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- Tue Aug 23, 2022 8:37 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: 40th Anniversary Celebrations
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4687
Re: 40th Anniversary Celebrations
Colin sounds so happy about working on Countdown, lovely to hear
- Mon Aug 22, 2022 8:15 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
- Replies: 161
- Views: 14530
Re: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
Basically what Gavin said. I have the same inclination as you Fiona, but when I think about it I cannot for the life of me think of any rational justification for it. Is species a relevant distinction for the moral worth of individual experience? Would we save one white rhino rather than 1,000,000 h...
- Mon Aug 22, 2022 8:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Veganism Discussion
- Replies: 117
- Views: 11609
Re: Veganism Discussion
Just because someone mentioned environmental impact of transporting food elsewhere: Follow the Food That's a pretty poor calculator. You have to select exactly one from each category, regardless of whether you consume zero or more than one. It would be much better if you could just put in exactly w...
- Mon Aug 22, 2022 10:23 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Veganism Discussion
- Replies: 117
- Views: 11609
Re: Veganism Discussion
Just because someone mentioned environmental impact of transporting food elsewhere: Follow the Food
- Mon Aug 22, 2022 10:19 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Veganism Discussion
- Replies: 117
- Views: 11609
Re: Veganism Discussion
I hope it's not buttered!
- Mon Aug 22, 2022 10:15 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Which Is Your Favourite Joke?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 13484
Re: Which Is Your Favourite Joke?
I'm going to hijack this thread to discuss this year's winner of Dave's "Funniest Joke of The Fringe" . Won by Olaf Falafel, it goes "I keep randomly shouting out 'Broccoli' and 'Cauliflower' - I think I might have florets". However, it's a bit of a shit joke isn't it? I mean, i...
- Mon Aug 22, 2022 9:07 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
- Replies: 161
- Views: 14530
Re: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
This raises a really interesting debate around conversationism. At Co:London this year a couple of people approached me to talk about this c4c thread (which appeared to have reached the attention of more people than I had realised!) and one of them made the point that endangered species get preferen...
- Mon Aug 22, 2022 5:46 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
- Replies: 161
- Views: 14530
Re: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
Sorry I don't respond to trolls. Though it's good to know that "non-vegans" never use cars or aeroplanes, or anything transported by them
- Sat Aug 20, 2022 3:40 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
- Replies: 161
- Views: 14530
- Sat Aug 20, 2022 3:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1791547
Re: Politics in General
No, probably not. Don't buy the excuse of 'she may not be in a fit state to make a momentary decision' thing either. Do no world leaders drink alcohol?Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Aug 19, 2022 8:46 pm I don't think I would have given in to taking a drug test just because someone filmed me partying. Anyone else?
- Fri Aug 19, 2022 7:51 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
- Replies: 161
- Views: 14530
Re: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
Also, as a meat eater I find animals being used for sport more abhorrent than animals being used for food. Especially horse (particularly jump) racing where the horses get injured and are then put down. I suppose a racing horse does live a fuller life than an animal bred for food in battery-style l...
- Fri Aug 19, 2022 7:51 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
- Replies: 161
- Views: 14530
Re: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
I assume that animals are not slaughtered cruelly in this country, outside of Kosher and Halal. Sorry but you assume incorrectly. Animals are treated incredibly cruelly, both during and before slaughter, in this country, and not just in Halal and Kosher. From what I understand (not first hand!) of ...
- Fri Aug 19, 2022 7:50 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
- Replies: 161
- Views: 14530
Re: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
Where do you stand on rats, mosquitoes and locusts? I assume you mention these three together as they are common 'pest' animals. Otherwise, as Gavin has pointed out, they make for an odd grouping. When it comes to issues such as pest control and ecosystem management there's a lot more nuance involv...
- Thu Aug 18, 2022 1:37 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
- Replies: 161
- Views: 14530
Re: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
Probably as without any sophisticated model I imagine that would result in far less suffering.
- Thu Aug 18, 2022 5:52 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
- Replies: 161
- Views: 14530
Re: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
Fair enough. Enjoy your lamb chop.L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑Wed Aug 17, 2022 11:18 pmFluffier & cuter!Callum Todd wrote: ↑Wed Aug 17, 2022 8:30 pm What gives a cat or a dog more moral worth than a cow or a pig?
Do I win a prize for getting the right answer?
