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Callum Todd

Who's parkrunning for this event?

Callum Todd

The Slovenia hype train is dead

Callum Todd

I saw some of the weightlifting today, and this isn't just me being rude, but does it help being morbidly obese? If the weightlifting you saw was the women's heavyweight (the one with Hubbard in it and where GB won silver) then that was a category for women weighing over 87kg. At that weight, women...

Callum Todd

Sure, just give me the green light when you're ready. Hope you're feeling okay.

Callum Todd

Looks like a great event Eoin. Thanks so much for putting on BOTH of the last two FOCAL events. I've updated the FOCAL league standings here. Not sure if Tilly needs any FOCAL points for her attendance here?

Will do a little write up for the FOCAL site once I get chance.

Callum Todd

It's just another 'where do you draw the line?' thing. They have to draw it somewhere and stick to it. If they let you have it because you were only three days early, suddenly it's okay at five weeks and four days. Then somebody else comes along at five weeks and one day then they have to be allowed...

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Well it's been two weeks and there hasn't been any objection to Graeme's proposed revision of the cheating section of the Code of Conduct so I'll implement it. Thanks for the feedback guys!

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 10:38 am What odds did you get?

22/1

Callum Todd

Really enjoyed the parkrun return this morning. Can't wait 'til Gavin accuses me of PED use

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Sun Jul 18, 2021 1:39 pm You guys might want to throw a few quid on Slovenia winning the men's basketball.

I don't normally bet but I had a few quid in an account from exploiting guaranteed returns from offers on the Euros. If Slovenia win I'm picking up your tab at the Fox and Hounds in January.

Callum Todd

Good luck all taking part! Will try drop in to the live streams when I can; great idea Eoin.

Callum Todd

I've got quite into this game after Jack's recommendation. It's good!

Callum Todd

Callum Todd wrote: ↑Sun May 23, 2021 8:19 pm Nightclubs reopening before parkruns is stone cold mental.

Well, it happened. We've lost the plot.

Callum Todd

Tom S wrote: ↑Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:48 pm ... intending to attend a Parkrun this Saturday, so maybe that's not such a cautious move after all...

It's outdoors; you'll be reet.

Callum Todd

Remember last year when it seemed the plan was to let the virus spread in order to get herd immunity, but that plan had to be aborted when it became apparent how many deaths that would lead to? We're back there again, except this time the vaccines have reduced the death count forecast so this time t...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Jul 17, 2021 12:47 pm When people have a blood test, why do they feel the need to pluralise "blood"?

I think it's because they run multiple tests on the blood sample, so you're actually having blood tests done rather than 'a blood test'. So 'bloods' is shorthand for 'blood tests'.

Callum Todd

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Jul 15, 2021 12:05 pm Why tax salt and sugar.
Just subsidise healthy food for the poor

Taxing bad shit works. [1] [2] [3]

Callum Todd

I don't think Southgate really got much wrong in the final. The only thing that definitely seems to have gone wrong is Sancho and Rashford not getting a few extra minutes to warm into the game, but Southgate tried to bring them on a few minutes earlier but the officials kept restarting play without ...

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Most "racial" descriptions are capitalised anyway because they are a word that would be capitalised anyway, not because they are of elevated status - e.g. Asian. I see why they've done this but it seems a bit unnatural to me. I feel really uncomfortable when black people and white people ...

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I don't really know anything about cricket but I know this is good.

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Why have people recently taken to using a capital B in "black" to describe people? Pretty sure it's a recent thing anyway. I swear I recently read something about this on BBC but a quick Ecosia/Google search hasn't found it up so maybe I read it somewhere else. All I could find were repor...

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Thanks for this detailed feedback Graeme. I think you've got it spot on. Just a few notes for the sake of transparency as to the thinking behind the poorly written bits of the Code of Conduct: - 'Foul play' was chosen over 'Fair play' because it's consistent with the previous three headings (Abusive...

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There definitely seems to be a concerted effort at present to change the public mindset towards this virus. It feels a lot like accepting defeat while trying to claim it as victory. I believe it was (and possibly still is) possible to drive the virus to extinction, but we've now accepted it as a 'ne...

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He seems to always go for the crazy technique thing now which just seems so low percentage. Bale does similar. Looks amazing when they go in and everyone remembers them but if you look at the stats they really don't convert that many. Messi is definitely ahead on this one. His free-kick technique is...

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Yeah it's all a bit sketchy when you consider most of the high profile players have advertised or sponsored junk food/drink before, but hey it's a good message. I've always thought it's really irresponsible for companies like Coca Cola and especially energy drink brands like Red Bull and Monster to ...

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I maintain that it should be not that hard not to let yourself down if you're a professional sports player playing the game you love. Yeah probably not, but what if you don't love the game? Loads of people play football as kids. Some of them love it, some of them don't. Some of them have a natural ...

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Callum on good form in the last few posts IMO. What is that down to though? Well it sure as shit ain't effort so I guess I'm just naturally talented :D Fat Ronaldo I would slightly dispute this one. His problems were more injury than anything. In saying that, part of the reason Messi/C Ronaldo are ...

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I always think the talent / work ethic thing is an interesting discussion. And I don't think they're the only factors. There is also how your talent was developed when you were younger. And presumably once you're a professional, you do all the training you're made to do by your coaching team and yo...

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Better than Messi! :) He's the one that scored? He did none of the work for it other than run up the pitch! I could have done that! Surely there are better examples! By Ronaldo's standards it doesn't stand out at all as a particularly good piece of play, but it's far better than you have suggested....

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England vs Wales semifinal. It's coming home!

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By the way I was talking to a friend the other day (someone who's actually into football, unlike me), and I asked him about who's better between Messi and Ronaldo (Cristiano that is, not the real Ronaldo). He said that Messi's skill comes more from artistry, whereas Ronaldo is more about physical p...

