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- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:57 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The 1% Club
- Replies: 70
- Views: 18517
Re: The 1% Club
I've noticed the questions are becoming much more solvable but there is more emphasis in being against the clock whereby a lot of question require counting quickly
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 324
- Views: 77391
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
And less consonantsIan Volante wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:13 pmI like my women with more chin.Mark James wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:50 am The Marchioness of Cholmondeley is better looking than Kate Middleton.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 647
- Views: 337270
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Both countries combined constituting more than a third of the world population is insane Similarly, the US still being third if you added another billion people to it Article in the Sunday Times today. The population of Africa is similar to that of India and China, about 1.4 billion. Projections fo...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 647
- Views: 337270
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
The most recent Taoiseach is of mixed race and is gay
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:35 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816685
Re: Politics in General
I've noticed that the first minister of the home nations tick a lot of the diversity boxes and gender (in the case of Norther Ireland.
Isn't it time The Tea Shop was a first minister of colour
Isn't it time The Tea Shop was a first minister of colour
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 324
- Views: 77391
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Rose Hanbury.Mark James wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:50 am The Marchioness of Cholmondeley is better looking than Kate Middleton.
Is she the one that Prince William was knobbing.
Yes I shouldn't kick a man when he is down, (wife and dad with cancer an estranged from his brother)
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:50 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What films have you watched lately?
- Replies: 438
- Views: 304330
Re: What films have you watched lately?
12 Angry Men. Forget Oppenheimer. This is a film. Very much recommended. Its probably in my top ten of best American movies of all time. IMDB has it as no 5 in the all time ratings. (Oppenheimer is 88) So for context Oppenheimer not bad but 12 Angry Men is exceptional Am I right in saying there wer...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:53 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What films have you watched lately?
- Replies: 438
- Views: 304330
Re: What films have you watched lately?
12 Angry Men. Forget Oppenheimer. This is a film. Very much recommended. Its probably in my top ten of best American movies of all time. IMDB has it as no 5 in the all time ratings. (Oppenheimer is 88) So for context Oppenheimer not bad but 12 Angry Men is exceptional Am I right in saying there wer...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:01 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 743485
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
That's what I meant, and if it cut the accelerator when activated it might encourage safer drivingIan Volante wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:34 pmWhy use AI when a simple distance sensor would do the job?
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:13 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 743485
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Maybe in the future AI will stop cars going too closs
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 5:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 69
- Views: 18111
Re: The Dead of 2024
Most here will need to Google but one of my favourite singers of the 70s, Steve Harley has passed away
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:45 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 647
- Views: 337270
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Both countries combined constituting more than a third of the world population is insaneGavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:12 pm It's possible I was aware of this at the time but forgot, but India apparently overtook China as the most populous country last year.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:55 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What films have you watched lately?
- Replies: 438
- Views: 304330
Re: What films have you watched lately?
One of the few subjects I can profess to be something of an xxpert on is the Oscars. There have only been a handful of films to win the big four. I do take your point that best picture winners tend to win multiple awards but that's understandable. The Last Time best film and Actor was from the same ...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What films have you watched lately?
- Replies: 438
- Views: 304330
Re: What films have you watched lately?
Oppenheimer. Mostly tedious and far too long. Also what a coincidence that when the hive mind decides a film is the best of the year, it also has e.g. the best actor in it as well. Not sure why people pay attention to the Oscars. It's just the incestuous film industry getting together to self-congr...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:18 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: FOCAL Belts
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6099
Re: FOCAL Belts
Only if you bring an Ouija boardMatt Morrison wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 3:30 pm Will probably have to wait a while before we can get all the Sex Offender's Register Belt contestants together, but there should be a decent entry.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 743485
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Why do people spend their whole lives earning and saving, to then do nothing with it except leave it to other people in their will? I find it quite baffling when people feel obligated to do so - any money you've earned should be yours to enjoy, and the whole societal expectation that you should be ...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:25 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 743485
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Is it a rule everywhere? I've never noticed a sign at my local Tesco when filling up. I wouldn't know not to play on my phone at the same time. It could be a rule that has changed without the signage having come down. I still see the odd stay 2 metres apart sign from the days of covid in various pl...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 3:18 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 324
- Views: 77391
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
People walking their dogs should have poo bags on them anyway and are part of the wider dog walking community, so if they see some dog poo that didn't come from their own dog, they should pick it up anyway and not be all "Well it's nothing to do with me" about it. Especially on that bridg...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:35 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 324
- Views: 77391
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
I guess a discarded burger could be mistaken for a dog pooDavid Williams wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:22 am It would be nice if the wider McDonalds-eating community acted in similar fashion.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:44 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 324
- Views: 77391
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
People walking their dogs should have poo bags on them anyway and are part of the wider dog walking community, so if they see some dog poo that didn't come from their own dog, they should pick it up anyway and not be all "Well it's nothing to do with me" about it. Especially on that bridg...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 11:48 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: FOCAL Belts
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6099
Re: FOCAL Belts
Lucky losers ie player with the closest set of losing games.
