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- Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:03 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: FOCAL Finals and MK Open - 25th November 2023
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16857
Re: FOCAL Finals and MK Open - 25th November 2023
One other thing - if there's a grand final at the end of a tournament and no screen with the scores, it's important to announce the scores at the end of each round. My bad. I was a complete scatterbrain and overcome with nerves during the final. My board was intended to be used a score display but ...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 2:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: FOCAL Finals and MK Open - 25th November 2023
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16857
Re: FOCAL Finals and MK Open - 25th November 2023
One other thing - if there's a grand final at the end of a tournament and no screen with the scores, it's important to announce the scores at the end of each round.
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 10:58 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: FOCAL Finals and MK Open - 25th November 2023
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16857
Re: FOCAL Finals and MK Open - 25th November 2023
*Graeme Cole once said that in his experience it's the onion, but I think he must hang out with a statistically anomalous bunch of people. Last night I went for a curry with seven other people from this social group, and guess what, the onions got used up first. Basically you're calling this forum ...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 10:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: FOCAL Finals and MK Open - 25th November 2023
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16857
Re: FOCAL Finals and MK Open - 25th November 2023
Thank you for running this event - I had a great time. I think the non-alcoholic drinks were a nice change from last year where there were only alcoholic options. One thing I would say though is that, I don't think drinks really make good prizes because they don't travel well. I mean, I didn't get a...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 6:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Letter Shuffling Algorithms
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7095
Re: Letter Shuffling Algorithms
Agreed - there's no reason selections have to always be "nice".
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 5:25 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Joke Items
- Replies: 250
- Views: 83058
Re: Joke Items
The thread-starter can change it, but as people who follow deaths will know, that's now impossible. A moderator probably could.
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 4:44 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 6650
Re: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
Though it does sound extreme.
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 4:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 6650
Re: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
Depends what your job is. If you're borderline quitting anyway there only needs to be a small extra reason.
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 4:40 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Joke Items
- Replies: 250
- Views: 83058
Re: Joke Items
I think the deathwatchness of it is fine. It just has the wrong title.
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 7:11 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: FOCAL Finals and MK Open - 25th November 2023
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16857
Re: FOCAL Finals and MK Open - 25th November 2023
Also sorry to hear that. I was looking forward to meeting you, Marc!
Btw, does it say in the opening post where in the hotel the event is taking place?
Btw, does it say in the opening post where in the hotel the event is taking place?
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 3:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Absolutely terrible claims to fame/celebrity spots
- Replies: 74
- Views: 28093
Re: Absolutely terrible claims to fame/celebrity spots
I'm on my way to MK, and when I was on the underground between Liverpool Street and Euston Square, guess who sat opposite me?
It was Stella Creasy, her husband and two children!
It was Stella Creasy, her husband and two children!
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 12:53 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Interesting things that aren't necessarily completely obvious
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2807
Re: Interesting things that aren't necessarily completely obvious
Dutch is basically the same as English except they say "geezer" instead of "voter".
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 6:51 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 272
- Views: 31710
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
It is basically arbitrary which art is considered great. If you didn't already know that the Mona Lisa was supposed to be this all-time great piece of art, you wouldn't pick it out as such.
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 10:30 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deathwatch 2017
- Replies: 467
- Views: 213119
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 8:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 272
- Views: 31710
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
We're waiting for Rhys then.David Williams wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 8:11 pm I thought this was going to be stuff like "I think Matt Hancock did a pretty good job under the circumstances". There's nothing unpopular about most of these, just a little uncommon.
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 6:12 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 272
- Views: 31710
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Radiohead aren't very good. To give me some context could you tell me your favourite band. Btw Radiohead have 3 albums in my top 50 (The Bends, OK Computer and In Rainbows) I don't really have one. That's another one - bands on the whole tend to be overrated. For the most part they do a couple of s...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 5:53 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 272
- Views: 31710
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Radiohead aren't very good.
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 12:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 20th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 102)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2116
Re: Spoilers for Monday 20th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 102)
My mum got EVENSONG in one of the rounds as a beater (round 8 looking at the wiki).
Also David Nickeas was a quarter finalist in series 48 in 2002 (the Julian Fell series). James Robinson will have noticed that.
Also David Nickeas was a quarter finalist in series 48 in 2002 (the Julian Fell series). James Robinson will have noticed that.
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 12:47 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Supposedly Common expressions or sayings you've never heard before
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3338
Re: Supposedly Common expressions or sayings you've never heard before
I've never heard it either from what I can recall.
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 6:14 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deathwatch 2017
- Replies: 467
- Views: 213119
Re: Deathwatch 2017
This is what I always think of.Paul Worsley wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 11:14 pm Joss Ackland 95.... I know who he is, but I can't remember what I've seen him in. Was he in one of the Lethal Weapon films?
