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Gavin Chipper

It's the fact that he's chosen this specific thing for the "three-line whip". Showing his true colours. And they seem more blue than red.

Gavin Chipper

Is it a Hallowe'en special?

Gavin Chipper

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 8:46 pm Who should be leader of the opposition?
Cleverly or Tugenhat ?
Surely not Suella !!

Well Cleverly is my MP, so that would be interesting for me.

In other news, Starmer has gone on a suspension rampage over the two-child benefit cap.

Gavin Chipper

Strictly Come Dancing should now be shelved. It needs a break like Dancing on Ice did. Then revamp it in 5 years. Bring The Generation Game back instead OK, here's an opinion - the idea of watching C-list celebrities trying to learn how to dance and competing against each other (and one of the judg...

Gavin Chipper

Great stats.

Jon Stitcher wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2024 11:16 pm Only 24 players have won teapots on 2 occasions (teapots weren't awarded prior to series 40 or that number would have been higher)

How many would it have been? I'd say it's the more interesting statistic, since whether they were awarded teapots or not is largely arbitrary.

Gavin Chipper

I can understand that you would have concerns, and I certainly wouldn't use this poll to try and claim that approval voting is unequivocally the best single-winner method. But a couple of things - voting methods aren't self-replicating genes, and I don't see any particular reason why there should be...

Gavin Chipper

It's to do with air currents and stuff. The air temperature is not purely down to the sun's radiation - not directly anyway. Wind can blow from different directions and some places are hotter than others etc.

Gavin Chipper

Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 2:27 am

Disgusted to discover that Elliott Mellor tried to assassinate Donald Trump.

Yeah, I wondered if Elliott had Trump in his list of predicted deaths this year.

Gavin Chipper

Especially when she says "You'll have to leave it with me."

Gavin Chipper

The Netherlands has only just agreed a coalition (after 8 months) and their PM isn’t a party leader. That’s a house built on sand. The simple fact is there is no electoral system which provides all three of the following: - one person, one (non-transferable) vote - one representative, with a direct...

Gavin Chipper

SANGERS as a beater in round 12.

Also the standard method for round 3 was clearly - 100/2*9-1=449.

Gavin Chipper

It was good to see two contestants who both originally played with Richard Whiteley as host.

Gavin Chipper

Philip A wrote: ↑Fri Jul 05, 2024 8:17 am New episodes from 19th July.

Which is tonight!

Gavin Chipper

I'd suggest it's because someone from the show reads this forum, but we all know shows are recorded about 20 years in advance.

Gavin Chipper

That's still one very messy hung Parliament. Of course it would depend entirely on what the Lib Dems want to do, but one cannot imagine them joining another coalition any time soon. A Labour/Green/SNP/PC coalition gives 291, whilst a Conservative/Reform coalition gives 249. The Lib Dems would have ...

Gavin Chipper

What's the bus stop method? Is that a rival to the standard method? It's a method that is taught in schools to work out division sums. Say in this case, the sum is working out how many 8s go into 896, then the 8 would be placed at the side of the "bus stop", with the 896 underneath it. Yo...

Gavin Chipper

What's the bus stop method? Is that a rival to the standard method? It's a method that is taught in schools to work out division sums. Say in this case, the sum is working out how many 8s go into 896, then the 8 would be placed at the side of the "bus stop", with the 896 underneath it. Yo...

Gavin Chipper

What's the bus stop method? Is that a rival to the standard method?

Gavin Chipper

By the way, on the conspiracy theory thing, it's not simply that we should automatically believe the official line on any issue. We have to decide on a case-by-case basis whether something is a realistic alternative explanation. The Wuhan lab leak theory was originally seen by many as a wacko conspi...

Gavin Chipper

Neither Israel nor Palestine are the 'good' guys or the 'bad' guys. They've both done bad things and innocent lives are being lost in both countries. There's far more nuance to it than there is with the Russia-Ukraine war. Sure. The victims are the civilians of both places. Both Hamas and the Israe...

Gavin Chipper

Nobody's ever going to get near Cillian/Tom/Elliott's points records without all the extra words are they? This whole era of Countdown will be looked back on like the few years of swimming where LZRs weren't banned I could see 154 going despite this actually - but I can't actually see anybody getti...

