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Gavin Chipper

Your dream. You pay.

Gavin Chipper

The question of who is better has definitely been addressed before. I'll have a look later if someone doesn't beat me to it.

Gavin Chipper

Rachel was holding a competition. At the end of a really long and incredibly narrow runway stood her shed, which for no particular reason was raised up about a foot on stilts and was coloured turquoise. Whoever amongst us bowled their ball (sorry Jono, I mean tenpin bowling not cricket stuff) down ...

Gavin Chipper

Who are you stalking?

Gavin Chipper

Don't watch it Jim!

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Matt Morrison wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:39 am
Happy to take a look at this Jack but I probably don't have a companion non-nerdy friend to accompany me.

Same really.

Maybe I could think of someone actually. I'll see.

Gavin Chipper

It's fine to have the option of it coming out mirror image, but by default it should be normal. Having the wrong default makes for a joke item.

Gavin Chipper

There is definitely lots of interesting discussion to be had here. * immediately kills thread dead * And it's back! Definitely shouldn't count. This is Countdowners you've met outside Countdown stuff, I think you'd consider family and friends to be family and friends before you categorise them as C...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 10, 2021 8:28 pm
When you take a selfie it is a mirror image.
Well on my camera at least

That's one for joke items. Cameras that do that.

Gavin Chipper

Cos otherwise the answer might be anything.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 09, 2021 1:08 pm

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 13, 2021 7:09 pm
The biggest death of the lot - Murray Walker has died!
Maybe not

Murray Walker > Prince Philip.

Gavin Chipper

I did it that way too.

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Ian Volante wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 08, 2021 2:01 pm

Mark James wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 08, 2021 12:24 pm
The Blink 182 album title "Take off your Pants and Jacket" is a pun.
Can you explain it to me then?

It doesn't sound like it wants to be explained if it's what I think.

Gavin Chipper

I'm not even going to comment on the last number round (oh wait, I just did). 645 was a piece of piss there. 71-44 is a 9-rounder score, not a 15-rounder. Very poor. Really going for it today. I'm sure back on gevincountdown you wouldn't have tolerated this behaviour! :o :o :o The champion played b...

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I got THALWEG in round 11. Was that a beater? goliath not valid.

Gavin Chipper

I'm not even going to comment on the last number round (oh wait, I just did). 645 was a piece of piss there. 71-44 is a 9-rounder score, not a 15-rounder. Very poor. Really going for it today. I'm sure back on gevincountdown you wouldn't have tolerated this behaviour! :o :o :o The champion played b...

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David Williams wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:21 pm
I'd have been amazed if UNFRIEND wasn't in. Turns out it was one of Oxford's words of the year as far back as 2009.

Can I have BEWARED?

Generally speaking, you know to go to Lexico don't you? I know the free version isn't identical to the one they use, but it gives you most of the information.

Gavin Chipper

No bewared.

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Tom S wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 05, 2021 5:45 pm
Solid stuff from C2. Could octo if she keeps the form up.

I agree.

Also DICENTRA was a DC beater in round 11 or something.

Gavin Chipper

Also, can you give an example of a point someone might make that you feel is lazily dismissed using the term "white privilege". Do you think white privilege isn't a thing? Not off the top of my head, but I could let you know next time it comes up. It depends on what you mean by a "thing". I just do...

Gavin Chipper

They made the report to investigate whether the prima facie evidence had a more solid grounding, yes. And there is systemic racism, but more so in some areas than others.

Gavin Chipper

Anyway, on that, while you obviously shouldn't take the report's findings as the final objective truth, I think it's good that it is fighting against the worrying trend that for emotive subjects, statistical and scientific evidence isn't needed when we have a load of anecdotes. It's not right to con...

Gavin Chipper

Yesterday's losing player was back again today to beat the player who beat him on a tie-break conundrum. Five-year rule or ten-year rule - neither apply here!

(Unfortunately the wiki pages for these players don't include their pictures, so I can't show you what I'm talking about.)

Gavin Chipper

The process for generating the rankings goes as follows: - Simulate X Million Rounds - Take the most common max as number 1 in the list - Remove all of the rounds where word 1 appears as a max - Take the most common max in those rounds as word 2 in the list - Remove all rounds where word 2 appears ...

Gavin Chipper

Intresting. I've always just found potholes a bit odd. It seems to me that road tarmac is the exception rather than the rule for how stuff generally wears out. Most things in the world would wear away more evenly rather than just develop random holes in it

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Ben Wilson wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 31, 2021 8:25 pm
Wincey Willis.

I had to look her up, but reading this, she seems like quite a good call.

Gavin Chipper

I'm not reading the whole 258-page thing, but the findings of the race report are interesting.

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Why isn't it possible to make roads out of stuff that doesn't develop potholes?

Gavin Chipper

RECHAIN as a valid alternative to chainer. I thought Luke had a great run (obviously), but he seemed a lot better in the earlier part of it. He seemed pretty much infallible early on, but he seemed to slip a bit in later games. Well it was mainly games 6 and 8. If I've added up correctly he lost 57 ...

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That reminds me - is it still the case that some people are exempt from wearing masks but this is supposed to just be taken by their word? I imagine that is causing problems.

Gavin Chipper

It will take a while before anything like this could kick in - working out how it's going to happen and making these "passports" etc. The chances are you'll be vaccinated by then. You might not even be young.

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a player is more likely to be a returnee than a newbie What? Unless I've got the wrong end of the stick, that surely can't be true. Yeah, sorry, I probably wasn't clear enough. People with the same name, that is. So at the moment the "rule" on the wiki is that if in doubt, "Luke Boynton" is more li...

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Jon Corby wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 16, 2021 10:31 am
Haven't had a good 1/20th of a pint for a while.

