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- Fri Nov 25, 2022 9:10 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732291
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
What happens when you set the rotary heating dial thing in a car to a point between two settings? If it's set to half way between "bottom heat" and "top and bottom heat" does it supply 2/3 bottom heat and 1/3 top heat? Some cars have 3 points that the dial can rest at between eac...
- Sat Oct 29, 2022 10:33 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Joke Items
- Replies: 252
- Views: 90947
Re: Joke Items
Cryptic crosswords (hello Dave Gorman in DC this week). You might hear one clue and think "That's clever" but then you realise how formulaic, samey and boring they all are. Maybe not quite as bad as Sudoku but getting there. Most "brain training" style puzzles are formulaic and ...
- Thu Oct 06, 2022 6:53 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: So, who will be the founding member of Countdown's "1000 CLUB"?
- Replies: 129
- Views: 93183
- Mon Oct 03, 2022 11:19 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Thursday 29th September 2022 (Series 86, Prelim 74)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 956
Re: Thursday 29th September 2022 ( Series 86 Prelim 74 )
Wow, awesome stuff to break the high score with a max game. Well done Tom - dreamland!
- Thu Sep 29, 2022 6:49 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 331186
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
In tight spaces, Allen keys should sometimes be held shorty-longy and other times longy-shorty depending on the space. I was always holding them longy-shorty and accepting that I could only do about three quarters of a turn (then remove and repeat) before hitting the side of the thing I was assembli...
- Wed Sep 07, 2022 6:52 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Overpopulation
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1654
Re: Overpopulation
and especially if you don't purely look at it from a human perspective. Oh good God, not again! #tedium. It's pretty much an unavoidable part of the discussion when we're talking about humans taking over all of the living space on the planet. "Let's look at this from the cow's perspective; Now...
- Wed Aug 24, 2022 6:45 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
- Replies: 161
- Views: 14956
Re: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
You should write a book on this stuff (and consciousness).Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Aug 24, 2022 4:51 pm Would you rather stay as a "natural" human or become more advanced? And then people will start asking what it really means to be "you". How much change can you go through and still be the same person?
- Thu Aug 18, 2022 7:37 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
- Replies: 161
- Views: 14956
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 li...
- Thu Aug 18, 2022 7:30 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
- Replies: 161
- Views: 14956
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 ...
- Wed Aug 17, 2022 9:41 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732291
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Because it's smaller it uses less water to reach the requisite depth for washing up your crockery.
- Fri Aug 12, 2022 6:49 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Lexico.com Dictionary Website to Close on 26 August
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1616
- Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:03 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Is it time to introduce the 10 letter conundrums?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2688
Re: Is it time to introduce the 10 letter conundrums?
Absolutely stupendous suggestion!
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 2:45 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 482861
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.
- Fri Jul 29, 2022 6:23 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 65059
Re: Track and Field Athletics
There may be something important I've not considered, otherwise they'd have done this by now, but why not simply allow the athletes to anticipate the gun? Scrap the 0.1 second rule and also scrap the random delay before the bang. Just have an audible 3-2-1-bang countdown to start the race. Then the...
- Mon Jul 18, 2022 7:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 65059
Re: Track and Field Athletics
There was some discussion of the false start rules in this thread . By the way, I think the time between the "set" and the gun generally seems too short to me. The guns seems to go quite quickly after they've all risen. That does leave quite a small window of available start times, making...
- Mon Jul 11, 2022 9:44 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 65059
Re: Track and Field Athletics
Incredible news story about Mo Farah. Shines a light on trafficking and modern slavery, which are all too present in the UK and around the world.
- Mon Jul 11, 2022 7:23 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
- Replies: 479
- Views: 187245
Re: Words You Would Have Thought...
Susie claimed today when a word got disallowed that it's all frequency-based. It definitely isn't. I suspect the dictionaries are based on frequency analysis of the Oxford Corpus , so Susie's probably right. If CHIRPSY or another word doesn't come up much in the publications used to build the corpu...
- Mon Jul 11, 2022 12:36 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
- Replies: 479
- Views: 187245
Re: Words You Would Have Thought...
