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- Thu Mar 30, 2023 11:33 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: E Scooters
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1484
Re: E Scooters
My understanding is that you can't use them on public footpaths or bridleways, so you could only use them on the bits of farmland that you need permission to go on anyway. Whether anyone would actually stop you is another matter. Plenty of people cycle on public footpaths, though they shouldn't.
- Wed Mar 22, 2023 12:11 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816071
Re: Politics in General
I don't see any particular danger in having a drink with people that you work with. It's possible that deliberate lies were not told. But anyone stupid enough not to realise what it would look like, or not care what it looked like, shouldn't be running a country. Allegra Stratton told me all I need ...
- Mon Mar 20, 2023 8:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Getting back on for a second go
- Replies: 88
- Views: 21807
Re: Getting back on for a second go
I don't think many people would have shelled out for something like the NODE. I think I used to have a ten year-old Concise Oxford Dictionary and a Collins Dictionary that pre-dated the invention of the aeroplane.
- Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:06 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Getting back on for a second go
- Replies: 88
- Views: 21807
Re: Getting back on for a second go
I probably had a better chance of doing well pre apterous as the standards in the last 15 to 20 years have improved immensely Oh massively - apto has made the standard truly ridiculous. Some amazing players pre apto but it's genuinely night and day levels at the moment. Quite sad about that still! ...
- Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:19 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 17th March 2023 (Series 87, Heat 40)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1272
Re: Spoilers for Friday 17th March 2023 (Series 87, Heat 40)
My memory may be playing tricks, but I think that minerals were one of the categories that you could pluralise under the 'restaurant rule', and GRANITES was given as an example. Apparently there are different sorts of granite, but I don't think the dictionary gives any such information about granite...
- Fri Mar 10, 2023 11:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 10th March 2023 (Series 87, Heat 35)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1352
Re: Spoilers for Friday 10th March 2023 (Series 87, Heat 35)
TANGLIER is in the print dictionary. It seems doubtful to me that in recent years sufficient people have moved to saying MORE TANGLY that it's become necessary to remove it.
- Wed Feb 22, 2023 5:37 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown adjudication dictionary
- Replies: 103
- Views: 13737
Re: Countdown adjudication dictionary
If you equate watching football with watching Countdown, and your objective watching Countdown is to prove to your mum that you're better than the contestants, I'm inclined to believe this is true.Thomas Carey wrote: ↑Wed Feb 22, 2023 3:24 pm Yeah I hate when I'm watching football and the players are better than me.
- Wed Feb 22, 2023 2:17 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown adjudication dictionary
- Replies: 103
- Views: 13737
Re: Countdown adjudication dictionary
If I was the producer of Countdown I'd be trying to do two impossible and contradictory things. To remove all subjectivity, so there is no doubt about whether a word is valid or not. And to make it as difficult as possible to learn all the valid words. As an aside, I imagine it would be possible to ...
- Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:52 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown adjudication dictionary
- Replies: 103
- Views: 13737
Re: Countdown adjudication dictionary
I've never been able to get away from the image of someone buying a quiz game and then spending many hours learning the answer to every single question. Amazing to watch them, but it does render the game pointless for their opposition, and fewer people will want to play them. I suggest that Countdow...
- Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown adjudication dictionary
- Replies: 103
- Views: 13737
Re: Countdown adjudication dictionary
In similar news, Manchester City and PSG are hoping the next head of UEFA will have the vision to change the Financial Fair Play rules so that clubs without rich owners are disadvantaged in some way.L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑Sun Feb 19, 2023 5:08 pm Maybe when Damian retires the new person will have the vision to make the change.
- Thu Feb 16, 2023 8:41 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Comparatives and Superlatives of Adjectives Under ‘Derivatives’ Removed! *UPDATE: NOW FIXED*
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3647
Re: Comparatives and Superlatives of Adjectives Under ‘Derivatives’ Removed!
Is it definitely only an issue for comparatives and superlatives of derivatives, or one affecting derivatives generally? There used to be several aspects of derivatives needing some dictionary corner common sense input because there was no information in the dictionary. I remember coming across &quo...
- Sun Feb 05, 2023 12:28 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Comparatives and Superlatives of Adjectives Under ‘Derivatives’ Removed! *UPDATE: NOW FIXED*
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3647
Re: Comparatives and Superlatives of Adjectives Under ‘Derivatives’ Removed!
