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Elliott Mellor

I like to make up songs to sing to my dog. The weird bit is I'm on vacation atm and I'm singing it in her absence. I remember getting weird about kidney beans if you don't cook them properly they are poisonous ( thanks Esther Rantzen from That's Life) Also I think I watched on QI that Daddy Long Le...

Elliott Mellor

I like to make up songs to sing to my dog. The weird bit is I'm on vacation atm and I'm singing it in her absence. I remember getting weird about kidney beans if you don't cook them properly they are poisonous ( thanks Esther Rantzen from That's Life) Also I think I watched on QI that Daddy Long Le...

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I totally understand that his style can be grating, but I will summarise some of the main points (I have not independently fact checked this): 1. Owen Jones says Labour claiming that there is this previously-unknown-about hole in the nation's finances was something that had already been predicted t...

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I know a lot of people don't like Owen Jones, but in one of his few non-Israel videos, I think he's done a good job of exposing Starmer's Labour over the winter fuel allowance. I switched off after the first sentence. I highly doubt he can satisfactorily defend that assertion and it's just a horrib...

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Philip A wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2024 10:27 pm Series 77 contestant Alex Smith on Password (Episode 2) on ITV X. (Hilarious btw)

I assume the money he got through scamming people has finally dried up and he needed some more.

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This is the point. It's not enough for the same parents to get together and have a child that they call "John". For that child to be meaningfully "the same person" the same sperm has to meet the same egg. Personal identity is a complex philosophical area, but even on a generous ...

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If you go back far enough (say to before everyone alive today was born) you wouldn't even need to do anything to change everyone today. Or even "go back" yourself, just since the clock back and replay history. Given we're all the product of random mutations if you just rerolled the DNA di...

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If you go back far enough (say to before everyone alive today was born) you wouldn't even need to do anything to change everyone today. Or even "go back" yourself, just since the clock back and replay history. Given we're all the product of random mutations if you just rerolled the DNA di...

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If I went back in time a few thousand years, then anything I do might have serious knock-on effects to 2024. But how far back in time would you have to go (and do essentially nothing and disappear again) so that nobody alive in 2024 can reasonably be seen as "the same person" as anyone al...

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Apparently Huw Edwards's crime was just someone else sending him unsolicited illegal images . The court was earlier told that, on 2 February 2021, the other man asked whether what he was sending was too young, to which Edwards asked him not to send any underage images. The final indecent image was ...

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Well the top 15 are listed here . 1. I was going to sail around the globe in the world’s smallest ship but I bottled it. - Mark Simmons 2. I've been taking salsa lessons for months, but I just don't feel like I'm progressing. It's just one step forward... two steps back. - Alec Snook 3. Ate horse a...

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I would like to think Mr Todd was being flippant. Somewhat :-) I thought it was as likely (i.e. not very) that Ell was implying disability is bad as it was that Ian was implying being trans was a disability. Hence the blatant parody. I was going to err on the side of charitability here, but in the ...

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Trans athletes belong in the ParaOlympics unless they want to fund their own Olympics. I'm not sure I really care for the insinuation that being transgender is a disability. I'm not sure I really care for the insinuation that a disability is a bad thing. "The Equality Act 2010 defines disabili...

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Probably goes against the grain with regards inclusively but am I the only one not happy with Trans boxers in the women's event ? Trans athletes belong in the ParaOlympics unless they want to fund their own Olympics. I'm not sure I really care for the insinuation that being transgender is a disabil...

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https://i.ibb.co/545CKBv/Untitled-1721024801749-1721265299747.jpg Disgusted to discover that Elliott Mellor tried to assassinate Donald Trump. Yeah, it was a bit shameful I suppose but Biden slipped me twenty bucks to get rid of that fat guy who loves Putin. Turns out he meant Kim Jong Un, but I re...

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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 omitted to mention Shannen Doherty's recent demise. I'm now at 5/10. How the hell Jimmy Carter is still alive is beyond me. He's clea...

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Last night finally delivered some content for this thread. The setting was a church, and I was apparently a volunteer helper during the service (which seemed to involve me being dressed in a black robe). I had to change the hymn numbers, which involved fiddling with some knobs on a very antiquated b...

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Philip A wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 6:40 pm Gnocchi is disgusting.

Yeah, I know. I was offered some gnocchi the other day but I declined it. Not sure why they wanted me to go their bedroom for it either.

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None of that changes anything. Whatever margin you decide is allowable becomes the limit. You can't get rid of extremely marginal decisions. What do you mean it makes no difference? You can just say every extra centimetre doesn't make a difference until there's no offside possible. Sure, I'm just i...

