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I read that exact article and remember being confused the accuracy % only because I've read about six sigma before and had the figure 99.99997% stuck in my head for that. So not sure if I've misremembered that, if five sigma is somehow more accurate than six sigma, or if that article has just got it...

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Tesla's not just a car company though right? They do batteries and charging technology stuff too, and some other tech like solar panels, which I think are widely used by other electric car companies. So while they may not be the biggest seller of vehicle units when everything goes electric, in many ...

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Not sure exactly how much of a hot topic this is in Australia so may or may not be comparable to the brouhaha we had over here with the Kurt Zouma story, but this is big enough to both make front page of BBC News in the UK and draw comment from the Australian Prime Minister. Interesting that after s...

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Philip A wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 3:54 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2025 2:41 pm PROST, SENNA and PIQUET are all valid words.
Also FARINA, ASCARI and HAWTHORN from the 1950s, and far less interestingly, HILL. PIQUET is also a card game.

Also STROLL. Let's not forget the greats here.

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Just in case this is lost in the "inevitable kicking" COLIN is going to take here: still the gap between the prestige of winning COLIN and winning any other non-finals event is huge. I'd rather win COLIN once than get another 10 event wins elsewhere.

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Philip A wrote: ↑Fri Feb 07, 2025 6:19 pm The Netflix series, Drive To Survive, does more harm to Formula 1 than good.

Agreed!

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Just watched The Read in BBC4 with Reece Shearsmith doing Jekyll & Hyde. I thought it was fantastic and the concept seems really cool, I'd not heard of the show before. Looking on iPlayer they've done some other great stories with top actors performing the readings so I'm keen to watch more. Ho...

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Just watched The Read in BBC4 with Reece Shearsmith doing Jekyll & Hyde. I thought it was fantastic and the concept seems really cool, I'd not heard of the show before. Looking on iPlayer they've done some other great stories with top actors performing the readings so I'm keen to watch more.

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I definitely think there's space for a triple-header although I'm not at all against the idea of saving it for special occasions only. Agreed if there is another triple-header the Friday event should be something different. Gevin's Delight sounds like a great idea to me (9 rounder verison presumably...

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I think some of the differences in opinion above on what constitutes normal behaviour between cars and pedestrians may be due to regional differences? In my experience norms vary wildly on this. In some places such as many cities, it very much is pedestrians first. In some places such as more rural ...

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Some good suggestions here. I cba snip-quoting points above but thanks to everyone who's made some good suggestions. Absolutely the several minute long rambling list of upcoming events becomes actively counterproductive for me. I find it incredibly tedious. Personally I'd be happy with a simple &quo...

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I really enjoyed A Complete Unknown and agree that Chalamet was superb as Dylan.

Also saw We Live In Time recently which I feel was carried by the superb performances of its two lead stars.

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There was a tall kid at my school called Joe. We used to measure some distances in Joes. Similarly once solved a question in a pub quiz about how many feet to a yard or some such. We knew of the 18 yard box in football and had a 6 foot tall mate with us so imagined how many of him lieing down head-t...

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I had no idea when the episode had been broadcast to be honest so didn't even think. I do think it's a bit crazy to have a spoilers embargo on a dedicated forum for a show. I've avoided spoilers for TV shows before and it seems obvious to me if a show has already broadcast and you want to avoid spo...

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I had no idea when the episode had been broadcast to be honest so didn't even think. I do think it's a bit crazy to have a spoilers embargo on a dedicated forum for a show. I've avoided spoilers for TV shows before and it seems obvious to me if a show has already broadcast and you want to avoid spoi...

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Oops, sorry guys. I'm a bit out of touch with TV show and spoiler sensitivity etc. my bad.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2024 4:55 pm Warning spoilers for series champ result

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dp6lv1008o

Great stuff this, as much as [REDACTED]! Thanks for sharing, Marc.

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Love this, Stephen. I think I have the English answer but not sure on one of the 9 answers so I might have a letter wrong in my end answer, and even that took me probably at least 2 minutes to get.