- Wed Aug 17, 2022 8:30 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
- Replies: 161
- Views: 14530
Re: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
I assume that animals are not slaughtered cruelly in this country, outside of Kosher and Halal. Sorry but you assume incorrectly. Animals are treated incredibly cruelly, both during and before slaughter, in this country, and not just in Halal and Kosher. Bottom line is Man is an omnivorous mammal t...
- Wed Aug 17, 2022 5:53 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Veganism Discussion
- Replies: 117
- Views: 11609
Re: Veganism Discussion
Yeah unless the McPlant was different in America that part of the article is either inaccurate or very poorly worded. The cheese and sandwich sauce(/'mayo') on the McPlants in the UK at least were vegan. I don't know if they were cooked on the same grill as the other burgers in the UK but I suspect ...
- Wed Aug 17, 2022 5:42 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
- Replies: 161
- Views: 14530
Re: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
It's a thread about cruelty to animals. Specifically it is about the difference in attitude towards cruelty to "pet" animals and cruelty to farmed animals. If you hadn't noticed that then I fear you've missed the point of very nearly all of this thread! So how about it then, if it's wrong ...
- Wed Aug 17, 2022 5:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
- Replies: 161
- Views: 14530
Re: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
Anyone leaving a dog in a hot car needs prosecuting and being banned from keeping dogs How about anyone leaving a pig in a gas chamber? Or, what if the person leaving the dog in the hot car was doing so because they were planning to then butcher the dog's corpse and sell it for meat? Easy tiger. Ho...
- Wed Aug 17, 2022 2:52 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Veganism Discussion
- Replies: 117
- Views: 11609
- Wed Aug 17, 2022 1:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Veganism Discussion
- Replies: 117
- Views: 11609
Re: Veganism Discussion
[...] many of the practices that contribute to animal suffering are caused by intense farming practices - if everyone were to reduce their consumption, then the welfare of farm animals would be improved - hard to see that as a bad thing. Certainly less intensive farming would reduce suffering, and ...
- Wed Aug 17, 2022 11:11 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Veganism Discussion
- Replies: 117
- Views: 11609
Re: Veganism Discussion
Yeah, hence my posting it in this thread rather than the one more focused on animal abuse. I think environmentalism rather than animal welfare as a reason for eschewing animal problems* is more "socially acceptable" to talk about partially because environmentalism is already a topic that p...
- Wed Aug 17, 2022 10:35 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Veganism Discussion
- Replies: 117
- Views: 11609
- Wed Aug 17, 2022 10:30 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 724164
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Most questions posed in this thread remain unanswered, but that one got some great answers! Thanks for them as I was in the same boat as Mark.
- Wed Aug 17, 2022 6:29 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
- Replies: 161
- Views: 14530
Re: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
How about anyone leaving a pig in a gas chamber?Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 9:37 pm Anyone leaving a dog in a hot car needs prosecuting and being banned from keeping dogs
Or, what if the person leaving the dog in the hot car was doing so because they were planning to then butcher the dog's corpse and sell it for meat?
- Tue Aug 16, 2022 6:46 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
- Replies: 161
- Views: 14530
Re: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
An interesting phenomenon I noticed during the recent heatwaves that reminded me of the Zouma cat case was the plethora of news stories about police officers rescuing dogs from hot cars. Most often police officers were in a supermarket car park or similar place when they noticed a dog left unattende...
- Mon Aug 15, 2022 2:51 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Is it time to introduce the 10 letter conundrums?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2682
Re: Is it time to introduce the 10 letter conundrums?
Sounds great.L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 1:20 pm You could also get contestants to make a working machine out of spare parts available in a wrecking yard, and get Robert Llewellyn to host.
So many exciting possibilities.
- Fri Aug 12, 2022 9:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: FOCAL Finals 2022 and Milton Keynes Open
- Replies: 45
- Views: 11087
Re: FOCAL Finals 2022 and Milton Keynes Open
It was more expensive last week so I suspect there must have been a price reduction earlier this week and the 'special rate' was calculated before then, otherwise it's just bizarre. At any rate with this confusion I can't see there being enough interest to get over the 8 rooms threshold so it's prob...
- Thu Aug 11, 2022 1:05 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: FOCAL Finals 2022 and Milton Keynes Open
- Replies: 45
- Views: 11087
Re: FOCAL Finals 2022 and Milton Keynes Open
That's odd, I looked at their website just last week and the prices were quite a bit higher than the screenshot above. Will look into it and see what's gone on.