What would that mean? Flirtatious basically, but specifically in conversation. "Baz was getting all chirpsy with Shaz at the party". I had no idea this word exisited, but CHIRPSE is in as a verb, but there's no listed adjective to go with it. Interestingly, Apterous has CHIRPSING, as oppo...
- Mon Jul 11, 2022 11:16 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
- Replies: 479
- Views: 187245
Re: Words You Would Have Thought...
Flirtatious basically, but specifically in conversation. "Baz was getting all chirpsy with Shaz at the party".
- Mon Jul 11, 2022 7:03 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
- Replies: 479
- Views: 187245
- Sun Jun 19, 2022 6:55 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Unalike Words
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3371
Re: Unalike Words
So far I've uncovered the rather pleasing "goldfish bankruptcy", which only scores 80 but doesn't use an 'e'. Must be scope to improve on that.
- Wed Jun 15, 2022 9:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown words spotted in real life
- Replies: 122
- Views: 60252
Re: Countdown words spotted in real life
I think you need to work on your running posture.Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 3:01 pm Probably the best accidental conundrum scramble I've found: I passed ROY D. LOCKE Memorial Park while jogging in Montréal West this morning.
- Thu Jun 09, 2022 8:46 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Absolutely terrible claims to fame/celebrity spots
- Replies: 74
- Views: 29635
Re: Absolutely terrible claims to fame/celebrity spots
I went to a two-morning Paul Reaney football coaching clinic at a Haven Holidays park when I was about 7. I remember doing lots of heading for no particular reason, then coming away with two photos - one, a signed a4 photo of him full of his career stats, and the other, a photo he took with every c...
- Tue Jun 07, 2022 10:03 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Absolutely terrible claims to fame/celebrity spots
- Replies: 74
- Views: 29635
Re: Absolutely terrible claims to fame/celebrity spots
I slide tackled Paul Reaney once. I thought this was a terrible claim to fame but he's a bit more famous than I realised, as he's come up in some recent articles as the first non-white bloke to play football for England.
- Thu May 26, 2022 6:02 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Favourite sayings
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3115
Re: Favourite sayings
Nice one, I think that's it!Callum Todd wrote: ↑Thu May 26, 2022 5:57 am Think there's also one where if somebody might ask a favour of somebody you could say 'they wouldn't even do that for their own grandmother'. Implying there are stingy/uncaring/lazy/selfish.
- Wed May 25, 2022 10:37 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Favourite sayings
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3115
Re: Favourite sayings
Thanks Gevin, that might be the one I'm thinking of actually, although it doesn't encapsulate the stingy / uncaring attributes that I was thinking of.
- Wed May 25, 2022 9:30 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Favourite sayings
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3115
Re: Favourite sayings
Hoping someone can help me here and that I haven't imagined this. There's a saying about someone being stingy or uncaring that goes something like "wouldn't [__] [__] for their grandmother". Does anyone know what I'm talking about and can help me fill in the blanks?
- Fri May 20, 2022 6:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Dr Imafidon to stand in for Riley
- Replies: 40
- Views: 5369
Re: Dr Imafidon to stand in for Riley
Sometimes, if everyone except you thinks the same thing be it implicitly or explicitly, they're not seeking to be dumb or holier-than-thou - they're just right. You're 46, the edgelord window should be shut by now. I don't know what an edgelord is but I think I now understand what an internet troll...
- Thu May 05, 2022 6:56 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Countdowners On Other Quizzes
- Replies: 253
- Views: 229352
Re: Countdowners On Other Quizzes
I've been reliably informed that "Your mate Krik Bevins(darts ref) was on Eggheads channel 5".
- Tue Apr 26, 2022 6:55 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Down for the count
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4145
Re: Down for the count
Got them all in about an even amount of time, maybe 90 seconds per answer. Good puzzle, thanks for sharing.
- Tue Apr 19, 2022 8:45 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: The future of COLIN
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3489
Re: The future of COLIN
I've really enjoyed COLIN when I've been, and I appreciate all the effort you've put in to organising and running it. I'm sorry to hear that you made a significant loss this year and it's natural for you to consider the continued cost and effort of running the event. If you don't already have a pref...
