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Matt Rutherford

Hello all I need to inform you of a situation that has developed over the past week. I sent letters packs that were used for CoBrum to James for CoEdi on Friday 02nd September. I received a message from him on Wednesday 28th September stating that they had not arrived. Having made phone calls and qu...

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More generally, there are lots of seemingly unconnected things that have a "left" and a "right" position - high/low taxes, nationalisation/privatisation, abortion, capital punishment, social justice things etc. Atheism and republicanism would both be "left" broadly spe...

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Separately, if you want a two player version, I've played with the following rules numerous times, and it's worked well... -Both players roll twice per turn (if Dave/robber is activated, then that is sorted out before second roll) -12 VPs to win rather than 10 -Each player starts with three settleme...

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Firstly, the robber is called Dave. You swiftly learn to hate him. Secondly, the various resources have different values. It goes (from most to least valuable) brick, iron/ore, wheat, wood, and sheep. Explained in far more detail here (https://www.alexcates.com/post/board-game-breakdown-catan-resour...

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Advance apologies if there has been a similar thread that I've missed. Am curious here-based on observations and discussions from the smattering of events I've been present at-how much alcohol impact your playing style? I've seen how some of you animals have rocked up at events after the night befor...

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So it was great fun, despite being small in number. As a hosting debut, it was brilliant. Thank you all who rocked up, along Joe for helping me out, with Fiona and George for their help Atropine, and Adam for making the certificates. with congrats to Brad and Andy for their victories. Other things t...

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My erorr

-cheers for correcting

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P W Pts 1 Bradley Horrocks 6 6 385 2 Andy Platt 6 4 375 3 George Armstrong 6 4 368 4 Adam Latchford 6 4 344 5 Fiona Titcombe 6 4 316 6 Dave Robjohns 6 4 315 6 Richard Priest 6 4 315 8 Adam Dexter 6 3 299 9 Mike Lee 6 3 293 10 Rachael Montgomery 6 3 283 11 Darren Godfrey 6 3 268 12 Adam Beach 6 3 215...

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There was much swearing last night when this came through and good grief this is annoying I'm meeting a friend who is helping me with some stuff (i.e moving equipment and doing some admin) to plan some more stuff this afternoon. I'll post (here and on Facebook) bus guides and other travel options. G...

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So there's been some interesting conversations arising from the proposed trial... I've been having a consider of the feedback, and I hold my hands up. I made an error-proposing to use it for games straight out was way too gung-ho. Sorry for the confusion that has been caused (hindsight is a glorious...

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Just a note on the observations that some tables using tech will have an unfair advantage over those using cards due to 'nicer' selections: most Lincoln style events have several different decks being used across the tables and often some tables have noticeably nicer selections than others so that'...

Matt Rutherford

(Before I start, I should have made clearer conundrums will still be on paper to allow differentiation on difficulty or crucial-ness) OK, so feedback onboard... This is just an optional trial to see how it works. The plan is thus... Have some tables (ideally about 2-3) in the first round all using t...

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Some good points raised here, all of which will have provided good food for thought (as a hosting noob, it's been very useful

). I'm mulling some things over and will post with more detailed info later on today

Matt Rutherford

Following some consulting with Cal, I can reveal that we'll be trialling something new in Brum... Many of us have become accustomed with Jack Hurst's superb Countdown app. In Brum, I'm going to trial using it to play the Co:Event games. It allows solutions, maxes, and valid words to be checked a lot...

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Cheers George! Give it another 13 days and I'll be able to post again, according to Facebook

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CoLon co-host George Armstrong joins us

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So Facebook seems to think I'm an algorithm doing Putin's dirty work, and has therefore suspended my account for some unknown reason. Which is fun. I'll be posting updates here. Mainly the fact that Adam's Dexter and Beach have joined us! I'll keep you all posted somehow

Matt Rutherford

Having hosted the final from 2016-2018, the UK's second city returns to the FOCAL calendar for 2022. Alas not in the delights of the airport's drone exclusion zone, nor the Strathallan Hotel, but it still should be fun. Hosted by Matthew S Rutherford (MSR for short. Also go by a real name-look the b...

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Sending prayers-terribly sorry to hear he's not been well, but glad to hear the encouraging news

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqH_Y1TupoQ

Good explainer above-not linked to the incident itself

Matt Rutherford

Meanwhile my "working from home" schedule has turned into filtering data with GB News on in the background. I count having things on in the background and consuming their output as watching them. I don’t count having a news channel on in the background as “watching” it. Picture the scene....

