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Fiona T

I told my daughter she'd pencilled her eyebrows too high up.

She looked surprised.

Fiona T

Had this been a Tory the word “Conservative” would have been in the headline or in the first paragraph at the very least. I dare you to tell me the BBC aren’t biased. https://t.co/iKXdZC9gOb Methinks you're suffering a bit with confirmation bias https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics - none of the cur...

Fiona T

James Cleverly wrote:Dear constituent
Hahahahahahah. Now fuck off.
Love, Your MP xxxx

Fiona T

Yeah, I'm stupid. Best ignored

Fiona T

Blimey pretty sure my MP would file my correspondence straight in his trash folder. Seriously though, dictionary detail is hardly the remit of an MP is it? Cycle lanes, loan charge suicides, bees being poisoned, yes, but comparatives of adjectives, not so much... Edit - realised this was probably a ...

Fiona T

Sorry for my bizarre take, but just to be clear re RUINATE: the first definition of ruinate 2 is an exact match as it appears in the OED: - Forms: 1500s rewynate, 1500s–1600s ruynate, 1500s– ruinate, 1600s ruinate (past participle), 1800s– ruinaayte (English regional (Berkshire)), 1800s– ruineyat (...

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There’s no perfect solution. I wouldn’t go back to a paper dictionary - so much more convenient to search for words online now. CSW21 already contains its own bizarre content, plus extremely rare plurals of nouns which are commonly mass nouns, so that’s also a no from me. I can understand the reaso...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 4:27 pm
Strange platform to discuss veganism

c4c?

Fiona T

There have long been whinges and niggles, but this thread http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=15774 would suggest that the online dictionary used by countdown is no longer fit for purpose (especially shocking since they charge for access!) Is it time to go back to the printed copy and penca...

Fiona T

Well that's a fun development for anyone filming soon

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The scale of the abuse (50,000 images) is deliberate and stomach-churning sickening, and can't be dismissed as an occasional lapse - it was sustained and deliberate. Of course the community needs to know if someone with this history is in their midst. However, if someone were to kill themselves as a...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:31 am
And herein lies the problem with a case by case approach, it creates entitlement.

It doesn't at all. FTOAD I think it's very unlikely they would allow me back for a second crack - and if they did it would probably be so long that I'd be dead or doolally. Fun to hope though

Fiona T

Did Susie say beige was not an adjective? However, comparatives of colours are tricky because it is pretty well impossible to say what 'redder' and 'beiger' would actually look like. She did, and it’s true: beige is just a noun in Oxford Dictionaries Premium, unlike red which is a noun and adjectiv...

Fiona T

Wonder what the deal is for mediocre octochamps/QFs - would love another crack now I've improved, but suspect more than 10 years would be required. If I'm still alive and brain still works, I'll pencil in 2035 :) I think if you've qualified for QFs your hopes of going back on to a normal series are...

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I don't think returning contestants are stopping new players - AIUI if a new player applies, they get an audition. If they pass that audition, they get to play.

Fiona T

Wonder what the deal is for mediocre octochamps/QFs - would love another crack now I've improved, but suspect more than 10 years would be required.

If I'm still alive and brain still works, I'll pencil in 2035

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 5:57 pm Harelip is offensive? I thought it was just the name for the thing.

Yeah, I know it was one (of many!) that surprised me when I saw the scrabble list of expurgated words. We live and learn.

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HARELIP(S) is labelled as offensive - surprised Susie didn't notice/mention as she did check it. (It was recently removed from the scrabble lexicon - I had no idea before that - was a common enough term back in the dark ages of the 1980s!) Plenty of other 8s they could have asked Cillian to offer in...

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FWIW, it was very very considered, and we/I attempted to contact Jim in advance so as to try and mitigate that risk. It was after finding out that every point of contact for him no longer worked that a deeper effort to find out his current circumstances was undertaken, leading to this. Thanks Mark

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I'm sorry to hear this news. I am however relieved that it does not seem to be a consequence of his outing and resultant discussion on here - something we should consider if anything like this turns up in the future.

RIP Jim - hopefully people can remember you for the good things you contributed.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 09, 2022 1:33 pm Seems weird. Poor behaviour from Strava.

