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Gavin Chipper

I suppose I'd say that prior to the explosion of superhero films, Norse mythology in particular had essentially zero presence in British culture apart from maybe the fact that there's this guy Thor that has a hammer. And you'd get random quiz questions about it. And you'd think "Why this subjec...

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The "general knowledgeness" of almost all mythology stuff (e.g. Greek, Norse) is purely sustained by quizzes and essentially has no existence outside them. Seems an actually good candidate for the thread - depending on what you mean by almost all. Certainly there's lots of obscure stuff o...

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The "general knowledgeness" of almost all mythology stuff (e.g. Greek, Norse) is purely sustained by quizzes and essentially has no existence outside them.

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And school teachers to some extent.

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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.

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Reddit but like a proper forum format (like e.g. this forum) rather than the shitshow that it is with crappy indented posts and threads that don't bump to the top when you post in them. Imagine how good it would have been if they'd made Reddit properly.

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Philip A wrote: ↑Tue Oct 14, 2025 9:21 am Handheld gaming consoles need to be a thing again.

(Nintendo Switch 2 in case the link breaks)

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Oh shit.

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Outside the time but the 3rd numbers - ((100-2)×(6+8)+4-50)/2 = 663.

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The one that isn't H from Steps...

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I was on 1389 points this time last year as well.

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OK so Shanganagh parkrun : 18 (1). Thomas Carey - 21:40 (59.54%) (500 points) And the table: 1. Thomas Carey - 5965 2. Samuel Louis - 3916 3. Mike Springett - 3167 4. Dan Byrom - 2635 5. Fiona Titcombe - 2503 6. Bradley Horrocks - 1973 7. Gevin Chapwell - 1389 8. Oliver Garner - 1250 9. Stephen Read...

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Today's challenger was Guy Barry. Same G/guy?

Also, well done to Jason on becoming the provisional number 1 seed. There would have been a tie for points without the conundrum but I'm not sure on the tie-break, since the wiki is playing up (as usual).

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The current guidelines don't include any examples, but I don't think minerals were included. The last time granites was allowable on apterous was 2013. OPLALINE has a definition that is not milk-glass 1.1. translucent glass of a colour other than white There's nothing to say that these different co...

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Good point.

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I remember this being a debate in about 2002 when we had the NODE (I'm not exaggerating). I saw OPALINES today and was hoping when I came here that you would have already posted. If opaline is just another term for milk-glass then surely it should take on all the same baggage, including being a mass...

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If you shortened "bicycle" to "bic" you'd be sectioned, so why do people shorten "microphone" to mic? "Mike" makes so much more sense. https://www.audiolinks.com/blog/mike-vs-mic/ As I suspected, mike is the preferred grammatically, particularly when used as ...

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Probably the only time when someone says "it's the song from that film" when they've got causality the right way round.

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DC got HUMERAL in round 7, and Susie said that it means relating to the humerus, which is another name for the funny bone. But it isn't. The funny bone isn't a bone. It's the ulnar nerve on your elbow that feels "funny" when you hit it. Well, according to Wikipedia: This name is thought to...

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Heathers. I've seen probably most of it before but I don't think I've actually ever sat down and watched it all. I think it's quite good and has some good humour. To make a random 80s teen movie comparison, it's much better than The Breakfast Club.

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Did anyone parkrun at Dublin? It seems from Strava that Carey did Shanganagh. Any others?

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Yes, those are particularly grievious.

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There might be some interest in this. How do you buy tickets?

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I watched Some Like it Hot the other day. I thought it was decent enough, but the middle section was a bit too long. It's probably not really my sort of film but I mostly enjoyed it.

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Philip A wrote: ↑Fri Oct 03, 2025 11:03 am Good innings, but Dame Patricia Routledge has kicked the bouquet at 96.

How long have you had this lined up?

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Mark Heap just played the Mark Heap character in Friday Night Dinner. It's what he does in everything.

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Callum Todd wrote: ↑Wed Oct 01, 2025 6:47 pm Arguably we need a new contender for the greatest living scientist

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9qyw2ewl2nt

Sad news but surely an exaggeration.

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This was a horrible game from the champion geezer. After some good games previously he was lucky to get away with this. Hopefully he'll be back on form next time!

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The trouble is some words are simply too old, which is why they’re not in their dictionary. I think we usually describe a surface or competition as uneven or unequal rather than ‘unlevel’. I remember inventing ‘un-sad’ when I was asked to recall synonyms of ‘happy’ in a primary school lesson. Also ...

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Inadvertent spoilers. Usually if I go to the cinema and the classification is a 15 and it says contains scenes of suicide. Why couldn't it say adult themes. Also if I'm watching a limited season and 3 episodes from the end the tv channel announces on the socials that it has been recommissioned for ...

