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by David Williams
Thu Apr 22, 2021 9:50 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Joke Items
Replies: 250
Views: 82672

Re: Joke Items

It's not just money that makes this one different. There was massive opposition to the formation of the Premier League and the Champions League at the time, but now these are the good guys. The crucial difference is the absence of promotion and relegation. All of the big six are clearly among the st...
by David Williams
Thu Apr 15, 2021 7:18 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Ask Graeme?
Replies: 1740
Views: 683814

Re: Ask Graeme?

The question of who is better has definitely been addressed before. I'll have a look later if someone doesn't beat me to it. I remember one a long time ago that showed that Rachel was better overall, but Carol declined as she got older, and when she was the same age as Rachel they were about the sa...
by David Williams
Wed Apr 14, 2021 7:06 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Ask Graeme?
Replies: 1740
Views: 683814

Re: Ask Graeme?

For Graeme or someone else with too much time on their hands. How many numbers games have Carol and Rachel each presided over? Seeing as there are twice as many now as there were for most of Carol's time it could be close.
And probably for Graeme alone. Which of them is better (at numbers)??
by David Williams
Tue Apr 06, 2021 4:58 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Easter Monday 5th April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 66)
Replies: 14
Views: 3771

Re: Spoilers for Easter Monday 5 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 66)

I'd have been amazed if UNFRIEND wasn't in. Turns out it was one of Oxford's words of the year as far back as 2009. Can I have BEWARED? Generally speaking, you know to go to Lexico don't you? I know the free version isn't identical to the one they use, but it gives you most of the information. Of c...
by David Williams
Tue Apr 06, 2021 1:10 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Easter Monday 5th April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 66)
Replies: 14
Views: 3771

Re: Spoilers for Easter Monday 5 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 66)

You can certainly have past infinitives. To have eaten. Past imperatives may be a bit more dodgy. Even so. I didn't see the signs. Keep your dog on a lead. I should have kept my dog on a lead. Beware of the dog. I should have . . . what?
by David Williams
Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:21 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Easter Monday 5th April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 66)
Replies: 14
Views: 3771

Re: Spoilers for Easter Monday 5 April 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 66)

I'd have been amazed if UNFRIEND wasn't in. Turns out it was one of Oxford's words of the year as far back as 2009.

Can I have BEWARED?
by David Williams
Mon Mar 29, 2021 7:13 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Monday 29th March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 61)
Replies: 13
Views: 3310

Re: Spoilers for Monday 29 March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 61)

If they slip him another freebie 18 points in the first round for the fourth game running that will help a little.
by David Williams
Tue Mar 23, 2021 7:22 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Monday 22nd March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 56)
Replies: 15
Views: 4202

Re: Spoilers for Monday 22 March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 56)

It occurs to me that every day countless newspapers publish the solution to the previous day's cryptic crossword. I've never come across one that actually explains the answers.
by David Williams
Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:51 am
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Monday 22nd March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 56)
Replies: 15
Views: 4202

Re: Spoilers for Monday 22 March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 56)

I'd be willing to bet that most viewers didn't understand the teaser. You cannot possibly know that. You can only extrapolate from yourself and the very limited selection of people you know. I would see it as dumbing down with a vengeance to explain that Miss Fylde was a beauty queen from Lancashir...
by David Williams
Tue Mar 23, 2021 8:28 am
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Monday 22nd March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 56)
Replies: 15
Views: 4202

Re: Spoilers for Monday 22 March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 56)

Population 80,000. Just because it's not in the south-east of England doesn't make it obscure. Would you expect an explanation of, say, Barking (population 60,000)?
by David Williams
Tue Mar 16, 2021 2:12 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Monday 15th March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 51)
Replies: 3
Views: 1173

Re: Spoilers for Monday 15th March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 51)

It used to irritate me a little that Nick was obviously so hopeless at Countdown, but Colin seems to go farther and farther in the opposite direction. It was bad enough the other day when he had all four of the presenters say they had got a conundrum that the two contestants had missed, but it seeme...
by David Williams
Fri Mar 05, 2021 7:37 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 4th March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 44)
Replies: 5
Views: 1428

Re: Spoilers for Thursday 4th March 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 44)