It's not so much about whether the word is reasonable. If OAKIER and OAKIEST are not specified that isn't because the comparative and superlative are unreasonable, it's because they think that correct and common usage is MORE and MOST OAKY. Which is nonsense. In the olden days there was the situatio...
- Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:20 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 2 February 2023 (Series 87, Heat 9)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1880
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 2 February 2023 (Series 86, Heat 9)
Astonished that BEIGE is not an adjective. It's an adjective in my NODE, and a noun as a subsidiary meaning. It's also a count noun as well as a mass noun (matching fawns and beiges), so if there is more than one BEIGE, surely one thing can be BEIGER than another. It is also used to mean safe or bor...
- Tue Jan 31, 2023 10:12 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 174939
Re: You Are The Ref
If the decision is anything other than Player 1 wins, then the logical thing for all players to do is shout out the answer as soon as they see it, while also pressing the buzzer. Can't lose, might just gain. A variant is if Player 2 shouts out, say, CAFETERIA. Player 1 says "Yes, CAFETERIA"...
- Sat Jan 21, 2023 12:02 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 18 January 2023 - CoC XVI, SF 1
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1978
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 18 January 2023 - CoC XVI, SF 1
Made notes of some of them when poring over 9-letter words lists, purely on the grounds of them being multi-faceted in terms of endings and beginnings. Some were seen when reading recipes (tomatillo), sheet music (cantabile andantino), lo-cost ice was written in chalk on a board outside the entranc...
- Thu Jan 19, 2023 8:36 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 18 January 2023 - CoC XVI, SF 1
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1978
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 18 January 2023 - CoC XVI, SF 1
Feeling quite pleased with myself for WHITHER and SOCIOLECT. Not that I'd ever heard of the word. Most of the current run seem to involve finding a suffix/prefix and seeing if the remaining letters can be made into a plausible prefix/suffix. I'd be interested to know how they actually found them all.
- Tue Jan 17, 2023 12:05 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 16 January 2023 - CoC XVI, QF 3
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4906
Re: Spoilers for Monday 16 January 2023 - CoC XVI, QF 3
DOUGLA is apparently sometimes derogatory, whereas GIAOUR is always derogatory. GIAOUR last appeared as a losing declaration in the Grand Final only six months ago, so could easily have been cut or re-filmed, but wasn't. Over the years I've learned that many things I think of now as obvious, probabl...
- Tue Jan 10, 2023 4:31 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 645
- Views: 337019
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
That's OK. Declaring an 8 as dodgy when you are 100% sure it's OK is more debatable.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:55 pm Also are we saying that any sort of "dummy" in any sort of competition is unfair? Declaring an 8 with confidence in Countdown when you know it's really dodgy.
- Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:23 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 645
- Views: 337019
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
When a footballer fakes a shot so that the goalie dives and makes it easier to score with a real shot, what they've done is essentially lied. This creates a culture of dishonesty. Is it any wonder players also pretend to be fouled to win free kicks and penalties? I doubt if you do actually believe ...
- Sat Jan 07, 2023 12:26 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 6 January 2023 - CoC XVI, Prelim 5
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4963
Re: Spoilers for Friday 6 January 2023 - CoC XVI, Prelim 5
STEALING is another word for THEFT, which is countable. But there are two senses of THEFT, one countable, one not. You can commit several (countable) thefts, but the crime you will be convicted of is theft (mass noun). I'd suggest that STEALING is only a synonym for the latter. Taken all in all tha...
- Thu Jan 05, 2023 10:48 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816071
Re: Politics in General
Maybe we should be teaching English a bit longer as well.
- Thu Jan 05, 2023 12:27 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 3 January 2023 - CoC XVI, Prelim 2
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3153
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 3 January 2023 - CoC XVI, Prelim 2
Messrs Chipper and Team being nice to each other? What's going on here? As someone who's never been an apterite I have to agree with CT. CANTABILE and ANDANTINO are both words I knew, but there are plenty of words that come up that I have never heard of and couldn't even make up. I saw CANTABILE ins...
