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Gavin Chipper

How old was George Greenhough? He was about 120 and fucking excellent to boot.

Gavin Chipper

So if you got a shape and found the point along the x axis that half of the shape was to the left of and half to the right, and did the same for the y axis, and used these coordinates as your centre, you'd find for most shapes that this point would be in a different place in the shape depending on i...

Gavin Chipper

PPS. Having read a bit more, it seems that I'm thinking of the "centroid" (when I'm talking about the centre of a shape), and it does indeed always produce two pieces of equal size when cut in a straight line across the centroid. I has a happy. You shouldn't have a happy. If you'd read an...

Gavin Chipper

Here's a tribute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nJtCD8jdaY

Countdown reference at 1:15.

Gavin Chipper

I was thinking about this idea exactly a couple of days ago as a way of finding 'the centre of Devon', as I was cycling thorough one place that claims to be that (but probably isn't, but is just trying to flog a few more cream teas.) So it'll be a cardboard cut-out of Devon, and a pencil then. Of c...

Gavin Chipper

Corby, I've been drawing some lines in an equilateral triangle. Put points a third of the way along each line and basically join them all up. It seems to me that you end up with nine smaller equilateral triangles. There is a definite centre to the original triangle, and you'll see that five of the n...

Gavin Chipper

Yeah, I think I should have put this in a new thread because it's getting confused with the balancing thing. What I meant was, if I draw a simple shape, like a square, rectangle or circle, it's fairly easy to find the centre. If I pull the circle at the top to make a sort of egg shape, it makes sen...

Gavin Chipper

Is it that if you cut a shape in a straight line through its centre, you should end up with two equal amounts of that shape, regardless of which direction you cut in? I'm not sure if this has been answered in a way that makes sense, but the answer is definitely "no". It's a bit like mean ...

Gavin Chipper

What do you mean by centre? If you mean centre of gravity then yes, the centre certainly exists. Here's Wikipedia to explain it probably better than me. Potentially the relevant integral might be analytically insoluble so you wouldn't be able to say precisely where it was as a fraction or whatever,...

Gavin Chipper

I don't know if it has much to do with the topic but I've been trying to find, to no avail, a the name of a thing that was featured on an episode of QI that would always revert to its original position no matter what side it was placed on. It would do this by design only and not because it was weig...

Gavin Chipper

Mark, he said "his house was broken into." No, he said his house was broken into. There were no quotation marks around it. Either way, what's your point? No, he said his house was broken in two. This was to physically create Apterous Towers. Twin Towers? A burglary is the least of our wor...

Gavin Chipper

Charlie Reams wrote:I've very subtly joined in with this editing game.

Yeah, very good.

Gavin Chipper

Jason Larsen wrote:Dudley, who are you to do that?

Dudley, you've been told!

Gavin Chipper

Seven is also eight minus one, and eight is the number of games you need to win to become an octochamp. Spooky.

Gavin Chipper

So anyway, when I deleted the later message, I was able to edit the original one without it saying that it had been edited. But if I edited the original message before deleting the later one, it came up with the edit message. When I then deleted the later message the edit message stayed but stayed a...

Gavin Chipper

I'm going to hijack this thread, since what I'm about to do isn't worth creating a new thread for, and I don't want to interrupt a sensible thread for these purposes. You know how when you edit a post, it will give the time of the edit, but only if another post has been made after it? And also that ...

Gavin Chipper

Jon Corby wrote:
James Robinson wrote:it's very hard not to overlook this possibility.
I'm confused again. Are you and MWM doing this on purpose to bust my nut?

To be honest, I'm not entirely sure if I really don't doubt that they aren't doing it on purpose.

Gavin Chipper

(25*5-1)*7 as an alternative in round 10. Yeah!

Gavin Chipper

BIFACE and PIGFACE in the round where they only got five. I'm a proper spoiler thread geek (or deek) now.

Gavin Chipper

Sorry for shit answer Graeme but fairly sure if you searched the forum you'd find all the answers, this has been discussed aplenty before, possibly even with Damian's confirmational input at one point. I looked around yesterday and could only find this and this , but I've had another look and found...

