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Mark Deeks

I was at Matt Morrison and Heather Badcock's house, which, this being dreamland, was a large and relatively isolated cottage. It was a nice cottage, too, or at least the downstairs kitchen area was. The upstairs, where the front door was located (obviously), was pretty squalid. Moreover, it was badl...

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Here's me off my nut on ecstasy in the 1990s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8TwE8F ... oh6X0GcGXM

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Never really struggled to recover. Drove home from the event (I know!), got a good eight hours in, woke up fine, subsequently fine. Tiredness wasn't much of a problem during this thing, actually. Couple of lulls, but never hugely struggled to stay awake.

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Doesn't really count as news, but:

https://www.facebook.com/angrypeopleinl ... =3&theater

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Good to see Matt Morrison at the Arsenal game.

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Yes but to be fair, you do operate on a higher plane than the rest of us. You have gifts.

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FWIW, we played on the main stage (and thus as a part of the main show) three times. The third of these featured Rachel which later turned into an uncomfortable exploration of my failings as a person. So, something for everyone there. They can found at the 07:23:20, 17:29:50 and 20:11:54 marks of th...

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Also thanks to Patrick, an attendee of the event, who solved the lifelong which-are-the-discard-piles problem that has plagued Co events for more than a decade by suggesting that the discards are left face up. How in God's name none of us thought of this before is frightening to think about.

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Hot foof was a sleep-induced typo of food but by God I'm leaving it there.

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Yep, basically. The staff kinda dragged us in. Just woke up, groggy but satisfied. Thank you to everyone who watched and participated, particularly those who donated, and those who came down to join us (Jennifer Steadman,.who brought HOT FOOF like the heroine that she js, as well.as the gentleman an...

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Hehehe.

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Some say that it's easier to raise awareness of your charitable endeavours, and encourage donations thereto, if you actually give them the right link. Maybe they're right, maybe they're not. Either way, meh.

https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundra ... Id=1017190

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Hello! Nearly six years ago, myself, Innis and Zarte played a 25 hour game of Countdown. We raised a shit ton of money, and it was also a pretty great game, somehow going legitimately to a crucial conundrum after all that time (Innis got it). But we figured we would never do it again, as we couldn't...

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Callum Todd wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 20, 2019 9:53 pm

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 20, 2019 9:49 pm
Survey done.
I gathered. Some of those comments could only have been written by one person.

Honestly one of the best burns in this forum's history.

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Try and do something about that permanent boner, it's been about 6 years now.

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I'm actually down to 16s 7lbs so Meakin takes the lead.

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Just piercings. Stretched ears and two pierced nipples though only one remains so. Heather has a tattoo on each arm at the top. Makepeace has a cool tattoo of a Mogwai symbol. That's a start. By means of illustration of nipple, an old pic you've all seen. Chest hair, does that count as body modific...

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I just wear what I wore the day before. STOOOOOOOOOOOOODENT. More like MAN WITH LITTLE SELF RESPECT LEFT. Actually, same sort of thing I guess. bald people are exempt Wow. I have a comb and a brush. Wow. Yeah but you have a long flowing beard, you probably have a room in your house devoted purely t...

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I don't have a pizza cutting device in any form despite being a bumper crop but I'm not sure being on the same side as Gevin is on the same side as "normal people" so I'll stay quiet.

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Widen "pyjamas" out to mean anything put on to sleep, then. Even a t-shirt and shorts. I just wear what I wore the day before. Also widen "comb" out to include hairbrushes, and obviously bald people are exempt. I either don't style mine or use my fingers. Will also claim jeans, food processor, dress...

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A coat.

A comb.

Pyjamas.

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Matt Morrison wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 11, 2018 10:21 pm
Now, come on. Have you or have you just been Googling people off of Countdown's names?

I was looking up the veracity of a fact I read about how a disproportionate number of sailors called Richard Parker have died badly over the years. I have a decent amount of time for such things at the moment.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dudley_and_Stephens

James Laverty, harbour police.

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Good post/avatar synergy here.

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Paul Worsley wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 31, 2018 6:23 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b0JDfXAq1M

We are friends having bonded over our mutual crap name. I have the domain name, he has the Twitter handle. I offered to swap. He said no. Sod.

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Because I have loads going on in my life right now, I was just reading this news story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46044014 The Belgian was an unused sub for the League Two strugglers in Saturday's draw with Newport but feels like he can have a big impact for Jim Bentley's men. Jim Bentley...

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Hehe, I liked that. Rose Cayrou sounds like the lynchpin of the whole operation.

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Ok, cool. The important thing is not to overreact.

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You're welcome any time you like, guys. Clearly you don't want that. OK then. Lauren Hamer Lauren Hamer & Matt Bayfield Jen Steadman Andy Platt (forgot this initially, sorry Andy, it was a lovely night x) Gevin Chapwell Can now add to this - Matt Morrison and Heather Badcock (repeatedly), Graeme Co...

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I got one in a similar vein that wasn't sexplotative, but claimed it had my password and wanted money for their silence. Thing is, the email contained the password they had hacked. And it really was one of mine. Bit disconcerting so I've immediately signed over all my stuff to them. More fool them, ...

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I feel the same way. Hats always are either way too small or make me look like I have a receding head.

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I'm enjoying the post/signature synergy there. You're gushing over how wonderful everyone is next to a quote from one particularly wonderful member of the community accusing you of looking like a serial killer. Good times, good times.

