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by Gavin Chipper
Wed Dec 20, 2023 3:54 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Music
Replies: 295
Views: 83928

Re: Music

Marc Meakin wrote: Wed Dec 20, 2023 3:32 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: Sat Dec 16, 2023 7:21 pm Also I'll be running the poll with the same sensible voting system as the greatest episode poll. Basically you can vote for more than one option and also change your vote until the deadline.
Drums, fingers.....
I've been busy!
by Gavin Chipper
Mon Dec 18, 2023 1:40 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Strange things you used to believe as a child
Replies: 32
Views: 6039

Re: Strange things you used to believe as a child

I thought "fr." under the name of each recipe in my mum's copy of Mrs Beeton meant "fried" - even though that seemed really weird sometimes. (she did rely on her frying-pan for using leftovers) And what did it mean? And what does it mean here ? Was it really them who got HARUSPE...
by Gavin Chipper
Mon Dec 18, 2023 1:38 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Strange things you used to believe as a child
Replies: 32
Views: 6039

Re: Strange things you used to believe as a child

Watching golf on the TV I'd occasionally see players sporting the brand 'Tit-leist', which I parsed similarly (second half rhyming with 'heist'). That's how it's pronounced in our house. I don't understand how else it would be pronounced, I assume the 'correct' makes it sound like "tight least...
by Gavin Chipper
Sat Dec 16, 2023 9:03 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Strange things you used to believe as a child
Replies: 32
Views: 6039

Re: Strange things you used to believe as a child

Marc Meakin wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2023 6:29 am I used to think that canned laughter was real.
A lot of the time the laughter on comedy shows is real isn't it?
by Gavin Chipper
Sat Dec 16, 2023 7:21 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Music
Replies: 295
Views: 83928

Re: Music

Also I'll be running the poll with the same sensible voting system as the greatest episode poll. Basically you can vote for more than one option and also change your vote until the deadline.
by Gavin Chipper
Sat Dec 16, 2023 7:16 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Politics in General
Replies: 1604
Views: 1652464

Re: Politics in General

The IDF's mask has completely slipped now that they've murdered three Israeli released hostages. This is just the tip of the iceberg though. This behaviour happens as a matter of course, but it made the news because they killed citizens of their own country. It would be a pretty massive coincidence ...
by Gavin Chipper
Sat Dec 16, 2023 7:11 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Politics in General
Replies: 1604
Views: 1652464

Re: Politics in General

Cop 28. Hopefully in a year or two Electric cars will be more viable, by which I mean every main petrol station will have fast charging ports, the cost of Buying Electric cars will fall Mind you this doesn't help https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67693935 Automatic driving features aren't reall...
by Gavin Chipper
Sat Dec 16, 2023 7:05 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Politics in General
Replies: 1604
Views: 1652464

Re: Politics in General

by Gavin Chipper
Sat Dec 16, 2023 3:55 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Music
Replies: 295
Views: 83928

Re: Music

I'll start the poll next week some time btw.
by Gavin Chipper
Sat Dec 16, 2023 3:54 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Music
Replies: 295
Views: 83928

Re: Music

This is my top 5 5. Merry Christmas Everyone - Shakin' Stevens 4. Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) - The Darkness 3. Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade 2. All I Want for Christmas is You - Mariah Carey 1. Fairytale of New York - The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl Really disappointed in your number 2. ...
by Gavin Chipper
Fri Dec 15, 2023 9:36 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Replies: 248
Views: 30646

Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold

Callum Todd wrote: Fri Dec 15, 2023 9:29 pm
Mark Deeks wrote: Fri Dec 15, 2023 8:35 pm There's no denying Bush had some swag about him.
https://youtu.be/TCm9788Tb5g?si=M2cm3_iDopAMtmRV
Top comment is "This is how the Golf War started."
by Gavin Chipper
Fri Dec 15, 2023 8:26 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Replies: 630
Views: 275583

Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised

Marc Meakin wrote: Fri Dec 15, 2023 8:25 pm I've always pronounced LinkedIn as Linkydin
We've discussed this before but I pronounce it Linked Ln because that's what it deserves to be called given how they present it.
by Gavin Chipper
Fri Dec 15, 2023 1:10 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Music
Replies: 295
Views: 83928

