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Johan Neeskins 73 , Dutch footballer not as good as his namesake but still a legend

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Most of Jerry Seinfelds early stand up wouldn't work today thanks to Google

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Make numbers rounds 35 seconds to remove the doubt of NWD
Simples

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I don't know if this counts as minor, but - hospital staff having to pay for parking and canteen food. Ridiculous. Is this more just that they don't get paid enough in general? Other than that, it could just as well apply to other jobs. It's unusual in that most places of work would have a staff ca...

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I don't know if this counts as minor, but - hospital staff having to pay for parking and canteen food. Ridiculous. Totally agree. Also people with congenital problems that require regular medication that is not diabetes having to pay for prescriptions. I had major heart surgery 14 years ago (fuck i...

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The late queen would have been a good candidate.
Paul McCartney maybe

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Not included a currency no longer used like Italian Lira.
If you was a millionaire in a chosen countries currency.
What is the lowest in value compared to the pound you could get with a million whatevers ?

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Maybe you could have Majors throughout the year that warrant either higher FOCAL points or would be exclusively FOCAL points.
That way the elite players may be more likely to enter.

But it's probably bullshit from someone who hasn't even played in one , yet .

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2024 8:32 pm Anyway we've had what looks like a terror attack in Tel Aviv and Iran have chucked missiles in. Pretty bad stuff, in isolation and for any future prospects of peace.

Very understated Gev.
I'm cancelling my Amazon order for a 5 year diary

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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. Ar...

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Dikembe Mutombo. By far the tallest person I have ever played Jenga with. I knew you was gonna post about him though the Jenga part was cool. My knowledge of NBA players doesn't stretch to him. Actually probably only on hand needed to count those I do know Kareerm Abdul Jabar. Larry Bird Shaq Micha...

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Is there an expression or word that describes things like shopaholic that derives from alcoholic but has no etymology of its own.
See also party gate derived from a hotel called Watergate.
On a similar theme.
Halloween "Advent" calendars you know what it means but advent is religious

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Why are coffee machines so fucking loud? To achieve 19 bars of pressure you need a high speed pump and they are noisy., especially a espresso machine. I'm sure you could get quieter pumps but they are much more expensive Large vending machines are not as noisy although thecoffee grinding element us...

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No, you mistake an attempt at an explanation as a justification. In terms of justification, your early posts in this thread came across to me as very pro-Israel and a justification of everything they were doing and then there was this big reveal that you didn't support them. So maybe it's a lesson ...

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I'm liking the cut of Kemis Jib She's so bad she makes Powell the good Enoch. You must have read my mind , she comes across as Enoch light She makes valid points about integration but her language is clunky. Kuensberg though is useless. After footage of her saying she was middle class until she wor...

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Israel can do what they want because countries decide what's "right" and "wrong" based on whether the act is committed by a pre-determined ally or not. Israel is an ally of America, Britain etc. so therefore they are the goodies. It's so transparently BS but it is what it is. Al...

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I'm liking the cut of Kemis Jib

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Probably non PC but fuck it. The Invisible Man has come out as TRANSparent. His pronouns are Who/Where. As a fully paid up member of the fat community I'm exercising my right to tell the next one. A fat woman was getting lairy in the pub calling out people for calling her Luv and dear she said actua...

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Did anyone catch the live stream ?
Will it be uploaded to YouTube?

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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

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2024 1:17 pm Are you morally bankrupt if you watch Castaway with Phillip Schofield ?

I will watch it but to counter my moral bankrupcy I will no longer do my weekly shop at Harrods

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Do you think Israel , and in particular its leader ,
I won't name him (for no political reasons) has been going after it's enemies with impunity because Russia is at War with Ukraine ?
I'm probably stating the bleeding obvious here

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When North Americans pronounce Route as "rowt" not "root" It used to be Semeye instead of Semi as I don't watch much American Sport these days but watch more travel shows this is my new word to irritate me. Apropos of nothing. I'm turning into my dad , he aways hated the way Amer...

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Mark James wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2024 10:23 pm When did they start doing patterns on the grass of football pitches?

I know the killjoys at the premier league banned the fancy patterns practice around 2017
My earliest memory was Mexico 1970 , I'm sure I saw a spiral pattern then.
Though with my fuzzy memory it might have been Mexico 86

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Are you morally bankrupt if you watch Castaway with Phillip Schofield ?

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There should be a way of telling someone's age using scientific means.
I mean even if you chop a tree trunk you can measure the rings to age it.
Although I guess there is a flaw to date a living person

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Maggie Smith

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Co event ELO would be awesome. I tried to do it but gave up because aggregating the data was hard. Asking hosts to produce accurate individual results of games with the correct variation of Tom/Thomas/Maus/TCap as the player name initially sounded doable, but honestly I think a host has so much goi...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2024 12:51 pm Elo Elo Elo - it's the capitalisation police.

Elo Green maybe.

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Ian Volante wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2024 11:56 am*Elo.

(Mr) Blue Sky thinking

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Well within reason.
I'm guessing even a few Labour MPs would risk losing the Whip to a killing of first born policy .

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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 this with MSR once (he ...

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Ah nice. For scrountdown I was thinking a 19x19 board as I think the board has to be 2n+1, where n is the number of tiles the player has in their rack. Otherwise you can treble off the start. An inexpensive way of trialling this as a board game would be to use the 21 x 21 super scrabble board and b...

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Ah nice. For scrountdown I was thinking a 19x19 board as I think the board has to be 2n+1, where n is the number of tiles the player has in their rack. Otherwise you can treble off the start. Good idea So how many tiles in each bag (vowels and consonant ) do you think?. Edit 160 tiles is more or le...

