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- Wed Feb 14, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 67
- Views: 10288
Re: The Dead of 2024
I've always thought of him as Mr. TOTP2.
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 58059
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
The pacemakers dropped in and out (there were several laps) so it wasn't like in a proper race where they start with you and then drop out when they can't keep it going.
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:02 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1757633
Re: Politics in General
Well actually believing something about what the Israeli government might have done is not racist, and so not anti-Semitic. The same standards apply across the board. Criticising a government, even if not based in truth, does not make one a racist, whatever the country is. Israel does not have speci...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 700399
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
You mean a dog?Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 4:14 pmIve never experienced this but my step daughter (in her early thirties) says it happens whenever she hears a cat scarerMark Deeks wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:47 pm What's that whole thing about when your ear goes PING and then you're deaf for a few seconds?
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 58059
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
The thing is Kiptum was the sub-2 hour hope. He was also fun to watch. He'd take the first half of his marathons fairly easily and then just go in the second half. With better pacing, sub-2 looked a formality. Also, for whatever reason, the women's marathon records are often set by people you've nev...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 11:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 12th February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 30)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 446
Re: Spoilers for Monday 12th February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 30)
It was the 197 trick all along!
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 12:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 58059
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
According to this Wikipedia page , people in Kenya are about 10 times as likely as people in the UK to die in a car accident in a given year. But fewer people have cars in Kenya. Per car, the death rate is more than 100 times as much! From here : Giving details of the crash, police said Kiptum was d...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 11:29 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 67
- Views: 10288
Re: The Dead of 2024
As I put in the athletics thread, Kelvin Kiptum.
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 11:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 58059
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
Kelvin Kiptum has died in a road accident. Shit. I mean, fucking hell.
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 350676
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
At my parkrun the JW10 record (so girls 10 and under) was at one point held by a 40-ish-year-old man who used the wrong barcode. I suspect deliberately because he did the same at another local parkrun. There's also something a bit off about this guy in general. I did contact the event director (and ...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:04 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 311
- Views: 49855
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
I don't think you can make such a binary distinction between humans and all other animals. So while the way dogs and cats love humans may differ from how humans love humans, they are also likely to differ from each other in significant ways too.
I'll get over it.
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 4:44 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1757633
Re: Politics in General
If anyone was still in any doubt over whether what Israel is doing is reasonable or not, even the Tories (specifically the guy off the street they recruited to be foreign secretary) are having doubts over the latest move to attack Rafah.
Edit - And Biden as well.
Edit - And Biden as well.
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 311
- Views: 49855
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
You didn't, you just posted a bunch of tangential philosophy that didn't really address the point at all. If anything, you proved the point further. OK, so humans and fungus are the same. I'm not sure how anything you're saying is really related to the original point that cats and dogs are equally ...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 1:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Real life situations that made you laugh
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2234
Re: Real life situations that made you laugh
You did that before!Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 12:54 pm Just made a typo talking about tonights American football ended up writing Superb Owl
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 1:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 311
- Views: 49855
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
OK, so humans and fungus are the same.Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 10:05 amYou didn't, you just posted a bunch of tangential philosophy that didn't really address the point at all. If anything, you proved the point further.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 9:38 pmI debunked it. Unless you accept the conclusion that all life is the same.
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 7:52 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 311
- Views: 49855
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Remember I added "Unless you accept the conclusion that all life is the same."Mark James wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 2:59 amNo you haven't.
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 7:51 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 311
- Views: 49855
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Cats and dogs are the same. People think cats are cold and heartless and dogs show love. Bullshit. They've both learned to manipulate humans to get food. You can apply this reductive logic to all life, including humans. Obviously not just about manipulating humans to get food, but more generally ma...
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 9:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 311
- Views: 49855
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
I debunked it. Unless you accept the conclusion that all life is the same.Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 8:39 pmThis is a good one.Mark James wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:04 pm Cats and dogs are the same. People think cats are cold and heartless and dogs show love. Bullshit. They've both learned to manipulate humans to get food.
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 7:40 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Trade Secrets
- Replies: 155
- Views: 47375
Re: Trade Secrets
I don't know if anyone actually needs this advice, but people are often depicted as straining when they are struggling to go. But anyway, never strain. Pulse.