- Fri Dec 30, 2022 5:01 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Next Champion of Champions series
- Replies: 197
- Views: 30218
Re: Next Champion of Champions series
Or maybe they'll troll us again with all -INGs except in the final Out of interest I had a browse through that. Episode 1331 contains 25 5 2 6 3 6 → 682 CV: 681 Best: 682 = (6 + 3) × 6 ÷ 2 × 25 + 5 + 2 I think 682 = (5 x 6 - 2) x 25 - 3 x 6 is better, seeing as it only uses each of the numbers once.
- Fri Dec 30, 2022 4:49 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 645
- Views: 337019
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
And if you get married on a Saturday your ruby wedding will be on a Sunday.Ben Wilson wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 12:15 am In non-leap years, January 1 and December 31 fall on the same day of the week.
- Sat Nov 19, 2022 1:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 18 November 2022 (Series 86, Heat 110)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 971
Re: Spoilers for Friday 18 November 2022 (Series 86, Heat 110)
Worth remembering that this is day 1 on the job for the guest hosts (bar Sir Trev's special a few months back). Whenever I start a new job I spend the first day finding the coffee machine and trying to remember the way back from the toilets! Any of us who have hosted a game at a co:event know it ta...
- Wed Nov 16, 2022 9:09 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: World Cup 2022 Qatar
- Replies: 54
- Views: 5935
Re: World Cup 2024 Qatar
I can only assume he didn't know.Ben Wilson wrote: ↑Tue Nov 15, 2022 1:03 pmAww, I had Gevin in the sweepstake of who'd point that out first.David Williams wrote: ↑Tue Nov 15, 2022 10:50 am No-one's even interested enough to point out you've got the year wrong.
- Tue Nov 15, 2022 10:50 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: World Cup 2022 Qatar
- Replies: 54
- Views: 5935
Re: World Cup 2024 Qatar
No-one's even interested enough to point out you've got the year wrong.
Re: Cricket
On a related topic, England won the 20/20 World Cup but it was definitely not thrust down my throat like other sporting things, so it seems not be be at or near the top of the general pecking order. Think you'll find it was the T20, rather than the one for those with excellent eyesight. It did seem...
- Fri Nov 11, 2022 12:39 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 4 November 2022 (Series 86, Heat 100)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1143
Re: Spoilers for Friday 4 November 2022 (Series 86, Heat 100)
I wonder how they decide which one of the two celebrities turning up for a day's filming is going to do which job. You might have thought Dan Walker would be the host, marvelling at how clever Richard Coles is, rather than the other way round. Maybe next time they could swap? Chopping and changing e...
- Thu Nov 10, 2022 3:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 4 November 2022 (Series 86, Heat 100)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1143
Re: Spoilers for Friday 4 November 2022 (Series 86, Heat 100)
If you're going to have a different celebrity host every week, do you really need a celebrity guest as well? How many celebrities do you need to contribute virtually nothing to the actual game, which could be perfectly well run by Susie and Rachel on their own? It's just padding. I disagree. It wou...
- Thu Nov 10, 2022 10:55 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 4 November 2022 (Series 86, Heat 100)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1143
Re: Spoilers for Friday 4 November 2022 (Series 86, Heat 100)
If you're going to have a different celebrity host every week, do you really need a celebrity guest as well? How many celebrities do you need to contribute virtually nothing to the actual game, which could be perfectly well run by Susie and Rachel on their own? It's just padding.
- Sat Nov 05, 2022 1:56 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: David Barnard, 1991-2022
- Replies: 85
- Views: 13264
Re: Please say a prayer for David Barnard
Even better if everything in the last three days was deleted and a few bans were issued.
It's rather like when someone doesn't observe the minute's silence at a football match, and some moron thinks the appropriate response is to bellow foul-mouthed abuse.
It's rather like when someone doesn't observe the minute's silence at a football match, and some moron thinks the appropriate response is to bellow foul-mouthed abuse.
- Sun Oct 30, 2022 12:05 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Joke Items
- Replies: 252
- Views: 92673
Re: Joke Items
Cryptic crosswords (hello Dave Gorman in DC this week). You might hear one clue and think "That's clever" but then you realise how formulaic, samey and boring they all are. Maybe not quite as bad as Sudoku but getting there. I don't think this is a line you should be pursuing on a Countdo...
- Wed Oct 05, 2022 11:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: So, who will be the founding member of Countdown's "1000 CLUB"?
