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Thanks for taking the time to respond, Zarte. I know it might come across that the same people are being negative all the time, but I think it's good for people to be able to say what they think and then the FOCAL team can then decide whether it's something that needs to be taken on board or not. O...

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The first thing that should be pointed out here, for if anyone can't see the actual accounts with notes on, is that £100 of that £120 was kept aside purposefully to cover expenses early in the year before any other income had come in. I see no reason not to continue that for as long as this continue...

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*shrug* I'm mostly just happy to play Countdown and see people I like. 9s don't personally suit my game, but you fit more in with them, and they make it more unpredictable, which from an encouraging newbies point of view is fine. 1/0 scoring also achieves this a bit. QFs and SFs are stupid (in a sho...

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It's a real shame Annie couldn't make it but my view is that if you can't make the recording of your series final then it should just be tough bananas because it's not fair on contestants on the next series to accommodate you. It'd be better to invite her back for some kind of special. Maybe agains...

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When I was discussing big deaths with one of my "real life" friends, he mentioned Jo Cox. But I'm not sure that really counts, because it was her death that made her famous rather than it being a case of a big name dying. Because you wouldn't include someone like Lee Rigby presumably (in ...

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Long shot and I wouldn't even attempt it until the (hypothetical) second time I ran my online event (and even then, only if the first one proved a success), but whom, if anyone, could I talk to about getting it added to the FOCAL calendar? I'd do almost anything to become involved in the FOCAL comm...

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Graeme Cole wrote:People who think the week starts on Sunday.
Or any other day except for Monday. Uni starts the week on Thursday for some reason.

Sunday's weird. Saturday's fine though, because that's when the TV listings start.

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Stephen R wrote:and I'm currently waiting on a recording date

Then I do beg your pardon - I was under the impression you were one of the non-interested ones. Really pleased to hear this.

OK, could be sooner than anticipated with a bit of luck - and I'll be wishing you lots of it

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1. The 900 club has been far easier to access since Apterous has been around Dunno that I'd say it's been easier to access as a concept. Maxes have gone up because of the dictionary sure, but I don't think Apterous has made it easier. Unless you're implying the use of it as led to more people being...

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When you say on the Sunday before, do you mean... the day before? Or the weekend before?

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Gavin Chipper wrote:Why did he think they might be using tallow?
Because it's in plastic bags? Dunno. He's weird about stuff. You guys would get on.

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Chris Marshall wrote:
Ben Wilson wrote:Also, Rowan Atkinson was there.
Probably me.

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Alan has decided, much to those of us who were present's delight, that Glasgow will once again have a hangover for 2017, so that's now been added to the list.

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Not quite sure I follow the logic on that one - sorry. If it's accepted that all scoring systems are arbitrary, then that kind of suggests that anything, be it sports... politics... this etc. should have no rewards applied to it on the basis that if you scored it as 2 points for a win and 5 for a dr...

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James Laverty wrote:One last night that I can only describe as myself, Zarte and Callum T doing Carpool karaoke.

tbf, this does kind of happen. We've definitely had a sing in the car. Albeit not like... as OTT

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What do you call it when you know what the actual words are but STILL can't escape that it sounds like something else entirely... What is it you lot think they're saying is about to explode? https://youtu.be/gh-pGxZBQ1Y?t=48s Without having heard this before or read the lyrics, it sounds to me like...

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What do you call it when you know what the actual words are but STILL can't escape that it sounds like something else entirely...

What is it you lot think they're saying is about to explode?

https://youtu.be/gh-pGxZBQ1Y?t=48s

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For me, best apterite has to look beyond performance in English standard variant only. Most of the players mentioned so far are pretty much one-trick ponies in terms of what apterous has to offer. I'm sure they would agree. So I'd be looking more at the likes of Adam Gillard, Innis, Marcus and Matt...

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Do we need recaps when we have the Apterous wiki? Seems a lot of work for little gain. Maybe instead more meat can go in the spoilers thread each day, so as well as people posting DC beaters and alt numbers as they do now, some irreverent commentary can be added afterwards? To me, it just doesn't s...

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Jennifer Steadman wrote:Didn't Howard Somerset die or am I thinking of someone else?
I'd not heard this!
I spoke to him fairly recently and he didn't seem dead at the time.

Well, now we know what killed him.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKJCR7FrA3k

It's no good. I thought my amusement about that would wear off, but it hasn't.

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Ryan Taylor wrote:That it is teasmade and not teasmaid.

That Louis Braille was actually blind.

:O

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Countdown is 34 today. But 34 is a pretty rubbish age tbh... we'll bother next year.

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What Apterous tournaments are majors apart from The Masters? Cause some people might kill at them but not play that much otherwise. I seem to recall BDC being lethal but rarely playing enough to trouble proranks consistently.

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I wonder if this has changed much over the last 8 months. I know I'd have gone up 10-ish places.

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Yeah, Damian hated the contestants. Just put them all together to be a bastard.

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Today brought a change to the running order. JR has decided to focus on Huddersfield for 2017, whilst Jeff's summer efforts are switching to helping Sean get Bournemouth off the ground. That's a shame. :( It was great having CoStAl as an event so close to home. Doubt I'll manage Bournemouth as it's...

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CO was originally just the CO part of COLIN because it made a good name. What I'm saying is (and this might sound blasphemous) that even a live event's name doesn't really have to start with CO if you think a better name or a good pun is available. If you have an event, call it whatever you feel li...

