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Paul Worsley

I can recommend Mindhunter on NetFlix. It's about how the FBI set uo their serial killer profiling programme in the 1970s. There's only one series (10 episodes), but there's bound to be more to come. Narcos... The first two series are about the rise and fall of Colombian drug lord and head of the Me...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2017 4:08 pm Bit harsh on Adele there.
You reminded me of a song that I turn off, the Pina Colada song

Good call on the Pina Colada song. 1) Man seeks fuck buddy. 2) Meets up and it's his wife. 3) They laugh it off.

Lucky Stars by Dean Friedman is another song that is better substituted by silence.

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I also want to recognise the annual abomination that is Christmas FM, a special wall to wall station of Christmas tunes that pollutes Irish airwaves for a quarter of the year. I forgot about Christmas songs. I doubt that there are enough good Christmas songs to make an hour long programme, let alon...

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The only time I ever listen to the radio is when I'm driving. My usual choice of stations is Magic FM, Planet Rock and occasionally Classic FM. Every now and then I am forced to switch the radio off because they're playing a track/song I just can't listen to. Off the top of my head these include &qu...

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Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2017 12:59 pm
Paul Worsley wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2017 12:56 am Dance like there's no-one watching.
Does this include when you know for sure that no one is watching?

Makes no difference. It's not that I can't dance, it's just that I derive no pleasure from it and avoid it if at all possible.

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Dance like there's no-one watching.

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Anthony Endsor wrote: ↑Wed Apr 26, 2017 9:02 pm . I'm sure we've all heard of the Ronan Keating song - you say it best 'when you say nothing at all'

It's an Alison Krauss song. Ronan Keating hasn't got any songs.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Jan 25, 2017 8:37 pm Gorden Kaye died the other day as well. But presumably no-one picked him.

May he rust in piss.

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I sold John Altman some Nurofen on the day of Princess Diana's funeral.

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I used to get asked about animal products in prescribed medication. Capsules are made from gelatin, so vegans would ask if they were available in tablet form. Then someone found out that gelatin can also be used in the film coating of some tablets. The information was not freely available and usuall...

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Most of the ten commandments are ok too. The first four are just god protecting his monopoly ( No other god's, no talking back to god etc) The rest are either common sense (Thou shall not kill) or irrelevant (coveting neighbour's ass etc) As Jim Jeffries pointed out, the ten commandments could be s...

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Matt Morrison wrote:a hot bowl of religious pie for tea

I thank you.

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On a more serious note , my favourite comedy is the Life of Brian a pisstake of Christianity/Judaism. Hardly banned in the Western world apart from Ireland for a while. There were plenty of calls for The Life of Brian to be banned though. The film was finally given a certificate, but even then many...

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The trouble is you might encourage hypocrites to stand for Parliament. Where would that lead us?

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I would take the polar opposite view. I think that MPs who resign from their party are being more honourable by triggering a by-election and standing again.

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The fact is that the actual votes were 37.6% leave, 34.6% stay, 27.8% didn't/couldn't decide, so it is by no means true that over half the population wanted out. 37.6% is still more than the TOTAL vote in the last European election in the UK. In fact it's more than the total turn out in 7 of the la...

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Sheep Attacks Rocket.

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Charlie Reams wrote:Leather doesn't come from the same cows that beef does. (I always assumed it was a side product, like pork scratchings.)

That pork scratchings were a side product of beef production.

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I would argue that there was no option for "no change" on the ballot paper. Other than Cameron's "reforms", what changes would we have expected from a "remain" vote? I was thinking specifically further political union, which I believe to be inevitable. Also the likelih...

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I would argue that there was no option for "no change" on the ballot paper.

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A few people have made similar points and I think it's worth repeating. People voted out for all sorts of reasons (whether valid or not) - e.g. the perceived bureaucracy or lack of democracy of the EU, immigration levels, sovereignty, lack of jobs, low wages, the shape of bananas, and even good old...

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I've wondered this. Yesterday, Liam Fox said that MPs who now vote against any legislation to leave the EU, going against the referendum result, "had no place in the House of Commons". But I don't think that's true. For example, my MP (Rob Wilson, Conservative, Reading East) was on the Re...

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On the basis that it's true. The lawyers are challenging it, but the PM could trigger article 50 tonight if he wanted.

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The PM does not need parliamentary approval to trigger aricle 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. That will start, most likely, in October 2016. There won't be a general election until 2020, by which time we're out anyway.

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It was a referendum. A single question with a binary outcome. So, no, your MP does not have a mandate to vote against leaving.

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Of course, had the Scots voted for independence in 2014 the government might have had the chutzpah to say "This was never a mandatory referendum, only advisory".

When you realise why they wouldn't have, you'll realise why they can't do that now.

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The current Betfair odds suggest a probability of staying of between 72% and 73% and leaving between 27% and 28%. It's more like 68/32 now. It's going in the "out" direction at the moment. If you're interested, here is an article suggesting that while more money has been bet in staying, m...

