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Rhys Benjamin

Feminism 101: there is a difference between sex and gender. To suggest that sex cannot be changed is blindingly nonsense, otherwise a sex change wouldn't be a thing. Gender is claimed to be a social construct, making a comment about roles in society rather than about biology. Sex changes prove it's ...

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If the conversation were about race I don't think we'd be discussing this. Would an employee be sacked for racist comments over their social medias? Yes, probably, they would. It is acceptable from a free speech standpoint? That's another argument altogether. Where does free speech end and hate spee...

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The COMEAFTER conundrum was the final conundrum at my first ever Co-event. So I got it on about 0.1 seconds.

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My view - controversial, I know - is Corinna Attwood should be allowed into the S82 finals.

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Well, given Jo was in C2's chair...

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Would have been 28-50 to Jo under normal rules, I believe?

Rhys Benjamin

Something came up today which I thought I'd float here: Does the Monty Hall problem applies to Deal or No Deal? At the beginning of the game you have picked a box at random (from 22). At the end of the game, if you have rejected all offers along the way, you have two boxes left - the one you started...

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Am I the only one really looking forward to the election, purely because I get to turn into Peter Snow for 6 weeks?

STATS PERCENTAGES THRESHOLDS BATTLEGROUNDS GAINS POLLS LOSSES SWINGS BALANCES OF POWER MARGINALS

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 07, 2019 2:34 pm
The trailer currently running on C4 (during Countdown, no less) is advertising Tue 12 Nov at 7pm, not 9pm.

At the end of yesterday (Thursday)'s show, the caption then said 9pm, and the continuity announcer said 8pm.

I don't know what to believe any more.

(There's a joke there.)

Rhys Benjamin

The trailer currently running on C4 (during Countdown, no less) is advertising Tue 12 Nov at 7pm, not 9pm.

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James Robinson wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 24, 2019 11:09 pm

Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:42 pm
Unless this is just Catsdown?
No, tickets available on the usual channels for regular Countdown. You have to buy Catsdown tickets from a different site.

That's what I'm getting at - a change pf policy?

Rhys Benjamin

What is particularly annoying is that if you don't swallow every word Greta Thunberg says you're labelled as a denier, which is completely ridiculous. People like her really fail to appreciate the huge and grossly unreported efforts that some countries have made: the UK is virtually coal-free now, f...

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Unless this is just Catsdown?

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Edit - Something that the database probably could answer - what is the break down of probabilities of each length of word being the max, and for each length, what is the average number of words of the max length? I can only do the first bit. For each letters round the database stores the most point...

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I did (10 x 3 x 2 + 2) x (7 + 5) for that one.

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"All participants attending the event must sign a code of conduct"

Would a better solution not be that signing up to the event constitutes a commitment to abide by it, rather than asking for signatures at the start of the day?

Rhys Benjamin

Picture a person who never ages and has a perfect record on Countdown. How many games would they, theoretically, be playing? 8 heat games, a quarter final, semi final, and final, so that's 11 in their regular series. Now, for reasons I'll get to later, they'd only play a QF, SF, and GF in their COC,...

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3rd nums alt: 100 x 7 / 2 - 9 + 1

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I actually got the 9 in round 2. That's rare for me.

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The reaction to people finding out today's duel is Dutch Speed Stepdown Letters Attack was quite something.

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Apterous Nude.

Actually, come to think of it, I can see why they've not been on the show.

Rhys Benjamin

Seriously, you're actually a member of the Conservative Party? Correct. OK, sorry Rhys, I didn't really mean it. I'm sure not all Conservative members are bigots, or of the ultra-right; some of you are probably quite reasonable people. Have you met many other members? What are they iike? Is it true...

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Calendar Countdown recap for Monday 31 May 1982. C1: Champion Michael Firth (2 wins, 56 points.) C2: Champion Harry Venet (2 wins, 64 points.) DC: Ted Moult and Ted Moult. DMC: Denise McFarland-Cruickshanks. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: C N T W U A E R R R02: V N H W U I H Y E R03: T B T S E U...

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JimBentley wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 10, 2019 9:50 pm

Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 10, 2019 6:31 pm
I object to you calling me an ultra-right bigot, to be honest.

And that's 150,000 people more than the zero who elected Gordon Brown.
Seriously, you're actually a member of the Conservative Party?

Correct.

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Calendar Countdown recap for Monday 24 May 1982. C1: Champion Jackie Nathan (1 win, 38 points.) C2: Champion Harry Venet (1 win, 29 points.) DC: Ted Moult and Ted Moult. DMC: Denise McFarland-Cruickshanks. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: D I O S T U N E R R02: M L C N E I G O C R03: P G U E W L I...

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I object to you calling me an ultra-right bigot, to be honest.

And that's 150,000 people more than the zero who elected Gordon Brown.

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Calendar Countdown recap for Monday 17 May 1982. C1: Champion Michael Firth (1 win, 24 points.) C2: Champion Pamela Clough (1 win, 30 points.) DC: Ted Moult and Ted Moult. DMC: Denise McFarland-Cruickshanks. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: N Y T T B A O S L R02: E I E S F R Q M E R03: D G N N C O...

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Calendar Countdown recap for Monday 10 May 1982. C1: Challenger Michael Firth. C2: Challenger Irene Hill. DC: Ted Moult. DMC: Denise McFarland-Cruickshanks. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: B F M G V E W U R02: E E A J H O N Y R03: K S O Q R I S H R04: 1, 6, 50, 7, 6, 5. Target: 755. R05: O I O V ...

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Calendar Countdown recap for Monday 3 May 1982. C1: Challenger Pamela Clough. C2: Challenger John Reed. DC: Ted Moult. DMC: Denise McFarland-Cruickshanks. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: I O E F C H R U R02: G M M I L A S I R03: E U O T T Z X M R04: 50, 4, 6, 9, 2, 1. Target: 640. R05: R V I U F ...

