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Fiona T

OK, so back to David Cameron. Rishi Sunak has literally just taken some guy off the street to be his foreign secretary. He is not an MP and was not in the House of Lords. It could have been you. It could have been me. It could have been Brian Cox (either of them). But it just happened to be David C...

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Sounds like a good time was had by all

Are the results published anywhere please?

Fiona T

Ridiculous that OUTGRABES has found its way into the dictionary. OUTGRABE is used in The Jabberwocky as the past tense (of outgribe according to Humpty Dumpty) and you can't stick an s on the end. Aye, but it's there outgrabe VERB Used as a nonsense word: (most frequently) to emit a strange noise.....

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Linford Wood for parkrun

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I think she means that it should be aeroplane mode. Well that too, but what I actually meant was the whole being asked to put it in airplane mode on an aeroplane. What's that about? 80% of people don't bother. If not doing so causes a real risk then they should be banned, not a polite announcement ...

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Airplane mode

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From an atheist perspective, where is morality birthed from? How do we know what is good and what is evil? The natural state of the world is one of natural selection-survival of the fittest, the strong killing the weak. Where do human rights and calls for equality come into it? Humanist worksheet (...

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I do believe I would have found my way, for I did (kind of). My parents are agnostic/atheist, I wasn’t brought up going to church, they are relatively anti-faith in many respects. I came faith when I was 12 via school assembly and a quite rocky summer (long story) But that's my point. If you'd atte...

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Well this is exciting!!

https://www.parkrun.org.uk/yarboroughleisurecentre/

Y was looking like the trickiest alphabet letter for me - York being crazy expensive! Too good an opportunity to miss for me.

Anyone wanna join me for this one?

Fiona T

Sorry, my quotes went to shite - I've given up :) The Christian belief "No-one comes to the Father but by me" is something you presumably fundamentally believe. Just taking the Abrahamic religions, there are as many people (give or take a few million) who don't believe that as do. Assuming...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 8:52 pm I assume there is evidence that jesus existed and also the apostles and probably the crucifiction

That's not old testament

Fiona T

[...] religion is not a requirement to live a [...] meaningful life. I think it could be said that religion is a requirement to live an objectively meaningful life, with the caveat that it is almost certain that the objective behind that meaning is false. I believe that's essentially the main reaso...

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My parents used to have a copy of Constable's The Haywain in their (incredibly 1970s) front room. I didn't know you have copies of things at the time, sooo, yeah. I remember my daughter getting very excited when she read in her teletubbies comic that Van Gogh's sunflowers sold for over £20,000,000 ...

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..there is nought wrong with Christian values. Oh I think there's plenty wrong with a lot of Christian values. Inequality, homophobia, mysoginism for starters I suspect those aren't the values you mean though - you mean love, honesty, helping those less fortunate etc, etc... Christians don't have a...

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For those that believe in God... Do you think the God you worship is the same God that the Christians/Muslims/Jews worship? It seems to me that most of the troubles in today's world are around not what God you believe in, but how you worship your God. Is he really that insecure that he'll damn those...

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Agree with the above sentiments Adam. A well balanced and thoughtful post.

Fiona T

Surely you're used to pacing yourself in km so that makes sense. My watch is in km, my Edge (used for longer cycles) is in miles. But Strava shows everything in km anyway. You can change your Strava settings to show in miles if you prefer. Personally I always use km unless I'm doing a race that fit...

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You declare '9 nwd' to buy yourself an extra few seconds. I know you're not saying you approve of this behaviour, nor that you would ever try it yourself (I am sure you wouldn't). Just a good time to point out to people for when they host games. If a player has a NWD and it seems like they could be...

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/ The current state of Israel is a terrorist organisation as much as Hamas is. They are committing war crimes. It is not antisemitic to point this out. Left wing labour would have been elected if it had ...

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It's is plausible. Selection is RUDVATISE You look at it, think you know there's a 9 but brain can't dredge it up. You declare '9 nwd' to buy yourself an extra few seconds. Your opponent feels they have to match you so declares the 9 they weren't sure of. You don't have it so declare RUDVATISE. Your...

