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- Wed Jun 24, 2020 1:36 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 169084
Re: You Are The Ref
Sorry, in this case you only have two options, say MAWSONITE and AWMSONITE. You know your gonna pick one of them, by decide to wing it when asked. They declare first, saying MAWSONITE and getbapproving looks from dictionary corner. What would you do in that instance? Purposely pick the wrong one or...
- Wed Jun 24, 2020 12:28 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 169084
Re: You Are The Ref
Sorry, in this case you only have two options, say MAWSONITE and AWMSONITE. You know your gonna pick one of them, by decide to wing it when asked. They declare first, saying MAWSONITE and getbapproving looks from dictionary corner. What would you do in that instance? Purposely pick the wrong one or...
- Wed Jun 24, 2020 11:54 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 169084
Re: You Are The Ref
What if you knew there was a 9, had two possible options and resolved that you were gonna pick one, regardless of what the other person does. They declare first and you see DC give a smile and a nod. In that case, what do you do? If you're saying they declared the "other" one, then you ha...
- Wed Jun 24, 2020 11:30 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 169084
Re: You Are The Ref
Letters round, selection is MNTSWAOIE. You are declaring second and know there is a 9. Unsure what it is, you write down a few random ones. WAMNIOTES MAWSONITE AWMNIOTES Player 1 declares a 9, you also declare a 9. Wait for them to declare MAWSONITE. You then say 'Yep, same word' and point to the c...
- Wed Jun 24, 2020 8:04 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 169084
Re: You Are The Ref
It's the final letters game. C1 declares 8, and C2 declares 9. C1 says their word is NEMATOID, C2 says their word is MONRADITE. Points to C2. Later on, as the contestants shake hands for the crucial conundrum, C1 catches a glimpse of C2's paper and notices that DOMINATER is written in large letters...
- Mon Jun 22, 2020 12:17 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Joke Items
- Replies: 252
- Views: 89328
Re: Joke Items
The hyphen Our IT helpdesk at work also decided that the hyphen was a joke item, and introduced a new rule meaning that it wasn't allowed in anyone's name. Boy was that fun for me. The number of internal processes that just don't work for me any more is ridiculous. The best one was when we rolled a...
- Fri Jun 19, 2020 1:13 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 724203
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Have you really always wanted this answered?
If so that's pretty weird.
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 10:35 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 325849
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
There's definitely an element of cooling when slurping soup or coffee.
- Fri Jun 12, 2020 3:47 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Copyright Issues
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2927
Re: Copyright Issues
That's fantastic.
- Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:04 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1791582
Re: Politics in General
Who has ever thought Twitter, or any other social media platform, would be a place to have a serious discussion about anything?
Now a Countdown forum, on the other hand, is perfect.
Now a Countdown forum, on the other hand, is perfect.
- Wed Jun 10, 2020 4:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Trade Secrets
- Replies: 155
- Views: 49666
Re: Trade Secrets
If you want multiple accounts on some platform then they are generally not clever enough to distinguish between the above as well.
- Sat Jun 06, 2020 5:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 475969
Re: People you shouldn't trust
Yes it is.
- Fri Jun 05, 2020 11:09 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 475969
Re: People you shouldn't trust
People who laugh at the jokes in Shakespeare.
- Thu Jun 04, 2020 9:17 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: apterous update
- Replies: 34
- Views: 15035
Re: apterous update
Wow, that's really awesome of Phil.
- Tue Jun 02, 2020 3:09 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Birthday Championship Spoilers For Tuesday February 5th 2013
- Replies: 86
- Views: 26765
Re: Birthday Championship Spoilers For Tuesday February 5th
And don't forget that "I hope it's an A" was in direct reply to Rachel aslkng what he wanted :!: :shock: Another classic thread revived. This was a great re-read. But I can't let this piece of revisionist history go by. When the second "I" came out Jack murmurs "that's a sh...
- Thu May 28, 2020 10:37 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: VOTE FOR COUNTDOWN!!!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8723
Re: VOTE FOR COUNTDOWN!!!
The fact that this guy created a Top 100 and didn't include Countdown is enough to undermine any of his subsequent output.
With that said, I have voted.
With that said, I have voted.
- Tue May 26, 2020 8:16 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Cummings and goings
- Replies: 73
- Views: 22314
Re: Cummings and goings
If you really can't see why people would be so galled by this then you must be severely lacking in imagination. It sounds like you have no appreciation for the sacrifices some people are making to maintain social distancing. I don't count myself in that number but I know of people who are in childca...
