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Rhys Benjamin

One might say that Colin, Your Disco Needs You...

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Not on All4 yet? How odd.

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Edinburgh 2012 : thanks to Robbo's photo album I can ascertain, or at least guesstimate, who played who. However, no idea how they did the final table here. Had a couple of suggestions from Jono and Ian Volante but would like something more concrete. If you know, feel free to add in the final fixtu...

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https://quillette.com/2021/01/16/rise-o ... us-cranks/

This.

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Phil Hammond would have done 5 days, but 4 each for Arnold and Bremner presumably to ease in Murray.

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Shameless He is so bad. In every way. Probably the worst thing the Conservatives have done. Make Piers Morgan look good. I wouldn't go that far. He hasn't broken the Tier 4 lockdown rules by jetting off to Antigua on holiday whilst simultaneously and hypocritically calling for more lockdown misery.

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Forgot to mention that Phil Makepeace has stood down as the scorer of Surrey County Cricket Club: he's also done 2 test matches in that time.

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Forgetting to pick a sixth number, from Rachel, was unintentional, but hilarious.

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Colin Murray (yay!) but the synopsis says Nick Hewer (srsly c4?) and the wiki is down (boo!), ironically given Colin mentioned it in his intro.

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"I totally agree with you, Marcus Rashford, these food parcels do not meet the standards we set out and have made it clear to the company involved that this is disgraceful. The company concerned has rightly apologised and agreed to reimburse those affected." - Boris

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Not everything is a metaphor for the pandemic, but...

# I just wanna go back, back to 1999... #

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Little bit of an own goal for Marcus Rashford (ba-doom tish) who was praising the company a few weeks ago for coming on board. https://twitter.com/marcusrashford/stat ... 76224?s=21

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It’s the outsourced company which ought to have its contract revoked. What a waste of public money. Further proof, if any be needed, that taxpayer-funded programs offer little value for money.

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Nick Hewer's last episode for a while.

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Word of warning - having now submitted my nominations, that list at the bottom is about to get A LOT bigger.

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Rachel fighting the vowels was quite hilarious.

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That said, it's still not working. All the numbers boxes are in the wrong places, and any "preview" buttons break the page.

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James Burley is back. Can he win again?

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The recap writer has returned an error 500 for some weeks now. Can someone technical explain that? 500 means "Internal Server Error" and usually indicates some misconfiguration on the server or an error in the script that generates the page. None of this seems particularly relevant however, as the ...

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The recap writer has returned an error 500 for some weeks now. Can someone technical explain that?

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Clap for Heroes (previously known as Clap for Carers) is coming back this evening at 8. Was there a big debate on c4c around March/April time about this? I seem to remember one but can't find it - although admittedly I haven't looked very hard. I think it was nice at the time, but we're not a natio...

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James Burley is back, having scored >125 yesterday. Can he continue this form?

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Quite a few 9s in R2.

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https://jarick.works/spekr/test/

According to this test I’m a centre-right neoliberal, so it’s pretty accurate.

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I overheard a woman - no mask - in Morrisons today saying “I’ve still got to self-isolate for a bit”.

I’m not saying we should make murder legal, but people like this are the problem.

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'Schools being open' is a pretty big difference to March. I'm more laughing at the insinuation that Starmer could cause people to ignore rules by what he said. He's a muppet like, but that's just dumb. I my be inferring incorrectly from what you said, in which case I apologise! Yes - I was trying t...

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Tier 4 literally means “stay at home”. Other than education, support bubbles, and worship, the rules in Tier 4 are literally what they were in March.

So yes, people in Tier 4 are already in lockdown.

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Boris making an emergency broadcast at 8pm. Doesn't take a genius to work out what's going to happen.

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Nick Hewer's back. So is Daniel Jonathan. But the recap writer isn't.

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The implication made by Keir Starmer yesterday that Tier 4 is not lockdown is incredibly dangerous. With it looking more likely that the remaining 22% of the country will go into lockdown, I suspect we won't see the figures come down in the way we want to...

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https://wiki.apterous.org/ZoomDown_spec ... mberists_2 for a nice chart showing just that.

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Literally nothing. No tests or anything. My dad and boyfriend haven't either. My mum had an antibody test from her workplace which was positive, but now we can't work out *when* she had the virus. She also had the same thing Gevin had, but that was also negative (and it was just after the antibody t...

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Philip Aston says: Tourney, Alex?
Alex H left the room.

(well it made me laugh anyway)

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If I had a choice I'd prefer to have the Oxford one - although I'm at the very bottom of the list, admittedly. There's more margin for error with the Oxford vaccine and you just know you're going to hear about a story where the Pfizer vaccine "didn't work" because somebody turned the freezer off by ...