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Callum Todd wrote: ↑Sat Sep 21, 2024 11:39 am What is superscrabble?

21 x 21 squares 441 instead of 225 (15 x 15)
But 200 tiles in a bag not sure of distribution but I was proposing,a normal set of 100 for each player maybe a 30 minute clock or longer

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Sep 21, 2024 11:43 am When I went on holiday a few years ago I saved the Google maps onto my phone for the general areas I was going to so I wouldn't need internet connection to know where I was.

That would be sensible way to do it though I didn't realise how shocking EE coverage is outside major towns

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It needs phone signal to load the map but only the satellite connection to get your co-ordinates, which can be placed on the loaded map. I think. I figured that but I can't get my head round that it knows what speed you are doing countdown the miles and directs you without a phone signal so I can o...

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David Graham.
For olduns, the voice of Brains and Parker from Thunderbirds.
For younger ones , Peppa Pig (Grandpa Pig) also worked on Doctor Who voicing the Daleks

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I'm sure I already posted it already but can anyone explain how my phone Sat nav (ie Google maps) works even when I lose my phone signal and yet if I try to start using it without a signal I can't get on

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I really like this idea. Please keep us updated! I might try my hand at some computery stuff to see what that would be like. Another idea I wanted to test was a superscrabble sized board but playing with your own 100 tile bag.(so 2 bags of 100 tiles being used) It would remove luck from the game. I...

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Fiona T wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 10:04 pm Playing all 9 tiles or making any 9 letter word?

I would have said making a 9 letter word
But I'm open to feedback.
I'm still thinking that the 9 letter rack is maybe a step too far and may alienate scrabblers.

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Callum Todd wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 8:33 pm I really like this idea. Please keep us updated! I might try my hand at some computery stuff to see what that would be like.

This is where I wanted to go with it , though my computery prowess is poor

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Are there bona fide ratings for players at Co events ? Scrabble has a ratings levy and players can be obsessed with ratings points. Could it work in co events ? There have been ratings in the past going as far back as COLIN 2006, but they were quietly discontinued ages ago. Jack Hurst recently gene...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 9:49 am I've seen a few people complaining about those lids. Mostly Nigel Farage types. You're obviously the exception! (I think I pulled it back.)

I can't do that ,I'm Jewish

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More recently, the screw cups on diet coke etc that stay attached I have to take them off properly even if I clumsily end up dropping the lid negating the reason behind it being attached.
The nanny state gone mad

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Are there bona fide ratings for players at Co events ? Scrabble has a ratings levy and players can be obsessed with ratings points. Could it work in co events ? No, but there is an annual points competition where the top 8 players play a round robin at the MK finals. If you want ratings, apterous h...

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I'm looking at devising a board game variant that combines the best features of both countdown and Scrabble. 30 seconds per move obviously. 2 bags to pick from , consonants and vowels. 9 tiles on your rack and double your score for playing 9 letter words. Tile distribution would probably have to cha...

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Are there bona fide ratings for players at Co events ?
Scrabble has a ratings levy and players can be obsessed with ratings points.
Could it work in co events ?

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I like to make up songs to sing to my dog. The weird bit is I'm on vacation atm and I'm singing it in her absence. I remember getting weird about kidney beans if you don't cook them properly they are poisonous ( thanks Esther Rantzen from That's Life) Also I think I watched on QI that Daddy Long Le...

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I can't take a dump , I get stage fright as it were if someone is talking to me whilst I'm in the toilet. In fact I can only take a dump at work if I use the disabled toilet ( I figured ADHD is a disability ) to minimise risk of conversations during a dump I wave to mine when I flush Lol so do I

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Toto Shillaci.
Iconic Italian striker.

Tito , followed by Toto , it's like an Only Connect Question

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Most the time that I say silly things repeatedly it's in my head.
I worked with a guy that stammered , some times he would say I, I , I , I (In my head I'm singing mad about the boy )

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I can't take a dump , I get stage fright as it were if someone is talking to me whilst I'm in the toilet.
In fact I can only take a dump at work if I use the disabled toilet ( I figured ADHD is a disability ) to minimise risk of conversations during a dump

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Obviously I realise this question is posed to a room full of Countdowners, so try to limit yourself to only your top 50 or 60 hang-ups. I get a bit funny about kettles. I distinctly remember when I was young that on one of my Sooty tapes, Matthew Corbett was adamant about the dangers of mixing wate...

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I like to make up songs to sing to my dog. The weird bit is I'm on vacation atm and I'm singing it in her absence. I remember getting weird about kidney beans if you don't cook them properly they are poisonous ( thanks Esther Rantzen from That's Life) Also I think I watched on QI that Daddy Long Leg...

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If Labour knew how bad the finances were, and decided to NOT CAMPAIGN AROUND THAT, they're mad. It seems more likely that they genuinely didn't know. Maybe but it smacks of a government with a large enough majority to survive at least one more GE and by the time they are at risk we would have got u...

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When I'm proper laughing - the full beans, the can't-breathe laugh, the Graeme Cole level - I throw myself to the floor. I don't just fall there from lack of breath; I seem to instinctively jump down to it, through some weird impulse. Does anyone else do the same, and perhaps have some idea as to w...

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Tito Jackson from the Jackson 5
(2 left I think )

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Light switches for bathrooms in hotel rooms being outside the door.
My missus thinks it hilarious to turn the light off when I'm abluting

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If Labour knew how bad the finances were, and decided to NOT CAMPAIGN AROUND THAT, they're mad. It seems more likely that they genuinely didn't know. Maybe but it smacks of a government with a large enough majority to survive at least one more GE and by the time they are at risk we would have got u...

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