- Sat May 23, 2020 7:40 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Favourite alcoholic cocktail or drink
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2279
Re: Favourite alcoholic cocktail or drink
Can't get my head round "cocktail or drink". Is a cocktail not classed as a drink? My personal Microsoft paperclip does it again. This is a brilliant comeback and I can't wait to use it on someone in real life. Gin and tonic is the drink for all occasions. Any gin is probably fine but a p...
- Sat May 23, 2020 7:37 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Is picking the letters an advantage?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12222
Re: Is picking the letters an advantage?
I took a quick look into this based on apterous data. I only considered games that are reasonably simulations of Countdown, i.e. human-vs-human games with normal rules and 30-second rounds. I also only looked at data for the last two years, because the move to the much bigger dictionary presumably ...
- Thu May 21, 2020 4:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday January 24th 2013 (Birthday R32 #5)
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7398
Re: Spoilers for Thursday January 24th 2013 (Birthday R32 #5
Anyway it was nice to meet you and put a face to a forum personality. You were unfortunate to, as one of the all-time greats, and one of the all-time best pre-Apterous, be drawn against one of the all-time best. Way to slip in an under-the-radar "I'm an all-time best" comment. Which would...
- Tue May 19, 2020 3:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's your skin colour?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 8134
Re: What's your skin colour?
It does indeed. It's my home page , in fact, and it's super useful. Surely View Unread Posts is more useful? It's what my c4c bookmark points to. I've lost all respect I ever had for you. Probably for a second time, but I'd forgotten about this post. Active topics is better in every way. And you've...
- Wed May 13, 2020 7:26 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Higher or Lower
- Replies: 127
- Views: 42262
Re: Higher or Lower
Just re-read this. Great thread. Still not convinced, myself.
- Sun May 10, 2020 10:46 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Dubs or Subs
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4398
Re: Dubs or Subs
I can't imagine wanting to watch anything, especially a film, so desperately that I would resort to watching it on a phone. I don't really agree with this. You can hold the phone a few inches from your face, with good headphones, and it's like being in the IMAX. It reminds me of when some film make...
- Sat May 02, 2020 5:55 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Beat the Chasers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3941
Re: Beat the Chasers
I liked it for what it was but the format is surely flawed - it's probably easier to face 5 chasers than 1 or 2 in a 1-minute shootout.
- Tue Apr 21, 2020 2:32 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: NHS-worship
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10383
Re: NHS-worship
I don't think anyone wants to begrudge the workforce for sure, that's never been an issue. The problem comes with the system, and the media deliberately convolution "a National Health Service" with " the National Health Service". The NHS, at present, is fundamentally flawed thro...
- Fri Apr 17, 2020 5:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 773
- Views: 666606
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Where is this information coming from Rhys? Particularly the phone call and details about coughing in the recording that you were counting.
- Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:23 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 773
- Views: 666606
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Quiz has now finished, and if I thought Ep2 was a little loose with the truth, Ep3 was flat out lying at points. - The suggestion that Celador added the coughs to the tapes is unfounded and ridiculous. The coughs were turned up for the trial , not as the original cut. Isn't the tape used at the tri...
- Wed Apr 15, 2020 8:32 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 773
- Views: 666606
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Obviously they cheated, but the video with the coughing raised to the same level as Tarrant and Ingram's voices is a misleading piece of evidence. It feels like such a "gotcha" moment - I remember that feeling when I first watched the Major Fraud documentary. But that's obviously not what ...
- Thu Mar 26, 2020 6:53 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: NHS-worship
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10383
Re: NHS-worship
It's what separates us from the animals. It is therefore a huge source of national pride. It's just about the only thing I have any national pride in.
- Mon Mar 23, 2020 9:08 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
- Replies: 503
- Views: 160291
Re: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
Yeah I don't really get that one. I get that they closed the London parks because it would be difficult to keep a safe distance. But Snowdonia? I've never been but I can't imagine it was as packed as St. James' Park gets. I went to Hainault Forest Country Park on Saturday and it was very easy to kee...
- Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:23 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: A massive apology to you all.
- Replies: 34
- Views: 14539
Re: A massive apology to you all.
Well done for owning up and apologising. It takes bravery to do that and everyone appreciates it.
You've still got a lot of growing up to do, but you're by no means alone in that regard.
You've still got a lot of growing up to do, but you're by no means alone in that regard.
- Wed Mar 04, 2020 8:20 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Chess - advice for a beginner?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 14295
Re: Chess - advice for a beginner?
The trouble with knowing how to solve the tactical positions you will see in a newspaper is that you will only get to one of those positions very rarely, and only if you have outplayed your opponent up to that point. In any case a game between two beginners is usually just a succession of blunders,...
