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Gavin Chipper

Finally, we're off and running, Croatia certainly deserved something from the game, but thanks to the Japanese Howard Webb & their own hapless keeper they ended up getting well and truly shafted, with at least 3 huge decisions going against them. Brazil looked nothing special and are going to n...

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Peter Mabey wrote:In R14 I think Geoff had said (100-3x2)x3 without mentioning 3=4-1, so had used the 3 twice - so thought he'd gone wrong anyhow.

Seconded.

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Tony Atkins wrote:That will give poor Geoff Shaw sleepless nights - making 10 away but having 10 left over....

He used the 3 twice didn't he? I know he had a 4 and a 1 but I'm not sure how close he was to actually getting the target.

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The first clip has that date in the title as well.

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Bear in mind that Neil has to play Sean in the Quarter Final, and Sean has beaten him once already. He could do it again, although Neil may have been a bit tired last time. In a one-off game, upsets are possible, but I think Neil was quite a bit better than Sean overall. It could depend on what Nei...

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My guess is that Dmitry is Russian (The clue being his e-mail address there is .ru), so has no idea what you're on about. 0668964628 is quite a common name in Russia as well. 0668964628 is my first mobile phone number in Ukraine. Unfortunately Dmitry is no longer available on this number, but he ca...

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I'd predict with 90% certainty that Mark will beat Samir in the final, and expect that they'll carry their QFs and SFs accordingly. The third and fourth QFs might be a little more up in the air -- as we already know, from the fact that Neil vs. Sean is a rematch of a heat game that went to a tie-br...

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Jon Corby wrote:Jack Hurst being snidey about me to the guy next to him in the audience too, the prick.

I wasn't sure if it was him or Giles Hutchings. Also Jack Worsley in the top left of the picture.

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People who won't commit themselves to an exact frequency of blog posts, but say they're intending to post at least one a week on average, but then don't, and then they don't apologise for misleading their loyal reader. It is terrible. I'm sure it will be addressed shortly (by whoever you're talking...

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My subconscious has been at it again. The setup for last night's dream saw me in Amsterdam to apologise for a diplomatic incident- don't know what, exactly- and upon arrival I immediately headed to the main parliament, or at least, the main parliament's vast dining hall. After grabbing a pear (whic...

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Tony Atkins wrote:And how many goes at the conundrum are you allowed? (Mind you he did say afternoon before fartenoon)

BEIGNETS (and BETAINES) alt in the BEATINGS round.

Are they allowed a go each so two per team? I dunno how it works.

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Sean declared FITTER. The fact that he hadn't written it down should only come into play if someone else had declared it. The fact that he talked them out of giving him the points is just crazy. Him for doing it and them for forgetting he isn't the game's judge. More than made up for it with the 10...

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Sean declared FITTER. The fact that he hadn't written it down should only come into play if someone else had declared it. The fact that he talked them out of giving him the points is just crazy. Him for doing it and them for forgetting he isn't the game's judge.

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Maxed it.

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I read the other day that the best way to keep your continence when you're old is to, when you're young and/or middle aged, consciously stop yourself midstream a few times every time. It toughens up the prostate muscle and gives you a better chance of holding it in down the road. This is way easier...

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Peter Mabey wrote:(100+50)x6+75=975

When Rachel did 100+50 I thought she was going to do that as well. But instead she went backwards and did 150/6 and used all 6 numbers instead of 4!

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People who share a birthday with Jeff Gordon.

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People who don't Google themselves.

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Further to yesterday, the contestants' methods for 270 suggested that they were at full stretch.

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People who use "quiche" as a serious word.

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Did Pad (the challenger) find a flaw in the conundrum? Having declared INCORRECT and the solve was shown as INCORRECT (like they normally have done) would he have got the points for being correct? He did well there. I think it's been discussed on here before that someone could do that. Also I like ...

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Someone who missed the show wrote:I missed the show. Who won?

We all did. It was Myleene's last game.

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Cheers Ciaran. A couple of things - there's no total points for the previous winner, no target for the first numbers, and the order of players in the round keeps changing. But not too bad for a first go :) Just out of interest, where do you get the total points from, or does every recap writer manu...

