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Gavin Chipper

Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Sat May 25, 2019 11:03 am

Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑
Sat May 25, 2019 9:02 am

David Williams wrote: ↑
Fri May 24, 2019 11:25 pm
Carol?
Less than an epsilon chance of that, I should think...
Yeah as she was banned from ever returning to the countdown studios

Was this because of the time she interrupted a recording and started attacking the audience with a machete?

Gavin Chipper

I've just seen that there's a new (new since last year anyway) parkrun that's much more reasonably placed than the actual "Cambridge" parkrun called Coldham's Common parkrun. Assuming I come to this (and I probably will), this is the parkrun I intend to do.

Gavin Chipper

People who call Leonardo Da Vinci just "Leonardo" rather than "Da Vinci", when clearly this only came about because of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Gavin Chipper

Bit of a car crash for Elliot there, not scoring in one of the rounds. Needs about 72 in the final game now I think for the 1000. Might be a bit tight!

Gavin Chipper

Does this all call into question the accuracy of the buzzing system in other close situations? I've always wondered if there might be a bias towards one of the buzzers anyway, and as long as it's pressed within, say, 0.2 seconds of the other one, it will "win".

Gavin Chipper

Some similar threads, some more similar than others:

Which Forumers/Apteroids Would You Most Like Too See On The Show
New Talent
Who are the best players not to appear...
Apterites who have yet to appear on Countdown

Gavin Chipper

Tony Atkins wrote: ↑
Wed May 22, 2019 2:31 pm

Ray Wilding wrote: ↑
Wed May 22, 2019 1:31 pm
MAULVI, bad miss in R7.
Or GAVIAL - but I think he also missed another 9....?

Not according to the wiki. What were you thinking? This is me telling you off as well as asking for information.

(piecrusts not valid as mentioned by someone else if that's what it was.)

Gavin Chipper

Beat Elliott to the conundrum today! But seriously, another great game and another unlucky opponent. Got that all-important last numbers though! The conundrum originally wasn't this and the slowness was in part due to me being a bit flustered by a bit of controversy. It was originally MOUSEFLLY, an...

Gavin Chipper

An average of 117 for Elliott in his remaining games would do it. The balance of probabilities may now be in his favour... Looking like a certainty- he's a great spotter and also seems to know how to create the 9 letter selections. Nothing's ever a certainty - got everything crossed though! New rec...

Gavin Chipper

Beat Elliott to the conundrum today!

But seriously, another great game and another unlucky opponent. Got that all-important last numbers though!

Gavin Chipper

It doesn't really matter anyway because I suppose it makes sense to start a fresh thread sometimes rather than revive a list of Apterites from 2010. But I'll have a look later anyway!

Gavin Chipper

I'm sure we must have seven or eight of these threads already.

Gavin Chipper

Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑
Wed May 22, 2019 7:32 pm

Ray Wilding wrote: ↑
Wed May 22, 2019 7:11 pm

Owen Carroll wrote: ↑
Wed May 22, 2019 6:17 pm

I gotta agree with Elliott here. That's a hard word to get.
I was kidding.
This is why we need a bit of punctuation for sarcasm.

I think it can lose the effect if you have to point it out.

Gavin Chipper

So Unfortunate. I knew there'd be some form of Gevspergers in response to my post at some point but I thought it'd be you pointing out the "me and Zarte" instead. What a wide range of needlessly pedantic comments you have, a real soldier to your cause. It's very rare for me to do anything like that...

Gavin Chipper

Mark Deeks wrote: ↑
Wed May 22, 2019 12:51 pm
So

Unfortunate.

Gavin Chipper

Elliott already has more points than one of the octochamps this series, and after just five games!

Gavin Chipper

SRNAEITD was screaming for a vowel to finish. Shame it wasn't Elliott's pick!

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Kirk got a 130, but that was the old 15 round format. Dan McColm's 123 remains the only perfect game in the new format as far as I know. I wondered if he meant the highest possible maximum. According to the wiki, the old format had a highest max of 173 , and the record for the new format is 175 . A...

Gavin Chipper

And there it is. The 152. Congratulations Elliott.

Gavin Chipper

I always think it's a mistake not to write the conundrum down if you don't get it after a certain amount of time.