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 3:03 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 272
- Views: 31710
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
This could be combined with Mark's peeing sitting down.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2023 2:40 pm 3 hour plus films should not have an intermission.
Its not a play for fuck sake.
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 3:02 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 272
- Views: 31710
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
I'd go further on the Shakespeare one and say that having to do English literature GCSE does more harm than good. To be honest, I think GCSEs as a whole should probably go. Not everything you learn has to be formally examined so that you get a "qualification" in it. Up to age 16, you could...
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 5:58 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 644310
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I always wonder why looking for -IEST words generally seems more fruitful than looking for -EST words without the I. Surely it's adjectives ending in Y versus all other letters.
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 4:14 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: FOCAL Finals and MK Open - 25th November 2023
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16857
Re: FOCAL Finals and MK Open - 25th November 2023
Presumably you're going up on the day? I'm going on the Friday.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 1:41 pm Anybody travelling up by train that wants to share a cab pm me
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 2:15 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1636
- Views: 1686381
Re: Politics in General
This is a good speech about the Palestine/Israel situation.
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 9:33 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 16th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 100)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1586
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 16th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 100)
Apparently the record 9-points-for-a-9 score is Dan McColm with 128 (with one 9 though).Steve Hyde wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 6:41 pm 125 points without spotting a 9 - only Elliott Mellor has ever scored more
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 6:26 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Do you have a pet?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3995
Re: Do you have a pet?
I rang my surgery and they told me to come in. They gave me a tetanus jab and some antibiotics. The nurse told me I could report it but stopped short of saying I should report it. The dog's owner said she would keep it on a lead from now on, so there is that. It's a bit awkward reporting it because ...
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 2:46 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
- Replies: 479
- Views: 167603
Re: Words You Would Have Thought...
Beasted.
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 1:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Do you have a pet?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3995
Re: Do you have a pet?
I got bitten by one of these stupid pets today - a dog. A tiny dog. It's lucky I wasn't up for continuing the fight. A four-year-old could have taken this thing. The owner was all apologetic about it and quite embarrassed, and also knew who I was because she knows my sister. She said it had never ha...
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 9:18 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 644310
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Isn't hot water always from a tank? It's not served directly to your house hot anyway. It's heated locally.
Anyway, don't drink it.
Anyway, don't drink it.
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 11:08 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 644310
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Well it's said that hot water freezes more quickly so maybe cold water boils faster.Adam Gillard wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 10:56 pm Is it better to fill a kettle with cold water or warm water? Why?
But how are you warming the water? If it's from the hot tap it's probably not drinking water.
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 6:30 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 644310
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Well he hasn't served the term even if he "won".
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 2:01 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 50192
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
If the race was long enough you could make up the 12-month time deficit if you drove quickly.
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 12:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 15th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 99)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1588
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 15th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 99)
I was also surprised the champion didn't know/think to stick the D on.
- Wed Nov 15, 2023 11:47 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 15th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 99)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1588
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 15th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 99)
COTTAGED was a weird miss. I suppose they didn't want to say it, but I'm sure it's come up before.
- Tue Nov 14, 2023 3:39 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1636
- Views: 1686381
Re: Politics in General
I think it's more the Lib Dems getting into bed with the Tories isn't it? I don't blame the Tories for that.
- Tue Nov 14, 2023 1:35 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1636
- Views: 1686381
Re: Politics in General
OK, so back to David Cameron. Rishi Sunak has literally just taken some guy off the street to be his foreign secretary. He is not an MP and was not in the House of Lords. It could have been you. It could have been me. It could have been Brian Cox (either of them). But it just happened to be David Ca...
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 5:55 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1636
- Views: 1686381
Re: Politics in General
With James Cleverly replacing Suella Braverman as home secretary, it's more evidence that the Tories avoid white home secretaries to avoid accusations of racism when they spout the bile that they spout. No mention of the slimeball David Cameron returning to front line politics. Mind you being the 4...
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 3:31 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 13th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 97)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1414
Spoilers for Monday 13th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 97)
Ridiculous that OUTGRABES has found its way into the dictionary. OUTGRABE is used in The Jabberwocky as the past tense (of outgribe according to Humpty Dumpty) and you can't stick an s on the end.
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 2:12 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1636
- Views: 1686381
Re: Politics in General
With James Cleverly replacing Suella Braverman as home secretary, it's more evidence that the Tories avoid white home secretaries to avoid accusations of racism when they spout the bile that they spout.
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 7:23 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: FOCAL Finals and MK Open - 25th November 2023
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16857
Re: FOCAL Finals and MK Open - 25th November 2023
Yeah, it's right by the venue.