Second TTT.

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These are nervous times. Stay at home has been rescinded, so can the English public be trusted to be sensible. Can they bollocks People could go out for exercise anyway, which means they could go out. Not much has really changed. More people can meet up, but still only outside where the risk is fai...

Gavin Chipper

Same again tomorrow to break octochamp record Is he on for that? I imagine he must be, otherwise you'd not have said it, I guess. I haven't watched for a few years but for some reason happened to see Luke's first show and thought: fucking hell, is this the general standard now (because the guy he b...

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It's a bad pun coined by Gevin based on the Verstappens. But I guess that works as well. https://wiki.apterous.org/Jos This was the original post by the way. And from the wiki article: A Jos game ... is a game that did not beat Dictionary Corner , but equally could have been beaten. Should that say...

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L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 27, 2021 1:39 am

Phil H wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 26, 2021 7:36 pm
A couple of times Dan probably didn't help him points-wise by picking a final consonant...
Totally this.
It was one of those - screaming "PICK A VOWEL!" at the telly - sorts of games...

Pretty much every game that isn't two Apterites!

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 26, 2021 4:19 pm

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 26, 2021 9:06 am
And when you look at how close the 2017 election actually was, they could have won that election
Really? They did no better than Gordon Brown.

They would likely have had to form some sort of coalition, but without going through numbers now, I don't think it would have taken much of a swing.

Gavin Chipper

The old cartoons of Mohmammed thing has made the news again.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:12 am

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 26, 2021 10:07 am
Dunk biscuits in orange juice. You don't have to use a crappy hot brown drink.
Nooooo
Whats wrong witb milk or a milk substitute?

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Orange juice is just better!

Gavin Chipper

Dunk biscuits in orange juice. You don't have to use a crappy hot brown drink.

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I also think there was more than a whiff of Missing white woman syndrome in this case. And at the risk of stirring the hornet's nest, I want to come back to this in the light of this on the BBC news website. Not accusing anyone on here obviously, but I think some people are guilty of letting the me...

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As for Jess, as I said I'm no fan of hers. She definitely seems to be in hot water today judging by the reaction from the twitter accounts I tend to follow. I haven't seen the Marr interview myself yet though so not in position to judge. But yeah, anyone in labour who didn't wholeheartedly support ...

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Feels like forever ago since I ate at an Indian restaurant. Edit. actually it was last March one week before lockdown 1 I went a couple of times in between lockdowns when it was decided that it was a good thing to eat out. I was one of the few people that knew it would lead to a second wave so i st...

Gavin Chipper

If you're in an Indian restaurant, it won't be on the menu, but ask if they can make a peshwari paratha. Life will never be the same. Feels like forever ago since I ate at an Indian restaurant. Edit. actually it was last March one week before lockdown 1 I went a couple of times in between lockdowns...

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For a vegan you're getting a bit too enthusiastic about it.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:30 pm
Just wow.
Elliot Mellor's octorun record is serious in jeopardy of being overtaken by 300 or more.

I don't think he'll be scoring over 1300.

Gavin Chipper

If you're in an Indian restaurant, it won't be on the menu, but ask if they can make a peshwari paratha. Life will never be the same.

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dogeship in R2 https://external-preview.redd.it/5xxxivNmH4ZdkXowDPx0-IXTGiV7TjVDJxfcKmV2xaI.png?auto=webp&s=d40d5a41549928cb12cb251195a1712b804e9172 But what with? https://www.financemagnates.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/DogeCoin-header-min.jpg OK! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDFFns6WkAAhQZe.jpg

Gavin Chipper

AKETONS (and AKETON) is valid on Apterous. No sign on Lexico, so maybe an old word needing to be taken out?

But there is a lesson in there. Always go for the least obscure available option.

Edit - There's already an Apterous ticket to remove it.

Gavin Chipper

There are separate totals for each type presumably specifically so that you can pick and choose what you would count. This is the best way of doing it.

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 23, 2021 8:40 pm

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 23, 2021 8:25 pm
I don't think Luke was beaten by anyone on screen during the show, so it looked like it could be a max, but I've just been to the wiki, and it's not a max game.
A lesser-spotted Jos game.

Nice.

Gavin Chipper

I don't think Luke was beaten by anyone on screen during the show, so it looked like it could be a max, but I've just been to the wiki, and it's not a max game.

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They're very different things though. A cryptic crossword has a lot of answers, and it would take a lot of space to print explanations for all of them. The teatime teaser on Countdown is a bit of inclusive fun aimed at a mainstream audience, and I think it's a little jarring not to get what it was a...

Gavin Chipper

I think it will be a while before he catches up.

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I was just wondering about this.

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It's not just population. I'd be willing to bet that most viewers didn't understand the teaser. And that's not a good thing. It's not a north/south competition. Maybe it was insensitive of me to call it "obscure", but some explanation should have been given. And this goes for loads of TTTs. I agree...

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I'd be willing to bet that most viewers didn't understand the teaser. You cannot possibly know that. You can only extrapolate from yourself and the very limited selection of people you know. I would see it as dumbing down with a vengeance to explain that Miss Fylde was a beauty queen from Lancashir...

Gavin Chipper

It's not just population. I'd be willing to bet that most viewers didn't understand the teaser. And that's not a good thing. It's not a north/south competition. Maybe it was insensitive of me to call it "obscure", but some explanation should have been given. And this goes for loads of TTTs.

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Ben Wilson wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 22, 2021 8:27 pm

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 22, 2021 8:09 pm
DIMFLIES - The Lancastrian beauty queen was put in the wrong place. --> MISFILED.

Anyone?
Miss Fylde.

Fylde being a place in Lancashire. Thanks.

Typical of Nick not to explain these obscure references.

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