Re: Music

I've forgotten how you make a poll here (maybe it's been removed since the spate of polls in the noughties) I was thinking of favourite Christmas Song. Surely only 8 titles plus other would suffice I could create a poll for this. I can include any songs people nominate (unless it gets to a ridiculo...
by Gavin Chipper
Fri Dec 15, 2023 12:34 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 13th December 2023 (Series 88, Heat 119)
Replies: 5
Views: 1359

Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 13th December 2023 (Series 88, Heat 119)

As a Countdowner he's just a good player who has a good chance of becoming an octochamp but isn't a definite.
by Gavin Chipper
Thu Dec 14, 2023 12:32 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: People you shouldn't trust
Replies: 921
Views: 394440

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Gavin Chipper wrote: Thu Sep 17, 2015 4:32 pm People who don't sneeze properly - they do this weird suppression thing.
I was right. It's bad for you.
by Gavin Chipper
Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:37 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Music
Replies: 295
Views: 83928

Re: Music

OK, if you take 7 members of one family, get them to pick 8 songs each, then pick a few more between you to get it up to 64 and then do a knockout voting tournament, which song do you think wins? It may surprise you, but the answer is Instant Crush by Daft Punk featuring Julian Casablancas (from Th...
by Gavin Chipper
Tue Dec 12, 2023 4:29 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Music
Replies: 295
Views: 83928

Re: Music

OK, if you take 7 members of one family, get them to pick 8 songs each, then pick a few more between you to get it up to 64 and then do a knockout voting tournament, which song do you think wins? It may surprise you, but the answer is Instant Crush by Daft Punk featuring Julian Casablancas (from Th...
by Gavin Chipper
Mon Dec 11, 2023 5:48 pm
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
Replies: 147
Views: 13371

Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box

As TCap says, get the players to look away if need be. Put the conundrum in the right orientation on the table and cover it with an object other than your hand. Something like a phone works well. Don't have the object physically touching the conundrum paper though. Place one edge of the phone in fro...
by Gavin Chipper
Sun Dec 10, 2023 6:16 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
Replies: 52
Views: 6532

Re: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?

Yeah, I think it comes across as quite combative, though in a given situation, the person's tone might not be. More difficult to tell in writing, but I doubt Adam was trying a start a fight with Dan. (And he apologised for his strong response anyway.)
by Gavin Chipper
Sun Dec 10, 2023 7:54 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
Replies: 52
Views: 6532

Re: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?

Yeah, I mean you both know I was talking about the phrase and not the sentiment though, as that was what I said. Just to clarify.
by Gavin Chipper
Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:59 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Replies: 630
Views: 275583

Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised

I thought red eye was what happened in photographs when your eyes come out red.
by Gavin Chipper
Sat Dec 09, 2023 7:20 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
Replies: 52
Views: 6532

Re: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?

Regardless of the sentiment, "check your privilege" is one of those American imports that's basically meaningless in British English. Ridiculous phrase.
by Gavin Chipper
Fri Dec 08, 2023 11:08 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 630773

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

What is it with this really weird singing voice that some people have adopted in recent years? It's difficult to describe except that there seems to be something a bit piratey about it. But to give some examples - Lewis Capaldi , Tom Walker *, Jess Glynne , and not forgetting Adele , although hers ...
by Gavin Chipper
Fri Dec 08, 2023 6:18 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Replies: 248
Views: 30646

Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold

Boris Johnson did not nearly die of COVID. Is that really an unpopular opinion? Probably not but people just say he did like it's an established fact and no-one questions it. Boris Johnson did not nearly die of COVID. Are you saying he faked it? Too many people involved for it to totally faked but ...
by Gavin Chipper
Fri Dec 08, 2023 4:22 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Replies: 248
Views: 30646

Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold

Boris Johnson did not nearly die of COVID.
by Gavin Chipper
Fri Dec 08, 2023 1:39 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Replies: 248
Views: 30646

Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold

Buying new clothes all the time is ridiculous and if someone says something like they haven't bought any new clothes for over a year it should get massive respect.

