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Ian Volante

Maybe but it smacks of a government with a large enough majority to survive at least one more GE and by the time they are at risk we would have got used to it. Basically this parliament they can pretty much get away with any policies not in the manifesto knowing it will get through See Thatcher and...

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If Labour knew how bad the finances were, and decided to NOT CAMPAIGN AROUND THAT, they're mad. It seems more likely that they genuinely didn't know. Maybe but it smacks of a government with a large enough majority to survive at least one more GE and by the time they are at risk we would have got u...

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Fiona T wrote: ↑Tue Sep 10, 2024 1:30 pm Relief rather than disappointment

A good point!

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 11:46 am Do most people talk absolute nonsense with family and close friends, or do most people just stick to speaking English (or another recognised language) in pretty much all situations?

The main difference is I swear more.

Ian Volante

Disappointed this isn't a tasteful nudes-style fundraiser.

Ian Volante

Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 8:09 am
Philip A wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2024 10:27 pm Series 77 contestant Alex Smith on Password (Episode 2) on ITV X. (Hilarious btw)
I assume the money he got through scamming people has finally dried up and he needed some more.

Might just be enough to pay everyone back!

Ian Volante

This has reminded me to check that John Tyler, a US president born in the 1790s, still has a living grandson, and he does indeed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ruffin_Tyler

Ian Volante

yeah the one thing I don't like about the app is the confusing menus! But this one is the hamburger top left (next to where it says 'Me') then Leagues. + bottom right to join. (This is android - dunno about ios!) The only menu I have is the settings menu reached from my profile page, and that certa...

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I quite like #6.

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Alien Romulus. Not a sequel but an interquel set between Alien and Aliens it's well made and lots of good practical effects and some iffy AI special effects. The first act is a slow build and only gets good in space and it has all the Alien greatest hits and some clever innovation two. The last 10 ...

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There's a community radio station in Dublin that caters for more niche interests that more commercial stations wouldn't cover and they have a show that's basically traffic report then a song, traffic report then a song during peak traffic times in the morning and evening. It's the best show on the ...

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yeah the one thing I don't like about the app is the confusing menus! But this one is the hamburger top left (next to where it says 'Me') then Leagues. + bottom right to join. (This is android - dunno about ios!) The only menu I have is the settings menu reached from my profile page, and that certa...

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Also, I can't work out how to join the league via the app. Any ideas?

Ian Volante

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2024 12:20 pm I've mentioned the league on Apterous, Facebook (Countdowners group) and Strava as well as here. The aim is for it to be general.

I read your post as if it was assuming only Co-runs would count.

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Ben Wilson wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2024 1:16 pm I didn't get a photo (as it would've been weird to ask undet the circumstances) but it was odd to see Ian Volante waiting tables at CoBrum yesterday.

They let me out of the kitchen occasionally.

Ian Volante

Also, for those of you who don't know the 5k parkrunner results app (developed by Michael Clayton and on Android and Apple) is quite a good app to keep up with parkrun stuff. It also has some of the naughty stats that parkrun got rid of, like fastest times on each course. But anyway, it allows you ...

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Does anyone else regularly do just one hiccup, on its own? And if so, do you also find that your mouth seems to open especially for the occasion, no matter how shut it was before? Yep, I like to think I've learnt to make sure it's only one. And yes, it's often loud. And I don't drink much at all, n...

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Also, for those of you who don't know the 5k parkrunner results app (developed by Michael Clayton and on Android and Apple) is quite a good app to keep up with parkrun stuff. It also has some of the naughty stats that parkrun got rid of, like fastest times on each course. But anyway, it allows you ...

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Fiona T wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2024 10:34 am Butterfly swimming stroke. Why?

A faster evolution from breaststroke which was faster and thus became unfair to those using the traditional style.

Ian Volante

Recently selling my house, had no comments whatsoever on the CD teapot. My own fault for not displaying two next to each other.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 5:19 pm I should have realised the gods were against us as the last 3 Spanish Wimbledon Wins have lead to a football win in the same period (if you count The Nations Cup last year )

This sort of statistical paradoelia gets a lot more discussion than it really deserves.

