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- Mon May 06, 2024 11:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Des chiffres et des lettres axed after 52 years
- Replies: 2
- Views: 160
Re: Des chiffres et des lettres axed after 52 years
I read that it was cancelled because viewing figures had fallen to 700,000. I do sometimes wonder how Countdown survives on rather less than that, and still manages to pay presumably hefty sums to four presenters.
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 11:17 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 26th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 84)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 229
Re: Spoilers for Friday 26th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 84)
That's as maybe, but baneful is the adjective derived from bane (a cause of great distress or annoyance), as in "the bane of my life".
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:37 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 26th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 84)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 229
Re: Spoilers for Friday 26th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 84)
So UNFLYABLE is a word and BANEFULLY isn't?
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:25 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: No More FA Cup Replays
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1729
Re: No More FA Cup Replays
In those days there was nothing like as much mid-week football as there is now. Fewer European games, fewer internationals. Replays were the middle of the week following the first game, and if necessary they could even play three games in a week. What really killed multiple replays was the police in...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: No More FA Cup Replays
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1729
Re: No More FA Cup Replays
Second replays were always at a neutral venue. I remember well that there was a time when either club could elect that the venue was decided by a coin toss. Liverpool were drawn away at Luton at the time they had their infamous plastic pitch and total ban on away fans. The game was a draw. Liverpoo...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Words you often Misspell
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1284
Re: Words you often Misspell
If it helps, FUCHSIA is named after someone called Fuchs. And Klaus Fuchs was a Russian spy. That's how I remember that one.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:34 pm I remember trying to play FUCHSIA at a game of scrabble and had my attempt challenged off twice
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: No More FA Cup Replays
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1729
Re: No More FA Cup Replays
Could the same not happen anyway in the non-replay? How do they decide where to have the first match? Couldn't that be at Compton Pauncefoot Rovers' home stadium? Is it the home fixture or the away fixture that most benefits the smaller team? In the FA Cup, for most of the early rounds, the ticket ...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 7:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 315
- Views: 51064
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Nah we would have got a new government, though maybe 6 months of Truss fucking up the country rather than 6 weeks (was it even that long) My point is that if replacing a leader means a general election, and a leader can only be removed by his party's MPs voting him out - they aren't very likely to ...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 9:21 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 315
- Views: 51064
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Relating to my politics thread post I think if a leader of the elected government leaves or dies in office it should be in the constitution that a general election should be triggered within 6 months I disagree with that. We elect individual members of parliament, and the government simply forms fr...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:17 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 1st March 2024 (Series 89, Heat 44)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2769
Re: Spoilers for Friday 1st March 2024 (Series 89, Heat 44)
I saw FOULEST as well but jargons isn't on Apterous. Maybe a mass noun but possibly someone with Premium access can adjudicate. I can now! Two definitions for Jargon but both are mass nouns. Actually came here to check that the comparative and superlative rule still applies to one-syllable adjectiv...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:39 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 640
- Views: 312813
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
It's possible I was aware of this at the time but forgot, but India apparently overtook China as the most populous country last year. Both countries combined constituting more than a third of the world population is insane Similarly, the US still being third if you added another billion people to i...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:23 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 20th March 2024 (Series 89, Heat 57)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2530
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 20th March 2024 (Series 89, Heat 57)
Yes, I was quite pleased with (50*75+2)*25/100 = 938, but they are really all just 25*50*75/100 +/- a fraction of x.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:55 pm For some reason people learn (25×75+x)×50/100 but not the others as well.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 703081
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I've always assumed the sign is a representation of what you should be able to see through your windscreen. At the minimum, as you drive over a chevron, there should be one chevron clearly in sight and another one appearing from under the car in front. Whatever they mean, that feels like a minimum s...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 703081
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I didn't go to the shell cos the Asda 200m up the road was 1.2p / litre cheaper. The engine warning light on my car came on a few weeks ago. I phoned the dealer. "Filled up with petrol lately?" "Er, yesterday." "Asda, by any chance?" (Asda being by no means my local su...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:22 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 315
- Views: 51064
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
It would be nice if the wider McDonalds-eating community acted in similar fashion.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:13 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 703081
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Why did people have to wire their own plugs in the past? Stuff came without a plug on. Insane. I think it was only after the war that the square pin fused plug became standard, and that was only for new houses. I can remember houses with round pin sockets. Maybe we'll go back to wiring our own plug...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 12:12 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 353524
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
Good stuff - a very impressive time too! Course sounds lovely. I'm committed to Birkenhead as that's where I'm staying but will look it up next time I'm in the vicinity. Change of heart - unless the weather is really grim, I'm going to try and get to Crosby - it looks lovely! If you're there, look ...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 353524
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
Do they even check IDs? Is there anything to prevent me registering as a 100 year old woman? Or using the barcode of an actual 100 year old woman? Are they concerned that there are people with age-related scores greater than 100%? FWIW I did my third ever parkrun yesterday. If anyone's considering C...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:52 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 8th February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 28)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1272
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 8th February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 28)
She looked as if she saw the right answer as she was actually half way through giving the wrong one. I wonder what they'd have done if she'd said something like "UNPOWD ... Oh no, GUNPOWDER". You are the ref . . . I think I'd have to say that she lost, and she shouldn't be able to profit b...
