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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Jan 09, 2026 10:07 am If anyone is considering writing a Trump biography I have a title for you - From Tosspot to Despot.

Dead man walking

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Predictions will stick with 10
Trump
Putin
Attenborough
Van Dyke
Keegan
David Jason
Camilla
Mel Brooks
Shirley Bassey
John Major

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Jan 03, 2026 9:09 pm America first.

I remember the good old days when we could all laugh at North Korea

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Three new quiz shows coming in January 2026: 1st January 2026 - Time Is Money, a daytime quick-fire quiz hosted by ex-Dragons’ Den star Sara Davies in which contestants are given the money but must race to keep hold of it - 6 pm, then 3 pm for the rest from Monday; 4th January 2026 - The Floor, a D...

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Three new quiz shows coming in January 2026: 1st January 2026 - Time Is Money, a daytime quick-fire quiz hosted by ex-Dragons’ Den star Sara Davies in which contestants are given the money but must race to keep hold of it - 6 pm, then 3 pm for the rest from Monday; 4th January 2026 - The Floor, a D...

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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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Brigitte Bardot

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Dec 27, 2025 6:32 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Dec 27, 2025 5:49 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Dec 27, 2025 4:08 pm People who enter their dog into competitions.
Depends on the competition
Does it? What sort of competitions are you thinking of?

Three legged race
A ballet competition maybe
Yes im being flipping flippant

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Why is The Masked Singer on for 1 hour and 30 minutes? That is ridiculously long for a non-live Saturday night show. You could cut it down to just an hour at least! Yeah , thats what the fast forward button is for. 30 minutes of content tops. I do it to Strictly cut the chit chat watch the dance an...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Dec 27, 2025 4:08 pm People who enter their dog into competitions.

Depends on the competition

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The official video is here.
https://youtu.be/XL_o_1XN1jw?si=pfynzBP7yN25vwKb

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Dec 22, 2025 3:27 pm Chris Rea won't be driving home for Christmas; he's on the road to Hell.

Harsh

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Andy McGurn wrote: ↑Wed Dec 17, 2025 5:47 pm I just saw Jafar Panahi’s “It was Just an Accident”.

This was a fantastic movie

Indeed it was , brilliant film both satirical and serious.
Not bad from a director under house arrest for the last 10 years

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 6:39 pm The Ballad of Wallis Island.
British film of the year
Tim Key is fantastic in this funny ,melancholic bromance/Rom Com.
It's very funny and also quite sad

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2pr1njl9vo
Life imitating art here

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Gonna do it again in the near year.
Won't put myself family through it again ( mainly the travelling ) but maybe more friends this time.
29th March 2026

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The not dead of 2025 , Dick Van Dyje is 100 today

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Dec 12, 2025 2:02 pm Another one from your era, comedian Stanley Baxter aged 99.

Paul's already done it

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Two Authors Joanna Trollope and Sophie Kinsella

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Paul Worsley wrote: ↑Fri Dec 12, 2025 12:22 pm Stanley Baxter, comedian and actor. Aged 99 RIP

Im shocked he was still alive.
A comedy genius....I hope they put a tribute on soon

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Maus was on fire yesterday well done all. Must have been the first 5 pointer in a quarter final surely ?

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Martin Hurst wrote: ↑Mon Dec 08, 2025 10:58 am Well done Marc - great job

Cheers

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Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Sun Dec 07, 2025 9:35 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 1:29 pm https://photos.app.goo.gl/2UzTjhHweL2594t59

How about this ?
That worked.. very funny (as expected!)

Cheers , went off script (hardly surprising) , nerves , but loved it and have signed up for next year (January to March) but this time will stick to one theme

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Architect Frank Gehry

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https://photos.app.goo.gl/2UzTjhHweL2594t59

How about this ?

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Not sure if this link works. In lieu of the official video here is my gig on a relatives phone https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17YZ8qcbgK/ I think it's friends only. Would it be possible to make it set to everyone for a wider audience? You could friend request me 😄 I will try and work it out in th...

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Fiona T wrote: ↑Fri Dec 05, 2025 9:04 pm Good stuff - had me chuckling a lot!

Are you tempted to have a go after James and myself ?

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Not sure if this link works.
In lieu of the official video here is my gig on a relatives phone
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17YZ8qcbgK/

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I started watching season 7 of Black Mirror , episode 1 "Common People" very dark

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Embarrassingly being a cockney I should know where the origins of blowing a raspberry comes from
Raspberry tart/Fart

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I survived got a lot of laughs hit 4 and a half minute before finishing my set. Nobody knew I left stuff out due to poor memory and time constraints I stupidly practised my set without allowing time for laughter. Would recommend but its a o e and done for me...have to wait six to 8 weeks for the upl...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Nov 29, 2025 7:57 pm I won't be able to make this unfortunately. There will be a video online though right?