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C2 leads C1 by 15 points going into the last letters game. C1 declares a 9. C2 then declares a risky 9. C1's word is just the letters spelt out as they are in the selection and disallowed. C2's word is a valid 8 with an S on the end - plausible but disallowed. The lead remains at 15 points. C1 then...

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Guilty, guilty. Can't be bothered to change the units on my watch. Can you not do the conversion in your head, Mr Numbers? And sometimes I have nothing to say about a mundane run. I'm not sure "Easy Flitch Way 8-miler" is any more imaginative than "Morning Run". Well, on Strava ...

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I think it looks great, but co:rugby is nowt to do with me

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I gather there's a discussion on the Apterous wiki about whether I'm a troll (https://wiki.apterous.org/Talk:Jane_Guestin). I'm not, I'm genuinely Jane's daughter! I have a VHS with this episode on, and have extracted an image showing the correct spelling of my mum's name - but I can't figure out h...

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Good stuff Andy - enjoyed the last one a lot! Will look at options...

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We both wussed out of Edinburgh (terrible weather) - no parkrunners that I'm aware of!

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In the last day or so, comments on my watched topics in this forum have been triggering an e-mail to me. This hasn't happened in years, and I can't seem to stop it happening. What did I do? Haven't had any (yet) but looking at my settings it does appear to have changed. Suspect a forum software upg...

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I've always found the conundrum a slightly awkward and clunky part of Countdown, as it's the only part that's subject to the whims of the organiser and open to bias. It's basically impossible to make it completely "right" in that respect, so you just have to do the best you can. One thing...

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Everyone is different physically, and it seems inevitable that some clothing items will assist some athletes more than others. Recent research showed that a properly fitting running bra increased performance. Now I'm only speculating, but I imagine that this would benefit a larger breasted athlete a...

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The rodent and I are doing Portobello parkrun if anyone fancies joining us!

Fiona T

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2023 1:07 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 1:18 pm Assefa breaks the women's Marathon record
From 2:14:04 to 2:11:53. Absolutely massive. Some people think all the new shoes devalue the records.

Yeah everyone should run bare-footed a-la Zola Budd

Fiona T

It's up and down. Mars bars suddenly got bigger, then got smaller again.

According to google "In the 1980s, a standard Mars bar weighed 49g, increased to 65g in the 1990s and dropped to 51g today."

Of course there's the sugar tax too now...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 9:09 pm Who ran at Blackpool?

Me, Stephen, Maus, Callum - think that was it

https://www.parkrun.org.uk/blackpool/results/267/

Fiona T

See http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=16119 - way off yet, but hope to see lots of you there!

Fiona T

Countdown is returning to Reading in 2024! This event will be part of the FOCAL calendar. When is it? 20 April 2024. Doors will open at 10:40, with the first round draw taking place shortly after. Please arrive before 11:00. Where is it? Hemdean House School Hall - a 20 minute walk from Reading stat...

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George doppelganger in Blackpool karaoke bar

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James Robinson wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 7:53 pm Purely, as I’ve never done Guildford, it would be nice to visit Guildford.

Well you can jump on the train to Guildford from Reading

Fiona T

Hi all, A little update, as it has been a while.😄😎👍 As our numbers aren’t really near the levels I was hoping we might have by now, I’ve made the decision to alter the format to “Bristol” format, as it’s a bit rubbish to have what seems like a relatively small number for “Lincoln” format, and it’s ...

Fiona T

Update - they got back to me They suggested using the 'search' function, which works pretty well if the word you're looking for is listed as a variant (e.g. awheto/piva) - returns a match saying it's a variant and gives you the headword to look up. It works less well for inflections of variants - so...

Fiona T

Any techie folk out there who are bored... I'm putting something together to return a short definition of a word using the Oxford API . (Happy to supply more details to anyone who needs some motivation to help with this problem!) You can get an API key for free that gives you 3,000 requests per mont...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 8:29 am Done. It somehow got buried in my feed.