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102 Favourites The Godfather Part I and II (I think of them as one film), Shawshank Redemption. Most disappointed: Citizen Kane. Most obscure seen: Spirited Away Most disliked/overrated: The Matrix or anything with Superheroes Most obvious not seen: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Recommended if you...

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Jennifer Steadman wrote:You can elaborate with stories if you want.

Lanzarote. Ibiza.

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Odds Comparison gave 10/1 for a 2016 Cameron exit at William Hill in February, but when I tried to put a bet on their website it didn't allow it. How much did you try to have on? The market for politics bets on William Hill is probably quite small so very low limits! A fiver, I think, possibly £10.

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Odds Comparison gave 10/1 for a 2016 Cameron exit at William Hill in February, but when I tried to put a bet on their website it didn't allow it.

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Not just TV but also music. All the stars of the 1960s are 70+ now. How so many of the Rolling Stones are still alive is a mystery. Chuck Berry turns 90 this year, and his death would be on a par with Bowie, at least.

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Thank you. I wasn't aware of that and, yes, it counts. Easily circumnavigated by the banks though.

Bankers' pay set to rocket next year as Chancellor concedes defeat to Brussels over caps on bonuses

This is what I meant by everyone "seeking to serve it's own national interest".

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JimBentley wrote: people forget that Britain's membership of the EU means that whatever fucknut government we've managed to vote in, they would be quickly censured for any really unpleasant decisions they made.

Could you provide us with an example of when this has happened?

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JimBentley wrote:I wouldn't argue with any of that, but surely it's better to try to resolve these issues by being in the EU, rather than having no influence at all?

If Mr Cameron has achieved anything in the latest EU "deal", it is to demonstrate to the UK how little influence we have in Europe.

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I'd happily vote for the abolition of the House of Lords too. The trouble is that very few of the voters have the slightest idea how the EU operates. Decisions are often made behind closed doors and almost never ratified by anything remotely resembling a democratic process. What proportion of the UK...

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Although I think the EU is hardly perfect, it does provide checks and balances that stop the current Conservative government basically just doing what the fuck they want. In a parliamentary democracy the party with a mandated majority have the right to do "what the fuck they want", surely...

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UK, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Denmark, Monaco, Sweden, Netherlands, Andorra, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Greece, Barbados, Switzerland, Canada, USA, Turkey, Finland, Norway, Russia, Latvia, Dominican Republic, Estonia, St Marteen, Gran Turk(?) The Bahamas, Cyprus.

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Currently on Season 5 of Sons of Anarchy. I can't do the binge watching, so it takes me a few months to get through a box set. I've watched The Walking Dead from the beginning, so I'm looking forward to the new series in a couple of weeks, even though it stopped being great a while ago. The spin-off...

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It's being filmed today and James is in the audience, so confirmed by the CD team, presumably.

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Good luck for today, Rhys. Will you be wearing a blue rosette?

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Jack and I will probably be going to The George sometime on the Friday evening, if anyone would like to join us.

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I just wanted to reiterate what has been said above. She was a lovely lady and a great player. RIP.

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Jack Worsley wrote:I'll probably be there, while Worsley Snr is a maybe.

Make that two definites!

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TUTORIAL R13

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RITUAL + T = TITULAR

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Another 7, WEBSITE, in the BUSTIER round

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Callum Pickering's Movember look and the Addams family's youngest member, Pubert Addams.

Pubert

Callum

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Countdown Superstar, Dan McColm and Big Bang Theory comic shop owner, Stuart Bloom. (Suggested by my daughter, Sophie.)

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LIATRIS R13

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Thanks for all the messages of support everyone. I don't think it was fatigue, so I'm not going to blame that. I think I always knew that I had at least one bad game in me. I enjoyed the run, and there's still a chance I'll make the finals, I suppose. I was really disappointed with my numbers games....

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R10 I wrote down

STEAMED and

M E D U S A E to ensure I had spelt it correctly.

It was a longer word on my paper!

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I felt sorry for Natalie here. She says she wrote ODONATES down, but didn't risk it.

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Tony Atkins wrote:
Paul Worsley wrote:The conundrum solver was my daughter, Sophie.
Can you convince her to come to CO events now she is a Countdown star?

I'm sure she'd be happy to, so long as she can have Jack tell her the answers again!

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The conundrum solver was my daughter, Sophie.

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Jack and I are probables.

Could this be the first Co event to be held abroad?

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Another great comeback. If I was playing Paul Worsley I could be 11 points ahead going into the conundrum and still wouldn't feel confident of winning. Probably not the best tactic to let good players get 10pts+ ahead though! Interestingly, Susie took her time before allowing GARPIKES, on the groun...

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Thanks to everyone for the kind comments.

I hadn't considered that TZARDOMS was controversial at all, so Susie's deliberations had me worried.

I got BAGPIPE early into the round, but never thought to put the R on the end. Durr!!

It's tougher in the studio, guys!

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FEEDLOT R2......(Jack)

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John Vivian wrote:Will be filming on 20th August. Paul - I assume this means we'll be avoiding each other.

I would say so, unless I win 28 games in a row. Maybe see you in the finals, John!

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