Ian Volante

Also, the crying laughing emoji (multiple times) on memes/posts that are, at best, vaguely mirthful.

Ian Volante

Interviews with winning tennis players after matches.

Ian Volante

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2024 10:23 am
Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2024 9:59 am It's 8:00 isn't it? Hardly that late.
It could be nearly 11 pm by the time it finishes.
Old people and school children need to go to bed at a reasonable time.
It's not like it's in a different time zone

Germany is definitely in a different time zone.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2024 1:48 pm
Ian Volante wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2024 12:07 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2024 5:04 pm Frank Duckworth , dies on the warmest day of the year ironically
Why's it ironic? It's not like he invented a fridge.
No but DL was invented because of poor weather , maybe I'm using Irony in the Alanis Morisette way rather than your way

Ohh, I get it now. I'll let you off.

Ian Volante

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2024 5:04 pm Frank Duckworth , dies on the warmest day of the year ironically

Why's it ironic? It's not like he invented a fridge.

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Mark James wrote: ↑Mon Jun 24, 2024 8:19 pm Don't know why but I felt like sharing my top 5 Steven Spielberg movies.

1. Jaws
2. Minority Report
3. Jurassic Park
5. Schindler's List
4. Catch Me If You Can

Brave choice to put 5 above 4.

Ian Volante

As usual, I'll support any candidate primarily on the basis of whether they support reform of the voting system. Everything else is secondary. I'm sick of having the choice of voting for someone I'm not that interested in if I want to maximise the utility of that vote, or to go with what I actually ...

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Nice. I'm hoping to get back to parkrun at some point in the next few months once my injuries improve, then I'll be trying to get my times back to anywhere near what they used to be, I'm five minutes and more off my best at this stage.

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Keir Starmer isn't the best by a long shot, however...I was eight when the Conservatives came to power. Having seen what they've done, ranging from education, to austerity, to Brexit, to the pandemic, I just want them gone. Thrown out, humiliated, numbers ground into the dust whilst we all stand ar...

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Keir Starmer isn't the best by a long shot, however...I was eight when the Conservatives came to power. Having seen what they've done, ranging from education, to austerity, to Brexit, to the pandemic, I just want them gone. Thrown out, humiliated, numbers ground into the dust whilst we all stand ar...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 9:49 am Bashing the Bishop relates to the chess piece

In my experience, it usually doesn't.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 5:31 pm A chicken drumstick doesn't in anyway resemble a drumstick

It looks more like a drumstick than it does a chicken.

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Bond could have instead murdered her - sorry killed with his licence to kill - and it would have been fine of course. My point is not about the morality of the actions in the film, but about depicting rape as a pleasant comical form of seduction. And even by mid 60s moral/legal standards, these are...

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Fawlty Towers (mostly) isn't funny I think you're part of a silent majority here. I've watched Fawlty Towers and, for what it's held up to be, it really didn't meet expectations. There isn't really much story in the episodes, and some things that are supposed to be funny actually have quite the opp...

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Mark James wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:34 pm https://x.com/CountBinface/status/1783807825182884270

You know what to do.

And here's his presence in a less toxic environment. https://mastodon.online/@CountBinface@mastodon.world

Ian Volante

I'm still pissed off that they got rid of multiple replays. Trying and failing to remember whether a second replay was played at a neutral venue or not. I know it was in the Rugby League Cup.

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And nothing about dalmatians as it turns out.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:30 am Just occurred to me that it's probably not off-topic but anyway.
Ignoring fat fingers and other typos I always struggle with spelling HYGIENE and DIARRHOEA and ASTHMA

I'd suggest washing more often and seeing a doctor.

Ian Volante

I think come December or whenever Sunak decides to go to the country they will lose so many seats that they may try and get a groundswell going for in the future AV, the fib dems will back it too The Lib Dems would be idiots to support AV (like they were last time) as they've supported PR forever, ...

