Betting on the next celebrity to die

Carndi


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 613

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 12:28

What are the feelings of the forum members about the Royal British Legion Kyrenia Branch running a lottery, to raise money for good causes, on who will be the next celebrity to die ?

The RBL are taking bets on which celibrity to die first in 2012. A bucket list of celebrities has been drawn up. Bruce Forsyth,Margaret Thatcher,Fidel Castro, are some of the names mentioned.

I remember a few years ago this idea caused an upset when it was introduced in the UK. So what are your thoughts ?

Lambousa Gordon


Joined: 03/11/2007
Posts: 1992

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 12:32

I understand that this idea has now been abandoned.

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 12:33

I think its horrible.

hattikins


Joined: 17/02/2008
Posts: 2793

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 12:43

I thought it was in bad taste.

Geoff


Joined: 25/06/2008
Posts: 1370

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 12:48

What a naff idea.

Geoff

Famagusta City.

oldshep


Joined: 02/11/2008
Posts: 609

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 12:55

a Croke List could be fun but depends on the crowd, somepeople would find it offensive, others just a bit of fun , better played in a fun light hearted bar, not by the Royal British Legion me thinks

Tango1


Joined: 19/02/2011
Posts: 1151

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 12:58

I hope the message 2 is correct. I thought it was a dreadful idea and not worth of the RBL.

davpat


Joined: 23/08/2011
Posts: 225

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 13:06

What an aweful suggestion,in very bad taste.

Cazleo


Joined: 06/04/2011
Posts: 232

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 13:10

Tend to agree, this is in bad taste. Why couldn't you come up with something more positive like the next celeb to get married or become pregnant

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11280

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 13:14

Or something about Northern Cyprus. After all it's the Royal British Legion, Kyrenia branch, is it not?

AndyR



Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 317

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 13:28

There's a global version that's been on the go for years .....

http://www.deathlist.net/

wagon


Joined: 01/04/2009
Posts: 154

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 13:34

Are you sick

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 13:45

Its a horrible, sick way to raise funds!!....





Surely this is just a joke?.... RBL wouldn't stoop to such a low way of getting funds from some ones demise, would they?... If its not a joke, shame on them for thinking of this. ...

rejela


Joined: 09/02/2011
Posts: 293

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 13:45

Baska isimiz yok mi

TopTen


Joined: 15/04/2009
Posts: 1246

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 14:18

It will not alter anything when they die they die, because Joe Boggs puts a Lira or two on,this will not hasten their demise

cooper


Joined: 23/10/2007
Posts: 3386

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 14:38

This idea was always going to attract stiff opposition.

philbailey


Joined: 17/01/2011
Posts: 3533

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 14:44

Msg 16, of corpse it would

NCMan



Joined: 19/09/2009
Posts: 670

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 14:47

More To The Point What Will The RBL HQ in Uk Think About This !!.

laptagal


Joined: 28/05/2008
Posts: 549

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 15:13

The game (and, come on folks - it was only a game - RBL were not going to kill anyone) had now been abandoned.

waddo


Joined: 29/11/2008
Posts: 1966

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 17:00

Its what you get when you open up the RBL for anyone to join.

Tango1


Joined: 19/02/2011
Posts: 1151

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 17:15

Surely, someone on the Committee vets all suggestions for fund raising before it's published in the papers? Or maybe not!

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 17:25

Pleased to hear that its been abandoned .......



Just wouldn't want people betting on my demise or some one might just help it forward !!.....

philbailey


Joined: 17/01/2011
Posts: 3533

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 17:26

Why not change the game ?

lovinit


Joined: 20/06/2008
Posts: 745

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 17:43

bloody awfull idea.....................................

harita


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 1343

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 17:47

Paddy on holiday in Italy .. On the last day he visits the Vatican ..

Looking through the window sees the Pope laid out in a shroud ..

Knocked on the door to see if he is ok .. Was told that the Pope has died but it won't be announced till Monday ..

Paddy flies home & tells his mate Murphy that the Pope has died & it will be announced on Monday ..

Great says Murphy let's see what odds we can get on the Pope dying over the weekend .. Offered 10:1 in the betting office .. Can't lose Paddy, put £100 on it ..