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 12:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Your favourite Christmas song
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4887
Re: Your favourite Christmas song
There's an article about Jona Lewie in today's Sunday Times. He says that he wrote Stop the Cavalry as an antiwar song, but the single line "wish I was at home for Christmas" meant it made sense to release it in December. It topped the charts in France at the height of summer. It's the Die...
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 8:22 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Strange things you used to believe as a child
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8333
Re: Strange things you used to believe as a child
I was probably rather older than I should have been when I realised that the River Thames I'd read about was actually the same one as the River Tems I'd heard about. And there was also Paul Gallen pronouncing SUNDRIES as if it's what they do to tomatoes.
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 3:37 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Question of Sport Axed
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3047
Re: Question of Sport Axed
Makes you realise how grateful we should be that C4 didn't react similarly when viewing figures fell alarmingly on an iconic game show. Maybe the BBC should have started an 8 out of 10 cats QoS and kept the original as well.
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 3:04 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 13th December 2023 (Series 88, Heat 119)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1491
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 13th December 2023 (Series 88, Heat 119)
With a cryptic crossword the clue usually gives you the answer two ways, one of which may be a (disguised) anagram. And a lot of the time you will already have some of the letters. So a straight anagram is more difficult, even though there's no disguise. But even so, the speed that Mark can do cross...
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 12:27 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 13th December 2023 (Series 88, Heat 119)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1491
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 13th December 2023 (Series 88, Heat 119)
To a Times crossword regular, Mark Goodliffe is God. He can do a crossword in no more time than it takes to fill the answers in. I can see that he might have the same dictionary problems as Scrabblers, but that's not an issue with conundrums, and he's maybe more familiar with nine letter anagrams th...
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 11:04 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 315
- Views: 51064
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
There was a baby boom immediately after the war. There was an extra class in my school for that year. My recollection is that they were always known as baby boomers. Those people were in their 20s by the end of the 1960s, most of them probably married with children. Their early childhoods were durin...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 4:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 315
- Views: 51064
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
My sister, a guide leader, recently discovered that more than half of her group (many of whom are in secondary school) were completely incapable of reading an analogue clock, and in an activity that involved some basic maths (like, 12x4 level of basic), where they insisted phones were put away, a l...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 4:12 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 315
- Views: 51064
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
I'm struggling to think of why anyone would think this opinion would be unpopular. Whether you agreed with it or not.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 10:04 am Kelly Holmes double gold in Athens was the greatest British performance at a single Olympic games
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 12:41 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 29th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 109)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3014
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 29th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 109)
Did its reintroduction coincide with the new numbers generator? If you mean the "new" display, that came after the old 7-segment one, no. That was introduced at the same time Countdown moved from Granada to MediaCity in 2013 . It's possible that 100 became a valid target at this point and...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 11:02 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 29th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 109)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3014
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 29th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 109)
Is there an Ask Graeme here?
When there were two numbers games per show you'd expect it to come up every 450 shows on average - and up to 1996 it did. Now you'd expect it to come up every 225 shows, and it doesn't. Not even close.
When there were two numbers games per show you'd expect it to come up every 450 shows on average - and up to 1996 it did. Now you'd expect it to come up every 225 shows, and it doesn't. Not even close.
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 8:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 315
- Views: 51064
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
I thought this was going to be stuff like "I think Matt Hancock did a pretty good job under the circumstances". There's nothing unpopular about most of these, just a little uncommon.
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 8:06 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 20th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 102)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2248
Re: Spoilers for Monday 20th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 102)
I've somehow never thought of you as having a mother.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 12:24 pm My mum got EVENSONG in one of the rounds as a beater
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 4:26 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 703081
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I would have thought there were a lot more words ending in -OUS than starting in OUT-. So why is it that if you have O U and T there's nearly always an OUT- word, but if you have O U and S there's almost never an -OUS word?
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 4:23 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 703081
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Isn't hot water always from a tank? It's not served directly to your house hot anyway. It's heated locally. Anyway, don't drink it . Surely that link is nonsense. There is a closed system where water is heated in the boiler, the hot water is piped through the cylinder to heat the fresh water that t...
