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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 1:08 pm Where is Jim Bentley?

Have you really always wanted this answered?
If so that's pretty weird.

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There's definitely an element of cooling when slurping soup or coffee.

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That's fantastic.

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Who has ever thought Twitter, or any other social media platform, would be a place to have a serious discussion about anything?

Now a Countdown forum, on the other hand, is perfect.

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If you want multiple accounts on some platform then they are generally not clever enough to distinguish between the above as well.

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Yes it is.

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People who laugh at the jokes in Shakespeare.

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Wow, that's really awesome of Phil.

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And don't forget that "I hope it's an A" was in direct reply to Rachel aslkng what he wanted :!: :shock: Another classic thread revived. This was a great re-read. But I can't let this piece of revisionist history go by. When the second "I" came out Jack murmurs "that's a sh...

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The fact that this guy created a Top 100 and didn't include Countdown is enough to undermine any of his subsequent output.

With that said, I have voted.

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If you really can't see why people would be so galled by this then you must be severely lacking in imagination. It sounds like you have no appreciation for the sacrifices some people are making to maintain social distancing. I don't count myself in that number but I know of people who are in childca...

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Can't get my head round "cocktail or drink". Is a cocktail not classed as a drink? My personal Microsoft paperclip does it again. This is a brilliant comeback and I can't wait to use it on someone in real life. Gin and tonic is the drink for all occasions. Any gin is probably fine but a p...

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I took a quick look into this based on apterous data. I only considered games that are reasonably simulations of Countdown, i.e. human-vs-human games with normal rules and 30-second rounds. I also only looked at data for the last two years, because the move to the much bigger dictionary presumably ...

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Anyway it was nice to meet you and put a face to a forum personality. You were unfortunate to, as one of the all-time greats, and one of the all-time best pre-Apterous, be drawn against one of the all-time best. Way to slip in an under-the-radar "I'm an all-time best" comment. Which would...

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It does indeed. It's my home page , in fact, and it's super useful. Surely View Unread Posts is more useful? It's what my c4c bookmark points to. I've lost all respect I ever had for you. Probably for a second time, but I'd forgotten about this post. Active topics is better in every way. And you've...

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Just re-read this. Great thread. Still not convinced, myself.

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I can't imagine wanting to watch anything, especially a film, so desperately that I would resort to watching it on a phone. I don't really agree with this. You can hold the phone a few inches from your face, with good headphones, and it's like being in the IMAX. It reminds me of when some film make...

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I liked it for what it was but the format is surely flawed - it's probably easier to face 5 chasers than 1 or 2 in a 1-minute shootout.

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I don't think anyone wants to begrudge the workforce for sure, that's never been an issue. The problem comes with the system, and the media deliberately convolution "a National Health Service" with " the National Health Service". The NHS, at present, is fundamentally flawed thro...

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Where is this information coming from Rhys? Particularly the phone call and details about coughing in the recording that you were counting.

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Quiz has now finished, and if I thought Ep2 was a little loose with the truth, Ep3 was flat out lying at points. - The suggestion that Celador added the coughs to the tapes is unfounded and ridiculous. The coughs were turned up for the trial , not as the original cut. Isn't the tape used at the tri...

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Obviously they cheated, but the video with the coughing raised to the same level as Tarrant and Ingram's voices is a misleading piece of evidence. It feels like such a "gotcha" moment - I remember that feeling when I first watched the Major Fraud documentary. But that's obviously not what ...

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It's what separates us from the animals. It is therefore a huge source of national pride. It's just about the only thing I have any national pride in.

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Yeah I don't really get that one. I get that they closed the London parks because it would be difficult to keep a safe distance. But Snowdonia? I've never been but I can't imagine it was as packed as St. James' Park gets. I went to Hainault Forest Country Park on Saturday and it was very easy to kee...

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Well done for owning up and apologising. It takes bravery to do that and everyone appreciates it.
You've still got a lot of growing up to do, but you're by no means alone in that regard.

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The trouble with knowing how to solve the tactical positions you will see in a newspaper is that you will only get to one of those positions very rarely, and only if you have outplayed your opponent up to that point. In any case a game between two beginners is usually just a succession of blunders,...

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But what do you think generally about the points I made, other than disagreeing with how I worded them? Ok - there's a conflict in what you described as the prevailing liberal view. But you're wrong about what the prevailing liberal view is. Not suffering from gender dysphoria or knowing too much a...

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Going back to the trans debate, there's a BBC news article here about it and whether children can give informed consent to block puberty etc. Obviously we can go round in circles talking about what it means to be a man or a woman, but it's interesting that the prevailing "liberal" view se...

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I think everyone should use a pen to tap the table.. it's a sharper sound which makes it much easier to adjudicate. I've been using a pen on conundrums forever and it's definitely a competitive advantage to simply twitch your fingers than move your whole arm to bang the table, so I don't know why mo...

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1. c 2. b 3. b - Would be different if the host promised before the round to warn with 5 seconds left. If they promised to but didn't, and the player said their answer as soon as time was up, it'd be a very murky area. 4. b 4 (letters fall off before) - a. round ended when the letters fell off 4 (le...

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If you're bad and want to become below-average like me: Learn the main tactical motifs. Then do simple tactical puzzles (i.e. shouldn't take more than 5 seconds to solve) for hours and hours (it can be fun for someone of our ilk).

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I didn't think it was that great. I mean it was OK but it wasn't very "Inside No 9". There was no twist or was I missing something? (Other than the bit that happened quite early on so doesn't really count.) I was looking at the clock - "10:28" - surely something has to happen no...

