If you're happy to count that then why not count Kipchoge's sub-2?Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 4:16 pm I reckon if the enhanced games happen then sub 2 hours will happen
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- Tue Feb 13, 2024 6:25 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 60042
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 11:24 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 321
- Views: 55167
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Ever tried showering a baby?
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 11:07 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 318349
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
This is the sort of content I like to see in this thread.
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 10:40 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 26th October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 85)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1698
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 26th October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 85)
The online dictionary has HYALINE as an adjective, as a mass noun, and as part of the set phrase "the hyaline", meaning a smooth sea or clear sky.
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 9:18 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 26th October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 85)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1698
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 26th October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 85)
They look fine to me
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 12:40 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 3rd October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 68)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1187
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 3rd October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 68)
In the Countdown dictionary.
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 9:25 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 750460
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 9:25 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 3rd October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 68)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1187
- Sun Oct 08, 2023 8:25 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 60042
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
He might gain some notoriety now.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 8:04 pm (until Kelvin Kiptum blows his times away but most people haven't heard of him yet)
- Sun Oct 01, 2023 12:39 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 18th September 2023 (Series 88, Heat 57)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1242
Re: Spoilers for Monday 18th September 2023 (Series 88, Heat 57)
In Round 2, there were 25 sevens, but no eights or longer: ... Dunno if that’s the most possible sevens from a set of 9 letters? Using the current dictionary (at least, as it exists on Apterous), the most sevens from a selection that doesn't contain any eights or nines is 35, from IHARKNESS: ARNISE...
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 9:22 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 60042
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
I was discussing the shoes/swimsuits thing with Florence last night. She made a great point that equipment like this becomes an access issue for the sport. If there's an expensive piece of gear that reduces your times by a significant percentage, then at e.g. junior level, those from low-income fami...
- Wed Sep 27, 2023 2:32 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 60042
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
Swimming faced a similar problem: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/full-bo ... id=9437780
There's also the javelin redesigns that reduced the potential distance one could be thrown, although they reset the records at the same time.
There's also the javelin redesigns that reduced the potential distance one could be thrown, although they reset the records at the same time.
- Wed Sep 27, 2023 8:05 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 318349
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
All crisps and confectionary are suffering from shrinkation, the price may stay the same but what's inside the packaging is getting smaller year on year. Terrible. But I'm not sure it can completely follow inflation because over time everything would have shrunk away to basically nothing. Inflation...
- Fri Aug 25, 2023 4:17 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 60042
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
Still, I think it's time for a 21st century solution. While we're at it, since they clearly have the ability to know how far back on the board the athlete's foot was when they jumped, why not do away with the board altogether and measure the actual jump distance, rather than the distance past the b...
- Sun Aug 20, 2023 9:08 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 60042
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
Mixed relay is an exciting concept. I might have said this before but if I was streamlining athletics and culling pointless events, relays would be one of the first to go, along with race-walking and decathlon/heptathlon. Agreed on relays and race-walking, but the multi-discipline events seem an od...
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 1:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 11th August 2023 (Series 88, Heat 31)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2572
Re: Spoilers for Friday 11th August 2023 (Series 88, Heat 31)
Why does it take so much longer to do it blindfold? Because in competitions, the time for a blindfolded solve includes the memorisation time. Blindfold methods are designed to optimise the combination of memorisation and execution. It's possible to use the same execution method for a blind solve as...
- Sun Aug 13, 2023 7:05 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Goat/Co:Brum 2023
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9643
Re: Goat/Co:Brum 2023
FWIW, that's not enough C's. I had two shows in my octorun where 5 C's were drawn and another that had 4.
- Sat Aug 12, 2023 8:56 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 11th August 2023 (Series 88, Heat 31)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2572
Re: Spoilers for Friday 11th August 2023 (Series 88, Heat 31)
939 is a nice octototal
- Tue Jul 18, 2023 8:00 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1775617
Re: Politics in General
A classic - frame the issue as "our" needy people vs "their" needy people. In reality the problem is a government that cares about neither.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2023 7:39 am My take on it is that why can't barges be built for the thousands of homeless people in this country?
