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Philip A wrote: ↑Sat Sep 27, 2025 11:20 am 2025 Ryder Cup Day 2: Europe’s shirt and trouser colours quite clearly represent the USA!

Hard agree.
Yesterday was bad enough with both teams in shades of blue. But EU in Red and USA in Blue, the complete opposite of the scoreboard colours, is a joke.

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Lack of contrast between the words and backgrounds in children's books that you'll generally be reading under dim light.

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I understand now. I guess the strange part to me is having playlists on a service you don't use. To your original point, yes, it probably is just you. Music content: I'm going to Glastonbury this year. Very hyped for The Prodigy although the other headliners are quite shite. I got the original poste...

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Personally I'm still perplexed.

- By "find" do you mean "search for" or "discover new"?
- Where is your list?
- If not Spotify, why do you need to go on Spotify to add songs to your list?
- How are you hearing songs if not by Spotify?
- Why do you need Spotify at all?

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I guess they put lower effort into checking the DC offerings than contestant offerings and therefore DC offerings should not be considered to set a precedent.

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Last One Laughing UK (Prime)
This was very very very funny.

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Jumped on the Adolescence bandwagon (Netflix). One shot, one camera. Unbelievably good. Especially episode 3. Erin Doherty was amazing as was the boy tbh Googling, “Who plays the boy in adolescence” returns, “Hand that boy the Emmy!!!” There are now calls to show it in every secondary school. Who h...

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I've known about this for a while but when they tell you at school that the three primary colours of pigment are red, yellow and blue, they're wrong . It's yellow, cyan and magenta, which you might have noticed from printer ink. Edit - actually this is old news . With printer ink, the combined init...

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Citizen Kane. Then I had to go read about why it's good. In other words it isn't. I watched it a couple of years or so ago and wasn't massively impressed. Yeah it's a tough watch. Why does everybody keep talking over each other? It wasn't completely unenjoyable though. And after doing the reading a...

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Fabulous updates.

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Fellow parkrun wankers - since I only have I and J left for my alphabet and the Is are annoying if you don't live in the south, I'm going to be doing the newish Ingrebourne Hill in Rainham before this. There's a 10:03 train that gets you to Finchley Road before doors open so time won't be an issue....

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Or allow driverless cars to hit you if you're being antisocial. Not hard enough to kill or injure, just enough to make you drop your phone. I think this is the way. It could taper down to a crawl and eventually stop if the person was about to get crushed under the wheel. Alternatively the cars coul...

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Must we?

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2024 1:54 pm
Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2024 12:35 pm In the Bundesliga the player names are sometimes below the short number rather than above.
The fact that you haven't corrected your typo (which is rich coming from Lord Fat fingers himself) is a minor irritation

Oops. It's because I was blonded by rage when I typed that.

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In the Bundesliga the player names are sometimes below the short number rather than above.

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So the actual question/picture is here (spoiler) https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/article34289939.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200e/0_eightJPG.jpg Knowing what it's supposed to be, I can just about see it, but to me the centre looked raised not recessed. I guess if you see it you see it, if you don't th...

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To actually offer something genuine: - Everything Everywhere All at Once might be the worst film I've ever seen. Crazy how many awards it won. I've just watched this (it's available on c4) and I think it's fine as just some silly bit of fun but I also find it strange how it's held up as this great ...

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For the benefit of those who missed it - what happened in round 8?

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 8:10 pm How come you can sometimes see the moon in the daytime, but not always?

We can only see the moon half the time. Right?

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- Wicked - great
- Dr. Strangelove - great
- Back to the Future - amazing special effects
- Bootleg Beatles (if that counts) - fantastic likenesses and faithful renditions

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I like David Mitchell but Ludwig was crap. A poor man's Jonathan Creek.

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Fantastic.

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Cool.

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Mark Labbett isn't called The Beast because of his physique. His surname is a homophone of la bête which is French for the beast.

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Last week I played cricket on Sunday and scored 104 runs. Then I played golf on Monday and took 104 shots.

Yesterday I went to the dentist and the dental nurse who was a woman was being assessed by a woman. The nurse and the assessor were named Rhys.

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Why do car boots take place so bloody early? Just passed a sign for one that said 7am to 12pm. Well then I'm not bloody going to your bloody thing, am I? Why can't they be like 9-3? I've always assumed it was because of two things: 1. Buyers want first dibs 2. Sellers want the best spots So both ha...

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That's good that.

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Great stats.

Jon Stitcher wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2024 11:16 pm 3 players who were octochamps on their debut returned to lose on their second debut.

Who were they?

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Interestingly, some academics were polled in 2011 on various single-winner voting methods. Approval voting come top, and FPTP (also known as plurality voting) came bottom. It's fascinating that this happened. Just looking at the paper and it's very self-critical of the way the question was posed. T...

