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- Sat May 04, 2024 12:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: c4c errors
- Replies: 21
- Views: 463
- Sat May 04, 2024 7:23 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: c4c errors
- Replies: 21
- Views: 463
Re: c4c errors
Maybe it's just Rachel Riley's lawyers.
- Sat May 04, 2024 7:19 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: c4c errors
- Replies: 21
- Views: 463
Re: c4c errors
659 users though.
- Fri May 03, 2024 12:48 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 2nd May 2024 (Series 89, Heat 88)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 171
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 2nd May 2024 (Series 89, Heat 88)
I wondered that but also wondered about record numbers of octochamps.
- Fri May 03, 2024 10:44 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 2nd May 2024 (Series 89, Heat 88)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 171
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 2nd May 2024 (Series 89, Heat 88)
101 to tie Isabelle Heward in 7th, 111 to tie Jack Harvey in 6th. So 112 and she'd be pretty safe!
- Fri May 03, 2024 10:13 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 2nd May 2024 (Series 89, Heat 88)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 171
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 2nd May 2024 (Series 89, Heat 88)
He made some cryptic comment at the end of the show so it might have been in reference to that.Martin Hurst wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 9:54 am I wonder if Colin is going to piss on her chips if she Octos with a low score on Friday by telling her she's almost got no chance of making the finals?
- Thu May 02, 2024 8:25 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 300
- Views: 48186
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
It's cringe humour. Not just something you look back on and cringe at.
- Thu May 02, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 300
- Views: 48186
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Surely Fawlty Towers is very cringey.
- Thu May 02, 2024 10:21 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 1st May 2024 (Series 89, Heat 87)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 161
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 1st May 2024 (Series 89, Heat 87)
Charlotte now needs 188 from 2 winning games to match Isabelle Heward, 189 to beat. Could be tough.
- Thu May 02, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: c4c errors
- Replies: 21
- Views: 463
Re: c4c errors
We're down to 240 users online. The c4c hype is dying down.
- Wed May 01, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: c4c errors
- Replies: 21
- Views: 463
Re: c4c errors
369 users online. There seems to be a downward trend from when it seemed to always be in the 500s.
- Wed May 01, 2024 10:47 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 66
- Views: 9731
Re: The Dead of 2024
30 years ago today since Ayrton Senna died.
- Wed May 01, 2024 8:39 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 30th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 86)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 156
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 30th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 86)
Despite the 100+ score in one of her games, Charlotte is looking at 8th seed even if she wins the full 8 (or 7.5 + tie-break) so she needs some bigger scores to be a realistic QFist.
According to the wiki, it's 398 from 5, which would average to 636.8. Isabelle Heward is currently 7th on 686.
According to the wiki, it's 398 from 5, which would average to 636.8. Isabelle Heward is currently 7th on 686.
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:44 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 300
- Views: 48186
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
I rewatched Fawlty Towers relatively recently and was disappointed with it. For a programme that's held up as an all-time great, it hasn't really stood the test of time very well. Blackadder, on the other hand, isn't really that much younger than Fawlty Towers, but is in another league.
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 66
- Views: 9731
Re: The Dead of 2024
Daniel Dennett was on my list. Despite his age I was shocked by this. The night prior I had watched a fairly recent debate he had taken part in where he had specifically mentioned a couple of times that he was in good health. Sad times :cry: It was quite a big deal for me too. I've always thought o...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: c4c errors
- Replies: 21
- Views: 463
Re: c4c errors
Yes it's working but there are still 551 users online.
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 8:56 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Temporarily Changes Music
- Replies: 6
- Views: 299
Re: Countdown Temporarily Changes Music
Sounds like a late April Fools' joke.