Tried this again and it appears to have worked - did it on the desktop rather than the app, so maybe different behaviour, or maybe they fixed it!

Fiona T

The attraction isn't the crime. It's fucked up, but it's not the crime. The acting on it, that's the crime. Or downloading content, which is, also a crime, regardless of acting on it or not. I'm just being pedantic. ( note I did actually spell check this, there's always a first time) Downloading il...

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I mean personally speaking it's a problem I'd rather not have - but if he were to apply for my event, I'd have a chat with Callum of course, but my instinct would be to allow him if and only if no children were attending. I'm sorry but I can't agree with your instinct at all. Suppose we were to all...

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The other question, which I don't think has actually been explicitly addressed, is what would we do if e.g. Jim applied to enter anther CO-event? Because realistically, refusing him entry would be more about not wanting to play with / associate with him than an actual safeguarding issue. The same w...

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Interesting article here (albeit a few years old)

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck ... iles-cured

Fiona T

Yeah I'm adopting the Jack Hurst Shuffle going forward.

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This happened on ZoomDown - at the time we did a second conundrum but just for player 1. In hindsight we should probably have given player 1 the points, but as they solved the new one no harm done! Should add it was definitely a case of over exuberance, not foul play, and became a classic ZoomDown m...

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I doubt most people do it deliberately - they're getting carried away in the tension of the game. Perhaps a reminder from the event host at the beginning that you tap the table and offer the answer after the game host has asked you for it? But yep in this case, if the game host believes player 1 tap...

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Can you make online payments using fake ID, I have no idea? Going back to my idea of having a membership for Focal with a nominal annual fee to cover event costs and running potentially a data base giving every player a rating, based on average game score or games won against ranking like in Scrabb...

Fiona T

A medical professional can refer to specialists - I guess medication to reduce libido or whatever might be appropriate. Suppressing your sexuality medically is a big ask, but probably better to most than an attraction to children (which if not suppressed could lead to a) abused children and b) long...

Fiona T

I won't be able to make this one - it's the date of cricket fixtures I've already been double-booked for AND it's the date of the Eurovision Song Contest which I'm hoping to go to as well... Fiona, there is an opportunity to combine the event with a Eurovision watch party afterwards 😊. There must b...

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typed a long considered response to this then lost it in multiquote/preview hell... A medical professional can refer to specialists - I guess medication to reduce libido or whatever might be appropriate. Suppressing your sexuality medically is a big ask, but probably better to most than an attractio...

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Adam Dexter wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 11:29 pm

Sorry I've been a dumbass. Lower is not better. Oops

aye, you won it!

Fiona T

Cut and paste from the other thread. As far as I can see he's not been on apto, or co-events, so in terms of our community a non-concern. Basically he's just a guy who lost (badly) on countdown. I appreciate the Willie Whitelaw argument here (cross that bridge...), but this surely goes some way for...

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As far as I can see he's not been on apto, or co-events, so in terms of our community a non-concern. Basically he's just a guy who lost (badly) on countdown. A couple of points I picked up from the article "He [the judge] said he could not begin to imagine how Pooley had got any pleasure ‘from ...

Fiona T

yep doing both in parallel sounds like a plan

Nice one Maus!

Gavin - just set your spreadsheet up right

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Adam Dexter wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 8:53 pm Why would Chris and I swap? Mine is lower than his

You would swap because yours is lower than his

Fiona T

If this was done by age grade, Fiona would move up from 9th to 2nd, David and Dan would swap places, as would Chris and Adam. Also Fiona would stop whinging that we should order it by age grade

Fiona T

Many thanks for a great weekend Ben!

Fiona T

Arguably, if the event organiser organises a meal/pub meal then that comes under the banner of 'the event'. But I agree that it's a pointless distinction - we're not talking arse-covering legal responsibilities, we're talking about the safety of event attendees. If something untoward happens in the ...

Fiona T

It would be very odd to require attendees to be DBS checked. I wouldn't have attended my first event if that had been a requirement, free or not

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri Jan 27, 2023 9:28 am Children accompanied by an adult equally makes an assumption that that adult is responsible

Well it puts the responsibility for the safety of the child with the accompanying adult/parents rather than the event organiser.

