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Didn't realise it would be a sell-out. It's the day after Milton Keynes I think but that doesn't necessarily rule it out. I was shocked it sold out so quick I have allocated 9 for family members but there might be one going spare. It is feasible there will be people dropping out but considering the...

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Curzon Cinema to automatically link films you've watched to Letterboxd

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All tickets now sold, luckily I snaffle 10 before they all went

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Yeah I remember Joey Deacon
My brother especially does as Joey Meakin and Joey Deacon almost rhyme

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Surprised he lasted so long

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I Swear biopic of John Davidson sufferer of Tourettes.
One of the best films of the year very sad but also very funny.
People of a certain age may remember John from the documentary John's Not Mad

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Heathers. I've seen probably most of it before but I don't think I've actually ever sat down and watched it all. I think it's quite good and has some good humour. To make a random 80s teen movie comparison, it's much better than The Breakfast Club. The breakfast Club is one of the most over rated f...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Oct 03, 2025 6:30 pm
Philip A wrote: ↑Fri Oct 03, 2025 11:03 am Good innings, but Dame Patricia Routledge has kicked the bouquet at 96.
How long have you had this lined up?

I'm waiting for Mick Hucknall to go so I can say Simply Dead

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I start my training tomorrow

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Oct 04, 2025 3:17 pm There might be some interest in this. How do you buy tickets?

https://uk.ultratickets.co/event/ultra- ... 0-11-2025/

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I watched One Battle After Another twice in a week.
It's so good and the score by Johnny Greenwood is awesome, such a great satire and Sean Penn is amazing as Captain Lockjaw.
Also the fantastically named Chase Infiniti was great as Willa

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Oct 03, 2025 10:58 am Mark Heap just played the Mark Heap character in Friday Night Dinner. It's what he does in everything.

I'm guessing you haven't watched Lark Rise to Candleford then.
I guess his character in Spaced is similar insomuch as him being an oddball

Marc Meakin

I will have to give that to Michael from I'm Alan Partridge or Jim from Friday Night Dinners

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Tickets for my comedy gig go on sale on Friday. I need to sell a minimum of 10 seats at £25 each for my " free training" Might do a 2 for one special here ( though it might be a stretch to find 2 forumites that like me let alone spend 25 quid to watch me be funny for 5 minutes. There will ...

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Thu Sep 25, 2025 10:13 pm You say that now, but the other day, when I offered to fart all over you, you called for a union rep and insisted it go to a mediation session. Can't win with some people.

It's an ill wind, etc

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sun Sep 14, 2025 2:54 pm You are having a Ricky.

(Ricky Hatton; hat 'n' scarf; laugh.)

I used to say having a Derek

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Paul Worsley wrote: ↑Sun Sep 14, 2025 11:34 am Ricky Hatton former world boxing champion, 46 RIP

Big shock

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I agree it's wrong to ban Russian athletes from individual sports, but a stronger case can be made to ban Russian national teams, as well as Israeli ones. Eurovision is more about the country than the act. The Dutch has also threatened to pull out. Maybe let Palestine enter and Israel will pull out

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Sep 11, 2025 4:15 pm Ireland saying they'll pull out next year if Israel participate.

Bye bye Ireland.
If you want to eliminate countries then use the " not in Europe" as a reason not the country.
I also say that banning Russia from sports is wrong as long as the athletes are clean

Marc Meakin

This may have been done in previous years but I need a marker for my resolutions. 1) to lose 3 stone by Christmas. I have signed up the NHS path to type 2 diabetes remission and it's a years program. 2) to improve my woeful scrabble rating (currently 122 has been 141) by 10 points minimum 3) to bre...

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Talent shows where 10 year old kids sing adult songs.
I don't wanta Shirley Temple lookalike singing Like a Virgin

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 08, 2025 2:37 pm Rick Davies from Supertramp.

On the way home a homeless man was singing The Logical Song.... I said That's Supertramp he replied thanks very much

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The Duchess of Kent.
Front bench political career of Angela Rayner
RIP

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Hungarian born but former British champion Joe Bugner.
Went the distance twice with Ali

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Hungarian born but former British champion Joe Bugner.
Went the distance twice with Ali

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Bit late to the Party so no spoilers after episode 2. I think the contestant in episode 1 deliberately got themselves eliminated due to being uncomfortable after an earlier clue. Episode 2 was easy as there was an anagram or 2 to solve. My problem would be finding the destination on the map. A hybri...

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Great day though I missed the final along with at least 10 gettable numbers round totals hence the low score but I will take the 2 wins and avoiding the wooden spoon, though I had second lowest total.
Will have to up my numbers game though going 4 large and 6 small didn't pay off much

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Fiona T wrote: ↑Mon Aug 25, 2025 7:42 am Fun event, thank you Tony!

Well done fellow bronze medalist

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We haven't been able to get hold of these for months and I had the last one in the house today. Does anyone else here eat these? There's nothing online to suggest they've been discontinued. Weetabix's site still has them as a thing. There was something about a shortage in November last year but the...

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Ian Volante wrote: ↑Mon Aug 25, 2025 11:54 am I didn't have to do it first time, so I haven't a clue.

You'd be alright as a lot of the questions have more of a place in a general knowledge quiz than a driving theory test

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I was under the impression that most questions were essentially: You are behind a slow moving vehicle with no opportunity to overtake. Do you a) Honk your horn b) Flash your lights c) Keep a safe distance behind and just be fucking patient So I think I'd pass. There are too many questions about fir...

