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Jon Corby wrote:Jeremy Irons = Jeremy's Iron

I love it.

Jon Corby = Jon C. Orby

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Jon O'Neill wrote:Can someone point me to the post where Jessica asked for a personality assessment? This all seems a bit unnecessary.

Yeah. This all seems a bit over the top. Having said that, Jono, in assessing your personality, I think you are a complete cunt.

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Excellent news, hopefully it will happen, seeing the greats battling it out makes great TV viewing. :) I would prefer to see it seeded like the supreme championship was though, with it building up to a big dramatic final showdown. I don't really want to see the favs eg. Kirk, Conor, Innis etc knock...

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Dan McColm wrote:Heh, yeah, there's no way I was ever going to apply anyway though!

I mean, I think you should apply anyway.

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The reason for the disruption was that Susie's eye didn't clear up, got more painful and she gave up after the morning's two recordings and went home. That afternoon recordings were cancelled, not sure when the rest of this week was recorded. Couldn't someone else who can read a dictionary stand in?

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We need fairly matched contestants and well-balanced games, so with the utmost respect to all players, it's unlikely we'd want people who maybe lost their first game Wot no Kirk? :-) But more seriously, no Dan McColm? But if you read what he said: We need fairly matched contestants and well-balance...

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This sounds gruesome.* I hope all the big names are up for it (well, a lot of them anyway).

*Like awesome but better

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Jack Worsley wrote:3rd numbers: (8x6-3)x7-4 = 311

I did (8*6-4)*7+3

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I agree with people that say that there needs to be more mental maths in schools, but the problem is the structure of the lessons, it is all made to be boring and are told how to solve a maths problem and you are not told how it comes in handy in later life. For example for estimating distances you...

Gavin Chipper · Re: Friday 14 September 2012 (Special S37) RAUNSWC?

RAUNSWC?

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I often eat homemade bread but I've recently found out that it's not entirely made from scratch so the stuff probably has some salt in. But there's less salt than in "normal" bread and it's fine. And the vegetables I eat definitely aren't cooked in salt, and they're fine. I still have take...

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I don't see why this would be such a problem for David to run as his first tournament. I've not run an Apterous tournament myself, but I don't think a few annoyances like trying to make sure people complete their matches on time (I mean, that's the main thing, right?) require that someone should hav...

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By the way, I saw a celebrity version of this the other day, and they all got knocked out, but were allowed one person back (Jimmy Carr) for the final chase with £20000 to play for. He was the final person to be knocked out and had taken a step forward to try and get £100,000 and lost. But had he no...

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Since the butter melts into the bread, would you notice if it was initially in the bread? Bread & butter. Yes. Cold toast & butter. Yes. Hot toast & butter - haven't done an experiment, but since I like salted bread with butter, I can't see the point. By the way, I see eating bread/toas...

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In the 1500m, the 25 fastest times ever were run between 1995 and 2004 and (although there’s the odd anomaly) this is pretty much true of all the track events up to 10000m; all the fastest times were set within a fairly definable window. It can’t be coincidence that this window ends abruptly at the...

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Can you really compare the effects of drugs in F1 to other sports? No. For simplicity, it makes sense only to have drug testing in sports where certain drugs are known to have a beneficial effect on performance. I'm not sure that this is the case in F1. Even in sports that rightly have drug testing...

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Hmm, I'm a minimal user of salt (one of those 750g table salt things will probably last me 10-20 years - I think I'm on my second since leaving home in 1985) - but I'm going to disagree about salt in bread: for me it needs to be in both the bread and the butter - it's a savoury delicacy (I absolute...

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Cure cancer? Good answer. It might seem obvious, but none of the other 1260 members of this forum could think of it or anything better in the amount of time it took you to come up with it. It would still be tough though. A lot of people would still vote for people like Jesus and Mohammed, so would ...

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If someone alive today wants* to become considered the greatest human being ever**, what would they have to do in their life to achieve it? They've have to overcome supernatural greats like Jesus, as well as sporting racing great Damon Hill. They're not allowed to achieve this by any "supernatu...

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It seems such an obscure part of a verb that I wouldn't even expect it to necessarily exist in all languages. I am going "to eat". I could just say I will eat, and it doesn't exist any more. So I'm not really sure I get why we talk about the verb "to do", for example, rather than...

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Do you put salt in the water when you cook your vegetables? If you do, you should stop immediately, because it makes them taste horrible. If you make sweet things, do you add a bit of salt? Well you shouldn't. It's a complete myth that adding salt into things that aren't meant to be salty somehow &q...

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Cheers for the suggestions Conor, the only problem with asking contestants who are not on apterous is that it would be near impossible to get in contact with them all and valuable time will be wasted. What's the rush? Well I dunno about aynone else, but I'm 90 this year, so I'm already pretty much ...

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I agree with a lot of what Conor says. I would open it to anyone from series 34 onwards, even if there aren't many around from the early part of that. You could even do it from series 1 (not that that would add many to the list either). I'd leave open the number of contestants (e.g. 32 or 64) while ...

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I think you should Aptomail them as well, and send a few threats for those unwilling to take part.

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I think they're all on drugs and I don't care. I think we just just allow people to take performance enhancing drugs and work on making them safer so people who don't want to risk the dangers can still compete. I think it would be very difficult (impossible) to make them safe. If you legalised all ...

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More Armstrong news

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By the way, I haven't read all of that thread, but have read quite a bit. To summarise some of it: The event that seems to get the most stick is the men's 1500m. They seem to think that pretty much all of the top ten all-time runners (based on time) were on drugs. Hicham El Guerrouj (the world recor...