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 5:06 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: FOCAL Finals 2022 and Milton Keynes Open
- Replies: 45
- Views: 11087
Re: FOCAL Finals 2022 and Milton Keynes Open
Hotel prices: The event manager has offered us the following rates: £75 Friday night (25th Nov) £107 Saturday night (26th Nov) These are for single rooms only. Double rooms would be an extra £10 per room per night, and Breakfast would be an extra £12 per room per night. To get this special rate we m...
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 3:44 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 475930
Re: People you shouldn't trust
People who leave a big gap to the car in front at traffic lights, then edge forward in a stop-start manner while the lights are still red. I have long wondered about what the optimal size gap is to leave when stopped or moving very slowly in a long queue of traffic. Too much, as you indicate, is cl...
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 10:37 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Is it time to introduce the 10 letter conundrums?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2682
Re: Is it time to introduce the 10 letter conundrums?
Srsly tho yeah go for it. 10 letter conundrums would be a big first step in the route to the ideal 14 letter conundrums, which itself would be a great step on the way to axing countdown and rebooting Scrapheap Challenge in its stead.
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 9:44 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Is it time to introduce the 10 letter conundrums?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2682
Re: Is it time to introduce the 10 letter conundrums?
What and have to build a new conundrum board thingy? Not with Countdown's budget!
- Mon Aug 08, 2022 4:17 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: FOCAL Finals 2022 and Milton Keynes Open
- Replies: 45
- Views: 11087
Re: FOCAL Finals 2022 and Milton Keynes Open
Update on hotels: Have chased up the event manager, I have an initial quote that I've requested a few more details on, will bring you the full picture as soon as he gets back to me. From initial look it appears that the event hotel isn't going to be able to compete with the likes of Travelodge on pr...
- Sat Aug 06, 2022 8:46 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Stick to 8-letter teatime teasers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1414
Re: Stick to 8-letter teatime teasers
+4. Because 3 would be an absurd number and I feel very strongly about that.
- Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:43 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1791547
Re: Politics in General
Yeah the public perception of TikTok seemed to shift dramatically overnight, with no obvious transition or explanation why.
- Thu Aug 04, 2022 1:52 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Most Famous People without a Wikipedia Article
- Replies: 55
- Views: 38500
Re: Most Famous People without a Wikipedia Article
Matty Healy.
- Thu Aug 04, 2022 1:13 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Commonwealth Games
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1307
Re: Commonwealth Games
Yeah I read somewhere that such an accident has occurred on average once every two years in recent history so given the potentially disastrous nature of it surely that's a high enough risk to take action. Heard someone say cycling should take inspiration from the catch fencing in motorsports and tha...
- Thu Aug 04, 2022 1:10 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Countdown in Edinburgh (CO:EDI) - Saturday 15th October 2022
- Replies: 46
- Views: 12632
Re: Countdown in Edinburgh (COEDI) - Saturday 15th October 2022
Parkruns start at 9.30am in Scotland right? Could be a bit of a dash to get to the event in time but sure we can manage it.
- Wed Aug 03, 2022 4:25 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 211179
Re: The C4C Football Thread
Although on some less optimistic notes: 2) while media coverage, etc, play a big role in perception, the women's game will struggle to ever be as big as the men's game for as long as the standard is substantially lower. And, unfortunately, I can't see that changing any time soon, if ever. It is cha...
- Tue Aug 02, 2022 7:47 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 211179
Re: The C4C Football Thread
But it's a vicious circle - give it the hype and coverage that the men's game gets and gate receipts go up. Hopefully this win will be the start of greater popularity. MrT's Reading season ticket doesn't cover the women's team games - that's a shame. How about Saturday afternoon games played back t...
- Mon Aug 01, 2022 7:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 211179
Re: The C4C Football Thread
Although on some less optimistic notes: 1) if the above article's example of Manchester City's 62% (men's) vs 114% (women's) wage spend is both correct and representative of the game as a whole, it appears the women's game is already having a far higher proportion of its revenue allocated to wages t...
- Mon Aug 01, 2022 7:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 211179
Re: The C4C Football Thread
But the reason the men's game generates so much more money is a result of decades of sexism - the women's game simply hasn't had the opportunity to flourish in the same way as the men's game. It's catch 22 - the men's game is a money spinner so gets almost all the TV coverage - practically the only...
