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Ian Volante

Paul Anderson wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 12:07 pm Stockholm Diamond League BBC2 at 3pm

Ooh. Oh.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 2:08 pm In spite of seeing it countless times in British crime dramas, British judges do not use a gavel

So, did they find you guilty?

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 5:06 pm Deja Vue again against Germany

Who does he play for?

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Paul Anderson wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 9:56 am Means folk are selling contraband in the area

Ha, I find that hard to believe, although it does seem to be a common explanation. Seems more likely highly amusing bullying.

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I'm pretty sure Ben Johnson said something like everyone in that race was doping, he just was the fastest of them. I wonder if he'd have been caught if Lewis had won instead?

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Ooh, I've not seen much 90m+ throwing for ages. No thanks to the BBC who really don't like throwing events! I must look out for this bloke. Germany's Johannes Vetter throws 96.29m at the EuroAthletics Team Championships – the third farthest throw in history. He now occupies 7 of the top 15 spots on...

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The javelin record used to be well over 100m. I kind of lost interest once it became obvious that the IAAF thought that steeplechasers being speared by javelins might not be in the best interests of the sport. Didnt they have to change the centrw of gravity of the Javelin because of Jan Zelezny I t...

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Mark James wrote: ↑Sun May 23, 2021 12:17 pm Watched the latest interpretation of the Invisible Man which I thought was excellent.

Is it possible to work out who's in the title role?

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

Don't see much difference, both cause a loss of sleep and activity likely to induce sweatiness and dehydration.

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Mon May 24, 2021 11:50 am To be fair, if I require a partner to have both hands AND no sense of smell, I'm really narrowing my market.

Hang around at a Covid testing facility, preferably near a travelling circus.

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Italy's entry was a very enjoyable piece of music for me. When Finland were revealed to have scored over 200 from the public with what was a very bland piece, it was clear that Italy would be the ones to beat. Hmmm I actually quite liked the Finnish piece. Of the two, I'd say that that was the inte...

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Ian Fitzpatrick wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 9:39 am
Phil H wrote: ↑Sun May 23, 2021 5:45 pm Is it just me or have there been numerous references to "lactic acid" in coverage of every event this season, but next to none in previous seasons?
No, it's been talked about for years!

Agreed, and not just in athletics.

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My assessment of the curve was bollocks, a lot more defeats for multiple winners than I'd anticipated. The equation relating wins (x) and proportion winning 8 (y) is close to: y = 0.009x^2 + 0.0475x + 0.0601 So there you go. Or, including 0 gives a better (closer to actual data) intercept. This cur...

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Happy birthday Graeme! Q that came up in aptochat - What percentage of players who have won n games go on to be octochamps? So if you win 0 games then you've got 0% chance, to 8 games 100% chance, but what are your chances when you've won 4 or 6 or any other? TIA :) If I've understood the question ...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 2:28 pm
Ian Volante wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 11:55 am As long as they continue to annoy both sides, I'm happy enough.
I'd much rather they report accurately, though.

The headline wasn't inaccurate.

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As long as they continue to annoy both sides, I'm happy enough.

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Yes, the whole Brexit thing was and is an absolute shitshow. And of course the same would happen with Scottish independence. It would go on for ages after the vote with people arguing about what independence really meant just like with Brexit. Those arguments are ongoing and have been for years. Th...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 2:11 pm Also, "once in a generation" was a central tenet of the 2014 referendum.

Politicians say things. Doesn't mean much unless it's down in writing. Even then...

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The Scotland Act is very clear that the power to hold a referendum lies with the British government. This is why the 2014 referendum happened, because David Cameron agreed to it (Edinburgh Agreement). If it were me I would put an "not before x" date on it, and not rule it out altogether, ...

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Well, it seems that from the vote it's not clear either way, and when you add in the fact that people weren't just voting on whether they wanted a another referendum, it's even less clear. You could argue either way for whether a referendum should happen, but it's definitely not as clear cut as Nic...

