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JimBentley

Marc Meakin wrote:What's the one song on your playlist that you would have to quickly skip if it was,randomly selected on speaker mode.
Mine would be Young Girl by Gary Puxket

"Young girl, get out of my mind..." etc. by Gary Puckett &The Union Gap? It's a classic! Philistine.

JimBentley

I actually put a bet on Corbyn being Prime Minister by 2020 at 33/1 last year. It wasn't a large bet (£10), so I don't care if I lose it but it'll be a nice payoff if it actually happens (to be honest I don't think it will, the odds are so stacked against him). Best odds I can find now are 5/1 and ...

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I've just been over to Betfair, and according to their current odds, the implied probability of Jeremy Corbyn becoming the next Prime Minister is somewhere between 9.5% and 15.6%. I don't think that means a great deal. What you need to know is the size of the bets and the number of the bets, neithe...

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I've just been over to Betfair, and according to their current odds, the implied probability of Jeremy Corbyn becoming the next Prime Minister is somewhere between 9.5% and 15.6%. I don't think that means a great deal. What you need to know is the size of the bets and the number of the bets, neithe...

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The question wasn't which ones he's lost. Your claim was that he's proven himself electable by winning. I don't think I did (and I realise this is about nuance and I don't always express myself well, so it's probably my fault). I said that he's - so far - shown that he's not unelectable , which is ...

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If you peel Post-Its from the side and not the front, they don't curl up all weird. I read that on some Buzz Feed thing fairly recently. So I tried it and it made no difference at all. Do you mean that they still "curled up all weird"? Because if so, your Post-It notes must be of inferior...

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I've heard this before and am curious which elections these are. Tell me then, which elections have Labour lost since Corbyn's been in charge? A few local council seats - and as I've already pointed out, they got 73% of the vote - to actually make gains they would have needed to be around 88%, whic...

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...(Obviously totally made up - astonishing that they're legally allowed to get away with publishing what they do, but here's some insight ) Thing is, the Sunday Sport doesn't operate in the same way as normal news sources (not that it is one). Like the National Enquirer in the USA, it publishes an...

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And what would be the result of a contest between Jess Phillips and Jeremy Corbyn? An easy win for Corbyn again, of course. Almost all of the constituency Labour party members (in general) support Jeremy Corbyn - certainly over the political chameleon Owen Smith - and it seems that it's only the me...

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Now that Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected Labour Party leader with an even bigger mandate than last year (despite 150,000+ of his supporters being barred from voting), I wonder whether certain members of the Parliamentary Labour Party - particularly those that refused to serve in the shadow cabinet...

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As I'm sure you'll have noticed, there's been something of an alteration in the way that news is reported, particularly when it comes to headlines. In the past, it was only the tabloids that went with stuff like this (to take the most famous one): http://www.fahnn.co.uk/images/freddie-starr-ate-my-h...

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And he would have gotten away with it if wasn't for that pesky fact that he wrote about it in his autobiography!

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I've a feeling this one's apocryphal and even if it isn't, my memory of it is almost certainly a bit confused. But I'm posting it anyway because it's quite funny (in a dark way), if nothing else. Apparently in the Wild West (of the USA obviously) gunfights (as in duels) were still quite the thing ri...

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I thought "National Treasure" on Tuesday was really, really good. They don't seem to be taking the angle that I assumed they would - i.e. reputations ruined by false allegations, bandwagon-jumping and all that, although that's one aspect of the story - but are rather taking a more nuanced ...

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After nearly choking to death whilst eating hearts for tea, I was wondering about various apt ways of dying like Jeremy Clarkson getting killed by a caravan .....over to you I think we need look no further than Alanis Morissette for advice on this issue (as I think we can substitute "apt"...

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I have all the episodes on dvd and I have a dvd/vcr combo thing but the dvd tray mechanism is broken and won't open but the vcr is fine. So both of us have the means to watch each others copies but neither of us can watch our own. Coincidence? I think the obvious thing to do is for you to send me y...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d4wPaBNryA

Aw, now you've made me want to watch them all again, but I've only got them on video and haven't got a working video player anymore.

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This page about mathematical coincidences is quite interesting. That was interesting, cheers for that, man. I remember in A-Level Physics and we had finished whatever bit we were doing that day, the teacher would talk about stuff like this. The bit I remember best is talking about the hypothetical ...

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...What if a woman (who had already had one or more kids) had a sex change and then went on unwittingly to impregnate one of his kids as a man, but then had another kid with his own child (in an incest-type scenario)? I'm not sure I follow, particularly the bit in bold. How do you accidentally impr...

