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- Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1638
- Views: 1701547
Re: Politics in General
I was having a play around with some HMRC numbers to see what the impact of a completely different income tax structure would be. I'm calling this the Jono proposal and my idea is a 20k tax free allowance, then 10% on all earnings to 50k, then 75% on all earnings above that. - Everyone who earns up...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:05 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 640
- Views: 283110
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 9:23 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 653407
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
GPS not GPs
Very good.
Very good.
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Favourite Comedy Gig
- Replies: 11
- Views: 810
Re: Favourite Comedy Gig
Cliche but it's Stewart Lee and Frankie Boyle.
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 6:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1638
- Views: 1701547
Re: Politics in General
If there's no advantage, then why is the women's #1 ranked #118 in the open rankings? The answer to this question is the reason why there's a protected category, regardless of size, strength, speed and power advantages. Its not a level playing field in the same way that there are less established c...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:04 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1638
- Views: 1701547
Re: Politics in General
If there's no advantage, then why is the women's #1 ranked #118 in the open rankings?
The answer to this question is the reason why there's a protected category, regardless of size, strength, speed and power advantages.
The answer to this question is the reason why there's a protected category, regardless of size, strength, speed and power advantages.
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 8:39 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 640
- Views: 283110
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Christian Bale is English.
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 9:31 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 61
- Views: 4613
Re: The Dead of 2024
Everyone who posts in this thread, except me, should be ashamed of themselves.
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 5:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 640
- Views: 283110
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Does it? That doesn't make sense. The tiredness one does make sense.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:52 pm The redeye as in a flight from an airline refers to the colour of the plane lights at night rather than your eyes being red because of tiredness
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:58 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 276
- Views: 32595
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% You've changed Not directed specifically at CT, but across the population the older...
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 276
- Views: 32595
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 2:26 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 276
- Views: 32595
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Great thread. Some truly horrendous stuff. It's also amazing what people feel compelled to reply to.
I think it would be good to list these out and all have a vote on how appalling we all find each one so there is a winner.
I think it would be good to list these out and all have a vote on how appalling we all find each one so there is a winner.
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 6:45 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co-Event Suggestion Box
- Replies: 181
- Views: 15475
Re: Co-Event Suggestion Box
For all conundrums: Buzz by tapping the table with a pen rather than a handslap. Many advantages: 1. Easier to adjudicate who buzzed first as the sound is crisper 2. Less chance of a half-buzz 3. Less distracting for other tables 4. Less stress-inducing for those sensitive to loud noises It's actual...
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 10:32 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 653407
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
And it's absolutely impossible for things to change time by an hour. No - the whole clock has to change.
It's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
- Sat Oct 21, 2023 2:44 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: U.S. Countdown Pilot Chat
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2038
Re: U.S. Countdown Pilot Chat
That's much better than I was expecting!
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 6:34 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 150968
Re: You Are The Ref
Totally fine. Games where "not playing to the best of your ability" is an offence are a joke.
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 11:28 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 50469
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
I'd be surprised if that was the case. I'm sure the data to test this is available.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 10:59 pm On the track I'm not sure times have overall massively improved on average. It seems that the fastest have just widened the gap - in some events anyway.
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 10:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 50469
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
Maybe not better drugs but on the track more flagrant drug taking is at least a possibilty. But there's absolutely no evidence to suggest that. It'd be a bit like accusing all the 2008 swimmers of taking drugs as well as having the new swimsuits. You might well be right but what would lead you to s...
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 6:49 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 50469
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
We know that the shoes can account for all of the improvement so you don't need to assume that drugs are better as well.
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 12:57 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 50469
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
I wonder what could be causing all these records to tumble all of a sudden...Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 9:33 am With all the world records, maybe we'll have to resurrect this thread soon.
- Sun Oct 01, 2023 4:01 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 50469
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 ...
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 11:08 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 50469
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
There is also increasing evidence that some runners are much more responsive to the benefits of the shoes than others, which is completely unfair. That, to me, is a bigger problem. Where did you hear this? It seems a bit strange if true. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5856879/ "A...
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 7:34 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 50469
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
From 2:14:04 to 2:11:53. Absolutely massive. Some people think all the new shoes devalue the records. Yeah everyone should run bare-footed a-la Zola Budd Well yes. Some people think that these new shoes are somehow "cheating", but unless you ban all shoes, then where do you draw the line?...
- Tue Aug 29, 2023 8:05 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: It started with a kiss
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2094
Re: It started with a kiss
Any normal non-rapist would be pretty upset if they did something in the heat of the moment that makes someone feel uncomfortable. He had a great chance to find out that you can't just go around doing whatever you want to people without thinking about how they might receive it. If he realised this, ...
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 7:06 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 653407
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Jack Welsby too.
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 8:24 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Rachel Riley Post
- Replies: 76
- Views: 16654
Re: Rachel Riley Post
There is some quite compelling evidence which is very easy to find.
