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Ian Volante

Recently selling my house, had no comments whatsoever on the CD teapot. My own fault for not displaying two next to each other.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 5:19 pm I should have realised the gods were against us as the last 3 Spanish Wimbledon Wins have lead to a football win in the same period (if you count The Nations Cup last year )

This sort of statistical paradoelia gets a lot more discussion than it really deserves.

Ian Volante

Also, the crying laughing emoji (multiple times) on memes/posts that are, at best, vaguely mirthful.

Ian Volante

Interviews with winning tennis players after matches.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2024 10:23 am
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2024 9:59 am It's 8:00 isn't it? Hardly that late.
It could be nearly 11 pm by the time it finishes.
Old people and school children need to go to bed at a reasonable time.
It's not like it's in a different time zone

Germany is definitely in a different time zone.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2024 1:48 pm
Ian Volante wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2024 12:07 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2024 5:04 pm Frank Duckworth , dies on the warmest day of the year ironically
Why's it ironic? It's not like he invented a fridge.
No but DL was invented because of poor weather , maybe I'm using Irony in the Alanis Morisette way rather than your way

Ohh, I get it now. I'll let you off.

Ian Volante

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2024 5:04 pm Frank Duckworth , dies on the warmest day of the year ironically

Why's it ironic? It's not like he invented a fridge.

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Mark James wrote: ↑Mon Jun 24, 2024 8:19 pm Don't know why but I felt like sharing my top 5 Steven Spielberg movies.

1. Jaws
2. Minority Report
3. Jurassic Park
5. Schindler's List
4. Catch Me If You Can

Brave choice to put 5 above 4.

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As usual, I'll support any candidate primarily on the basis of whether they support reform of the voting system. Everything else is secondary. I'm sick of having the choice of voting for someone I'm not that interested in if I want to maximise the utility of that vote, or to go with what I actually ...

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Nice. I'm hoping to get back to parkrun at some point in the next few months once my injuries improve, then I'll be trying to get my times back to anywhere near what they used to be, I'm five minutes and more off my best at this stage.

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Keir Starmer isn't the best by a long shot, however...I was eight when the Conservatives came to power. Having seen what they've done, ranging from education, to austerity, to Brexit, to the pandemic, I just want them gone. Thrown out, humiliated, numbers ground into the dust whilst we all stand ar...

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Keir Starmer isn't the best by a long shot, however...I was eight when the Conservatives came to power. Having seen what they've done, ranging from education, to austerity, to Brexit, to the pandemic, I just want them gone. Thrown out, humiliated, numbers ground into the dust whilst we all stand ar...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 9:49 am Bashing the Bishop relates to the chess piece

In my experience, it usually doesn't.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 5:31 pm A chicken drumstick doesn't in anyway resemble a drumstick

It looks more like a drumstick than it does a chicken.

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Bond could have instead murdered her - sorry killed with his licence to kill - and it would have been fine of course. My point is not about the morality of the actions in the film, but about depicting rape as a pleasant comical form of seduction. And even by mid 60s moral/legal standards, these are...

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Fawlty Towers (mostly) isn't funny I think you're part of a silent majority here. I've watched Fawlty Towers and, for what it's held up to be, it really didn't meet expectations. There isn't really much story in the episodes, and some things that are supposed to be funny actually have quite the opp...

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Mark James wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:34 pm https://x.com/CountBinface/status/1783807825182884270

You know what to do.

And here's his presence in a less toxic environment. https://mastodon.online/@CountBinface@mastodon.world

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I'm still pissed off that they got rid of multiple replays. Trying and failing to remember whether a second replay was played at a neutral venue or not. I know it was in the Rugby League Cup.

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And nothing about dalmatians as it turns out.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:30 am Just occurred to me that it's probably not off-topic but anyway.
Ignoring fat fingers and other typos I always struggle with spelling HYGIENE and DIARRHOEA and ASTHMA

I'd suggest washing more often and seeing a doctor.

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I think come December or whenever Sunak decides to go to the country they will lose so many seats that they may try and get a groundswell going for in the future AV, the fib dems will back it too The Lib Dems would be idiots to support AV (like they were last time) as they've supported PR forever, ...

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I think come December or whenever Sunak decides to go to the country they will lose so many seats that they may try and get a groundswell going for in the future AV, the fib dems will back it too The Lib Dems would be idiots to support AV (like they were last time) as they've supported PR forever, ...

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Good tribute bands are better to see live than the original band if that band was from the 70s or early 80s Better in what way though? If it's just about sound quality you might as well just listen to a recording and not see anyone live. I meant if you want see a live band then a tribute version of...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:12 am Amirite that all the 4 leaders of the home nations and also the Republic of Ireland were not elected by the people?

Well yes, that's how our systems work. We elect a local rep who then choose an overall leader from within their ranks.

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Tal Lessner wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:42 am Larry David at his weakest is still better and funnier than anybody else.

Wow, there's no accounting for taste! I've felt like the small bits of this and Seinfeld I've seen were arse-clenchingly boring to watch.

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Streaming is certainly useful if I've missed a regular quiz or sporting fixture. I'll watch more slow telly then I ever did, and otherwise I'll likely watch old films versus most of the other crap that's available. More generally, I don't enjoy watching or listening to stuff that isn't live. Not sur...

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I saw the Last Stand the other day. Sort of good fun, but struggled to tread the right line between enjoyable action and taking the piss out of itself, not necessarily getting it right.

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Mark James wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:50 am The Marchioness of Cholmondeley is better looking than Kate Middleton.