The fashion industry is largely a joke item.
by Gavin Chipper
Fri Dec 08, 2023 12:55 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Replies: 248
Views: 30646

Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold

Crisps are too greasy and leave you with a very undesirable layer of grease on your fingers that then transfers on to surfaces. Owing to the inconvenient nature of this, it is perfectly acceptable to pour a bag of crisps in to a bowl and eat them with a spoon if in the comfort of your own home. I w...
by Gavin Chipper
Fri Dec 08, 2023 12:54 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Replies: 248
Views: 30646

Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold

There was a baby boom immediately after the war. There was an extra class in my school for that year. My recollection is that they were always known as baby boomers. Those people were in their 20s by the end of the 1960s, most of them probably married with children. Their early childhoods were duri...
by Gavin Chipper
Fri Dec 08, 2023 12:48 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 7th December 2023 (Series 88, Heat 115)
Replies: 4
Views: 1610

Re: Spoilers for Thursday 7th December 2023 (Series 88, Heat 115)

Ian Fitzpatrick wrote: Fri Dec 08, 2023 12:26 pm Is that the record lowest score?
There have been a couple of 0s in recent years.
by Gavin Chipper
Fri Dec 08, 2023 9:08 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Replies: 248
Views: 30646

Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold

The generations like Gen X, millennials etc., are arbitrary, confusing and ultimately just stupid. It makes no real sense to say that you are in the same generation as someone because you fall the right side of some arbitrary boundary. You might be in a "different generation" to someone b...
by Gavin Chipper
Thu Dec 07, 2023 10:34 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Replies: 248
Views: 30646

Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold

The generations like Gen X, millennials etc., are arbitrary, confusing and ultimately just stupid. It makes no real sense to say that you are in the same generation as someone because you fall the right side of some arbitrary boundary. You might be in a "different generation" to someone bo...
by Gavin Chipper
Thu Dec 07, 2023 4:28 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Replies: 248
Views: 30646

Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold

Callum Todd wrote: Thu Dec 07, 2023 4:12 pm Some of the opposition to the whole Rwanda plan for migrants is itself somewhat racist, or at least chauvinistic.
Can you expand?
by Gavin Chipper
Thu Dec 07, 2023 4:20 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Replies: 248
Views: 30646

Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold

Callum Todd wrote: Thu Dec 07, 2023 4:15 pm I didn't take Mark's post to mean that tuition fees should be paid all up front
Neither did I. Or was that more to Marc?

(Also, I read your Mark as Marc when I first replied pre-edit.)
by Gavin Chipper
Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:55 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Deathwatch 2017
Replies: 467
Views: 209884

Re: Deathwatch 2017

by Gavin Chipper
Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:38 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Replies: 248
Views: 30646

Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold

You should have to pay university tuition fees. If you had to pay upfront then Universities would be elites and only a privilege for rich people. I think like sport, universities should be available for all. However, there should be a better way to pay as presumably you should get a well payed job ...
by Gavin Chipper
Thu Dec 07, 2023 1:26 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Replies: 248
Views: 30646

Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold

When more men or women go into a particular sphere, it's possible that it's not entirely down to societal biases.
by Gavin Chipper
Wed Dec 06, 2023 8:48 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 6th December 2023 (Series 88, Heat 114)
Replies: 7
Views: 1907

Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 6th December 2023 (Series 88, Heat 114)

It was just multiplication by 9. There was no split.
by Gavin Chipper
Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:47 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Replies: 248
Views: 30646

Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold

- 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% It's an interesting idea, but how are you going to finance the foodbanks for all th...
by Gavin Chipper
Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:47 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Replies: 248
Views: 30646

Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold

People often complain about how rich/posh people get to go to Oxford and Cambridge more than other people. Well, I think it's stupid that there even are these universities that are considered on a higher plane from the others. Degrees should be more standardised and it shouldn't matter where you get...
by Gavin Chipper
Wed Dec 06, 2023 11:44 am
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
Replies: 479
Views: 164152

Re: Words You Would Have Thought...

Spick, spicker, spickest, spannest. SPAN and SPANNER are in though!
by Gavin Chipper
Tue Dec 05, 2023 10:25 pm
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
Replies: 147
Views: 13371

Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box

Yeah, I remember big numbers in other places under Carol's reign.
by Gavin Chipper
Tue Dec 05, 2023 2:54 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Replies: 248
Views: 30646

Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold

Fiona T wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:56 pm Top quality stuff from Conor!
"genuinely"
by Gavin Chipper
Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:22 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Replies: 248
Views: 30646

Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold

It's not actually sterile.
by Gavin Chipper
Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:19 pm
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
Replies: 583
Views: 289264

Re: CO:parkrun Recaps

A bit late but Milton Keynes saw the final round of the 2023 CO:parkrun championship. So let's see what happened at Linford Wood parkrun : 4 (1). Gevin Chapwell - 19:49 (71.57%) (909 points) 20 (2). Thomas Carey - 23:25 (55.09%) (818 points) 28 (3). Jonathan Wynn - 24:08 (55.32%) (727 points) 40 (4)...
by Gavin Chipper
Tue Dec 05, 2023 8:37 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Politics in General
Replies: 1604
Views: 1652464

Re: Politics in General

Owen Jones isn't defending Hamas. (Edit - and neither am I by the way.)