- Thu Mar 31, 2022 6:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdowners in the news
- Replies: 243
- Views: 151830
Re: Countdowners in the news
Caption competition:Thomas Carey wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 12:02 am Not the most impressive news, but certainly one of the more bizarre ones.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/20 ... 157861001/
"Big Cheese heads to Big Apple".
- Thu Mar 17, 2022 7:57 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Wordle
- Replies: 81
- Views: 14479
Re: Wordle
How well do people generally do on this? I've never failed, but never done better than guess 3, with the vast majority of games solved on guess 4. Similar for me although I'm a bit more even between the 3s and 4s: STATISTICS 61 Played 100 Win % GUESS DISTRIBUTION 1 - 0 2 - 0 3 - 21 4 - 27 5 - 10 6 ...
- Wed Mar 09, 2022 9:55 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Sports you would like to see.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1337
Re: Sports you would like to see.
Kabaddi seems like a badass version of British Bulldog and is a real sport.
Re: Cricket
I do seem to remember there being some controversy about some guy's bowling style, which was likely him. You might be thinking of Lasith Malinga "The Slinger" actually. And inside the world of cricket, everyone knows who they both are. ( 88 words and two nested brackets ) Top closing brac...
- Mon Feb 28, 2022 10:17 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Putin/Russia invading Ukraine
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2134
Re: Putin/Russia invading Ukraine
Part of me worries that the apparently slower than expected ground invasion is a ploy to allow thousands of weapons to be brought to Ukraine's borders and then seized by the Russian army when they bring out their big bombs.
- Thu Feb 17, 2022 10:56 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Dr Imafidon to stand in for Riley
- Replies: 40
- Views: 5369
Re: Dr Imafidon to stand in for Riley
I haven't watched Dr Imafidon but happened to channel flick the other day and saw a couple of seconds of Countdown, so I know she's black and that leads me to detect some casual racism in the previous two posts. First post: black lady talks funny. Second post: black lady has funny name. Do you see t...
- Fri Jan 28, 2022 2:23 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: No Vax Djokavic
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2691
Re: No Vax Djokavic
So he lied / falsified the positive test date to get to the Australian Open, which is bad, but that means he wasn't deliberately infecting children at that awards ceremony the next day, which is good!
- Tue Jan 18, 2022 10:11 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: No Vax Djokavic
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2691
Re: No Vax Djokavic
Took me a minute, ace pun!Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Tue Jan 18, 2022 8:31 amServes him right
- Sat Jan 15, 2022 8:42 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: The Countdown Android App is now out!
- Replies: 156
- Views: 35618
Re: The Countdown Android App is now out!
I haven't had much practice with the ODO dictionary yet; I reckon someone with a bit more experience would have smashed this game - three 9s I haven't heard of but with common letters:
http://jackhurst.co.uk/countdowngame?QX2Og4
http://jackhurst.co.uk/countdowngame?QX2Og4
- Sat Dec 18, 2021 7:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732291
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
According to our council recycling policy, we can recycle things like ketchup bottles, jars of honey, shampoo bottles, soap dispensers etc. if they are clean but not if they are soiled. Is it better for the environment to chuck a soiled container in the general waste or to use a load of water (some ...
- Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:21 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Biggest sporting upsets or long odds victory?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4147
Re: Biggest sporting upsets or long odds victory?
While we're taking comebacks, Floria Guei anchoring France to gold in the 4x400m at the 2014 European Championships sticks in my memory. I watched it live on the telly at the time and I've watched it back a number of times since and still don't believe she's going to win it until the last moment. Ye...
Re: TENNIS
Emma Raducanu
- Tue Jul 27, 2021 10:47 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Olympics 2020
- Replies: 135
- Views: 17829
Re: Olympics 2020
I caught some of the skateboarding highlights, and it seemed a bit rubbish and limited in scope. Not much to watch. Just how good you are at sliding down a bannister. [...] I think there's an unspoken assumption (actually I say unspoken but a number of years ago I think I did hear a commentator say...
