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Gavin Chipper

I didn't eat at the social club. Are you saying the food there was better than OK or worse than OK? Was implied in what I said, but to clarify, worse. Think everyone said they're chips were undercooked, and everything was served with said chips Will feed that back to the MH manager next time I spea...

Gavin Chipper

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:05 pm
Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:38 pm Cliche but it's Stewart Lee and Frankie Boyle.
Interestingly, in his set Stewart Lee had a little dig at Frankie Boyle for using a team of uncredited writers. (Lee writes his own material) for his stand Up

Did he then repeat it 20 times because he was lacking material of his own?

Gavin Chipper

Just to add to the above, Sunak speaking out in that way suggests delusions of grandeur. His opinion is irrelevant. The ICJ is much bigger than him in this regard.

Gavin Chipper

AVOWALS as a beater in round 8.

Gavin Chipper

By the way, a few people at COLIN were emphasing the importance of shuffling the letters well and using e.g. four As coming out in a row as evidence of poor shuffling. However, unless it's a new pack with letters clumped together, it shouldn't really make any difference. Shuffling is good practice a...

Gavin Chipper

Not on Apterous (so with all necessary caveats).

Gavin Chipper

Geezer looked like a potential octochamp yesterday. Not sure what happened to him.

Gavin Chipper

I don't really like the Darkness song either but my reaction to someone liking a song is also in some way proportional to how popular it is in general. Maybe the Mariah Carey song is better than I gave it credit for but there's loads I prefer.

Gavin Chipper

I didn't eat there either. Veggie options were limited.

Gavin Chipper

Yes, really good again. If I had one small suggestion, it would be that if there are table numbers, it's best to have them explicitly labelled rather than people having to infer them from the set numbers on the lids of the letters/numbers boxes, which are generally harder to find with the lids often...

Gavin Chipper

I've thought about that before, and I think it's probably better overall to have 2 tables of 2 unbeaten players, rather than a 3 and a 1.

Gavin Chipper

I checked it on Apterous when I watched and it said invalid. Unless it's slipped through the net with the update.

Gavin Chipper

Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 2:29 pm Sure, but that's privatised industry for you.

And that itself is a problem. Essential services like this should not be privatised.

Gavin Chipper

What I found ridiculous (and I mentioned this on here before) was when the prices all went up (due to the war in Ukraine I think) but then the companies recorded record profits as well. That was obviously a piss take, and they were never pulled up on it. If prices go up for them, then sure, raise pr...

Gavin Chipper

Toby McDonald wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 11:42 pm R3 LNAFP: (9*8-6+2)*3 = 204

I did (9+8)×6×2=204.

Gavin Chipper

John Garcia wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 4:10 pm 4th Numbers:
6 + 5 + 10 = 21; 21 x 50 = 1050; 1050 - 75 - 7 = 968

I saw that as well, but after the time.

Gavin Chipper

What's your point here? I don't think your post really addressed what Marc was saying. Marc said he expected people living to 100 to be the norm, which I think is fairly interpreted as more people doing that than not. Sure, but in the context of the discussion the exact proportion is not really tha...

Gavin Chipper

I think any travelling at all the day before might be a bit tiring, and could be a bit of a risk! Hopefully I'll see you out there in London and good luck to your daughter!

Gavin Chipper

If you don't have access to a reliable Countdown dictionary/wordchecker, I'd say it's best to ask whether a word is in rather than authoritatively declare it. E.g.

Round 12: wooliest?

Not

Round 12: WOOLIEST

Gavin Chipper

The other thing is what he does is vandalism - he doesn't get permission does he? Other people would be at risk of being arrested for doing that. Or if they vandalise the vandalism... I think it defeats the point that everyone, including the authorities, fawn over his work. If he was on the run from...

Gavin Chipper

Fiona T wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 5:20 pm Banksy painting

Good post for two reasons. Self-destructed and it's also a very good question.

Gavin Chipper

Bombs?

Gavin Chipper

Improvements in the global south might enable us to surpass 80, but I'd be amazed if we got much further than that. There's already loads of 80-year-olds roaming the streets. What's your point here? I don't think your post really addressed what Marc was saying. Marc was talking about 120-year-olds ...

Gavin Chipper

Switzerland looks like some sort of tardigrade thing. Denmark is Batman. The USA looks like a whale.

Gavin Chipper

This is the day before the London Marathon by the way, so it's unfortunately not doable for me.

Gavin Chipper

Is Tony Atkins involved or is this just a separate thing from his events?

Gavin Chipper

I also don't see a problem with the request. If you ran a project in your spare time, wouldn't you be annoyed if a user raised a specific feature request needed for an event at a weeks' notice on a Friday night? When they could have raised it at any point up to 9 weeks ago. We've just coming to the...

Gavin Chipper

I also don't see a problem with the request. As said, the change might have happened anyway before COLIN, regardless of the request. Any time there's an update, there's a sudden change in the words available with all the consequences of that. I'm not sure point 2 is anything against what Fiona has d...

Gavin Chipper

The question really is whether putting 1, 2, 3 against each other in round 2 is the best way to get the best players against each other in the final round. It doesn't seem likely.

It's not putting a value judgement on it. I'm just addressing Jack's list.

Gavin Chipper

I think in 30 years time living to 100 plus will be the norm however as we are all gifted with a limited amount of brain cells I can envisage 120 year olds roaming the streets like zombies. There's a horror movie in that Improvements in the global south might enable us to surpass 80, but I'd be ama...