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I'm trying to be generous in my reading of UEFA's comments about the plans for the rainbow on the Munich stadium but I'm struggling to interpret it as anything less than 'we're all for posturing on political issues... right up until the point that it's relevant and might be positively impactful'. It...

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Take out the references to skin colour from the working class pupils story and it is both very true and very unsurprising.

(^That works for lots of other stories by the way!

)

Callum Todd

Oh, I thought it was the same thing. Maybe I understood it even less than I thought.

Callum Todd

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 4:21 pm This made me chuckle
https://twitter.com/ladyhaja/status/1405230124396695565

Richard Madeley. Legend.

Callum Todd

In cryptocurrency terms, what's data mining? I read an article a bit ago that touched on this, although I couldn't quote work out if it hadn't really explained what 'mining' is or if it had and I was just too stupid to understand it. It's in bullet point 6. The gist of it appears to be this: "...

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Just to clarify my comments, I was speaking generally about players taking the knee in high-level, widely broadcast football (basically the Premier League and international football so far as I have seen it for myself), and not specifically about the England team, where as far as I can tell everyone...

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Also I agree with Jack that we don't need to hear all the maxes and multiple definitions every round. Maybe I'm in the minority too (hey Jack!) but it takes up a LOT of time (frequently more than a minute on a round) just to tell the viewers something they could be told with a few seconds of looking...

Callum Todd

Avoiding a clash with an established part of the community is just common decency so the ATP thing was a good call. I'd only knowingly regularly clash with them with Andy's permission. He was there first!

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Yeah whenever a streaker runs on the pitch the UEFA camera directors always manage (perfectly so far as I have noticed in the past few years) to prevent us from seeing a pair of bare buttocks. But a (probably) dead man having his chest compressed to revive him, while his friends and girlfriend watch...

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Compelled speech on a philosophical, political, or moral topic is a bad thing, yes. This is not the same as going along with something more trivial out of politeness. So what does taking the knee 'say' ? If something, it's compelled speech when people feel compelled to do it. If nothing, then why do...

Callum Todd

I don't think ZoomDown would ever manage to routinely cut show length down to the same as Countdown because Countdown is edited. It generally takes as long if not longer to film an episode of Countdown than it does ZoomDown. If Countdown became a live TV show I think it would be at least 50 minutes ...

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Footballers being compelled to take the knee Compelled by who or what? Compelled by a desire to show a display of solidarity with people suffering racist abuse? How awful! Given that several teams have stopped making the gesture, and several individuals have spoken out saying they don't want to do ...

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Ben Wilson wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 7:59 pm So well done to Callum, who already had free entry into COLIN XVII from finishing 3rd at COLIN XVI lol. Hopefully next time an event takes place under the COLIN banner, it'll be face to face.

3rd a COLIN XVI. 2nd at ICBINC I. 1st at ICBINC II. I look forward to finishing 0th at COLIN XVII.

Callum Todd

Nightclubs reopening before parkruns is stone cold mental.

Callum Todd

Just caught up with Inside No 9. Really enjoyed both episodes. Great show. Episode 2 wasn't as original as Episode 1 but still well done.

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It's worth noting that as long as there's still a lot of virus going about we really shouldn't be using the high proportion of people vaccinated as a reason to disregard other measures that prevent transmission of the virus. That would create an evolutionary environment which places a ton of selecti...

Callum Todd

I would support Shaun Murphy for Mayor of London.

Callum Todd

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue May 04, 2021 4:12 pm People who call it a jab. It just sounds annoying, right?

Agreed. Might start calling it a check hook instead. Much more effective.

Callum Todd

Why is the sex analogy called "the birds and the bees"? Shouldn't it be the bees and the flowers? What have the birds got to do with it? Isn't it from kids seeing animals mating in the wild and asking an adult (typically a parent) what they're doing? This does happen. I specifically remem...

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But I presume that will be by far the preferred option than trying to find an alternative presenter to cover for a short period - whilst it's easy enough to find a decent substitute main show host (Colin is testament to that) it will be far more difficult to find a short-term replacement for Rachel...

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Pretty much. Yeah the female makes the eggs; the male makes the sperm. That's what defines sex in biology: gamete production. They do a sort of medieval mating ritual where they entwine themselves together for a bit then the female pumps her eggs into the male's 'brood pouch'. The eggs mature in the...

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 3:06 am Surely, if the male seahorse gives birth, it's not the male?

They don't "give birth" as such. They just hold on to the eggs until the hatchlings are ready to swim free, then release them. Like male penguins do.

Callum Todd

I originally typed the following earlier before my response (the first comment responding to Gavin's relative 'OP' in this thread) but deleted it as I thought none of it needed to be said as it was obvious to everyone. But just in case it isn't, here's a few things that I thought everybody knew: Men...

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Do you really believe that women have no more reason to feel unsafe when out alone (particularly at night) than men do? I'm not coming at this from a Jess Phillips angle at all. I'm slightly confused by your 'culture wars' framing of what seems to me to be a perfectly straightforward issue. If it's ...

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The right way to eat a banana is obviously from the middle outwards.

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"...water, 95%, did you know that? 95% water, all of us, and yet they say there’s a shortage!"

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The word 'disease' is dis - ease. Because you're not at ease when you have a disease.

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 2:48 pm Yeah, I went back and watched the whole statement in full, so I could cut through the media narrative on it and just get to the point.

This is how all information should be consumed.

Callum Todd

Cancel culture https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/new-countdown-host-anne-robinson-23527324?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar Where? I'm guessing here: "She does not want Anne, 76, to be sacked as the host of Countdown." Seems a bit out of the bl...

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