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Gavin Chipper

VOMITER as an OT in round 8?

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Jon Corby wrote:
Matt Bayfield wrote:Ooh, and looking at recent Great Notley results... nice work on the improving parkrun PB, Gevin...
> 44 minutes one week, < 22 minutes the next, how is that even possible?

Going round with my dad (my equivalent of Chris Corby).

Edit - Also I used a solver for the faster time.

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I had a parkrun (look, no capitals, Bayfield) dream last night. I wonder what they'd make of it if I went on the Facebook page for my local parkrun and started a similar discussion.

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Feature request: arbirtrary groupings via the Parkrun website - would be fun to be able compare my times to those of fellow apterites/korfballers/whatever. Feature request page Also, more of a bug report, but if you don't set a PB in a run, it says "PB remains at...", but it always gives ...

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Jon Corby wrote:I dunned (100+9)*(10-3)-4

I doed something like (100+9-2)*(3+4)+10

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Showboating from Rachel, unnecessarily going up to 3000. 100/4=25, 25×30=750. No need!

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So it's the next leaders debate tonight, except without Cameron or Clegg. Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have, of course, been unfairly excluded from this. Because Cameron refused to take part in more than one debate, the broadcasters allowed him to save face by billing this as an opposition debate...

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In the Speaker's constituency, the main parties don't even stand against him! An arbitrary tradition is seen as more important than voters' democratic rights! It's up to each individual party whether they choose to field a candidate in a constituency - nobody can force them to. Even if you persuade...

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...I'm picking the Great Notley Parkrun , which is near Braintree in Essex...I haven't got an exact date in mind yet, but I was thinking maybe August or September... Disingenuousness is often unavoidable when you're in politics but I think this takes things a mite too far. It's quite clear that you...

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I think it's a great idea! I just need to convince Matt to go to Braintree. Alternatively, couldn't we make it a more central location? Or as Matt suggested, try and do it on the day of an already existing co-event? We could do these things but as it takes essentially no organisation and I go most ...

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Ian Volante wrote:Feature request: arbirtrary groupings via the Parkrun website - would be fun to be able compare my times to those of fellow apterites/korfballers/whatever.

That would be quite a good feature. Let's have some PBs then. I'll go first - 21:11.

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They both missed the standard method of (100-5)*10+9=959 in the last numbers.

Has Gerry got a stiff neck?

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Good evening. Following Richard Brittain's attempt at a Co-lympics , it seemed that there was an appetite for an athletics-based event, even if it didn't quite happen on that occasion. So here's another attempt, which takes no real organising, so it should be much easier to make it happen. It takes ...

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I've just been on Betfair to look at odds of who is going to "win" the election. Obviously it depends on what counts as a win, but if you look at the odds of who is going to be the Prime Minister after the election (probably the best measure of who wins rather than looking at outright maj...

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Also, I love how James got up to watch this live.

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(6*9+4)*(10+6) was a better way to 928 than Rachel's method. Also, I think the FORMATES teaser should probably have had an explanation. Not everyone knows anything about chemistry! I don't think Nick understood it.

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I hope I'm not steering the conversation away too much by bringing up Anarcho capitalism/libertarianism again but I saw Toby's campaign poster and one of his platforms was raising the minimum wage and I remembered this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFbYM2EDz40 that I had seen on youtube. I ...

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James Robinson wrote:DC: ROTIFERS (8)

Debatable.

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Showboating from Rachel going up to 744 for what was just 93*4=372.

Also, the 8 that Giles was attempting to offer (but no-one bothered spelling) was ROTIFERS, not ROTEEFER, or ROTIEFER.

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In the Speaker's constituency, the main parties don't even stand against him! An arbitrary tradition is seen as more important than voters' democratic rights! It's up to each individual party whether they choose to field a candidate in a constituency - nobody can force them to. Obviously you're rig...

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Zarte Siempre wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:In the Speaker's constituency, the main parties don't even stand against him! An arbitrary tradition is seen as more important than voters' democratic rights!
And this is exactly why I give more of a shit about that than this bloody election.

Do you live in his constituency?

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Rachel shows us 767 but, as is often the case, she shows us a more complex method when simpler solutions were also there. Were there? I did it the same way as Rachel, but afterwards I also saw (75-5)*(9+2)-3. I'd say it's similar. It was basically a choice between coming up from 9*75 and coming dow...

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I know this is all a bit off topic, but I'm going to explain how you can achieve a candidate-based method that gives national proportionality. I think this is important. Voting for local candidates only is an outdated idea, and people's democratic options are limited by who is standing in their area...

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The second effect is more likely to happen with "Vote UKIP, get Labour". There might be individual constituencies where more people want UKIP or Conservative than Labour (although God knows why), but they end up with a Labour MP because of vote splitting. That is the fault of our voting s...

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Is it special spoilers or spoilers for a special?

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I have a very long rant about this that I might well post in full later Definitely do this. but WHY ARE WE ALLOWING THIS? I think Labour actually did it first, telling Scottish voters that a vote for the SNP would be a vote for Cameron, but this "vote UKIP, get Labour" is just the same th...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:The issue is that the "vote UKIP, get (R)Ed" mantra is true and is not election scaremongering.

And why do you think that might be?

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By the way, when Leanne Wood suggested that an EU referendum should require a majority wanting to leave in all four nations of the UK, I bet David Cameron was thinking "Now that's an idea I hadn't though of. Roll on 2017."

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...poll stuff... It goes to show it's not really based just on performance on the night. In particular Sturgeon and Wood were almost identical and yet they have completely different results. Hmm, I'm not sure about that. It seemed like Wood was just echoing/supporting Sturgeon on a lot of points (f...