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 4:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: FOCAL Finals and MK Open - 25th November 2023
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16857
Re: FOCAL Finals and MK Open - 25th November 2023
Is it too late for train strikes to be announced yet? It's less than two weeks away so I think it should be.
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 4:40 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 584
- Views: 293933
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
I was the only parkrunner before CO:Braintree on 4th November, at the Great Notley parkrun . 3 (1). Gevin Chapwell - 21:48 (65.06%) (500 points) And the table: 1. Thomas Carey - 4557 2. Dan Byrom - 2910 3. Fiona Titcombe - 2023 4. Stephen Read - 1467 5. Gevin Chapwell - 1429 6. Mike Springett - 1214...
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 1:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Joke Items
- Replies: 250
- Views: 83058
Re: Joke Items
I think people used to be scared of this new technology breaking aeroplanes and maybe they just left the rules in place on some airlines.
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 12:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Joke Items
- Replies: 250
- Views: 83058
Re: Joke Items
Also if you have your phone in your room at night and don't want any WhatsApp notifications etc.
Also for playing games that have adverts. With some of them they still work but without adverts on.
Also for playing games that have adverts. With some of them they still work but without adverts on.
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 12:47 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Countdown+Quiz Braintree: Saturday 4th November 2023
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7458
Re: Countdown+Quiz Braintree: Saturday 4th November 2023
Thanks for running it Jeff, and to Rachel and Tim.
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 6:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 6th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 92)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1846
Re: Spoilers for Monday 6th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 92)
FUNDABLE was an alt 8 to FLOUNCED (r13). Also I thought the conundrum was on the easier side. Surprised no one in the studio got it. What were the letters in round 13? It's surely impossible to be able to get both FUNDABLE and FLOUNCED. I thought the conundrum might be nightcore , but it's not in.
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 2:23 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 1st November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 89)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1174
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 1st November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 89)
Susie and the magician guy wearing the same shirt there.
- Wed Nov 01, 2023 1:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Countdown+Quiz Braintree: Saturday 4th November 2023
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7458
- Wed Nov 01, 2023 12:07 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Countdown+Quiz Braintree: Saturday 4th November 2023
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7458
Re: Countdown+Quiz Braintree: Saturday 4th November 2023
Hi everyone, Braintree is just five weeks away now, and we have reserved dinner tables at: - a Turkish restaurant on Friday 3rd November for 19:00, and - a Nepalese restaurant on Saturday 4th November for 19:30. Please let me know if you would like a seat at either or both (or neither 😆) and I'll g...
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 6:28 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Countdown+Quiz Braintree: Saturday 4th November 2023
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7458
Re: Countdown+Quiz Braintree: Saturday 4th November 2023
Great Notley parkrun for this obviously.
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 1:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 772
- Views: 577612
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
I think it was just the best use of 30 minutes I have seen on TV it has humour, drama, it's heartbreaking and clever in equal measures. It takes a lot to move me and this does every time and it gets better with every viewing. I would be interested, what your best 30 minutes of tv is outside of a Ri...
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 5:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 644310
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Why does the UK persist with BST? It serves no practical purpose We've had a couple of threads on this before. But I think basically, it seems that people don't like it to be too dark in the mornings in the winter (so we need GMT), but other than that they want it to stay light as late as possible ...
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 5:25 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 644310
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
We've had a couple of threads on this before.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2023 4:41 pm Why does the UK persist with BST?
It serves no practical purpose
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 9:02 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deathwatch 2017
- Replies: 467
- Views: 213119
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 9:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1636
- Views: 1686381
Re: Politics in General
Yeah so basically Israel have taken this terrorist attack as a green light to indiscriminately bomb Palestinian civilians, and the Tories, Starmer etc. are just saying "Israel has an absolute right to defend itself". What they are doing has nothing to do with defence. It's outrageous. Plus...
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 10:59 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Interesting things that aren't necessarily completely obvious
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2807
Re: Interesting things that aren't necessarily completely obvious
"explored the idea"
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 4:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 25 October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 84)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1525
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 25 October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 84)
One of the tea-time teasers was BEENBALD, and Colin made a point of spelling the BEEN part. Lucky I looked up at the screen just before it went off, because I thought I was trying to solve BEENBOLD!
Re: Religion
On the morality thing, a lot of people will argue that there is no such thing as objective morality. It's also not at all clear that adding a god changes anything. See the Euthyphro dilemma . If something becomes moral because god has decided so, then it's just based on his arbitrary whims, and not ...
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 3:30 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XIX- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2024
- Replies: 44
- Views: 17067
Re: COLIN XIX- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2024
If someone's willing to drive me there! (I mean, I haven't signed up or anything yet, but I probably will.)