Gavin Chipper

- The final round of games should most likely pit the best players against each other. Which, if any, of those 5/6 principles does the current system fail on? The Swiss system used at COLIN and other players doesn't really do this. As far as I understand the top players after round 1 go against eac...

Gavin Chipper

I used to not know that actors on television were a thing, and that programmes were all just made "from scratch" using some sort of technology. A bit like how things are going to be in a few years anyway.

Gavin Chipper

Deserved more.

Gavin Chipper

I'm amazed anyone even believed it in the first place. The dog was supposedly a full 7 years older than the dog that had previously been crowned and over double the breed's life expectancy, was obese, and had no signs of extreme age. I'd be amazed it it was older than 14/15. Hugely embarrassing for...

Gavin Chipper

Just read through this whole thread again. One of my favourites that I like coming back to every so often. So thanks for the bump!

Gavin Chipper

Adam S Latchford wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 8:16 am
Howie Myers wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 6:02 am r3 alt: 8*(9*10+4)+2=754
r5: OCTANES
r8: DANCIER
r13: BROMATES
r14 alt: (5+5)*(8*7)-2-1=557
Octanes bad (maybe it's fine in the new dictionary update idk but def bad on apterous), costean the falsey

Surely octanes is the falsey - COSTEAN is the word!

Gavin Chipper

This is incredible https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/67974629 Yes, and it also goes back to what I said quite recently about women's times improving more than men's. Two women under the world record, and the men's race gave no times of particular note. But also Agnes Ngetich and Emmaculate Anya...

Gavin Chipper

That's quite a claim, considering they want to do so in the relatively near future. Well September 2026 at the earliest.

Gavin Chipper

Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:46 pm it's gauge

I think it's a gaugeous word.

Gavin Chipper

I love how this has become "these were from my run". So in keeping with that, from my run, "wandering polluting columnist" is a great descriptor for Owen Jones. Although not from my run, I do like "disinfect qualified awfulness" from Series 42. Try to limit the Tory bi...

Gavin Chipper

As well as being America's lapdog in joining in with the attacks on the Houthis , Rishi Sunak has spoken out against South Africa's case against Israel . A spokesperson for UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Mr Sunak believed South Africa's case was "completely unjustified and wrong." &qu...

Gavin Chipper

As well as being America's lapdog in joining in with the attacks on the Houthis , Rishi Sunak has spoken out against South Africa's case against Israel . A spokesperson for UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Mr Sunak believed South Africa's case was "completely unjustified and wrong." &quo...

Gavin Chipper

And in the middle of your sentence.

Gavin Chipper

How do you decide what order to put the the people in the middle group in?

Gavin Chipper

The wheels kind of fell off that game. It was a good start!

Gavin Chipper

Anyway I was in the pub last night and one of the guys got some Twiglets and we all tried them. They just tasted like burnt crap and everyone agreed. Why are they a thing? Anyway, there's no Marmite branding on the packet and as far as I know there never has been. They have yeast in, sure. And behin...

Gavin Chipper

Penny farthings are front wheel drive and you're basically sitting on the front wheel so I don't think you'd be able to do a very good wheelie. Maybe a very quick marginal ground clearance of the front wheel.

Gavin Chipper

I love how this has become "these were from my run". So in keeping with that, from my run, "wandering polluting columnist" is a great descriptor for Owen Jones. Although not from my run, I do like "disinfect qualified awfulness" from Series 42. Try to limit the Tory bi...

Gavin Chipper

Not on Apterous so unless it's new in, probably not.

Gavin Chipper

On the pool thing, if it's just that fewer women play than men, then there's no need for a separate women's category on the basis of fairness, but there could still be interest/demand anyway, and I don't think it's necessarily too outrageous to have a women's category. In any case, while there might...

Gavin Chipper

I did (100+25)×7+75-6=944.

Gavin Chipper

Sorry to hear that!

Gavin Chipper

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/67807719 This is ridiculous, there is no advantage in pool OK, so for context: A transgender pool champion says she received "vile" and "horrific" abuse online after her opponent refused to play her in a final. Pinches said she did it out of &qu...

Gavin Chipper

Does it depend on the e-mail system you're using? It seems weird that it would be a universal thing. Does it change if you put your phone in desktop mode?

Gavin Chipper

Franz Beckenbauer

Gavin Chipper

In theory the basic system sounds 'fairer', but not for players at the top. If 100% fairness is the aim, the best players shouldn't be penalised for being the best. It's supposed to be a compromise system. As fair as possible, while not having too many unbeaten players at the end of the day. In fac...

Gavin Chipper

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 8:45 am This week's favourite joke:
I made a ventriloquist doll out of some old bits of carpet.
Its ruggish

I enjoyed this more on a second viewing.

Gavin Chipper

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 7:39 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 6:45 pm Being trans is not really related to being gay, except in a superficial sense, and the concept of an LGBT (plus some extra letters maybe) "community" is somewhat bizarre.
Are you suggesting you can't be Trans and Gay?

No.

Gavin Chipper

If it were up to me, we'd bin off the Swiss pairs/triples system entirely. I've discussed this general thing before with various tweaks, but here is my definitive system that I think would work: The first round is random. A lot of events do this anyway, although Ben traditionally likes to do his ann...

Gavin Chipper

Being trans is not really related to being gay, except in a superficial sense, and the concept of an LGBT (plus some extra letters maybe) "community" is somewhat bizarre.

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