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It's like having a margin of error for the speed limit. It makes no difference. The speed limit just becomes 73.987mph or whatever. 73.988 and it's 3 points on your licence. There's always going to be a cut-off point. It's not quite the same thing. Your speed is something you can easily monitor you...

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VAR should be used for more contentious decisions like corners/goalkicks Ball going out of play for throw ins etc Bookings for simulation Even if it means more stoppages And slow the game down even more than it already has been? It's just turning subjective decisions in to even slower subjective de...

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There's certain computer files I keep for work where month first is best. There may be specific circumstances where it makes sense, but generally speaking it's just an awful way of writing it. What's especially bad is when it's the numerical month/day/year, which is extremely susceptible to misinte...

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People putting the month first in dates. Doesn't really make sense, either do ascending levels (day-month-year) or even descending if you want to be rogue (year-month-day, though this looks horrible so don't do that), but the month is always logically in the middle.

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Rees-Mogg, Shapps, Coffey, Truss, and a whole bunch of other tory wankers all gone. Fucking beautiful.

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This Sky News leaders thing is awful; I've had to turn it off. Just blatant 'gotcha' setups one after the other. What's the point in having the two leaders on, advertising it as a chance for voters to see what they can vote for, and then not allowing them to speak freely? What a load of self-congra...

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If you remember back in 1997 the Sun backed B Liar and that was the final hurdle overcome. It shows you how bad the Tories are when Kier Starmer who probably isn't even the 5th best Labour politician is going to outdo 1997. It's true to say this mirrors Brexit in so much as people are voting agains...

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I'd say it was a bit of a car crash all round, including the debate structure, which seemed arbitrary and disjointed at times. Sometimes it was "Answer this question, but don't elaborate and then we'll move on." What's the point? As for a winner, I don't think either of them really "...

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https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/49618-general-election-2024-itv-debate-snap-poll Starmer comes out ahead on 7 of the 10 individual components there (and often by a fairly large margin) so I'm not sure how they're claiming this as a Sunak win. I would assume "they" are claiming a Su...

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Sunak clearly won that debate. Starmer looked rattled, especially when he said he would not go private for ideological reasons even for a family member. It is a ludicrous position to take - to be a bed blocker when you can afford private healthcare is letting your country down because of your own i...

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Sunak clearly won that debate. Starmer looked rattled, especially when he said he would not go private for ideological reasons even for a family member. It is a ludicrous position to take - to be a bed blocker when you can afford private healthcare is letting your country down because of your own i...

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Agreed Sunak outperformed Starmer, although both came across fairly poorly. Were we watching the same debate? Sunak came across as a petulant child, with little more to his armoury than "tax tax tax". I certainly don't think Starmer cruised, but he came across far better than Sunak to me....

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The Dutch act won't perform tonight, though Israel apparently will.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 8:49 am I think this is a bit of an overreaction.

It would certainly do him good.

It still doesn't sit very well with me as a comment, even if I possibly judged it a bit severely in my half-awake state.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 8:17 pm
Philip A wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 9:05 pm No 1% Club on 11th of May because of Eurovision. ITV will show Bond instead.
Is it one of the rapey ones ?

I think you need to take a break from the forum. Really not cool.

Elliott Mellor

I don't think that is an unpopular opinion at all. Most people I know prefer The Bends. Same. Most people I know prefer The Bends. Also, if you are over 30 and still worrying about album ranking lists you should examine what you're doing with your life. I disagree. Old people in the 80s went window...

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Fawlty Towers (mostly) isn't funny I think you're part of a silent majority here. I've watched Fawlty Towers and, for what it's held up to be, it really didn't meet expectations. There isn't really much story in the episodes, and some things that are supposed to be funny actually have quite the opp...

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Fawlty Towers (mostly) isn't funny I think you're part of a silent majority here. I've watched Fawlty Towers and, for what it's held up to be, it really didn't meet expectations. There isn't really much story in the episodes, and some things that are supposed to be funny actually have quite the opp...

Elliott Mellor

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 ...

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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.

Elliott Mellor

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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

Why would a half be an acceptable answer?

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 7:52 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:10 pm There's better satellite coverage just outside the Grim Reaper's house.
Quite a funny joke rendered useless now I've corrected my typo

I feel like I must enquire what the typo was, now.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 9:06 pm Jonnie Irwin ( who I believe Elliott picked) and Carl Weathers have died.

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.

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