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Anway, that aside, there's been some amazing performances in the athletics already but the problem is, unless you can find a place to watch it live, all you get are endless round-ups and no detail. I've completely given up on the TV now, not because the coverage is bad - it isn't, it's generally exc...

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The track and field athletes don't have said curvature, thus, no comments. Don't worry, I'll be your guide. I just had the most amazingly vivid flashback reading this of watching the Moscow 1980 Olympics at my grandma's house. Inevitably before every women's athletic event she would say "but t...

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Seriously though, how are you supposed to play? It says about !start and !go, but they don't seem to do anything. !start seems to initiate the idea of a game, which you then have to !join. You can wait around to see if anyone else joins in (in practice this step can usually be skipped, because if t...

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They have read this topic on there too and now wish to murder you Jim over your hurtful comments about their IRC Countdown :P :lol: Good. My address is freely available on the internet and they're welcome to come around and murder me anytime they like. I can't be held responsible for any collateral...

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To completely change the subject, has anyone ever met a Trotskyite? It's just that I am one apparently and although I know who Leon Trotsky was, I don't really know what he stood for. In fact the only things I know about him are (a) something to do with being hit in the head with an ice pick, like i...

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Yes. I am channelling my thoughts about them to you now.

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Quite an interesting article here that I think sums up the situation in this part of the world (northeast England) quite nicely. Once again, it's the communities that did best by the EU (through grants, subsidies, protections etc.) are also the ones least affected by mass immigration, yet they are t...

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I don't really get to see new films these days, but ITV's various incarnations have provided a couple of Bonds I wanted to catch up on: Quantum of Solace: Nothing like as bad as I'd heard, so a nice surprise. Does what Bond films do and does it quite well. 7/10 Skyfall: Better still. Bond films shou...

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I actually found this and tried to log on, but nobody answered me... I've (just about) managed a game on it. Forget about anyone turning up, just play it single player. No idea what dictionary they use and didn't really get chance to figure out if it was US or UK English and the numbers rounds are ...

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Like going back fifteen years in time.

Except even worse. Did we really do this sort of thing back then? Yoinks.

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On a similar theme, why did your mum tell you not to swig germs from a cough medicine bottle....you already have germs I'm still trying to figure out what this means, I mean, it looks like a sentence and all that but I can't get it to make sense however I look at it. Why would you be drinking cough...

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I think you're just not woke enough. This made me laugh. You're funny. (Incidentally, where's Fred Mumford gone?) Anyway, you've inspired me to become more woke, which has got to be a good thing. Not sure how I'll achieve this, especially as I'm still taking the piss out of the concept. Mixed messa...

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Why do prison administrators in the US sterilise the needles that they use to put people to death by lethal injection? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Autry As well as that sort of situation (rare but significant for its historical precedence), I think it's far more to do with it being far safe...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:What are those table tennis bat things that tube workers have? One day I want to go to an underground station with a bat and ball and serve to one of them.

They use them for semaphore signalling.

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I was hoping for at last some response, in particular from: Sorry dear, I was busy elsewhere with the important business of getting old. If your question is "what if an elected government did nothing for five years?", then I think that life would just run on unchanged, though a large part...

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I Googled it and found this I've got a broad template for those articles. Just delete as applicable and insert the values and information you want: "Unless you've been living under a rock/in a cave/on Mars/in prison for the last {insert value x} days/weeks/months/years, then you WILL have/MUST...

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Ben Wilson wrote:'The Cra'.

What do you know of "The Cra'"? Not that any aspect of it is sinister, but the information wasn't supposed to be public until after mid-2019. If it's starting to appear in people's dreams then something's up...

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Susie Dent is on Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast this week. Interesting! I'll not comment until I've listened to it but I'd be prepared to place a fairly large bet that he'll reach for his "emergency questions" early on. I still like the guy but the quality control on t...

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Another possibility is that if an advanced civilisation wants to survive more than a few hundred years it may decide to conserve its resources, and so will avoid radiating a significant amount of energy into space, so SETI's efforts might be in vain. On the other hand, they could well take steps to...

