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Callum Todd

In defence of Gavin, he has regularly been critical of Rachel's habits as well so I don't think it's reasonable to assume that any observation of someone's habits reveals racist bias.

Unless of course he's a massive superracist who hates all races. Probably that.

Callum Todd

I'd also be interested to see how important you think the wording of the problem is It's critical. The way you have worded the puzzle, switching would not necessarily change your chances. You have to emphasise that Monty will always open an empty door. Yes, that's what got me. I worded it that way ...

Callum Todd

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 6:25 pm Wow. A fresh Monty Hall problem thread in 2022.

Yeah I'm a bit late to the party but then again this is a phpBB forum about an old TV word game show so I'll forgive myself the unhipness.

Callum Todd

I came across this interesting logic puzzle/problem/paradox thing in a book the other day and while I have actually read about it before I had forgotten it in the ten years or so since then so it impressed me all over again. I searched to see if it had been discussed on this forum before and indeed ...

Callum Todd

Judging by the demand for Countdown folk like Jack and Ollie to talk about it on radio, it seems the Wordle hype train is still rolling! Surprised it's been this longaevous. Personally I got bored of it the day before it moved to the New York Times; a happy coincidence. I do occasionally like a stab...

Callum Todd

Going to link a video of a guy talking about this but warning : there's some really nasty footage in the video. I had to look away several times. Not for the faint-hearted. This guy makes the points I was trying to make pretty well. I'd like the opportunity to explain to him why football is so emoti...

Callum Todd

Dairy farming on panorama now... Thanks, watched this today. My concern with things like Panorama is that they do tend to fuel the idea that the bad things are happening only in a select few places, such as the Welsh farm secretly filmed for this one. So was good to see the acknowledgement that man...

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West Ham vs Leicester is kicking off soon and Zouma was named in the starting line-up but withdrawn during the warm-up. The official line is that he said he was feeling ill, but the feeling of the analysts at Sky Sports is that the entire stadium, including the West Ham fans, were booing and hecklin...

Callum Todd

One of the problems I saw shared by a vegan friend on fb, is that wider awareness of these issues and the effort by many to reduce their consumption means that supermarkets are now mass producing vegan ranges putting smaller vegan firms out of business. In the hierarchy of veganism I guess a firm t...

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animal problems Assuming this was meant to be "animal products", it's one of my favourite malapropisms for a while. 'Plant Pioneers No Pork Pie' (for anyone interested: it was a bit dry as there was no jelly but the pastry and the protein filling were very nice). Co-op ones are far better...

Callum Todd

I had a conversation with my mates in the pub about it too. Probably too drunk to have a proper discussion but anyway the consensus seemed to be that we should reduce suffering as much as possible but killing is still OK because at least the animal is now dead and can't suffer. I recognise it's pro...

Callum Todd

FWIW Callum, was discussing your points re deliberate/incidental cruelty with three friends after a walk on Friday, so you've definitely got us thinking/talking about it! Nice! That was my only intention really when starting the conversation here. To raise people's awareness of animal suffering in ...

Callum Todd

Josh posted a link to a video a while back that I watched and made some compelling environmental points Nice, think I saw this one when it was posted but I shall rewatch. That's Ed Winters again, he's one of the loudest voices globally in the whole veganosphere or whatever you want to call it. He p...

Callum Todd

Talking about Veganism- Latvia has just selected their Eurovision song for this year, which is possibly the first about veganism. Well worth a listen (with headphones plugged in if you're not on your own when listening to it...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bno10845GT8 Have to admit the first li...

Callum Todd

By the way, once upon a time when I stood for parliament I came up with some things that could be legislated for, even if they might seem a bit unrealistic. I obviously didn't consider simply banning meat products remotely realistic at all so I didn't go for that. But I suggested things like bans f...

Callum Todd

Fair enough Ell. Just to clarify my use of the word "whataboutism": that wasn't intended as a pejorative. The specific part of your post I was addressing was this: ...I don't really see why I should make this one the priority. and the specific part of my post that was in reply to that was:...

Callum Todd

Food for thought for any folks interested in this thread: some reasons for veganism are quite widely discussed. Ethics is probably still the main reason for it, and we have discussed that extensively on this forum both in this thread and the Kurt Zouma one. Environment is fastly catching up though a...