Gavin Chipper

I peed (myself).

Gavin Chipper

Jon Corby wrote:I've convinced myself that's (pretty much) what has gone on.

And you've ruined the magic for everyone else. I'm distraught.

Gavin Chipper

I obviously wasn't listening. What was the joke - something about her being a whale? Was that immediately before he said that Rachel had penned the joke? Yeah, I wasn't listening at that point.

Gavin Chipper

That's rideekulous.

Gavin Chipper

Mark Deeks wrote:When Rachel first put BAREFOOT in the board, she put it in as BEARFOOT. There was a break in the filming while we all laughed at her.

Did it end up on the board (correctly) on the show? I didn't notice a shot of it.

Gavin Chipper

Can someone please ask the Producers how anyone who does not know that 625 is 25 x 25 can ever be allowed near the show? OK nerves kick in. Understood. But are they really that short of plausible contestants? A lot of people that go on aren't very good at numbers. I think that they're less bothered...

Gavin Chipper

Jason Larsen wrote:I haven't seen this episode yet, but I can already declare that Linda Muchmore deserves the award for "Name of the Year!"

Name of the year - is that all? I think she deserves a lot more than that.

Gavin Chipper

Matt Morrison wrote:How has Jono escaped mention here?

I was thinking the same!

Gavin Chipper

Jon O'Neill wrote:Getting the 0815 from St. Pancras to Nottingham (arrives 0959) and the 2045 home (arrives 2248).

Snap. See you there! (I'm not stalking you or anything.)

Gavin Chipper

I don't think Susie's example of "easy as" really counts as a new definition of "as". It's part of a wider trend of just leaving off the end of sentences. End of. But it is a new usage, not just the same old same old. But not really of the word "as" but of general sent...

Gavin Chipper

NOT A POIN - whatever. This still makes very little sense. The punishment for incorrect points declarations is the loss of the number of points which you claim. Negative claims for points are added to the person's current score. You mean that if you wrongly claim for points, you don't get any? Nega...

Gavin Chipper

I don't think Susie's example of "easy as" really counts as a new definition of "as". It's part of a wider trend of just leaving off the end of sentences. End of.

Gavin Chipper

Mark James wrote:Anyone else try to move the letters screen so the could read the chat box? D'oh.

Excellent.

(Just you.)

Gavin Chipper

Is Deeks going to CONOT? That would be cool. And Balog coming all the way from America. The two forum heroes.

Gavin Chipper

It's getting on my tits as I'm finding myself having to do a lot of extra work myself to pin down exactly what's going on. Let's get this straight - do you like to be amazed by tricks and not want to know what's going on, or do you actually like to be able to work out what's going on? For someone w...

Gavin Chipper

Only got halfway through Saturday's show, but that trick with the guys and the meals and the tables (which fooled P&T). How the hell? My solution is that the predictions didn't come from the envelopes at all, but the guys were prepped with instructions to tear off a piece of paper being fed off...

Gavin Chipper

Mark Deeks wrote:Didn't think TARMACKED had a K in it. In hindsight, it obviously does.

I think it should be TARMACCED. More logical. PANICCED as well. Actually I think TWOCCED is allowed (it is).

Gavin Chipper

Did anyone watch this? I have to say I was a bit disappointed. I didn't really do my research so I was (perhaps over-optimistically) expecting maybe two of the ten to go through and then a whole new lot next week and then all the best back for the final. But no, it's a dreary drawn-out X-Factor/Pop ...

Gavin Chipper

Well done James, and everyone else involved of course, like Mike for providing all the raw data, collected over 77 years.

Gavin Chipper

I had a dream last night where I was at a station with Matt Morrison. Presumably it was a London station because it had loads of stuff there. We went into a McDonalds type place at the station and Matt ordered us both some vegetarian burger thing. We commented on how it always takes longer for the v...

Gavin Chipper

I think I beat them with BESTOW in one of the rounds.

