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- Sun Jan 22, 2023 9:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816887
Re: Politics in General
What someone thinks of the BBC is generally a good barometer for how nutty they are on either side of the political spectrum.
- Sun Jan 22, 2023 2:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 20 January 2023 - The 16th Championship of Champions Grand Final
- Replies: 47
- Views: 5211
Re: Spoilers for Friday 20 January 2023 - The 16th Championship of Champions Grand Final
This was a great CoC. Some really spicy games and some high quality performances. Agree that Colin and the DC guests elevated it as well. I liked the conundrums. I didn't like that there were a lot of "safe" numbers picking. Congrats Ahmed - a worthy winner. I think the reason why there w...
- Sat Jan 21, 2023 8:44 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 20 January 2023 - The 16th Championship of Champions Grand Final
- Replies: 47
- Views: 5211
Re: Spoilers for Friday 20 January 2023 - The 16th Championship of Champions Grand Final
This was a great CoC. Some really spicy games and some high quality performances. Agree that Colin and the DC guests elevated it as well. I liked the conundrums. I didn't like that there were a lot of "safe" numbers picking.
Congrats Ahmed - a worthy winner.
Congrats Ahmed - a worthy winner.
- Sat Jan 21, 2023 8:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Champion of champions seedings
- Replies: 40
- Views: 9372
Re: Champion of champions seedings
I'm pretty sure I wasn't being entirely serious. I think it's actually impressive to get so far into the minutiae of something that only a handful of people will ever care about.
Re: Music
The fair comparison point you make notwithstanding, my linking of the article was only intended to provide information about how downloading uses less energy than streaming, which was all that Tim asserted and you said you didn't get how. The follow-on implications that article makes about energy u...
Re: Music
"However, if we listen to our streamed music using a hi-fi sound system it’s estimated to use 107 kilowatt hours of electricity a year, costing about £15.00 to run. A CD player uses 34.7 kilowatt hours a year and costs £5 to run." This is also absolute bollocks. What CD player are they tal...
Re: Music
4. I don't get how. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190207-why-streaming-music-may-be-bad-for-climate-change Mostly comparing streaming to physical media but from the description of how streaming uses energy should make it obvious why downloading uses less. I can't effectively articulate how w...
Re: Music
I think paying for downloads is almost as mental as buying physical music. Four reasons to pay for downloads: 1. Not all music is available to stream 2. Once downloaded, no reliance on the internet 3. Making compilations for others 4. Less energy use 5. The artist gets paid for their talent and eff...
Re: Music
I think paying for downloads is almost as mental as buying physical music.
- Mon Nov 21, 2022 9:51 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 647
- Views: 337343
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
PDF File sounds a lot like paedophile.
Re: Music
This is an interesting article about the mess. But I do wonder what bad would happen if you just got rid of streaming from the charts. Sure, lots of people only stream these days, but would there be a particular bias against certain songs? Well presumbly against old songs that people continue to pl...
Re: Music
I don't know how I'd optimise it but I'd get rid of the obvious nonsense like passive streams, rules based on the age of a song and limits on the number of songs per artist. So now you have a situation where Mariah Carey is number 1 each Christmas, the top 10 gets blocked out whenever a hugely popu...
Re: Music
Since streaming became a big component of the chart methodology, the UK singles charts have become much more similar to the US singles charts (which have always included an airplay component and have always been susceptible to record label tampering). Static top fives from week to week aren't reall...
- Wed Oct 12, 2022 5:32 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deathwatch 2017
- Replies: 467
- Views: 271875
Re: Deathwatch 2017
What a depressing and pointless thread.
- Sun Sep 25, 2022 7:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 774
- Views: 685675
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
It's brilliant.Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Thu Sep 15, 2022 11:05 pm Don't Hug Me I'm Scared was due to be released on All 4 Monday just gone, but it's been delayed. Presumably it's the same reason but I don't know for sure.
For those unfamiliar:
https://youtu.be/9C_HReR_McQ
Cunk on Earth is also good.
- Thu Sep 15, 2022 11:05 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 774
- Views: 685675
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared was due to be released on All 4 Monday just gone, but it's been delayed. Presumably it's the same reason but I don't know for sure.