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Interestingly, some academics were polled in 2011 on various single-winner voting methods. Approval voting come top, and FPTP (also known as plurality voting) came bottom. It's fascinating that this happened. Just looking at the paper and it's very self-critical of the way the question was posed. T...

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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...

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Callum Todd wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2024 4:57 amI'm a fan.

Still?

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Fiona T wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2024 11:24 am The coloured block image thing on the BBC election coverage says 24...

Very good one. Once seen it can't be unseen.

I've just realised that the letters in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th are the last letters in the spelt words.

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Are we watching the Mens Euros ? I think with the General Election and The Olympics its a little overshadowed. That said I think England will win , we made the final 3 years ago and we are a better team than that Absolutely; could be the last proper international tournament for a while and should b...

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Are we watching the Mens Euros ? I think with the General Election and The Olympics its a little overshadowed. That said I think England will win , we made the final 3 years ago and we are a better team than that I think England have a good chance to win. The midfield and attack are top tier. The d...

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Jamie Weisenberg wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 5:01 pm Who is the best ever contestant on TV Countdown that isn't involved/is completely oblivious of the professional scene ? By professional, I mean Apterous, CO-events, ZoomDowns etc ..

Scott Mearns, Harvey Freeman, Allan Saldanha.

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The 952 method was used twice in last year's CoC. It looks impressive at first glance until you spot it. That's not really accurate. The 952 solution is based on an extension of the methods I think you're talking about from a quick scan of all the games. I guess you mean these 2: James Haughton in ...

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JackHurst wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 4:02 pm
Jamie Weisenberg wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 3:49 pm However, in Ahmed's defence I'd say the quality of the opposition was FAR higher than what Conor faced.
Rude.

Extremely.

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I recently read an article about the death of the sitcom. No TV studios in America are commissioning anything new as its not viable because people's tastes have changed and also too many groups are likely to take offense Maybe it was hyperbole but I haven't seen anything new recently. Also where ar...

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Yeah it's decent. I wonder if it's physically possible on one piano. I don't have a good enough ear to tell but it sounds like it might be 2 pianos. Or could all be computer-played. Also in general I think it sounds really thin/tinny. Maybe I'm too used to the old one. Anyway I thought I wasn't goin...

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Interesting.. look forward to hearing it. I've never heard a good piano arrangement of it yet. It's too percussive and synthy.

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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...

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I was having a play around with some HMRC numbers to see what the impact of a completely different income tax structure would be. I'm calling this the Jono proposal and my idea is a 20k tax free allowance, then 10% on all earnings to 50k, then 75% on all earnings above that. - Everyone who earns up...

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Sun King is a blatant rip off of Albatross and these are two totally separate and distinct songs.

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GPS not GPs
Very good.

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Cliche but it's Stewart Lee and Frankie Boyle.

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If there's no advantage, then why is the women's #1 ranked #118 in the open rankings? The answer to this question is the reason why there's a protected category, regardless of size, strength, speed and power advantages. Its not a level playing field in the same way that there are less established c...

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If there's no advantage, then why is the women's #1 ranked #118 in the open rankings?
The answer to this question is the reason why there's a protected category, regardless of size, strength, speed and power advantages.

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Christian Bale is English.

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Everyone who posts in this thread, except me, should be ashamed of themselves.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:52 pm The redeye as in a flight from an airline refers to the colour of the plane lights at night rather than your eyes being red because of tiredness

Does it? That doesn't make sense. The tiredness one does make sense.

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- Tax here is too high, and actually given that high earners have already paid a lot of tax the marginal rates should be inverted: earnings over 125k should be taxed at 20%, whereas up to 50k should be more like 40% You've changed Not directed specifically at CT, but across the population the older...

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Conor wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:33 pm - Tax here is too high, and actually given that high earners have already paid a lot of tax the marginal rates should be inverted: earnings over 125k should be taxed at 20%, whereas up to 50k should be more like 40%

You've changed

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Great thread. Some truly horrendous stuff. It's also amazing what people feel compelled to reply to.
I think it would be good to list these out and all have a vote on how appalling we all find each one so there is a winner.

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For all conundrums: Buzz by tapping the table with a pen rather than a handslap. Many advantages: 1. Easier to adjudicate who buzzed first as the sound is crisper 2. Less chance of a half-buzz 3. Less distracting for other tables 4. Less stress-inducing for those sensitive to loud noises It's actual...

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And it's absolutely impossible for things to change time by an hour. No - the whole clock has to change.

It's ridiculous.

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That's much better than I was expecting!

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Totally fine. Games where "not playing to the best of your ability" is an offence are a joke.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 10:59 pm On the track I'm not sure times have overall massively improved on average. It seems that the fastest have just widened the gap - in some events anyway.

I'd be surprised if that was the case. I'm sure the data to test this is available.

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