- Mon Jul 12, 2021 6:22 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732291
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Why don't people riding or leading a horse down a public street clean up their (horses') poo? Are they supposed to / are there laws about these things? Has anyone ever seen someone clean it up? It's been long since established that horse people are not to be trusted , so it would be surprising if t...
- Thu Jul 08, 2021 7:51 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732291
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Why don't people riding or leading a horse down a public street clean up their (horses') poo? Are they supposed to / are there laws about these things? Has anyone ever seen someone clean it up?
- Thu Jun 24, 2021 9:07 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 331186
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
There's the larger aperture near the bottom and the one I never used, the smaller aperture near the middle. Can use one or the other depending on the thickness of the material.
- Sun May 30, 2021 7:36 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 331186
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Clothes pegs have two settings.
- Tue Mar 30, 2021 9:17 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Lookalikes?
- Replies: 390
- Views: 259301
- Mon Feb 15, 2021 8:11 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: ROBINSON TO HOST COUNTDOWN!!
- Replies: 60
- Views: 15047
Re: ROBINSON TO HOST COUNTDOWN!!
Cool, she's a bigger TV personality than the recent hosts, probably since the Deses. I think she's a good fit and looking forward to her tenure.
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:12 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 331186
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Those things that come up on Facebook "find out your superhero name" and similar are targeted scams to get the answers to common account security questions for password reset. They'll ask for things like your first pet, mother's maiden name and first street you lived on.
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 7:51 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
- Replies: 503
- Views: 160618
Re: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
I am sick and tired [...] you really don’t understand how much we are suffering [...] The cure, for me, and for many, is worse than the virus could ever have been [...] leaves me at the end of my tether [...] it’s ruined my life by prolonging the misery longer than it needed to be [...] Throw in a ...
- Thu Dec 17, 2020 7:05 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Obscenity democracy
- Replies: 205
- Views: 31146
Re: Obscenity democracy
Alright, I read the recent replies that came in... and it is mostly hot air and bluster. Graeme taking a cheap shot about my character? Come on man, you are better than that. And Adam just here for the pile-on, lol, without properly engaging with what's been written. fyi Fiona outed herself, and th...
- Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Obscenity democracy
- Replies: 205
- Views: 31146
Re: Obscenity democracy
What's this plastic Elvises thing? Sounds like a way to discriminate against a bunch of people to me. I agree with Ian here. Plus some other terms that sounded divisive in that same post that I haven't heard before. I also very much dislike the fact that the person who filed the report and the pers...
Re: Anagrams
Not sure if this is the right topic but I'm genuinely proud of this effort having just received a set of A-Z, 0-9 foam tiles for the bathroom. https://i.postimg.cc/Z08mpCXL/IMG-20201214-192752.jpg (The leftover tiles spell "99 WORK X", which is obviously shorthand for "I got 99 proble...
- Wed Dec 09, 2020 7:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ladbrokes - Next Presenter Odds
- Replies: 40
- Views: 11658
Re: Ladbrokes - Next Presenter Odds
Moira Stuart could be fun. I thought of her and Clare Balding initially when I saw Nick was leaving. Colin Murray probably has first refusal though, as others have noted.
- Sun Nov 15, 2020 4:33 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 331186
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Shaun the sheep.
- Thu Oct 08, 2020 10:55 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Rachel Riley Post
- Replies: 76
- Views: 18014
Re: Rachel Riley Post
I find this post offensive.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 2:02 pm Lucky her baby wasn't a boy or she probably would have chopped his nob off or something.
- Thu Oct 01, 2020 9:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Name Pronunciations
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3857
Re: Name Pronunciations
A doctor friend of ours once had a patient called L-a, pronounced Ladasha. Citation needed! https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/le-a/ Interesting! I had no reason to suspect he was making it up; perhaps the name came into vogue because of the fake story going around in 2008. This patient would have b...
- Thu Oct 01, 2020 8:28 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Trade Secrets
- Replies: 155
- Views: 50620
Re: Trade Secrets
I like to add a slight honey taste to otherwise plain cereals like Shreddies (with milk). To do this normally requires copious amounts of honey in the bowl to retain the slightest taste in each spoonful. I've found that if you dollop a small splodge of honey on the spoon instead (either side) then i...