For those unfamiliar:
https://youtu.be/9C_HReR_McQ
For those unfamiliar:
https://youtu.be/9C_HReR_McQ
- Tue Sep 13, 2022 7:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 774
- Views: 685675
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Reversing the order does make for a weird first 10 minutes of Snowflake. In any case, it was still great, even if the crowd were a lot less into it on the BBC version than when I saw it in the Royal Festival Hall.
- Mon Sep 05, 2022 7:25 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Your preferred format for CO-events
- Replies: 74
- Views: 36423
Re: Your preferred format for CO-events
Divisions are nuts for all the reasons outlined previously.
Classroom style is no fun for me. The main reason I attend co-events is to catch up with people and meet new ones with a background of playing the game. Classroom style kills this. It's so rigid.
14 rounders are also a joke format.
Classroom style is no fun for me. The main reason I attend co-events is to catch up with people and meet new ones with a background of playing the game. Classroom style kills this. It's so rigid.
14 rounders are also a joke format.
- Fri Sep 02, 2022 7:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Apple variety rankings
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1360
Re: Apple variety rankings
I like red deliciouses.
Re: Strikes
I realise it's an oversimplication, but if you aren't happy with your pay/terms/conditions then go find a different job. It's what the rest of us do. That's not really an option for a lot of the strikier jobs. As a trained train driver it's not like there are lots of different train companies to go...
- Wed Aug 03, 2022 6:20 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 215617
Re: The C4C Football Thread
Although on some less optimistic notes: 2) while media coverage, etc, play a big role in perception, the women's game will struggle to ever be as big as the men's game for as long as the standard is substantially lower. And, unfortunately, I can't see that changing any time soon, if ever. It is cha...
- Fri Jul 15, 2022 8:30 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday January 8th 2014 (S70 P3)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5157
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday January 8th 2014 (S70 P3)
I found this thread again because I did a search for "attributive" (relating to adjectives). But: Danny got a rare run-out up front today and we both scored! Lost 4-2 though. How's Danny's football career going now? He still plays, as do I, but for different teams. I see him around once i...
- Mon Jul 11, 2022 5:48 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 743639
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Keeps the inside relatively well insulated while allowing easy access/egress? Not too popular on bring your pet to work day though This is apt as it was reading about a dog getting stuck and dying in one of them that prompted me to post this. I feel like they are an inefficient solution to a proble...
- Mon Jul 11, 2022 7:13 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 743639
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Keeps the inside relatively well insulated while allowing easy access/egress?Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Mon Jul 11, 2022 3:39 am Those big multi-chamber revolving doors that some offices, hotels etc have. Why?
- Tue Apr 19, 2022 8:37 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Lookalikes?
- Replies: 390
- Views: 262758
Re: Countdown Lookalikes?
Superb.
- Wed Apr 06, 2022 10:13 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Pig-Headed Man
- Replies: 56
- Views: 4914
Re: Pig-Headed Man
I see Boris has spoken out against trans women competing in women's sport. I have a dilemma as I don't want to be agreeing with by far the worst PM this century and probably the last but maybe he has a point for once. Good news for you. He doesn't. Unfortunately I have to agree with the cunt for on...
- Sat Mar 05, 2022 4:05 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Sanctioning individuals based on nationality
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2654
Re: Sanctioning individuals based on nationality
He came 21st out of 20 in the world championship last year.
- Fri Feb 18, 2022 4:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Alex Rivers
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8644
Re: Alex Rivers
Wow... that is horrendous.
- Fri Feb 18, 2022 7:14 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: The Monty Hall Problem
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4018
Re: The Monty Hall Problem
Any representation of paradox that doesn't state that he reveals what he knows to be an empty door/goat is simply wrong.
- Sun Feb 13, 2022 8:31 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
- Replies: 161
- Views: 15278
- Sat Jan 15, 2022 5:12 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816887
Re: Politics in General
Who's surprised?
- Sat Jan 15, 2022 5:12 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Pig-heart man
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1255
Re: Pig-heart man
That's pretty cool.
