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Fiona T

Found this today

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/com ... rrier_bag/

I haven't been so excited since I learned to fold a fitted sheet.

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Paul Worsley wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:35 pm Pat Seed.

She died in 1984, but everyone of my age has heard of Pat Seed. She was even the subject of an Eammon Andrews "This is Your Life".

<googles>

Nope, don't remember her at all

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 6:26 pm Shit happens, don't worry about it. We've all got receipts out there on the internet.

Thank feck (most of) my youthful misdemeanours were pre-internet days!

In terms of positives, I guess saving money due to having no social life must be one.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Aug 17, 2020 6:56 pm Captcha. Do you really need me to click on endless pictures of traffic lights to prove I'm not a robot? No, so fuck off.

In South Africa, traffic lights are called robots.

Fiona T

The show uses ODO - Oxford dictionary online. Lexico is the free version which is good enough for most of our purposes.

ODO is different (much smaller) to OED.

I understand that where there are differences in the premium version and lexico, they will also check lexico.

Fiona T

Confirmed in Aptochat that he was talking about COVID.

Channel 4 had forgotten to tell the team that they didn't want him to talk about COVID...

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Charlie Reams wrote: ↑Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:00 pm
Tony Atkins wrote: ↑Wed Aug 05, 2020 6:41 pm If you are an expired apterous user or want to play anonymously, then create yourself a new (trial) user (for free) using a second email address.
Please don't do this, it's very clearly against the terms of service.

Apterous has terms of service?!?

Fiona T

Aw, that's a disappointing - I was thinking Dr Phil was a secret apterite! Had been very impressed by him - he beat me easily yesterday.

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Maybe not overused , but definitely used incorrectly. No they were not homophobic . No my colleagues analysis was wrong. He is gay and laughed at the comment but pointed out that others may find it so. I do not regret making the comment as it was a joke and all my colleagues laughed , it was banter...

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Homophobia is a word that is over used. For example I made a joke that wouldn't look out of place in a carry on film using the word knob as an inuendo. My college who wasn't offended said it could be deemed a homophobic comment. I am guilt of casual sexism on occasions but I'm not a misogenist . So...

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If you missed Conor's pic with his trophy, it's on fb here:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/countdo ... 976190569/

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From lexico https://www.lexico.com/definition/all_right Usage There is no logical reason for insisting that all right should be written as two words rather than as alright, when other single-word forms such as altogether have long been accepted. Nevertheless, alright is still regarded as being unacc...

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Excellent stuff. My mother always insisted "all right" was two words. I recall her arguing with my class teacher who had marked my two word version incorrect in a spelling test. (As a aside I also recall her arguing with the RE teacher who had given me a very low mark for one of the exam q...

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Well if we're on words that sound like they mean something entirely different to what they do, I give you bucolic. Sounds like a particularly nasty ailment of the bowels. The dictionary gives "Relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life." So that's nice.

Fiona T

IMO it would be a shame if Jack is deterred from posting future videos because of negative feedback.

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I enjoyed it Jack - thanks for sharing. Always enjoy seeing the highest quality games.

Personally, I find new words are more likely to stick from a game I'm watching and engaged with, so all good stuff!

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You are the tournament organiser. You clearly overhear Cock and Dick agreeing with each other not to buzz for the conundrum, so as to deliberately draw the game, giving them 5½ wins each, putting them both through to the final. What action, if any, do you take? Is this hypothetical or has this (or ...

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You are the tournament organiser. You clearly overhear Cock and Dick agreeing with each other not to buzz for the conundrum, so as to deliberately draw the game, giving them 5½ wins each, putting them both through to the final. What action, if any, do you take? Is this hypothetical or has this (or ...

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haha looking back at the youtube chat guess spirogyra must have specifically been an 80s school biology thing - Ian, Steve H and I all knew exactly what it is; younger guys never heard of it!

<old person mode>what do they teach them at school these days...</old person mode>

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OK - this is my set up On the left is my laptop screen with the excel overlay The big screen has zoom on the left, and OBS (the streaming software) on the right On the right is my old laptop which I use for youtube switch on/off stream/chat/messenger/other browser stuff cos having the browser open a...

