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Jennifer Steadman

West Virginia (sort of - drove through without stopping) Of course this doesn't count. Fuck's sake, Gev. If you've left the vehicle in which you are travelling through a country and been outside it for more than 10 minutes, it counts. Did you even spend 10+ minutes outside the vehicle in Indiana?

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Jonathan Wynn wrote:Kept this relatively short in case I'm a) missing some focal thing that I'm not aware of

Nope - we're keeping track of results, but not game details. You're not wrong though, it does seem to have gone very quiet on that front.

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Cal, in case you haven't found it on here there is one in Huddersfield which is only around 30 miles from Manchester. It's on Saturday 8th October. Are you living in Manchester, Cal? There will probably be others going to this from Manc (possibly Matty Artell and Conrad Teixeira? maybe others too) ...

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A little part of me always thought that the result wouldn't be the catastrophe both sides had made it out to be, and it looks that might be the case. Brexageddon doesn't appear to be happening, and the EU have suddenly gone schtum on EU army plans. We haven't even started the process of leaving yet...

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Callum v Dylan and Ann v Tim are great shouts, but it's got to be Graeme v Carl, hasn't it?* Not only beautiful for all the Graeme it featured, the twists and turns of the game itself and the climactic, breathless squeak of 'galvanise', but the general #narrative of good v evil. It's like Lord of th...

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Updated standings after what was apparently the joint-most attended event of the year but I didn't realise because I forgot Ned Pendleton signed up on the day FFS Ned Pendleton sort it out...

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BUMP!

4 sign-ups so far. Guarantee your place now by signing up!

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23. Superlative: Andrew Garfield wearing a suit during The Social Network Great: Amelie, Lost In Translation (understand why some people hate it though), Wolf of Wall Street, The Pianist Good: Blue Is The Warmest Colour, Finding Nemo, Inglorious Basterds, The Dark Knight, The Social Network OK: Rata...

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Thomas Carey wrote:Add Sweden and Poland to my list please! One day I'll leave Europe #texit

Ooh! Whereabouts in Sweden/Poland?

SUBTHREAD: which countries do you most want to go to? Iceland, Russia, Cuba and Iran are my current travel yearnings, among others.

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Does anyone else feel that our amazing medal haul is down to there being a level playing field at last. Weeeeeell. Much as I fucking love the Olympics and am continually impressed by Team GB's haul from previously barren disciplines, and am glad that inroads are being made into weeding out dopers/d...

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So yesterday I was talking to my mum about Michelle Nevitt, couldn't remember her name, and wound up calling her Jennifer. That wasn't a dream as it actually happened. Then in my dream, Michelle kept popping up and shouting "it's NOT bloody JENNY", randomly, like the Toasty guy from Morta...

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James Laverty wrote:Philip Martin Brown - Waterloo Road's Grantly Budgen

I could go and ask him, he lives 5 minutes' walk away from me

(Might freak him out a bit though)

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Line-up for the next series announced.

Heard of 4 of them (only recognise one of those from a pic though) and recognise another one although didn't know her name. Such a shit line-up

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Ian Volante wrote:Wikipedia lists 50 without Kosovo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_s ... _in_Europe

No fucking way is Kazakhstan in Europe. Not having that.

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23: Iceland, it's as wonderful, spectacular, quirky and eye-wateringly expensive as you'd expect So jel :( I'm up to 35 as well having visited Slovakia last month. Just 15 countries left to visit in Europe... Are you including Kosovo? I think it's 51 if you do. Yeah, I am - where are you getting 51...

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sean d wrote:23: Iceland, it's as wonderful, spectacular, quirky and eye-wateringly expensive as you'd expect

So jel

I'm up to 35 as well having visited Slovakia last month. Just 15 countries left to visit in Europe...

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THE FIRST SEASON OF FARGO IS AMAZING, ohhh yahhh. Didn't enjoy the first ep of season 2 so much but hoping it picks up.

Also intermittently been watching Ab Fab. Probably going to give up on it though, too much slapstick bollocks for me.

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The latest updated FOCAL standings are HERE . *~*~ FORTHCOMING EVENTS ~*~* Just 11 spaces left for Countdown in Milton Keynes , on 20th August; sign up ASAP to avoid missing out! The sign-ups ball is well and truly rolling for Countdown in Dublin , on 10th September - why not treat yourself to a Co...

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Nearly 200 Twitter followers! If you haven't already, follow us at @focalcountdown for our very educational 'Perfectly Clean Countdown Word of the Day' tweets, event plugs and updates, and some conundrums and teasers when I get round to them.