- Tue Aug 01, 2023 8:23 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Big Ben
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4382
Re: Big Ben
Can someone work out when the vowelliest time of the day to play is?
Re: Music
I made a playlist on Deezer recently of an old dance compilation, and quickly ran into problems of availability. Mostly, it was a preponderance of the 7" or radio versions of the song, or more modern remixes which seemed to be available, but not the remixes available from the time. This was th...
Re: Music
1. Could you provide examples of music that isn't available to stream? I would have thought it would be extremely niche by now. And there is vastly more music available to stream than buy physically or download (I'm including YouTube here). I made a playlist on Deezer recently of an old dance compi...
- Tue Jul 18, 2023 8:17 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 653407
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
It's always seemed to me that the areas shown by Hawk-Eye look too large, almost the width of the ball, as in football's 'all of the ball over all of the line', so a ball can still be in even if it doesn't actually touch the line, merely had some part of the line under it when it bounced. I don't h...
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 9:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 653407
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Nice!Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2023 8:39 pmSomeone just reminded me it was called Cyclops.
- Sat Jul 15, 2023 7:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 653407
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
How did it work?
- Sat Jul 15, 2023 6:55 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 653407
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Edit - They also used to have a thing that beeped when a serve went out (maybe just if it went long?) and that must have been going decades ago. Maybe we're not thinking of the same thing, but the beep I can recall was triggered by the ball hitting the net cord. There were 2 with different beeps. W...
Re: TENNIS
Yeah it was a shame because Jabeur has been fantastic all tournament and didn't turn up today.
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 8:08 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 653407
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I still think it's a stretch for anyone who doesn't play tennis fairly competently, but I admire your optimism. If a non player was taken off the street and went on a grass court and was offered the wager then I would say said person is most likely to lose but if Jono or Gevin was asked and they co...
- Sat Jul 08, 2023 8:49 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 653407
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Yes. Not as much as I'd put on myself to win though. Also even though Elliott is probably much better at tennis than me, I think I'd put more on myself than him. Is that wrong?Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 8:47 pmBut would you put money on me to lose?Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 8:21 pm For the record, I wouldn't put any money on Gevin to win this bet.
- Sat Jul 08, 2023 8:21 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 653407
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
For the record, I wouldn't put any money on Gevin to win this bet.
- Sat Jul 08, 2023 8:19 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 653407
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I didn't say anything about anyone could or would get a racquet on 20. I've just seen a couple of videos like the one you're talking about. It's made me more confident. Just thinking about how you'd practically do this as a challenge. I think you'd have to give the server an arbitrary number, say 20...
- Sat Jul 08, 2023 7:55 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 653407
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
But anyway about £20. I think by chance most people would get at least one back. And £20 won't break the bank. I very strongly disagree that most people would, if you're including the large majority of the population who don't play tennis. You'd need a reasonable degree of experience to even have a...
- Tue Jul 04, 2023 9:23 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1740
- Views: 701055
Re: Ask Graeme?
Love a Graeme update in this thread. Amazing stuff - thanks.
- Sat Jun 24, 2023 8:45 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 640
- Views: 283110
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Axl Rose is an anagram of Oral Sex.
- Sun May 07, 2023 9:46 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Is it time to end, the Monarchy?
- Replies: 66
- Views: 4330
Re: Is it time to end, the Monarchy?
Anyway, obviously the monarchy is totally mental. It goes without saying. The only interesting question is whether or not it is a net generator of revenue. I suspect it's pretty hugely in the positive ( £1.8bn by this 2017 report - I can't find much else from a quick Google) and if we were to liqui...
- Sun May 07, 2023 8:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Is it time to end, the Monarchy?
- Replies: 66
- Views: 4330
Re: Is it time to end, the Monarchy?
I think it's pretty obvious all along here that Marc is playing a bit of the devil's advocate and many of his comments are tongue-in-cheek or deliberately slightly provocative so to get triggered or call him defensive is a bit weird. He's not one of the many royalist nutters in this country. Anyway,...
- Mon May 01, 2023 8:31 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Nobody in the world could beat you at X Y and Z
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4174
Re: Nobody in the world could beat you at X Y and Z
Update from the Billionaire: You can pick team games. He will use his wealth and access to advanced science to create temporary clones of you and the candidate so that there are enough copies of each of you to fill the teams. He's also displeased at the nonsense suggestions such as "Impression...
- Sun Apr 30, 2023 7:37 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Nobody in the world could beat you at X Y and Z
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4174
Re: Nobody in the world could beat you at X Y and Z
Game 1. Who is taller?
Game 2. Who is shorter?
Game 3. Countdown
Game 2. Who is shorter?