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 7:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 311
- Views: 49855
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Cats and dogs are the same. People think cats are cold and heartless and dogs show love. Bullshit. They've both learned to manipulate humans to get food. You can apply this reductive logic to all life, including humans. Obviously not just about manipulating humans to get food, but more generally ma...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 9th February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 29)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 383
Re: Spoilers for Friday 9th February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 29)
I was going to say WORLDIE is on Apterous!
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 12:42 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 700399
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Which foodstuff has the biggest retail profit margin? I would have said crisps or popcorn (especially in a cinema) but one of my managers said it was bread but I'm not convinced Well if you're allowed to specify the place (e.g. in a cinema) there's a lot of places that hike up prices if you're in a...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 4:25 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 350676
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
Well, here's the relevant bit from their webpage: After careful consideration and extensive consultation–both in 2019 and in 2023, we decided to continue categorising people based on gender rather than sex. We feel this is aligned with us as a health and wellbeing charity that provides non-competiti...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 2:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 8th February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 28)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1261
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 8th February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 28)
Although not as long as FACTOTUM, TACTFUL was the standard method contestant-beater in round 4.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 350676
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
I think the best solution is to change "gender" to "sex" on the sign-up and leave people to it. They don't demand proof of age.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 12:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 350676
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
The Telegraph have an article about it.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 350676
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
Good point.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 1:30 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: National COLIN Day
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2070
Re: National COLIN Day
That's quite clever actually.
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:21 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What films have you watched lately?
- Replies: 431
- Views: 280310
Re: What films have you watched lately?
I watched The Lavender Hill Mob the other day. Quite enjoyable.
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 5:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 350676
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
P***sed off about this. My nephew won't be happy when I tell him he's destined not to make it to the top of the first finishers list at our parkrun!
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 11:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XX- your input desired
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3025
Re: COLIN XX- your input desired
I'm not that bothered about having a calendar - it's just something I was idly thinking about.
But a pdf sounds like a reasonable compromise for next year's thing anyway.
But a pdf sounds like a reasonable compromise for next year's thing anyway.
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 9:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XX- your input desired
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3025
Re: COLIN XX- your input desired
For next year, I'm finally pulling the trigger on a 'big prize' (such as mugs, t-shirts, calendars etc) I've been thinking of for years, namely the 'Big Book of COLIN'. What this will include is all manner of stuff like photos, stats, records, old (and some new) puzzles, quizzes... but I also want ...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 4:35 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 700399
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Well chronic just means it's over a long time. It doesn't say how serious it is. Kidney presumably because it involves the kidneys, and disease - it's just the word for bad medical things isn't it? Still, good job it's nothing to worry about!
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 2:30 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 67
- Views: 10288
Re: The Dead of 2024
Wow. That's Dad's Army gone then. I was hoping for another 20 years.
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 9:23 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1757633
Re: Politics in General
This is a very good song by Biden and Netenyahu.
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:10 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 700399
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
There's better satellite coverage just outside the Grim Reaper's house.
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 1:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers Thursday February 1st
- Replies: 2
- Views: 448
Re: Spoilers Thursday February 1st
The teatime teaser - "Lincs or Notts; you make the connection". Never mind that I thought he said "Links or nuts", but quite a good COLIN reference, held in Lincs obviously. Apparently my run on Sunday crossed the border into Notts as well so very relevant.
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 9:06 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 67
- Views: 10288
Re: The Dead of 2024
Jonnie Irwin (who I believe Elliott picked) and Carl Weathers have died.
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Lookalikes?
- Replies: 390
- Views: 248368
Re: Countdown Lookalikes?
Series 89 contestant Kevin Cornell (he was on a few days ago): https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.353%2C$multiply_1.3975%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/q_62%2Cf_auto/4dfa3e1c98c36b5af741e37a3c1968bb8bd9de7c US president Bill Clinton: https://wiki.apterous.org/images/th...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 7:10 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 640
- Views: 311061
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Why did no-one mention that the Queen had died? So Charles is King?
