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Fiona T

When I was in school I was hamstrung by my school being in a certain city. Now that I have a job I'm hamstrung by my job being in a certain city. But what hamstrings a retired person? Well immigration laws I guess! Retired people do move, but perhaps they have dual citizenship or other right to liv...

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You can often get slightly striped effects when printing blocks of colour, so really does depend on what the host has available. I know when I made my cards I got through a couple of crazy expensive blue ink cartridges, so will be avoiding colour backgrounds going forward!

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I think slightly bigger slips help with both manhandling and ease of use

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Yeah sorry, my comment was general, not aimed at Adam!

Fiona T

I hate it. Yes, the sentiment is valid, but in most cases it's not really necessary and paints the person, who in most cases is a decent, nice and generally considerate as entitled and unaware of social issues. We're all privileged in some way compared to others in the world. Occasionally it does ne...

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Having managed it again this morning, it's the back to menu top left I'm pressing on autopilot, so a confirmation there would work if it's a more common issue than just me! Thanks for pointing this one out, I've fixed this. I've also fixed the 6 small issue reported by Phil and Graeme. Thanks for a...

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Andres Sanchez wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 10:39 pm Will say also, there's a bit of me that feels like this event should be on the wiki. Anyone else?

Haha not really. Doubt anyone cares apart from those involved. No objection if you wanna do it tho

Fiona T

The redeye as in a flight from an airline refers to the colour of the plane lights at night rather than your eyes being red because of tiredness Does it? That doesn't make sense. The tiredness one does make sense. On reflexion, yes it does mean tiredness as the flight isn't long enough for a night'...

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Yeah I was thinking about this recently and found this BBC article

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-61111915

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I think if anything I've become more left leaning as I've got older. But I do abhor wasted money (stereotypical Scot!) and the public sector (as well as much of the private sector) has massive inefficiencies. You wouldn't need to raise taxes if you took a holistic co-ordinated view and stopped pouri...

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Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:21 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 8:48 pm It was just multiplication by 9. There was no split.
Does the (100-7) prior to the multiplication not count as a split?

My understanding is that split multiplication is something like

target 394
(100x2-3)x2

your split is making the adjustment between the two multiplication operations

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Split multiplications by 9 are in no way a "kick yourself" situation. Agree. Yeah I think that's the sort of solution where if she was to explain the thought process it would be really useful to lots of viewers. Most of us mere mortals couldn't instantly tell you it was 93x9 but if you st...

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We've had two events recently with lunches organised - Edinburgh where the bridge club had lovely sandwiches, soup and cakes, and Newcastle where there was a cafe where we pre-ordered. Both were great (for someone with no special dietary requirements!) but if we restrict the choice of venues to thos...

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I find it hilarious that Gevs mate Owen Jones being so outspoken as a gay man who would be thrown off the nearest roof in Gaza just for being gay. citation needed Well, given Hamas have no tall buildings left… Well yeah there is that. https://www.humandignitytrust.org/country-profile/palestine/ &qu...

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Top quality stuff from Conor!

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And I'm pretty sure a "member" that has spent its day fermenting in sweaty underwear in close proximity to a bumhole isn't quite as clean as you might imagine. (Note to self - take hand sanitiser to my next scrabble tournament)

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 7:33 am I find it hilarious that Gevs mate Owen Jones being so outspoken as a gay man who would be thrown off the nearest roof in Gaza just for being gay.

citation needed

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It's quite a shame that once you choose to identify with one side, you seem to ignore facts, or try to downplay or twist them to match your agenda. There's no discussion if you're resorting to this. I can't imagine what it must be like to be directly affected by this and my thoughts are with you Ta...

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Mark James wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 9:33 am Top tip for theatre designers. Don't build theatres that contain areas with restricted views.

Yeah the Romans had this nailed

Fiona T

BTW, something which I added a long time ago, but since the original post is factional letters to the packs. The motivation is that there are a couple of letters where 1 in the pack seems like a shame, but 2 every time would be annoying. So when the Consonant stack is made, three of the letters are...

