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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.

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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 ...

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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.

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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...

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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!

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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 - it's often likely t...

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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.

Fiona T

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 over it. Amazing scor...

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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&w=...

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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 involved here...

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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.

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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 definition - ...

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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 live. And I ...

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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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Fingers crossed! In if it's on.

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Nominate Gevin

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It's not anything at the moment, it's down again...

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It was struggling all evening. Last games successfully completed were just after midnight.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Fri May 01, 2020 9:53 pm
Those giant pepper grinders they sometimes bring round in restaurants and use to offer you pepper on your food like it's some sort of delicacy. It's fucking pepper. Would you do the same with salt?

They fall into the same category as ties. Most joke objects are phalluses.

Fiona T

Perhaps accept all answers until the first wrong answer.

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Do you think it would be better if we got rid of time zones and just had one global time. Countries would still do the same things just at different times. Why does everyone (obviously not everyone but you know what I mean) have to work 9am-5pm. Why can't Londoners do that and New Yorkers work 2pm-...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x2jdQFGTj4

Two spaces - it's Mavis's fault!

Edit: just googled it - the entire internet is blaming Mavis

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It's only in recent years that Civil Service guidance has changed, but it's a relic of mechanical typesetting, or something like that if I remember right. Still a good number of colleagues use them, I delight in finding and replacing them :) Ah my first job was Civil Service, and I hadn't really ha...

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Whilst debate is interesting, and those of us who don't believe do naturally question how other people can possibly believe (hopefully without using insults or put downs!), I think the worst possible outcome of this thread would be if someone for whom religion was such an essential part of their lif...

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Excellent stuff - nicely executed!

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Not so much a really obvious thing, but something I've always done (and still do) that is now officially 'wrong'. I dunno why I do it, or when it started, or who told me it was the thing to do, but I've always stuck two spaces after a full stop. I didn't even know I did it until a friend I used to e...

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Internal server error on gameplay. Main site looks ok.

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Only 35 claps till Christmas!

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 21, 2020 2:11 pm
Where is this money going if it's never "enough"? The population hasn't doubled in 20 years but the money thrown at the NHS has.

Treatments have become more sophisticated and therefore a lot more expensive.

Fiona T

They used to be the CTC (Cycling Touring Club) - rebranded a few years ago and became a charity. They're not anti-helmet - they're anti mandatory helmets. It's certainly just a minor part of who they are- they are about promoting cycling and cycle friendly policies. There are lots of local groups wh...

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Bicycle helmets are only really useful for slow speed impacts. Cars move considerably more quickly. (Actually there's a lot of contradictory evidence about cycle helmets, hence why the CTC (now CyclingUK) don't recommend them, and frequently show cyclists of all ages without them. FTAOD I do wear o...

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Why isn't wearing helmets in cars a thing like it is on bikes (pedal and motor)? The risk of head injury might not be as high, and it would be annoying, but the risk still exists. Literally no-one ever talks about this. Rally drivers wear helmets. But presumably the marginal benefit is so low that ...

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Countdown legend, Callum Todd, during lockdown

Sex Pistols bassist, Sid Vicious

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Ah, very unlucky then Sean.

#BringBackSean

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I would hope that people would refrain from spitting in public now. I don't spit while running anyway but I wonder if it's some biological difference between people where some people get more of a yucky phlegmmy build-up than others. Well at our parkrun at least it appears to be a biological differ...

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Interesting about the 'droplets' - I was volunteering at the last parkrun before lockdown - the first and second guys through the finish tunnel bumped elbows, then one spat. I can't imagine how many people must have then trodden where he spat. I also saw at least two other runners spitting while run...

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Gameplay down since yesterday evening just after 9pm

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