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Thomas Carey

I actually really enjoyed it, but am perhaps slightly biased since I vaguely knew one of the contestants. It did drag a bit maybe but you need a lot of time for any sort of show where people are forming alliances and voting each other out and stuff, and compared to some of those shows it was fine. S...

Thomas Carey

I think only Conor and Sean D have mentioned grounds outside Europe. Anyone else? I feel like there might be one or two others by now. Went to see Cape Town City lose 2-0 at home to Mamelodi Sundowns (them of the oil money cup) at the greenpoint stadium a couple months ago, one of the nice ones the...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Jun 12, 2025 11:39 am Steve Anderson isn't on the PB list so he'll have to go on the next update.

If you're doing this stuff with occasional attendees, my brother finally did one (barefoot the whole way with a break to climb a tree mid run), while my boy Sheamol has done loads

Thomas Carey

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue May 13, 2025 3:56 pm Who did parkrun at Sheffield?

just me and dan i think despite adrian fletcher's best efforts

Thomas Carey

However, this still requires the host to have an idea of the level of the relevant players. We had Tim and Sandie on accessible tables; Tim is good enough to be on a low table number, Sandie perhaps not. But last year we stuck a newbie on an accessible table for the same reason, with no way of know...

Thomas Carey

I also think that the 6TB situation was unusual and would rather keep TBs the way things are for now. PODAGROUS, LOINCLOTH, HIFALUTIN, PREFATORY were from the harder choices in the file and DEODORANT not that easy either. Then CROCODILE from the easier section sorted the match out fine, and the con...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Apr 15, 2025 10:22 pm At London we had those of us at Ingrebourne Hill, and Samuel Louis and Oliver Garner did separate ones. Was there anyone else?

Byron tassier springett

Thomas Carey

Fellow parkrun wankers - since I only have I and J left for my alphabet and the Is are annoying if you don't live in the south, I'm going to be doing the newish Ingrebourne Hill in Rainham before this. There's a 10:03 train that gets you to Finchley Road before doors open so time won't be an issue....

Thomas Carey

"Sectoring" is not a valid word in ODP. At present, ESCORTING is now the only nine-letter word that can be made from TENCORGIS, though it was rearrangeable to "costering" prior to last July's overhaul. SECTORING is a word though. https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entr...

Thomas Carey

Fuck it. Have two crisps

Thomas Carey

I want to see gevin eat a crisp

Thomas Carey

Lol, fiddling To get the obvious pedantic point out of the way - George should be talking about which events have the closest gaps, as the same calendar month can be 3 or 4 weeks apart which is (I assume) fine. So there's Liverpool and Oxford with the two week gap right now - both of these I would s...

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Fellow parkrun wankers - since I only have I and J left for my alphabet and the Is are annoying if you don't live in the south, I'm going to be doing the newish Ingrebourne Hill in Rainham before this. There's a 10:03 train that gets you to Finchley Road before doors open so time won't be an issue. ...

Thomas Carey

George Armstrong wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2025 7:08 pm Have you bought your prizes for CO:LON yet? Got a couple of random smelly bits from Xmas if you'd like some donations?

mmm, smelly colon

Thomas Carey

Any chance of one of those for foreign (specifically German) runs?

Eight (gev dan me bra fona dex chris cal) of us at wanker on Saturday, I think just Dave R and Mike at yarb.

Thomas Carey

Thanks for the clarifications. But I was wondering specifically why Tom Carey had said that he'd got shafted, but I suppose it's because he just played random players on 2 wins rather than ones with a low score to match what he'd done. (I wondered if he was bottom on two wins so played the two high...

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Fwiwiwiw I enjoyed the new system. Even if it shafted me in r2 of hangover - after getting 2 wins with a low points total I ended up playing Worsley and TCap, which is presumably a tougher table on paper than whoever I would have got under the old system - I think that's a good thing. Especially wit...

Thomas Carey

When I've seen this done people tend to use the 10 as a 0 in the target. Some board games have the extras cards too, my version has 3 of each. Definitely better

Thomas Carey

Fiona and James Burley chat a bit in today's BBC South Today at the UK Scrabble thingy. Fiona's rather rude word is visible on the TV...

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Adam gillards octorun early 2011

Thomas Carey

<3 means a lot well done again jack, impressive consistency. cheers focal team! definitely one of the more memorable focal years (I've been an also ran in four out of the six focal finals I've played, and the two years I've been in hospital I've been a hair off the final, don't know what to make of ...