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To me that 864 game suggested that the contestants possibly weren't even aware of the concept of adding before you multiply. This is the very first "trick" you learn. And it's not about going out of your way to learn it. Watch two episodes of Countdown and it's almost impossible not to enc...

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Matt Morrison wrote:You were the Faroe Islands Gevin.

Thanks. I'm glad someone is taking this seriously.

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What country am I? I was in the qualifying for this, so I must have been a country, right?

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Jon Corby wrote:Haha, so it's fine to include yoghurt eaters and hat-wearers, but religion's off limits because.... why?

Religion has its own thread. Whereas yoghurt, er, also has its own thread.

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People who say "An historic".
People who say "Congradulations" - and I'm not talking about Americans. People whose accents are not consistent with it.

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People who film stuff on their phones in portrait.

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Even if we only requested details for games we don't have full details for, of which there are over 100, there is a significant cost associated with taking a 30 year old videotape in a long-obsolete format and converting it to something playable on modern equipment like a DVD, and doing that 100 ti...

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Jon O'Neill wrote:This is great and it's good that they took the request seriously.

I guess all FOI Requests are online:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ ... ing-476929

I suppose they're available under the Freedom of Information Act.

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What exactly did you ask for?

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I probably will be able to make this. No Paypal option though?

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Well, it would be a big waste of accommodation, wouldn't it :?: :?: :P If you don't stay in a room, someone else can. They don't have to burn down the hotel. What's wasted? You can't have a CO event where people have to pay for a room in a particular hotel to enter. For one thing, what if they live...

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Myleene Klass obviously didn't have time to get changed after that comedy sketch she was in.

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sean d wrote:Men who wear pink

Really? What's the big deal?

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Matt Morrison wrote:
Ian Volante wrote:Men who grow a beard to prove that they actually do have a chin.
Men with nice cheekbones you cunt.

Men who think cheekbones are something that can be nice or not.

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People who hate Marmite but drink beer.

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Scrabble

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People who, because magicians don't want to reveal their secrets, have become successfully brainwashed into actively not wanting to know how tricks are done. I would consider that to be one of the best mind control tricks ever.

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A moral dilemma for people playing along,re:1 second conundrums, obviously not having any buzzer to press, is it cheating to give yourself the 10 points for getting the conundrum right, even though you barely got to see it, before the player on TV pressed , but still managed to say it before the pl...

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Andy Platt wrote:Feel bad for C2, Samir is absolutely smashing it.

But then from rounds 8 to 11 he took 23 points out of his lead!

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OK. But first preferences aren't everything, so having most first preferences doesn't mean you should automatically get the most seats, if that's what you're saying. There was a debate along similar lines on here somewhere...

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How did the votes work? You say first preferences, so was it AV or something?

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Wheelchair?

Tanni Grey-Thompson?

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Running?

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Denise Lewis
Paula Radcliffe

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People who refer to their mother as "Mum" rather than "my mum".

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Colin Jackson

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Red car? Fernando Alonso? Kimi Raikkonen?

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People who pronounce the OI in TORTOISE like you would in TOILET.

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E.g. People who like swimming
People who eat yoghurt
Men who wear really long pointy shoes that are much longer than their feet despite not being clowns but are actually in their work suits

Add your own. Nothing too serious like people who vote Tory/UKIP/BNP. That kind of goes without saying.

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So is the accommodation compulsory? Presumably you could just go somewhere else. It's like when you buy some product and they force their own insurance policy on you as well when you could go elsewhere for that. Well, it would be a big waste of accommodation, wouldn't it :?: :?: :P If you don't sta...

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So is the accommodation compulsory? Presumably you could just go somewhere else. It's like when you buy some product and they force their own insurance policy on you as well when you could go elsewhere for that.

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As in Dennis Pennis from 20 years ago? Fucking Hell!

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Shame for Sean, I think he would have won had he got the 9, so close game, and we'll see him again in the finals. I missed today's game, but I thought his standard had slipped over the last couple of days. Had he lost his first game, he's definitely someone who people would have said "He would...

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TV presenter?
Sports person?
Comedian?
Politician?
Writer?
Academic?
Musician?

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Jesus?

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OK. Is this person over 40? 50? 60? 70? 80? 90?

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