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Gavin Chipper

I mean, I'm not saying they should all wave a banner saying that the NHS is not free at the point of use. They just need not to actively come out and say that it is, unless they're willing to mention caveats.

Gavin Chipper

Unfortunately 13×4=52. You need 13×3 for 39.

Gavin Chipper

One thing I thought when I saw the video was was that people will often trap and pick up animals to tag them for conservation reasons and presumably it's just deemed as an acceptable price to pay. They never seem to even refer to any possible stress caused. So while this might have been a bit cruel,...

Gavin Chipper

I don't think it is pedantic. It's a lot cheaper than the actual cost and that's a good thing. But that's not an excuse to exaggerate the claim. It's not entirely free at the point of use. Politicians etc. should at least be honest about this when talking about it on TV.

Gavin Chipper

By the way, why does everyone peddle the lie that the NHS is free at the point of use? Well, it might be for some people, but not by default. Has no-one noticed the prescription charges? Plus some people are entitled to free optician's and dentist's appointments on the NHS, but not everyone. It's al...

Gavin Chipper

There's a rather fine line between PRALINES (praline chocolates) being valid, and NOUGATS x not. Agree, and indeed the dictionary says so as indicated by [COUNT NOUN] in the ‘praline’ page and this not being the case for ‘nougat’. This is why some regular fans are calling for the restaurant rule to...

Gavin Chipper

I had it on in the background while round a friend's. It seems a bit pointless and arbitrary. Chess is already a thing with tournaments and rankings, so just picking some small subset of players based on who they decide should be on television and finding a winner from them is meaningless.

Gavin Chipper

Let's not forget MOSS if we're doing 50s. BROOKS too.

Also BUTTON, HUNT, JONES, HERBERT, MASS, STUCK, COMAS, PALMER, BONNIER, SURER, PACE, GENE, SPEED, COURAGE, MARQUES to name some others.

Gavin Chipper

I used to see more stand-up comedy than I do now and I saw McIntyre at least a couple of times before you had to go to the O2 to see him (I presume you now do anyway). I thought he was a decent enough stand-up.

Gavin Chipper

Well, it's worth noting that in all seven years, the highest ranked player in the open has scored more points than anyone in the finals. That obviously doesn't prove anything by itself - it's harder to score in as many rounds when you're against consistently high-level opposition. I do, however, th...

Gavin Chipper

Probably all countries spy on each other all the time, so isn't it hypocritical to convict and imprison the individual spies that you catch spying in your own country?

Gavin Chipper

Why is purple not one of the "official" named colours of the rainbow? If you look this up, you get answers like "There's no such thing as purple light." etc. But they're missing the point. Look at the last colour of the rainbow. It's purple. That's the colour it is. Indigo and v...

Gavin Chipper

(75+8)×(25-9-5+1)=996 in the 2nd numbers.

Gavin Chipper

I thought the standard was 18.

Gavin Chipper

This is very much one for runners - People who do an e.g. 10 km race and because their GPS watch measures it as 10.05 km or something they put in their Strava description in addition to their race time of e.g. 50:07 that their 10k time was 49:50. No it wasn't. I trust the track measurement far more...

Gavin Chipper

People who think a film is crap because it "isn't the same as the book". You are watching a film, not watching a documentary of a book. "Crap" might be an overreaction, but when you watch a film that is based on a book but with loads of detail left out, it can come across as a b...

Gavin Chipper

Countdown gets mentioned in this news story about Investment firm Abrdn changing its name.

Gavin Chipper

Yes, it was very moline (malign) of her.

Gavin Chipper

Hahaha

Gavin Chipper

Sheesh, and I missed it.

Gavin Chipper

Philip A wrote: ↑Sat Mar 01, 2025 6:50 pm How nice of him to show up at Co:Oxford!

Crawford V Imafidon in an exhibition match one day?

Did he play?

Gavin Chipper

Liverpool then. Burnage : 23 (1). Thomas Carey - 21:56 (58.81%) (500 points) Warrington : 85 (1). Stephen Read - 24:28 (54.97%) (500 points) And the table: 1. Thomas Carey - 1167 2. Gevin Chapwell - 889 3. Dan Byrom - 778 4. Mike Springett - 667 5. Bradley Horrocks - 556 6. Stephen Read - 500 7. Fio...

Gavin Chipper

(although Ronnie is an incredibly capable runner). Yeah, top 200 in the South of England is quality, given the high standard. Looking at his Power of 10 profile his best time seems to be 34:54 for 10k. That puts him at the level of OK club runner. Faster than me (by about 1:42) but there are severa...

Gavin Chipper

Plus no-one does the pole vault. Sergey Bubka did a similar thing with the event in the 80s/90s.

Gavin Chipper

3rd numbers (got it just before the break) - (100-2)×(8+4+6)/4=441.

Gavin Chipper

PROST, SENNA and PIQUET are all valid words.

Gavin Chipper

c4c is a bit clunky too. Sometimes they have problems together

Gavin Chipper

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 10:53 am
Paul Worsley wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 10:27 am Gene Hackman RIP
And his wife too

Don't forget his dog.

Gavin Chipper

Buffy the Vampire Slayer's sister

Gavin Chipper

Totally. Just because people eat meat it doesn't mean they have to at every meal. I eat apples but wouldn't demand my food had apple in it.

Gavin Chipper

Henry Kelly

Gavin Chipper

Tell you what actually - you could have a points champion like I originally suggested and also have the FOCAL finals. Two separate trophies for two separate things and people can decide for themselves which is worth more. So in terms of rough equivalence: COLIN winner: Wimbledon champion, Monaco GP ...