A couple of weeks ago we had something like "4+8=12. Oh, (pause) er, no, that's another one. 75*8=600 . . ." Would Colin have allowed that? I somehow doubt it. At the time I sort of thought that starting "4+8" and correcting yourself is OK, but once you've said "=12" yo...
by David Williams
Mon Mar 01, 2021 2:55 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Politics in General
Replies: 1604
Views: 1652291

Re: Politics in General

Marc Meakin wrote: Mon Mar 01, 2021 1:02 pm For me its Nicholas II of Russia, Pope John Paul II or Tina Fey
That would be my perfect dinner party.
by David Williams
Fri Feb 12, 2021 10:59 am
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 11th February 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 29)
Replies: 2
Views: 1019

Re: Spoilers for Thursday 11th February 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 29)

Why would you risk MORALES when your opponent has declared a five. Potential gain one point. Potential (and actual) loss 11 points.
by David Williams
Mon Feb 01, 2021 10:53 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Who should replace Nick Hewer?
Replies: 78
Views: 22284

Re: Who should replace Nick Hewer?

Comment from a viewer in the Sunday Times yesterday. "Colin Murray . . . just can't stop talking and letting us know how clever he is." I find myself wishing he'd stop trying to build up a crescendo of tension and excitement in a run-of-the-mill heat game, particularly when the contestants...
by David Williams
Sun Jan 31, 2021 12:38 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Who should replace Nick Hewer?
Replies: 78
Views: 22284

Re: Who should replace Nick Hewer?

You need a presenter who knows the basic rules - whose turn it is, who declares first, who gives their word first - ensures the game is run scrupulously fairly and in such a way that the typical viewer doesn't even realise there are any rules. What you don't need is a celebrity guest. It's pretty od...
by David Williams
Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:12 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Monday 25th January 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 16)
Replies: 2
Views: 1630

Re: Spoilers for Monday 25 January 2021 (Series 83, Preliminary 16)

If there was anyone who believed that Rachel gets fed answers by computer, I think her solution to this one would suggest otherwise.

869 = ((50 + 8) × 2 + 8) × 7 + 1​

Once you get to 58 there's a rather simpler method staring you in the face.
by David Williams
Sat Jan 02, 2021 8:37 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Genius things
Replies: 41
Views: 10754

Re: Genius things

I just thought Jono meant doorbells generally. Either way it's weak in the context of this topic. And are LED bulbs really such a game-changer? Significant reduction in global carbon emissions and cheaper and longer-lasting than what they replace. Something actually useful that won a Nobel prize. A...
by David Williams
Thu Dec 24, 2020 9:07 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Letters Distribution Q
Replies: 8
Views: 3303

Re: Letters Distribution Q

If you add up how many times each consonant has appeared this year, I imagine you will find that J, Q, X, Z have appeared about the same number of times each, and all the others will be close to a whole number multiple of the average of those numbers. QED. More difficult for the vowels if you don't ...
by David Williams
Thu Dec 10, 2020 3:25 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Ladbrokes - Next Presenter Odds
Replies: 40
Views: 11038

Re: Ladbrokes - Next Presenter Odds

Is that list of odds for real/ If you wanted to guarantee a pay-out of £1000 on who will win the Premier League, and decided to place a bet on all 20 teams it would cost you a little over £1100. Maybe £700 split between Liverpool and Manchester City, and about 20p each on Fulham and West Brom. If yo...
by David Williams
Sun Nov 22, 2020 1:53 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
Replies: 503
Views: 155329

Re: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread

Rhys Benjamin wrote: Sun Nov 22, 2020 1:20 pm If we can develop a testing system from nothing it stands to reason we can roll the vaccine out at double speed.
That is slightly less logical than saying if we can develop a testing system from nothing it stands to reason we can have a world-beating track and trace system.
by David Williams
Mon Nov 16, 2020 5:36 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 630679

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

There is a 'thing' called six degrees of Kevin Bacon whereby you can determine that every actor is no more than six people away from Kevin Bacon from the films they have made. I was wondering if there is an optimum number of degrees for one person to be known to anyone on the planet I believe a gro...
by David Williams
Tue Nov 10, 2020 12:28 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Nick Hewer taking break from Countdown
Replies: 9
Views: 3364

Re: Nick Hewer taking break from Countdown

Those with long memories may recall that Channel 4 has announced a “black takeover day” which will showcase black talent to “kickstart a fresh push for greater on- and off-screen representation”. Is this perhaps a missed opportunity? Aren't appointments like this precisely the problem they are suppo...
by David Williams
Tue Oct 20, 2020 1:43 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Monday 19th October 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 138)
Replies: 4
Views: 1811

Re: Spoilers for Monday 19th October 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 138)

Somewhat surreal ending.

