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Gavin Chipper

Up to 45 now with the addition of COLIN I veteran Anthony Endsor! We are actually in danger of maybe needing some more sets... Judging by Anthony's sense of direction, you might want to post a set to the capital of Nebraska. :o It happened! It finally happened! Someone found a use for knowing the U...

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Adam Dexter wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 13, 2019 10:46 am
Is there a prize for doing well based on your seeding? I could claim to have been playing the long game if so.

Did this go in the wrong place?

Gavin Chipper · Re: COLIN XV- Countdown in Lincoln, 19-20 January 2019 Dale Levell.

Dale Levell.

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Sadly, yes. The Labour antisemitism thing keeps rumbling on. At first, I thought the Lab leadership was being nice but dim and not understanding, but given some of the things Corbyn has said I'm not sure. The problem is that a lot of people conflate "Israel" and "Jews" since Israel is the only Jewi...

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There was a Christmas special as well, presumably still online.

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"AEROGEL" "Sorry, what the fuck? I've never encountered that word before, nor have I ever heard a Scottish person speak." That was a bit weird. Susie had trouble understanding my declarations at times (LIPASE eg). Your point is? It just seemed quite clear to me, and I was surprised she struggled wi...

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My laptop just said that the printer was in error mode. But it works now anyway.

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"AEROGEL"

"Sorry, what the fuck? I've never encountered that word before, nor have I ever heard a Scottish person speak."

That was a bit weird.

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It is wireless and we've had it for ages. It normally works fine.

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Why did my printer refuse to print out the thing I wanted to yesterday and then work first time today? I turned off/on my laptop and the printer several times yesterday but nothing seemed to work. Printers should have no concept of days. Turning it off and then on again five seconds later should hav...

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Seedings are based on averages of finishing positions from the previous 5 events (which all had more or less the same number of participants). Slightly worse news is that most prospective unconfirmed sign-ups are likely to slot in in the top 12. And you put new players in the middle don't you? Yep....

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I always used to joke that they were at the back if the studio back when it was first on. :lol: :lol: :lol: That's a belter. This was 20 years ago. Jokes weren't as funny then. I basically invented the joke. What would you charge for an incorrect answer then? Come on, I want a proper agreement here...

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I always used to joke that they were at the back if the studio back when it was first on.

But anyway, you could charge for an incorrect answer. But you also have to take into account things like "I'm 90% sure it's A and 10% B."

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Ben Wilson wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 09, 2019 8:50 am
Seedings are based on averages of finishing positions from the previous 5 events (which all had more or less the same number of participants). Slightly worse news is that most prospective unconfirmed sign-ups are likely to slot in in the top 12.

And you put new players in the middle don't you?

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Time for the usual outrage that are the provisional seedings. :-) I've used the same 'algorithm' to determine seedings as I did last year, hence why it looks like there may be a few anomalies in there. But it all makes sense, honest. 1 Jack Worsley [snip] 28 Tim Down [snip] 38 Mark Mills No outrage...

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Mike Springett beat me to it in the Facebook discussion, but obviously there will be a parkrun happening as well on this weekend.

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Decent.

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Well I suppose I meant that it all seems a bit rubbish by "hard to get".

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Why is good vegan chocolate so hard to get? Obviously milk chocolate has milk in and they need to substitute it in some way, but I don't really see why milk should be an integral part of chocolate. People have milk chocolate because dark chocolate can be a bit too bitter and not quite human-friendly...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 03, 2019 5:42 am
Jon Stitcher on Who Wants to be a Millionaire
Last night

How did he do? I need you to tell me everything.

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Thomas Carey wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 02, 2019 4:51 am
It's COC time! And kicking us off we have the guy who succeeded where I failed, series 73 wynner Jonathan Wynn versus thankfully not my local MP, series 78 semi finalist Phil Davies.

You're not going to believe this, but Jonathan Wynn isn't my local MP, so between us we've got them both covered!

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William Tunstall-Pedoe did my local parkrun yesterday, and then followed it up by doing a second parkrun at my second nearest (you can do two parkruns on New Year's Day). Who? William Tunstall-Pedoe is who!

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I think it would be good to have tournament wins as one of the columns.

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*Feilding

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I've added Jon Elmer. Right, I'm going to put up a ranking list of Countdown/Apterous parkrunners. I'll check it every so often to see if anyone's beaten their PB, and if anyone is really insistent that they don't want to be on the list, then I can remove their name. And if I've forgotten anyone, le...

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Is it anything like Atmosfear?

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Paddy Ashdown quite recently too.

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Never really seen the point of rice myself.

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Once I was round a friend's and his cat was on the sofa so I picked up the sofa cushion with the cat on and put it on my head. I don't think the cat or my friend were too happy about it actually!

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Matt Morrison wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 21, 2018 9:39 am
What generic group would you assign them to? Crisps?

If I had to put them in such a group then that's the best fit I can think of.

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Matt Morrison wrote: ↑
Thu Dec 20, 2018 8:10 am
I've just realised in my head I kind of count poppadoms as a bread.

Lunatic.

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Time for my typically unpopular opinion, but... What's the obsession with bread with curries? I almost never have any form of bread, why do I want to fill up on bread when I could enjoy more tasty curry? And don't give me the mopping up shit, there are poppadoms, which do a decent enough job of tha...

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This evening I went out for a curry and asked if they could do me a peshwari paratha. They said yes and it was amazing. My life is complete.

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No cards from me but I show appreciation to anyone who gives me one and I tell them that they would get a card from me if I did them.