- Replies: 129
- Views: 94031
Re: So, who will be the founding member of Countdown's "1000 CLUB"?
That would be me, then.L'oisleatch McGraw wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 8:33 pm Given that today was game #8 of a notable Octorun, anyone who:-
1. Does not know by now
2. Would read this forum (or go on social media etc.) before watching todays show
is not a big enough fan, and hence does not deserve to be protected from spoilers.
- Sun Sep 25, 2022 4:25 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Saturday 24 September 2022 (Series 86, Heat 70)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 968
Re: Spoilers for Saturday 24 September 2022 (Series 86, Heat 70)
Did Colin cost Alan seven points there? If Alan hadn't agreed with him that he was "thinking of putting the 'I' in to make "LUSTIER", would Susie have asked him to spell his word, or would she just have taken it for granted that it was LUSTRE? No. Alan cost himself any points at all ...
- Sat Sep 24, 2022 9:27 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Saturday 24 September 2022 (Series 86, Heat 70)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 968
Re: Spoilers for Saturday 24 September 2022 (Series 86, Heat 70)
Did Colin cost Alan seven points there? If Alan hadn't agreed with him that he was "thinking of putting the 'I' in to make "LUSTIER", would Susie have asked him to spell his word, or would she just have taken it for granted that it was LUSTRE?
- Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:05 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Next Champion of Champions series
- Replies: 197
- Views: 30218
- Tue Sep 13, 2022 4:11 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Colin Murray as Host (pros and cons)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2449
Re: Colin Murray as Host (pros and cons)
The guidance notes for contestants tell you not to say "Please" every time you ask for a consonant. You probably wouldn't even realise you were doing it, but it can get irritating. You'd like to think that similar guidance might be offered to presenters. At least with Colin it's just askin...
- Tue Sep 13, 2022 8:47 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 598
- Views: 389150
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
the percentages are biased towards females and old people. It's much easier for e.g. an 80-year-old woman to achieve a particular percentage than for a 25-year-old man. Have to disagree. The world records that the percentages are based on are biased towards females and old people, for the reasons y...
- Mon Sep 12, 2022 11:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 9 September 2022 (Series 86, Heat 60)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1192
Re: Spoilers for Friday 9 September 2022 (Series 86, Heat 60)
Possibly, but if you've got 7, 8 and 9 you know what you have to do.
7*8*9 + 6*8 + 50 is the standard method, surely.
- Mon Sep 12, 2022 9:53 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 598
- Views: 389150
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
Seconded (76.22%). Though it's a completely different dataset. Your best time isn't necessarily your best age grade ranking.
- Sun Sep 11, 2022 6:49 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: King Charles III
- Replies: 10
- Views: 705
Re: King Charles III
You're correct, but my point is that by then it was very likely that he wasn't going to have any.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sun Sep 11, 2022 12:44 pm I may be wrong but once Edward Abdicated his potential children wouldn't have been in direct line.
- Sun Sep 11, 2022 9:53 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: King Charles III
- Replies: 10
- Views: 705
Re: King Charles III
Unlike his mother who was 10 when she knew she would be the Head of State. I've never really understood the suggestion that the abdication changed everything for her. When she was born, she would only become queen if her unmarried 30 year old uncle had no children, and her own parents didn't have a...
- Fri Sep 09, 2022 7:25 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022
- Replies: 63
- Views: 4106
Re: Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022
I remember at the time of Princess Diana's funeral it was pointed out that the last one of a similar prominence, Churchill's, coincided with the Fifth Round of the FA Cup. No-one even considered postponements. I'd be prepared to bet that if the Premier League were to announce that all matches would ...
- Thu Aug 18, 2022 6:14 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
- Replies: 161
- Views: 15269
Re: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
Where do you stand on rats, mosquitoes and locusts?
- Fri Aug 12, 2022 10:57 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816071
Re: Politics in General
If we're reforming the tax system, I've never understood why there's so much opposition to inheritance tax. Nowadays you're probably in your sixties when your parents die, mortgage paid off, kids off your hands. If there's ever a time in your life when you can afford to pay some tax it's on an inher...
