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ISONOMES in the MOONIES* round

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If my shaky maths is correct Elliott's last two games only need modest (by his standards ) wins by 99

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Then you would get a truer reflexion of which song deserves to win This is totally off-topic but I enjoyed your use of "reflexion" rather than "reflection" here, you don't see that any more. I used to read a lot of Agatha Christie stuff when I was very much younger and was alway...

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Probably the easiest set of numbers rounds in a long time.
Edit
The first time I've got all four in time

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I believe he needs to average 107 or thereabouts to break the thousand point barrier in his octorun

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2019 11:29 pm
Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2019 7:32 pm
Ray Wilding wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2019 7:11 pm

I was kidding.
This is why we need a bit of punctuation for sarcasm.
I think it can lose the effect if you have to point it out.

Obviously.

But seriously anyone on the spectrum ( and my daughter is ) may not get sarcasm unless it's telegraphed

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Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2019 7:32 pm
Ray Wilding wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2019 7:11 pm
Owen Carroll wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2019 6:17 pm
I gotta agree with Elliott here. That's a hard word to get.
I was kidding.
This is why we need a bit of punctuation for sarcasm.

An appropriate emoji usually suffices

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Unlucky, SPRUCIEST and VALIUM both valid Scrabble words as is PIECRUSTS

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Is there a policy of giving blanket do overs for players beaten by an octochamp ?

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I'm curious what the budgets are for staging ?

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In which case it's no wonder we came last.
I'm sure it wasn't always this way

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I didn't think visuals were part of it , if so Australia should have won

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Thats why the voting juries would need to get the songs before anyone else and actually seal their votes until the big day

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This probably should be in a seperate thread but here goes. Most people who criticise the event cite national bias collusion , hatred of the UK etc. What if the same judges that vote on the songs hear them on tape weeks before they are played on radio , social media etc with no prior knowledge as to...

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Australia winning is the only way England will get a chance of hosting it ever again

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Owen Carroll wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2019 7:19 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2019 6:27 pm Jeffrey Handsfords 0.0001 second conundrum solve in the final was spectacular
That was series 57 right?

Probably although he did get called for buzzing too early

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Jeffrey Handsfords 0.0001 second conundrum solve in the final was spectacular

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Kirk got a 130, but that was the old 15 round format. Dan McColm's 123 remains the only perfect game in the new format as far as I know. I wondered if he meant the highest possible maximum. According to the wiki, the old format had a highest max of 173 , and the record for the new format is 175 . A...

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Does anyone know what the highest max game ever , was ?

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Australia to win if only so next year Sydney can host next year

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The oldest people alive are probably not known .
If they were born in a country that don't carry out a census who will know.
I used to use this argument for tallest Man , fastest man etc.
If they live somewhere remote how would we know

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When you gotta you gotta go. Members of the proletariat who can't hold it in to stick it to the bourgeoisie. Straight to the gulag with you. Couldn't agree more. Marc is evidently in need of re-education. Incidentally, how did "bootlickers" get changed into "boot awlickers" in y...

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People who go to the toilet on their lunch break. Don't waste a perfectly good bathroom break you capitalist boot awlickers. When you gotta you gotta go. Although have you noticed a new trend , well at John Lewis at least , where people take bathroom breaks to spend time on their phones. Inconvenie...

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I've just found out that certain Irish names are pronounced nothing like their spelling like Niamh (neeve ) Padraic (porik) Eidlah (ailey ) They are pronounced how they are spelled. When you're taught how certain letter combos are pronounced in the Irish language they make sense. Certainly more sen...

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The Highwaymen.....Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson. A netflix special. It's about the hunt for Bonnie and Clyde. I quite enjoyed it 7/10 Also new on netflix, The Thing. I hadn't seen this in over 30 years and was surprised how well it had aged. It's considered to be one of the last big special ef...

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Can you ever forgive me? - Kinda bleak and sad yet funny and in a way uplifting. Worth watching. I'm really looking forward to seeing this. I love Melissa McCarthy. I've only seen her in comedy roles up until now and can't wait to see what she's like in something more serious. A lot of comedians tr...

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Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2019 10:08 pm People who draw horizontal lines through their 7s.

So you don't trust the Germans then.
Racist

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Paul Worsley wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2019 12:55 pm Watched two in-flight movies this week.

"First Man", the Neil Armstrong biopic was very good, and I can recommend it.

"Widows" based on the Lynda La Plante novel/mini-series, started off well, but the final twists were a bit preposterous.

First Man had a great soundtrack

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I've been playing Scrabble too long

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Ray Wilding wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 1:44 pm POINTAGES in R11.

PINOTAGES, surely

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I'm guessing India left her specs behind

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Watching the reboot of The Twilight Zone. Only seen the first two. A modern update of familiar stories from the sixties/seventies. Quite good. Jordan Peele doing the Rod Serling bit. Season 5 of The Line of Duty. Excellent so far. Getting a little weary of all the characters whose surname begins wit...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2019 11:07 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2019 7:51 pm PREDEATH ?
I think the word you're looking for is "life".

I thought that was AFTER BIRTH

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PREDEATH ?

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Ian Volante wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2019 12:21 pm Watched Ready Player One the other night, was okay actually, although over-simplified from the book, which is saying something.

Ironically it didn't have enough Spielberg references considering he made it
Certainly no narcissist.