All is right with the world again

Fiona T

I give kudos (essentially likes on Strava for those who have no idea what's going on) to pretty much everything in my feed, but if I come across something like "Evening activity" with nothing to explain what might have happened, it goes unkudosed. I did a run yesterday and Gev hasn't kudo...

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World peace.

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Adam S Latchford wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2023 1:00 pm if it was the weekend 18th and 19th may, could ping the henley tough mudder in afterwards and it'd guarantee me coming

Haha sounds fun!

Currently looking towards end of April - watch this space...

Fiona T

Our atoms live on forever so we're all immortal. We'll just morph into something else.

Fiona T

Hello :) I'm considering options for hosting an event in 2024 (possibly May). Lesley would be happy to co-host Brighton again, but I was considering doing an event in Reading or Guildford instead - both have good transport connections, and hotels appear to be a lot cheaper than Brighton too, as well...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 9:51 pm I still need to do the points for this. And then we had CO:LON, so I need to sort that out too.

Can't get the staff...

Fiona T

Maybe off topic, but brought this story to mind -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-65422489

Slightly different to hiring an escort for your teenager though!

Fiona T

3) I'm with you on the idea that you shouldn't be forced to kiss relatives if you don't want to. I'm not sure it has quite the same sexual undertone as this, but yeah kissing relatives is a bit weird. While we're at it, can we also get rid of polite kisses on the cheek when greeting people you bare...

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I know nothing about the guy, and watching the clip it did look as if he got carried away in the excitement of the moment, but that does not make it excusable. You'd expect, on realising the recipient of the kiss was unhappy about it, that he'd apologise genuinely and learn from it. It's not fine to...

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Thank you Tony, it was a fun event!

Fiona T

I'm most likely doing dollis hill parkrun (Gladstone apparently) because it's the nearest to my crappy budget hostel. 500 points each if nobody else joins us I guess Who else is doing mso? I'm signed up (unless I'm not in which case Tony please yell at me) Can't make Co:Lon but hope you all have a ...

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Tough questions on the zoom call, I cocked up on the 30% question. Tips for anyone auditioning Have a pen and paper handy and don't do your zoom in a noisy garden cafe. Nobody got to the 1%question so fingers crossed they get back to me. Filming end of October /early November Did they carry on, or ...

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What's the difference between refugees from war-torn Ukraine, and refugees from war-torn Syria? (sounds like a joke needing a punchline, but am genuinely confused why one set is welcomed and the other are shunned) edit to add, I'm not genuinely confused - it's bleedin' obvious, but a terrible reflec...

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2023 1:32 pm Paul Tallmey, Countdown alumnus, is a subtitle writer.

As is Shireen Hibs/Ahmed - I believe she does the subtitles for Countdown

Fiona T

Nothing is touching. Slapping your hand on a table is simply a demonstration of the repulsion of a large number of atoms not wanting to be any closer to each other because their nuclei share the same charge. Atoms are tiny, and electromagnetic forces extend way beyond the nuclei which contain the p...

Fiona T

Gonna cycle from Newcastle to Edinburgh over a few days before the event - in the unlikely event anyone fancies joining me for any of it then shout!

(Route roughly this https://pedal-power.co.uk/holidays/coas ... nd-routes/)

Fiona T

I'll be honest, I still don't really get it. It's like when they say that molecules (or atoms or whichever it is) are made up of electrons or whatever orbiting nucleuses through magnetism, meaning they are mostly just loads of empty space. How can everything be made up of mostly empty space! And wh...

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Well if they do reinstate him, presumably they will have to publish the unseen evidence that throws significant doubt on his guilt or there would be a huge backlash

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If Rachel Riley knows more about the case than I do She really does. You can be quite intellectually lazy sometimes, far more willing to give opinions than research them. Like Jono says, the case has taken place very publicly, and there's transcripts/audio files out there from which to draw your ow...

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