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: FOCAL Belts
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6099
Re: FOCAL Belts
One time Countdown appearance over 60 and bald.
Surely the best chance for me to win a belt
Surely the best chance for me to win a belt
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:56 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: FOCAL Belts
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6099
Re: FOCAL Belts
Just a fun idea. If across FOCAL tournaments there were belts different categories like in boxing. Examples - Over 40s - Ladies - Hasn't been on the show - Tom (there's enough Toms to justify it) What categories would you have? The first two would be interesting, with Countdown dominated by men und...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:43 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The 1% Club
- Replies: 70
- Views: 18517
Re: The 1% Club
I can't remember how the question was worded.
Even though each answer decreases by 22
Lee said 10 was the answer because it was the numerals in descending order.
Even though each answer decreases by 22
Lee said 10 was the answer because it was the numerals in descending order.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:36 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The 1% Club
- Replies: 70
- Views: 18517
Re: The 1% Club
2 x a half is 1 so sequentially it would workElliott Mellor wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:17 pmWhy would a half be an acceptable answer?Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:23 pm Saturdays 1% question
Spoilers below
Would a half been acceptable given the sequence before?
Also each sequence is 22 greater than the one below
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:23 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The 1% Club
- Replies: 70
- Views: 18517
Re: The 1% Club
Saturdays 1% question
Spoilers below
Would a half been acceptable given the sequence before?
Also each sequence is 22 greater than the one below
Spoilers below
Would a half been acceptable given the sequence before?
Also each sequence is 22 greater than the one below
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:27 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The 1% Club
- Replies: 70
- Views: 18517
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:29 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 743485
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Art is subjective.Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:16 pm What's so iconic about the Abbey Road album cover? It's just some people walking.
I only like the fact that Paul is barefoot which helped to fan the flames of the "Paul is dead" myth.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 2:04 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 743485
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Why did people have to wire their own plugs in the past? Stuff came without a plug on. Insane. This is boomer territory A lot of things didn't have plugs in the days before moulded plugs were commonplace. Possibly to keep the cost down.. Possibly because there wasn't a standardised plug for various...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 215587
Re: The C4C Football Thread
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/68eKjE4CkrCiHGJY/
This is unbelievable how women's football was treated just over 50 years ago
This is unbelievable how women's football was treated just over 50 years ago
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816685
Re: Politics in General
Interested to see George Galloways speech on Gaza
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:40 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 647
- Views: 337270
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Interestingly it's normally Beatles Songs that get ripped off.
Taxman and Tomorrow Never Knows spring to mind
Taxman and Tomorrow Never Knows spring to mind
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:47 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 647
- Views: 337270
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Well there are lots of songs that sound similar by accident.Ian Volante wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:05 pmInspired by I'd say. I doubt they set out to copy it.Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:05 pm Sun King is a blatant rip off of Albatross and these are two totally separate and distinct songs.
Particularly riffs
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:07 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 774
- Views: 685491
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
True Detective. Night Country. A bit confusing at times, but it all made sense in the end. Jodie Foster was very good, as was her co-star, Kali Reis. Spoiler Alert I enjoyed it too though all the supernatural stuff turned to be a bit of a red herring in the end. It didn't have all the true detectiv...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 9:56 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: MEAKIN THREAD
- Replies: 62
- Views: 30273
Re: MEAKIN THREAD
Rather than start another thread or trawl through to find a more suitable thread I will post this her.
Just found the AI website Riffusion and had a morning laughing my head off creating silly lyrics and having an AI voice sing them in different music genres.
Just found the AI website Riffusion and had a morning laughing my head off creating silly lyrics and having an AI voice sing them in different music genres.
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 7:19 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 647
- Views: 337270
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
I suppose people are using "sub" to just mean "not as good as" in this case, rather than "numerically less than", but it is slightly weird. On a related note, people often talk about something having really low odds when they mean low probability. Low odds is the oppos...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 647
- Views: 337270
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Par can also mean face valueMark James wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:08 pm If something is sub par it means it's not good however sub means under or below and the word par comes from golf, and in golf it's good if you are under par so the expression kind of doesn't make sense.
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 774
- Views: 685491
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Last Tango In Halifax.
Late to the party but it's well written and acted.
We have made a decision to stop watching depressing soaps and watch quality serial dramas instead
Late to the party but it's well written and acted.
We have made a decision to stop watching depressing soaps and watch quality serial dramas instead
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:24 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 69
- Views: 18111
Re: The Dead of 2024
Oh yeah I was thinking of Rosemary Shrager.