- Sat Jan 15, 2022 5:12 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Sexual Predator (allegedly) Formally Known as Prince
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1034
Re: The Sexual Predator (allegedly) Formally Known as Prince
This thread title is one of the all-time greats.
I hope he gets his comeuppance.
I hope he gets his comeuppance.
- Thu Jan 06, 2022 3:02 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Wordle
- Replies: 81
- Views: 14798
Re: Wordle
An interesting sub-game is to try to work out which words were guessed from the solution (knowing the answer).
- Thu Jan 06, 2022 3:00 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Wordle
- Replies: 81
- Views: 14798
Re: Wordle
Wordle 201 3/6
- Mon Jan 03, 2022 1:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Super Cool Funny Jokes
- Replies: 144
- Views: 19029
Re: Super Cool Funny Jokes
Yeah, that is rubbish.Ian Volante wrote: ↑Mon Jan 03, 2022 11:14 amI thought it might be something like that. But...it's just not doing it for me.
- Fri Dec 24, 2021 10:51 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 743639
- Thu Dec 23, 2021 12:58 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 25th November 2021 (Series 84, Prelim 108)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1545
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 25th November 2021 (Series 84, Prelim 108)
Hence “dubious”. You’ve also good GOOD which is BETTER and BEST rather than gooder x and goodest x, and NTH is an adjective but nther x and nthest x (used to be Apto valid) are illogical too. Good explicitly states that the comparative is better so gooder doesn't require any subjectivity to disallo...
- Thu Dec 23, 2021 12:07 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 25th November 2021 (Series 84, Prelim 108)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1545
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 25th November 2021 (Series 84, Prelim 108)
Not sure it's a rule. Apterous tends to disallow -EDER and -EDEST words but I've not ever seen any evidence from the show as far as I'm aware. Hence “dubious”. You’ve also good GOOD which is BETTER and BEST rather than gooder x and goodest x, and NTH is an adjective but nther x and nthest x (used t...
- Tue Dec 07, 2021 10:45 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 7th December 2021 (Series 84, Preliminary 116)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1092
- Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:09 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Mondegreens
- Replies: 127
- Views: 35563
- Fri Nov 19, 2021 10:43 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Future of the forum
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1983
Re: Future of the forum
I just renewed the site so we're good til at least 2023. It costs about £86 a year to keep it online so if you'd like to make a small contribution to the cost, I'd be very grateful -- but the site will be here either way! (PayPal link) Hooray! However, the link doesn't work and I can't work out wha...
- Tue Oct 26, 2021 7:32 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: First impressions of Anne
- Replies: 141
- Views: 25618
Re: First impressions of Anne
I did get a vibe off Rachel. I'd say if given a choice of lunch out with Anne, Nick or Jeff... Anne would be her 3rd preference. This may be from the Daily Mail, but the story's everywhere. It's not a surprise. Looks like we're getting a new presenter sooner rather than later, but who will it be? I...
- Tue Oct 05, 2021 1:20 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Do we rely too much on centralised communication?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1730
Re: Do we rely too much on centralised communication?
AOL Instant Messenger? Trillian was pretty cool.Ian Volante wrote: ↑Tue Oct 05, 2021 12:20 pm I do miss Trillian, which included all my chats on MSN, Yahoo, ICQ and something else that I've forgotten. Was dead good.
- Wed Sep 22, 2021 8:06 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Is it time to end Countdown?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 9248
Re: Is it time to end Countdown?
I've been watching for about 17 years and can't remember a time when there weren't doom-mongers saying that the show was on its last legs and needed to be axed.
Re: TENNIS
Yeah, it's easy to lose sight of how massive an achievement this is because the proportionality in media coverage of UK sport is very reliably completely wrong. This is huge. First person to win a GS as a qualifier. To not lose a set on the way. To not even give up 5 games in any single set. All in ...
- Tue Aug 17, 2021 2:49 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 16th August 2021 (Series 81, Prelim 35)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2311
Re: Spoilers for Monday 16th August 2021 (Series 81, Prelim 35)
It's also worth looking over the history of this forum regarding the word. Here is the general search and I think it's worth looking at this thread , and this one , and the word even has its own thread . I'm always a bit nervous when these old threads get dug up, especially on issues where the play...