Callum Todd

Just a response to some of your points Ell; I'm not going to attempt to proselytise or counter-argue on this thread as I think I did enough of that on the animal abuse thread, and when we're discussing the facets of veganism other than the ethics of animal cruelty I think there's less need for the u...

Callum Todd

Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Sat Feb 12, 2022 8:06 am ... which was absolutely horrible, had to throw it in the garden...

Callum Todd

The fairly high-profile vegan activist Ed Winters just posted a YouTube video on the Kurt Zouma story last night. I think his analysis comes packaged is quite characteristic of him: it has bit of sarcastic edge to it, is more judgmental of people than I'd prefer, and occasionally tends to straw man ...

Callum Todd

Cheers Matt. I'm still optimistic that I will see the majority of the 'first world' at least go mostly plant-based in my lifetime. Maybe that's a false hope but I suppose I'd rather be blissfully optimistic than blissfully ignorant and that belief gives a foundation to my motivation to do my own bit...

Callum Todd

So as promised, here is my response to some of the individual points raised in response to my OP. Once again, thanks to everyone in this thread for engaging in the conversation. Man eats meat and we have to deal with that. We have to accept that we are not naturally vegetarian, we have teeth designe...

Callum Todd

Exciting news about fusion power.

Callum Todd

Cheers for the response guys, appreciate the engagement in what can be an uncomfortable conversation. I'll write some specific responses to individual comments later when I'm on a computer. In the meantime just a quick note to clarify that I'm not trying to demonise meat-eaters or conflate them with...

Callum Todd

As far as I can tell it's a good thing for things like music, writing, and film where there's no real meaningful distinction (that I know of; I'm no expert on musicianship, literature, or dramatics) between a male artist, a female artist, or a non-binary artist. As you say, for sports (most sports a...

Callum Todd

WARNING : This thread is going to be about animal abuse. Naturally there's likely to be some reference to - or explicit description of - acts of violence. That might make some of you uncomfortable. Personally I'd recommend you read it anyway if you would otherwise be interested, as we all need to f...

Callum Todd

This is shaping up to be an exciting CO:parkrun championship season! Onto the next one: Manchester. What's the plan? Which parkrun? And is there anyone who is staying at a hotel in Manchester for the event who would be willing to please let me use their hotel room shower after the parkrun so I don't...

Callum Todd

Many thanks to Ben for organising the 17th COLIN event. Good to be back there again. Inquiring minds want to know... for the Hangover event, which used the large numbers 30, 60, 90 and 120, if the target had been 120, would "120" have been accepted as a method? You're not the first person...

Callum Todd

Think that was everyone Gav, yeah. Adam Dexter was there too but didn't take part in the course itself. He said parkrun looked good so he might do next time though! You were missed

Callum Todd

There was a presenter on the BBC News channel (or BBC News 24 as it used to be), who I think specialised in busisness/economic matters who was around in about 2001/2. Male, dark hair, probably 40ish or 30s. I think he became a bit flavour of the month for a while and I think got his own show, or at...

Callum Todd

There was a presenter on the BBC News channel (or BBC News 24 as it used to be), who I think specialised in busisness/economic matters who was around in about 2001/2. Male, dark hair, probably 40ish or 30s. I think he became a bit flavour of the month for a while and I think got his own show, or at...

Callum Todd

Shit got interesting . Not sure if I'm missing something but this new detail made no impression on me at all. There must be something to it I'm not considering as every other person I've heard comment on this story has thought this was a very interesting development but I just had no reaction to it...

Callum Todd

The story: link

Information and hilarious video explaining it all: link

Obligatory observation: PIGHEART = GRAPHITE

Thoughts?

Callum Todd

Spiderman No Way Home - full of fan service and nostalgia. fun but a bit nonsensical. can't imagine it being well received by anyone not well versed in comic book movies. The King's Man - all the individual scenes are good but couldn't help leaving thinking it was a bit of a naff film. no real sense...

Callum Todd

There's an old Richard Dawkins essay about Trial by Jury. It was written for The Observer in 1997. Found a copy-pasted version here.

Callum Todd

Yeah turns out it is more or less in the book. Had a little search and turns out the mirror is inscribed with "Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi", so not exactly subtle but disguised enough to pass as some nonsense magical language to my seven-year old self at the time of reading...