No point me even attempting the Welsh.

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Not sure if it's an atropine thing as such, but we've had a couple of tourneys where a very good player has missed the first round for various reasons (I can think of 3 tournaments I've attended in the last year where this has happened)- they then join and play the lowest scoring player and inevita...

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Why do (some) brides think they have the right to tell other attendees how to dress/wear their hair/etc? I guess it's their day so what they say goes. Essentially if you are a guest at a wedding you are there for the benefit of the couple being married (and, in most cases of man/woman weddings, esp...

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I'm not one of those lazy people that buy pre-grated cheese , frozen mash peeled fruit pieces and partially chewed toffees (think I made that last one up) But I tried to eat a fresh pomegranate today and the faffing involved on getting the pomegranate fruit out once peeled really isn't worth it so ...

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How come you can sometimes see the moon in the daytime, but not always? It depends on the relative position of the moon to the Earth and Sun. Very rough guide is that if the moon is between the Earth and the Sun, we can see it during the day (because we're facing the sun, and the moon is in between...

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I've got scran from the Chinese place opposite the Ark before and that was decent

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Footballers trying to place the football as far on the edge of the "quadrant" as they can when taking a corner kick. I cannot bring myself to believe that it makes such a big difference.

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Great Notley parkrun : 1 (1). Gevin Chapwell - 19:33 (73.06%) (800 points) 52 (2). Samuel Louis - 25:05 (51.43%) (600 points) 101 (3). Dave Ryan - 29:34 (53.33%) (400 points) 117 (4). Suzy Turner - 30:34 (57.69%) (200 points) This was my first "win" at parkrun for over 4 years, and at a C...

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2024 9:14 am The Hollywood sign. Ooooh, great, letters.

It's just some fucking letters on a hill

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Fiona T wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2024 9:59 am
Callum Todd wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 6:43 am No Paul?
I'll give you 16/1

What about him hosting 15 to 1?

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I'm sure he could do both. Countdown 50 days a year, Match of the Day another 35 or so. And never a fixture clash. Unless I'm talking absolute tosh I'm fairly sure the studios are next door too. He definitely could do both. If he wants the job I hope he gets it, he'd be great. It should be Chappers...

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Fiona T wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2024 9:35 pm https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/footba ... 93386.html

Next Match of the Day presenter odds

Mark Chapman – 5/4

Alex Scott – 9/4

Jason Mohammed – 8/1

Kelly Sommers – 9/1

Dion Dublin – 14/1

No Paul?

Callum Todd

Piecing things together, I reckon this means that there were 130 coconut funko twirl forms left. Thanks Ian for (preemptively) answering Maus's questions. Kind of rude of you to leave him hanging like that Ben tbh

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Yeah I watched the Pie video. I didn't follow the campaigns that closely but in general you need to make the case for yourself rather than just scaremongering on the opposition. (But also it helps to say what you're linking to.) I can see similarities to Corbyns attempts to over come buffoon Boris ...

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We're very close to a couple of Milestones: - Due to hit 1 Million high scores sent to the server in about 8 days - The app should start showing in the play store as 100K downloads soon Version 1.144 is currently rolling out which brings the dictionary in sync with the latest used on apterous. If y...

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L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 9:26 pm
Philip A wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 6:40 pm Gnocchi is disgusting.
True.
As I always say, why eat something gnocchi, when you could have something gnice?

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L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 9:20 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 8:03 pm I think there should be an upper age limit of 70 for leaders of the free world
There is a good reason that "old" and "wise" are often put together.
Better a leader that is "too old" than "too young".

Biden 2028?

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Love the puns on existing band names in this thread but I don't think that was necessarily the theme of the original post. Just over 10 years ago, , this game gave the first of these: The Shrilling Johnsons Shilty and the Sherpas Goat Attack Not Written Down Origin of Words The Teatime Teasers Aepyo...