- Mon Aug 08, 2022 4:30 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816071
Re: Politics in General
I suspect the reason that income tax and national insurance have never been combined is that however you do it, it's a massive vote loser. Simply increase the basic rate, and lose the vote of every pensioner in the country? Or only increase the basic rate for the working population, and bring it hom...
- Wed Aug 03, 2022 8:00 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 215504
Re: The C4C Football Thread
There's no practical reason whatever why there shouldn't be a women's game in a Premier League stadium. But Premier League games are virtually sold out anyway. Season-ticket holders are not going to agree readily to paying extra, and they're going to take even less kindly to being excluded altogethe...
- Tue Aug 02, 2022 11:07 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 215504
Re: The C4C Football Thread
Think this idea needs a bit of fine-tuning.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 9:17 pm There would have to be a suitable gap between each game to clear the stadium
- Tue Aug 02, 2022 4:14 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 28 July 2022 (Series 86, Heat 29)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 295
Spoilers for Thursday 28 July 2022 (Series 86, Heat 29)
R14 Alt (10 + 5 - 6) * 8 * (4 + 3) = 504
No other method should even be considered.
No other method should even be considered.
- Tue Aug 02, 2022 8:59 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 215504
Re: The C4C Football Thread
Someone's going to have to fill in a few gaps for me. Maybe Mr T? Should Reading Women get paid the same as Reading Men, or considerably more? Because Reading Men are paid a fraction of what the men's teams are paid at the other clubs in the WSL. Do season-ticket holders want an extra two hours of e...
- Thu Jul 28, 2022 11:22 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 743030
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Originally seatbelts weren't the loose ones with a locking mechanism we have now. So you either strapped yourself in so tight that they were uncomfortable and you couldn't reach the dashboard, or you had it loose enough that it would probably break all your ribs and garotte you if you had an acciden...
- Thu Jul 28, 2022 9:17 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 215504
Re: The C4C Football Thread
Women's football is more interesting to watch than the men's. There I've said it. This might be unfair, as I don't watch much football; but my general impression of elite team sport is that at the very highest level, optimal play can render a contest into a bore-fest of tactical manoeuvring, wherea...
- Fri Jul 22, 2022 9:36 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: How do I know if my word is valid?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 71765
Re: How do I know if my word is valid?
Vaseline has a history, if you do a search. It used to be lower case in the print dictionary, all the example sentences on Lexico are lower case, and the word is being used in a generic sense, yet for the main entry they have reverted to upper case. I really don't know what evidence of change of usa...
- Sun Jun 19, 2022 10:53 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 743030
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I think the real question here is why does my bloody dad keep turning the oven off at the plug for no reason. But I don't think this thread is going to help me answer that. The real question is why do so many things have clocks at all. How much electricity do they use over the lifetime of the appli...
- Sat Jun 18, 2022 3:01 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816071
Re: Politics in General
https://tinyurl.com/ycxwwa3n This is the sort of thing I'm thinking of. My point is really that simply doing the decent thing by anyone in a camp in Calais today would surely mean that even more people would turn up in Calais. And personally I don't see the current numbers trying to get into the UK ...
- Fri Jun 17, 2022 7:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816071
Re: Politics in General
I'm simply seeking information, which seems to be in short supply. I'm sure I've seen reports of major problems in countries in Eastern Europe with large numbers of refugees being repelled by barricades. Just because it ceases to be news in the UK doesn't mean it still doesn't happen. (Does it?) And...
- Fri Jun 17, 2022 9:21 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816071
Re: Politics in General
How many people are applying to stay in countries in mainland Europe? Why should the UK be getting so much more than anywhere else? Brexit? Actually, I'm not sure it's true that the UK is getting more than anywhere else. But that wasn't the question I was concerned with. It's more the possibility t...
- Fri Jun 17, 2022 7:43 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816071
Re: Politics in General
When the M25 was built it was immediately full to capacity. When it was decided that a new road should be built it was planned on the basis of existing traffic levels. No account was taken of the traffic that would be created by the new road. I think it's pretty clear that it's difficult, dangerous ...
- Thu Jun 16, 2022 4:54 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 15 June 2022 (Series 85, 1st Semi-Final)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 890
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 15 June 2022 (Series 85, 1st Semi-final)
Just me who was taken aback by CRONEYISM, then? How does that get into the dictionary? CRONEY doesn't exist as an alternative spelling of CRONY.