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I understand that CO-events are traditionally in person, but I do feel that foreign Countdowners provide an at least somewhat special case in which that perception should be overlooked. I can't pay for flights for myself to go over to the UK (let alone 40 people to come over here), and, unlike for ...

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You can call anything you want a co-event. But the generally recognised idea of what a co-event is, means it would be in person. Callum ran co-apterous online, but that was more because he wanted something that played out like a co-event, just online.

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Also in my ideal world, people would vote for candidates on more than which "club" they're a member of. Yes, but it's not your ideal world, and so the voting system should reflect the world we're in. Some people will now wish to vote for someone else as he's not toeing the Conservative pa...

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Paul Worsley wrote:I would take the polar opposite view. I think that MPs who resign from their party are being more honourable by triggering a by-election and standing again.

The cost of it all annoys me a bit, but aside from that, I agree.

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Jason Larsen wrote:Let me just say I am so glad that I decided to play anyway. Zarte talked me into it.

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Today brought a change to the running order. JR has decided to focus on Huddersfield for 2017, whilst Jeff's summer efforts are switching to helping Sean get Bournemouth off the ground.

As a result, Eoin's fledgling Waterford event has taken the June slot. Double the Irishness for next year.

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I'm thinking on it. My understanding was more that it should be kept to Countdowners and therefore I'm trying to work out who best fits which bit. And can do so without turning my stomach =/

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Somewhere in the middle. Someone messaged us interested in hosting one, and we were also trying to convince someone else to host one somewhere else. We don't think the first will happen, but if the second can we'd definitely like to hold the space for it, because we think it'd be a pretty cool one. ...

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"I would like to ask some questions in response to what seems to me to be, essentially, a litany of self-congratulation." You're welcome to hold that view but it's not one that I share. "How many people has FOCAL has engaged to keep an eye on their year-long performance and try and at...

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Hi Alan, - I would like to register for the Saturday event (can't access the google form from my work PC but will do so from home some point soon). I have not taken part in any of these before - do people come along to watch? My wife and baby would like come along to spectate for at least part of t...

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Cool. That's fine. I just thought I'd put all my thoughts together before I forgot them! But just to make it clear, even though the negative made up the bulk of the post, I've still really enjoyed myself this year and intend to come to as many as possible next year. But anyway - Woohoo! 2017! Bette...

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First of all...could be included. First of all, yes it was over-engineered. Second of all, it requires what engineering is left. Contributions coming from each event ensure that the finals are a collective effort by all organisers over the course of the year, and allow us hopefully to pull off some...

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Hello ladies and gents, it’s finally time for a bit of an update on what’s happening with FOCAL for 2017. First of all – it IS happening. We’ve been really pleased with the reaction to the format and how many people it’s engaged to keep an eye on their year-long performance and try and attend as man...

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You were the 13th Nottingham entry, so Ben gave you 13p off your Lincoln entry fee.

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I was certainly impressed, although when you think about it the chance of a 0.213 gap between any 2 drivers isn't all that unlikely I suppose. Also, given that the average IQ on that forum is approximately 100 lower than this one (assuming Steven M McCann is no longer a member here), the chances of...

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Did you remember to take your 13p off?

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Paul Worsley wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:Leather doesn't come from the same cows that beef does. (I always assumed it was a side product, like pork scratchings.)
That pork scratchings were a side product of beef production.

This comment has made my day

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JimBentley wrote:Steven M. McCann is actually a real poster, not an internet persona invented to troll the board. Honestly, I've only just realised!

Citation needed.

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Gavin Chipper wrote:I forgot about this. Quite often I'll stop my piss mid-flow before continuing. I once heard that this could be good for you in some way, but I don't think anyone else in the world does this.

You're not even the only person on this forum to do it.

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Fuck off trying to bait me. Just cause you can still climb a ladder.

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JimBentley wrote:[Your pop knowledge is sadly lacking.

It's not lacking, I just thought it was a good joke. "Unlike the tree" sounded stupid, so I thought I'd make a joke for the lowest common denominator and not for you. Stop ruining other people's fun. Twat.

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JimBentley wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:Poor Marc(us).
Mark. His real name was Mark Feld.

Feld. Like the tree was.

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JimBentley wrote:As probably the highest-profile musician to die in a car crash, am I the only one who thinks that this is a little bit crass?

Car crass?

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Except it's called "Steal My Sunshine" and it was by Len...

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Glad this went well by the way. I was a bit annoyed to miss this but I should make it next year! It's OK, you can make it up to us by signing up for Huddersfield, Glasgow, Birmingham and Lincoln. I'd even accept an early payment for MK now, if you're really that bothered... (Please don't pay me now...

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Apart from Match Of The Day, the BBC offers virtually nothing of interest to the average straight bloke. a) Shit, I'm a gay bloke, does that mean I have to stop watching it now? b) The title of this thread is REALLY obvious things that you've just realised. Either, as I suspect, this is not a thing...

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Yeah, I've always considered doing it, but tbh, it's a massive pain in the arse, and I have better things I could be doing =/

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Reasonably close to the Countdown version of dropping the mic from the bits I saw. Dominant.

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That's clearly discrimination. My great Uncle Wodafeck Banzaikitten wouldn't have stood for this.

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