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This was the biggest coincidence ever. I wonder what the biggest coincidence ever could be (not that I intend to disparage the rest of your post of course)? What if a woman (who had already had one or more kids) had a sex change and then went on unwittingly to impregnate one of his kids as a man, b...

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Not just a bit of this then? Combine that with the coincidence and there you have it.

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Battlebots was interesting today. I've not watched much of the new series, but plan on doing so later so no spoilers please (as if you would, of course). ...stuff about Warhead.. Warhead made it in as one of the wildcards being one of the "best losers"...But having watched Warhead again t...

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I can't really add anything new here as (1) I don't tend to remember dreams and (2) if I do, they tend to fade within seconds of waking up. As such, if I have had Countdown-related dreams, I can't remember them. Going a bit off-topic here, though, I do have a recurring dream where I'm hanging off th...

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Hmm, I like it. The steeper an incline you go down the more floppy your arms get. All about fall-balance rather than rhythm. It's true. Let the record show that I AM RIGHT ABOUT SOMETHING at last*. * although of course a stopped clock is right twice a day so it's probably not that impressive really

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You know how when you walk, the right arm goes forward with the left leg, and vice versa? I've noticed I tend to do the opposite when going down stairs. I've got a theory about this (as you probably know, I've got whole shedloads of theories about all sorts of things, but I think I should mention i...

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I came late to Facebook - I think I might have been a bit too old for it when it first took off (and as only about half of my real life friends are on it, that may well be borne out, or maybe my friends are just weird). As I remember, I only signed up in January 2010 to see the COLIN 2010 photos. Th...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:Because "since" could be taken to mean after but not including.

Oh god, this isn't going to lead back to that whole Millennium argument again, is it?

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I'm just wondering about the definition of the word since because I'm trying to explain in a blog that something has happened every month since August 2013. It actually DIDN'T happen in August 2013, but every month Since then, ie starting in September 2013! Maybe I'm being simple, but if it didn't ...

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Hopefully not a really obvious one that I still haven't realised Nah, it was just a very unfunny Euro-geeky "joke". You're right that Lulu won (in a four way tie) with "Boom Bang A Bang", but that was in 1967. Sandie Shaw's "Puppet On A String" won in 1967, which was t...

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Marc Meakin wrote:Yes in a four way tie

Ah well, at least Martin'll get my joke!

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Everyone must have heard at least one version of this , for example, as it's been around forever (i.e. it's from before I was born and yes I am aware of the cultural bias involved there) and has been used so many times for so many different things. Some of you might know The Shins, they're an Ameri...

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Matt Morrison wrote:How did you fix your knees then gev

My theory is that Gev is basically a cyborg, like The Six Million Dollar Man Steve Austin, but with less cybernetic bits.

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...I don't think it's anything to be embarrassed by. I think it's really awesome. Aw, you are kind. And I suppose it was quite funny at the time (if slightly terrifying). But I don't think I'm going to try it again. I'm not entirely sure what you hoped would happen To be honest, the unpredictabilit...

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Steven M. McCann is actually a real poster, not an internet persona invented to troll the board. Honestly, I've only just realised!

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OK, to stop this becoming long and drawn out - the long version. It has to be the long version. Bit of a contradiction IMO. Yeah, as Johnny points out, those two things don't really correlate, so in the interests of getting it over with (I'm still quite embarrassed about it) I'll do the short versi...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:Do you really need to ask?

Yes. Yes, I do.

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Long version or short version? If it's long version, it's going to take me a while to find all the bits and pieces to put it together (because I can't remember where the pictures went; no video unfortunately, I didn't have a device capable of recording at the time). Short version - which in itself w...

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Incidentally, did I ever tell the whole story of my attempt to make a robot? I can't remember where I posted the details (I'm definitely losing some of my memories) and it might have been here and I wouldn't like to repeat myself. But if it wasn't here, then I probably should, because it's quite fun...

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But it's still enjoyable to be reading Fiction again after almost a year off. I blame the internet. Before the internet I used to read two, maybe three books a week. Now it's more like one every couple of weeks or so. I think I should put people who can read really quickly in the people you shouldn...

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So, it seems that David Cameron's off to pastures new (no doubt lucrative public speaking engagements, being on boards of international corporations and such like), which means a by-election. Witney's historically a very strongly Conservative seat, so the new MP will undoubtedly be whoever Conservat...