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By the way, it seems I wasn't aware of how bad the situation was getting. I assumed that with the lockdown followed by quite harsh measures, the Christmas bubble wouldn't make much difference. But it seems that cases have been rising regardless. Whether that's because people haven't been acting in ...

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This has to be one of the weirdest ever. The Countdown set was completely redesigned and now looked like something out of Mouse Trap. It was as though someone had lost the assembly instructions for the new set - the two contestants and DC were on screen left, the clock in the middle, then the number...

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I mean, this is the sort of rubbish Channel 4 has been going down for years - quite how Countdown is still on the air I'm not quite sure.

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Yep - apologies again. Just a bit overeager on my part. Like a puppy on crack.

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Charlie Reams wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 23, 2020 6:20 pm
Rhys, it would be great if I could do something (anything!) without you immediately showing up to complain about it.

Oh, sorry.

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The wiki appears to be showing on the previous and the new server at various different times. I thought this was a caching thing but seems not, it's like this on all my devices.

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Yep, 61 consecutive letters maxes for Conor now.

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Well that was anticlimactic wasn't it?

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I'm not sure it has lost it? It's still here: http://c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php? ... ac42346f5a

Rhys Benjamin · Re: Special Spoilers for Wednesday 23 December 2020 <3 x

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It's the final Countdown of 2020. We're leaving together, etc. And it's the big monster of monster fixtures, which could have been played 7 years ago except a max game from Jon O'Neill got in the way. JACK WORSLEY Highest score: 115 vs Christine Hunt, 30BC Round 2 Lowest score: 75 vs Mark Murphy, Qu...

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Callum Todd wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 22, 2020 5:43 pm
I probably preferred the old 8 out of 10 cats without the countdown in it

This is possibly why I think what I think on this - I really don't like 8 Out of 10 Cats.

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I had rather a fiesty discussion about this yesterday. I only ever watch Catsdown because of the “down” bit (and also because as you can see with Clarkson-era Top Gear the unscripted bits are MUCH better than the badly scripted jokes). It must have been filmed in February admittedly, but Sean Lock a...

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I’m guessing it’s better than it used to be, though? There’s that famous game where Matthew Tassier got a max +3 on a bullet hyperlock NA from 2013 but I haven’t seen anything like that in “the wild” since?

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I was at Bushey station today (which I'm allowed to do, I was coming back from a support bubble visit) and I heard a announcement played over the tannoy from March. This one. Which seems like it's from a different time now. So hearing it again was quite something. Indeed, if you rewatch the lockdown...

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The second of these three specials, then. More Colin Murray - hooray! CALLUM TODD Highest score: 127 vs Samir Pilica, Championship of Champions Round of 16 Lowest score: 70 vs Ritch Greenwood, game 1 Score: 1,300 Average: 100.00 Max faced: 1,679 % score: 77.4% Raw score: 1,395 Raw average: 107.31 Ra...

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Boo to Channel 4 for scheduling Catsdown against it!

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And the other thing I meant to say - does Colin use autocue and Nick solely rely on cards? [Removed autocue comment as Countdown Team have answered. Thanks to them - good info to know. ] The one thing regarding Colin Murray taking over is would Countdown be able to avoid filming during major snooke...

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Tom Scott has just uploaded a 17-minute video explaining why he adores "Alright on The Night Cockup Tour"... which I get, but I don't agree with.

As a child I was always enamoured with ITV's 2006-08 F1 intro. Slightly NSFW. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpuTxPN ... nnamedCell

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It was a shame to see Tom denied what would have been his highest score Could, not Would. Was the turning over of the board animated? Or was that just me? Anyway that was a really enjoyable show. They’ve been like that since project restart for that reason, Jono - so it’s easier when there is a coc...

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Colin is better than Nick.

*hides under table*

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ain't no party like a tier 4 party So who's up for the "PS" note of 2020? Colin Murray takes charge for the first of three specials. GEORGE ARMSTRONG Highest score: 104 vs Michael Stephenson, game 3 Lowest score: 75 vs John Cole, game 1 // 78 (including a TB) vs Noel Jongwe, game 2 Score: 429 Averag...

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Very Atrocious Refereeing

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Ian Volante wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 19, 2020 5:08 pm

Sam Cappleman-Lynes wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 19, 2020 4:26 pm
The current government
An eternal truism.

Welcome to the anarcholibertarian revolution.

Rhys Benjamin

The vaccine news seems like a lot of false positivity. Not sure what's false about it; maybe the expectation of many people that it'll make a noticeable difference within a couple of weeks rather than six months? It felt, last week, like the beginning of the end. Now, it feels like it’s never going...

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Full lockdown again for SE and London. I’m getting frustrated by this now. The science giveth, the science taketh away.

The vaccine news seems like a lot of false positivity.

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