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- Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:44 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 321
- Views: 69683
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Too many Mar(k/c)s.
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:06 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 21st February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 37)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1086
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 21st February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 37)
I don't think OCTANE can be pluralised.
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:54 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 171505
Re: You Are The Ref
This is a perfect example of why Nick should swap the order when asking for the words. If C1 is asked for their length first, and they're the same length, C2 should be asked for their word first. This is the system my wife and I use when we play against each other at home. We can't be bothered with...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:36 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1743
- Views: 766298
Re: Ask Graeme?
Interestingly there are two Michael Calders, so if we get a third, perhaps we could count the first name and surname together as one name!
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 22nd February (Series 89, Heat 38)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 872
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 22nd February (Series 89, Heat 38)
Ten would be quite something but we could easily go through a fallow period.
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 6:20 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 64974
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
I can fully understand why existing athletes are whinging about this idea, as they've practised for a long time to perfect the take-off. If it becomes just a long jump event rather than a long jump from as close to an arbitary line as possible, then it simply renders a lot of their work obsolete. D...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 6:17 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 64974
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
I can fully understand why existing athletes are whinging about this idea, as they've practised for a long time to perfect the take-off. If it becomes just a long jump event rather than a long jump from as close to an arbitary line as possible, then it simply renders a lot of their work obsolete. D...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 6:13 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 68
- Views: 15948
Re: The Dead of 2024
Ewen MacIntosh - aka Keith from The Office! Also one of the Strictly Come Dancing dancers died yesterday I think. *checks* Yeah, Robin Windsor. Wasn't aware of him myself but some of you probably were.
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:06 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 8th February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 28)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1476
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 8th February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 28)
This was round 2 btw.
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 64974
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
That would be very interesting but by reducing the take-off gap to zero, it does kind of break old records. They do generally show the gap to the line nowadays anyway, but I don't know if they know the gaps for the old records of Mike Powell and Jonathan Edwards.
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 2:07 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 64974
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
Also Grant Holloway beat the 60m indoor hurdles record.
And an outdoors one - Letsile Tebogo beat the 300m world record with a time of 30.69, beating Wayde van Niekerk's 30.81 and Michael Johnson's 30.85, which was the record before that.
And an outdoors one - Letsile Tebogo beat the 300m world record with a time of 30.69, beating Wayde van Niekerk's 30.81 and Michael Johnson's 30.85, which was the record before that.
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 64974
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
In other news, Dwain Chambers made the UK indoor championships 60m semi-finals at the age of 45 ! He has previously served a drugs ban of course. And Josh Kerr beat the 2-mile indoor world record . It's "only" the indoor record obviously, but his time of 8:00.67 would be the 4th fastest ti...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 7:55 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 8th February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 28)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1476
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 8th February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 28)
I wonder what they'd have done if she'd said something like "UNPOWD ... Oh no, GUNPOWDER". You are the ref . . . I think I'd have to say that she lost, and she shouldn't be able to profit by actually giving the answer away completely, so any sort of rerun would be wrong. Maybe just refilm...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:26 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 330923
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Wikipedia (always reliable obviously) says: Whether there is any historical reality behind the Trojan War remains an open question. Many scholars believe that there is a historical core to the tale, though this may simply mean that the Homeric stories are a fusion of various tales of sieges and expe...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 7:40 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 16th February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 34)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 727
Re: Spoilers for Friday 16th February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 34)
Would anyone else have been tempted by the invalid ‘opacities’ in Round 1? https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_8210 R9 alt: (100+5*6-7)*(9-1)=984 R14 alt: (50*3+10/2)*5=755 I thought about opacities after Susie got OPACITES. I think it would be better if she was more explicit about the obvious extens...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:03 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1743
- Views: 766298
Re: Ask Graeme?
You have to include everyone with that name, not just the top three.
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1743
- Views: 766298
Re: Ask Graeme?
As far as I can see, there are three Darryls. Darryls Hall and Johnson both lost their only game, so we're on 0/2. But then we have Darryl Francis . He won 15 out of 19 "normal" games. He lost a masters game though, and was on the winning team in some weird special . We won't count the wei...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:12 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1743
- Views: 766298
Re: Ask Graeme?