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Great news

Would it be possible to arrange a bank transfer to pay instead?

Matt Rutherford

Went to get my second dose at a walk-in clinic in central Birmingham yesterday-Brum and Solihull NHS trust have cut the gap between doses to six weeks. I had dose one on 21st June, so five weeks and four days from yesterday. Was turned away because I was three days too early. One wonders what medica...

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The BBC have lots of biases but it isn't simple left/right. They have a high house price bias (right wing) but also a "woke" bias, seen as left wing. Is it less left-right and more London/South-East centric? Both of those match-London's woke-ness and the South East's obsession with house ...

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http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/posting.php?mode=quote&f=6&p=193720# a fervent Republican Deliberate capital R? :lol: No, fat finger capital R :lol: I'm this republican-https://www.republic.org.uk/ I assure you not this- I'm a Christian who believes in evolution. I don't think they'd have me :)

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The BBC is a political Rorschach Test (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test) What you see in a story tells you a lot about views on that story. Replace Boris Johnson with Keir Starmer I wonder if there is a problem with it. Also, the Twittersphere comparing Boris to Kim Jong-Un is nowt new I...

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That reminds me - is it still the case that some people are exempt from wearing masks but this is supposed to just be taken by their word? I imagine that is causing problems. You can buy face-covering exemption lanyards online-no confirmation of condition needed. Yay in the fact that people with co...

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Another problem with time travel is that while you are off gallivanting through time you continue to age while everyone else in the "present" will stay the same. I'm also imagining someone who had a time machine in 2019 who decided to travel forward to find the results of Euro 2020 to bet...

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Teleportation any day of the week. Would save lot of money on train fares

Matt Rutherford

When's the last time you actually felt unsafe walking alone? Mine was a week ago. You can see it on my Strava https://www.strava.com/activities/4895731327 I walked down to the Tesco on the A30 - I always cut through a pleasantish short wooded section to avoid the busy roundabout, and I did on the w...

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For what it's worth I don't much like Jess Phillips either as a politician. Maybe we just have a difference of opinion on what constitutes hysterical which is fair enough. I just felt your posts came across very dismissive of the issue. When you use the word hysterical and then bring the male stati...

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The testing in school is a farce. At work, a full return has been delayed because of it. Seeing as lateral flow devices may miss anywhere from a third to a half of cases, it is dangerous. It would be better off having no testing at all-that way, there is no risk of a false sense of security. To the ...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Thu Feb 25, 2021 4:34 pm As well as many political opinions, I share a birthday with Tom Harwood. Which would be nice if I didn't have a huge inferiority complex.

My choice is between (t)he valiant Thomas Hobbes, Pharrell Williams, or the death sentence of Ethel and Julius Rosenburg.

Matt Rutherford

I think it's good they attached possible dates (though 'possible' doesn't appear to be how the papers are treating them, more as set-in-stone). Without the dates, there would be more uncertainty-and a lot of people would be complaining. There was the emphasis on the fact they could be pushed back, a...

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Hospital admissions, whilst plummetting, are still fairly high. Many vulnerable people, who could be hospitalized, don't yet have a vaccine, which could still risk a rise. The government seem to have finally learnt to err on the side of caution rather than risk another lockdown. It beds in time for ...

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Been able to do uni online (I haven't stepped foot on campus since the course started in September), which has been a lot better for my job (which I prefer doing), has let me save on commuting, and is much easier for my introverted head to deal with. Faith has grown stronger as well. On a personal l...

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However, in another piece of hopeless pessimism from Imperial, they have said that even with 3m vaccinations per week we'll be back in lockdown by August and 130,000 more people will die in the UK by June 2022. https://t.co/5AbLVzdYLx?amp=1 I just don't understand how they can even think that. The ...

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I play a few opponents regularly on Apto, some of whom I expect to be tough, and others who I think I have a fair chance against. One opponent in particular stands out... the lad who uses the name Matthew Rutherford. We're quite evenly matched, but there was a time (around two months ago) when he w...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pPuleshdtA

If James Haughton ever invites you for dinner, run for the hills

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It’s the outsourced company which ought to have its contract revoked. What a waste of public money. Further proof, if any be needed, that taxpayer-funded programs offer little value for money. Taxpayer-funded programs have the ability to do well. When in the hands of this government, who have prove...