Fiona T

Just ban children from Co events for their own safety. DBR checks haven't stopped rogue policemen No that's bollocks. That's equivalent to "women staying home to not get attacked". The problem here isn't the children. I think insisting that u16s are accompanied by an adult might be sensib...

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Q - is a paedophile (someone who is sexually attracted to children) who has committed no offence a danger to children - how would you know? Possibly, yes. And you wouldn't know. The problem I'm trying to address here is the case where someone with this type of conviction works their way into a posi...

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I got my DBS check after London where they needed one if we had under 18s - thought it would save hassle in the future. Up till a conviction, a paedophile would get a clean DBS. You could argue that someone is less dangerous after a conviction and the ones we might need to worry about are the ones w...

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It could literally be any of you now. Which is why the apterous/co:event safeguarding conversations and actions need to happen Spent some time with Jim back in the day at a few COLINs, and got no inkling of this whatsoever. Fuck's sake. I fear that sexual attraction to children is way way more comm...

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Hypothetical situation - You're entering tournament scores into atropine in a Lincoln style tournament The selection and declarations have been recorded on the score sheet. The R2 selection was FRIGLITES c1 declared girliest x c2 declared GRISTLE You notice that GIRLIEST had been incorrectly allowed...

Fiona T

I've seen lab grown meat talked about for a while. It's a matter of bringing the cost down so that's it's reasonable for people to actually buy. Hopefully mass production will bring the cost down. If it tastes as good as chicken then people will buy it I thought the joke was that everything tastes ...

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A lift would be amazing from either Adam or Fiona. I'm very excited for what will be my first ever parkrun! :D Going to make sure to go slow so I can improve at future events hehe I'm not staying at the Travelodge - I'm not too far away so happy to meet people there to head over, but was wondering ...

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I assume you mean me. I'm happy with whatever's easiest, especially since I've now broken my never repeat a course streak lmao, so doddington is fine. But up to you lot I'm happy with either. Nice to do a new one, but Doddington Hall is a nice run so happy to do it again. Ran a good time last time ...

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By the way, the Strava event page has us down as doing Doddington Hall parkrun. There is also Lincoln nearby, which I mention because some messaged me about possibly doing that one. I think Doddington Hall is the better course and also slightly nearer and easier to get to traffic-wise (it can be jo...

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Also, the BBC's reporting of this Boris Johnson "had a guarantor on a loan" is such a non-story compared to the Zahawi affair which is way more serious - it just shows they had an agenda against Boris, and still do. Well, the main story is Zahawi. But if Boris is getting a guarantor on a ...

Fiona T

Given Gev drinks tap water, I'd take that deal!

Fiona T

The whole thing has been phenomenal. I genuinely feel quite emotional! Honoured to have been included, albeit on the periphery. Couldn't have asked for more from a final - what a nailbiter! Ahmed is such a deserved winner, and such a humble player and lovely and interesting man - so happy for his su...

Fiona T

It might sound crazy, but out of all my fourteen games on TV, despite losing this one, it's the one I'm most proud of, and the one where I left the studio happiest! I really was buzzing and on a big high when I left the studio! I couldn't ask for anything more. I played Countdown to the absolute pe...

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When paying via paypal, please ensure you select the family and friends option. Paypal charge a massive fee otherwise which will impact our ability to put on a good event - I'd rather the money went on prizes and goodies than paypal's pockets!

Fiona T

Should be done before 6 (probably earlier - think we kicked off the final at about 5 last year)

Fiona T

Lesley and I are delighted to announce the return of Co:Brighton for 2023 When is it? 13 May 2023. Doors will open at 11:30, with the first round draw taking place shortly after. Please arrive by 11:45. Where is it? Lewes Road United Reformed Church, a 20 minute walk from Brighton station. Map Brigh...

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"dougla Caribbean (chiefly Trinidad, Tobago, and Guyana). Sometimes (especially in early use) considered derogatory or offensive" Probably countdown need a way of dealing with words they don't want to broadcast that doesn't leave the viewer scratching their head - not sure how you'd do tha...

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There is a huge iceberg coming down the road in this situation, which is when Damian stops producing it - they’d better have a successor in place, or else it’ll suffer the fate Doctor Who did in 1989, when it was only eventually cancelled because they couldn’t find someone to succeed John Nathan-Tu...

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