Gavin Chipper

I should have realised the gods were against us as the last 3 Spanish Wimbledon Wins have lead to a football win in the same period (if you count The Nations Cup last year ) This sort of statistical paradoelia gets a lot more discussion than it really deserves. What do you make of this one? 27 fina...

Gavin Chipper

Regardless of whether CSW or something else as a replacement, Oxford Dictionaries is a business that gets free advertising from Countdown without doing anything for it. It's up to them but if they don't provide a consistently good dictionary for Countdown, there's no reason why Countdown should show...

Gavin Chipper

People who don't suffer fools gladly. Translation - intolerant arsehole who is generally oblivious to all of their own failings as a human being. Mostly their failings are personality based rather than ability based. Not necessarily. There are loads of people who quite openly act annoyed and as if ...

Gavin Chipper

Amazing 800 metres Pattison goes second behind Coe in the all time list by finishing 5th It's interesting that the men's 800m has suddenly become a competitive event. Over the last few years, people have rarely gone under 1:43, and getting a 1:42.xx generally means you're a gold medal contender. Wi...

Gavin Chipper

People who don't suffer fools gladly. Translation - intolerant arsehole who is generally oblivious to all of their own failings as a human being.

Gavin Chipper

What if the Farage milkshake incident was stage managed? That's next level.

Gavin Chipper

I'm not a massive football guy as some of you will have noticed, but having watched the Euros final on the BBC last night, I was left thinking - do they not have a star lead commentator to come out for the big occasions these days? That was some pretty ropey stuff.

Gavin Chipper

Unpopular opinions / full-on conspiracy theories

Gavin Chipper

The Ð hasn't appeared for over 700 years.

Gavin Chipper

2 in 3 would make it unequivocal. 3^18 is 387,420,489. Cherry-picking statistics could not account for that.

Gavin Chipper

Well it was episode 8297 that it last appeared on 18th June and the last episode was 8315. That's 18 episodes. How often does it appear normally? If it's 50/50 it seems quite unlikely. 2^18 is 262144 but obviously this doesn't take into account all the different letters it could have happened to and...

Gavin Chipper

The J did disappear. This was way back in 2002 or something.

Gavin Chipper

None of that changes anything. Whatever margin you decide is allowable becomes the limit. You can't get rid of extremely marginal decisions.

What do you mean it makes no difference? You can just say every extra centimetre doesn't make a difference until there's no offside possible.

Gavin Chipper

The last time every human was on Earth was October 31st 2000. Since then there has always been someone in space. That got me wondering about how many dead people are floating in space. Not too many. Most probably got burnt up. According to Wikipedia only three people have actually ever died in spac...

Gavin Chipper

:roll: It's like having a margin of error for the speed limit. It makes no difference. The speed limit just becomes 73.987mph or whatever. 73.988 and it's 3 points on your licence. There's always going to be a cut-off point. AFAIK there is a magin of error with speed limits as yo have to go 10% ove...

Gavin Chipper

It's like having a margin of error for the speed limit. It makes no difference. The speed limit just becomes 73.987mph or whatever. 73.988 and it's 3 points on your licence. There's always going to be a cut-off point.

Gavin Chipper

VAR should be used for more contentious decisions like corners/goalkicks Ball going out of play for throw ins etc Bookings for simulation Even if it means more stoppages And slow the game down even more than it already has been? It's just turning subjective decisions in to even slower subjective de...

Gavin Chipper

It's 8:00 isn't it? Hardly that late.

Gavin Chipper

My single favourite episode of Blackadder comes from series 3 - Nob and Nobility about revolutionary France and the Scarlet Pimpernel. I like the way it all comes together at the end.

Gavin Chipper

For me it's probably 3, 2, 4, 1. I think 3 has the best and most memorable episodes. 1 is still good but hit and miss.

Gavin Chipper

Yeah, a lot of lies were told. I still find it difficult to comprehend how it all works with regards to who the MPs would be for example if your preferred reformed vote was applied to last week what would be the split ? Under STV, you'd have a different ballot where you would rank the candidates, s...

Gavin Chipper

Blackadder Goes Forth is not as good as 2 or 3. That one single scene at the end does not elevate the entire series above the others.

Gavin Chipper

Yeah, a lot of lies were told.