- Thu Nov 09, 2023 4:52 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Joke Items
- Replies: 252
- Views: 86092
Re: Joke Items
The last couple of flights I've been on they've also asked you to alert the crew if your electronic device starts to emit smoke. I wonder what people used to do? About as likely as a conflagration in a petrol station from someone using a phone while filling their car.
- Thu Nov 09, 2023 4:40 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Joke Items
- Replies: 252
- Views: 86092
Re: Joke Items
Flu Jabs. Ive been having annual flu jabs since before covid and within 4 weeks I have always got the flu No, you had a bad cold. I used to think the same as you, until one year I really did have the flu. It's another ball game altogether - I could actually understand how people could die of it. I ...
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 3:42 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 26th October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 85)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1681
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 26th October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 85)
Then again, in http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=11631 she was OK with it. Common sense says you're right, but I don't see that the dictionary actually disallows it.
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 9:38 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 26th October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 85)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1681
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 26th October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 85)
R3 alt: (75/(4-1)+2/2)*8=208 R9 alt: ((25-1)*10+2)*4=968 R13 alt: (100-25+5)*9-3=717 R11 alt: HYALINE I think that your first 2 calculations are wrong? r3 turns out to be 128 r9 turns out to be 1152 I could be wrong (it wouldn't be the first time....) Can I claim the prize for working out how to ma...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 8:01 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 163573
Re: You Are The Ref
If C1 had any sense he'd just say "I've used a letter twice" and that would be an end of it. I agree with the others that the result stands, but I doubt if we would think it was acceptable. Suppose it was a promising set of letters, C1 immediately sees a 9 letter word and sits back. Just b...
- Fri Oct 13, 2023 11:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdowners in the news
- Replies: 243
- Views: 140740
Re: Countdowners in the news
When you consider the number of times a contestant is unable to reproduce what they claim to have written down, you'd have to assume that there are times when such a solution is passed to their opponent for confirmation. But I've never heard anyone say "I can't make head nor tail of this"....
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 10:27 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 10th October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 73)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1467
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 10th October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 73)
A simpler version of Rachel's solution to R3 is (7+4)*(5*5-3)
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 11:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co:Liv II - Saturday 24 February 2024
- Replies: 31
- Views: 17006
Re: Co:Liv II - Saturday 24 February 2024
It's also a day when Liverpool are at home, which is not good news for hotel prices. If Liverpool weren't, Everton would be. Equally the Liverpool game could well be moved to the Sunday if Liverpool continue to progress in the Europa League or a Friday/Monday with TV rights so it's not really causi...
- Sun Oct 08, 2023 11:27 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co:Liv II - Saturday 24 February 2024
- Replies: 31
- Views: 17006
Re: Co:Liv II - Saturday 24 February 2024
It's also a day when Liverpool are at home, which is not good news for hotel prices.
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 12:34 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 21st September 2023 (Series 88, Heat 60)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 715
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 21st September 2023 (Series 88, Heat 60)
The moment I saw that 961 I thought Rachel would be beside herself with joy. The largest square of a prime number less than 1000, and actually achievable with the numbers available. The Holy Grail. You can only imagine how annoyed she must have been when she finally saw it.
- Thu Sep 21, 2023 11:47 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 14th September 2023 (Series 88, Heat 55)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1015
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 14th September 2023 (Series 88, Heat 55)
I don't really see being a word-spotter as Susie's primary job. In any case I think a lot of it comes through her ear piece from Damian. So he's as much to blame! However, I agree on some of this. Whenever a word is offered that could plausibly take e.g. an S or R, Susie should be telling us whethe...
- Sun Aug 27, 2023 4:41 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 703081
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
If you're in court and the judge says, "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?" What happens if you say no? I think you would be held in contempt of court, and dealt with appropriately. I've always wondered what would happen if you answered fully all th...
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 9:45 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 11th August 2023 (Series 88, Heat 31)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2510
Re: Spoilers for Friday 11th August 2023 (Series 88, Heat 31)
Why does it take so much longer to do it blindfold? Seriously. You must have to know exactly what moves you are going to make before the blindfold goes on. One wrong move and it doesn't work. So why go for a longer sequence? It's not as if you can do it in stages and check your progress. I was also ...
- Tue Jul 18, 2023 7:47 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 703081
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
While we're at it, can anyone explain how Hawk-Eye determines the size of the impact on the ground? A perfect solid sphere resting on a perfect flat surface would have an infinitesimally small area of contact. I don't imagine that the dent in the surface caused by the weight of the ball, nor the com...
