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Callum Todd

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.

Callum Todd

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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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): [Summary] Thanks Gev. Maybe if Owen Jones has been able to keep his tone as level as yours I would have listened to him for longer :) Mostly sound stuff. I ...

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Amazing work Fiona and Tom; thank you both very much!

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I know a lot of people don't like Owen Jones, but in one of his few non-Israel videos, I think he's done a good job of exposing Starmer's Labour over the winter fuel allowance. I switched off after the first sentence. I highly doubt he can satisfactorily defend that assertion and it's just a horrib...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Sep 05, 2024 8:40 am Even Ticket(tout)master are inflating prices for some aging Beatles tribute band

Callum Todd

I don't understand this post! I took it to mean that, as there are a few people called Adam who attend co-events, there is now some game called "adam vs octochamp" where you count the number of Adams and the number of octochamps at an event and see which number is higher. That makes sense...

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Adam Gillard wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2024 6:52 pm Didn't someone write a book on stuff and consciousness? I don't think it was Harari.

Just a few books apart on my shelf.

Callum Todd

So to answer the original question: But how far back in time would you have to go (and do essentially nothing and disappear again) so that nobody alive in 2024 can reasonably be seen as "the same person" as anyone alive now? Obviously if you go back to e.g. 1910, there are still some of t...

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4 for me but could be 5 next year and possibly even 6 the following year.

10 Lincoln
7 MK (soon to be 8)
6 Huddersfield (or 7 if West Yorkshire counts)
5 Blackpool (soon to be 6)

4 London
4 Leeds

3 Birmingham (or 4 if Wolverhampton counts)

4 Newcastle if Whitley Bay and Durham count

Callum Todd

Identical twins come from the same sperm and the same egg, but I think most would accept they're not the same person. Yep. And so you don't even have to go back to before everyone was born. Go back to the microsecond of fertilisation. Does the egg even split this time? Not only do we get a differen...

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If you go back far enough (say to before everyone alive today was born) you wouldn't even need to do anything to change everyone today. Or even "go back" yourself, just since the clock back and replay history. Given we're all the product of random mutations if you just rerolled the DNA di...

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If you go back far enough (say to before everyone alive today was born) you wouldn't even need to do anything to change everyone today. Or even "go back" yourself, just since the clock back and replay history. Given we're all the product of random mutations if you just rerolled the DNA dic...

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Mark James wrote: ↑Fri Aug 30, 2024 5:27 am https://youtu.be/S4pSp3Km6Mw?si=bSW1a5M5dwPBLyfD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOlNHXQCT_4

Callum Todd

Congrats to Gold medal winner Matthew Brockwell who beat Mark Murray 108-91 in the final, having won all 5 games in the heats. Bronze medal went to Matthew S Rutherford, beating Fiona Titcombe 98-74 in the play-off game. Sounds like a good event, nice one. What's it like organising an MSO event Ton...

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Is the radiation from a nuclear bomb a bug or a feature? My understanding of the timeline of the development of nuclear weaponry is that physicists involved in the discovery of nuclear fission recognised the potential for a nuclear chain reaction to produce a hitherto unprecedented amount of energy...

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Doesn't answer your question but about 20 years ago the BBC aired a show called the Animal Games and it was fucking brilliant

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Oh yeah didn't even think of penguins, good shout.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2024 5:12 pm Apologies if it's been mentioned elsewhere but what is the fastest swimmer with limbs.
Someone said a Platypus but I'm not convinced

My money would be on a turtle

Callum Todd

Fiona T wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:38 pm Hyper event anyone...?

I'm considering this for 2026, or late 2025 if there's a gap in the calendar.

Love this Countdowner's programming corner thread

Callum Todd

Good debate folks. I agree points difference isn't a great tiebreaker so should be as low down the list as possible. And h2h just causes a clusterfuck if it's more than a two-way tie. Still think we should just do what Countdown does unless there's a very good reason to do otherwise, and in this cas...

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Back from my time-travelling escapades, I think if we're following Countdown there's not much to decide on really. Just make sure we're aware of what the tie breaks are after conundrums. If we're not then sure let's come up with an alternative and trial a few out. It might take a while to work out w...

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Ways Of Resolving Ties In Standings Had the unusual case at the Goat where two players were tied for 5th and dead-level on wins and points. Was agreed to just leave them level at 5th. In the event this could affect position, and for clarity, I propose separation on the following if possible... -If ...

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I would like to think Mr Todd was being flippant. Somewhat :-) I thought it was as likely (i.e. not very) that Ell was implying disability is bad as it was that Ian was implying being trans was a disability. Hence the blatant parody. I was going to err on the side of charitability here, but in the ...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2024 11:19 am I would like to think Mr Todd was being flippant.

Somewhat

I thought it was as likely (i.e. not very) that Ell was implying disability is bad as it was that Ian was implying being trans was a disability. Hence the blatant parody.

Callum Todd

Probably goes against the grain with regards inclusively but am I the only one not happy with Trans boxers in the women's event ? Trans athletes belong in the ParaOlympics unless they want to fund their own Olympics. I'm not sure I really care for the insinuation that being transgender is a disabil...

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in my reading of that thread I think Fiona especially went out of her way to not "derail" the thread by sufficiently cordoning off her CSW comments from the main narrative of the thread. ffs Callum. I dunno if you are more interested in lick-arsing Fiona or throwing shade on me... but at ...

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Fiona T wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2024 3:01 pm Can't find moistener either!

Oh! Maybe we really can't take any words for granted anymore

Ell still gets 1000 though <3

Callum Todd

I don't have Oxford Dictionaries Premium but I just had a quick check and if I'm right only two of the 9s in Ell's octorun (NODALIZES and POSTERIAD) will no longer be valid, so he would likely still have comfortably beaten 1000 with this dictionary. NEOTERISM is gone; along with various other maxes...