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I think 2) is fine here. most conundrum skill, especially at high level, is about recalling previously seen/practised conundrums. How/where/when the player last saw the conundrum is entirely irrelevant (unless obviously something dodgy like a list of tournament Conundrums to be used had been left ly...

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This joke

Callum Todd wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 10:45 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 10:27 pm
Callum Todd wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 9:24 pm

The only crime here is charging £2.40 for a Diet Coke. Fuck me.
It was a 500ml bottle but still
It was still?! That's even worse! Who drinks still cola, I would expect it to be sparkling at any price.

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There is a vending machine at Canterbury East Station that had diet coke for the price of a bag of Walkers £1.20 instead of £2.40 . So every day for about 10 days I bought a diet coke until the cokes ran out and I have since got a bike so I don't use it now. The only crime here is charging £2.40 fo...

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There is a vending machine at Canterbury East Station that had diet coke for the price of a bag of Walkers £1.20 instead of £2.40 . So every day for about 10 days I bought a diet coke until the cokes ran out and I have since got a bike so I don't use it now. The only crime here is charging £2.40 fo...

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Fiona T wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 3:38 pm You could probably hide a banana in your pocket too.

Sir, are you shoplifting or are you just happy to see me?

Callum Todd

I used to have this ages ago. Since then it's fixed but I keep getting signed out even after selecting 'remember me'.

Today I remain signed in even after leaving the site for several hours! So seems like something's gone on with how login works today

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Fiona T wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2024 11:27 am If Jono really wants, I can run an analysis of the effect of the dictionary cull on parkrun anagrams

Definitely a parkrun challenge this

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A reminder that Daz's message about publishing venue and attended list was given as a "recommendation" to event hosts, not a rule of mandate. Given the good points raised by Phil, Jeff, and others: perhaps then it would be advisable for event organisers to make it clear before accepting si...

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I used to think All The Young Dudes wasn't by David Bowie.

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The song 'Tender' is by Blur and not by U2, and 'Even Better than the Real Thing' is by U2 and not Blur. Bit of Mandela Effect crossed wires seeping in there too. There are a few from yesteryear that I had wrong. Here Comes the Night Is by Them and Not The Rolling Stones. The Pushbike Song is by Th...

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Why at football matches when there is added time does the clock stick at 45/90 and just have +5 on the side, but it doesn't show the updated time. Everybody would want to see oh its the 93rd minute now 2 minutes left, but they just simply don't show it. Do the clocks not work? Is this a deliberate ...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Oct 05, 2024 10:54 am The BBC has an article on parkrun as it's the 20th anniversary.

I look forward to their article on COLIN then

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My opinion is that the current system is too kind to the "xp grinders", and under-rewards being consistently excellent. This season will be my third time attending finals, and looking at how it's shaping up in the league table, it's going to be the third time where the open is looking sig...

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The deal with the threshold is to try and strike a balance between two factors. I think most of the arguments made in this thread thusfar regarding the threshold or the influence of double/triple-header events seem to be heavily in favour one of these factors over the other. - One factor is to rewar...

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I also prefer 6 games but I'm not as arsed about the gameplay side of things. Both have their merits!

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I think it's also partly to make it practically impossible to get on a motorway facing the wrong way. Obviously that would be obscenely dangerous, as we know from the rare occasions where people somehow manage to do so.

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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.

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What is superscrabble?

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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.

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Memorial Hall still releasing DLC expansion packs all this time after release, got to respect that.

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Maybe. Wouldn't the emitting of the loud laughing noise kinda undercut that impulse to avoid detection, though? Yeah I suppose. So most likely explanation is that my speculation was a total load of bollocks. Alternatively, it's not that simple. It's not like we have one pattern-recognition process ...

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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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I totally understand that his style can be grating, but I will summarise some of the main points (I have not independently fact checked this): 1. [...] The cuts to the winter fuel allowance were not in the manifesto and not put to the public before the election. 7. Labour could instead have just in...

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