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Gavin Chipper

They normally allow a correction on the numbers if it's immediate. I didn't think it was overly lenient.

Coral Heath is a bit like Coral Reef.

Gavin Chipper

Where Rachel did 75×10 +100 - 3×10 - 6 = 814, she wasted a 10. She could have done (75-3)×10 + 100 - 6.

Also 50 × (7+9) - 8×8 - 6 = 730 for an easier method in that other round where she did (9×8+6+7) × 5 + 50.

Gavin Chipper

As well as many political opinions, I share a birthday with Tom Harwood. Which would be nice if I didn't have a huge inferiority complex. I guess it's time for me to decide whether I want to model my political views after Neil Kinnock or Lady Gaga I guess it's time for me to decide whether I want t...

Gavin Chipper

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 25, 2021 5:26 pm
Haven't t watched The Simpsons for 10 years.
I think it peaked at season 10

I've never watched an episode of The Simpsons knowing what series number it came from. How are you supposed to know?

Gavin Chipper

Icing on cakes. It just makes it taste worse. Also, those "fancy" cakes people make that are meant to look like something that use icing to achieve this. A friend of mine had a birthday party a couple of years ago and some cake "expert" had made him a cake that looked like his favourite football tea...

Gavin Chipper

This BBC article discusses the GOAT question.

Gavin Chipper

A lot of dates have been announced for a "data not dates" thing.

Gavin Chipper

Patrick- McCurdie wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 19, 2021 9:37 pm
who else finds jeremy thompson boring. reminds me of william hague

He's a bit of a plane crash.

I'm here all week.

Gavin Chipper

Tom S wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:19 am

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 18, 2021 11:21 pm
I take it there's a documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahyi-qP4mVs&t=1429s

Thanks. I am subscribed to the channel but like any sensible person almost all my internet browsing is incognito and I don't stay logged in.

Gavin Chipper

I take it there's a documentary.

Gavin Chipper

Let's not forget her basic inability to ask questions in a coherent manner on The Weakest Link. E.g. if the question was "What is Countdown - a gameshow or a type of shoe?" she would say "What is Countdown, a gameshow or a shoe?" like all three things were part of a list and it led to confusion. Th...

Gavin Chipper

Why wasn't Beethoven (the dog in the film) instead called Bach? Would have been cleverer.

Gavin Chipper

Let's not forget her basic inability to ask questions in a coherent manner on The Weakest Link. E.g. if the question was "What is Countdown - a gameshow or a type of shoe?" she would say "What is Countdown, a gameshow or a shoe?" like all three things were part of a list and it led to confusion.

Gavin Chipper

Andy Wilson wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 15, 2021 7:21 pm
Still at the music. https://andywilson2.bandcamp.com/album/ ... -the-night

Good to see.

Gavin Chipper

Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 12, 2021 10:26 pm
Not everything is a metaphor for the pandemic, but...

# I just wanna go back, back to 1999... #

Who's going to change your nappies?

Gavin Chipper

Maybe they were just picking a presenter they knew would fail to give the Deeks team a bit more time to properly kick into action. This is very much not over.

Gavin Chipper

Not convinced by this but we'll see!

Gavin Chipper

My Italy-based aunt and her two daughters (so my cousins) have this annoying thing of kissing on both cheeks when we meet. Yeah, that's now been fucked off forever. Can't take any chances!

Gavin Chipper

I haven't watched it, but seeing the trailers, it seems that Alan Partridge is in it.

Gavin Chipper

This is obviously a shame but it will be back. And just think - if the pandemic had started a couple of months earlier we probably would have missed two COLINs!

Gavin Chipper

Who would be The Beast? At the moment it looks like they're naming Mark after the fact that his life expectancy is reduced by about 20 years.

Gavin Chipper

Does anyone else find it slightly dodgy that Shaun is the Dark Destroyer and Jenny is always described as hot?