Seeing Paddy on the Monday after it was announced the Pope had died .. Murphy asks Paddy have you collected the winnings .. Bet went down said Paddy .. How come said Murphy you knew he was dead ..

Well said Paddy I had him on an eachway double with the Archbishop of Canterbury ..

louthlass


Joined: 09/11/2008
Posts: 271

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 18:12

Message 20, spot on!! Ex RAF, we certainly will not be joining this branch, and will remain with the St. James Branch in the UK.

philbailey


Joined: 17/01/2011
Posts: 3533

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 18:17

So people in the military

find this humour bad taste?

Carndi


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 613

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 18:32

Louthlass. Is that Louth,Lincolnshire ? I am ex Manby 1970 - 1973

TheFiver


Joined: 09/01/2011
Posts: 52

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 19:20

Ran one in my local pub in the UK many years ago and had more subscribers than any other 'game' we tried.



Raised a lot of money for charity; can't see a problem with it in the right environment and taken the right way....



By the way, we all have one thing in common................

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 19:34

Perhaps some of us have standards we don't or wont stoop to msg 29...





To bet on another persons death is quite frankly, just plain disgusting ...

philbailey


Joined: 17/01/2011
Posts: 3533

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 19:40

Standards and morals are different to all

some find exchange land offensive



some find the war in Iraq offensive

it is all down to the individuals taste



there are many sites doing this sort of game

Ed1957


Joined: 03/09/2011
Posts: 377

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 20:36

Maybe we can bet on which Cyp 44 member will be the next to be banned

padisha


Joined: 09/07/2011
Posts: 131

Message Posted:
09/01/2012 21:12

Not offering any opinion, but out of idle interest, do UK bookies actually offer odds on the deaths of people?

philbailey


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Posts: 3533

Message Posted:
10/01/2012 01:55

Msg 33, I think they do .

astro941


Joined: 22/05/2011
Posts: 193

Message Posted:
10/01/2012 02:26

Perhaps a croke list of the committee would be in good taste.

bertieboss


Joined: 22/07/2011
Posts: 149

Message Posted:
10/01/2012 03:56

Bunch of sanctimonious individuals - as usual!!

Depends what you mean by celebrity - I would like someone to tell me the definition of what constitutes a celebrity.

However if they qualify as celebrities how about - in no particular order - Blair, Thatcher, Forsythe ( nice to lose you)Curry, Widdicombe, Cameron, Gove, Murdoch etc

suehowlittle


Joined: 31/10/2010
Posts: 1202

Message Posted:
10/01/2012 08:57

Serves me right for even opening this thread!

louthlass


Joined: 09/11/2008
Posts: 271

Message Posted:
10/01/2012 10:53

Message 28, I was born in Louth , of an Army family, married my RAF husband who was at Manby from 56 to 58. Came to Cyprus in 1970 for the first time, fell in love with the place, and finally came to live permanently in 1983. Sorry to go off thread.

cyprusairsoft



Joined: 22/06/2009
Posts: 2066

Message Posted:
10/01/2012 14:07

prince phillip !!!4/5 on

theoddmajor


Joined: 10/05/2008
Posts: 246

Message Posted:
10/01/2012 15:52

The bucket club project will not now be taking place as on reflection it was in bad taste. The committee of the RBL Kyrenia Branch apologizes to all its members and the general public for any offense which may have been caused.



Brian Thomas

Chairman

RBL Kyrenia Branch

cooper


Joined: 23/10/2007
Posts: 3386

Message Posted:
10/01/2012 16:09

Well i should think so too and I do hope that the people who thought this up in the first place have been thrown off the board for having shit for brains.

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
10/01/2012 17:48

Well done 'theoddmajor'.... RBL Kyrenia Branch



Think it was just not quite the right sort of fund raiser really was it... But why throw off board members for coming up with ideas? Surely it needs ideas even if they are not always approved of!.

Any ideas should be run through properly first, then launched with approval...... So you don't get the back lash as this....





(Got me cross because Maggie had been entered into the bucket!)

philbailey


Joined: 17/01/2011
Posts: 3533

Message Posted:
11/01/2012 06:53

How about the civilian death toll in iraq

it is factual and relevant to the place



hints here ( http://www.iraqbodycount.org/)