What is the most successful first name in countdown (if we say at least 3 people have to have been called this and do it by percentage of games won) My money is on Tom/Thomas. Or maybe Mark. My gut is it will be a more unusual name. Lets say there's been 2 random people called Innis pop up over the...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 4:15 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801090
Re: Politics in General
Or just people on social media (even peace seeking nice people on my FB for example) having a valid post against Israeli war crimes in Gaza / occupation of the west bank, but then ending it with the "From the river to the sea" phrase which is basically a call for an ethnic cleansing of Je...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:57 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801090
Re: Politics in General
Here I disagree. The fact that there's a certain term for a specific sub group of a more general group isn't a problem. The anti- prefix isn't reserved only for Jews, but many other groups, races, religions, so being specific isn't a problem here at all and doesn't imply that it's different from ot...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 6:26 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801090
Re: Politics in General
Here's a thing. I think the term anti-Semitic (or antisemitic) is generally not a good one to use. If someone is racist against black people, they are racist. If they are racist against Asian people, they are racist. But if they are racist against Jewish people, they are anti-Semitic. Why does it ma...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 6:22 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 64974
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
Also the shoes Kipchoge wore were I believe the Alphaflys, which are a legal shoe. At the time they were a prototype, so perhaps technically illegal due to not being available to the public or something.
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 64974
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
Yeah it's not a massive big deal, though still not legal.
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 68
- Views: 15948
Re: The Dead of 2024
I've always thought of him as Mr. TOTP2.
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 64974
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
The pacemakers dropped in and out (there were several laps) so it wasn't like in a proper race where they start with you and then drop out when they can't keep it going.
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:02 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801090
Re: Politics in General
Well actually believing something about what the Israeli government might have done is not racist, and so not anti-Semitic. The same standards apply across the board. Criticising a government, even if not based in truth, does not make one a racist, whatever the country is. Israel does not have speci...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 731934
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
You mean a dog?Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 4:14 pmIve never experienced this but my step daughter (in her early thirties) says it happens whenever she hears a cat scarerMark Deeks wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:47 pm What's that whole thing about when your ear goes PING and then you're deaf for a few seconds?
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 64974
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
The thing is Kiptum was the sub-2 hour hope. He was also fun to watch. He'd take the first half of his marathons fairly easily and then just go in the second half. With better pacing, sub-2 looked a formality. Also, for whatever reason, the women's marathon records are often set by people you've nev...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 11:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 12th February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 30)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 480
Re: Spoilers for Monday 12th February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 30)
It was the 197 trick all along!
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 12:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 64974
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
According to this Wikipedia page , people in Kenya are about 10 times as likely as people in the UK to die in a car accident in a given year. But fewer people have cars in Kenya. Per car, the death rate is more than 100 times as much! From here : Giving details of the crash, police said Kiptum was d...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 11:29 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 68
- Views: 15948
Re: The Dead of 2024
As I put in the athletics thread, Kelvin Kiptum.
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 11:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 64974
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
Kelvin Kiptum has died in a road accident. Shit. I mean, fucking hell.
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 379576
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
At my parkrun the JW10 record (so girls 10 and under) was at one point held by a 40-ish-year-old man who used the wrong barcode. I suspect deliberately because he did the same at another local parkrun. There's also something a bit off about this guy in general. I did contact the event director (and ...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:04 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 321
- Views: 69683
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
I don't think you can make such a binary distinction between humans and all other animals. So while the way dogs and cats love humans may differ from how humans love humans, they are also likely to differ from each other in significant ways too.
I'll get over it.
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 4:44 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801090
Re: Politics in General
If anyone was still in any doubt over whether what Israel is doing is reasonable or not, even the Tories (specifically the guy off the street they recruited to be foreign secretary) are having doubts over the latest move to attack Rafah.
Edit - And Biden as well.
Edit - And Biden as well.
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 321
- Views: 69683
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
You didn't, you just posted a bunch of tangential philosophy that didn't really address the point at all. If anything, you proved the point further. OK, so humans and fungus are the same. I'm not sure how anything you're saying is really related to the original point that cats and dogs are equally ...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 1:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Real life situations that made you laugh
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3217
Re: Real life situations that made you laugh
You did that before!Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 12:54 pm Just made a typo talking about tonights American football ended up writing Superb Owl
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 1:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 321
- Views: 69683
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
OK, so humans and fungus are the same.Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 10:05 amYou didn't, you just posted a bunch of tangential philosophy that didn't really address the point at all. If anything, you proved the point further.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 9:38 pmI debunked it. Unless you accept the conclusion that all life is the same.