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I enjoyed the sem-finals today! How does the letter selecting and going up on the screen work? At one point today it became clear that Paul wasn't selecting the letters himself because James Rowen made a mistake (vowel instead of consonant or vice versa) and apologised for it. But then is a third p...

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Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑Sun Jul 19, 2020 9:56 pm Is Saldanha really making an appearance? Wonder what he’s up to now in any case.

Paul can be very persuasive

Chance to find out!

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A good point. Most drawstrings seem to come with sportswear. Is there any reason why elastic wouldn't do the job...

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Something that prevents drawstrings being lost in waistbands. Yes, I know a knot helps, but only until the strain against the hole causes the fabric to give, then we're back to square one with retrieval being hindered by the presence of a knot catching on the fabric. How many human hours, that could...

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Youtube link is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWmQM7wUgtyzmCxOwZrBgMg Subscribe to get notified when stuff is happening :) Monday 8pm - Dan v Elliott, then Conor v Ian Thursday 8pm - Brad v Hazel, then Jonathan v Steve Worth watching live if you can cos half the fun is joining in the live chat :)

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After a fantastic three months, the ZoomDown heats are done, and we now know the final 8 who will battle it out to see who will become the inaugural ZoomDown Champion! Let's take a look at our seeds in reverse order 8 - Elliott Mellor Elliott endured a nail biting end to the series to see if he wou...

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I can't remember the last time I ironed anything. It must be several years - more than five - quite possibly ten I'd guess.

Last clothes of mine that got ironed were by that nice chappie (Lee?) at the countdown studios

MrT occasionally irons a shirt. Crazy fool.

Fiona T

For those that think it's fine, when declaring your word second, to have written down 10-15 plausible words and then just point to the one your opponent says... would you prefer if apterous was coded in this way, instead of the perfectly logical way it's coded now? It would be stone cold mental to ...

Fiona T

6:15 here

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x70wdke

Doesn't show the checking, but Suzie asks for spelling which she doesn't usually do.

Fiona T

A good example is re- and -er If I had for example noted lacquerer and relacquer without being sure of either, and my opponent went for one, I'd go for the same one every time. Never occurred to me that that could be considered cheating. In fact I'm sure someone advised me to declare the same word a...

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Most of you can ignore, but the software folks amongst you might appreciate this - I think we all have a duty to name our kids in a way to give us as much work as possible!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/445 ... onscript-3

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Jun 20, 2020 6:46 am If we go by the solstace for the start of summer, is it summer right now (from the start of the day) or from 22:43?

It's raining here (North Hampshire) so it must be summer.

Fiona T

I rather like my gearstick!

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:32 am At least that's what he told me.
He looked more like an alky than a paedo

I didn't know you could identify paedophiles by looks - that's handy.

Fiona T

I hadn't followed this story, but according to this report, he had no previous convictions, needed a pee, did not know the monument was there, so basically behaved in the same way as many lads on a night out. Most examples of outraging public decency involve masturbating on the tube or similar, so o...

Fiona T

This one gives me

Economic Left/Right: -5.5
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.85

Most of these sorts of tests I've done in the past have put me in the bottom left quadrant, but much nearer the centre, which is probably a truer reflection.

Fiona T

what the others said - use joe.bloggs+company@gmail.com and you know who's leaked your data.

Working in IT I use it all the time for testing stuff where I want multiple accounts - joe bloggs must be getting a lot of crap email!

Fiona T

I thought everyone knew this, but apparently not... If you use gmail/googlemail then you can add +anything to your name and your email still gets to you. gmail and googlemail are also interchangeable, and it will happily ignore extra dots. so if you set up your account as joe.bloggs@gmail.com then j...

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That said, I do think some people like to jump on bandwagons and just call everything racism though, and also create conflict where there doesn't need to be any. Sometimes people say "All lives matter" in response to "Black lives matter". These people aren't necessarily racist -...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Jun 06, 2020 6:52 am People who call daddy-long-legses craneflies.