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:39 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1752402
Re: Politics in General
Looks good.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:12 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: No More FA Cup Replays
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1144
Re: No More FA Cup Replays
How does the tournament proceed with multiple replays for a single game going on? "Sorry guys. Next round has been postponed by a month while we wait for several teams to play their fourth replays. Don't worry though - we've scheduled the final for the same date as next year's final to save on ...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:11 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: c4c errors
- Replies: 21
- Views: 463
Re: c4c errors
It's been generally really slow and clunky as well.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:47 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 300
- Views: 48186
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Taylor Swift is okay. Her music is good, but not great, and as a performer she's a solid 7.5/10 but nowhere near the generational talent her fans make her out to be and not even remotely the 'death of music' some of her haters seem to think she is. The silent majority agree with you on this, I'm pr...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:26 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: No More FA Cup Replays
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1144
Re: No More FA Cup Replays
Anyway I think this conversation has gone very differently here than most other places. Quite a lot of football fans are up in arms about it from what I've seen.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:41 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 66
- Views: 9731
Re: The Dead of 2024
Daniel Dennett was on my list.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 347450
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
Whose bike would you be using?Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:24 pmThat's impressive , I doubt if I could cycle that quicker
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 347450
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
Reading : 13 (1). Thomas Carey - 21:41 (59.49%) (667 points) 166 (2). Rachael Montgomery - 33:00 (44.90%) (333 points) Bracknell : 70 (1). Mike Springett - 26:13 (49.33%) (500 points) The table: 1. Thomas Carey - 2112 2. Dan Byrom - 1667 3. David Hilton - 1223 4. Stephen Read - 1167 5. Fiona Titcom...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:16 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1752402
Re: Politics in General
Is "brownface" or "blackface" intrinsically racist, or does intent and context matter? Fast forward a few years, and David Harewood says go for it ! Blackface in Shakespeare was much like men playing women's parts as women wernt allowed to act in those days and presumably black ...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1752402
Re: Politics in General
Fast forward a few years, and David Harewood says go for it!Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2019 12:27 pm Is "brownface" or "blackface" intrinsically racist, or does intent and context matter?
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 25021
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
Wins are still more important than points scored though - tight games shouldn't be punished The final table would presumably be done by wins but the draw by points. I think it would be an improvement. I disagree. This could lead to someone getting decent scores while losing still getting stuck play...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:37 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 25021
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
Perhaps tournaments that have fewer than 6 rounds should use points scored to rank players rather than wins - for all rounds, so when a draw is done, you're matched by points. Wins are still more important than points scored though - tight games shouldn't be punished The final table would presumabl...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:09 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 25021
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
I think you'd still want unbeaten players to play each other but other than that I think it's generally a good idea. Losing your first two games in decent close games can mean you just play others who have done the same so you don't get the "advantage" from losing, whereas other players wh...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:14 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 347450
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
I got 3:02:09 by the way.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:04 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024
- Replies: 53
- Views: 23458
Re: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024
Surely 5 and 4.Adam S Latchford wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:39 am6 consonants and 3 vowels immediately is the only acceptable iteration of all the letters at once
CV9 is punishable by permaban
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:53 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024
- Replies: 53
- Views: 23458
Re: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024
yep I was definitely going too fast on the letter picking Not your fault. My suggestion is lifetime bans for the people who do an all in one letters pick when it's their turn. :) The worst is when they request multiple things in one go that they expect you to remember. x consonants and y vowels is ...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:30 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 19th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 79)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 872
Re: Spoilers for Friday 19th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 79)
That 498 was actually solvable with a 5×100-2. 10/2×100-3×3+7=498.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:28 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 347450
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
Thanks!
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:49 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 347450
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
Thanks and good luck to your daughter!
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:45 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 347450
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
By the way I'm doing the London Marathon on Sunday and if anyone wants to follow me on the app, my number is 39172.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:47 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 300
- Views: 48186
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
I was talking to a friend about penalty shoot-outs the other day (he doesn't like them) and we were talking about alternatives. I've heard people suggesting reducing the number of players on the pitch before. I also suggested (probably not originally) getting rid of goalkeepers during extra time. Yo...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: No More FA Cup Replays
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1144
Re: No More FA Cup Replays
Could the same not happen anyway in the non-replay? How do they decide where to have the first match? Couldn't that be at Compton Pauncefoot Rovers' home stadium? Also the "You are the ref" thread would have a field day at any suggestion that the format might financially encourage a team t...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:47 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: No More FA Cup Replays
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1144
Re: No More FA Cup Replays
As someone who doesn't really follow football, Graeme's post seems pretty logical and basically what I was thinking, although I understand some football fans are unhappy about it.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:55 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 16th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 76)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1750
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 16th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 76)
No unsated on Apterous.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:17 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdowners in the news
- Replies: 243
- Views: 138676
Re: Countdowners in the news
Rachel Riley has made the news for her Tweet about the Sydney stabbings. It is also unfortunate for her that people are putting her in the same bracket as Julia Hartley-Brewer . Because whatever one thinks of Rachel Riley, this isn't something you'd wish on anyone. They've tempered that slightly, I...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:59 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdowners in the news
- Replies: 243
- Views: 138676
Re: Countdowners in the news
Rachel Riley has made the news for her Tweet about the Sydney stabbings. It is also unfortunate for her that people are putting her in the same bracket as Julia Hartley-Brewer. Because whatever one thinks of Rachel Riley, this isn't something you'd wish on anyone.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 25021
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
Top work.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:52 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 25021
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
Can all CO-event c4c threads have the title of the top post edited to include the date please?