Who is a cook and a lady, also fat and still alive
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 67327
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/68440268
Still wanna see his one day
Still wanna see his one day
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 69
- Views: 18111
Re: The Dead of 2024
So now we have one hairy biker and one fat lady.Paul Worsley wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:35 pmYes
Maybe they should team up
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Interesting things that aren't necessarily completely obvious
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7697
Re: Interesting things that aren't necessarily completely obvious
Back in the day when we used to roller skate the teletext before surfing the internetMark James wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 4:41 pm I have loads of films recording off the tv on vhs tapes. Apparently it is possible to recover old teletext data from those tapes.
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:08 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 69
- Views: 18111
Re: The Dead of 2024
The hairy biker?
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 4:25 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 69
- Views: 18111
Re: The Dead of 2024
Very sad about Richard Lewis.
Didnt really know him before Curb but like with Bob Einstein (Funkhouser) I have since checked out his stand up and he was a very funny guy
Didnt really know him before Curb but like with Bob Einstein (Funkhouser) I have since checked out his stand up and he was a very funny guy
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816685
Re: Politics in General
In defence of Tal (not that he needs defending), he's affected by this shitshow very directly, where as the rest of us have the privilege of commentating from the sidelines. I think if you were designing the solution from scratch you'd have one utopian democratic state where everyone lived happily,...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:55 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816685
Re: Politics in General
This is quite an interesting speech at the ICJ about Israel's crimes against Palestine over the years. I noticed he mentions 1967 but not it's significance. Agreed that the attacks against Israel were not Palestinian but the reason was to create a fortress for Israel. But it's time we had a Palesti...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The 1% Club
- Replies: 70
- Views: 18517
Re: The 1% Club
It's moot unless any of the contestants answered the alternate choices
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:05 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 743485
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I guess the height of the thing gives you a nice view of whatever.Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 12:18 pm What the hell problem was the penny farthing trying to solve?
If we still used them now you could see how bad the traffic is
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:54 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 774
- Views: 685491
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
One Day on Netflix. Not the sort of show I would usually watch it's basically 15 episodes of a relationship between 2 friends and sometimes lovers Based on the book by David Nicholas. The writing is top notch and the 2 leads are excellent. Its so easy to binge, given that each episode is around 30 m...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 7:15 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 69
- Views: 18111
Re: The Dead of 2024
I should have said played by John Savident, I say John Savident 86 RIPMarc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:29 pm Fred Elliott from Corrie has died, I say Fred Elliott from Corrie has died.
RIP
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 774
- Views: 685491
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
The current and probably last Series of Curb. Still one of the only shows on TV to make me actually belly laugh.... well until the next Tory Party political broadcast at least. I love all the peripheral characters more than Larry, especially Suzie and Leon and now Tracy Ullman getting the best lines...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:22 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 324
- Views: 77391
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Too many Mar(k/c)s. Maybe we can refer to Marc James as MJ. Although that may not be a handle he would like under the circumstances. You can call me Meakin for simplicity, my missus does as she had a brother called Mark (though he passed away 6 years ago the name has stuck.) Which will be fun when ...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:29 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 69
- Views: 18111
Re: The Dead of 2024
Fred Elliott from Corrie has died, I say Fred Elliott from Corrie has died.
RIP
RIP
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:38 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 324
- Views: 77391
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
The one I went to was a stag do. Even though I was 18 I was so shy and green I wasn't even sure what was happening apart from that there was a comedian. My older mates said we can get a seat at the front. It was like going to Sea world in ad much as anyone worth their salt doesn't sit in the front r...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:18 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 324
- Views: 77391
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Probably not that unpopular within the unrepresentative population sample that is the C4C community, but in the eider world, it seems to be: I, a straight and reasonably normally libidoed man even with the sertraline, have absolutely no desire to go to a strip club After getting humiliated at the o...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 5:42 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 67327
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
I can fully understand why existing athletes are whinging about this idea, as they've practised for a long time to perfect the take-off. If it becomes just a long jump event rather than a long jump from as close to an arbitary line as possible, then it simply renders a lot of their work obsolete. D...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 67327
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
That would be very interesting but by reducing the take-off gap to zero, it does kind of break old records. They do generally show the gap to the line nowadays anyway, but I don't know if they know the gaps for the old records of Mike Powell and Jonathan Edwards. I agree that old records should be ...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:08 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 67327
Re: Track and Field Athletics
Aye, but you can't ask people to jump over nothing. The bar provides a point in space to aim for, and tactile feedback, both crucial. I'd agree that the distance above the bar might also be measured by such a method, another way of doing this could be to have them jumping over a large pile of tiny ...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:03 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 647
- Views: 337270
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
I was toying with posting this in another thread but I've just found out that French people are prone to dipping their breakfast pastries, croissants and baguettes in their hot drink as part of their breakfast ritual
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 11:37 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The 1% Club
- Replies: 70
- Views: 18517
Re: The 1% Club
Season 3 has started and there has been a significant shift to logic questions over word related ones (apart from the 1% question ironically) I find to make the show more enjoyable towards the sharp end I'm freeze framing the questions to give me enough time to get it right. I usually have to read q...