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- Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1643
- Views: 1715385
Re: Politics in General
All the brouhaha about fake stamps at the moment seems like yet another instance of the Royal Mail failing to address the root cause of a problem. If they really wanted to crackdown on this, instead of trying to fine the receiver £5, they could put a letter through asking them to contact the sender ...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:08 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 62
- Views: 4933
Re: The Dead of 2024
Frank Field becomes the third one from my list to go. Probably for the best really as it can't have been pleasant being so far in to a terminal illness.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:42 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The 1% Club
- Replies: 57
- Views: 5800
Re: The 1% Club
A bit disappointed by the ambiguity of some of the questions of late. On yesterday's there were two questions which I think were especially poor. - Making every month 30 days long does not mean you'd have fewer days in a year. A year would still have the same number of days; you'd just have more mo...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:19 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The 1% Club
- Replies: 57
- Views: 5800
Re: The 1% Club
A bit disappointed by the ambiguity of some of the questions of late. On yesterday's there were two questions which I think were especially poor. - Making every month 30 days long does not mean you'd have fewer days in a year. A year would still have the same number of days; you'd just have more mon...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 1:06 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 281
- Views: 33771
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Big wedding ceremonies are a waste of money, You spend thousands and relatives you don't see from one year to the next all expect invites a fortune on a dress /suite,. Better to just get married with a couple f witnesses and take your family out for a meal at a later date Which is what I'm going to...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:17 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1643
- Views: 1715385
Re: Politics in General
I really don't get the big hoo-ha about that cross thing on the England shirt. Total non issue, even at a football/design level, never mind social/political. One of the most acute examples of the depressing tendency for trivial obsessions to temporarily dominate the political news cycle in recent m...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:25 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1643
- Views: 1715385
Re: Politics in General
Why are politicians expressing opinions about the design of a football shirt? I really don't get the big hoo-ha about that cross thing on the England shirt. Total non issue, even at a football/design level, never mind social/political. One of the most acute examples of the depressing tendency for t...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:52 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1643
- Views: 1715385
Re: Politics in General
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:35 am I've noticed that the first minister of the home nations tick a lot of the diversity boxes and gender (in the case of Norther Ireland.
Isn't it time The Tea Shop was a first minister of colour
I stared at this for a while, but I'm still lost as to what it means.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 666153
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Why do people spend their whole lives earning and saving, to then do nothing with it except leave it to other people in their will? I find it quite baffling when people feel obligated to do so - any money you've earned should be yours to enjoy, and the whole societal expectation that you should be s...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:48 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The 1% Club
- Replies: 57
- Views: 5800
Re: The 1% Club
Saturdays 1% question Spoilers below Would a half been acceptable given the sequence before? Also each sequence is 22 greater than the one below Why would a half be an acceptable answer? 2 x a half is 1 so sequentially it would work I understand that 2 x 0.5 = 1, I just don't know how you think tha...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:17 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The 1% Club
- Replies: 57
- Views: 5800
Re: The 1% Club
Why would a half be an acceptable answer?Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:23 pm Saturdays 1% question
Spoilers below
Would a half been acceptable given the sequence before?