- Sat Jul 15, 2023 6:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 711637
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Maybe we're not thinking of the same thing, but the beep I can recall was triggered by the ball hitting the net cord.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Jul 15, 2023 1:25 pm Edit - They also used to have a thing that beeped when a serve went out (maybe just if it went long?) and that must have been going decades ago.
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 4:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 711637
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I was intrigued by a recent study showing that motorists are more likely to see cyclists wearing safety equipment as "other", compared to those not wearing safety equipment.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sun Jul 02, 2023 4:01 pmWith sensible behaviour, wearing a helmet must make cycling safer.
- Tue Jun 06, 2023 2:45 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Is there a conspiracy against Electric transport?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 832
Re: Is there a conspiracy against Electric transport?
Yes, as that's what the 15.5mph limit applies to. Anything compliant with that limit can be ridden on the road without license/tax/insurance.
- Tue Jun 06, 2023 10:20 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Is there a conspiracy against Electric transport?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 832
Re: Is there a conspiracy against Electric transport?
Electric bikes are restricted to 15.5 mph This isn't true. You're allowed to go faster than 15.5 mph on an electric bike as long as the motor is not assisting you at that point. So they're designed to have the motor provide less and less power as your own output increases, to the point that it cuts...
- Fri Apr 28, 2023 2:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 28th April 2023 (Series 87, Heat 70)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 841
Re: Spoilers for Friday 28th April 2023 (Series 87, Heat 70)
Looks good:Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Apr 28, 2023 1:53 pm DC offered untimed. Is that valid? Not on Apterous. I've always had it in my head to go for MINUTED when I see it.
- Thu Apr 27, 2023 8:08 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 26th April 2023 (Series 87, Heat 68)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 836
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 26th April 2023 (Series 87, Heat 68)
REBEGAT in R2 LANGUET in R13 I don't think begat REBEGAT is valid but languet (noun: tongue-shaped) is fantastic. REBEGET would be okay REBEGAT is valid on apterous and seems like an argument could be made for it from the dictionary: BEGAT is listed as a past form of BEGET and REBEGET means "t...
- Wed Apr 26, 2023 11:11 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Countdowners On Other Quizzes
- Replies: 253
- Views: 218734
Re: Countdowners On Other Quizzes
Tom Stevenson was referenced in a question on The Chase. Not strictly "on other quizzes", more "as other quizzes". What was the question? In 2022, university student Tom Stevenson scored a record 154 points on what TV show, not losing a single round? A Mastermind B Countdown C U...
- Tue Mar 21, 2023 9:57 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 711637
- Mon Mar 06, 2023 7:38 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Countdowners On Other Quizzes
- Replies: 253
- Views: 218734
Re: Countdowners On Other Quizzes
James Haughton on Mastermind tonight.
- Fri Feb 17, 2023 6:19 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Button Bashing Mayhem (another Sporcle game)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5516
Re: Button Bashing Mayhem (another Sporcle game)
Two days later I have improved this to... 231.
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 12:26 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Button Bashing Mayhem (another Sporcle game)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5516
Re: Button Bashing Mayhem (another Sporcle game)
Just got a 230.
- Tue Feb 14, 2023 2:46 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Button Bashing Mayhem (another Sporcle game)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5516
Re: Button Bashing Mayhem (another Sporcle game)
Utilising the space-start technique I've smashed my PB with 222 after only one attempt.
Edit: now up to 226.
Edit: now up to 226.
- Tue Feb 14, 2023 9:59 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Button Bashing Mayhem (another Sporcle game)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5516
Re: Button Bashing Mayhem (another Sporcle game)
I had some goes at this and my best score is 208, which I've got three times.