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Just received three more, and had Deeks to add to since this hasn't been updated in ages. I might even be forgetting one more... hmm... Michelle Ryan Gevin Jono Bayfield Corby Deeks Laverty Garner Springalicious Phil Makepeace I think puts you back in the lead. It really is a titanic tussle at the ...

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I think a key thing for a Co:Event is keeping the costs down. Event costs keep creeping up to the participant, and while a cost to offset the facility hire is inevitable, a decent proportion of it seems to be spent on the nick-nacks and individuality that I don't really want anyway. By the time tran...

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Vince Fernando wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 21, 2018 7:03 pm
Perhaps, you should see a doctor.

For what? Having phenomenal capacity?

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 21, 2018 5:47 pm
Just curious, what's the duration of your average piss....I'm guessing your up there with the Donkey from One Foot in the Algarve .

Opening scene from Austin Powers.

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By the way, we may have just finally stumbled upon the reason why I'm twice your weight.

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Well, start a tracking sheet.

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It has been brought to my attention that I rarely go to the toilet. It began when I went to Los Angeles on a work trip and went the entire way from baggage drop-off to baggage reclaim without going for a wee. (Hopefully one day I get sent to Australia and do the same. The idea of going from London t...

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I feel that with only very rare exceptions, no matter how deep a field is, the winners always go through the same cycle; random draw round one, then two frigging tough follow-up rounds. So to overly weight the points awarded to large fields seems in error, for you aren't playing the vast majority of...

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It's weird how haughty people get about reading books. Like it's sacrilege if one doesn't do it. It is A way to learn, and A way to think creatively, but by God we have other ways now and that's probably fine. People need to sneer less.

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Also, it's hardly a fail. If someone out there is willing and able to say RELUCTING, they deserve their ten points.

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It would appear my number is teenagers only, apologies.

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Heh, the tone of this post really went on a journey. It started so warm, so positive, and then...

Looked into going to this but there weren't any within 100 miles of my house, so alas.

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Most recreational basketball is outdoors for facilities reasons, in all countries. The wind makes such an impact on shooting that the pro game is played inside, though.

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I would like to know the percentage of 6 foot 7 plus people living in the UK. I suspect that answer will explain the lack of participation. But never give up as it has taken decades for America to accept soccer as a viable sport and I suspect come 2026 they may come close to winning the darn thing....

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Mark, I'm not sure what you want acceptance of your opinion to look like. I disagree with your opinion and I'm not going to start agreeing with it. But that doesn't mean I don't accept it. I do seek to challenge it, and the logic behind it; that's what this very thread is from the start. It was an i...

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Again, I never said it was great. It was however low scoring and not populated by giants. So maybe the answer isn't those things after all.

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Is it big in Japan ? That was a serious question btw and not a pop song reference. Not bad! They are still a baseball-mad nation, but it's on the upswing there. Their professional league had a BDO/PDC thing going on until recently, but it's been fixed, and they get some decent import players throug...

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Well, you say that, but basketball has grown enormously all over the world....except here. We are the exception in this instance, not the norm.

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(a) the majority of NBA players were black About 80-85%, (b) this might have been a barrier to cultural acceptance or prestige in some quarters Not really! The NBA had a drug problem in the 1980s that gave it lower social status, but the rehabilitation of its image in the time hence has been pretty...

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It was invented in the 1890s, yes, but not by a colonial superpower that took it everywhere they went. Instead, in one small portion of one massive-ass country that didn't even sort out its own league worth a damn until the 1940s, and which then needed the onset of television a generation later to a...

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Re: the Olympics, am I imagining an instance where the Russians achieved a shock victory over the Americans when they were close to their peak? The Russians beat the US in the 1972 Olympic final, as above, but it was a US amateur team, as were they all at that time. The 1992 team was the first prof...

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- Culture-wise, basketball shits on football, and indeed all sports. The NBA is extremely good at this. How do you mean 'culture-wise', and what in that respect does basketball do better? The NBA is cool. It has dominant market share in fashion, music and culture. To massively oversimplify this and...

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but it almost suggests a natural state of affairs. Or the success of colonialism :) This isn't really football versus basketball, though. That's just one angle I may or may not go down. This is about basketball itself. I suspect a rejection of American stuff (look how long it took us to come around...

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At the risk of making the OP feel a bit shat on Just to add to this - who else here does a job whereby people, after asking what you do, you have to (a) explain it for ages, and then (b) have people say it's cool, but then at the same time (c) have the same people tell you they don't like it? Happe...

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- Rules-wise, basketball is very simple. You can't run with the ball. You can't tackle whoever's got the ball. You have a certain amount of time to attempt a shot in, otherwise the other team gets it. [This was brought in because of the tackling rule; winning teams just used to stand there holding t...

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At the risk of making the OP feel a bit shat on Heh there is a bit of that, yes. But then I started this knowing people were going to take views I wanted to challenge, so it's all good. I may be wrong but I have a feeling that the top NBA players no longer play in the Olympics. tl;dr This was true ...

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Sorry Mark but that video of curry hitting those three pointers was boring af. It's probably testament to his skill that he makes it look easy but that's what it looks like. The same happens in other sports. It wasn't supposed to be exciting! It was supposed to be perspective. "It's all giants doin...

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Also how easy is it to get what's going on if you have no prior knowledge of the sport? Football is really easy. Up to a point, sure. That said, if we were on a basketball court, just chilling, and I passed you the ball, you'd try and get it in the hoop, no? We all know enough to know that's the po...

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