Gavin Chipper

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 21, 2020 10:35 pm
Pretty awful human being Priti Patel has been found to be bullying, but Boris Johnson just tries to make it go away.

Pretty awful human being Priti Patel could face a contempt of court charge.

Gavin Chipper

I've saved approximately 300 hours of time spent on trains commuting to work and re-invested that into time asleep. I expect more acceptance of working from home in general, which means many future hours will be saved as well. I used to get the train to work. That was a good time to sleep I thought.

Gavin Chipper

Not having a job seems more reasonable.

Gavin Chipper

Tom S wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 09, 2021 2:53 pm
Wow, that was quite a finish! Thought Adam had lost it, and was buzzing in for effect.

I was watching him for most of the time, and he didn't give the impression of someone who had just solved it.

Gavin Chipper

Anyone who incorporates an on-by-default auto-play into their website, especially those who decide to hide it after it was quite openly visible for years.

Gavin Chipper

Howie Myers wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 09, 2021 7:52 am
r13 - OCCIDENT (although possibly capitalised?)

It is capitalised unfortunately.

Gavin Chipper

Ian Volante wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 05, 2021 7:34 pm

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 05, 2021 1:27 pm
Its veey much like Gary Shandling
Oh, I saw his show a handful of times in the 90s, that was a hard no too!

Just watch it already. Don't worry about what other people have compared it to.

Gavin Chipper

It seems a bit weird. It like when Boris Johnson keeps saying stuff like "We hope to be back to normal by Christmas" etc. It's better to under-promise and over-deliver than vice versa.

Gavin Chipper

Before anyone tries to move any goalposts, it's quite clear that "by May" means before the beginning of May.

Gavin Chipper

And Season 10 of Curb. Steer clear if you are a snowflake , woke or easily offended ( is that tautology ? ) As someone who has been described as a snowflake on a few occasions, you can safely ignore the steer clear advice - it's great. I finished watching this a couple of days ago. Curb Your Enthus...

Gavin Chipper

I'd be interested to hear if there was anyone who thought this was a good idea. It does seem insane to me. And I am a woke snowflake bitch. I mean, you're really not. You're certainly nowhere near top tier. And I consider it cultural appropriation of you to try and speak on behalf of woke snowflake...

Gavin Chipper

I thought the challenger was unlucky with GUNKIEST. I think two-syllable adjectives that end in Y should be considered standard enough to take -IER and -IEST without it having to be specified. This is the ungaiest thing you've ever suggested. They should send you to another planet, making you the a...

Gavin Chipper

I thought the challenger was unlucky with GUNKIEST. I think two-syllable adjectives that end in Y should be considered standard enough to take -IER and -IEST without it having to be specified. This is the ungaiest thing you've ever suggested. They should send you to another planet, making you the a...

Gavin Chipper

Fiona T wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 04, 2021 5:56 pm
NOVATEUR in whichever round it was.

https://www.lexico.com/definition/novateur
NOUN

= novator.
There's no definition for novator...

Yeah, and not valid on Apterous. Weird dictionary.

Gavin Chipper

I thought the challenger was unlucky with GUNKIEST. I think two-syllable adjectives that end in Y should be considered standard enough to take -IER and -IEST without it having to be specified.

Gavin Chipper

Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 04, 2021 9:24 am
This is exciting.

Post that on a fucking cricket forum - c4c(ricket) or something. From a c4c(ountdown) perspective this is just annoying.

Gavin Chipper

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 04, 2021 9:17 am
Some words like POMMIE, PAPIST and JEW are really not that offensive without context.

When a slur word is declared in Countdown is it just edited out?
I havebt seen WANKER declared for several years now

Susie got APESHIT the other day.

Gavin Chipper

I knew it was being discussed at it came up on here before but I didn't know it was actually happening. I think it would be the wrong decision. But yeah, I'm surprised CUNT is staying if 400 words are going. I know that racial slurs would be higher up on the list to go than standard swears - even th...