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Well, given we already know that: - the civil service are untrustworthy As a member of HM Civil Service, bugger off with your sweeping nonsense, frankly. They have form. I refer you to the word 'sweeping'. We aren't all leaking, in fact the vast majority of us are fair and balanced in our dealings,...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 2:07 pm Well, given we already know that:

- the civil service are untrustworthy

As a member of HM Civil Service, bugger off with your sweeping nonsense, frankly.

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Dave Preece wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 3:15 amWTF???

u ok hun

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Mark James wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:47 pm
Ian Volante wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 2:01 pm
Mark James wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 12:24 pm The Blink 182 album title "Take off your Pants and Jacket" is a pun.
Can you explain it to me then?
Let's just say Jacket should be read as two words rather than two syllables.

Gawd, I'd never have thought of that.

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I'm still grumpy that I never thought to grab my name plate when I got beat. I'd have it over my bed or something. You didn't get it? I got mine from the heats and the finals in my goody bag. One is on my desk at work and the other's in my downstairs crapper :) This time round they were given to me...

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Mark James wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 12:24 pm The Blink 182 album title "Take off your Pants and Jacket" is a pun.

Can you explain it to me then?

Ian Volante

Thanks James. Still grumpy that I didn't take the lead in this match. Only round 5 was beyond me - at my best I'd have been close.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 10:05 am Peopke who say happy zombie Jesus day on Good Friday ffs

Should wait until Monday, aye?

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Intresting. I've always just found potholes a bit odd. It seems to me that road tarmac is the exception rather than the rule for how stuff generally wears out. Most things in the world would wear away more evenly rather than just develop random holes in it A mixture of ongoing high and uneven press...

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Why isn't it possible to make roads out of stuff that doesn't develop potholes? It is, they're just more expensive.https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/4/15544156/potholes-self-healing-materials-infrastructure-transportation That talks about steel fibres in asphalt, in the past I've read about plastics ...

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This is hard to describe but what do you call it when you get a bit off skin off the side of your fingernail? I've asked some friends and everyone seems to have their own colloquial name for it. I've always called it a mitch. One friend calls it a ting and his girlfriend calls it a granny. What do ...

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This is hard to describe but what do you call it when you get a bit off skin off the side of your fingernail? I've asked some friends and everyone seems to have their own colloquial name for it. I've always called it a mitch. One friend calls it a ting and his girlfriend calls it a granny. What do ...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 1:59 pm
Ian Volante wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 12:01 pm
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 12:26 pm
Orange juice is just better!
I concur that Digestives work great in orange juice. Not done that for years though.
Not chocolate though surely?

Can't remember if I've tried that, but I like orange/chocolate, so I don't see why not.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 12:26 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:12 am
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 10:07 am Dunk biscuits in orange juice. You don't have to use a crappy hot brown drink.
Nooooo
Whats wrong witb milk or a milk substitute?

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Orange juice is just better!

I concur that Digestives work great in orange juice. Not done that for years though.

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The old cartoons of Mohmammed thing has made the news again. My old school, that, although now it's an academy, it's trying desperately to trade on its reputation as far as I can tell. The complaint was made in the regular way by parents contacting the school directly, the people at the gates were ...

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Mark James wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 11:10 am Just wanted to say the season 4 update for Fall Guys is fantastic.

On another note does anyone here play Amomg Us? Would anyone be interested in getting a C4 Countdown group game going?

Wouldn't mind a game.

Ian Volante

Thanks Mark, you've saved me a lot of what feels like unnecessary effort to say these things. As a family member said when the equal-marriage bill passed, with a slight paraphrasing, "Ireland really grew up today". No worries Ian, your thanks is much appreciated. There's a lot I'm not hap...

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I really hope he steps away from Humphrys's extreme editorialising of the question style and content.

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Mark James wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 4:14 pm The fact that you think that is what's really sad.

Thanks Mark, you've saved me a lot of what feels like unnecessary effort to say these things.

As a family member said when the equal-marriage bill passed, with a slight paraphrasing, "Ireland really grew up today".