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Nobody's ever going to get near Cillian/Tom/Elliott's points records without all the extra words are they? This whole era of Countdown will be looked back on like the few years of swimming where LZRs weren't banned I wouldn't be so sure. Certainly high scores will be harder to come by now, but by n...

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Talking about CSW on a dictionary-related ticket is no more derailing that ticket than talking about an apterous ticket on a c4c thread is derailing the thread 😊 Agreed that the larger debate about Oxford Vs CSW is a meaty enough topic to merit it's own ticket/thread, but a couple of allusive posts ...

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if it's been removed from the pile then we may now have to consider it an ex-letter.

Callum Todd

will just leave this here in case anyone else somehow believes the trump shooting thing was some set-up or something:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor

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I think The Lib dems were the only party to get the same number of seats as their share of the vote The vote share analysis is really interesting, and doesn't look great for Labour. Their vote share only just makes the second quartile in a ranking of their performance in all UK general elections on...

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Is Duo Lingo actually a good way to learn a language? I've never used it, but I know loads of people who have been using it for ages and I'm not convinced any of them can do anything more than ask for bread or the way to the station. I haven't used it too intensively but the impression I get is tha...

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Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2024 10:09 pm
Callum Todd wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2024 4:57 amI'm a fan.
Still?

I can't defend whatever is going on at this tournament because I still don't understand what's gone wrong. Still a lot of good will in the bank for past achievements though.

I concede that your pre-tournament suspicions have been vindicated

Callum Todd

Saw this on twitter but it was a good question and I have thought about it before. You know how, sometimes, you miss your exit on a roundabout and have to go around again? How long can you keep driving around a roundabout, not taking any exits before some sort of law enforcement would intervene? Pr...

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https://www.audiolinks.com/blog/mike-vs-mic/ As I suspected, mike is the preferred grammatically, particularly when used as a verb, but the shift to mic is likely due to abbreviations on actual equipment, where the extra letter takes more space and adds no clarity. By the way, if I see "mic&qu...

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It's worth listening to what Benjamin Zephaniah said on the subject . What a guy Benjamin was. Thanks for sharing this Gev. Not that I think anyone has done anything equivalent to this on here yet, but just to head it off I think it's worth saying that Susie shouldn't be criticised or judged too ha...

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I'm genuinely curious to know from hosts what would happen if a player deliberately beat prune 1-0 (or 0-0 on a TB) in order to boost their overall chances of winning an event. I dunno if I'd ever have the balls to do it, but for example if Oxford were to have 5 or 6 more sign ups and I got prune i...

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Not seen them yet but really looking forward to watching Inside No 9 final season; it's such a great show.

I believe they're doing a stage show this year so anyone based around London should really try and get to see it!

Callum Todd

This Sky News leaders thing is awful; I've had to turn it off. Just blatant 'gotcha' setups one after the other. What's the point in having the two leaders on, advertising it as a chance for voters to see what they can vote for, and then not allowing them to speak freely? What a load of self-congrat...

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It was at least a novelty to see a candidate give shoplifting advice on live national TV.

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Are we watching the Mens Euros ? I think with the General Election and The Olympics its a little overshadowed. That said I think England will win , we made the final 3 years ago and we are a better team than that Absolutely; could be the last proper international tournament for a while and should b...

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Agreed Sunak outperformed Starmer, although both came across fairly poorly.

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Mark James wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 7:44 pm What was the @ symbol for before the Internet?

Another invention ahead of its time

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Fiona T wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2024 5:59 pm Attended a couple of events - played extremely well! Hope he does reapply when his time comes and gets a slightly friendlier draw!

He was incredible at Co:Man 2020

Callum Todd

Saw this today and was reminded of Fiona's above question:
https://youtu.be/o7d6cZsLo6c?si=Uln7ZlFzRlxPQBsz

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:41 pm Daniel Dennett was on my list.

Despite his age I was shocked by this. The night prior I had watched a fairly recent debate he had taken part in where he had specifically mentioned a couple of times that he was in good health. Sad times

Callum Todd

Gutting. I know of one other place to eat nearby but it's also in Kelham so unlikely to be available.

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The colours of American pool balls are in numerical order. So the stripes are the same colour as the solid ball that is 8 numbers lower, e.g. the yellow solid is 1 and the yellow stripe is 9, and so on.

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Saw a news headline that said "Kaizer Chiefs Defender Shot" and I thought why would you shoot someone just because they liked that band, then I realised it was a South African footballer who was killed in a car jacking. Woops The band are named after the football team. They are Leeds Unit...

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Why are politicians expressing opinions about the design of a football shirt? I really don't get the big hoo-ha about that cross thing on the England shirt. Total non issue, even at a football/design level, never mind social/political. One of the most acute examples of the depressing tendency for t...

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I take it to mean you should be able to see at least 2 chevrons on the ground between yourself and the car in front.

Agreed it's unclear though.

Callum Todd

What's so iconic about the Abbey Road album cover? It's just some people walking. My impression is it's more than the album itself is iconic and, many of us being very visual in our thinking/memories, the album cover is the most available candidate to be a visual memory of the album, so it took on ...

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Adam Gillard wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:00 pm
Callum Todd wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:31 pm Regional accents probably changed the answer for that one too. For example I would consider OUR and HEN to be valid answers in my dialect but not in Queen's (King's?) English
Hem and Hex alongside Hen in that case

Yep. Maybe OAR in Irish accent?

Callum Todd

Regional accents probably changed the answer for that one too. For example I would consider OUR and HEN to be valid answers in my dialect but not in Queen's (King's?) English

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