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Bristol-style events are difficult to get results for. For Leicester 2010, I know I played Mary Jo Clayton, Amie Bateen, Conor Travers, Stewart Gordon, and I think (think) that was it insofar as I was concerned. Remember Kirk played Robbo at one point. I've got the grid for this now and it looks li...

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This one's great, I love stuff like that, but why the fruit? And why apricot? Genuine question. I've eaten all sorts of stuff in my time [ insert joke here ] but I don't think I can remember a meat dish I've had that the addition of fruit has improved. Maybe it's a pineapple on pizza thing, but a l...

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BUMP. What are you cooking at the moment? Really into making tagines currently, to go with couscous/harissa/garlic and mint yoghurt. So good. This one's great, really excited about making it again on Friday night. Quite into peanutty curries as well. Not sure that they're very 'summery', but 'summer...

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Totally agree with Jim's last two posts. Perfectly put.

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But that is a side point - what I mainly want to say is that overall the whole day was superb and I would thoroughly recommend anyone considering going to a FOCAL event to give it a try – from the big-name legendary players there was no snobbery or arrogance at all when I played them and they were ...

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But that is a side point - what I mainly want to say is that overall the whole day was superb and I would thoroughly recommend anyone considering going to a FOCAL event to give it a try – from the big-name legendary players there was no snobbery or arrogance at all when I played them and they were ...

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. Now open for bookings – the FOCAL end-of-year extravaganza! The culmination of 12 events across the UK & Ireland, join us as the top eight players compete in a Round Robin contest for the title of FOCAL 2016 Champion. And even if you haven’t made the top eight, you can still take part in our ...

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UPDATED CURRENT STANDINGS! Spoiler alert: there's a new leader. You can sign up to the rest of our summer tournaments now! Countdown in Nottingham is on 23rd July Countdown in Milton Keynes is on 20th August Countdown in Dublin is on 10th September You can also sign up to the FOCAL Finals tournamen...

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Cheers Innis! Very interesting. General observations/opinions: - 2nd referendum = terrible idea. People voted in good faith that the result would be respected. Whatever the consequences of leaving, the high turnout tells you that many, many people who don't normally vote were engaged to vote in this...

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Another reason for voting to stay that I don't think has come up too much in this thread is Scotland. Nicola Sturgeon has said it's "democratically unacceptable" to make Scotland leave the EU. Is it though? There are lots of areas in England where the majority voted to stay in. So is it d...

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Some of the 'big teams' were complacent or underperformed! What a fucking conspiracy!! Mate, seriously, take off your tinfoil hat for a day and stop crying over your shit, doomed bets.

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I have watched all the games bar Switzerland v Albania (a "Classic" apparently) and at least 1 if not both teams has put in a "rubbish" performance in nearly every match. Some examples...........BELGIUM against ITALY, AUSTRIA against HUNGARY, N. IRELAND against POLAND, FRANCE ag...

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Nah m8. The rubbish (I'd prefer to call them unlikely...) teams are brilliant. Absolutely love watching minnow countries dick bigger/'better' teams, especially when it leads to Ballon d'Or winning babies having a massive cry because Iceland didn't roll over for them. Not to mention how lovely it is ...

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It's not just about examples. There are explicit criteria for being in the EU economic criteria: a functioning market economy and the capacity to cope with competition and market forces And I don't think it's just coincidence that countries that have joined the EU more recently have been the poorer...

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Well it's relative. The barriers that have prevented countries from joining over the years have been largely economic. And they're generally rich compared to many countries outside Europe (such as many African countries) who wouldn't be able to join even if they were geographically in Europe basica...

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There are lots of countries that would want to join but basically aren't rich enough to. So even though the wealth cut-off is lower than it used to be, is it right that a group of largely rich countries join together to make it easy to trade among themselves at the expense of poorer countries? ...i...

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I think you need to take a long hard look at yourself in the mirror, Corby. You've done a good job over the years on the C4C forum, but you're beginning to slip now. Maybe it's something to do with being in your 40s - I don't know - but I'd visit my GP if I were you and get tested for Alzheimer's. ...

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Jack Worsley wrote:
Jennifer Steadman wrote:We're due a shock winner.
Er, Greece three Euro tournaments ago?

12 years is quite a long time in the history of the Euros... (and also the number of years between Denmark and Greece winning)

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During the World Cup 2 years ago, I said that France would win these Euros. Now everyone's jumped on the bandwagon and they're, quite reasonably, favourites. Not feeling like any of the obvious teams - Italy, Spain, Germany - are at their peak at the moment, while some of the smaller countries are c...

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All change at FOCAL! We'd like to warmly welcome Chris Marshall as the newest member of the FOCAL team, as he takes the reins as treasurer. Community legend and St Albans/Huddersfield organiser James Robinson has also shifted role, from treasurer to secretary. The Who Are You? page has been updated ...