Gavin Chipper

Mark James wrote:
Joseph Krol wrote:
Mark James wrote:
What are you doing playing GTA? Its an 18s rated game.
Peer pressure. (Plus it's fun)
Yeah but how did you get? Did your parents buy it for you? For shame!

Do you really give a shit?

Gavin Chipper

Charlie Reams wrote:Might be a browser-specific bug. It works fine in Chrome+Linux. What are you using?

IE9

Gavin Chipper

Charlie Reams wrote:I'm investigating, but my house has just been burgled so other investigations may have to take priority...

Hope they didn't nick anything too valuable.

Gavin Chipper

Charlie Reams wrote:
Thomas Carey wrote: On the lexplorer thing which tells you if it was pencilled.
Works for me. Anyone else?

It tells me it hasn't been pencilled in. Is that good? Separate to that, if you click on "languages" it says "OTO�REN is not valid in any language recognised on apterous."

Gavin Chipper

Matt's a vegetarian so I presume they were vegetarian sausages and rashers.

Gavin Chipper

I was listening to Paul Daniels on the radio and he was saying that trying to work out how stuff's done takes the fun out of it and I'm inclined to agree*. It's fun just being impressed rather than going into it too much. No, I agree too - I'm not really into working out how "it" is done ...

Gavin Chipper

Then he'd have a cat problem.

Gavin Chipper

I don't buy papers, but not because I avoid the news. Normally I use the internet and sometimes watch it. But today I put the BBC news channel on and in over half an hour they literally didn't mention anything other than Rebekah Brooks' resignation. Pathetic. That's the advantage of the internet - y...

Gavin Chipper

Not many actual spoilers today.

I thought Deeks did a very good job on that 4-large. I did it a different way (after the time), which I thought was quite a neat way. (100*4-50/(75-25))/3 = 133

Gavin Chipper

I don't belong to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but this is pretty funny. Yeah, I enjoyed reading that. I completely agree with the principle. You can't make special allowances for some religions and not others. It's not as if you can argue that his "religion" is any more ri...

Gavin Chipper

Jon Corby wrote:the terrible execution

She was executed? Not so terrible.

(And yes, very funny, Corby.)

Gavin Chipper

Exactly - it doesn't specify so it's open to arbitrary interpretation. Yes, which is undesirable. I'm not in favour of it, which is what your earlier post seemed to me to be suggesting. My point was that those that were arguing that the word should be disallowed (which may include you) inevitably p...

Gavin Chipper

I'm with [Charlie] on the FEINTER/FEINTEST thing. Those that are arguing against it are essentially arguing for less concrete rules and more arbitrary interpretation. Nope, I'm arguing that some adjectives refer to attributes in which different instances can be compared while other adjectives simpl...

Gavin Chipper

IIRC the introduction to the dictionary says that single-syllable adjectives are assumed to have comparatives and superlatives formed in the usual way, and they are therefore not specified. Given that a player was given a second appearance after they lost for having RIGHTEST disallowed, and RIGHTES...

Gavin Chipper

Jon O'Neill wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:Would there be a London contingent going up on the Friday?
yeh

So who is going up from London on the Friday and at what time?

Gavin Chipper

David Williams wrote:I'm of an age where I can amaze my friends by predicting that their Ruby wedding will fall on a Sunday. (My friends are easily amazed.)

Because if they got married on a Saturday it must be?

Gavin Chipper

However, there are still occasionally some really good TV commercials. The Google Chrome 'It Gets Better' ad is astonishing, brave, uplifting and just absolutely fucking brilliant. One ad like this makes up for a hundred naff ones. As just an uplifting video, it's good, but as an advert for Google ...

Gavin Chipper

Top interview with Ed Miliband - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZtVm8wt ... e=youtu.be

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If Hawkeye is more accurate than the line judges, they might as well use it for every call. You might argue that it would waste time, but presumably the drawn-out simulation we see is just for dramatic effect, and it could do it all "in its head" in next to no time. Not sure about this. F...

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