Gavin Chipper

What's this nonsense with the fake going high on the 4-large? If you're doing e.g. 75×50/25, you don't start with 75×50. Poor form. If I've got this right, 75x50=3750 3750/25=150 is poor form, when you could say 75/25=3 3x50=150. But 75/25=3 3x50=150 when you could say 100+50=150 is OK? If you're s...

Gavin Chipper

Here's the new table. As well as me and Callum at Burgess, Matthew Tassier and Jon Elmer have both improved their PBs since the last update. 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 ...

Gavin Chipper

Before CO:LON on Saturday, four of us took part in the Burgess parkrun. And here are the results out of 575 runners: 1. Oliver Garner - 16:59 (80 points) 12. Gevin Chapwell - 18:09 (PB) (60 points) 461. Callum Todd - 29:47 (PB) (40 points) 560. Fiona Titcombe - 39:41 (20 points) So congratulations t...

Gavin Chipper

Very nice debut. Looking towards 1000 now!

I felt a bit sorry for Arran actually. He played well over the last couple of days, but I think Elliott got to him a bit and he didn't score in a single letters round!

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Why don't you use an appropriate thread for your posts?

Gavin Chipper

Is there a confirmed address?

Gavin Chipper

What's this nonsense with the fake going high on the 4-large? If you're doing e.g. 75×50/25, you don't start with 75×50. Poor form.

Gavin Chipper

Philip Wilson wrote: ↑
Wed May 15, 2019 11:39 am
Are contestants receiving a free mug or something these days for picking 2 large??

It is very strange and you'd think they might twig after a while of never getting any of them.

Gavin Chipper

I was coming here to ask that so I will anyway:

Can Matt Morrison get FOCAL points?

Gavin Chipper

seems like a decent player too with ISOPTERAN and his R14 solve Took a while to get going, but choices/spots/solves like those do make me wonder if he's a lurker under a pseudonym on apterous I thought the same. After going something like 15-0 down, he woke up and started playing really well. But h...

Gavin Chipper

Ian Fitzpatrick wrote: ↑
Tue May 14, 2019 9:11 am
Carelessness was nearly her undoing today.

It 's a 12 anyway so could never be allowed.

Gavin Chipper

Did we find out what happened to Anthony Endsor? I've seen that he's been on Facebook talking to Jason Larsen so he didn't stop existing or anything.

Gavin Chipper

Actually I think I probably just confused myself but we'll go with deliberate.

Gavin Chipper

I don't know how obvious this actually is, but this seems the most appropriate thread. As you probably know zero degrees latitude ( not longitude surprisingly ) is the line that goes from the North Pole to the South Pole through the Greenwich Meridian and so on. And if you look at a map, isn't it so...

Gavin Chipper

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Mon May 06, 2019 9:56 pm

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Fri May 03, 2019 9:08 pm
It looks as though the Southwark parkrun is the one to do in the morning before CO:LON. Me and Fiona T should be there. Anyone else?
Southwark is cancelled. Mile End instead.

Scrap that. We're doing Burgess.

Gavin Chipper

JimBentley wrote: ↑
Thu May 09, 2019 7:59 pm

Tim Down wrote: ↑
Thu May 09, 2019 11:58 am
Also, I cross zeds, which I can't believe is trustworthy.
You monster!

In Fiona's diagram, I do 3 - 1 -2. Isn't that more normal?

But 3 in the opposite direction from the arrow, right?

Gavin Chipper

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Fri May 03, 2019 9:08 pm
It looks as though the Southwark parkrun is the one to do in the morning before CO:LON. Me and Fiona T should be there. Anyone else?

Southwark is cancelled. Mile End instead.

Gavin Chipper

Dig up the bodies it is then. We're all agreed.

Gavin Chipper

It looks as though the Southwark parkrun is the one to do in the morning before CO:LON. Me and Fiona T should be there. Anyone else?

Gavin Chipper

Is your local run the Frimley Lodge parkrun? So do you know Jon Corby? I was actually intending to do the Victoria Dock parkrun on the basis that it is not only fairly nearby but also supposedly the fastest course in the country . Would you consider doing that one instead? I saw Jon was a Frimley-i...