Also each sequence is 22 greater than the one below
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 8:49 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The 1% Club
- Replies: 57
- Views: 5800
Re: The 1% Club
Anyone knocked out in previous questions before that point should never be brought back. Otherwise players would deliberately get a question wrong to try and walk away with a bit of money on the 1% question, and it wouldn’t be a good game. Not sure I understand this. What benefit is there to delibe...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:22 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The 1% Club
- Replies: 57
- Views: 5800
Re: The 1% Club
Anyone knocked out in previous questions before that point should never be brought back. Otherwise players would deliberately get a question wrong to try and walk away with a bit of money on the 1% question, and it wouldn’t be a good game. Not sure I understand this. What benefit is there to delibe...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:53 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The 1% Club
- Replies: 57
- Views: 5800
Re: The 1% Club
Anyone else find the ending unsatisfactory when we have the scenario where everyone remaining gets eliminated on the same question? Seems a bit of a cop out that all those eliminated on that question just get flung to the 1% question and have the ability to collect the money, or play for the full p...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The 1% Club
- Replies: 57
- Views: 5800
Re: The 1% Club
I think the EFF/ESS/ELL thing is more a case of scrabblers and Countdowners being pedantic about alternative answers as opposed to any of them really fitting the "commonly used word" criterion. I agree with Gevin that "common" is a bit vague to use in a question, but I don't thin...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The 1% Club
- Replies: 57
- Views: 5800
Re: The 1% Club
Yes, there were at least two, what I called ambiguous, questions last night. Aye, some horrible questions there. I'd have gone 5 instead of 2 on national anthem question, but you can make a strong argument for both. The eyes/is thing was brutal too - it's not so much ambiguous as a question, but wh...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The 1% Club
- Replies: 57
- Views: 5800
Re: The 1% Club
Is it just me or were there 3 or 4 questions where you could make a decent argument for more than one answer being correct tonight? 5% question in particular can eff right off Yes, there were at least two, what I called ambiguous, questions last night. Aye, some horrible questions there. I'd have g...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 2:35 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 281
- Views: 33771
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
I debunked it. Unless you accept the conclusion that all life is the same. You didn't, you just posted a bunch of tangential philosophy that didn't really address the point at all. If anything, you proved the point further. OK, so humans and fungus are the same. I'm not sure how anything you're say...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 281
- Views: 33771
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Cats and dogs are the same. People think cats are cold and heartless and dogs show love. Bullshit. They've both learned to manipulate humans to get food. This is a good one. I debunked it. Unless you accept the conclusion that all life is the same. You didn't, you just posted a bunch of tangential ...
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 8:39 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 281
- Views: 33771
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Cats and dogs are the same. People think cats are cold and heartless and dogs show love. Bullshit. They've both learned to manipulate humans to get food. This is a good one. I find it odd when people paint dogs as being "they love you unconditionally and will protect you at all costs". If...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 3:03 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
- Replies: 759
- Views: 427951
Re: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
Last night's took place in a shop, with a few Countdowners (though it wasn't made clear exactly who, just that they were Countdowners). It transpired that we were all extremely excited to meet Eric Idle, who apparently did his shopping there. We happened upon him at a till, and he greeted me very en...
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 8:20 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 666153
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I feel like I must enquire what the typo was, now.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 7:52 pmQuite a funny joke rendered useless now I've corrected my typoGavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:10 pm There's better satellite coverage just outside the Grim Reaper's house.
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 9:55 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 62
- Views: 4933
Re: The Dead of 2024
Yep, second hit for me. A sad end, but he did seem to really try to make the most of the time he had left.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 9:06 pm Jonnie Irwin ( who I believe Elliott picked) and Carl Weathers have died.
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:18 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 425856
Re: People you shouldn't trust
Anyone who writes/participates in the articles that have the caption "I bought my own house at 22 whilst working at Asda. Here's how you can do the same!" Two lines in: "Michael got a gift of £100,000 from his parents to help towards getting his house, but it was definitely the workin...
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 5:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 281
- Views: 33771
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
You seem to parrot this as though you're being paid to do so. Have you not yet thought of a more original nickname for him than the tabloids have?Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 3:59 pm
But seriously, I could never understand how Tony B Liar did not try and reverse the privatised industries back to being nationalised
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 2:08 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 25886
Re: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
I think in 30 years time living to 100 plus will be the norm however as we are all gifted with a limited amount of brain cells I can envisage 120 year olds roaming the streets like zombies. There's a horror movie in that With all the greasy fast food and takeaways that people seem accustomed to now...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 5:44 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 25886
Re: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
I'm amazed anyone even believed it in the first place. The dog was supposedly a full 7 years older than the dog that had previously been crowned and over double the breed's life expectancy, was obese, and had no signs of extreme age. I'd be amazed it it was older than 14/15. Hugely embarrassing for...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 4:24 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 25886
Re: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
I'm amazed anyone even believed it in the first place. The dog was supposedly a full 7 years older than the dog that had previously been crowned and over double the breed's life expectancy, was obese, and had no signs of extreme age. I'd be amazed it it was older than 14/15. Hugely embarrassing for ...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 8:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 62
- Views: 4933
Re: The Dead of 2024
Glynis Johns dead. My first hit.