Thomas Carey

Slightly less traumatic way to make the news (well, the facebook reels of the local rag) this time around - the time I wore the Lidl jumper to the Aldi Christmas market #madlad https://www.facebook.com/reel/1083741992905334

Thomas Carey

and bc i might as well 2024 age grade table points events colin liv rug reading sheff oxford durham brum london bpool dublin glasgow btree mk maus 7447 11 556 667 667 833 857 500 900 500 600 667 700 fiona 5768 11 778 500 778 500 429 800 250 700 400 333 300 dan 4237 6 667 889 667 714 500 800 gevin 33...

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because i said i'd do this two years ago: 2023 age grade table points events colin man rug leeds brghton dublin newc brum london bpool btree mk fiona 5409 8 857 800 800 200 667 667 600 818 maus 4431 7 786 400 600 800 500 800 545 dan 2506 6 500 500 400 333 500 273 gevin 2338 3 929 500 909 mike 1143 2...

Thomas Carey

Disagree. Old group stage was boring, often felt like a foregone conclusion. If you only have limited games why waste them on playing the same teams twice. This feels a lot more exciting to follow imo

Thomas Carey

heya - I'm an idiot and booked the wrong flight. is anyone with a car able to give me a lift from MK coachway (near M1 junction 14, a 10 min drive from the novotel) to the novotel on friday night? i'll be getting in at 19:45 but will let you know if there's any delays. will buy you a ridiculously ov...

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Thomas Cappleman wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 4:32 pm What do the double and treble mean in the badges page? Looks like I'll get the Centurion badge at the end of Sunday, unless I make any finals, and the 64champ if I win any game at all, so wondering how to get the other two.

It's just two or three of the first 3 badgers

Thomas Carey

Squeak Good points, well made - want to reiterate that I'm absolutely not saying hosts should look for bigger venues - I'm aware that finding a suitable venue is tough and will be most of the event costs, and hosts do a great job with this. I'm just saying that a max 10% increase in people in the r...

Thomas Carey

The bottom one seems to be what's done at the moment! Option 1 would be my preference, with the knowledge that I don't think any event has had more than a handful of interested signups above the 'cap'. Like, if event hosts were regularly having to turn away dozens of people then, obviously, limiting...

Thomas Carey

I mean I usually sign up early enough, doesn't really affect me personally. This is less about finding a bigger venue - most co event venues are a good size, and you don't need a massive one as Fiona says. More about squeezing an extra 3 or 4 people in over turning people away

Thomas Carey

Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but one I've felt fairly strongly about for a while. Not aimed at anyone specific, just a thing I've noticed a lot. I really don't like capping sign ups to an event. Yes, obviously, there's a limit to how many people you can fit in a room. But, when creating an event, y...

Thomas Carey

I don't think I'm allowed to run at MK now as it would tarnish my perfect points total

Thomas Carey

Copenhagen's Little Mermaid statue - it's smaller than you think it's going to be, and when I visited was surrounded by rubbish including a broken office chair and a shopping trolley - took a lot of careful camera positioning to lose the rubbish! I was there at the start of the year (feels like a l...

Thomas Carey

The Hollywood sign. Ooooh, great, letters. It's just some fucking letters on a hill Beat me to it. As for small paintings, I saw Hokusai the wave in Chicago recently which was a lot smaller than expected. Wouldn't say it was disappointing, just surprising, although with lots of people crowding aroi...

Thomas Carey

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 1:09 am Logan Sargeant is the first past or present F1 driver to appear as a contestant on Countdown.

https://wiki.apterous.org/Graham_Hill

This guy was in the first series I properly followed and I remember being absolutely shocked that he would prioritise a holiday over series finals haha

Thomas Carey

yeah that tracks

Thomas Carey

Has anyone identified the new football Champions League format as something that could be used at co-events. It would be hard to implement for Lincoln style events, however it could work for Bristol style events. It could be implemented very simply, for example if you have 6 games (as with most eve...

Thomas Carey

Didn't work on chrome on mobile or laptop, worked fine on edge.

What a mundane 1500th post

Thomas Carey

England (loads), Germany (loads), Scotland if it counts (Oriam and Queen's Glasgow for co events), Austria (all but Graz, there's only 4), Ireland (Knocknacarra and Cabinteely for co events), USA (Cornerstone Lakes first place two weeks ago). So 5, or 6 if you count Scotland. Doing Lithuania with Fi...

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 9:58 pm Why are coffee machines so fucking loud?