Gavin Chipper

4 million plus people would agree that Farage is a man of the people. I think that if Starmer doesn't have a rethink about giving 16 year old the vote then public opinion may demand another referendum . I would like to know what countries have benefitted from this to convince me With most of mai la...

Gavin Chipper

There are different ways to get PR, but probably the most realistic in the UK is Single Transferable Vote (STV). You'd have larger constituencies (maybe 5 or 6 MPs per constituency) so a mini PR election (rather than nationwide). The most popular candidate would still be elected but not simply the ...

Gavin Chipper

There are different ways to get PR, but probably the most realistic in the UK is Single Transferable Vote (STV). You'd have larger constituencies (maybe 5 or 6 MPs per constituency) so a mini PR election (rather than nationwide). The most popular candidate would still be elected but not simply the t...

Gavin Chipper

Is Duo Lingo actually a good way to learn a language? I've never used it, but I know loads of people who have been using it for ages and I'm not convinced any of them can do anything more than ask for bread or the way to the station.

Gavin Chipper

Fiona T wrote: ↑Sat Jul 06, 2024 9:55 pm
Dave Robjohns wrote: ↑Sat Jul 06, 2024 9:28 pm Still gutted about losing by a second Legit kept him within my sights for nearly 4km, plotting the sprint finish overtake
It's not a race...

Why's it called parkrace?

Gavin Chipper

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Jul 06, 2024 3:30 pm
Mark James wrote: ↑Sat Jul 06, 2024 10:21 am The last time every human was on Earth was October 31st 2000. Since then there has always been someone in space.
That got me wondering about how many dead people are floating in space.

Not too many. Most probably got burnt up.

Gavin Chipper

Philip A wrote: ↑Fri Jul 05, 2024 8:11 pm Trivia:

0 of the 92 English and Welsh football clubs in the top 4 divisions are based in Conservative constituencies;

0 of the current MPs were elected before 1983, the year before Thatcher’s second victory.

That football one is quite a stat.

Gavin Chipper

Alright after a quick scan of both and also sneaking a peek of Keir's winning, I think you guys might be in good hands. Certainly better compared to the main men in the U.S. at this point I feel. Keir Starmer is a power-hungry, authoritarian genocide-supporter. We're not in good hands. But at least...

Gavin Chipper

AV was always a miserable little compromise and is nothing to do with proportional representation really. Also 2011 is a long time ago now, and loudmouth Farage might do one good thing in his life and bang on about this issue now he's an MP.

Gavin Chipper

Wes Streeting nearly lost his seat and Labour lost a few seats because of Gaza.

And also this is the biggest gap ever between the share of seats and share of votes for the winning party. There's no real legitimacy for this landside. Just a symptom of our broken electoral system.

Gavin Chipper

Labour's vote share went up by 2% compared to 2019 with Corbyn. It's nothing they did. Tories are down by 20%. Edit - BBC saying Labour on 35%. Wikipedia says 32.1% in 2019. 40% in 2017 - also under Corbyn. Given what the Tories have lost, you would expect at least some of those to go to Labour. Gi...

Gavin Chipper

Labour's vote share went up by 2% compared to 2019 with Corbyn. It's nothing they did. Tories are down by 20%. Edit - BBC saying Labour on 35%. Wikipedia says 32.1% in 2019. 40% in 2017 - also under Corbyn. Given what the Tories have lost, you would expect at least some of those to go to Labour. Giv...

Gavin Chipper

Alright after a quick scan of both and also sneaking a peek of Keir's winning, I think you guys might be in good hands. Certainly better compared to the main men in the U.S. at this point I feel. Keir Starmer is a power-hungry, authoritarian genocide-supporter. We're not in good hands. But at least...

Gavin Chipper

Andres Sanchez wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2024 9:30 pm Any site that has simple read-ups of each of the parties so I can read up on them?

The BBC has this. The Guardian has this.

Gavin Chipper

It's still just another poll.

Gavin Chipper

I'm not sure Control Alt Esc had quite the 12 Days of Christine vibes. It has a fairly similar premise obviously, but I don't see it as having quite the same impact on people. Interestingly on this forum, Love's Great Adventure seemed to get quite a reaction, but on the IMDb list it's only 44th out ...

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