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Ian Volante

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Nov 21, 2022 7:28 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Nov 21, 2022 12:22 pm A hit record is any song that reached the top 75 rather than the top 20 or even 40
Is that even a thing?

Even since they expanded it from a top 50 in 1978.

Ian Volante

I think they just picked a day for the 8 billionth person. I wouldn't vouch for its accuracy. Plus it's not really the 8 billionth person; it would be the person who brings the total of living people to 8 billion, and that could be more than one person anyway. See this thread . They said themselves...

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Meh. My football interest has been so sapped by hype that I can only think of one player for Argentina who would be interesting to watch. I'm also quite surprised that they and Portugal seem to be of more interest here than anyone else, based on a very small sample of course.

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On a related topic, England won the 20/20 World Cup but it was definitely not thrust down my throat like other sporting things, so it seems not be be at or near the top of the general pecking order. Think you'll find it was the T20, rather than the one for those with excellent eyesight. It did seem...

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In an interesting development, it seems they're trialling getting rid of the Bounties . But what I want to know is when Cadbury's (or Cadbury as they insist on calling themselves nowadays) are going to get rid of the eclair. No-one likes them. What's worse it that they pretend they're caramel. They...

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Fiona T wrote: ↑Mon Nov 07, 2022 11:40 am I have put a blue streak in my hair as a tribute to MrV.

You need to play SOUTANE a few times as well

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Not beat poor young Bradley on a crucial.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 30, 2022 11:05 pm I think rolling ratings changes every game, whereas pro ranks does one change at the end of the week based on all your games together. Probably other stuff too.

I know that much, but can't remember if it also uses Glicko like Pro Ranks.

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Is there somewhere on the site that describes how rolling ratings work? Some discussion after they were a bit rorted earlier, and I can't remember how they differ from Pro Ranks. Been a long time...

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Also if that happened there would be far fewer replies so would be easier to read them all anyway. Good idea. Probably one for the things that will never happen thread though :) I'm not a twatter user but wouldn't it be better if you could only see posts from followers or those you follow? No, beca...

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For some reason I'm reminded of Pheeona Haahlahm.

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I suspect we already have a politics thread.

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...and flirting is dying as the me too movement has made flirtatious behaviour a minefield. If the #metoo movement, which highlights sexual harassment and worse, is causing problems for you when you flirt, you maybe need to recalibrate how you go about it? As for the wider points, humans are adapti...

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I missed a term of school due to avoiding Judo in PE You got to do Judo in PE?! And you avoided it?!?! Had an evil big brother, so I'm phobic about being pinned to the floor. You can add swimming to that list What, you don't like swimming because of your big brother, or you don't like been pinned t...

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I think he's scared of such a policy announcement being jumped all over by the press, as generally happens to any vaguely progressive radicalism. Whether he quietly actually would implement it anyway, I suspect maybe, but we shall see. This has been my primary voting issue in every election I've bee...

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I'm disappointed not to get through the entire run of dodgy shirts. Also, I've got long blue hair now. Maybe this would be more interesting than all these geeky mathsy types.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Sep 13, 2022 9:08 pm Ian Volante remains at 27th.

But now with power to add!

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David Williams wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 9:53 am Seconded (76.22%). Though it's a completely different dataset. Your best time isn't necessarily your best age grade ranking.

Mine is a second off my fastest, but about 1% higher. Also, I note it was set on Christmas Day in Dublin, being on holiday clearly agreed with me that day.

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Ian Volante wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 9:25 am This is a formal request for age grade rankings as well as times, speaking as a bloke rapidly getting enveloped by middle age and thirty years away from his 5k PB.

My current best is 61.50%. I'm hoping to reach 60% again at some point later this year.

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This is a formal request for age grade rankings as well as times, speaking as a bloke rapidly getting enveloped by middle age and thirty years away from his 5k PB.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 8:16 pm Too soon

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 5:40 pm My weekends fucked was going to the football

Are we gatekeeping disrespect now?

Ian Volante

I can confirm I'm a bit too far down the pecking order to have received an e-mail. A couple of series too many for me I suspect!

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Oh, and a good crab apple is very satisfying.

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Pink Lady apples seem to veer between quite distinct, and a slightly nicer Golden Delicious. I usually buy them over Granny Smiths though. Granny Smiths of some decades ago were better than current ones though - much tarter.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sun Aug 28, 2022 8:22 pm Why do sunglasses sometimes come with a picture of cars that looks clearer when viewed through the sunglasses? What does that mean? Is it supposed to demonstrate something about the glasses?

Sounds like they might be prescription sunglasses?

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I quite enjoy it. Have played a reasonable version via Steam, but would be interested in playing in a more useful format.

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Still working through Doom (2016). Fun, but tough.

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Had a similar conversation with a friend yesterday. Don't know how it was before my time when there were strikes by minors and dockyard workers, etc., but normally the professions I hear about striking today are all quite well paid! Not well paid enough mind, and I do agree that teachers, train dri...

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It's often the only power a worker has to force their bosses not to be a bastard to them. Why do you think US companies are so strongly against unions? It's the only thing that stops them using the workforce as disposal automatons rather than treating them as people who might actually have health, d...

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I’m talking about the flat rate of £400 for everyone and the £150 for most people. Take 2p off the base rate of income tax for the 22-23 financial year and reverse the NI increase. That’s a better way of supporting people. (I personally would simplify the tax system by abolishing NI and Council Tax...

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As well as Oriam (which is way out to the west of the city), there are Edinburgh, Portobello, Holyrood Park (quite new), but all similarly a few miles from the venue.