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Everyone must have heard at least one version of this , for example, as it's been around forever (i.e. it's from before I was born and yes I am aware of the cultural bias involved there) and has been used so many times for so many different things. Some of you might know The Shins, they're an Americ...

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But it's still enjoyable to be reading Fiction again after almost a year off. I blame the internet. Before the internet I used to read two, maybe three books a week. Now it's more like one every couple of weeks or so. There's just TOO MUCH STUFF! I can't handle it all anymore! Although I doubt I'll...

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Before Warhead's battle, they were saying it was one of the most famous robots, but according to this , it doesn't seem to have much history. Maybe you had to be there at the time, but I remember Warhead's first appearance in Battlebots as being a Big Thing (I think because of the impression (pun i...

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I watched the Question Time debate ( iPlayer link ) between Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith, and who should appear at 49:14? It's none other than series 47 champion, Chris Wills! Nice spot! He's been active within the Labour Party for a few years now, so I guess it makes sense that he was there. Didn'...

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Mark Deeks wrote:The alphabet song and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star have the same tune, and Baa Baa Black Sheep basically is too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ah!_vous_dirai-je,_maman

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Just finished American Psycho. A light-hearted romp through the life of a young white-collar worker. I remember reading that at university and really enjoyed it; very much my sort of thing. It made especially funny use of the protagonist's taste in music (all 80s AOR, which of course at the time I ...

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David Williams wrote:
JimBentley wrote:. . . . . . . . . . I quite enjoy typing out what I want to say, then editing it down to fit without losing the point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Try harder

I enjoy editing complex points.

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It forces you to get to the point and remove any unnecessary waffle. I must say that's the one thing that I like about it. On the rare occasions that I want to make a serious point, I quite enjoy typing out what I want to say, then editing it down to fit without losing the point (relatedly, is préc...

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Zarte Siempre wrote:Fuck off trying to bait me. Just cause you can still climb a ladder.

But baiting you is so easy! And as you know, I only do easy things, because I can't do difficult ones.

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I just thought it was a good joke. Wasn't though, was it? You'll need to do better than that if you want to climb the ladder of amusing c4c posters (a list that only exists in my head and to be quite honest I sort of lost track of it at some point; Fred Mumford used to be up top but he seems to hav...

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Thanks folks (especially Mark D. for pointing out the good points whilst acknowledging the bad; I'd never really thought of it that way before). The thing that worries me (although not overmuchly) is that certain groups of people seem to use it purely as an echo chamber. Anyone that disagrees with a...

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Marc Meakin wrote:Where are the drones?

They only allow them in the US version (Battlebots) but for various reasons they just form parts of a cluster-bot. They have to be quite light, so there's not a lot they can do in terms of damage, anyway.

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Advice required! I've been on there about seven years and whilst it can be interesting if you follow people in whom you have an interest, it does seem to be a place for loudmouths who take hissy-fits if an opinion is expressed that they don't like. It's not like I do much there; some of what I write...

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I've finally got round to watching the rest of the Robot Wars series. I have to admit to being a bit disappointed by the quality of the robots. I mean, there were some fairly decent robots, but none of them really stood out and it seemed that one of about a dozen could have won depending on which r...

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Zarte Siempre wrote:
JimBentley wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:Poor Marc(us).
Mark. His real name was Mark Feld.
Feld. Like the tree was.

Ahhhh, but it wasn't! The car was a write-off and Gloria got out pretty much OK but the tree is still standing.

Your pop knowledge is sadly lacking.

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Gavin Chipper wrote:Poor Marc(us).

Mark. His real name was Mark Feld.

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As probably the highest-profile musician to die in a car crash, am I the only one who thinks that this is a little bit crass? Car crass? When do we get "likes" back? I seem to remember Charlie saying that there was a reason why we couldn't have them back but frankly I've completely forgot...

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It's about time we had a spoilers thread for one of these. And here it is - four days late. The conundrum scramble was BADGROINS. The "solution" was BOARDINGS, which arguably isn't even valid - BOARDING is a mass noun and it's not on Apterous. And yet ADSORBING and SIGNBOARD are both ther...

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Marc Meakin wrote:I had the pleasure of playing Paul (Tranmere) Thompson at a scrabble tournament over the weekend.
Is he the same man on this forum years ago known as Zef ?

He is indeed, Marc! How is the old fella?

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...at 2 minutes 20 seconds it has the sample that OMC's "Steal Your Sunshine" was based on! Meh, easy mistake to make. Both three-letter band names, each had one reasonably big hit and one other not very big hit in the lateish 1990s then disappeared (as far as the UK charts are concerned,...

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