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Do we get a discount?

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Norman Tebbit.

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285 online and I got that error message earlier.

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Double update due then.

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Has there ever been a less-scrambled 9 than SPCEIATSE? 5 letters in the correct position and the other 4 right next to where they needed to be I think TORNADOES from October 2021: https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_7627 Was surprised neither contestant spotted this at the time Presumably the one who...

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Insane stuff. I noticed that too.

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Anyway I was just thinking about Labour and who they expect to vote for them next election. Alienating the left to pander to the right who aren't voting for them anyway. Hopefully an alternative comes up. Speaking of an alternative, Zarah Sultana has announced she's quitting Labour to form a new pa...

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Liverpool forward, Diogo Jota, and his brother Andre Silva, dead after a car crash in Spain. Jota was 28. Absolutely terrible. RIP https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/c5y7p6pw5gyt This is unbelievably sad when anyone dies at a young age but I remember Laurie Cunningham dying in a similar way....

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Jul 03, 2025 4:08 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Jul 03, 2025 2:30 pm OK, let's have ceasefire. For now.
Are you talking about between you two or generally?

Both hopefully.

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F1. More cheesy than a Quatro Formagio pizza. Considering it's a sport I have little time for these days, (sorry Phillip A) it was fun and entirely believable. F1 petrol heads will love the name dropping and the blink and you will miss it cameos from drivers and other related F1 figures. Loved Brad...

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OK, let's have ceasefire. For now.

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I don't expect people to watch these videos to be able to respond to me. It's more - this is what I'm saying but also here's someone else articulating it quite well (possibly better than me). You did mention Owen Jones btw. And I'm definitely not going to listen to another one of your insane youtube...

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I came here for other reasons (see below) but since that's still the last post - using the fact that I linked to an Owen Jones video once ages ago as some sort of argument for anything, and then dismissing the other video without watching it on the same basis just shows how full of shit you are. You...

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Wed Jul 02, 2025 12:40 pm
Steve Hyde wrote: ↑Wed Jul 02, 2025 8:26 am Has there ever been a less-scrambled 9 than SPCEIATSE? 5 letters in the correct position and the other 4 right next to where they needed to be
Apparently on Apterous, some guy once missed a nine spelled out in the selection.

Was it you?

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It might depend on the measure. TINCLEMEN involved just moving the T to the end but all 9 were out of place.

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I did 46×19=874 in whatever round that was.

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OK, thanks. It definitely needed Colin or Susie to explain that one. Pretty niche.

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First TTT: DEEPEXIT Hurry to get things moving in the kitchen. EXPEDITE

What's the relevance of the kitchen?

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Up now though.

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Recently they've been up at 3:00pm quite reliably. Not today though...

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Someone mentioned the similarity of the contestants on another thread. It's not that they look like twins, but at times it was like watching one of those old movies where they get the same actor to play two different parts. Great pair of contestants and a great final! Good choice of conundrum too -...

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BORONIAS was the word DC couldn't bring themselves to spell. There's been discussion before on conundrums like OURSELVES. Not simply sticking an S on the end of course but I seem to remember some controversy. I'll have a look later. Guidelines as of May last year said - "The conundrum will nev...

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We get twins in the final tomorrow (I think they look alike anyway). I thought Tim James got perhaps a bit lucky to still be in it after a slow start. Everyone missed NEGATES. Then TJ was lucky not to be punished by COVERAGES and he only had 6 when TB had sundried disallowed - TB likely had a safe 7...

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20 years!

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BORONIAS was the word DC couldn't bring themselves to spell.

There's been discussion before on conundrums like OURSELVES. Not simply sticking an S on the end of course but I seem to remember some controversy. I'll have a look later.

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Your description does not apply to Owen Jones or Novara Media.

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my main issue with Gavin's post is that he paints Israel's enemies as peace loving little kittens. This is entirely in your mind and is your problem. Back in Israel, I stopped arguing about politics with right wingers, I realised it's just like discussing a countdown numbers game with a person who ...

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This "axis of evil" seems a bit simplistic. In any case, attacking a NATO country would be a massive risk for them. I'm not sure what you think they'd stand to gain from it. Edit - It's also just because Donald Trump said so. So it's just for political reasons, trying to stay on the right ...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Tue Jun 24, 2025 9:12 pm
My brother declared TELEPORTING in Round 12, even though it's 11 letters long and has 2 phantom letters.

Would have been even better if it was a numbers round.

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Yeah Amy statistically performed the best out of the 4 semi-finalists so far, with 9 maxes and 80.8% of the max. Tim James also equals her max-wise, but has the lowest percentage of the max based on his QF with 64.1%. Tim James has the 2nd highest percentage of the max, but has the lowest max count...