Ian Volante

No not counted but my sister did not start her first period until she was sixteen and went through the menopause later than her friends other members of our family in age. This sounds like it takes the assumption that there are only about 500 eggs, and once you run out, that's it. However, there ar...

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I'm sure that those involved in medical care have training about what the appropriate language/questions are. For the rest of us, it's pretty simple. We refer to someone as how they identify - no need to get hung up about genitalia. One of the things that JK Rowling got into trouble for was referri...

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Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 9:19 am It's just that anyone who picked invisibility would obviously be a seriously dangerous person to have in your life, and a probable psychopath.

Yep. Especially when you could still hear them fapping.

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Either time travel or teleportation, depending on mood. Haven't a clue about comic characters, I foolishly thought Spiderman simply had shared some abilities with spiders, I suppose this could count as a superpower.

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I wonder if in the future 'biological sex' will be a term used in a similar way to ' birth mother' when describing the origins of say Eliot Page or Katlyn Jenner so as not to offend What does that even mean? Is "biological sex" not already a term? Can you give an example of how you would ...

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I just felt your posts came across very dismissive of the issue. When you use the word hysterical and then bring the male statistics in it sounds like you're saying, look at these crazy women, don't they know men have it worse. It comes across as whataboutery. Like Meakin said its reminiscent of th...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 11:54 am
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 11:07 am All these years I have been opening my bananas wrong.
Apparently, you dont open them from the stalk end you open them from the other side for a more satisfying peel
This keeps rearing its ugly head. It is complete bollocks.

Strong feelings here. Let's never talk of this again.

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Are school reunions actually a thing or do they only exist in movies and TV shows? Is it more of an American thing? Does anyone know anyone who's ever gone to one? If you have gone to one how many years was it between leaving school and the reunion? I've been to a couple; there are events every few...

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Watched 'The Lady Vanishes' the other day. Quite engaging, if a little silly towards the end.

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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. Geoff Hoon or Mark Reckless for me. Or ...

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Happy birthday Graeme! Q that came up in aptochat - What percentage of players who have won n games go on to be octochamps? So if you win 0 games then you've got 0% chance, to 8 games 100% chance, but what are your chances when you've won 4 or 6 or any other? TIA :) I'd assume this is non-linear (f...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:35 am Cancel culture
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity- ... n=sharebar

Where?

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:59 pm Why wasn't Beethoven (the dog in the film) instead called Bach? Would have been cleverer.

I know someone who called their dog Achilles.

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:39 pm bing bang bong
sing sang song
ding dang dong
uk, hun?

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-ne ... 40__32450/

Is it based on a Milligan work or something?

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All of which is a good argument without a vaccine and hence social distancing last summer, but with a vaccine what I am saying there is that it may be the case it doesn't stop you catching the virus, but equally doesn’t make you ill or kill you, then what is the point? You can’t lockdown the countr...

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I've saved approximately 300 hours of time spent on trains commuting to work and re-invested that into time asleep. I expect more acceptance of working from home in general, which means many future hours will be saved as well. I used to get the train to work. That was a good time to sleep I thought...

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Its veey much like Gary Shandling Oh, I saw his show a handful of times in the 90s, that was a hard no too! Just watch it already. Don't worry about what other people have compared it to. But if it's constantly compared to things I think are terrible, it's not really encouraging is it? It's not lik...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 1:27 pm Its veey much like Gary Shandling

Oh, I saw his show a handful of times in the 90s, that was a hard no too!

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And Season 10 of Curb. Steer clear if you are a snowflake , woke or easily offended ( is that tautology ? ) As someone who has been described as a snowflake on a few occasions, you can safely ignore the steer clear advice - it's great. I finished watching this a couple of days ago. Curb Your Enthus...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 9:57 am
Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 9:24 am This is exciting.
Post that on a fucking cricket forum - c4c(ricket) or something. From a c4c(ountdown) perspective this is just annoying.

Wait till you see the threads on dead people.

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Ah, just like old times. I might be able to recognise more than three or four of the players again soon!

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