- Mon Mar 02, 2020 8:40 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1791582
Re: Politics in General
But what do you think generally about the points I made, other than disagreeing with how I worded them? Ok - there's a conflict in what you described as the prevailing liberal view. But you're wrong about what the prevailing liberal view is. Not suffering from gender dysphoria or knowing too much a...
- Sun Mar 01, 2020 8:16 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1791582
Re: Politics in General
Going back to the trans debate, there's a BBC news article here about it and whether children can give informed consent to block puberty etc. Obviously we can go round in circles talking about what it means to be a man or a woman, but it's interesting that the prevailing "liberal" view se...
- Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:50 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 169084
Re: You Are The Ref
I think everyone should use a pen to tap the table.. it's a sharper sound which makes it much easier to adjudicate. I've been using a pen on conundrums forever and it's definitely a competitive advantage to simply twitch your fingers than move your whole arm to bang the table, so I don't know why mo...
- Thu Feb 20, 2020 8:44 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 169084
Re: You Are The Ref
1. c 2. b 3. b - Would be different if the host promised before the round to warn with 5 seconds left. If they promised to but didn't, and the player said their answer as soon as time was up, it'd be a very murky area. 4. b 4 (letters fall off before) - a. round ended when the letters fell off 4 (le...
- Thu Feb 20, 2020 8:37 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Chess - advice for a beginner?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 14295
Re: Chess - advice for a beginner?
If you're bad and want to become below-average like me: Learn the main tactical motifs. Then do simple tactical puzzles (i.e. shouldn't take more than 5 seconds to solve) for hours and hours (it can be fun for someone of our ilk).
- Tue Feb 18, 2020 5:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 773
- Views: 666606
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
I didn't think it was that great. I mean it was OK but it wasn't very "Inside No 9". There was no twist or was I missing something? (Other than the bit that happened quite early on so doesn't really count.) I was looking at the clock - "10:28" - surely something has to happen no...
- Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:39 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 773
- Views: 666606
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
And Season 10 of Curb. Steer clear if you are a snowflake , woke or easily offended ( is that tautology ? ) As someone who has been described as a snowflake on a few occasions, you can safely ignore the steer clear advice - it's great. We all know that The 12 Days of Christine is the best episode o...
- Tue Feb 11, 2020 12:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Is COUNTDOWN worthy of respect as a game?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10504
Re: Is COUNTDOWN worthy of respect as a game?
The main part of Gevin's post I'd disagree with is the bit about co-ordination being a "base" skill. Here I admit I'm drawing heavily on Matthew Syed's "Bounce" (which I gather draws a lot in turn from Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers"). Syed is a former British number one...
- Wed Feb 05, 2020 3:14 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Focal Talk podcast Episode 2 out now (featuring Ben Wilson and Conor Travers)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6263
Re: Focal Talk podcast Episode 2 out now (featuring Ben Wilson and Conor Travers)
It's very good. i really enjoyed it.
Some sound quality issues with Conor unfortunately. In 2020 it seems like these should be solved by now but sadly not. An idea might be to get your guests to record the call as well then you can use their recording of them and your recording of you.
Some sound quality issues with Conor unfortunately. In 2020 it seems like these should be solved by now but sadly not. An idea might be to get your guests to record the call as well then you can use their recording of them and your recording of you.
- Tue Feb 04, 2020 11:50 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: FOCAL Code of Conduct
- Replies: 38
- Views: 18669
Re: FOCAL Code of Conduct
Good personal hygiene should be required.
Not washing hands after going to the toilet is a bannable offence.
Not washing hands after going to the toilet is a bannable offence.
- Thu Jan 30, 2020 12:45 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: In the current climate
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2970
Re: In the current climate
How could we possibly function in this extreme society, where teachers aren't allowed to beat the shit out of a child, or comfort them? How are fictional men supposed to live with the sceptre of sexual assault accusations looming large over their heads every time they want to sexually assault someon...
- Fri Jan 10, 2020 8:35 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Dictionary Revisal
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7971
- Fri Dec 27, 2019 5:29 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1791582
Re: Politics in General
I always enter into these discussions as a blank slate and if people hold views that I find troubling, I'm happy to explain why I have arrived at my perspective, hammer out the points where we differ, and either agree to disagree or just move on. This goes for literally any subject matter, no matter...
- Fri Dec 27, 2019 12:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1791582
Re: Politics in General
Have you literally ever done any reading or research into this topic or are you just wanking yourself off on the proposition of a big fun C4C debate like a Braintree Ben Shapiro? I think I know which one it is. more liek gammon chipper lolzzz!! - is 'not renewing a contract' synonymous with 'sackin...