Edit - And it's not hard to understand the difference. In the early days of this, the BBC had to apologise for calling a pro-Palestinian rally a pro-Hamas rally. Absolute joke.
by Gavin Chipper
Mon Dec 04, 2023 9:13 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Politics in General
Replies: 1604
Views: 1652464

Re: Politics in General

First of all, Hamas likely exists in the form it does because of the oppression by Israel on the Palestinians for decades. It breeds terrorism. Also far more Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces over the decades than vice versa. Does it make such a difference that Hamas killed a lot of I...
by Gavin Chipper
Mon Dec 04, 2023 12:20 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Politics in General
Replies: 1604
Views: 1652464

Re: Politics in General

My aim wasn't to downplay. I was criticising primarily Israel from the start because of the underlying assumption that no-one would be defending Hamas, whereas views on Israel's actions had more disagreement about them.
by Gavin Chipper
Mon Dec 04, 2023 9:42 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Politics in General
Replies: 1604
Views: 1652464

Re: Politics in General

OK, that's starting to sound a lot more reasonable now.
by Gavin Chipper
Sun Dec 03, 2023 10:06 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Politics in General
Replies: 1604
Views: 1652464

Re: Politics in General

Tal Lessner wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 9:51 pm It's quite a shame that once you choose to identify with one side, you seem to ignore facts, or try to downplay or twist them to match your agenda.
There's no discussion if you're resorting to this.
by Gavin Chipper
Sun Dec 03, 2023 9:22 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Politics in General
Replies: 1604
Views: 1652464

Re: Politics in General

We're talking facts here. What difference between Hamas and the Israeli authorities is it? The number of executed people on 07.10? The fact there was widespread rape and torture? What difference exactly? Which of it is not considered 100% fact? Also, what stories about raping Palestinian prisoners?...
by Gavin Chipper
Sun Dec 03, 2023 5:49 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Politics in General
Replies: 1604
Views: 1652464

Re: Politics in General

It is also worth noting that some of the specific claims about the Hamas terrorist attack (including beheading babies) are unsubstantiated . While this doesn't make them in any way acceptable, it does cast doubt on this supposed massive difference between the two terrorist organisations involved he...
by Gavin Chipper
Sun Dec 03, 2023 5:24 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Deathwatch 2017
Replies: 467
Views: 209884

Re: Deathwatch 2017

by Gavin Chipper
Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:42 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Politics in General
Replies: 1604
Views: 1652464

Re: Politics in General

On a different subject, and a little bit late, I'm glad the COVID enquiry has shown that Boris Johnson is actually thick af.
by Gavin Chipper
Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:38 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Politics in General
Replies: 1604
Views: 1652464

Re: Politics in General

It's not that unpopular. I do recommend you watch those videos with the ambassadors by the way. They are quite long but I think worth the time. Or just start watching them and see how you find them. The differences between them are clear quite early on. It's also generally accepted that the Israeli ...
by Gavin Chipper
Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:31 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Politics in General
Replies: 1604
Views: 1652464

Re: Politics in General

First of all, Hamas likely exists in the form it does because of the oppression by Israel on the Palestinians for decades. It breeds terrorism. Also far more Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces over the decades than vice versa. Does it make such a difference that Hamas killed a lot of Is...
by Gavin Chipper
Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:39 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 29th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 109)
Replies: 11
Views: 2435

Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 29th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 109)

Did its reintroduction coincide with the new numbers generator?
by Gavin Chipper
Fri Dec 01, 2023 9:25 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 29th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 109)
Replies: 11
Views: 2435

Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 29th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 109)

100 has come up several times as a target. The whole 101 thing is a myth.
by Gavin Chipper
Fri Dec 01, 2023 6:26 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Replies: 248
Views: 30646

Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold

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. Presumably the Radiohead one would win for you. Or men sitting down to pee.
by Gavin Chipper
Fri Dec 01, 2023 6:23 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Replies: 248
Views: 30646

Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold

"Left wing" insults like "boomer" and "gammon" are just as stupid and rooted in prejudice as ones from the "right".