Perhaps they do so to avoid the struggle of having to pluralise daddy-long-legs

Fiona T

James Rowan has written a program to generate the letters with the right distribution which was used yesterday, so many thanks to him for that.

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six smalls...

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Expected, but

anyway.

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If you haven't caught ZoomDown, it streams live on youtube every Monday and Thursday at 8pm. Tomorrow's looks to be a cracker, with current champion Zubair Patel (1 win 130 points) taking on Stephen Read in the first game of the night. The winner then has the the daunting task of facing one of my pe...

Fiona T

Well see what the next month or two brings, but I did vaguely wonder about an outdoor event - would have to be weather dependent of course.

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It happened back in January Jason.

Supee told people on facebook, and on apterous. It was a big shock to us all.

Incredibly generous of him to leave a gift to support the site, and shows what a big part of his life apterous was.

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Conor is in his early 20s, just like Jack Hurst Conor attends Cambridge University, just like Jack Hurst Conor wears uncool sweaters, just like Jack Hurst Conor was gracious in victory and respectful to his opponent. Sigh. Is this really necessary? As I said yesterday, Nina Boyd nailed it . Eveythi...

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I'm with Eoin on this (although I missed the 'A' round, but doesn't sound like a hangable offence) At the end I could see you were gutted - my reaction (I said out loud to family) was "poor lad, he's so disappointed", not "what a dick." :) Can't believe what a hard time you got o...

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A good quality vodka tastes better out of the fridge. The same is true for gin. Co-incidentally I was zoom-chatting to a mate yesterday who was making bacon vodka. His next project is bacon gin. I once proposed the hypothesis that there is no dish in existence that cannot be improved by either the ...

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Some footbally chappy Giovanni Reyna https://i2-prod.cheshire-live.co.uk/incoming/article6520423.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/ZZ160114FBDYLANTAYLOR.jpg And CoC XIV winner, Dylan Taylor https://img.bleacherreport.net/img/images/photos/003/855/881/hi-res-9717cd3e0cb981e28c049e739b169c59_crop_north.jpg?h=533&am...

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Fiona will be reading this thinking "WTF is with the analysis of my post?" Perhaps we should wait for her to come back. She is still drafting her Dominic Cummings post She's blocked every mention of DC on facebook cos it's all driving her fecking mental and has no intention of getting inv...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sun May 24, 2020 8:42 pm
Fiona T wrote: ↑Sun May 24, 2020 8:25 pm My mouse/keyboard batteries seem to need changing every few weeks. No idea what I'm doing wrong.
You're using a mouse and keyboard that need batteries. That's what you're doing wrong.

But they are sleek and beautiful. As long as your keyboard doesn't give up mid apto-round.

Fiona T

My mouse/keyboard batteries seem to need changing every few weeks. No idea what I'm doing wrong.

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Suzie's comment at the time: "Scratching my head over outlain, Maggie, but if something lies beyond or on the outside of something geographically, that is to outlie obviously and the sensible past participle would be outlain." However, neither version of dictionary gives the lie beyond def...

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The definition Susie implied was there doesn't match the free version (to outdo in lying) so maybe the paying version allows it. You could do a 38×25-6 method in the third numbers to go with 38×25+6 in the first. Finally, I like how Rachel needed all three of 25, 10 and 5 to make a 2. The entry for...

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Things I'm worrying about... Babies. In the first few months/year of life babies need to be exposed to germs to prime their immune systems. Babies who live with pets, for example, have fewer allergies and generally better health. Isolating babies so no colds or similar are caught has unknown longter...

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CO:LON was supposed to take place on Saturday two days ago, and I'd been considering doing the Victoria Dock parkrun, which is said to be the fastest in the country . Instead I had to do my "virtual parkrun" on my measured 5k course on the dirt track that is the Flitch Way near where I li...

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 1:56 pm She's also 25 years older than me, which isn't conventionally attractive. But here we are.

clearly just after her money

25 years barely bats an eyelid if it's an older guy and younger woman

Fiona T

As pointed out by Damian on HyperZoomDown

Series 73 contestant James Rowan

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

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