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 4:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 62
- Views: 4933
Re: The Dead of 2024
An ideal points system would probably take into account odds of dying (incorporating age and known illnesses) and extra points for the better known they are. I don't think you could really formulate a robust enough system for that. Does the frail 95 year old or the very ill 70 year old have a bette...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 12:48 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 62
- Views: 4933
Re: The Dead of 2024
So was my gran. But at 98, the light can shut off at any moment. Would have gone for Doherty over him with a bit more thought though, that's a good pick. Tbf, you're not wrong about outward appearance not being the sole predictor. There used to be two guys at my tennis who were regulars. One was in...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 9:36 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 62
- Views: 4933
Re: The Dead of 2024
Might as well have a go myself. Rob Burrow Jonnie Irwin Jimmy Carter Noam Chomsky Vanessa Redgrave Esther Rantzen Glynis Johns Yoko Ono Frank Field Shannen Doherty I'll be amazed if Dick Van Dyke goes before 100 - he's one of the healthiest 98 year olds I've ever seen! I wouldn't be totally surprise...
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 10:39 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 62
- Views: 4933
The Dead of 2024
If we're going to post celebrity deaths on the forum, lets at least have an up to date topic.
Discuss any celebrity deaths in 2024 here.
Discuss any celebrity deaths in 2024 here.
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 8:19 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 281
- Views: 33771
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
This government (since Theresa May) is the worst in living memory (I've recently turned 60) I include Thatcher in this I think you forgot the "un" part of this thread. I dont think it will universally be agreed with, on here, however Well, no, but it's not exactly unpopular I don't think...
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 6:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 281
- Views: 33771
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
I think you forgot the "un" part of this thread.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri Dec 08, 2023 6:24 pm This government (since Theresa May) is the worst in living memory (I've recently turned 60) I include Thatcher in this
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 5:21 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 281
- Views: 33771
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Is that really an unpopular opinion?
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 3:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 281
- Views: 33771
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
I'm with Gavin on clothes. Either these opinions aren't unpopular enough or I'm just an unpopular kind of guy. Why not both? ;) I also somewhat agree with clothes - especially the "must get a new suit/dress/whatever for this event" mentality, when there are 15 others in your wardrobe that...
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 1:00 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 281
- Views: 33771
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Crisps are too greasy and leave you with a very undesirable layer of grease on your fingers that then transfers on to surfaces. Owing to the inconvenient nature of this, it is perfectly acceptable to pour a bag of crisps in to a bowl and eat them with a spoon if in the comfort of your own home. I w...
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 12:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 6984
Re: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
Only because you haven't actually *tried*. You could get 1.5 million Uzbek 1 tiyin coins for a mere pound at the latest exchange rate, and I dare say that's enough to swim in.Adam S Latchford wrote: ↑Fri Dec 08, 2023 12:50 pm
My travel dwelling friends certainly have less money than I do and i'm hardly swimming in cash.
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 10:45 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 281
- Views: 33771
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Not a very good analogy. Names for colours have been around since basically forever and are an integral part of our language. These generation names fail on both counts. They seemed to gain popularity with this weird obsession with poorly defined "millennials" in the not too distant past....
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 9:06 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 281
- Views: 33771
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Crisps are too greasy and leave you with a very undesirable layer of grease on your fingers that then transfers on to surfaces. Owing to the inconvenient nature of this, it is perfectly acceptable to pour a bag of crisps in to a bowl and eat them with a spoon if in the comfort of your own home. I wi...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:45 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 281
- Views: 33771
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Tax here is too high, and actually given that high earners have already paid a lot of tax the marginal rates should be inverted: earnings over 125k should be taxed at 20%, whereas up to 50k should be more like 40% It's an interesting idea, but how are you going to finance the foodbanks for all th...
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 6:14 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 281
- Views: 33771
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
And I'm pretty sure a "member" that has spent its day fermenting in sweaty underwear in close proximity to a bumhole isn't quite as clean as you might imagine. (Note to self - take hand sanitiser to my next scrabble tournament) Who mentioned underwear 😊 Can I claim therapy for the trauma ...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 6:16 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 281
- Views: 33771
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
My sister, a guide leader, recently discovered that more than half of her group (many of whom are in secondary school) were completely incapable of reading an analogue clock, and in an activity that involved some basic maths (like, 12x4 level of basic), where they insisted phones were put away, a l...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 5:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 281
- Views: 33771
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
The whole digitisation of services has gone too far, and is really just the result of high-ups being lazy and not wanting to do any work or employ anyone. This applies to things such as car parks where you have to pay using your phone, anywhere that insists you download an app in order to use a ser...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 11:55 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 281
- Views: 33771
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
The whole digitisation of services has gone too far, and is really just the result of high-ups being lazy and not wanting to do any work or employ anyone. This applies to things such as car parks where you have to pay using your phone, anywhere that insists you download an app in order to use a serv...