Callum Todd

The Mirror of Erised in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is so named because it shows one's desire, and Erised is Desire backwards (like a mirror image).

Callum Todd

Outstanding shout.

Callum Todd

I think I once read somewhere that the leading hypothesis was that it stops you pissing yourself in your sleep.

Callum Todd

Why are the left expected to hold their nose and vote for centre, if not centre right, candidates just to beat tories or republicans. Shouldn't the likes of James O'Brien have be saying "I don't like Corbyn but we must vote Labour to defeat the Conservatives" instead of saying he would be...

Callum Todd

Why do cats push stuff off ledges? Cats push stuff around all the time. They are very dependent on their instincts around exploring territory and hunting for prey. It's part of their instinct to prod and push around objects with their paw to see what it is, if it's worth eating, or if it might be a...

Callum Todd

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:12 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 3:56 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 12:30 pm This is good
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... ef=m_notif
Not bad.
Is this a spoof or was Anne involved?

Skit for The Lateish Show on Channel 4.

Callum Todd

I always found the claim that wearing a mask doesn't protect you from COVID-19, but only other people from you, slightly strange. It's a physical barrier for the germy particles and even if it works better one way, it should still work a bit the other way. Anyway, I found this and this (and a few o...

Callum Todd

James Buster Douglas beating a seemingly invincible Milke Tyson. Leon Spinks beating Muhammad Ali Heavyweight boxing is famously volatile. So long as the bout was between two recognised high-level professionals I really wouldn't call any result a major upset. At my local parkrun, there have been so...

Callum Todd

How is Peston still in a job!? This is a crime against basic statistics. https://www.itv.com/news/2021-09-11/peston-covid-infections-higher-in-doubled-vaxxed-aged-40-79-than-for-non-vaxxed (in case it's not immediately obvious, if I have 100 people, 90 of whom are vaccinated, then of course there's...

Callum Todd

Leicester winning the Premier League really was phenomenal in the modern era of football. It's hard to state how much of an advantage the 'big 6' in particular had, and the fact that a team widely tipped to be relegated comfortably outperformed all of them plus 13 other teams in a full league season...

Callum Todd

I don't think any tournament with two competitors would ever have record long odds. E.g. the Ashes or FA Cup final (though obviously the whole FA Cup from the start could count). I think the 1981 Ashes odds was quite long as England had scored less than a hundred in their first innings I would clas...

Callum Todd

Now that they're apparently a nightly occurrence, petition for George's countdown dreams to replace Origins of Words.

Callum Todd

Congrats Gev and Bra!

Callum Todd

Wasn't aware of that tool; good stuff. Burgess not as close as I thought it looked, compared to others. I'll do whichever.

Callum Todd

Very. Plenty of parkrun choices nearby too. Burgess again?

Callum Todd

Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 9:38 pm One question - how are ties broken?

Highest finishing position at a single event. Then second highest, etc.

Callum Todd

Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Thu Aug 19, 2021 6:42 pm I think I've now updated the wiki's version of the FOCAL table. If there's a blunder I'm sure someone will point it out...

I'll be updating the official FOCAL stuff this afternoon so can cross-compare it then. Thanks very much as ever for your wiki work Rhys.

Callum Todd

I believe it was initially agreed to be 2/3 rounded up, and this always happened to be 8 apart from 2019 when it was 9. I've not changed that bit of the website yet as depending on how full a calendar we end up with for 2021 it might need changing.

Callum Todd

FOCAL are treating 2020-2022 as one season. Obviously you can do what you like with your parkrun leaderboard but that's what's happening with the FOCAL leaderboard.

Callum Todd

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Aug 14, 2021 7:33 pm Also does anyone have a list of all the CO-eventers who did the parkrun?

Callum Todd
Bradley Horrocks
Stephen Read
Adam Latchford
Phil Hannan
Fiona Thorne
Fiona Titcombe
Tasneem Rana
Chris Marshall

Callum Todd

Fiona T wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 5:29 pm Think there's gonna be a good turnout! A lot of the co:event noobs are parkrunners - should be fun!

You'll be there I hope!

Absolutely. Even doing my homework.

Callum Todd

Callum Todd

75*7+(100-4)/(50/25)

Callum Todd

I read the first line of your post and thought you were promising the invention of the unicorn.

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