I like my women with more chin.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:01 pm
Ian Volante wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:34 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:13 pm Maybe in the future AI will stop cars going too closs
Why use AI when a simple distance sensor would do the job?
That's what I meant, and if it cut the accelerator when activated it might encourage safer driving

That's not AI, is the point I'm making.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:13 pm Maybe in the future AI will stop cars going too closs

Why use AI when a simple distance sensor would do the job?

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I understand it to maintain the distance which is the same as the distance between two chevrons. This seems beyond many drivers in any case.

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Might be something to do with the lack of https. I'm unable to visit a different forum from my work machine which doesn't have this feature; I presume I can only use this place because it's either set up better, or it's locally hosted.

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Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:05 pm Sun King is a blatant rip off of Albatross and these are two totally separate and distinct songs.

Inspired by I'd say. I doubt they set out to copy it.

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Philip A wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:09 pm How many people have won a Countdown teapot and a Mastermind glass bowl?

Isabelle Heward is the one I'm aware of. May well be others. Geoff Thomas marginally missed doing the double, arguably failing at the easier task.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:22 pmLimbic.

Not just me then.

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I can fully understand why existing athletes are whinging about this idea, as they've practised for a long time to perfect the take-off. If it becomes just a long jump event rather than a long jump from as close to an arbitary line as possible, then it simply renders a lot of their work obsolete. D...

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I can fully understand why existing athletes are whinging about this idea, as they've practised for a long time to perfect the take-off. If it becomes just a long jump event rather than a long jump from as close to an arbitary line as possible, then it simply renders a lot of their work obsolete. Do...

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I reckon if the enhanced games happen then sub 2 hours will happen If you're happy to count that then why not count Kipchoge's sub-2? Why wasn't it official then? He had pacemakers, and if I remember right, was shielded from air resistance by a vehicle in front of him too, not to mention shoes that...

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What's that whole thing about when your ear goes PING and then you're deaf for a few seconds? Ive never experienced this but my step daughter (in her early thirties) says it happens whenever she hears a cat scarer I hate those bloody things. I thought they were supposed to be inaudible to humans? D...

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Enfield council do it for free, seemingly based on concerns about fly tipping (source: https://www.enfield.gov.uk/news-and-events/2022/10/councils-free-bulky-waste-collection-service-goes-from-strength-to-strength). But a brief Google search suggests that's rare even among London boroughs. You can ...

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Unhealthy migration frogmarch.

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Steve Prefontaine similar.

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Paul Worsley wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:56 pm When did roof racks stop being a thing?

You used to see them all the time in the 70s, but I can't remember the last time I saw one.

Cars are so bloody big that they aren't needed.

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Probably never enjoyed anyone live more than Brendon Burns.

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The council has installed a radon detector. When did this become a thing? Since the build-up of radioactive gas indoors became a heightened cancer risk, i.e. since it's been practical to do so really. Not sure what the legal requirement is for such monitoring, but as far as I'm aware, it's common i...

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But seriously, I could never understand how Tony B Liar did not try and reverse the privatised industries back to being nationalised You seem to parrot this as though you're being paid to do so. Have you not yet thought of a more original nickname for him than the tabloids have? Fwiw, I came up wit...

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RINGTOSS

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 3:17 pm
Ian Volante wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 12:50 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 2:21 pm

There's already loads of 80-year-olds roaming the streets.
What's your point here?
I don't think your post really addressed what Marc was saying.

Marc said he expected people living to 100 to be the norm, which I think is fairly interpreted as more people doing that than not.

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I think in 30 years time living to 100 plus will be the norm however as we are all gifted with a limited amount of brain cells I can envisage 120 year olds roaming the streets like zombies. There's a horror movie in that Improvements in the global south might enable us to surpass 80, but I'd be ama...

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I think in 30 years time living to 100 plus will be the norm however as we are all gifted with a limited amount of brain cells I can envisage 120 year olds roaming the streets like zombies. There's a horror movie in that Improvements in the global south might enable us to surpass 80, but I'd be ama...

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I just can't believe that Bluey's dead.

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Rambo: Last Blood. Some of the most over-the-top gore and violence I've seen outside the horror genre. Almost made the film worthwhile!

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Moist.

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:09 pm What's that gunky brown gank that builds up around the bathroom tap all about?

Some sort of biofilm. Don't put it in your sandwiches.

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You all (recent commenters) seem to be putting the cart before the horse. Persons under the rainbow flag(s) all deviate from societal norms of fitting with binary gender roles, which is much wider than who/what someone is attracted to. Anyone in these groups has endured, and continue to endure, att...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 7:39 pm
Ian Volante wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:16 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 4:14 am Since the Epstein papers release, I see Stephen Hawking's big bang theory is trending on social media
You need to explain this to the likes of me.
Its not rocket science

Ah, as an astrophysicist (ish), I don't associate Hawking with rockets...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 4:14 am Since the Epstein papers release, I see Stephen Hawking's big bang theory is trending on social media

You need to explain this to the likes of me.

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You all (recent commenters) seem to be putting the cart before the horse. Persons under the rainbow flag(s) all deviate from societal norms of fitting with binary gender roles, which is much wider than who/what someone is attracted to. Anyone in these groups has endured, and continue to endure, atta...

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It's good forum etiquette to say what's behind the link. Edit - Headline is "Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh dies" btw. 3) At least I didn't say " That colourful woman who was accused of robbing money from kids charity before it went into administration." Btw no menti...

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Fiona T wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 2:21 pm
Ian Volante wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 2:08 pm Confirms its an utterly shite name too.
It's getting it talked about - you've heard of it now!

Oh I'd heard about it for many years, but just thought it was a silly name.

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