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I think the women came off best in the debate Farrage was the most honest, even if he spouts a lot of crap The least said about Clegg the better This whole thing about Farage being the most honest and real is bollocks. He has a speaking style that convinces people. But that's all it is. A speaking ...

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Who watched the debate tonight then? I thought it was quite interesting. Green/Plaid Cymru/SNP made Labour look like a right or at least centre-right party, and I thought those three generally performed the best. Maybe it was a bit easier for them as they weren't under so much direct attack but I'd ...

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Marc Meakin wrote:A bit premature there

Even better. Someone posting as Marc Meakin to pretend he's back!

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Where did you hear this? If true, it's just false names and business as usual.

Edit - Oh yeah, very good.

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Adam Gillard wrote:He plays on apterous as Matthew Tassier, right?

Yeah, and Graeme Le Saux plays as Bob de Caux, so I imagine he'll be on shortly as well.

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Not far off Jim. At it's most basic level though Anarcho capitalism is based around the NAP, the non aggression principle. They see the State as an aggressor and that taxation is theft. It's hard to argue against them at times because they simplify things and boil everything down to a moral argumen...

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Tony Atkins wrote:A couple of other beaters around today.

Anyone know if this is the same Kate Ritchie who was a quarter-finalist in S43 in 2000?

Or the one from Home and Away?

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Same numbers target twice in this one (285). Well done Tom; looking forward to the finals! I did it by 57 x 5 both times - easy to get sucked into 95 x 3 for the first but couldn't get it for the second that way Yeah, I got sucked into 95×3 for the first which meant that I couldn't get the second d...

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Fred Mumford wrote:I make it that Tom beat his opponent in 77 of the 120 rounds of his octorun.

As not even Dylan or Jen did as well as that, I'm guessing it could be a record.

How many did they get?

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I've just been on Betfair to look at odds of who is going to "win" the election. Obviously it depends on what counts as a win, but if you look at the odds of who is going to be the Prime Minister after the election (probably the best measure of who wins rather than looking at outright majo...

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I'm glad you started this thread. This isn't much of a contribution, but I will be back. Hopefully Rhys will contribute too, and we'll be able to de-Torify him.

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Question on Eggheads S16p21 today: Which TV show regularly involves asking for vowels and consonants? Countdown, Mastermind or University Challenge? I'm guessing Countdown from the forum you posted it in, but then again you might have posted this in a Mastermind and University Challenge forum as we...

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LITTLER/LITTLEST were explicitly specified in the COD8 and COD9, and derivable as regular forms in the COD7 (a two-syllable adjective ending in -le after a consonant). I think "more little" sounds ludicrous and clearly there are degrees of littleness, so I can understand Susie's obvious s...

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Got solved, so it can't have been that bad. Conundrums don't have to be known, just solvable. Coincidentally, just after I posted about this today, we had today's conundrum which was neither known nor solvable and yet the challenger got it immediately. (Spoilers for a future episode. Sorry for thos...

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Zarte Siempre wrote:Yup, AUTOPENS

I didn't get this but I found that it had been written on my piece of paper anyway.

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BOMBSIGHT???!!! Well done to Tracey for getting that, considering it's a made-up word. I wouldn't expect a word like that outside a CoC game really. Made up? It's a thing, just not nearly as known of a thing as its homonym. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombsight I meant to reply to this at the time...

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Matt Morrison wrote:How many regular GOTW voters on apterous only do it for the ostracon?

Adam could start his own thing like that. And just make a list of people and how many items they've got in this thread. Would that get people to vote?

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Adam Gillard wrote:Three people.

Was one of them you? Also, how many people nominated?

Edit - I'm guessing you didn't vote given that you probably would have abstained for your own games and the scores wouldn't work.

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They were all a bit slow on the uptake with Nicky's damp squib/squid thing. It was a bit of a damp squid in the end. Didn't they use that joke in an episode of The IT Crowd? There was a damp squid/squib storyline but I can't remember exactly what happened. I think there was a court case involved so...

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Would have been nice for GALJOEN to go on the board after Susie rushed through the spelling of this obscure word. This is exactly the sort of word that should be going on the board. In fact, if I rewatched every episode of Countdown this year, and ranked all the words in terms of how much they neede...

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They were all a bit slow on the uptake with Nicky's damp squib/squid thing. It was a bit of a damp squid in the end.

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James Laverty wrote:
Peter Mabey wrote:" ... looking for a 62*6 method." - I assume you meant 42x6, which is (9+5)x3x6
Indeed I did, cheers and edited

Did you hit quote by mistake?

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Great game but shame about WELCOMES.

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I think the max should be 124 because 3 points are missing on the 172 and 739 round.

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The top 3 on the leaderboard (Tracey, Andy and Kevin) have got their places confirmed, I was just reading that and then had a look at the Wiki page , and I was wondering, where do you get all the information about the broadcast dates until the end of the series and also the DC guests? Is it just fr...

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I actually got the 809 in round 3, but then I realised it was a Scrabble-only solution.

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Maybe if a publicly funded international body was set up to develop drugs with countries contributing a certain percentage of GDP we could simply fuck off these private pharmaceutical companies.

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James Robinson wrote:Indeedy do, a 14-maxer for me, as I couldn't quite solve the 3rd numbers game

Poor.

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Congratulations to Rex for winning this, and well done Adam for organising this again.

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Assuming this hasn't already been asked, who was the "best" number one seed, number two etc. with "best" meaning most wins followed by highest total score. Also can this extend beyond the top eight, so we can see people who missed out. Like "Wow, this guy was only the 12th s...

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"IQ scores" have very little credibility in my eyes.

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