in the table below. Now I'm not saying that any one of these guys did assassinate Shane Macgowan and Henry Kissinger, just that these are the ghoulish degenerates with the most reason to. Make of this information what you will.

Also, @El Guapo, can I just ask where you were on the 29th and 30th of November?

Player	Hypothetical Placing	New Placing	Places Gained
El Guapo	94	64	30
Arch Stanton	50	22	28
BillyAnchor	65	38	27
sleazy	51	25	26
pub car king	41	21	20
nessies long lost ghost	72	52	20

 

Who currently has the Last Gasp bonus and what does that do to the overall standings?

[Aim Here]

4 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

Who currently has the Last Gasp bonus and what does that do to the overall standings?

That would be Ryan O' Neal, my very own pick, and it would nudge me into first place.

I'm all for nobody else dying until the end of the year, at least. Just nobody ask where I was when Glenys Kinnock got shot!

[Miguel Sanchez]

1 minute ago, Aim Here said:

That would be Ryan O' Neal, my very own pick, and it would nudge me into first place.

I'm all for nobody else dying until the end of the year, at least. Just nobody ask where I was when Glenys Kinnock got shot!

Almost as if you stood to gain from lots of people dying before December!

[Polarbear]

This year was my first effort and with hindsight my picks were extremely naive.

This year I will mostly be picking auld c*nts knocking on deaths door.

[Sergeant Wilson]

4 hours ago, Steelly said:

 I recently watched my sibling pass away in a hospice 

 

I hate it when there's nothing on the telly.

[HTG]

3 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

I hate it when there's nothing on the telly.

To be fair, at least you've got some options - you can rummage round the internet to see what all your picks have been up to. 

[TxRover]

12 hours ago, Steelly said:

And Mr Brightside you must feel proud of down voting my post where I said that I watched a close relative pass  away in a hospice.

I have a suggestion, leave this thread that “bothers” you and get professional help. I enjoyed red dotting all your recent posts here.

[TxRover]

9 hours ago, pub car king said:

Just to turn it back to the rule about not killing your own players. 

What if you kill a contestant on another dead poolers list, would there be some kind of stewards enquiry into this? 

 

Asked and answered, 2022 I believe. Miguel disqualifies you and confiscates the other persons computer devices for forensic enquiry…wait, the satellite update just beamed to me suggests that the real party running the Dead Pool IS the NSA and MI5, so they’ll already know.