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I think come December or whenever Sunak decides to go to the country they will lose so many seats that they may try and get a groundswell going for in the future AV, the fib dems will back it too The Lib Dems would be idiots to support AV (like they were last time) as they've supported PR forever, ...

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Good tribute bands are better to see live than the original band if that band was from the 70s or early 80s Better in what way though? If it's just about sound quality you might as well just listen to a recording and not see anyone live. I meant if you want see a live band then a tribute version of...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:12 am Amirite that all the 4 leaders of the home nations and also the Republic of Ireland were not elected by the people?

Well yes, that's how our systems work. We elect a local rep who then choose an overall leader from within their ranks.

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Tal Lessner wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:42 am Larry David at his weakest is still better and funnier than anybody else.

Wow, there's no accounting for taste! I've felt like the small bits of this and Seinfeld I've seen were arse-clenchingly boring to watch.

Ian Volante

Streaming is certainly useful if I've missed a regular quiz or sporting fixture. I'll watch more slow telly then I ever did, and otherwise I'll likely watch old films versus most of the other crap that's available. More generally, I don't enjoy watching or listening to stuff that isn't live. Not sur...

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I saw the Last Stand the other day. Sort of good fun, but struggled to tread the right line between enjoyable action and taking the piss out of itself, not necessarily getting it right.

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Mark James wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:50 am The Marchioness of Cholmondeley is better looking than Kate Middleton.

I like my women with more chin.

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:01 pm
Ian Volante wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:34 pm
Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:13 pm Maybe in the future AI will stop cars going too closs
Why use AI when a simple distance sensor would do the job?
That's what I meant, and if it cut the accelerator when activated it might encourage safer driving

That's not AI, is the point I'm making.

Ian Volante

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:13 pm Maybe in the future AI will stop cars going too closs

Why use AI when a simple distance sensor would do the job?

Ian Volante

I understand it to maintain the distance which is the same as the distance between two chevrons. This seems beyond many drivers in any case.

Ian Volante

Might be something to do with the lack of https. I'm unable to visit a different forum from my work machine which doesn't have this feature; I presume I can only use this place because it's either set up better, or it's locally hosted.

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Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:05 pm Sun King is a blatant rip off of Albatross and these are two totally separate and distinct songs.

Inspired by I'd say. I doubt they set out to copy it.

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Philip A wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:09 pm How many people have won a Countdown teapot and a Mastermind glass bowl?

Isabelle Heward is the one I'm aware of. May well be others. Geoff Thomas marginally missed doing the double, arguably failing at the easier task.

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:22 pmLimbic.

Not just me then.

Ian Volante

I can fully understand why existing athletes are whinging about this idea, as they've practised for a long time to perfect the take-off. If it becomes just a long jump event rather than a long jump from as close to an arbitary line as possible, then it simply renders a lot of their work obsolete. D...

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I can fully understand why existing athletes are whinging about this idea, as they've practised for a long time to perfect the take-off. If it becomes just a long jump event rather than a long jump from as close to an arbitary line as possible, then it simply renders a lot of their work obsolete. Do...

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I reckon if the enhanced games happen then sub 2 hours will happen If you're happy to count that then why not count Kipchoge's sub-2? Why wasn't it official then? He had pacemakers, and if I remember right, was shielded from air resistance by a vehicle in front of him too, not to mention shoes that...

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What's that whole thing about when your ear goes PING and then you're deaf for a few seconds? Ive never experienced this but my step daughter (in her early thirties) says it happens whenever she hears a cat scarer I hate those bloody things. I thought they were supposed to be inaudible to humans? D...

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Enfield council do it for free, seemingly based on concerns about fly tipping (source: https://www.enfield.gov.uk/news-and-events/2022/10/councils-free-bulky-waste-collection-service-goes-from-strength-to-strength). But a brief Google search suggests that's rare even among London boroughs. You can ...

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Unhealthy migration frogmarch.

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