- Sat Jul 15, 2023 11:32 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 703081
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Why they don't use automatic hawkeye at Wimbledon when they clearly have the technology for it, and wrong calls are potentially influencing the outcomes of matches. It seems so daft when a ball is called out, and then commentary says "actually, hawkeye says that was in. He should have challeng...
- Fri Jul 14, 2023 12:45 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Celebrity and Mental Health and the media
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1103
Re: Celebrity and Mental Health and the media
Mainstream media weren't the main reason. It was more this sort of thing wasn't it?
- Sun Jul 09, 2023 12:22 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Tour de France and competitive cycling generally
- Replies: 1
- Views: 708
Re: Tour de France and competitive cycling generally
Have you ever seen a sprint race in a velodrome? Most of it is at a speed that is as slow as you can go without stopping, because being in the lead is almost guaranteed to fail. If you wanted a true sprint race like a 100 metres in athletics you'd probably need a straight track maybe 500 metres long...
- Mon Jun 26, 2023 4:41 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 703081
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
You don't normally see it for, say, a drop shot that just sneaks over. Touching the net doesn't make a lot of difference there. It's when a shot an inch higher would be an easy return from the back of the court, an inch lower would be in the net, but that precise unintentional shot is a winner. It's...
- Sat Jun 10, 2023 1:58 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 9th June 2023 (Series 87, Heat 100)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1203
Re: Spoilers for Friday 9th June 2023 (Series 87, Heat 100)
When I watch it, all I can see is C2 getting the right answer then being told it's wrong. Maybe there was more discussion or clarification we didn't see? When a contestant says something which sounds like both the correct answer and some made-up word in neither the dictionary nor the selection, it ...
- Wed May 31, 2023 8:06 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 703081
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
When Gary Fahrenheit was devising his temperature scale, what's with the random placing of the 0? I thought the intention was that 0 to 100 was the range between likely minimum and maximum possible temperatures wherever he lived. But he then needed to find something measurable that roughly coincide...
- Tue May 30, 2023 7:39 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1761616
Re: Politics in General
I've had jobs where I've claimed expenses, and authorised other people's expenses. I once had someone come to me with a parking ticket. He was in a strange town, couldn't find anywhere to park, and rather than be late for a meeting he took a chance on a yellow line. I allowed it. If it had been, say...
- Tue May 23, 2023 9:45 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 22nd May 2023 (Series 87, Heat 86)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1428
Re: Spoilers for Monday 22nd May 2023 (Series 87, Heat 86)
23 years for the first 4082, only 18 for the second 4082.
I imagine there are some interesting Vorderman / Riley stats. Carol will have done more shows, but I guess Rachel has done more numbers games and put up more letters?
I imagine there are some interesting Vorderman / Riley stats. Carol will have done more shows, but I guess Rachel has done more numbers games and put up more letters?
- Fri Apr 14, 2023 6:44 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 13th April 2023 (Series 87, Heat 59)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 954
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 13th April 2023 (Series 87, Heat 59)
Maybe so, but it also had the virtue of being the not making the contestant look like an idiot option.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 10:15 am Final numbers was (100+9-50/25)×3=321 for the easy way. But Rachel went for the showboating option.
- Sun Apr 02, 2023 11:36 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Type 2 diabetes
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1446
Re: Type 2 diabetes
I'm sure parkruns are marvellous for many people, but they won't engender more commitment than walking to work or owning a dog. You have to do them, rain or shine. And for someone who does 20,000 vigorous steps a day the extra won't make any difference. Try swimming or cycling, though my suspicion w...
- Sat Apr 01, 2023 11:20 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Type 2 diabetes
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1446
Re: Type 2 diabetes
So the recommendation for someone who has a long walk to work through farmland that he finds so painful he is thinking of getting an escooter is that he should do parkruns, but walk?
- Fri Mar 31, 2023 11:30 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 31 March (Series 87, Prelim 50)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1067
Re: Spoilers for Friday 31 March (Series 87, Prelim 50)
Also 9x8 - 8 for 64 is a whoopsie... 8x8 anybody? That's weird, because I did it exactly the same way - ((8*9-8)*2+3)*6=786. Presumably you start by multiplying the two biggest numbers. 72. If you multiply that by 6*2 you have 864. 78 to find, which is 6*13, so you need to get 8*9*2-13 and multiply...
- Thu Mar 30, 2023 11:33 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: E Scooters
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1310
Re: E Scooters
My understanding is that you can't use them on public footpaths or bridleways, so you could only use them on the bits of farmland that you need permission to go on anyway. Whether anyone would actually stop you is another matter. Plenty of people cycle on public footpaths, though they shouldn't.