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And Season 10 of Curb. Steer clear if you are a snowflake , woke or easily offended ( is that tautology ? ) As someone who has been described as a snowflake on a few occasions, you can safely ignore the steer clear advice - it's great. We all know that The 12 Days of Christine is the best episode o...

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The main part of Gevin's post I'd disagree with is the bit about co-ordination being a "base" skill. Here I admit I'm drawing heavily on Matthew Syed's "Bounce" (which I gather draws a lot in turn from Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers"). Syed is a former British number one...

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It's very good. i really enjoyed it.

Some sound quality issues with Conor unfortunately. In 2020 it seems like these should be solved by now but sadly not. An idea might be to get your guests to record the call as well then you can use their recording of them and your recording of you.

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Good personal hygiene should be required.
Not washing hands after going to the toilet is a bannable offence.

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How could we possibly function in this extreme society, where teachers aren't allowed to beat the shit out of a child, or comfort them? How are fictional men supposed to live with the sceptre of sexual assault accusations looming large over their heads every time they want to sexually assault someon...

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This will answer a couple.

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I always enter into these discussions as a blank slate and if people hold views that I find troubling, I'm happy to explain why I have arrived at my perspective, hammer out the points where we differ, and either agree to disagree or just move on. This goes for literally any subject matter, no matter...

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Have you literally ever done any reading or research into this topic or are you just wanking yourself off on the proposition of a big fun C4C debate like a Braintree Ben Shapiro? I think I know which one it is. more liek gammon chipper lolzzz!! - is 'not renewing a contract' synonymous with 'sackin...

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https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/stop-using-phony-science-to-justify-transphobia/ That is interesting but I'm not sure how much it changes. It starts off by saying that people with XX or XY chromosomes can still end up intersex, but clearly most people don't and that's not what this is a...

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- Everyone who earns up to 100k will be better off - Those who earn between 20-50k will basically be getting a 10% net pay rise overnight - This will raise £6bn for the treasury Don't do any interviews with Nick Ferrari. Someone earning £100K pa would be pay a whopping £15K extra under your propose...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2019 10:58 pm What do you think of a woman losing her job for saying that people can't change their biological sex?

Why have both you and JK Rowling chosen to differentiate between a woman losing her job for that and a man (or other gender)? Why didn't you say "a person losing their job"?

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75% was a nice round number that took the overall picture into "profit" vs. the status quo. What about National Insurance? Are you abolishing it or keeping it the same as it is now? Same as it is now for all other taxes, in the worked example above. Realistically I'd try to get rid of it ...

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The Lib Dems did get 1.4m more votes than the 2017 GE. So that's evidence of the effect. But who's to say the elasticity(/plasticity?) of Tory Remainers' vote is the same as Labour? It's a hard thing to know. I'd be interested to read more statistical analysis of all the above. There are some sweep...

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The Lib Dems did get 1.4m more votes than the 2017 GE. So that's evidence of the effect. But who's to say the elasticity(/plasticity?) of Tory Remainers' vote is the same as Labour? It's a hard thing to know. I'd be interested to read more statistical analysis of all the above. There are some sweepi...

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Sorry - I meant votes. Vote share as well.

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Labour got more votes and more seats this GE than the 2015 GE so to call it their worst defeat since 1935 is a little misleading in a discussion about how they fared. This was the Brexit election. UKIP got 3.9m votes in 2015 and the Brexit party got 600k in 2019. Where did the other 3.3m votes go? I...

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Tory landslide, sadly.

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75% was a nice round number that took the overall picture into "profit" vs. the status quo. With a high non-100% number there is still a financial reward for increasing income. At 100% this is not the case. Between 0% and 100% it's a sliding scale of how much financial reward you get. Appa...

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I'd be interested to know how much different it is. Let's say we start a business together and make £100k profit in year 1. What would be the difference between us paying ourselves £12k salaries and taking £76k out in dividends, vs. paying ourselves £50k salaries? I'm not being lazy... genuinely can...

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There is a general "Prime Minister after the December 2019 General Election" markets around but I can't find any hard and fast rules. I expect that the betting sites will just decide whether they should pay out after the event, in any of Graeme's examples. I don't think they'll be paying ...

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A 75% tax rate on earnings over 50K kills aspiration. Why would anyone start a small business, with all the risk and all the extra work bother? If you started a small business, wouldn't you pay corporation tax (which is much lower)? Unless you decided to pay yourself a pointlessly huge salary inste...

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I endorse this proposal wholeheartedly. A 75% tax rate on earnings over 50K kills aspiration. Why would anyone start a small business, with all the risk and all the extra work bother? If you started a small business, wouldn't you pay corporation tax (which is much lower)? Unless you decided to pay ...

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Here's one that I think fits the theme of this thread perfectly.

Basic potato peelers work in both directions.
Also you don't even have to remove the peeler from the surface of the potato to continue peeling.
This has more than doubled my potato peeling efficiency, and feels a lot safer too.

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It's so nice that I won't take it personally that I have been excluded! I hope it's because of my stupid punctuated name rather than a personal vendetta.

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Yeah it's a thing, and this is a great example of such a thing.
I remember Pendleton's rise to dominance. Amazing part of apterous history.

Nice.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 10:28 pm https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... IiZbNT5rrE
Make of this what you will

The evidence is clear:

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There is a general "Prime Minister after the December 2019 General Election" markets around but I can't find any hard and fast rules. I expect that the betting sites will just decide whether they should pay out after the event, in any of Graeme's examples. I don't think they'll be paying o...

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