- Mon Dec 23, 2019 12:02 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1791582
Re: Politics in General
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/stop-using-phony-science-to-justify-transphobia/ That is interesting but I'm not sure how much it changes. It starts off by saying that people with XX or XY chromosomes can still end up intersex, but clearly most people don't and that's not what this is a...
- Fri Dec 20, 2019 12:10 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1791582
Re: Politics in General
- Everyone who earns up to 100k will be better off - Those who earn between 20-50k will basically be getting a 10% net pay rise overnight - This will raise £6bn for the treasury Don't do any interviews with Nick Ferrari. Someone earning £100K pa would be pay a whopping £15K extra under your propose...
- Fri Dec 20, 2019 9:27 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1791582
Re: Politics in General
Why have both you and JK Rowling chosen to differentiate between a woman losing her job for that and a man (or other gender)? Why didn't you say "a person losing their job"?Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2019 10:58 pm What do you think of a woman losing her job for saying that people can't change their biological sex?
- Fri Dec 20, 2019 9:26 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1791582
Re: Politics in General
75% was a nice round number that took the overall picture into "profit" vs. the status quo. What about National Insurance? Are you abolishing it or keeping it the same as it is now? Same as it is now for all other taxes, in the worked example above. Realistically I'd try to get rid of it ...
- Tue Dec 17, 2019 11:33 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Who would you like to lead the labour Party
- Replies: 30
- Views: 14050
Re: Who would you like to lead the labour Party
The Lib Dems did get 1.4m more votes than the 2017 GE. So that's evidence of the effect. But who's to say the elasticity(/plasticity?) of Tory Remainers' vote is the same as Labour? It's a hard thing to know. I'd be interested to read more statistical analysis of all the above. There are some sweep...
- Tue Dec 17, 2019 10:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Who would you like to lead the labour Party
- Replies: 30
- Views: 14050
Re: Who would you like to lead the labour Party
The Lib Dems did get 1.4m more votes than the 2017 GE. So that's evidence of the effect. But who's to say the elasticity(/plasticity?) of Tory Remainers' vote is the same as Labour? It's a hard thing to know. I'd be interested to read more statistical analysis of all the above. There are some sweepi...
- Tue Dec 17, 2019 8:13 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Who would you like to lead the labour Party
- Replies: 30
- Views: 14050
Re: Who would you like to lead the labour Party
Sorry - I meant votes. Vote share as well.
- Tue Dec 17, 2019 5:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Who would you like to lead the labour Party
- Replies: 30
- Views: 14050
Re: Who would you like to lead the labour Party
Labour got more votes and more seats this GE than the 2015 GE so to call it their worst defeat since 1935 is a little misleading in a discussion about how they fared. This was the Brexit election. UKIP got 3.9m votes in 2015 and the Brexit party got 600k in 2019. Where did the other 3.3m votes go? I...
- Thu Dec 12, 2019 2:42 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: 2019 General Election Predictions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2444
Re: 2019 General Election Predictions
Tory landslide, sadly.
- Tue Dec 03, 2019 8:53 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1791582
Re: Politics in General
75% was a nice round number that took the overall picture into "profit" vs. the status quo. With a high non-100% number there is still a financial reward for increasing income. At 100% this is not the case. Between 0% and 100% it's a sliding scale of how much financial reward you get. Appa...
- Mon Nov 25, 2019 10:03 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How many jobs have you had ?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4787
- Mon Nov 25, 2019 10:00 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1791582
Re: Politics in General
I'd be interested to know how much different it is. Let's say we start a business together and make £100k profit in year 1. What would be the difference between us paying ourselves £12k salaries and taking £76k out in dividends, vs. paying ourselves £50k salaries? I'm not being lazy... genuinely can...
- Sun Nov 24, 2019 11:40 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Is Jeremy Corbyn electable as Prime Minister ?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10318
Re: Is Jeremy Corbyn electable as Prime Minister ?
There is a general "Prime Minister after the December 2019 General Election" markets around but I can't find any hard and fast rules. I expect that the betting sites will just decide whether they should pay out after the event, in any of Graeme's examples. I don't think they'll be paying ...
- Sun Nov 24, 2019 11:06 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1791582
Re: Politics in General
A 75% tax rate on earnings over 50K kills aspiration. Why would anyone start a small business, with all the risk and all the extra work bother? If you started a small business, wouldn't you pay corporation tax (which is much lower)? Unless you decided to pay yourself a pointlessly huge salary inste...