Gavin Chipper

ATOMIZES as a better alternative to SOMATIZE in round 1 and EASTERLY as a better alternative to LATERISE in the round with those letters (I'm not counting). Define 'better' :) My first thought was "that's a very useful alt for atomizes - it can take a D or S for a juicy 9!" (as indeed can laterise)...

Gavin Chipper

ATOMIZES as a better alternative to SOMATIZE in round 1 and EASTERLY as a better alternative to LATERISE in the round with those letters (I'm not counting).

Gavin Chipper

Mark James wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 30, 2021 10:10 am
People who say on accident. Unless they did it by accident.

Do people actually say that? Is it an Irish thing?

People who say "The reason being is".

Gavin Chipper

There are, quite probably, a very small number of 117+ claims that are undiscovered/unvalidated - only around 15% of the population is actually verifiable due to not many places (especially the poorer countries) keeping accurate documents 100+ years ago. But working with what is currently validated...

Gavin Chipper

I would have just bumped this thread rather than start a new one.

Gavin Chipper

Geezer could have just stuck the other E on MIGRATE for EMIGRATE. And he would have won (all other things being equal).

Gavin Chipper

From what I've seen here it looks like my usefulness spreadsheet does undervalue 9s, as suspected by a few people in the thread (even when ignoring things like match-winning potential and psychological factors). Also my spreadsheet still overvalues words with repeated letters, despite the measures ...

Gavin Chipper

5) Kane Tanaka to reach the 3rd spot on the oldest verified people ever list. To do this she'd need to survive until the 19th September, attaining the age of 117y, 260d to tie for 3rd place. She's fairly robust physically (or as robust as you could realistically expect a 117 year old to be - still ...

Gavin Chipper

I intend.

Gavin Chipper

It's really not difficult to get soap that isn't made of tallow. Saying isn't soap generally made of animal product is like saying isn't food generally made of animal product. Fair enough. It was a bit lazy of me there. Post of the year for a post about shower gel though? And by Jono as well. I'm n...

Gavin Chipper

A couple of points here. 1. Flannels, sponges, loofahs and body puffs are basically bacteria-growing machines and it's disgusting that you put them all over your body, even with detergent. Flannel goes in the wash after the shower. Anyway, how do you clean yourself properly without something to scr...

Gavin Chipper

Colin does that thing that a lot of people seem to dislike Nick for - "You're a five-time champion but you're 397 points behind. You'd better get a cunting move on." I don't think he or Nick mean to be mean but it's what Nick has got flack for.

Gavin Chipper

I didn't think these people existed but having spoken to a couple of people I think they might (though I think they probably just haven't paid attention to what they do) - people who stand with their head constantly in the stream of water when they're having a shower. I step mostly out of the water...

Gavin Chipper

I don't mind reverse declarations. You can see this in many games in the past, I think Stelling did it as a matter of course. Even in the Gotcha, Whiteley asks the "wrong" player first on the DIARRHOEA round. Declaring second is a definite advantage. In my first game, I had a 6 or a dodgy 8. My opp...

Gavin Chipper

It was worth the wait.

Gavin Chipper

He's kind of given away that it's an ING selection a couple of times.

Gavin Chipper

I haven't paid that close attention but I have noticed in round 1 Colin asks the challenger for their length first on at least some occasions. Is he generally consistent in how he does things?

Gavin Chipper

I didn't think these people existed but having spoken to a couple of people I think they might (though I think they probably just haven't paid attention to what they do) - people who stand with their head constantly in the stream of water when they're having a shower.

Gavin Chipper

Sam Cappleman-Lynes wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:51 pm

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:38 pm
I'd'ven't thought you'd ever be able to get three though.
*I'd'nt've

Can't believe you managed to mess that up.

*I'dn't've.

You messed it up too. Maybe as some subtle joke. I dunno.

Gavin Chipper

I'd'ven't thought you'd ever be able to get three though.

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