C2 Two large, please.

Rachel You're 16 behind. Do you want to gamble?

C2 OK, one large, please.

C2 then gets seven points for one away, plus the conundrum, and wins.
by David Williams
Fri Oct 16, 2020 11:27 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Xmas Specials
Replies: 7
Views: 3653

Re: Xmas Specials

Now I understand why Andy Burnham is so keen to keep Greater Manchester out of Tier 3.
by David Williams
Tue Oct 06, 2020 9:06 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
Replies: 503
Views: 155329

Re: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread

I don't understand what a circuit-breaker is supposed to do. If you don't completely fix the problem while the circuit is broken, you don't really achieve anything. If every single person in this country were to be completely isolated for long enough coronavirus would be eradicated, along with every...
by David Williams
Tue Oct 06, 2020 8:43 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
Replies: 503
Views: 155329

Re: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread

You'll find that earlier in this thread (or possibly the other one) I did think Cummings should go. Link, please. And do you still think he should have gone? You'll also find many Conservatives called for Cummings to go And the next time they support the Government on something controversial I'll b...
by David Williams
Sat Oct 03, 2020 11:33 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
Replies: 503
Views: 155329

Re: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread

I'm not convinced Dominic Cummings did anything illegal. The reason the story ran and ran was the incomprehensible decision not to sack him, which completely undermined the efforts to combat the virus. If you believed that there was a left-wing bias in the media, all the more reason to sack him and ...
by David Williams
Wed Sep 30, 2020 7:07 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
Replies: 503
Views: 155329

Re: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread

You're assuming either that you have full immunity once you've had it, or that the 1% death rate is because 99% of people will never be at risk of death and 1% are goners. If it was as common as a cold, you could get it every month, and there was a 1% chance of death every time you got it . . .
by David Williams
Sun Sep 27, 2020 11:20 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: You Are The Ref
Replies: 345
Views: 147326

Re: You Are The Ref

Suppose the setter hadn't realised TRANSAXLE has an anagram, and used the scramble RAXELNAST. If someone buzzed with RELAXANTS, would you give them the points? Yes I would 100% give them the points and I would apologise for setting a shite conundrum. And when the opponent says he saw RELAXANTS but ...
by David Williams
Tue Sep 22, 2020 7:53 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
Replies: 503
Views: 155329

Re: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread

Forgive me if I'm missing the point here, because I haven't studied all of this, but when coronavirus was growing at a high exponential rate back in the spring, wasn't the estimate that there could be 500,000 deaths unless we were locked down? So if lockdown has saved over 450,000 deaths from corona...
by David Williams
Thu Sep 17, 2020 7:36 am
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
Replies: 583
Views: 289171

Re: CO:parkrun Recaps

I'm not disputing the attraction or the benefits of parkrun. I just have my doubts about their conclusion that the benefits far outweigh the risks, and I really doubt that people will stick to the guidance. You're not going to get much social interaction if everyone sticks rigidly to social distanci...
by David Williams
Wed Sep 16, 2020 7:29 am
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
Replies: 583
Views: 289171

Re: CO:parkrun Recaps

There's a parkrun almost literally on my doorstep. They use a route that's similar to, but not as nice as, one I regularly do at about 8:15 every Saturday. I've never really felt it would be an improvement to go at a less convenient time, hang about for ten minutes at the start and do a less attract...
by David Williams
Thu Sep 10, 2020 6:25 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
Replies: 252
Views: 49559

Re: Track and Field Athletics

Honourable mention for Jonathan Edwards, whose world triple jump record has stood for 25 years. He also held the previous record, which stood for about 25 minutes.
by David Williams
Wed Aug 19, 2020 7:39 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Most Famous People without a Wikipedia Article
Replies: 55
Views: 35594

Re: Most Famous People without a Wikipedia Article

When I saw the name it took a second or two. Cancer survivor, raised a lot of money, husband was killed in the Abbeystead explosion and she went downhill very quickly after that? Correct! Certainly well-known at the time, but it was forty years ago. And not as famous as Kay Kelly? (Who probably no-o...
by David Williams
Sun Jul 19, 2020 12:55 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Would Countdown improve if......
Replies: 5
Views: 2763

Re: Would Countdown improve if......