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I'm referring to drivers who have already passed their test obvs

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 4:00 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Aug 07, 2025 7:31 am Who's going and watcha playing?
Playing Scrabble but Countdown is on at the bank Holiday weekend so not this year for me
Yay won a bronze medal, just failed gold by cocking up my outplay.... Still bronze matched my eyes better

https://photos.app.goo.gl/9LKJ4hpV5uCmZ2bo6

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Aug 07, 2025 7:31 am Who's going and watcha playing?
Playing Scrabble but Countdown is on at the bank Holiday weekend so not this year for me

Yay won a bronze medal, just failed gold by cocking up my outplay.... Still bronze matched my eyes better

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My friend is starting work in Seprember at his childhood secondary school as a teaching assistant.
There is also a doctor in my local news bulletin working in the hospital he was born

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Huawei then Samsung back to Huawei when Samsung got wet

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I'm like a dog with a bone but if anybody going to Reading wants to spend their lunchtime playing a Scrabble/Countdown hybrid game let me know and I will bring a Scrabble set Same as Scrabble except 2 bags vowels and consonants (one blank in each bag) 30 second clock per move (maybe egg timer) Happy...

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Maybe I should start a separate thread for this but I want to run a 2 day event with day one being a Scrabble tourney and day 2 being a co event in 2026 I can always flip which day for which but I want ideally players to come to both and obviously a discount for those that do both. The thing is I am...

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Biddy Baxter of Blue Peter fame

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Tracey Anne Mills wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 11:46 pm
David Williams wrote: ↑Fri Aug 01, 2025 11:12 pm Not to mention Joey Jones' teammate, Kevin Keegan.
Kevin Keegan is still alive

I think the thread was about all iterative named people being worried after a spate of them died recently although both Hulk Hogan and Ozzy Osborne have different birth names

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Random things keeping me awake.
I'm wondering if the guy who clears up the poo in my garden will work out we don't have any pets

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 10:17 am I'm not over 50. How dare you.

There must have been reruns, I thought it was on in the 70s

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This joke is very niche as you probably need to be over 50 to get it.
The real name for Swansea is Arthur Swanserelli.

So probably not for my gig.

Equally if Fonzie was so cool why did he hang out with such wankers

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Who's going and watcha playing?
Playing Scrabble but Countdown is on at the bank Holiday weekend so not this year for me

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Given that it's highly unlikely that anybody here would pay £25 quid to watch me perform stand-up/die on my arse. I want to share a original* (haven't stolen though maybe someone has used it) joke I intend to use. ..... Over the last year I have lost nearly 6 stone, so imagine, that's the equivalent...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Aug 04, 2025 3:51 pm I think it can be fine as long as any overweight people in the audience aren't likely to perceive themselves as the butt of the joke.

Surely that would depend on the size of the butt

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Opinions sought here with regards my stand up routine Quite a lot of my material involves me talking about when I was grossly overweight. Given I have lost over 5 stones I'm worried that although I am using self deprecating humour it might come across a offensive to fat people in the audience Opinio...

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In about 60 years of the Red Arrows, according to Wikipedia , there have been 12 pilot fatalities, so about one every 5 years. Apparently they have 9 pilots at a time who are with the team for 3 years each. This gives each pilot about a 1 in 15 chance of dying. OK, so that assumes a constant chance...

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Is. Midnight the end of the day or the beginning of the day. I can get 2 corporate tickets for Ricky Gervais and the go on sale midnight if the 6th of August. I am hoping that means 1 minute after 12.59 on the 5th? I always think of it as in a sort of limbo between two days. But normally it's obvio...

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Hulk Hogan has died. No link because I can't be bothered on my phone. You'll have to take this one on trust. This could be some bizzaro only connect question. 4 points OO 3 points HH 2 points.....Boris Becker should be worried Chilrden's author Allan Ahlberg (though I think that was his real name i...

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Is. Midnight the end of the day or the beginning of the day.
I can get 2 corporate tickets for Ricky Gervais and the go on sale midnight if the 6th of August.
I am hoping that means 1 minute after 11.59 on the 5th?

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Sylvia Young.
Theatre School founder

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Disney LAnd
Disney wORLd

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The unfortunately named crash course in passing your driving test, has anyone done one and was it worth the money? In lieu of a payout for my bike accident, I feel it's time I've passed my test But I'm not very patient ( see my crash diet results) So I kinda wanted to do an intensive driving course ...

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I'm organising a Scrabble Tournament in Canterbury on 8th November and if it's successful I was thinking of a Countdown event but it's 18 quid per hour so I will need a reasonably large amount in order to book it.
It had to be a Saturday I was looking at March/ April

If I built it would you come?

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Tracey Anne Mills wrote: ↑Sun Jul 27, 2025 8:45 am Joey Jones ex Liverpool footballer

And Chelsea

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Jul 26, 2025 12:20 pm You'd better hope MM doesn't come up...

Slim Shady is doing OK

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Jul 24, 2025 5:16 pm Hulk Hogan has died. No link because I can't be bothered on my phone. You'll have to take this one on trust.

This could be some bizzaro only connect question.
4 points OO
3 points HH
2 points.....Boris Becker should be worried

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Headhunters
The Questiin Jury.
Name That Tune
The pyramid game

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I could possibly go to that. I work by dates rather than saint days though (but I think you did give the date somewhere else). Oh it's the 30th of November in the Backyard Club in Bethnal Green. Tickets won't go on sale until the end odmf September I'm supposed to sell 10 ticjets to family and frie...

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