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That's Brave

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Anybody watch The OA.
Weird but compelling
It's on Netflix if you are interested.
Not seen season 2 yet

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Just watched Mandy, psychedelic revenge flick with Nicolas Cage in top form. It's gorgeously shot. One of the best looking movies ever. A real face melter. Highly recommend. Nicolas Cage is amazing. The accepted story seems to be that he blew all the money that he'd made from his early successful f...

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It's definitely commitment going to bloody Liechtenstein. I've seen plankton with more personality and purpose. Racist 😁 *xenophobe ;) Good topic for a debate , the difference between being a racist or a xenophobe. If you had said , say , Zimbabwe instead of Lichtenstein would it be racist or xenop...

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Jennifer Steadman wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 2:25 pm
sean d wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 1:52 pmExcellent commitment to the cause Jen, picking up the micronations!
It's definitely commitment going to bloody Liechtenstein. I've seen plankton with more personality and purpose.

Racist

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Owen Carroll wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2019 5:43 pm
Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2019 1:04 am Considering going to Captain Marvel -- is it worth it?
You'd have to be a marvel fan to enjoy it

I'm not a Marvel fan per se but I enjoyed it.
Maybe setting it in the nineties with a quality soundtrack helped.
Samuel L Jackson was cool and funny.
Brie Larson was great as Carol Danvers

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Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2019 1:04 am Considering going to Captain Marvel -- is it worth it?

Yes, I enjoyed it.
Unless you don't like nineties music and are not in any way a feminist then it's worth a look.
Good plot and sometimes quite funny

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Tom S wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2019 9:22 pmCheat

It had plot holes you could drive a tank through, unbelievable behaviour by grown men and women in a position of trust, ridiculous, reasoning and motives.
I enjoyed it though

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Brexit.
Wtf is wrong with the people we elected.
All this time and the best they can come up with is please, sir, can we have some more ...... time
I do hope they say bollocks you've made your bed.

I can't believe I'm even saying this but, it would never have happened under Thatcher

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Just binge watched After Life by Ricky Gervais. Wasn't sure if I'd like it having found Derek a little hard to watch at times, but After Life is very good. Rude, touching funny and just the best depiction of grief suicide and depression and how it affects people. Don't let the subject matter put you...

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Just finished True Detective season 3. Had held off season 2 because of the poor reviews for years, but watched 2 and 3 in close succession. Thought 2 was pretty decent - it's only poor in comparison to how good season 1 was, it's not really poor at all reviewed objectively as a standalone drama. S...

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It is odd , coloured people unacceptable, but people of colour is

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Saw that three identical strangers on channel 4 the other night. It was excellent. Would thoroughly recommend Searching for Sugarman as well. Thanks I will check it out . Free Solo, which won the Oscar is worth checking out just for the jaw dropping climbing scenes Also one from about 10 years ago ...

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I've finally caught up with The Good Doctor about a surgical intern on the Autism Spectrum.
Its quite good although I'm not sure if it is an entirely accurate representation of someone on the spectrum.

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This Time with Alan Partridge obviously. I thought it was good, but I wasn't like "Fuck, that was amazing" afterwards. Hard to believe that Alan Partridge had been going for 25 years , longer if you count the radio It was quite funny but you can tell the difference between when Iannuci wr...

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Do you think we should have another referendum on Brexit ? What basis would you justify it Maybe the hidden agenda is that a lot of leavers are dead or too I'll to vote plus a lot more remainers are now elegible to vote. My take on it would be to have a referendum on having another referendum on the...

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No but it wasn't without some foundation
It could also be argued that converting to Judaism would be equally beneficial but doesn't fit the narrative.

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Here https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/7808783/Prisoners-converting-to-Islam-for-perks.html And more recently https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/duke-marlborough-prison-islam-conversion-jail-aristocrat-ramadan-jamie-spencer-churchill-a7879571.html%3famp ...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Feb 22, 2019 2:02 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri Feb 22, 2019 10:09 am If you are a prisoner and convert to Islam you get better food, privileges etc.
Is that what you were advised?

I'm guessing you consider yourself a wit, well you are halfway there at least.
For the record, I have never been to prison or convicted of any crime

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When she comes back she will probably get a trial and go to prison where she will be put with women of her own community and she can radicalise lots of vulnerable Muslim women
Btw apropos etc.
If you are a prisoner and convert to Islam you get better food, privileges etc.

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I see her parents are challenging the decision to deny Miss Begum UK citizenship.
Will they be entitled to legal aid ?

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Given that hundreds of male IS fighters - actively and personally involved in killing - have already returned to the UK without losing their citizenship, it seems a tad misogynistic to make a public example of a young woman (girl) with a newborn baby. She does of course need to be dealt with and be...

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Radicalised would be more succinct. I think she genuinely thought she was doing good by going there . I am curious if the government had stopped her from leaving , in the first place, would the public be up in arms as her liberty would have been infringed. You could argue that she may not feel free ...

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The thing that I can't get my head round is, 15 year olds are naturally rebellious but leaving her family to join the ISIS cause is a bit of a step up from a piercing or smoking weed. And more importantly, her parents must have been complicit and paid for her flights along with the other girls pare...

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The thing that I can't get my head round is, 15 year olds are naturally rebellious but leaving her family to join the ISIS cause is a bit of a step up from a piercing or smoking weed. And more importantly, her parents must have been complicit and paid for her flights along with the other girls paren...

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