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Gavin Chipper

Not sure if this link works. In lieu of the official video here is my gig on a relatives phone https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17YZ8qcbgK/ I think it's friends only. Would it be possible to make it set to everyone for a wider audience? You could friend request me 😄 I will try and work it out in th...

Gavin Chipper

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri Dec 05, 2025 7:37 pm Not sure if this link works.
In lieu of the official video here is my gig on a relatives phone
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17YZ8qcbgK/

I think it's friends only. Would it be possible to make it set to everyone for a wider audience?

Gavin Chipper

Well done Marc!

Gavin Chipper

When they have two new contestants I think they use a reserve player (who likely just missed out on passing the audition) who normally lives locally. Maybe they're put in the champion's chair?

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I probably will attend. Will likely sign up fairly shortly.

Gavin Chipper

Just finished watching series 2 of The Gold on the iPlayer (about Brink's Mat). I think it's more fictionalised than series 1, but still quite fun.

Gavin Chipper

There were people at Linford Wood and Jubilee, Bedford for MK. I think at Linford Wood it was me, Mike Springett and Samuel Louis. Jubilee was Dan Byrom, Thomas Carey, Bradley Horrocks and Fiona T. Anyone else?

Gavin Chipper

Not sure how unpopular that is, although I know you and Tim Down have beef on streaming v downloading.

Gavin Chipper

Mark James wrote: ↑Sat Aug 07, 2021 5:31 pm I love most flags. Really hard to pick a favourite. Bhutan maybe?

I thought I'd since posted to say that Bhutan is probably now my overall favourite. Seems I hadn't.

Gavin Chipper

I do agree in principle. And yeah, bigger heavier cars should definitely pay more. I read this article on the BBC today about big fat cars.

Gavin Chipper

I don't pay much attention to the in-round shots but when I saw it slowing zooming out from the clock in one of the rounds, I didn't think I recognised it. What does Philip say? Have they changed anything recently?

Gavin Chipper

Thanks for the tournament. Really enjoyed it!

Gavin Chipper

In other news, how Your Party was named. About 46 seconds in.

Gavin Chipper

Well I suppose I'd say it doesn't need to be a consumption tax. I mentioned in a previous post that the road tax / fuel duty ratio is always going to be arbitrary, so you could just have just a single road tax and no consumption tax, which is probably what would have happened if electric cars had al...

Gavin Chipper

I did think of the foreign income thing, but it's fundamentally different. Income / gains are taxed for their own sake and it just happens to be that the system in place is that it goes by residence rather than where the gains come from. Mileage as a thing is not something that is taxed for its own ...

Gavin Chipper

What about total number of contestants?

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Sounds pretty dumb.

Gavin Chipper

I won't be able to make this unfortunately. There will be a video online though right?

Gavin Chipper

Why do hotels have a later breakfast time at weekends? I don't think the distinction really applies when you're on holiday.

Gavin Chipper

Anyone else p(h)ard should be worried.

Gavin Chipper

It is Novotel!

Gavin Chipper

Why are you able to buy flight tickets months in advance but, depending on the airline, you are only able to check in and print boarding passes within 48 hours? I know most people just use their phones now but I prefer to print off the boarding pass and I would like to be able to print the return f...

Gavin Chipper

Even 2028 still seems a bit early for such a drastic change at a time when there will still be a lot of petrol / diesel cars around and they're supposed to be trying to move people away from them. However, a quick Google suggests 3p per mile is less than fuel duty which according to someone on Redd...

Gavin Chipper

Even 2028 still seems a bit early for such a drastic change at a time when there will still be a lot of petrol / diesel cars around and they're supposed to be trying to move people away from them. However, a quick Google suggests 3p per mile is less than fuel duty which according to someone on Reddi...

Gavin Chipper

I'm going to sell mine and buy a Ferrari.

Gavin Chipper

Apparently there's going to be a pay-per-mile tax on electric vehicles from 2028. But this is some self-declared thing where you just check your own mileage. Aside from anything else, it's adding extra bureaucracy into the lives of electric car drivers (I literally never look at my mileage), and as ...

Gavin Chipper

I haven't.

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That new Alan Partridge thing about mental health. It was quite funny and a decent watch but I can't help thinking that it didn't really add anything to the world. It's just more Partridge. Nothing new or special. Just more of it. It's like chewing gum at this point.

Gavin Chipper

That tune that you sometimes hear on car horns is Dixie and it was the car horn sound in Dukes of Hazzard.

(I was just watching episode 5 of the Alan Partridge mental health thing and the tune came up.)

Gavin Chipper

It says 5996 on the wiki. So today and Friday would take us to 5998. Monday would be 5999 and Tuesday (25th) would be 6000.

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Also that round 9 was 75*(8+3)+8*4 = 857. Jon did a 72*12-7 method.

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So are you thinking Monday?

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I did 665 Rachel’s way, but as she wrote it I realised that you could have just done ((75+50)/25) to make 5… …then do (100-5)*7=665. Funny how our brains work. I did it that way. Also the 234 could have been done by 117×2 rather than Jon's 118×2-1 to get one away but Rachel went her own completely ...