Fiona T

Can the Countdown app be modified for face to face games making organising a Co event much easier Personally not a big fan of this - if you're gonna play on an app you might as well play on apterous. Edit to say that the app (or similar) generating the letters/numbers selections seems reasonable (a...

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Hello from me to you all. Very pleased to have discovered Apterous recently; it seems like a great online community and obviously it's a lot of fun to play some Countdown when I should be working! I used to enjoy watching Countdown as a youngster, mid to late '90s, and then didn't watch it at all f...

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Hello from me to you all. Very pleased to have discovered Apterous recently; it seems like a great online community and obviously it's a lot of fun to play some Countdown when I should be working! I used to enjoy watching Countdown as a youngster, mid to late '90s, and then didn't watch it at all f...

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-It would be better for people to save having sex until after marriage (not that I will judge anyone who does not) I don't understand why enjoying a particularly fun activity, and fundamental biological function, should be avoided until committing to one person for life. It seems to me the equivale...

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Shamima Begum was a child victim who was groomed by a terrorist organisation, and should be treated as such (that is not saying she should be absolved of any responsibility for any crimes she committed, but that she is also just as much a victim as a the children who were groomed by Harvey Weinstein...

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On the note of prizes... All of the Scrabble tournaments I've attended have had cash prizes. Some charge very high entry fees and have very substantial prizes. The recent Malta tournaments I attended had a prize fund of 4.5K euros across the 4 events (2K for each of the two main events) - personally...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 5:01 pm Is the target revealed BEFORE the numbers are chosen?

No, it's the same as the show

Fiona T

the superior method. *superior in your opinion So far in this thread we've had 2 against and 2 for your idea. If we end up with a clear majority agreeing that your system is superior, then let's go for it. Otherwise, the tried and tested stays. I genuinely believe you should just get better at writ...

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[*] ASYNDETON: Good pick! It missable, but if you know it it's quite a fast solve, and most players at finals levels would know this word. Personally I would expect something harder for the overall final of the year. Interesting that you think this. It's only been on the Asecension list since 2020 ...

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Anyway - from eligibility requirements "You must be legally resident in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland and have a current address within the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland." Legal residency doesn't sound straightforward https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ways-in-w...

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Well I think, aside from the residency requirement, the whole thing can be an extended process. Some people wait upwards of 6 months for auditions after applying, and filming can be weeks or months after that. I think Ronan was well over a year between applying and filming. You could be appear at th...

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One other thing - if there's a grand final at the end of a tournament and no screen with the scores, it's important to announce the scores at the end of each round. My bad. I was a complete scatterbrain and overcome with nerves during the final. My board was intended to be used a score display but ...

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Also, I think 11:30 or even just 11:15 is a better start time than 11:00. 11:00 is still a bit early and it can be quite tight if you are engaging in other activities in the morning and having breakfast after. But still, it was great event and these are minor considerations really. *Graeme Cole onc...

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Bumping this - the tool that was used for hosting the finals yesterday implemented "algorithm 2" as outlined by Jack (although with 9 or 15 rounders (code bugs excepted!) we're never going to get near the end of the pack so algorithm 1 is probably fine!) I think it felt about right - there...

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Might be just me .... Quite often after one of the challenges, I end up accidentally abandoning rather than submitting. It is largely lack of concentration, but I think because the 'submit' screen looks so like that 'done' screen it's easy just to automatically press the back button to get back to ...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 6:43 am Can't today sadly as I have had some kind of reaction to my Covid Jab yesterday
Weak and I'll today
If anybody here wants to take my place they can with my blessing
Have fun

Get well soon!

Fiona T

Might be just me .... Quite often after one of the challenges, I end up accidentally abandoning rather than submitting. It is largely lack of concentration, but I think because the 'submit' screen looks so like that 'done' screen it's easy just to automatically press the back button to get back to t...

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I like Mrs Brown's boys

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Yeah def one I heard a lot growing up. Used for someone (male obv) who expected to by waited on - "see if his nibs wants a cup of tea"

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2023 3:26 pm There was a £100 question on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire once where the answer was His Nibs. Nope, never heard of it. Woulda have to have lifelined.