Remember this guy? Won €69,832 by winning 116 consecutive games on the Spanish version, which given the random effect of those rules is nothing short of astonishing.
by David Williams
Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:34 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: You Are The Ref
Replies: 345
Views: 147326

Re: You Are The Ref

Or MAUVES when there is no S in the selection? Or declares SPECIE when he has SPECIES written down (two completely different meanings, and SPECIE is a mass noun)? Personally, for MAUVE I'd allow MAUVE(S), and disallow MAUVES, and probably disallow MAUVES? as well. Just as an aside, in the whole hist...
by David Williams
Thu Jun 25, 2020 7:42 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: You Are The Ref
Replies: 345
Views: 147326

Re: You Are The Ref

It would just be a case of pointing to the appropriate position in a continuous stream of letters. Player needs to draw the last letters game. He writes down MAUVES. His opponent declares five, so he declares five as well. Opponent says MAUVE, player says "Same" and shows him the piece of...
by David Williams
Wed Jun 24, 2020 6:58 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: B'day Championship Spoilers For Tuesday February 26th 2013
Replies: 41
Views: 12364

Re: B'day Championship Spoilers For Tuesday February 26th 20

David O'Donnell wrote: Tue Feb 26, 2013 7:24 pm1. Apterous has spoiled Countdown (Craig Beevers and David Williams have explained this to me)
While I'm more than flattered to figure in such illustrious company, I have no recollection of where this came from.
by David Williams
Wed Jun 24, 2020 6:54 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: You Are The Ref
Replies: 345
Views: 147326

Re: You Are The Ref

I think the one thing you mustn't do is hesitate. When you're asked for a word, you give it. I once had UNCLAD and UNCOOL written down, both 99.9% certain, saw UNTOLD too late to write it down but that was the one I gave. The thing I've never been totally happy with is people who have RELACQUER and ...
by David Williams
Tue Jun 16, 2020 11:32 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Inventions corner
Replies: 51
Views: 16022

Re: Inventions corner

Would a vacuum even work? Presumably you lose the cooling effect of convection, and conduction and radiation remain the same. But the lower pressure will cause evaporation. I would have thought putting it in the freezer would be more effective.
by David Williams
Tue Jun 16, 2020 11:32 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Inventions corner
Replies: 51
Views: 16022

Re: Inventions corner

Having used public transport with a compulsory mask on a suitable way of eating and drinking with a mask on needs to be invented. I would have said someone should invent something to prevent people eating and drinking on public transport, but it looks as if Chinese scientists have already done so. ...
by David Williams
Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:22 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Inventions corner
Replies: 51
Views: 16022

Re: Inventions corner

Marc Meakin wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2020 5:40 am Having used public transport with a compulsory mask on a suitable way of eating and drinking with a mask on needs to be invented.
I would have said someone should invent something to prevent people eating and drinking on public transport, but it looks as if Chinese scientists have already done so.
by David Williams
Sun Jun 14, 2020 11:05 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Birthday Championship Spoilers For Monday February 11th 2013
Replies: 28
Views: 8262

Re: Birthday Championship Spoilers For Monday February 11th 2013

Rhys Benjamin wrote: Sun Jun 14, 2020 10:25 pm Amazed CORONAS was left in.
Amazed? Really? So they should have bleeped it out as if it was highly offensive? Or pulled the whole programme? Presumably when everyone else thought people who stopped buying Corona beer were idiots, you were amazed that anyone was still buying it at all.
by David Williams
Mon May 25, 2020 7:59 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Is picking the letters an advantage?
Replies: 33
Views: 11703

Re: Is picking the letters an advantage?

The actual game situation in my case was 62-55 with the final letters round, selection MIFGOSEMV, and he said "six". I had FOGIES (dodgy 6) and some 5, I can't remember what it was now. Saying FOGIES kept it 68-61, and after the final numbers that was 68-68. So if I'd said 5 I'd have lost...
by David Williams
Sat May 23, 2020 11:26 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Is picking the letters an advantage?
Replies: 33
Views: 11703

Re: Is picking the letters an advantage?