Gavin Chipper

Yeah, I was aware that was a thing but then it seems to be in direct contradiction with the laws cited in the NI case. What's the tie-break when this happens?

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Jon Stammers.

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I'd not given it much thought.

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This seems to be quite big news that The Christian religious education (RE) taught in schools in Northern Ireland is unlawful, the UK Supreme Court has ruled. But just Northern Ireland? "The judgement makes clear that the state cannot rely on withdrawal mechanisms to justify religious instructi...

Gavin Chipper

It's better than that 500 Miles song. I've always said so.

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When Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses is misusing French sayings, "Bonnet De Douche" means shower cap. I mean, I've put this in the "obvious" thread, but I'd say it's pretty niche. I'm not sure why anyone would know this without quite good French knowledge or looking it up. Both...

Gavin Chipper

So what we're saying is that The Krypton Factor is too entertaining to be considered an entertainment show, with Taskmaster on the borderline, whereas University Challenge and Mastermind are both borderline too quizzy to be quiz shows. Though it's not entirely clear which part of each show's box cou...

Gavin Chipper

And they say c4c is dead.

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Labour: Oh no - UKIP (or the Brexit Party or Reform or whatever they're called now) are ahead in the polls. What do we do? We could establish ourselves as a distinct party offering its own solutions. Nah, just be more like them.

Gavin Chipper

When Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses is misusing French sayings, "Bonnet De Douche" means shower cap. I mean, I've put this in the "obvious" thread, but I'd say it's pretty niche. I'm not sure why anyone would know this without quite good French knowledge or looking it up.

Gavin Chipper

I think some words are explicitly listed with the hyphen and some not, with WAISTED not for some reason. So I think it's a dictionary thing rather than a Countdown thing.

Gavin Chipper

I don't think it should be that hard. But as a television programme for viewers it's pretty much the most important thing.

Gavin Chipper

Well played. I sometimes think the explanations in rounds 1 and/or 2 are skimmed over a bit quickly. Like that gunpowder one wasn't really explained.

Gavin Chipper

Is that definitely a rule? Arguably it makes sense but if you're declaring your target 2nd saying NWD isn't even necessary if it's not the same as the other player.

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Don't know what he's doing there. No parkrun in Ghana as far as I can see.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 11:53 am
Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 4:06 am
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Nov 08, 2025 7:48 pm Quentin Wilson!
One of those ones that feels oddly surprising.
Not unless he WASNT a heavy smoker

That's like a triple negative or something. Can't you put that in a way that isn't easier to not understand?

Gavin Chipper

Quentin Wilson!

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OK, so Worcester Pitchcroft: 31 (1). Samuel Louis - 20:48 (62.02%) (800 points) 116 (2). Thomas Carey - 24:35 (52.47%) (600 points) 149 (3). Stephen Harding - 25:48 (55.81%) (400 points) 362 (4). Fiona Titcombe - 33:38 (54.56%) (200 points) And the table: 1. Thomas Carey - 6565 2. Samuel Louis - 521...

Gavin Chipper

Yeah, would be good to see another one soon.

Gavin Chipper

It would presumably be difficult to allow the second half of a phrase because you couldn't find the word with an alphabetical search. Not sure how the current search engine works but they used to use paper dictionaries so it wouldn't be practical to allow these words back then, and allowing them if ...

Gavin Chipper

John Garcia wrote: ↑Mon Nov 03, 2025 8:46 pm 1st Numbers game (25, 100, 50, 75, 5,10 -> 364):
364 is pretty much the number of days in a year, i.e. 7 (days) x 52 (weeks)
7 = (100 + 75) / 25
52 = 50 + 10/5

I saw it as 91 × 4 and knew anyway that 91 was 7 × 13 so pieced it together from there.

Gavin Chipper

Results Calibration score Mean confidence: 70.40% Actual percent correct: 70.00% You want your mean confidence and actual score to be as close as possible. Mean confidence on correct answers: 75.43% Mean confidence on incorrect answers: 58.67% You want your mean confidence to be low for incorrect a...

Gavin Chipper

I didn't think the solution was too bad by the way and it's gettable by anyone (I mean, I got it). I'll give a hint below:

The text that appears on the screen can change.

Gavin Chipper

Right I think I have the last one: 1000/(100,000/10,000*10+100) = 5. So you're getting 10 with 100,000 / 10,000 giving you 10, 10, 100, 1000. Then 10*10+100 = 200 and then finally 1000/200 = 5 I suppose this wasn't ridiculous, but still the hardest. I stumbled upon 1, 2 and 9 multiple times while tr...

Gavin Chipper

Interesting.

(My motivation is that I've been tying up loose ends - things that have been at the back of my mind to do for years. I've restarted work on my novel now as well.)

Gavin Chipper

I do know but when I'm on my phone it's more hassle to find stuff. Plus I think it's generally better for things to get explicitly stated in the relevant places rather than people individually looking for the results. (I realise some people might not consider c4c to be a relevant place any more but ...

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Thanks so much to everyone who attended, today- and thanks again for an enjoyable day. Here's hoping there will be a Worcester 2.0 in the not too distant future... 🙂 If anyone has some pictures, then feel free to send them over to me for the blog post. Over and out! Tom And the result? :o Standings...

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