- Sun Aug 08, 2021 2:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Olympics 2020
- Replies: 135
- Views: 18089
Re: Olympics 2020
Japan doing really well to come 3rd. It does seem like the host nation tends to do better than they normally would. And this time it can't be down to home support. I'm guessing some events confer some inbuilt home advantage (familiarity with the track/venue, or conditions) but mostly is because the...
- Tue Aug 03, 2021 9:24 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Olympics 2020
- Replies: 135
- Views: 18089
Re: Olympics 2020
Well, I wasn't saying I considered the arbitrariness to be unfair, just that fairness can become a logical black hole. But the protected category of women can be subject to different definitions of woman and as long as it's rigorously defined then you could argue that any definition is fair. Ok, tr...
- Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:47 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Olympics 2020
- Replies: 135
- Views: 18089
Re: Olympics 2020
The way you get stronger and build muscle is by putting on mass. This means you have to eat at a caloric surplus everyday in order to fuel the growth, development, and healing of your muscles. If you do not eat enough, you cannot increase muscularity, and eventually cannot even maintain it. This is...
- Tue Aug 03, 2021 10:25 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Olympics 2020
- Replies: 135
- Views: 18089
Re: Olympics 2020
Yeah, the track should definitely be on my list above. I will revise my % weightings at some point. With that Rudisha race, 2nd place was still 0.6 behind the old WR, so yes the field jumped ahead a lot (or the track got easier) but in the grand scheme of things it wasn't quite the quantum leap that...
- Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:18 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Olympics 2020
- Replies: 135
- Views: 18089
Re: Olympics 2020
World records are tumbling. In the 400m hurdles, the previous world record (which was broken last month after 29 years) was broken again - by 0.75 seconds! The silver medallist broke the old WR by 0.5 seconds. The bronze medallist broke the WR that had stood until last month as well. This example of...
- Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:12 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Olympics 2020
- Replies: 135
- Views: 18089
Re: Olympics 2020
I saw some of the weightlifting today, and this isn't just me being rude, but does it help being morbidly obese? I was wondering if the extra weight comes with free extra muscle, the converse how when you're weightless in space you automatically lose muscle despite your best efforts. Also maybe the...
- Mon Aug 02, 2021 4:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Olympics 2020
- Replies: 135
- Views: 18089
Re: Olympics 2020
Laurel Hubbard is likely to make history as the first trans gold medal winner in the weightlifting. But if I was a woman competing against her I would be a bit pissed off as she has gone through male puberty surely giving her an unfair advantage. Not sure what odds you were looking at! This tweet l...
Re: Cricket
(The on-field cricket was never, ever going to be the issue. But the graphics were horrible. I shouldn't really have to look in four separate corners of the screen to see it's 100-2, needing 60 from 35.) You don't really need to read anything to see the state of the game now. The position of the to...
Re: Cricket
https://admin.thecricketer.com/weblab/sites/96c8b790-b593-bfda-0ba4-ecd3a9fdefc2/resources/images/site/hundredbanner230221.gif I thought it was a great start to The Hundred. Loads of novel stuff, some good some bad... - Helmet cam - great - Graphics style - I liked them. A lot of people on Twitter ...
- Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:46 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: "Black Takeover Day" - Autumn 2021
- Replies: 79
- Views: 27190
Re: "Black Takeover Day" - Autumn 2021
Great lineup.
- Tue Jul 20, 2021 9:41 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: New Countdown App Looking for Beta Testers
- Replies: 65
- Views: 13314
Re: New Countdown App Looking for Beta Testers
This is sensational.Fiona T wrote: ↑Mon Jul 19, 2021 9:47 pm Nice thread on hacking the official app - get Rob's dictionary in there!
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1416664786444570625
- Thu Jul 15, 2021 7:16 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 67360
Re: Track and Field Athletics
Source?Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Jul 15, 2021 4:18 pm The testosterone of puberty doesn't explain the performance/time graph. Not even close.
- Thu Jul 15, 2021 2:18 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 67360
Re: Track and Field Athletics
Definitely on testosterone. Either juicing for the local parkrun, or going through puberty. Absolutely impossible to say which given the facts.