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Why do tins of coconut milk not have ringpulls like every other canned good since the start of the 21st century... I hate those bloody ringpulls on tins. Quite apart from requiring some force to open them fully, they leave a lip on the tin which means that all the juice doesn't come out. And they g...

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Once Upon a Time it was countries with the Queen as Head of state or should I put this on the things I've just realised Membership nowadays requires adhering to the Harare Principles (or something like that I think), and is nowt to do with having been a colony/dominion in the past. See Mozambique f...

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Why do tins of coconut milk not have ringpulls like every other canned good since the start of the 21st century... I hate those bloody ringpulls on tins. Quite apart from requiring some force to open them fully, they leave a lip on the tin which means that all the juice doesn't come out. And they g...

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Women's football is more interesting to watch than the men's. There I've said it. This might be unfair, as I don't watch much football; but my general impression of elite team sport is that at the very highest level, optimal play can render a contest into a bore-fest of tactical manoeuvring, wherea...

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Been listening to Radio 2. Was a bit confused to hear an interview with Gilbert and Sullivan, and they were playing a load of music that didn't sound like the normal operettas. Turns out, it's Gilbert O'Sullivan and he is an entirely different (and crucially, living) artist. Big fan of him in the 7...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 11:17 am
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 9:20 am
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 9:57 pm Wham! and George Michael did two completely different songs, both called Freedom.
Also Robbie Williams
Yeah, but Wham! basically is George Michael.

I suspect Andrew might have something to say about that.

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A tax cut would have been better than the energy bills rebate and NI hike hits the wrong audience at the wrong time. This reads oddly to me. It gives me the impression that you'd prefer a tax cut as a performative measure rather than a rebate that has more chance of reaching the people who need it ...

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I've some sympathy with reducing the role of the state. However, the state has a powerful position, especially at the moment, in smoothing turbulent economic waters. To my mind, there's way too much rhetoric, and very little cogent policy-making, and I don't see that changing any time soon. Personal...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 6:35 am Maybe she should have used Slipknot instead as the tories greatest hits ruined things for the working class socialists.

Are socialists particularly into early noughties metal?

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A tax cut would have been better than the energy bills rebate and NI hike hits the wrong audience at the wrong time. This reads oddly to me. It gives me the impression that you'd prefer a tax cut as a performative measure rather than a rebate that has more chance of reaching the people who need it ...

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Wordle and Quordle reasonably often, same as a few months ago.

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Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 12:16 am Whatever conglomerate puts these all over Facebook.

Can't you block them? I've never seen this at all.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 12:49 pm I guess only radical vegans would boycott Glasto like Morrissey

Erm, he's played there at least three times.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Jun 22, 2022 1:23 pm Yeah, most people can't juggle. It takes a particular effort to learn and most people don't do it.

Meh, I'm not great at it, but it took me five minutes to grasp the basics.

Ian Volante

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:45 pm Just to play Devils avacado.
I wondo how many vegans are going to Glastonbury knowing full well this is the site of a working dairy farm?

The devil's really struggling for peril this week.

Ian Volante

Not sure if a quiz counts, but Pat Gibson successfully answered 'matamata' against us last night. You must have had some pretty bad selections to be getting that word. The selection of questions on South American fauna that nobody apart from Pat Gibson had heard of was the problem I suspect...

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Not sure if a quiz counts, but Pat Gibson successfully answered 'matamata' against us last night.

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It's a good idea and probably would have been really useful a few years back. I think mostly these days they keep a small cache of adverts they can show when the connection to the server fails. But yeah, will still work with some. Works perfectly on the Scrabble app as long as you turn it off after...

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Callum Todd wrote: ↑Thu Jun 09, 2022 9:45 am Interesting story in the meat vs. faux-meat environmentalism space, with allusion to 'greenwashing'.

There's a reasonable chance they're correct in their claims, but they're idiots in not having done the work and in using weasel words instead.

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So the answer to my original question seems to be "because it's difficult surgery" https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/14bk64/why_cant_we_transplant_limbs/c7c08ro/ I've not read that link (sorry), but it seems to me that it would be much easier to add a hand to an arm that alread...

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At what point does it become irresponsible to continue with this defence? The rest of the world have made it clear they're not going to join in this war because they're too scared of Russia and what Putin might do, and Ukraine's military might is nothing compared to Russia's. So if Russia decide to...

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And that's the thread. Not quite ... an alternative explanation: The essence of the Monty Hall problem (& supposed paradox) is that the quiz master knows which box the prize is in. Once he reveals this knowledge (by opening doors) all boxes/doors are not equally likely any more. However in &quo...

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Callum Todd wrote: ↑Fri May 27, 2022 5:47 pm Not sure I understand the premise. Do potatoes have an usually high quantity of DNA?

Not sure about spuds specifically, but some plants have vast amounts of genetic material, sometimes caused by reduplication of their genome.

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The main character in Kokotoni Wilf looked kind of religious. Not Jesus, but thought it was worth a mention for elimination purposes. Somewhere between an angel and a butterfly I'd say. Not sure what the design intention was, but a nice little game, that. I've still not made much progress with it.

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Also what is the point in there being a price cap if it just goes up with energy prices anyway ? The logic was that people that didn't change supplier over long periods were being screwed by annual increases being applied which were effectively loyalty penalties. A separate issue to the cost of the...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Fri May 20, 2022 5:58 pm Sam Ryder has narrowly lost to Harry Styles for this week’s #1, which confirms what I’ve been saying for a while: UK chart performance is a barometer for our Eurovision performance.

I suspect it's the other way round.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat May 21, 2022 4:20 pm Never heard of.

Looks like he's a stand-in member of ZZ Top. Hmm.

Permanent.

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Elwood Francis.

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