Declaring second is an advantage. It can be an advantage even if it gives you a lower expected score. You're 21 points behind. Last letters game. You're looking at a safe seven or a dodgy eight. He goes eight, you go seven, and vice versa. He goes six, you go seven. In the long run it costs you poin...
by David Williams
Wed May 20, 2020 11:32 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: B'day Championship Spoilers For Wednesday January 23rd 2013
Replies: 32
Views: 8227

Re: B'day Championship Spoilers For Wednesday January 23rd 2

It'd be the best thing ever if OUP had a massive review of their count and mass noun labelling so she could just say "Yep, mass noun, so you can't pluralise it" rather than being put on the spot so often. http://wiki.apterous.org/Contestant_Guidelines#Pluralisable_mass_noun_categories May...
by David Williams
Tue May 19, 2020 8:02 pm
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Higher or Lower
Replies: 127
Views: 38796

Re: Higher or Lower

David Williams wrote: Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:38 pm Surely the whole essence of the original problem was that the numbers were selected randomly from a boundless selection. If there is some sort of probability distribution it's a different matter altogether.
I knew I should have read at least some of this before I started again.
by David Williams
Mon May 18, 2020 8:05 pm
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Higher or Lower
Replies: 127
Views: 38796

Re: Higher or Lower

I'm not convinced that a valid answer to picking a number is to say that your number is a normal distribution with mean of x and standard deviation of y, but even if it is, the best you can say is that your method produces a chance higher than zero of winning, and I have shown that the chance is low...
by David Williams
Mon May 18, 2020 5:59 pm
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Higher or Lower
Replies: 127
Views: 38796

Re: Higher or Lower

I know what a normal distribution is. It was you that brought it up and it's got nothing to do with the question.
by David Williams
Mon May 18, 2020 4:28 pm
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Higher or Lower
Replies: 127
Views: 38796

Re: Higher or Lower

Suppose, for the sake of argument, that the two numbers are picked at random, but from a large but finite range, and that they differ by 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Let's call that number X. Let's also have a very small number, say 0.0000000000000000000000001, which we call Y. If the ...
by David Williams
Mon May 18, 2020 3:44 pm
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Higher or Lower
Replies: 127
Views: 38796

Re: Higher or Lower

But the difference between the two numbers is finite, so the probability of the number you pick being between them is zero. Not necessarily. In particular, if you choose your own random number according to, e.g. a normal distribution, then it has a non-zero probability of landing in any given finit...
by David Williams
Mon May 18, 2020 3:32 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And How Will We Feel Fine?)
Replies: 17
Views: 6585

Re: It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And How Will We Feel Fine?)

We will go into lockdown any time anyone sneezes in China. If coronavirus had happened before bird flu and ebola, SARS and MERS, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have blithely ignored them in this country.
by David Williams
Sun May 17, 2020 11:37 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Weird stuff that's happened to you
Replies: 24
Views: 10647

Re: Weird stuff that's happened to you

I imagine she thought "Oh God, it's that weird kid in my daughter's class, just standing there, waiting to get past. Should I just ignore him? Would that be rude? I've got to say something. But what?"
by David Williams
Sat May 16, 2020 11:28 pm
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Higher or Lower
Replies: 127
Views: 38796

Re: Higher or Lower

I should probably read all this again, because it all seems too simple now. The strategy is to pick your own number first, then go lower if it is lower than the number you see, higher if it's higher. You win every time if your number is between the other two, it's 50/50 if it isn't. But the differen...
by David Williams
Tue May 05, 2020 7:48 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Joke Items
Replies: 250
Views: 82672

Re: Joke Items

A more consistent and even saltiness is exactly what many uses of salt are trying not to achieve. Good examples that you must (but obviously won't) be able to appreciate would be chocolate stuff - a bar of dark chocolate with sea salt or sea salt in a brownie or something. You don't want to make th...
by David Williams
Mon May 04, 2020 12:49 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Replies: 630
Views: 275544

Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised

It's a discussion that I've seen come up a few times recently. It makes sense that it might have been a thing with mechanical typewriters. I can't see it. With a mechanical typewriter, the full stop occupies a whole space. With two more empty spaces, that's three spaces between the last word of the...
by David Williams
Wed Apr 15, 2020 9:39 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Replies: 758
Views: 565371

Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?

Have there not been similar debates about Countdown auditions in the past? Didn't they have to change some of the letters selections because someone posted the ones they used in his audition? I scrambled through an audition with mainly sevens, but would have done a whole lot better if I'd realised y...