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Dan Byrom wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 10:24 pm Count me in for food please!

I'll be coming in on the day - will any parkrunners be staying nearby and wouldn't mind me using their shower ...?

Nominate Todd. But failing that you're welcome to use mine.

Fiona T

I rang my surgery and they told me to come in. They gave me a tetanus jab and some antibiotics. The nurse told me I could report it but stopped short of saying I should report it. The dog's owner said she would keep it on a lead from now on, so there is that. It's a bit awkward reporting it because...

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Get yourself a tetanus jab. And yeah you should probably report it. Little yappy dog unlikely to seriously maul you but it could bite a child and do some damage. So often get chased by dogs when I'm on my bike in the woods, and got bitten (enough to scratch and bruise, not properly punctured) in Ire...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 2:46 pm Beasted.

It's in as a verb so should be in.

will ticket

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OK, so back to David Cameron. Rishi Sunak has literally just taken some guy off the street to be his foreign secretary. He is not an MP and was not in the House of Lords. It could have been you. It could have been me. It could have been Brian Cox (either of them). But it just happened to be David C...

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Sounds like a good time was had by all

Are the results published anywhere please?

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Ridiculous that OUTGRABES has found its way into the dictionary. OUTGRABE is used in The Jabberwocky as the past tense (of outgribe according to Humpty Dumpty) and you can't stick an s on the end. Aye, but it's there outgrabe VERB Used as a nonsense word: (most frequently) to emit a strange noise.....

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Linford Wood for parkrun

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I think she means that it should be aeroplane mode. Well that too, but what I actually meant was the whole being asked to put it in airplane mode on an aeroplane. What's that about? 80% of people don't bother. If not doing so causes a real risk then they should be banned, not a polite announcement ...

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Airplane mode

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From an atheist perspective, where is morality birthed from? How do we know what is good and what is evil? The natural state of the world is one of natural selection-survival of the fittest, the strong killing the weak. Where do human rights and calls for equality come into it? Humanist worksheet (...

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I do believe I would have found my way, for I did (kind of). My parents are agnostic/atheist, I wasn’t brought up going to church, they are relatively anti-faith in many respects. I came faith when I was 12 via school assembly and a quite rocky summer (long story) But that's my point. If you'd atte...

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Well this is exciting!!

https://www.parkrun.org.uk/yarboroughleisurecentre/

Y was looking like the trickiest alphabet letter for me - York being crazy expensive! Too good an opportunity to miss for me.

Anyone wanna join me for this one?

Fiona T

Sorry, my quotes went to shite - I've given up :) The Christian belief "No-one comes to the Father but by me" is something you presumably fundamentally believe. Just taking the Abrahamic religions, there are as many people (give or take a few million) who don't believe that as do. Assuming...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 8:52 pm I assume there is evidence that jesus existed and also the apostles and probably the crucifiction

That's not old testament

Fiona T

[...] religion is not a requirement to live a [...] meaningful life. I think it could be said that religion is a requirement to live an objectively meaningful life, with the caveat that it is almost certain that the objective behind that meaning is false. I believe that's essentially the main reaso...

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My parents used to have a copy of Constable's The Haywain in their (incredibly 1970s) front room. I didn't know you have copies of things at the time, sooo, yeah. I remember my daughter getting very excited when she read in her teletubbies comic that Van Gogh's sunflowers sold for over £20,000,000 ...

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..there is nought wrong with Christian values. Oh I think there's plenty wrong with a lot of Christian values. Inequality, homophobia, mysoginism for starters I suspect those aren't the values you mean though - you mean love, honesty, helping those less fortunate etc, etc... Christians don't have a...

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For those that believe in God... Do you think the God you worship is the same God that the Christians/Muslims/Jews worship? It seems to me that most of the troubles in today's world are around not what God you believe in, but how you worship your God. Is he really that insecure that he'll damn those...

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Agree with the above sentiments Adam. A well balanced and thoughtful post.

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