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Calendar Countdown recap for Monday 26 Unknown month '04' 1982. C1: Challenger Bob Stone. C2: Challenger Jackie Nathan. DC: Ted Moult. DMC: Denise McFarland-Cruickshanks. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: B P M O A N Y E R02: V L E E I J B J R03: L N H E O V I S R04: 25, 8, 2, 1, 2, 5. Target: 117....

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Finally getting around to these... Calendar Countdown recap for Monday 19 April 1982. C1: Challenger Angela Booth. C2: Challenger Harry Venet. DC: Ted Moult. DMC: Denise McFarland-Cruickshanks. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: Q E P A A C D I R02: S Y I T V A O M R03: L E Z R O Y I L R04: 50, 10, ...

Rhys Benjamin

After about 100 attempts to remember my password after resetting my laptop....

I'm going to vote for Boris Johnson. He does have some nice policies that really appeal to me, such as the reduction of "sin" taxes. Jeremy Hunt represents continuity Theresa May, so I'm avoiding him like the plague.

Rhys Benjamin

As BBC Four fell off the air just after the results of Semi Final One came in (can't the BBC do anything right about Eurovision this year? First they give us 3 horrible songs to pick, then Sophie Ellis-Bextor gets sacked from the jury...) I got 8/10 qualifiers correct - did not think Belarus or San ...

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Lesley Hines. And me.

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Ah, yes, I see who you mean now. I'll leave it for others to guess.

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Yeah, that game was very much my basis for thought as Xicount + CoC is between 13 and 15 games (depending on which CoC it was), so you're also looking for someone who did either the SC, 30BC, or both, and probably a Masters game / special...

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Conor would be one of course. Allan Saldanha and Darryl Francis? Very close. Conor Travers and Allan Saldanha are two of the three, but Darryl Francis only played 20 games. The remaining one is someone obscure enough that when I saw the name I didn't immediately recognise it and had to look it up o...

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Well my performance at home fell apart in the second half of that, having actually maxed the first half... Would not have got that conundrum in a week, so well done to Zarte. It's also matching Conor's record of 20 wins on-screen now, although Zarte did have two bites at the cherry in getting to the...

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Surprisingly, only Tom Carey predicted a Zarte/Bradley final.

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Alexa, define “looks harder than it is”.

“I found 7 8 2 10 10 6 —> 982.”

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Well it beats Glen Webb's 141.

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Ah, I've only just noticed that incorrect predictions have been interpreted as a scale rather than a number... is this right? For instance, Jen's predicted a 17-point win for Stephen against 'Maus, but there's an argument to say this should be interpreted as "2 away + incorrect result" (36 pts), not...

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Well I beat both contestants on the second numbers - first and probably only time this CoC...

975 for me, (75 + 2 + 1) x 25 x 50 / 100

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"Internal server error."

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I think it says than an aeluroid is part of the aeluroidae family, rather than being its singular as such...?

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I got to 845 very easily with (75 + 8 + 8 - 6) x 10 - 5. Surprised Tom didn’t see this!

Rhys Benjamin

It’s in the OP. I just wish I hadn’t understated the margins... maybe I should use a different margin method next time. The Appropriate Result Statistics Equation (ARSE) is still working, despite one wrong result so far... I’m quitely confident because it will just take one game where I get the winn...

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What I meant was the contestant could be put in a position where they go, internally, "well, Graeme and Jon will know this, and I have to phone a friend, but since Graeme will cost me more than Jon, I'll go with Jon."

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 10, 2019 9:33 pm
"AEROGEL"

"Sorry, what the fuck? I've never encountered that word before, nor have I ever heard a Scottish person speak."

That was a bit weird.

Susie had trouble understanding my declarations at times (LIPASE eg). Your point is?

Rhys Benjamin

I'd just find the appropriate number of real friends instead. Certainly I'd ask for something, but as a gesture of goodwill rather than make it a condition of my vocal appearance. If I were called for the £32k question on a 10% "tariff" as per Fowler's suggestion but I am then ignored and they get i...

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Round 2: “I’ll stick with an eight.”

What was the (presumably invalid) nine you were chickening, Bradley?

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Sadly, yes. The Labour antisemitism thing keeps rumbling on. At first, I thought the Lab leadership was being nice but dim and not understanding, but given some of the things Corbyn has said I'm not sure. The problem is that a lot of people conflate "Israel" and "Jews" since Israel is the only Jewis...

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Probably because "Ask The Expert" never really took off in the US version, which was basically a second phone-a-friend lifeline except the "friend" was an academic or someone like that. They video called them on Skype and had minutes of conversing with them. There was just no point, especially when ...

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Now’s the time when I can go into crazy detail about my predictions: I did predictions for Series 63 and 64 when I was a lot younger and these were more-or-less correct, so I’d use the same method, which I’m keeping semi-secret, for predicting the winner. Predicting the margin was a lot harder. I th...

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Not financially viable for me this year I’m afraid.

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Daily Mirror shitposting. It was never good, but somehow, them, the Mail (cricket articles aside), and the Express have somehow got even worse recently.

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑
Sun Sep 16, 2018 5:38 am
Whilst I was running analysises (analyses?) of the CoC contestants I came across a contestant whose TB con was included in their score. As you speculated at the time of my game (that spoilers thread is burnt into my brain!!) does that mean all TB cons are now “in”?

Was I drunk when I wrote this?

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RARE PENIS in Round 12.

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I’d have liked to have seen everyone’s individual predictions, a league table, you know, the whole shebang...

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Lauren Hamer and Keli Richards were on Only Connect on NYD. A very easy Only Connect according to the Radio Times.

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