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I don't see why any of this makes SETI flawed. Sure, stuff might get missed, but that doesn't mean they won't find a signal. I think I was just pointing out that for various reasons, it's incredibly unlikely. But not impossible. I can only guess that you're working on the assumption that all intell...

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Don't see why not. Some interesting thoughts here (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-supercivilizations-absent-from-100-000-nearby-galaxies/) on why we've not yet spotted (or realised that) anyone else. That was quite interesting but I think the whole SETI project, laudable though it ...

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Aliens then, what do we all reckon? Given the vastness of the universe and the quantity of Earth-like planets that must exist, it seems almost inevitable that intelligent life would have evolved on a planet outside our Solar System. Personally I think there are planets in other systems that will hav...

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The premise is an Alien Race need to abduct Stephen Hawking in the nineteen seventies to solve a problem on their planet. They accidently abduct an underpants salesman called Stevie Hawkins. Realising their error they return him back only Forty years has elapsed and he hasn't aged but his son is ol...

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But if Top Score comes in in the next one Ah well, 20% up on the day and - as I am such a high roller - this represents ONE English Pound Sterling, which is better than a kick in the head, I suppose, but is hardly likely to sustain my insanely extravagant lifestyle. Did you know a tin of corned bee...

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The less said about yesterday the better. I thought it prudent not to mention it, yes... The horses I will be stopping today....... GLORIOUS GOODWOOD DAY 4 2-35. FORGE 6/1 E-W 3-10. FRANKLIN D. 9/4. WIN 4-20. TOP SCORE. 10/3. WIN 4-55. MISS EN ROSE. 13/2. E-W 5-30. INDULGED 5/1 E-W These are the to...

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Sir Cliff Richard, Nigel Farage, Roy Hodgson, Maria Sharapova,Diana Ross,Lindsay Lohan, Michael Gove, Tom Jones, Billy Idol, Frank Skinner, Michael Stipe, Bobby Brown etc etc etc..... are any of them actually going in? or have the tabloid's been telling "porkies" again! I don't actually k...

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I think there may have been incarnations of this thread before, but let's have a new one anyway. Primarily it can act as a repository for any of Marc's Mad Thoughts And Observations, but the rest of us can use it too. Post any old rubbish, it doesn't need to relate to anything. I'll kick things off ...

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Wikipedia wrote:He is currently a FREE AGENT.

If this was Championship Manager I'd have snapped him up by now.

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0 has to got to be the zero point! Why? One is the first number of the counting, and is somewhat more venerable than its upstart neighbour zero. I just think it's odd to have a scale from 1 to 10. It's confusing for one thing. People might give a score of thinking it's the middle, when actually it'...

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Ian Volante wrote:Who is Benedict Martin?

He traitorously sold out to the hated British in the American Civil War.

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Gavin Chipper wrote:Why 1 to 10?

But it's not always 1 to 10, is it? Sometimes 0 is an option, so 0 to 10 (or eleven ranks). Depends on how the question is termed. I think you sometimes assume that people are less rigorous than you, when the case may be that they are in fact more rigorous.

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...the demand for proportional representation would surely reach an all-time high with the Tories surely the only party opposing it, and all the others going mental for it. If our elected MPs weren't (in the main) such self-serving bastards, this would have happened ages ago. There's a lot of polit...

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Time to get those EURO 2016 losses back! GLORIOUS GOODWOOD DAY 1. 2-00 MUTAMAKKIN. 8/1 2-35 THUNDER SNOW 8/1 3-10. BUCKSTAY 14/1 3-45. A SOLDIER'S LIFE. 9/1 4-20. BOOM THE GROOM 6/1 4-55. BEST SOLUTION 7/1 5-30 BELEAVE. 8/1. THESE ARE THE CURRENT TOP PRICES AVAILABLE DO THEM EACH-WAY....... GOOD LU...