Gavin Chipper

But as I say it's not really like the F1 championship. It's more like the ATP finals in tennis where the top 8 take part in a single tournament, which isn't as big as the slams. That's why I like the idea of a pure points championship.

Gavin Chipper

I just want to finish the thought about the open sometimes being an embarrassment for the finals. Below I've put the top two players in the rankings from the finals and open for each year, plus additional notable high scorers. And what conclusions can be drawn? Well, it's worth noting that in all se...

Gavin Chipper

Your opinion doesn't count for more because you've won these events. Bollocks to that. Yes it absolutely does. Suppose you have two achievements X and Y. Out of the following 4 categories, what are you saying about the weight of the opinions on which is a better achievement? 1) The people who have ...

Gavin Chipper

Right so here's the poll. Obviously these things could be worded in many different ways and potentially produce slightly different results depending on the wording, but I think this is probably good enough "Which event do you consider to be the bigger deal to win?" There's no point in putt...

Gavin Chipper

Since we're back on Gaza, there's an interesting video on the BBC's decision to remove the documentary Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone from the iPlayer.

Gavin Chipper

OK. How do I word the poll? Which has more prestige? Which would you rather win? Which is the ultimate achievement in the CO-event world?

Gavin Chipper

But as I've said, in terms of a big one-off event where you have to be present on the day, we have COLIN, and that's bigger and more prestigious than the FOCAL finals. Great. That's your opinion, not a fact. I wonder if there's anybody on here who we could ask what it feels like to win each of them...

Gavin Chipper

Good to finally see an octochamp! Christine was a bit weak in the first game so I didn't have great hopes for her but once she settled in she was pretty good, although maybe could be more consistent!

Gavin Chipper

I would say that given the top players going to enough events, the points winner is a better indicator of the best player of the year than the FOCAL champion. Let's suppose you were correct with this point. Of the 20ish regular players on the circuit at the moment who entertain the idea of trying t...

Gavin Chipper

The suggestion of getting rid of FOCAL finals is total shite. Just because Formula 1 works a certain way, doesn't mean Focal has to work the same way! I don't see why it's shite, and it's nothing to do with F1! In any case, I made specific points which I think are valid. Not sure I agree with your ...

Gavin Chipper

On a related note, I was looking at the FOCAL website and couldn't find the bit where it said about the levy. But it was pointed out to me that you have to click on the "FAQS" bit. But when you go to "FAQS" it gives you a drop-down menu of things to click on, so I don't think it'...

Gavin Chipper

Since a recent Windows update, the mouse cursor often appears enormous when I turn my laptop on. So I restart it and it goes back to normal size. Any reason for that?

Gavin Chipper

To add, there's absoultely nothing stopping anyone organising an event outside of focal, so the fact that most organisers choose to host their events within the structure suggests there's some perceived benefit in doing so! Well given the existence of FOCAL, it's definitely an advantage for an even...

Gavin Chipper

There were CO-events before FOCAL and its levy and I'm not sure how many people get their FOCAL info from the paid-for website when other alternatives exist. But I can appreciate there are certain things that do cost money that are useful to have, so it's a question of whether it requires the FOCAL ...

Gavin Chipper

Thomas Carey wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2025 2:29 am I want to see gevin eat a crisp

This can only be interpreted as agreement.

Thomas Carey wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2025 2:43 am Fuck it. Have two crisps

Doubly so.

Gavin Chipper

On Donald Bradman, you'd think at least one person on the internet would have retrospectively given him the name "Donaldo". But a Google search of +Donaldo Bradman came up with zero matches. (The plus is so it has to include the term and not just the similar "Donald". There is no...

Gavin Chipper

They used not to have to pay. I believe that was how the whole FOCAL levy was originally sold to us.

Gavin Chipper

I've made suggestions along these lines before but I think the FOCAL structure is overblown and bloated. You have all these individual events that manage to survive on their own, but for some reason money has to be taken from these events to be able to fund this final event at the end of the year. A...

Gavin Chipper

To answer the questions: Some questions If you're thinking of attending an event, what makes you hesitate before committing, if you do? What factors influence whether you attend an event? The date is an obvious one, but what about others? Location? Travel/accommodation costs? Event cost? Event forma...

Gavin Chipper

David Williams wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2025 10:22 am Surely she's just missing (missed?) three consecutive days filming. Diary cock-up?

I was thinking this. The number of filming days they have, you'd think it would be easy to fit them around other commitments. Similarly with Jon Richardson (and Sean Lock previously

) on Cats.

Gavin Chipper

Reading that, I thought to myself that Dr Tom Crawford doesn't sound like the name of someone they'd pick to do the numbers on Countdown. But then I saw a picture of him.

Gavin Chipper

2nd numbers - (75+25)×9-(9+6)/3 = 895

Gavin Chipper

Do we know who ran at Liverpool?

Gavin Chipper

What's a normal figure? Also 7th Feb was a "best bits" which are generally a bit shite.

Gavin Chipper

Jon Stammers so struggles enough as it is.

Gavin Chipper

It looks like it's just Ben and Charlie that are administrators. So if they don't, no-one does! But maybe if it happens again, try to reach out to one of them using some other medium.

But welcome back!

Gavin Chipper

Be good to include the final in the results :) This always used to be a problem. I thought there had been some Atropine update so it automatically came out in the dump. Who won is probably the main thing. Atropine has always included the final in the exported text/html/whatever results, for as long...

Gavin Chipper

Fiona T wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2025 11:32 am Be good to include the final in the results

This always used to be a problem. I thought there had been some Atropine update so it automatically came out in the dump. Who won is probably the main thing.

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