Game 3. Countdown
- Thu Apr 27, 2023 9:22 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Matt Morrison Computer Corner
- Replies: 452
- Views: 116511
Re: The Matt Morrison Computer Corner
My laptop keeps randomly cutting out. Sometimes it just turns off and I have to turn it on again. Sometimes it turns on again anyway. It's definitely not an overheating thing, as the highest risk time is when it's just been turned on, and it never appears to be particularly hot anyway. It doesn't h...
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 10:15 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1638
- Views: 1701547
Re: Politics in General
The people you're talking about who would have that reaction against the movement are a very thin slice of the spectrum of human perspective Are they? Yeah. Anyone who is conscientious enough to have an informed opinion on climate change which moves, as a result of this protest, towards caring less...
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 9:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1638
- Views: 1701547
Re: Politics in General
I say this as a man who had a fairly robust discussion with his dad about the protests at the Grand National only a couple of days prior, in which he made much the same argument as me, so I feel a little hypocritical. But at least those protesters were actually protesting at the site of the issue t...
- Tue Apr 18, 2023 9:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1638
- Views: 1701547
Re: Politics in General
everything good we have in this world came from people who were willing to fight for it Yes, but it matters who you're fighting, and where you fight. The climate fight isn't with snooker tables, and any benefits from the exposure of protesting (was it even a protest? it was just a disruption) a maj...
- Fri Apr 07, 2023 10:09 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deathwatch 2017
- Replies: 467
- Views: 219455
Re: Deathwatch 2017
This thread is so shit. Do we really need an update for every celebrity death?
- Wed Mar 08, 2023 10:10 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Only Connect
- Replies: 169
- Views: 96543
Re: Only Connect
Extremely annoying, but that annoyance is completely offset (and more) by the joy I get from the fact that she will totally enrage some absolute pricks. Elia is one of my fave contestants of all time. They're a great team.
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 8:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 10 January 2023 - CoC XVI, Prelim 7
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2193
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 10 January 2023 - CoC XVI, Prelim 7
In the Countdown clock music we have 30 seconds, and thus 128bpm works as well. You can clearly hear distinct musical phrasing in the Countdown tune. In terms of bars the pattern is six lots of 8-count for the main bit. The ending is one count of 8, followed by one count of 4, and then the coda on ...
- Tue Feb 14, 2023 8:50 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Button Bashing Mayhem (another Sporcle game)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3968
Re: Button Bashing Mayhem (another Sporcle game)
The Jeanne Calment of Sporcle.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 11:43 pm According to the stats someone did get 300 today. Someone here? Someone got a bot to do it? I just upped my high score to 224.
Edit - No-one has scored between 224 and 300, so whoever got 300 didn't work up to it.
- Sun Jan 22, 2023 9:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1638
- Views: 1701547
Re: Politics in General
What someone thinks of the BBC is generally a good barometer for how nutty they are on either side of the political spectrum.
- Sun Jan 22, 2023 2:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 20 January 2023 - The 16th Championship of Champions Grand Final
- Replies: 47
- Views: 3907
Re: Spoilers for Friday 20 January 2023 - The 16th Championship of Champions Grand Final
This was a great CoC. Some really spicy games and some high quality performances. Agree that Colin and the DC guests elevated it as well. I liked the conundrums. I didn't like that there were a lot of "safe" numbers picking. Congrats Ahmed - a worthy winner. I think the reason why there w...
- Sat Jan 21, 2023 8:44 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 20 January 2023 - The 16th Championship of Champions Grand Final
- Replies: 47
- Views: 3907
Re: Spoilers for Friday 20 January 2023 - The 16th Championship of Champions Grand Final
This was a great CoC. Some really spicy games and some high quality performances. Agree that Colin and the DC guests elevated it as well. I liked the conundrums. I didn't like that there were a lot of "safe" numbers picking.
Congrats Ahmed - a worthy winner.
Congrats Ahmed - a worthy winner.
- Sat Jan 21, 2023 8:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Champion of champions seedings
- Replies: 40
- Views: 9040
Re: Champion of champions seedings
I'm pretty sure I wasn't being entirely serious. I think it's actually impressive to get so far into the minutiae of something that only a handful of people will ever care about.
Re: Music
The fair comparison point you make notwithstanding, my linking of the article was only intended to provide information about how downloading uses less energy than streaming, which was all that Tim asserted and you said you didn't get how. The follow-on implications that article makes about energy u...
Re: Music
"However, if we listen to our streamed music using a hi-fi sound system it’s estimated to use 107 kilowatt hours of electricity a year, costing about £15.00 to run. A CD player uses 34.7 kilowatt hours a year and costs £5 to run." This is also absolute bollocks. What CD player are they tal...
Re: Music
4. I don't get how. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190207-why-streaming-music-may-be-bad-for-climate-change Mostly comparing streaming to physical media but from the description of how streaming uses energy should make it obvious why downloading uses less. I can't effectively articulate how w...