Gavin Chipper

James Laverty wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 27, 2019 5:52 pm
Any Countdowners doing the London Marathon this year? Obviously not running it myself due to a certain fitness issue, but spectating supporting friends so I'll keep an eye out.

I didn't get through the ballot! Did you see anyone from Countdown while you were there?

Gavin Chipper

Conor wrote: ↑
Fri May 03, 2019 6:03 pm
Jeanne Calment?

Good work.

Gavin Chipper

People who add the "hat" onto their 5s at the end as a separate line, rather than starting with it in the top right as you would with an S.

Gavin Chipper

I think Innis's point is that you can't just look at the percentage difference between top and second in a completely different thing and expect it to have some relevance. Different distributions have different standard deviations etc., so you can't just look at percentage difference to see which is...

Gavin Chipper

The oldest people alive are probably not known . If they were born in a country that don't carry out a census who will know. I used to use this argument for tallest Man , fastest man etc. If they live somewhere remote how would we know To be the oldest person alive you need to have certain conditio...

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑
Fri May 03, 2019 8:10 am

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Thu May 02, 2019 10:35 pm

Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑
Thu May 02, 2019 8:12 pm
For those who doubt this case - have you ever actually looked at any of her supporting evidence?

I'm happy to argue this further, if anyone wants to.
Have you seen the evidence? Do you know what it consists of?
A decent amount of it, yes.

I was hoping you might elaborate.

Gavin Chipper

JimBentley wrote: ↑
Thu May 02, 2019 10:53 pm

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Thu May 02, 2019 10:32 pm
I've added a poll just to gauge opinion.
Can you add a "not sure" or "can't possibly know" option? I genuinely don't know and can't go for a binary choice.

OK. I hope it is good enough for you now.

Gavin Chipper

Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑
Thu May 02, 2019 8:12 pm
For those who doubt this case - have you ever actually looked at any of her supporting evidence?

I'm happy to argue this further, if anyone wants to.

Have you seen the evidence? Do you know what it consists of?

Gavin Chipper

I've added a poll just to gauge opinion.

Gavin Chipper

You've both brought up this Facebook poll - probably the least significant piece of evidence. It has no bearing on it in the general scheme of things. It's certainly not the evidence that stuck out to me. Total straw man. The thing about the town not noticing is the biggest sticking point, but I don...

Gavin Chipper

The other thing about the mortality plateau is that there doesn't seem to be any particular reason for believing that it is a consistent thing above 105 anyway. Even if we include Calment, we have nine reaching 117, and only two going beyond that, and that's nowhere near the purported 50/50 figure. ...

Gavin Chipper

I don't think the argument that she was a fraud amounts to much. Statistically it's of course very unlikely that any individual person will reach 122, but we're looking for the probability of one person out the several billion candidates making it to 122, and that's much harder to answer. It's ofte...

Gavin Chipper

James S Roper wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 30, 2019 11:03 pm
My brain is also far less of a sponge than it used to be as well, I was actually vaguely creative back then. Now I don't ask enough questions anymore.

Stay off the drugs.

Gavin Chipper

Phil H wrote: ↑
Thu May 02, 2019 6:30 am
I only saw the last five rounds or so, but Nick calling Asset a 'remarkable young man' for having left home and learned English so well was cringey as hell. For all I know he could have been using English all his life.

At least he didn't call him a real asset.

Gavin Chipper

I'm not surprised, this sort of thing isn't at all unusual. I remember reading a really old Guinness Book Of Records that my grandma had (1960 edition I think) and it was noted in there that the longevity records attract far more fraudulent claims than any other. They were at the time dealing with ...

Gavin Chipper

As you might know, Jeanne Calment is famous for being the oldest person ever, dying in 1997 at the age of 122. Well, it turns out that "Jeanne" Calment might actually have been her daughter, Yvonne, who took on her identity when the real Jeanne died to avoid paying inheritance tax. What do you think...

Gavin Chipper

Yes, well done Fiona. Some good games there.

And maybe some of us will meet you at CO:LON in a couple of weeks and possibly the Southwark parkrun.

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Do you feel/look thinner?

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Phil H wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 28, 2019 7:19 am
The proportion of underweight people (of which I am one) seems far higher in Countdown circles than in the general population. Why's that?

It's either an Apterous subscription or food.

Luckily I joined Apterous when there was a one-off fee for life.

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