- Mon Feb 13, 2023 9:57 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Sporcle multiplication tables
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4207
- Sun Feb 12, 2023 10:08 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Sporcle multiplication tables
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4207
Re: Sporcle multiplication tables
Had a few goes and got 1:06. No numpad.
- Wed Feb 08, 2023 3:54 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: The Countdown Android App is now out!
- Replies: 156
- Views: 33560
Re: The Countdown Android App is now out!
And in English? Think of the app as having two parts. There's the bit that runs on your phone, which handles the actual playing of the game - this is called the "frontend". And there's a server - which can be considered, both physically and logically, to be elsewhere - which handles thing...
- Sun Feb 05, 2023 7:50 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown adjudication dictionary
- Replies: 103
- Views: 13124
- Fri Feb 03, 2023 11:25 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: The Countdown Android App is now out!
- Replies: 156
- Views: 33560
Re: The Countdown Android App is now out!
That's some impressive forward-thinking! Thanks for the explanation.
- Fri Feb 03, 2023 5:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: The Countdown Android App is now out!
- Replies: 156
- Views: 33560
Re: The Countdown Android App is now out!
Looking at the first of today's daily challenges (the one with 8 conundrums), by clicking through to people's games on the leaderboard everyone seems to have been given a different conundrum in round 4. Why is this?
- Tue Jan 31, 2023 2:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 165912
- Sun Jan 29, 2023 5:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 318349
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
I had a realisation last night that would absolutely have qualified for this thread if it were true. I suddenly had the thought that "deciduous" must come from the Latin for the number 12 (dec(em) for 10 and duo for 2), referring to the number of months in the cycle of such a plant. Never ...
- Sat Jan 28, 2023 9:09 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Safeguarding at and around co-events
- Replies: 68
- Views: 8650
Re: Safeguarding at and around co-events
The code of conduct was a good start, and yet, it still happens. Something peculiar about the code of conduct is the process for reporting violations - currently, it is to send an email to a FOCAL email address. To come closer to parity with other modern conventions/meetups/events, I would like to ...
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 7:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Safeguarding at and around co-events
- Replies: 68
- Views: 8650
Re: Safeguarding at and around co-events
Cost really should not be a factor here. Maybe there's some truth in this if you know you're going to be a regular attendee, but for a first-timer who's considering going to an event, the cost absolutely is a factor, as is the hassle of actually having to apply for one. I think most people would ho...
- Thu Jan 19, 2023 7:08 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 19 January 2023 - CoC XVI, SF 2
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2550
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 19 January 2023 - CoC XVI, SF 2
Yep, it was the only one, no other conundrums edited out.Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 7:01 pmWas that the only conundrum? Infamously I had 3 conundrums reduced to 1 in my first game.
- Mon Jan 16, 2023 6:58 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 16 January 2023 - CoC XVI, QF 3
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4551
Re: Spoilers for Monday 16 January 2023 - CoC XVI, QF 3
No, Susie defined it at the time, and mentioned it was offensiveRhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 6:56 pm The fact the selection wasn’t refilmed leads me to believe it wasn’t picked up until the edit that it had a dodgy meaning.
- Mon Jan 16, 2023 2:51 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 16 January 2023 - CoC XVI, QF 3
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4551
Re: Spoilers for Monday 16 January 2023 - CoC XVI, QF 3
So did both players, presumably edited out because it's a slur
- Sat Jan 14, 2023 12:28 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 13th January 2023 - CoC XVI QF 2
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3540
Re: Spoilers for Friday 13th January 2023 - CoC XVI QF 2
Elliott was asked whether he was holding back from a longer word after the declarations in that round and he did indeed have METASOMA - but it didn't make the edit
- Thu Jan 12, 2023 3:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 12 January 2023 - CoC XVI, QF 1
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1174
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 12 January 2023 - CoC XVI, QF 1
FWIW I’d have gone for 6 small in the last numbers round. I haven't watched the episode yet so I don't know if it made the edit, but I explained in the studio that before the game, Florence and I had agreed to cover all the numbers selections except 1 large between us during the course of the game....