Edit - Reading and Sheffield are currently the only ones that do this. So not London, Birmingham, Durham and Oxford (though Oxford has the month).
Edit - Reading and Sheffield are currently the only ones that do this. So not London, Birmingham, Durham and Oxford (though Oxford has the month).
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:25 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 12th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 74)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2203
Re: Spoilers for Friday 12th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 74)
Still on for 23 octochamps.
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 1:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 12th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 74)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2203
Spoilers for Friday 12th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 74)
(8+7)×3×8+2=362 in the first numbers.
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 12:44 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 11th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 73)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1568
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 11th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 73)
Great game from the challenger. Shame he messed up the earlier numberses because I think he's probably quite good at them.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 8th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 70)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1395
Re: Spoilers for Monday 8th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 70)
Neither are on Apterous.Howie Myers wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:33 am r1 alt: PREBUYS (perhaps...)
r2 alt: HULKIER (hopefully...)
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:04 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1752402
Re: Politics in General
Labour winning but with Starmer losing his seat might work for me.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 8:55 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1752402
Re: Politics in General
Ideally, I wouldn't want to have any votes/seats that are specifically for a party, but that kind of mechanism isn't necessary terrible depending on how it's done. As I understand it, in Germany, they vote for a candidate and a party. Constituency candidates are still elected using First Past the Po...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 8:35 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 66
- Views: 9731
Re: The Dead of 2024
Peter Higgs, of Higgs boson fame.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:07 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1752402
Re: Politics in General
National level proportionality is hard to achieve without doing away with candidate-based voting. Democracy shouldn't just be about party brands. A compromise would be to have larger constituencies with five or six MPs to elect using a system like STV, which achieves PR without requiring candidates ...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:57 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 300
- Views: 48186
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Better in what way though? If it's just about sound quality you might as well just listen to a recording and not see anyone live.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:14 am Good tribute bands are better to see live than the original band if that band was from the 70s or early 80s
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:08 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 300
- Views: 48186
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Relating to my politics thread post I think if a leader of the elected government leaves or dies in office it should be in the constitution that a general election should be triggered within 6 months I disagree with that. We elect individual members of parliament, and the government simply forms fr...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:04 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1752402
Re: Politics in General
We don't directly elect leaders though so I think it's less of a big deal than some people make out. It should be more about policies than personalities anyway.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:12 am Amirite that all the 4 leaders of the home nations and also the Republic of Ireland were not elected by the people?
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 7:42 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1752402
Re: Politics in General
In the other news, Conservative Alan Duncan has gone rogue in an LBC interview , calling out members of the Conservative party for supporting Israel, and is now under investigation from the party . Nice way to whitewash antisemitism here. He suggested British Lords, one of whom is Jewish, were doin...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:17 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 5th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 69)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1110
Re: Spoilers for Friday 5th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 69)
I had one of my better games today. I didn't score in the first round but won 123-71. Quite pleased with that.
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 12:09 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1752402
Re: Politics in General
https://youtu.be/dwz75IStWGE?si=mqCRjROogyKC-3T1 How is any of this relevant to the fact that three Ivy League deans are too stupid to say that a call for genocide is hate speech? The clip agrees with you. They acknowledge the deans' response was poor. But there's more to the clip that might intere...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 8:04 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 4th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 68)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1557
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 4th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 68)
No reseason (on Apterous - usual disclaimer).