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 7:09 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 281
- Views: 33771
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Anyone having more than 2 children should be taxed. Equally, tax breaks for married couples without children. Also it should be compulsory for couples to have parenting skills classes before starting a family But who suffers the most in these bigger families when they're taxed more? Especially the ...
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 9:27 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 281
- Views: 33771
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
I'll wade in with a couple. Some related to opinions already expressed, some new. - The education system does virtually nothing in the way of preparing people for work, in fact in many cases it actually hinders them. We are in need of a radical reform, and amongst that should be getting rid of antiq...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 9:10 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 281
- Views: 33771
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Diana was murdered. JFK faked his own death. Elf is an awful movie, Will Ferrell is not funny. The Machines in the Matrix was right 1999 really was the best period and nothing since has bettered it. The NHS should be only for those on benefits everyone else should get health insurance. Glastonbury ...
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 8:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deathwatch 2017
- Replies: 467
- Views: 231201
Re: Deathwatch 2017
Rosalynn Carter. Two days after entering hospice care.
I guess she wasn't quite as good at it as her husband, who has been taking it in his stride since February.
I guess she wasn't quite as good at it as her husband, who has been taking it in his stride since February.
- Tue Nov 14, 2023 3:15 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1643
- Views: 1715385
Re: Politics in General
OK, so back to David Cameron. Rishi Sunak has literally just taken some guy off the street to be his foreign secretary. He is not an MP and was not in the House of Lords. It could have been you. It could have been me. It could have been Brian Cox (either of them). But it just happened to be David C...
Re: Religion
Also, the idea of prayers... - Supposedly "God gives us that which we need, not what we want" - There are millions of people praying for an end to the Russian-Ukraine war, and the Israel-Palestine conflict, yet they haven't been answered. Which leads one to the inescapable conclusion that ...
Re: Religion
From a Christian perspective, the reason the other religious texts vanished in pre-history is because they aren’t true. To quote a friend from my Bible study group when comparing versions, ‘we have the Bible God wants us have.’ Expand that out-we have the text God wants use to have. I’d have to dis...
Re: Religion
In terms of ‘meaningfulness of life’, people do find meaning in many things. I can see why people may think that religion existed because we didn’t have science. However, I would state that arguing there is no God is as big as a leap of faith as claiming there is a God. The Bible states that we are...
Re: Religion
Which ones?Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 8:30 pmSome of the jesus parts are true surely.Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 7:53 pmWhat would you classify as being factual within it?Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 7:12 pm
Genuine, question.
Is there anything in the old testament that is based on fact?
I'm sure the new testament is fairly factual though
Also the apostles maybe
Re: Religion
What would you classify as being factual within it?Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 7:12 pmGenuine, question.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 6:51 pm I suppose it doesn't matter too much. It's not like it's true...
Is there anything in the old testament that is based on fact?
I'm sure the new testament is fairly factual though
Re: Religion
How can it be meaningful if it's false? Spending your one and only brief shot at life with the false hope of having a better afterlife seems a terrible waste. The best way to get meaning from life is the here and now - make your impact on the world a positive one (something you've definitely embrac...
- Sun Oct 15, 2023 8:51 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1643
- Views: 1715385
Re: Politics in General
What in particular about Owen Jones? I dont like the cut of his jib. Like Piers Morgan whose politics are probably diametrically opposite of his, he strikes me as an arrogant, self serving, prick. About the only thing I agree with him on is that Kier Stamer will win the next election. The biggest s...
- Sat Sep 30, 2023 4:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 50947
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
Not sure if we've had this discussion before and it's probably got a simple answer anywhere but the talk of what external advantages a competitive sportsperson can gain are fair and which aren't always makes me think of the doping debate. High level competitive athletes do all sorts of things to gi...
- Sat Sep 30, 2023 1:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 50947
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
Everyone is different physically, and it seems inevitable that some clothing items will assist some athletes more than others. Recent research showed that a properly fitting running bra increased performance. Now I'm only speculating, but I imagine that this would benefit a larger breasted athlete ...