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Fair enough, though I prefer this song of theirs. On a separate note, what's with NATO countries spending 5% on defence ? Is this just scaremongering, or is it really necessary? If you get any sort of full-scale world war, the damage is likely done, and the nukes will probably come out! And if not, ...

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So it's just insane. Insane YouTube clips as well. OK.

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Amy was a machine until that last numbers and had she got it, it would certainly have been performance of the round. Possibly was anyway (but loses points for saying "just"). She beat me.

ASPHODEL was the word DC couldn't bring themselves to spell.

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Novara Media have done quite a good video on the situation. Iran made a deal with Obama and were not enriching uranium, but then Trump (seemingly arbitrarily) tore it up. Iran started enriching again, but this could have been a negotiating tactic in any case, and negotiations were ongoing. But then ...

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I don't see why it's insane tbh.

Edit - Plus the source I gave (whether you like the source or not) still trumps an aggressive assertion from you with no reasoning.

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That buzz was very borderline in the 30 seconds. From the music, you'd think the time was over. The bong had started but was still in its fading out phase and the lights were fully lit. It's difficult to time exactly, but the conundrum starts just after it turns to 32:19 on the C4 catch-up and the b...

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I'm not sure if things are different in the US, but I think the average Brit never had any particular "dog in the fight" in the Middle East before 7/10. I think if you asked someone about Israel/Palestine, they'd likely say it was two random Middle Eastern countries fighting each other ove...

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I don't support the Iranian regime, any more than I support Hamas, or the 7/10 attacks on Israel. But I think what we're getting here is potentially another Iraq or Afghanistan situation. I know that Iran funds the organisations you mention, but I don't think it necessarily controls them, any more t...

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When the most warmongering country in the Middle East decides to bomb another country, what do you do? If you're the US, join in! We live in a age where the balance of world power is controlled by 3 senile old men. That said, on what planet do you think it's a good idea to give Iran a nuclear bomb ...

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When the most warmongering country in the Middle East decides to bomb another country, what do you do? If you're the US, join in!

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So Philip's question is what happens when you've accepted (or not checked) diopter and someone later notices? Really at co-events there's no excuse. Lincoln has a host who should be checking declarations (and often diligently recording them on the scoresheet) and Bristol now mostly displays the wor...

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For those that think it's fine, when declaring your word second, to have written down 10-15 plausible words and then just point to the one your opponent says... would you prefer if apterous was coded in this way, instead of the perfectly logical way it's coded now? It would be stone cold mental to ...

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Sorry if we’ve had this before but: Both players score 6 points for FEISTY and is accepted without asking for spelling. However, after the game has finished someone takes both players’ notepads and notices than one has misspelled it ‘fiesty’, which would otherwise have swung the outcome of the matc...

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There was a lot of discussion about this, but you can take this sort of thing further. I sometimes write down things like 'MAUVE(S)?' for dodgy plurals Let's say the selection is RDINGIAOS. C2 wonders about RIDING, RADING and RODING and also wonders about putting an S on the end. But instead of wri...

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So you should be.

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I was not in my teenage years or early adulthood in the 80s and I'm voting 80s.

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I think this was a better game than the first one.

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Yeah the worst you can get would be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (which clears 1000 with a max of 1080) rather than 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3 (max of 81). Could be worth petitioning the production team...

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Sounds a bit of an arbitrary one!

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This organisation is presumably trying to get people to join their cause, so "making their course free" sounds like they're trying to make it look like they're doing us a favour when really they're trying to get something from us. Plus there's likely an infinite number of (free) YouTube vi...

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Philip A wrote: ↑Thu Jun 19, 2025 1:56 pm Fairly close until the 9, but Kane cracked a challenging conundrum so he can hold his head high.

Rhys did well, 37 points out of 40 in the numbers. I think his semi- and Grand Final will be a serious challenge for him though.

Wasn't it 27 out of 37? 2 out of 4 maxes.

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I saw that too. Also while I'm here there was a LNAFP with (6×(9-2)-1)×10=410.

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THINBASE It's not pizza you're looking for – it's a drink. ABSINTHE

Yeah, I did think the same as Stewart actually.

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Sorry if we’ve had this before but: Both players score 6 points for FEISTY and is accepted without asking for spelling. However, after the game has finished someone takes both players’ notepads and notices than one has misspelled it ‘fiesty’, which would otherwise have swung the outcome of the matc...

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It's understandable.

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Ian Volante wrote: ↑Tue Jun 17, 2025 11:42 am
Paul Worsley wrote: ↑Tue Jun 17, 2025 9:06 am Kim Woodburn 83 RIP.

"The Queen of Clean"
Two dead ladies.

The two fat ladies were already both dead. Kim's "other half" (Aggie) is still alive.

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He probably only had a 5 and in the last second decision to go for a longer word messed up the length.

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Exciting. I didn't even know this was a thing actually, free or otherwise.

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The 80s is the best decade for music.

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Thanks!

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