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 7:52 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 321
- Views: 69683
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Remember I added "Unless you accept the conclusion that all life is the same."Mark James wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 2:59 amNo you haven't.
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 7:51 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 321
- Views: 69683
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Cats and dogs are the same. People think cats are cold and heartless and dogs show love. Bullshit. They've both learned to manipulate humans to get food. You can apply this reductive logic to all life, including humans. Obviously not just about manipulating humans to get food, but more generally ma...
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 9:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 321
- Views: 69683
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
I debunked it. Unless you accept the conclusion that all life is the same.Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 8:39 pmThis is a good one.Mark James wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:04 pm Cats and dogs are the same. People think cats are cold and heartless and dogs show love. Bullshit. They've both learned to manipulate humans to get food.
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 7:40 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Trade Secrets
- Replies: 155
- Views: 50585
Re: Trade Secrets
I don't know if anyone actually needs this advice, but people are often depicted as straining when they are struggling to go. But anyway, never strain. Pulse.
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 7:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 321
- Views: 69683
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Cats and dogs are the same. People think cats are cold and heartless and dogs show love. Bullshit. They've both learned to manipulate humans to get food. You can apply this reductive logic to all life, including humans. Obviously not just about manipulating humans to get food, but more generally ma...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 9th February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 29)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 395
Re: Spoilers for Friday 9th February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 29)
I was going to say WORLDIE is on Apterous!
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 12:42 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 731934
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Which foodstuff has the biggest retail profit margin? I would have said crisps or popcorn (especially in a cinema) but one of my managers said it was bread but I'm not convinced Well if you're allowed to specify the place (e.g. in a cinema) there's a lot of places that hike up prices if you're in a...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 4:25 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 379576
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
Well, here's the relevant bit from their webpage: After careful consideration and extensive consultation–both in 2019 and in 2023, we decided to continue categorising people based on gender rather than sex. We feel this is aligned with us as a health and wellbeing charity that provides non-competiti...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 2:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 8th February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 28)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1476
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 8th February 2024 (Series 89, Heat 28)
Although not as long as FACTOTUM, TACTFUL was the standard method contestant-beater in round 4.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 379576
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
I think the best solution is to change "gender" to "sex" on the sign-up and leave people to it. They don't demand proof of age.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 12:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 379576
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
The Telegraph have an article about it.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 379576
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
Good point.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 1:30 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: National COLIN Day
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3153
Re: National COLIN Day
That's quite clever actually.
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:21 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What films have you watched lately?
- Replies: 438
- Views: 298884
Re: What films have you watched lately?
I watched The Lavender Hill Mob the other day. Quite enjoyable.
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 5:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 379576
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
P***sed off about this. My nephew won't be happy when I tell him he's destined not to make it to the top of the first finishers list at our parkrun!
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 11:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XX- your input desired
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4490
Re: COLIN XX- your input desired
I'm not that bothered about having a calendar - it's just something I was idly thinking about.
But a pdf sounds like a reasonable compromise for next year's thing anyway.
But a pdf sounds like a reasonable compromise for next year's thing anyway.
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 9:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XX- your input desired
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4490
Re: COLIN XX- your input desired
For next year, I'm finally pulling the trigger on a 'big prize' (such as mugs, t-shirts, calendars etc) I've been thinking of for years, namely the 'Big Book of COLIN'. What this will include is all manner of stuff like photos, stats, records, old (and some new) puzzles, quizzes... but I also want ...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 4:35 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 731934
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Well chronic just means it's over a long time. It doesn't say how serious it is. Kidney presumably because it involves the kidneys, and disease - it's just the word for bad medical things isn't it? Still, good job it's nothing to worry about!
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 2:30 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 68
- Views: 15948
Re: The Dead of 2024
Wow. That's Dad's Army gone then. I was hoping for another 20 years.
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 9:23 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1801090
Re: Politics in General
This is a very good song by Biden and Netenyahu.
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:10 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 731934
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
There's better satellite coverage just outside the Grim Reaper's house.
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 1:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers Thursday February 1st
- Replies: 2
- Views: 457
Re: Spoilers Thursday February 1st
The teatime teaser - "Lincs or Notts; you make the connection". Never mind that I thought he said "Links or nuts", but quite a good COLIN reference, held in Lincs obviously. Apparently my run on Sunday crossed the border into Notts as well so very relevant.