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"So far we've been lucky that the worst kind of crimes, of the kind these people got convicted for, haven't happened to any of us at events." That we know of. And going beyond the paedophilia stuff that this discussion hitherto has focused on, there have definitely been crimes committed ag...

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I'm not going to any social event that requires a DBS check in advance.

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I hereby copy and paste an Apterous ticket that I wrote back at the start of the month concerning safeguarding issues in the Apterdown community. ---- Hello! Let's kick off the new year in high spirits with a discussion about safeguarding issues on, adjacent to and because of, Apterous. Apterous is ...

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I strongly recommend splitting off such discussion into a separate thread to give it the eyes it deserves.

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Unless there are two people of that name who live on that road, then...

https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/tees ... 0-19453696

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Howard died a couple of years ago.

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There was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catchword_(game_show)

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Innis Bevins

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He was YouTube famous.

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The BBC newsreader Nicholas Witchell was the first man on the moon. It was illegal to be outside about 11pm, and infidelity meant jail time. Elephants are blue. Peter Sellers and Saddam Hussein were the same person. "Mininim" was a word, and even though I didn't know what it meant, I got v...

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#Deeks2023

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Menus that shorten coleslaw to 'slaw.

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Not really getting the appeal of this one. There's nothing to clue you towards the answer. I thknk that’s part of the challenge - to know and find long words with no guidance. Mind, there’s nothing to clue you to finding the longest word on Countdown . It’s an okay game. Countdown has an opponent y...

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#Deeks2025

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I thought it was because actors think that saying "Good luck" before a performance is bad form, and will surely bring bad luck. Sure, but that's why break a leg is the choice of substitute. Appaz. There's nothing on the Wikipedia article about it. Not that you should take Wikipedia as gos...

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The phrase "break a leg", meaning "I hope the acting audition goes well for you", came about because broken legs get out in casts. I thought it was because actors think that saying "Good luck" before a performance is bad form, and will surely bring bad luck. Sure, but ...

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Not really getting the appeal of this one. There's nothing to clue you towards the answer.

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The phrase "break a leg", meaning "I hope the acting audition goes well for you", came about because broken legs get out in casts.

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David's funeral service is available to watch here.

https://screenrec.com/share/qELHatc348

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What was with that weird 70s phase of sitting the drummer up the front?

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seems to fill up the void for about 5 or 10 seconds before resuming the game which gives the contestants extra thinking time

Well you can't be too against this as a practice if Whiteley is your all-time favourite, because that man was an absolute freestyler.

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My God it's so much more relaxing on the show these days. Night and day.

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David died at 9.50pm this evening.

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Countdown lookalikes, but, as descriptions:

Paul Erdunast looks like he'd be fired during the second week of The Apprentice.

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* comes forward *

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Cheers, those were also the two I'd found. Anyone got the heats?

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On an uplifting note, David's mum got married in the past few weeks, and David was the de facto best man. In his condition, special permission had to be sought in order for him to be able to attend, permission from the medical teams and the Church of England. But they all stepped up, with the Archbi...

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There's conspiracy theories about his welfare, and yet it's all the swearing that his mum would find the problem. Gotcha. Oh for a head as cool as yours, to really focus on what matters. No change for David ATM. His mum would however like to ask if anyone has copies of his appearances on Countdown (...

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People who lie about his welfare - not those mistaken by the disjointed misinformation, but those outright claiming it - are indeed absolute pricks and I retract nothing.

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I am referring to Facebook posts and private chat messages circulated by, and emanating from, C4C and Apterous members.

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Smile.

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Contrary to the misinformation of some absolute pricks in this community - who seem so committed to being edgy and/or in the know that they're willing to lie about someone else's life - David is still with us. It is true that he has mere days left. But he's still here, no matter what the lying fucke...

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During my Amazon CD-buying days, there was once a marked difference between what I ordered and what I got.

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Penny Mordaunt is hot

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Some people say C4C peaked 12 years ago. But to that I say, pah.

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What are those black spinny things you sometimes get on vans for?

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England and Newcastle United goalkeeper Nick Pope's mum's best friend just gave my dog a bowl of water, then coughed on her.

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Richard Hammond's saliva noises when he talks. The arrow in the FedEx logo. The amount of overdubbed noise when people in films run with assault rifles. Plugs turned on with nothing in them.

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Since being bought by Spotify, Heardle has seen an overwhelming shift in its answers to being mostly from the last 10 years, and as such, I've gone off it, because I don't know any of the answers. (And with this message, Mark fully transitioned into middle age.)

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So, let's not beat around the bush here. It's a hard truth but it's an unavoidable one. After much testing and unsuccessful rehabilitation, it has been determined that there is no hope of recovery for David, and he is being moved into hospice care for whatever time he has left.

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It's a two-step policy.

1) Put them up for a week in case anyone comes round, then recycle them.
2) Don't buy them or others. Except my grandmother.

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I do a lot of night time driving, and, being an East Anglian girl, most of it is done around the countryside. This means I spend a lot of time trying not to kill deer, because at night, they're bloody everywhere. But where do they go during the day?

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I just would have expected a heads up, that's all, didn't expect to have to be find out this way. Would have been the respectful thing to do, given howo far through the process I was.

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Rachel seems night-and-day happier.

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Had a slight frisson earlier today when, for a second, I thought Phil Jarvis had bought a hat, grown a moustache, gone into politics and died.

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After prostate cancer surgery, my dad made that change. He has never detailed why he now needs this new technique. And nor do I really want him to.

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What is the point of washing-up bowls placed in a sink? Do they not do the same tasks as a sink in a smaller and far less helpful space?

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American lemonade is not fizzy, hence the trope about kids making and selling it.

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And on a regional administrative level, I hereby anoint the winner of the world Best County Flag competition to this absolute belter from River Gee County, Liberia.

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Since neither I nor anyone should yield to the self-appointed authority of Gev, I would like an honorable mention for the following, which is not a national flag, but nearly was, coming fourth in the New Zealand flag referendum in 2016. I enjoy its simple majesty and colour contrasts. https://s.wsj....

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Michelle Nevitt..... https://wiki.apterous.org/images/thumb/5/51/MichelleNevitt.jpg/300px-MichelleNevitt.jpg .....plus Ryan Taylor..... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/Beaker_%28Muppet%29-en.jpg ....equals, quite aptly, Michelle Ryan. https://flxt.tmsimg.com/assets/502190_v9_bb.jpg

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Falseacrap

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So you see that seatbelt alarm as a punitive measure rather than as helpful?

No idea why this pedantic distinction matters, but, eh, sure, it's both.

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Society has to cater to its lowest and simplest. We all have to go to the "how to use a ladder properly" training session, even though we all know, because there's that one guy who doesn't. We all know to put a seatbelt on, but there's one guy who doesn't, so he needs bleeping at. Etc.

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They're definitely annoying but they must also have definitely saved some lives in the past, so, OK. Bleep away, bleepy thing.

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It's like a two second inconvenience each time, just do it already. If it was like relacing a shoe every time, I'd understand, but it's just a clicky thing, it's fine.

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Are they uncomfortable, though? I mean they might have been made of chainmail back in the early days, but now, it's the most minor inconvenience. And in terms of restricting movement, a driver shouldn't be moving anyway! I just find it such an odd battle to pick. Just put the belt on and stop whingi...

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Wait.

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