Eventually...you know me will share it here.
If my sister in law videos it you may get it sooner

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I have a ticket for free for my comedy gig tomorrow.
It's a long shot but pm me and I will send you ticket its in the Backyard Club in Bethnall Green 1pm for 1.30 start

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Nov 29, 2025 6:49 pm Anyone else p(h)ard should be worried.

When I heard Jack Shepherd had died I thought it was David Platt from Coronation Street

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Tom Stoppard

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Why are you able to buy flight tickets months in advance but, depending on the airline, you are only able to check in and print boarding passes within 48 hours? I know most people just use their phones now but I prefer to print off the boarding pass and I would like to be able to print the return f...

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Delete if not allowed. We shook hands when we met in the green room during the recording of the 2019 Champion of Champions and the first thing said to me was, “Nice to meet you in person.” He was eccentric, but did not seem dangerous in any way shape or form at the time. I wasn’t aware he had schiz...

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Delete if not allowed. We shook hands when we met in the green room during the recording of the 2019 Champion of Champions and the first thing said to me was, “Nice to meet you in person.” He was eccentric, but did not seem dangerous in any way shape or form at the time. I wasn’t aware he had schiz...

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4drldz5eyo

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4drldz5eyo
Not sure if here is best but anyways

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Apparently there's going to be a pay-per-mile tax on electric vehicles from 2028. But this is some self-declared thing where you just check your own mileage. Aside from anything else, it's adding extra bureaucracy into the lives of electric car drivers (I literally never look at my mileage), and as...

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Jack Shephard , actor and playwright famous for playing Wycliffe

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Jimmy Cliff
https://youtu.be/-y9Q7ud7Or0?si=1Eqp7pDK9VqBAkLL

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14 wins is Awesome.
Did I see in one game you scored over 500 in one one game and lost ?

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Thomas Carey wrote: ↑Sun Nov 16, 2025 11:05 am Yeah - really annoyed I lost my last four including the worst endgame mistake I've ever made, so should have been a lot higher. But we take it

Did you annotate that game for posterity ?

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Nov 21, 2025 1:53 pm I haven't.

If you have audible the first couple are free

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Nov 20, 2025 1:33 pm That tune that you sometimes hear on car horns is Dixie and it was the car horn sound in Dukes of Hazzard.

(I was just watching episode 5 of the Alan Partridge mental health thing and the tune came up.)

I quite often mix that tune up with La cucuracha also a car horn

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That new Alan Partridge thing about mental health. It was quite funny and a decent watch but I can't help thinking that it didn't really add anything to the world. It's just more Partridge. Nothing new or special. Just more of it. It's like chewing gum at this point. Have you listened to his podcas...

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10 days yo go and i keep changing my set i do have s bookend/callback joke that takes 10 seconds so i need to set a vibrating alarm on my phone for 5 minutes.
I will give you all the YouTube link when its uploaded

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I decided on a whim to watch some of the live coverage on the BBC Sport website of the crucial World Cup qualifier between Scotland and Denmark. Glad I did. What a game! Great drama, great goals. Well done to Scotland, also learned of the song 'Letter from America' by the Proclaimers. Glad Scotland...

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Both bonnet and douche are used in English. I'd have thought this was one of the easier phrases to work out. Douche is just an insult. No-one uses it to mean shower! Also there's no way of knowing that it was "bonnet" and therefore linked to the English "bonnet" as opposed to so...

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Philip A wrote: ↑Sun Nov 02, 2025 8:58 pm The 5ks will return on 10th November in a rematch against the Showstoppers.

Am I ok to post spoilers?

Well done , a fine first 3 rounds all contributed well though the music question made me laugh and I got the Gary question on clue 2

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Slightly better, but that head-to-head round on the Yorkshire board was rubbish. I thought that round was a good addition, and fits in well with the rest of the show. For anyone who didn't see it, each team in turn is asked a question to which the answer is a number 1-20. The dart player and non-da...

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Good luck Thomas Carey at the Scrabble World Championship in Ghana.
Representing Germany I'm sure he will do well.
Highest rated German participant for sure

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One of those ones that feels oddly surprising. Not unless he WASNT a heavy smoker That's like a triple negative or something. Can't you put that in a way that isn't easier to not understand? Ok sorry in my mind I was trying to illustrate that a heavy smoker is much more likely to die of lung cancer

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 4:06 am
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Nov 08, 2025 7:48 pm Quentin Wilson!
One of those ones that feels oddly surprising.

Not unless he WASNT a heavy smoker

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8xdypnz32o

James Watson

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Dick Cheney former VP to George W Bush

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Why is a flat white traditionally sized between an Espresso and an American?

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I think the same thing about Latin outside of the legal profession and biology

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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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