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On a similar note, countries in the world athletics championships not having standardised colour schemes. Some Team GB runners were essentially indistinguishable from USA. I mean, arguably the whole competing for your country thing is stupid anyway, but while this is a thing and countries have these...

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Menzies "Mingis" Campbell. Decent runner in his time.

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Blackpool. Blackpool : 84 (1). Bradley Horrocks - 25:05 (51.43%) (750 points) 206 (2). Stephen Read - 29:19 (46.22%) (500 points) 348 (3). Tasneem Rana - 36:22 (49.13%) (250 points) Congleton : 85 (1). Mike Springett - 24:59 (52.03%) (500 points) And the table: 1. Thomas Carey - 5465 2. Samuel Louis...

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Well, we're all getting at least five years of hard Labour!

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Hi Gavin Letters round 8. Consonant R, Consonant T, vowel E, and another ‘C’ (error 1) and a third, ‘L’ (error 2), and a consonant ‘U’ (error 3) and on the next letter (vowel A) Rachel hesitates as if she has noticed her errors. Also known as round 11! But yeah, an "interesting" episode.

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I'm definitely going to watch this back and I'm looking forward to it. So if anything she's raised the game beyond the grinding of gears.

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Actually I didn't notice. Do you remember which round?

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They're back. Panic over!

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Sep 23, 2025 11:49 am Cricketman Dickie Bird.

Not to be confused with Dixie Baird.

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Cricketman Dickie Bird.

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It's been a very long and successful career for her. I thought the women's 400m was quite a highlight with both Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Marileidy Paulino both going under 48 seconds. It's a shame that Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has been wasting her career with the Mickey Mouse version of the ev...

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Welcome to A as well - forgot to say.

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Welcome btw. Most socially awkward has a lot of competition in the Countdown world.

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Occasionally I'll even get ones Rachel misses. Why isn't she fed those ones? I'm not young or a maths wiz and I'm definitely not autistic. Not even close.

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You are having a Ricky.

(Ricky Hatton; hat 'n' scarf; laugh.)

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Legendary running coach Jack Daniels.

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Fred Mumford wrote: ↑Sat Sep 13, 2025 9:01 am I wonder what her max rate is?

Sometimes people use 220 minus their age, but it's quite a crude measure.

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Just looked him up on the wiki. Article says he was on in 2005, but it was actually 2012.

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I agree it's wrong to ban Russian athletes from individual sports, but a stronger case can be made to ban Russian national teams, as well as Israeli ones. Eurovision is more about the country than the act.

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Ireland saying they'll pull out next year if Israel participate.

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Reading. Woodley : 17 (1). Thomas Carey - 20:34 (62.72%) (667 points) 312 (2). Fiona Titcombe - 34:38 (52.98%) (333 points) Reigate Priory : 189 (1). Mike Springett - 27:26 (47.39%) (500 points) Wycombe Rye : 16 (1). Samuel Louis - 21:04 (61.23%) (500 points) And the table: 1. Thomas Carey - 5465 2....

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2nd numbers - (50×(75+25)-10)/10+9 = 508. I was actually just out of time but during the declarations so might have been able to claim it on the show providing Corby wasn't watching. Weird that the last numbers had the same selection and with a target just 6 lower at 502. I wonder if anyone would ha...

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I thought the "obvious" way to do that 3rd numbers was 75*50/6+6*100/25 = 649. It's essentially a 25 squared method. Yeah that's the way I did it too. Not the biggest numbers faux-pas on today's show though. Colin asked "A number 1 followed by 100 zeros is known by what name?" R...

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I thought the "obvious" way to do that 3rd numbers was 75*50/6+6*100/25 = 649. It's essentially a 25 squared method. The last numbers could also be done an easier way than Rachel's method - (8+4)*3*10+2 = 362. Rachel did 45*8+2, getting the 45 a rather clunky way. By the way, while I'm her...

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Rick Davies from Supertramp.

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It's a lot. But I'm not sure how many episodes each series has. You often get a few shows and then it disappears for a bit and then randomly, comes back again. Also episodes that are shown close together as part of the "same series" are sometimes clearly filmed quite a long way apart. So w...

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For those that haven't seen, Charlie has made a ticket on Apterous making the following announcement: Apologies for the recent unreliability (including the game being down completely for the last few days). The site has been under some kind of denial-of-service attack for the last month with every p...

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Giorgio Armani

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I do wanna know what you think might be the best way to talk to people who are behind, been hosting tournaments and I need to get out of that "big fanatic that likes talking about skill" facade. It's difficult to provide a list of instructions but it's just about getting the balance right...

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Colin I think often blunders when it comes to speaking to contestants who are behind. Often comes across as a bit patronising and I think generally isn't good at getting it right when discussing the scores / competition.

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