- Wed Jan 04, 2023 2:53 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 3 January 2023 - CoC XVI, Prelim 2
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3035
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 3 January 2023 - CoC XVI, Prelim 2
To add to the obscurity discussion - while there are some words that are obviously common and some words that are obviously obscure, most words occupy a middle ground where they will appear normal if you're familiar with the word and appear obscure if you've never heard it. I don't think it's possib...
- Tue Jan 03, 2023 11:06 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 2 January 2023 - CoC XVI, Prelim 1
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1554
Re: Spoilers for Monday 2 January 2023 - CoC XVI, Prelim 1
Absolutely love a tough conundrum, that was a great one. I reckon about 5 or 6 of the players in that c of c would have solved it which feels like an appropriate level of difficulty. I thought it was a really good conundrum too, and I think my recollection is that you're spot on about how many woul...
- Sat Dec 17, 2022 5:08 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C appears to have been pwned
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2399
Re: C4C appears to have been pwned
This hasn't happened to me yet on C4C, but it did happen to me on wiki.apterous.org yesterday.Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 4:26 pm Occasionally, when you request a page on the C4Countdown forum...
- Tue Nov 29, 2022 9:48 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Lost letters packs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2542
Re: Lost letters packs
the letters distribution used on Countdown may have changed a bit since then. I had two episodes in a row during my run with more C's than in your proposal: 4 in this episode and 5 in this one . I haven't checked any other letters - the abundance of C's stuck out to me at the time which is why I've...
- Wed Nov 23, 2022 11:45 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Post your audition/filming/transmission dates here
- Replies: 417
- Views: 123153
Re: Post your audition/filming/transmission dates here
On a week when they are filming, 15 - they work Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and film five shows per day. But they don't film every week.Ronan M Higginson wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 11:31 am Anyone know how many shows roughly are filmed per week?
- Wed Oct 26, 2022 3:30 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1775617
- Fri Oct 21, 2022 1:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 20 October 2022 (Series 86, Heat 89)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 656
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 20 October 2022 (Series 86, Heat 89)
For bonus points, could someone find the source of the picture in this article about the game in which ten letters are displayed?
- Thu Oct 20, 2022 12:49 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: The Countdown Android App is now out!
- Replies: 156
- Views: 33560
- Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:45 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 711637
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
They're ventilators, useful when the thing being transported by the van requires a source of fresh air.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:39 pmFollowing.Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:30 pm What are those black spinny things you sometimes get on vans for?
- Wed Oct 05, 2022 10:28 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: So, who will be the founding member of Countdown's "1000 CLUB"?
- Replies: 129
- Views: 91700
Re: So, who will be the founding member of Countdown's "1000 CLUB"?
For the uninitiated, what is the spoilers etiquette? Well, my guess would be that it's to post spoilers in the section of the forum specifically dedicated to spoilers, and not in the section of the forum whose description says it's for content which is not "spoilerific". specifically avoi...
- Wed Oct 05, 2022 3:54 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 5 October 2022 (Series 86, Heat 78)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1243
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 5 October 2022 (Series 86, Heat 78)
Four lost rounds, and a further two where neither player scored.Jojo Apollo wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 3:49 pm On the number of rounds unbeaten record, how many rounds did Craig Beevers lose on his Octorun?
- Mon Oct 03, 2022 3:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 3 October 2022 (Series 86, Heat 76)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 433
Re: Spoilers for Monday 3 October 2022 (Series 86, Heat 76)
Hah, nice. And I've even posted in the other thread too. I must admit that I didn't look too closely at what game it was for when I posted in it, so the fact that a thread for Monday's game was posted on Sunday took me by surprise somewhat!
- Mon Oct 03, 2022 1:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 3 October 2022 (Series 86, Heat 76)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 433
Spoilers for Monday 3 October 2022 (Series 86, Heat 76)
R9: (100 - 3) x (50/5 - 1) + 5 = 878