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Marc Meakin wrote:I binge watched Bad in three weeks .
Every season is better than the last and no more than two episodes that were not cliff hangers

If I weren't watching it with Papa Mandates I'd have binged it too, I think. Unfortunately he's currently bingeing on The Sopranos, which is taking priority.

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- RuPaul season 6: great series - even better than season 3: better lip sync battles; best Snatch Game character ever; stronger set of queens overall. No more series on Netflix though, boo. - Making A Murderer: only got one episode to go. Would've preferred it to be more objective, as I wonder what ...

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Matt Morrison wrote:Trust me, that grade won't mean shit

I know

Employers and job agencies are all about the Countdown these days.

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Matt Morrison wrote:wtf jen. terrible english student!

Au contraire - judging by my grades, a much better English student than virtually all of the overwrought booksniffers on my degree

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N/A. Can't remember the last time I read a book that wasn't a textbook. Find them inefficient, hugely time-consuming for little reward, and rarely a fraction as interesting as a copy of the Economist or whatever.

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31. I'm guessing the most well-known one I haven't seen is The Shawshank Redemption, since that's listed first. Do I have to have seen the whole film to count it? What if I've only seen, say, half of it? What about the last 20 minutes? 75%. Also, recommend if you haven't seen: Goodfellas, Hotel Rwa...

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Post-King's Lynn standings here. There's also a report and videos from the excellent CoLeeds - hoping for similar info from King's Lynn in due course, but for now, just find links to both the full results/standings from the event, and the Storify version of the final, on the event page . Bit of a b...

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I mean, the fact that you've clearly no idea where anything is does rather put the staunchness of your opinions on the north/south divide in some context. Watford, Hertfordshire: 90,000+ people, Premiership football club, 11.5 million Google hits Watford, Northamptonshire: 224 people, unknown if th...

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The Watford Gap is like 70 miles north of Camden, that's quite the compromise. Just looked this up. Wtf? I thought it was in the general M25 vicinity. What the hell are people playing at?? The people of fake Watford should change their bloody village name. Properly angry about this. Luton is now my...

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There is very definitely a divide. It's a straight line that passes through Camden Town. (I would be prepared to compromise on the Watford Gap though.) There's also a south-west/south-east divide, which I'd say is a straight line going through Swindon. Actually this map basically sums it up (althoug...

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Updates from the tournament being posted on the FOCAL Twitter. Have a gander.

I also hope that Gev's last post proves once and for all that King's Lynn is in the north, and therefore that Yorkshire people are wrong when they pretend that Sheffield is the north/south divide.

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Northerners aren't exactly going out of their way to say 'Baath' correctly. It would seem a bit daft to pronounce the place differently to the water-tub thing though, wouldn't it, when both are spelled the same? I'm from Doncaster, by the way, and your mam's right. If you're from the North and natu...

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My mother insists on saying 'DonCAHster' instead of 'Doncarster' (and correcting those who don't), but doesn't bother doing this with any other northern place name. Absolute freak. I know what you're saying here, but doesn't CAH rhyme with CAR? qv FAH, FAR Erm, yeah actually, you can read it as suc...

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Ben Wilson wrote:Thank god for Innis. My total: 39, some of them not watched the full way through. If you include DVDs I bought in a sale and have meant to watch but not got around to yet, then it goes up to 55.

If you've watched most of it, it counts. Obviously DVDs you haven't seen don't count.

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My mother insists on saying 'DonCAHster' instead of 'Doncarster' (and correcting those who don't), but doesn't bother doing this with any other northern place name. Absolute freak. I'm with your mum here. Saying Don-car-ster and Lan-car-ster is ridiculous. Why? If you say 'cast' in a southern accen...

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Same with "Venice" and "Florence", we'd never try and make them sound Italian, but would naturally expect more effort to be made with "Venezia" or "Firenze". Most Brits would be confused if you said you were going on holiday to Firenze. This reminds me of the...

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Innis Carson wrote:I'll put a flag down for any fellow complete non-enthusiasts that may be lurking: 6, and for 4 of them my memory is too faint to make any meaningful comment on them.

Apterous's answer to Michael Owen.

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Also, what do other people think of Gideon Osborne's comments that leaving the EU would leaving to house prices dropping? That's a good thing, you monumental bell-end. It's only rich cunts that are completely divorced from reality and who see property purely as an investment opportunity that could ...

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What about British place names, I don't hear you ask? I tend to stick to using my own (Home Counties / Estuary English) accent, e.g. I pronounce the H in Hull and Huddersfield, and I say Barth for Bath and Newcarstle for Newcastle. I've discussed Newcastle with people before. Someone was saying you...

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