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 5:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 350676
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
After nearly a year, I've finally updated the PB list. As well as a new entry from Matt Gould, there were improvements from Matthew Tassier, Junaid Mubeen, Jonathan Wynn, Dan Byrom, Stephen Read, Kai Laddiman and Adam Latchford. Adam Latchford improved from 29:29 to 20:35 - nearly 9 minutes! He was ...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 5:30 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 350676
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
We have a new season on our hands. And before COLIN, a load of us went to the relatively new Yarborough Leisure Centre parkrun (something about collecting parkruns beginning with every letter of the alphabet), and here are the results : 6 (1). Gevin Chapwell - 18:59 (75.24%) (889 points) 27 (2). Dan...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:50 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XIX- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2024
- Replies: 44
- Views: 20673
Re: COLIN XIX- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2024
I didn't eat at the social club. Are you saying the food there was better than OK or worse than OK? Was implied in what I said, but to clarify, worse. Think everyone said they're chips were undercooked, and everything was served with said chips Will feed that back to the MH manager next time I spea...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:06 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Favourite Comedy Gig
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2963
Re: Favourite Comedy Gig
Did he then repeat it 20 times because he was lacking material of his own?Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:05 pmInterestingly, in his set Stewart Lee had a little dig at Frankie Boyle for using a team of uncredited writers. (Lee writes his own material) for his stand Up
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 1:16 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1757633
Re: Politics in General
Just to add to the above, Sunak speaking out in that way suggests delusions of grandeur. His opinion is irrelevant. The ICJ is much bigger than him in this regard.
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 3:10 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 30th January 2024 (Series 89, Heat 21)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 616
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 30th January 2024 (Series 89, Heat 21)
AVOWALS as a beater in round 8.
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 2:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 25954
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
By the way, a few people at COLIN were emphasing the importance of shuffling the letters well and using e.g. four As coming out in a row as evidence of poor shuffling. However, unless it's a new pack with letters clumped together, it shouldn't really make any difference. Shuffling is good practice a...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:35 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 29th January 2024 (Series 89, Heat 20)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 547
Re: Spoilers for Monday 29th January 2024 (Series 89, Heat 20)
Not on Apterous (so with all necessary caveats).
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 11:10 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 29th January 2024 (Series 89, Heat 20)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 547
Re: Spoilers for Monday 29th January 2024 (Series 89, Heat 20)
Geezer looked like a potential octochamp yesterday. Not sure what happened to him.
Re: Music
I don't really like the Darkness song either but my reaction to someone liking a song is also in some way proportional to how popular it is in general. Maybe the Mariah Carey song is better than I gave it credit for but there's loads I prefer.
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 4:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XIX- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2024
- Replies: 44
- Views: 20673
Re: COLIN XIX- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2024
I didn't eat there either. Veggie options were limited.
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 2:19 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XIX- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2024
- Replies: 44
- Views: 20673
Re: COLIN XIX- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2024
Yes, really good again. If I had one small suggestion, it would be that if there are table numbers, it's best to have them explicitly labelled rather than people having to infer them from the set numbers on the lids of the letters/numbers boxes, which are generally harder to find with the lids often...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 25954
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
I've thought about that before, and I think it's probably better overall to have 2 tables of 2 unbeaten players, rather than a 3 and a 1.
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 25th January 2024 (Series 89, Heat 18)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 590
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 25th January 2024 (Series 89, Heat 18)
I checked it on Apterous when I watched and it said invalid. Unless it's slipped through the net with the update.
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 311
- Views: 49855
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
And that itself is a problem. Essential services like this should not be privatised.
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 8:50 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 311
- Views: 49855
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
What I found ridiculous (and I mentioned this on here before) was when the prices all went up (due to the war in Ukraine I think) but then the companies recorded record profits as well. That was obviously a piss take, and they were never pulled up on it. If prices go up for them, then sure, raise pr...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 11:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 23rd January 2024 (Series 89, Heat 16)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 825
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 23rd January 2024 (Series 89, Heat 16)
I did (9+8)×6×2=204.
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 10:12 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 23rd January 2024 (Series 89, Heat 16)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 825
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 23rd January 2024 (Series 89, Heat 16)
I saw that as well, but after the time.John Garcia wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 4:10 pm 4th Numbers:
6 + 5 + 10 = 21; 21 x 50 = 1050; 1050 - 75 - 7 = 968
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 3:55 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 29068
Re: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
What's your point here? I don't think your post really addressed what Marc was saying. Marc said he expected people living to 100 to be the norm, which I think is fairly interpreted as more people doing that than not. Sure, but in the context of the discussion the exact proportion is not really tha...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 1:03 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024
- Replies: 53
- Views: 23931
Re: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024
I think any travelling at all the day before might be a bit tiring, and could be a bit of a risk! Hopefully I'll see you out there in London and good luck to your daughter!