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Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 19, 2018 11:31 am

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Wed Dec 19, 2018 8:54 am

Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 18, 2018 7:46 pm
Conundrum was very interesting for me as I have dyspraxia
That's the thing. I got it straight away but missed the buzzer.
Ah. Bad luck. Whenever I get then conundrum I pause my TV and make the noise the buzzer makes.

I don't really have a buzzer at home. It was just a stupid joke.

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Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 18, 2018 7:46 pm
Conundrum was very interesting for me as I have dyspraxia

That's the thing. I got it straight away but missed the buzzer.

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Jonathan Wynn now added with exactly the same time as Suzy Turner! Right, I'm going to put up a ranking list of Countdown/Apterous parkrunners. I'll check it every so often to see if anyone's beaten their PB, and if anyone is really insistent that they don't want to be on the list, then I can remove...

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Decent game from Tony there. Horrible letters.

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With performances like that, it was a shame one of them had to win. Sorry - lose. That didn't come out right at all.

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(10×8-2)/2×25+7=982 as a nicer method in round 9.

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Tom S wrote: ↑
Thu Dec 13, 2018 5:43 pm
Martin was on very fine form today, did think that was his best showing so far. Commiserations to Bob, who did do a very good job today

I thought it was a very good game too by both players.

But as for Martin's best game? Well, being picky I thought that 983 was pretty gettable to be honest!

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LUPINES is valid on Apterous. But I just looked it up in the (free version of the) dictionary and it says the noun LUPINE is the US spelling of LUPIN. But if you go to LUPIN it says that LUPINE is North American, which should be allowed (as North American is distinct from US).

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My preferred option would be a second referendum at this point. I think the original referendum was absolutely ridiculous because it wasn't remotely clear what leaving would entail - and it isn't even now to be honest. If you're going to hold referendums, they can really only be on the simplest of i...

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Sorry, that I used my least favourite figure of speech, evidently, I can wait but hopefully you knew what I meant. Although in this modern age the time and date of a program has almost become irrelevant with the various forms of catch up TV available. Although I'm still pissed off that the BBC' did...

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After watching a recording of his stand up, I decided to watch Click for the umpteenth time. It is a perfect blend of comedy and tragedy Nobody could watch the scene with Henry Winkler near the end and not be moved to tears. ( The gauntlet is thrown Gevin ) I'm just crying at the thought of the Fonz.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 08, 2018 5:09 pm
My missus just got the Christmas TV guide and just to give those interested the heads up that a Young Offenders chrsitmas Special is on BBC one at 11.15 pm 23rd December.
Can't wait

I will watch that, but I can wait.

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Thomas Carey wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 07, 2018 5:17 pm

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 07, 2018 3:03 pm
Looking at the general rating of Bounty, I think having Bounty as your worst thing is a good problem to have. Heroes have Eclairs...
^^. Eclairs are fine if that's what you want but it's a chocolate selection box thing so generally you don't.

Hard toffee is rubbish though.

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Looking at the general rating of Bounty, I think having Bounty as your worst thing is a good problem to have. Heroes have Eclairs...

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OK, there are expensive small chocolates, but Roses and Quality Street are not that, so I could have added that in to the explanation.

Maybe you have a couple of points to consider, but I would be interested to know if sales had fallen since the introduction of Celebrations and Heroes.

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I don't think they do at all. For me, Roses/Street are much cuter, have more tradition/emotion tied to them, and, on a far more logical level of judgement, provide a lot more variety which is the whole point of these sort of boxes right? Well, I think it's just that Roses/Quality Street chocolates ...

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Now that we have this thread, should we also rank Cadbury Heroes? And also discuss the elephant in the room - do Celebrations and Heroes render Roses and Quality Street pointless?

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Another thing- how do I ‘properly’ quote multiple posts on this site? Obviously (hopefully, unless this post turns out a jumbled mess) I’ve figured out a way, but it involved about five tabs and a word document. When you're doing a post, you can scroll down below the text box and you'll see the mes...

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Zarte Siempre wrote: ↑
Thu Dec 06, 2018 4:05 pm
*shrug* It's a Spoilers section, who cares?

Because you still see that a thread exists without having to go into it or even into the spoilers section generally.

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Matt Morrison wrote: ↑
Thu Dec 06, 2018 12:34 pm
Haha I haven't missed chocolate this much in ages actually.

Eat some chocolate then. You can get vegan chocolate.

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Thu Dec 06, 2018 3:51 pm
Why so much hate for the Bounty.
It's my no 1 choice......feel free to post me yours if you hate them so much.

Yeah, it is a bit odd. They're perfectly fine.

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Well not really - if you're past the point at which anyone else can make it, it's just formality. Although after Annie dropping out a few series back, someone ought to check the 8 with someone who was there each time. Well I suppose it's that the thread popped up as soon as we couldn't get a ninth ...

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Literally just copied the spelling off the poll. And I put Malteaser bottom because that was the thing I voted for in the poll. If Malteser was in the poll I would have voted for that.

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I think they're all decent actually. I put Galaxy Caramel top and ended up putting Malteaser bottom, but mainly because I can't remember exactly what it's like. All the others are miniatures of proper bars, whereas the Malteaser Celebration isn't a mini Malteaser. It's its own separate thing, and as...

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Matt Morrison wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 05, 2018 6:40 pm
Not answering as I was prepared to rank bar mitzvahs and half-birthday parties.

You can do that here.

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David Williams wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 05, 2018 8:29 pm

Ryan Lam wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 04, 2018 3:06 pm
So, with just six Preliminaries of Series 79 yet to air as of the time of writing, we now know who are the final eight
The existence of this thread before the preliminaries are over is itself a spoiler.

This has been mentioned in previous series as well!

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