- Mon Aug 01, 2022 5:51 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 211179
Re: The C4C Football Thread
The reason male footballers earn so much more than female footballers is the amount of money that men's football generates, vs. women's. In the above article it uses Man City as an example where the men's team player wages account for around 62% of turnover, while their women's team player wages act...
- Sun Jul 31, 2022 8:10 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What do you use instead of cows milk?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 402
Re: What do you use instead of cows milk?
I use oat milk from the modern milkman, but before that (or now if I run out) I tend to use Alpro. I also prefer oat milk, but coconut milk can be nice in a fancy coffee if you're using a milk frother.
- Sat Jul 30, 2022 10:50 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Best ways to improve your Countdowning skills...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 15728
Re: Best ways to improve your Countdowning skills...
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- Fri Jul 29, 2022 1:48 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 724164
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
"One of the reasons, for example, we have a law that says we must wear a seatbelt is not just to protect the person wearing the belt; it is because if you don't wear a belt and you have a high speed crash you could go through the windscreen and hit somebody else! That can actually happen!!"...
- Fri Jul 29, 2022 5:54 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 724164
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Taking 2 seconds to use the seatbelt every time you stop and get out then back in again must be very annoying. It will take almost as long as opening and shutting the car door when you get in and out! Best leave that open too. Except the car beeps just because you're driving with the door open! What...
- Thu Jul 28, 2022 4:28 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Great conspiracy theories of our time...
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3192
- Thu Jul 28, 2022 2:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 724164
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
What is the point of: a) armpit hair? b) pubes? I don't think there's a complete consensus why humans have retained hair in any of the places we have done given that we have largely evolved to lose the full-body hair our ancestors had. But generally speaking the main two benefits are hair appear to...
- Thu Jul 28, 2022 11:33 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 325835
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Never give money to charity. I've worked in the charity sector for a few years now and having seen what goes on I would never give them money. If you want to help society, pay your taxes and encourage everyone to pay their taxes and encourage politicians to make millionaires and billionaires pay th...
- Wed Jul 27, 2022 6:44 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 211179
Re: The C4C Football Thread
Ah okay think I get you now. My point was that saying Lionesses rather than Lions was just to - whether necessary or not - clarify that one is talking about the women's team rather than the men's, just as saying 'women's football team' rather than just 'football team'. So I suppose it depends on the...
- Wed Jul 27, 2022 2:49 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1791547
Re: Politics in General
Yeah if that was the intention, it failed.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 11:27 amShe looked more scared than sympatheticGavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:04 am So the obvious question then. Was this staged to make Liz Truss look like the sympathetic caring candidate?
- Wed Jul 27, 2022 2:48 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 211179
Re: The C4C Football Thread
Does anyone else think that calling the English women's football team the Lionesses makes them seem like an afterthought to the men's team? I think I saw someone else suggest this, but I don't quite follow why. Well, I suppose it would have been more obvious if it had been the Three Lionesses. But ...
- Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:10 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 475930
Re: People you shouldn't trust
I believe it's more hygienic to wipe down but whatever.
- Fri Jul 22, 2022 12:17 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 325835
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 9:57 pm Wham! and George Michael did two completely different songs, both called Freedom.
- Fri Jul 22, 2022 9:52 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co:Brum 2022
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7005
Re: Co:Brum 2022
I think using tech for the letters/numbers is s a good idea and worth trialling. Obviously as Fiona said, Jack's app isn't designed for this specific purpose so there are a few issues with it but there will be cards for anyone who doesn't like using the tech. I'll sort something out to make sure tha...
- Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co:Brighton - 16 July 2022
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11700
Re: Co:Brighton - 16 July 2022
Jonny was #1 after the 6 heat games had been played, with 6/6 wins. Dream tourney for him so! Must be a personal best. (and even if it was it would still be feasible for the #2 to have more wins than #1) Nope. Can't see it. You're gonna have to talk me through a scenario where that could be true. #...
- Wed Jul 20, 2022 12:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1791547
- Tue Jul 19, 2022 5:13 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1791547
Re: Politics in General
The transparently corrupt Johnson regime has removed the party whip from Tobias Ellwood , who was unable to vote in the confidence motion in the government due to being in Moldova in his role as chair of the Commons Defence Committee. Ellwood is supporting Penny Mordaunt in the leadership contest, ...