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Dave Robjohns · Re: CO:Rea - 20 April 2024 In pls for the meal

In pls for the meal

Dave Robjohns

Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 4:24 pm Hugely embarrassing for GWR, though they've always had shockingly low standards for validation.

I was just wondering what Great Western Railway had to do with this

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Nice to have a final where there was actual doubt on who had the win until the very end! This points system does close results very well

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Also quite weird now they’ve split the jury and televote points into two separate totals, that the spokespeople announce e.g. “Greece’s 12 points go to…” on the opinions of 5 people rather than the opinion of the thousands of voters. Made more sense to have a spokesperson when it was combined

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Yep last night was the jury final, absolutely the most important one to nail vocally and I'm pretty sure a few acts were saving themselves for it - but apparently Alessandra (Norway) missed her big whistle note having hit it in the first 4 shows

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Agree it's a weak year - although plus point is it's more unpredictable than normal! Last few have had obvious winners. I've been about 98% sure Loreen would win since February but gradually starting to doubt that

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Thinking Armenia, Estonia, Belgium, Cyprus, Poland, Slovenia, Georgia, Austria, Lithuania, Australia today. Like Denmark also, but think Albania/Greece probs most likely to sneak into that list if any are wrong, maybe in place of Estonia/Georgia who are more jury songs although two of my faves! Gree...

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I realised on a failed attempt that if I just held 1 & 2 at the same time it'd fairly consistently output 21212121... with no errors, so eventually managed a run where I hit 1 then mashed both keys and it worked - imagine that's how the other 300 was achieved too! I'm struggling to hit 200 witho...

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*Spends 7 seconds winning the game then more than 7 minutes failing to get the right part of the picture to show*

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Easy game, what was all the fuss about?

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I'm slightly surprised they're still bothering having 3 shows for the semi final, given there will now be no jury vote in those. I guess it's still useful practice for acts + camera crew etc and perhaps most importantly a chance to make some money back. And I kinda want to go to one of those more th...

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Think so, got

Christmas GreetIngs

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:00 pm This won't happen. Is this being taken as a serious suggestion? Why the fuck would anyone think "Let's get Countdowners to do running"?

Yeah never going to catch on

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Interesting looking into the "voting irregularities" - six dodgy votes out of 21 countries voting in SF2 is insane. They've now published the detailed jury results (exact ranks) but left out details for Azerbaijan, Georgia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania & San Marino - who also didn't hav...

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UK bookies favourites to win the jury vote after last nights performance - but it's tight. Ukraine overwhelming favourites to cruise the televote & so overall, still. Nice having a final where there are still several genuine contenders - been a while!

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Also in that club, but for me it was the first number. Was the most obvious one to start off searching for but eluded me until long after I'd found the others!

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Think I got three wrong there, would've swapped out Switzerland, Iceland and Moldova for Austria, Albania and Latvia in my predictions. Switzerland had one of the most impressive/impactful stagings on the night and Moldova is a banger and classic eurovision so only really surprised by Iceland - the ...

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Heardle today is excellent

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If you did want 1000 puzzles, changing the "n=1" part in the nordle link (eventually*) gives you 1000 wordle puzzles that would take at least 1000 attempts. Though once it starts putting puzzles across multiple lines (>18 on my screen) it gets pretty hideous. https://www.nordle.us/?n=1 (*I...

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Mad to think the AELTC almost didn't give Emma a wildcard for Wimby. The LTA only persuaded them to give her one after she won a couple of games at Nottingham

If she didn't get that, she wouldn't have even been highly ranked enough to be in US Open qualifying, and none of this would have happened!

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I like the idea too, although the format is weak. With 9 teams, having 8 best of 3 series (4 home, 4 away) each seems to be the obvious route, which would take about two years. But for some reason we've got each team playing 6 opponents, so certain teams get advantages there (for example West Indies...

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Liechtenstein is great as it is totally unique, never heard a melody like that in my life! The lyrics on the other hand seem rather familiar...

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Seychelles top for me. North Macedonia, Cambodia, Uganda and Saint Lucia probably round off my top 5. Not so keen on Turkmenistan, Morocco and any that are annoyingly close together (the ones Mark mentioned but also Guinea/Mali, India/Niger, Ireland/IvoryCoast & half the middle east) and Haiti's...

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Great thread, some mighty impressive lists! Only 8 for me, but definitely want to build on that soon: Wembley 5 times *depressed Exeter fan noises* St James' Park (Exeter) 3 times Fratton Park (Pompey) twice Dean Court (B'mouth) St Mary's (So'ton) Memorial Ground (Bristol R) The Valley (Charlton) Tw...

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Nice to see San Marino winning their first ever Olympic medal this morning (in women's trap shooting) - smallest ever nation to do so, with a population around 5000 times smaller than Bangladesh, who are yet to get one.