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Jon O'Neill wrote:I did read ten pages, and it's quite disheartening stuff, even with the necessary pinch of salt.

It is. I've always liked athletics, and I've always assumed that most of the women's records from the 1980s were dodgy, but this is something else entirely.

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In case you don't know, Lance Armstrong has given up defending himself against drug allegations, and it seems that he's being stripped of his Tour de France titles. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/19369375 I find the procedures a bit odd here though. He's said that it's not because he's guilty ...

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Ian Volante wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:
Ian Volante wrote:But the race is on the Sunday!
I'd still likely be stuck out in the middle of nowhere at that point.
It's on the radio.

Radio?! Referee!

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19330297

Ex-Countdown contestant Brett Smitheram doing a thing on Scrabble.

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Ian Volante wrote:But the race is on the Sunday!

I'd still likely be stuck out in the middle of nowhere at that point.

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I could be interested in doing this, but there is the Abu Dhabi GP that weekend, but good luck also means that I happen to have the following week off work (something that always helps), so it's in the balance.

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Booked! But only for the Saturday night. The Friday night sale rate was coming up as £29.00 and then the Saturday was £19.50. But then strangely if you just did a normal search without following their nice big red 'Price Drop' link it came up as £19.00. Strange. Also, strange is the fact that almos...

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I take it the last bit was sarcastic? "this is probably worth thinking about, if everyone doesn't mind paying £7 an extra per room per night." Looking at last year's thread, the special prices were available on 24th November, so I presume it will be around the same time this year? Are peop...

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James Robinson wrote:
Jordan F wrote:C2: Challenger Mark Eaton
Note: It's EADEN, not EATON.

You can tell that this recap is American!

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I think if I was doing a system on rankings, it could use Aptoranks/some other prior knowledge for round 1, but then recalculate the ranks based on the tournament once it's started. So only the round 1 games would be pre-determined. The first round could even be random. Particularly with the moveab...

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The fairest system would probably be one that gives each player opponents that best reflect the whole opposition on offer. So, if you have six opponents, you might have one from the top sixth, one from the next sixth and so on. And I don't think people would have a problem with this. I think some o...

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I decided that here is the best place to post this rather than starting a new thread. Basically, I was thinking about the Swiss pairs/triples system, and while I think it can be a good system, I don't think it necessarily needs to be used for every tournament ever. (It's been used at all the CO even...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzO9osqs4-Y Thanks - I enjoyed watching that. I was disappointed he beat my 11.1 (the same as what he declared to be the "world record") with his 10.9 in the hurdles. I don't know what his "special technique" is, but it certainly seems to work quit...

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Jennifer Steadman wrote:Sorry about collapsing your house, Gev.

That's OK. It appears that it was designed to do that at the end of the night anyway.

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It's always nice to star in other people's dreams. Good work.

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Got 45 on the basketball. Tried for ages to get 48 but couldn't manage it.

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11.7s

Edit - 11.1s

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A great event, well organised, and I really enjoyed it.

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JimBentley wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:I write a diary entry each night
New thread please.
Seconded. You can't throw something as momentous as the existence of The Gevin Diaries out there and not at least give us some excerpts.

They're quite boring really.

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Great game from both players. Edward showed the relentlessness he showed in his series that makes him an all-time great.

I have to say though, Graeme, SIZEABLE seemed the less risky option to me as well as being the longer word!

And why have we not had a Hurst/Garner match?

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I write a diary entry each night, and if I'm knackered and falling asleep, sometimes a few words of bollocks can creep in before I come to my senses. So I suppose it's the same sort of thing. I'm surprised that Joseph could just do this on demand though.

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Ian Volante wrote:
David Barnard wrote:Down for me too
I wouldn't post if it wasn't down for everyone

Well, down for you and the website that claims to be checking for everyone anyway.

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Don't get me wrong I would love to see a C of C event, when you have players that have been on for the past few years it really would be great viewing. BUT maybe we could do our own C of C tourney on apterous exclusively for the top players that have been on the show that are on apterous, just a th...

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Realistically, I think very few viewers would have a problem with a 15-game CofC with top players every couple of years or so. Not doing one is just the preference of the current Countdown team rather than anything else.

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Ryan Taylor wrote:The Countdown wiki has most of the historical information. Assuming you may have spelt her surname wrong, she didn't do too great.

Lucky she pilfered the conundrum, or it would have been terrible.

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Why not post the results on here?

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When are we going to do "another" one of these?

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Cant Joseph just be put through if he has made more effort to get the game played?

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The Chase is a bit of a shit format as well though in't it?

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Interesting that they picked the two most miserable-sounding contestants to kick off the series.

Somebody wrote:Blah, blah, blah. Don't slag off the contestants.

Just pointing out what you were all thinking, not even slagging them off.

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Great semi-final and great play by both players. But as Jack says, who gets what numbers choice can make a difference. Having said that, if both players had two picks, the result would probably have been the same anyway.

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Tony Atkins wrote:Well done to Nick for keeping his cool, shame Suzy missed on the numbers.
The easy way to 878 is ((100+10)x8)-(5-3) of course.

You are objectively correct this time. (Because that's how I got it.)

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I think the thing here is not that forumites should censor any honest comments they have about the game or play, it's just how they're said. No-one would take offence if you said that this wasn't Jack's best performance - even if said before he said it himself - because it's a fair comment. Activel...

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