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The one redeeming thought atm, is that Series 1 of Robot Wars was shit. They didn't get it right for a little while, and so I'm prepared to give this a chance to bed in. Series 1 was shit because everyone was effectively designing in a vacuum, plus it was stymied by an abysmal qualification system ...

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The winner came from the Tube Challenge forum, who scored 4/10. So the person who got the most correct answers did worse than would be expected by random guessing? Probably only one entrant. I actually entered but Rhys discarded it as coming from a Trotskyite entryist and so ineligible. Then he ask...

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The house robots added nothing...3 times heavier does not make them improved. Bigger is not always better. I think the house robots in the early days were useful; if you think about it they only had defensive weapons (Matilda's tusks, Shunt's scoop, Dead Metal's claws) and the offensive weapons tha...

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I always thought that Tornado's frame was more of an anti-Razer feature, rather than anti pit, as unless their wheelbase is wider than the pit itself, they could be nudged into position and have all their wheels dangling over the pit a bit like Wile E Coyote. It was indeed, but the reason I mention...

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And if they're going to spend all that time giving losing robots a chance to carry on, then they shouldn't have that quick elimination thing in the first round. It seems a bit odd that you can go out straight away with one thing going wrong, but if you get past that, you're automatically in for the...

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Robot Wars. What did you reckon then? I've no problem with the hosts and think the new format is quite interesting (it presumably guarantees nine fights per episode, barring dropouts) although - even just on the evidence from last night's episode - it looks as though could produce some unexpected r...

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I say "current" as I imagine this may well become an annual event until certain interests have ensured that the Right Candidate is in place. Somebody who won't rock the boat too much, someone who is amenable to bending policy to indulge an outside interest, someone telegenic and given to g...

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Ian Volante wrote:
James Laverty wrote:Another Countdowner on OC tonight- Amy Godel.
And the rest!

I used to fancy Amy Godel when she was repeatedly on 15-1 (as Ian alludes to above). She would hypnotise me into joining her for saucy shenanigans in her sex dungeon.

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No doubt other Bookies will be offering better odds than Paddy Power,Jim, but with them, I have had £30 @ 7/2 Payet to score at anytime, £20 France to score a penalty @ 17/2 (will probably get one and miss it!) £20 on Portugal to get a Red Card @ 13/2. The 11/10 France to win in 90 minutes didn't r...

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I see an English Referee Mark Clattenburg (rather than a GERMAN!) has been given the task of ensuring FRANCE lift the trophy on Sunday. Some bets for Sunday.......France to get a Penalty, Portugal to get a Red Card, Payet to score from a free kick (he will get at least half a dozen opportunities!)....

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Gavin Chipper wrote:
James Laverty wrote:Time for the important question. Is anyone planning on Parkrunning?
I'm sorry to say not me. I'm definitely going to be in America now while this CO-event is taking place.

You're not making a late entry into the Presidential race are you? Please say 'yes'.

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You know on Wikipedia? Why is it that some things - often plainly factual - say [citation needed] and others don't? Is it just a question of time (just not enough time to police the whole thing) or are some things just allowed through unsubstantiated? Different people doing different stuff. Don't e...

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You know on Wikipedia? Why is it that some things - often plainly factual - say [citation needed] and others don't? Is it just a question of time (just not enough time to police the whole thing) or are some things just allowed through unsubstantiated?

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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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What I have yet to understand is why clutching at straws for a cause you still believe in is a bad thing. This was never a mandatory referendum, only advisory. As I said above, the referendum wasn't sold to the public by the PM that way; it went back a long time and - through fair means or foul - b...

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... Don't bring me down......Bruce . ELO I've always thought it was this (up until a couple of minutes ago when I read Marc's post) even though it didn't really make any sense. I've just looked up what it actually is and I think I'm sticking with "Bruce" because the real lyric makes even ...

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Someone thought Elton John was singing "Hold me closer Tony Danza" - Plausible. That's got to be the best-known one after "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" - it's even been in an episode of 'Friends' (or some similarly bland sitcom of the era). While we're on Elton though, I tho...

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