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Timothy Keller's various apologetics-would recommend for any fellow Christian/anyone who wants to argue against a Christian. Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson is good if you want to start realizing just how annoying someone else might find you irritating. On Alan Ryan's On Politics makes for a ...

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Only tested once back in July, when I came down with chills and a fever. The good news is that it came back negative. The bad news is that it was food poisoning instead. I got to celebrate my negative test whilst regretting going near KFC

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The fact that you're still obsessing over this ancient history whilst Margaret Ferrier is still an MP indicates bias, quite frankly. When it emerged Ferrier had broken the rules, she was suspended from the SNP immediately, Sturgeon condemned her actions-she did all she could, courtesy of her having...

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https://elascorner.com/toys/breakdance/

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Link's broken
(Cannae get the staff

)

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Inspired by this from the 'You Know You're Playing Too Much Apterous When...' (if there has been a similar thread already apologies-I couldn't find one) You know you're playing too much if you get excited when you see an obscure word "in the wild". What examples have you had of this? It wa...

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Records/cassettes being brought today. I can understand collections from a time when they were ubiquitous, but now? YouTube, Spotify and many other services exist giving you every song you want, as you like it, at the click of a button and have done for some time. Spending £15 because something 'sou...

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Chris Hare during a recent debate on 're-' words
'Using a diaresis is the linguistic equivalent of having to knit pants out of spaghetti because you intentionally set fire to your underwear drawer.'

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Best-of-9 round robin will all the bots...What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.apterous.org/chat.php?base=1593384235

(Thank Andy SC for this mayhem

)

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But I pronounce water as wartah. Do you use the glottal stop? My ex wife comes from the Midlands and I liked the way she pronounced tooth and bus. Roundabouts shall forever be 'islands'. Also, people don't use the word 'gambol' enough :) One quirk of mine; when talking at speed, the 'tt' sound in w...

Matt Rutherford

Roughly half-a-stone upwards. Have been walking a lot more, but that has been far outweighed (no pun intended) by me being slumped behind my laptop, playing Apto, steadily reducing my household's supply of biscuits.

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Couldn't find a thread for things like this so started a new one. Yesterday I was introduced to a new musical genre that goes by the name of 'bardcore', or sometimes 'tavernwave'. This is an absolute banger. The concept was introduced to me as a sort of funny meme thing but I think it's genuinely b...

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Not so useful at the moment, but when the time comes to make train journeys again, Real Time Trains (https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/ also comes in a paid app on mobile) lets you know which platform your train is going from before they announce it (for most major stations, they don't tell you strai...

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Manual gearboxes (for your average car-lorries and other vehicles are a different story, I know). Automatic is far easier to deal with, not having to fuck about with the clutch and it makes roundabouts much simpler to navigate. About the only thing the US has got right is the demise of 'stickshift.'...

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I got bored, so to you stop from climbing the walls whilst Apto is down and the pubs stay shut, here's some conundrums for you to have a go at. Post the answers in small/hard-to-see fonts or PM me the answers-will post them soon for you to mark. Enjoy! 01-AILTHRONE 02-BODWASHER 03-BETRIVIAL 04-IONET...

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Courtesy of an industrial-strength bout of OCD in my early teens (that has since fucked off), I wound up suffering with the wonderfully named hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia-or 'fear of 666', which led to a general dislike of the number 6. If the same product cost £6.99 or £8.99, I'd buy the more expe...

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Whilst writing a Bible study on the Gospel of Matthew, you note down to mention 'the fraternal rotalines among the disciples.'

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Meanwhile, Specsavers are innovating in an era of social distancing. With the branches closed, they are having you do a 30-mile round trip to see if your prescription needs adjusting.

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One thing that I should have mentioned is widespread face-mask usage. Some countries in the Far East already saw regular public face mask usage courtesy of previous outbreaks (China had SARS in 2002, South Korea had MERS in 2015) whereas those doing so in the West would garner weird looks. It defini...

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As we steadily emerge blinking from our grottoes after numerous weeks of recreational curve-flattening, what we knew has gone and a brave new world now will rise. Along with far more people working from home, aversion to handshakes and hearts skipping beats every time someone in the near vicinity co...

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