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So all the third place teams have gone through to the last 8... except the reigning champs

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Draper winning the first set on centre court for Wimby 2021 certainly not what I expected! Bahhh I've missed this beautiful grass

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There were 8 groups (3 or more) this year. All 8 made it to the final (7 of which came through the semis), and in fact they all finished in the Top 20, with 5 in the top 8. The only duo almost made it, too.

Is this a coincidence? (yeah, probably...)

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Pretty chuffed with those predictions, only got San Marino and Moldova more than 4 places off and 14 of them bang on/within 1. As Sam says, was disappointingly obvious that Italy would win as soon as Finland's televote came out, was expecting a more tense finish :( Our UK performance wasn't bad and ...

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A last minute change of heart: I'm going France to win. Big jury score guaranteed. The rest stays the same.

Bulgaria are similar to last year (though maybe a little lower in the reckoning due to the overall quality of the whole comp). Could definitely be up there

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I just don't think it stands out enough, and it hasn't sounded as good vocally in rehearsals as in the studio version. I do like the song, but then Germany is super energetic, Belgium has a pretty unique sound and seem to be moving up, Moldova has that long note and Spain has the highest note by a m...

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I'll go for: 1st - Italy 2nd - France 3rd - Iceland 4th - Ukraine 5th - Russia 6th - Switzerland 7th - Malta 8th - Lithuania 9th - Finland 10th - Greece 11th - San Marino 12th - Portugal 13th - Bulgaria 14th - Norway 15th - Cyprus 16th - Serbia 17th - Sweden 18th - Belgium 19th - Albania 20th - Isra...

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13th - actually lower than last year surprisingly (we had Iceland, Russia, Lithuania top 3 in 2020)

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Did a simulation tonight with 12 mates (using music videos), and ended up with the following top 5: 1st - Iceland - 204 2nd - UK - 145 3rd - Germany - 120 4th - Lithuania - 85 5th= - Netherlands - 84 5th= - Norway - 84 So we have the three favourites to come last in our top 5. Clearly a very accurat...

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I guess Albania, Israel, Belgium and Moldova were all probably 8th-10th in the semis so were never gonna get prime spots. I like the order tbh, Germany being followed by Finland is pretty funny and they've gone all out with the Tix & Efendi stuff. It's a really fun one being so hard to predict.....

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Surprised Cyprus are opening the show. I expected them to throw the UK into the fire instead!

Closing with Flo Rida probably less surprising. France and Italy in good winning spots.

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The bookies were spot on. Didn't think Moldova did enough tonight!

Would favour Croatia over quite a few of those, a shame how the semis draw came out. Still, Saturday will be epic

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So yesterday was the best semi final, and tomorrow might be the most interesting semi final. Easy to predict the first 6: Switzerland Bulgaria Iceland (should easily overcome the "severe disadvantage" [as Montaigne put it] of video performance; everyone already loves them) Finland Greece (...

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I missed the first half of the episode, so have basically only watched the 5 seconds of this game that Eoin mentions, and I don't see it coming across rude or frosty at all? Doesn't Jay say "shall I tell you what I have Paul?" or something anyway? I think if Jay had mentioned he had an 8 P...

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I'd agree on those 10, but can see Sweden, Norway and Romania missing out (not all of them at once!) Belgium are storming up the odds after a good few days (apparently Geike now smiling in the performance made a big difference?) and I think Australia and Israel will do well in the juries (barring po...

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I'd say the contest is absolutely stacked this year too, especially in Semi Final 1; there are at least 12 songs I like there and only really North Macedonia I can fairly confidently say won't qualify. Found Tix's new music video particularly good, the original video of just the performance doesn't ...

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Had a test at uni as my mum wouldn't let me come home without one, but otherwise nothing really.

Seemed to hold a bit of a covid curse though; my doubles partner and I had 5 games in a row where our opponents ended up forfeiting the following week's game after playing us as they'd ended up isolating

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Well, I'm glad they ensured there was one token day of school before the lockdown so the kids could all reunite with minimal social distancing. Just what we needed to slow down the new variant!

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Typically all of my exercise is social stuff like tennis/rounders etc as I can never motivate myself consistently to run/cycle etc alone, so lockdown and distancing culling uni combined with comfort eating has somewhat ruined me... up a strong 5 stone over 2020! Not optimistic for lockdown 3.0...

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Re http://wiki.apterous.org/Co-event, Innis' total doesn't look right - says 6 wins but lists 9

The H2H and wiki stuff all very cool as a stats guy though, nice work all!

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Not my doing actually, I only set up two games, Andy created the mayhem!

But it may've been responsible for the bizarre duel today allowing me to pencil 'A'

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