Recently confirmed (as if there was any doubt) that I'm dating above my social class when my partner's mum was buying a coffee machine, despite already owning one, because she wanted a quieter one. They exist, but apparently not for prices under 4 digits.

Thomas Carey

Cheers. If you want to update more stuff I believe Dan and I were the only codub people and we did different ones so that's easy

Thomas Carey

It's amazing how long I can keep a saying going in my vernacular. In the 80s or 90s there was a politician called Walid Jumblatt. I've referred to my wallet as my Jumblatt ever since Edit: not only is he still alive he was still in the Lebanese Socialist Party until last year Not quite as long but ...

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Round 1 1 Matt O Connor 66 - 20 Samik Sen 2 Roishin Sen 37 - 49 Gerry Tynan 3 Mike Springett 38 - 39 Damian McEvoy 4 Jonathan De Souza 68 - 10 Aideen Mooney 5 Trevor MacEoin 37 - 57 Alan O'Sullivan 6 Matthew S Rutherford 66 - 23 Roger Stevens 7 Chris Marshall 38 - 61 Thomas Carey 8 Brendan Duke 54 ...

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1 Jonathan De Souza 8 7 544 2 Dan Byrom 8 6 502 3 Matt O Connor 8 6 489 4 Thomas Carey 8 5 513 5 Matthew S Rutherford 8 5 475 6 Sean De Loughry 8 5 447 7 Brendan Duke 8 5 440 8 Alan O'Sullivan 8 5 419 9 Trevor MacEoin 8 5 398 10 Gerry Tynan 8 4 474 11 Eoin Jackson 8 4 438 12 Stewart Gordon 8 4 427 1...

Thomas Carey

Yeah I like both, some are more suited to one or the other that's fine, keep both pls. We've had events that have run to time with 8 and not felt rush, we've had 6 game events that have massively overran (can't help but feel partially responsible for the last event), and anything in between. Do what...

Thomas Carey

What is superscrabble? https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11182/super-scrabble#:~:text=The%20popular%20game%20of%20Scrabble,set%20of%20the%20original%20distribution). Scrabble, but supersized. I played a game of this against Stewart Holden once where we both achieved scores of over 1000. I played ...

Thomas Carey

Yeah - I'm very slowly getting into Scrabble. We had a tournament in Berlin recently and I was unsuccessfully trying to explain to the organiser (who was playing, and is a fun person to talk to) how absolutely batshit insane I found it, from a countdowner's perspective, that they were PAYING someone...

Thomas Carey

assuming friday and sunday events don't count, just be whatever events have had a lot - done 12 at lincoln, 7 at mk, 7 at hudds, 5 at london, 5 at blackpool so that's a 5. fairly sure won't be any higher

Thomas Carey

i love your recaps never stop

Thomas Carey

Surely they're both correct. Without looking properly I'm assuming one clue is something like 'winner of the 2024 election' Anyway, some of you will have seen this before but this segment of a NYT crossword is very good Also someone else made this which I found while trying to search for the other ...

Thomas Carey

Bradley Horrocks wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2024 7:48 pm Is anyone thinking of doing the parkrun?

I will be yeah. My train gets into Durham at 7:59 so probably going straight there with maybe a little noodling around the city

Thomas Carey

I rambled about this here http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=200804&hilit=supernundrum#p200804 We used them a fair bit in lockdown zoom tournaments and it worked well. For the really good players, it meant buzz times separated by about 2 seconds rather than 0.2 - much less dependent on...

Thomas Carey

What up. We decided to make a countdowners 'running club' that you can put on your parkrun profile and stuff. Even if you're a member of a real club you can still add this one as a non primary one so people can see results and stuff https://www.parkrun.org.uk/groups/48972/

Thomas Carey

Would be cool to have full bracket predictions from these. A lot of the time basically everyone guesses the same winner but might think differently for some of the (on paper) closer ones

Thomas Carey

Me Dan Adam Fiona Chris for Hillsborough

Fun fact, co reading parkrun was their 625th and now this Sheffield one was their 504th. Fun for both ends of the numbers pick spectrum

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Steve Hyde wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 4:13 pm Has any player ever scored more than Alex Robertson (115/92% of max) while winning only one match?

My boy https://wiki.apterous.org/Jamie_Ilett-Jones

Anyone heard from him recently? He's not been to events in a while

Thomas Carey

are there multiple word game geeks or is it just jack

Thomas Carey

i loved the poeticness of both wife and husband pulling off 20+ point comebacks in the first game. this is the first time i've bothered watching countdown on a vpn since i moved abroad, congrats!

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