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Nature is healing!

Thank you for doing the update of course, and hopefully the problems will settle down. One weird thing that seems to be happening is that when I try to log in on my phone it tells me I've got the password wrong, but it ...

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Yes!

Though I am still getting:

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Well we had Ians Huntley and Watkins so we probably waived that a while ago.

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Do the rules just say US spellings? I've wondered this before.

Edit - Having done a search, it generally seems that North American should be OK. Not sure if this has been tested on the show though.

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The moon is pre-fucked. The Earth a few degrees warmer than it is now is still infinitely more habitable than the moon. There's not much you can do to Earth to make the moon a more attractive place to live on.

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This trip round the moon is at best only marginally less frivolous than that Katy Perry trip.

I know I said elsewhere about them having to get a move on if they want there to continuously be someone living who has been to the moon, but this is purely for something along the lines of bragging rights ...

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Watched Project Hail Mary at the weekend, partly based on your recommendation. I thought it was OK but it was really just a poor man's The Martian. Seemed messier and less coherent. Bits that didn't really make sense. So a bit disappointed.

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YouTube is much more accessible btw.

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Well yeah. It's pretty insane when you think about it.

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According to the Wikipedia article about daylight saving time in Australia:

Of the states that observe DST, most began on the last Sunday in October, and ended on the last Sunday in March, until 2007.

So it was a thing that they did it at the same time as us. It just isn't any more.

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I'm not sure that what you said about Australia addresses anything I've said.

(Which was that I thought I'd heard that in the southern hemisphere they generally also changed their clocks at around the same time as us - so late March / October - which would make it asymmetrical compared to us as ...

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Well 6/6 would be logical if it was the same dates in the southern hemisphere (which I thought it generally was). But it should be symmetrical around the solstaces, so I agree there.

That's if they do it at all. I've never quite seen the point myself. You get the same number of hours of light and ...

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Probably. We lose an hour.

What I want to know is why is the split 7 months in BST and 5 months in GMT? As far as I understand most countries, including in the southern hemisphere, change their clocks at a similar time, so some countries will have the 7/5 split the other way round in terms of ...

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I've seen the Rachel one before actually. Nothing there really changes the probabilities. I would have expected a top tier number player to look at the 625 and immediately see 50*25/2 though rather than 13×50-25. But maybe I'm wrong.

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I'll have a look at some point but I think we've already basically proved that it's not 100% genuine even if it's 87% genuine.

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The 555 could have been done knowing that 525 is one of the numbers you can make with just the 4 larges. 25×(75-50)-100 + 3×10 = 555.

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John Garcia wrote: Tue Mar 24, 2026 4:23 pm
Gevin Chapwell wrote: Tue Mar 24, 2026 3:18 pm SONNIES as a beater in one of the rounds.
I had that as a candidate word too, but it's not valid in the current dictionary. Did it used to be in?

I presume so. It's on Apterous and this thing.

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SONNIES as a beater in one of the rounds.

I thought 41×8 was the obvious way to go for 328. 5×9-4 or 4×9+5 and then 4+5-1.

We started off this series so promisingly with octochamps but now we've completely dried up. Not getting 10 now.

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He had a perm hairstyle?

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Pronounced by the lecturers? They're not the objective arbiters though.

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We had a whole conversation about Chuck Norris.

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Until recently I assumed Chuck Norris was some old singer like Chuck Berry or Chubby Checker. Chevy Chase fell into the same bracket.

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OK, it's Jigsaw. I discussed it with a few people and that's what came out of it. It was something I considered but wasn't really aware of most of the connections.

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Sophie Ellis-Bexter's mum (Janet Ellis?) has been on Blue Peter? If it's that, I wouldn't have got it from most of the clues. But it's not really early 80s specifically anyway so probably not that. Am I in the right ballpark? Blue Peter does sound like a good baddie though.

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Don't know!

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Fred Mumford wrote: Sat Oct 20, 2018 10:31 pm The one potentially valid argument against Bradman is that he only dominated one aspect of his sport - he was not outstanding as a bowler or fielder.

True but most sports don't have people having to take part in such explicitly different activities at different times.

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Fair point in its way, but then if you only include sports that all the world plays, are you left with anything but athletics and football? And possibly not even football, given the almost total lack of interest in China and India?
You've reminded me of something I saw ages ago. Someone (in ...

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Whatever one thinks of people like Ian Huntley and Ian Watkins (or anyone called Ian), prisons should be able to protect them from other prisoners.

Having seen who's allegedly done him in, I'm wondering if that person thinks he's higher on the moral crime scale compared to Huntley. If so, we ...

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Do you all remember this?

I wasn't sure where to put this, but I might as well use the de facto Richard Brittain thread. Does Richard Brittain have a brother? Go to this week's Question Time at about 12:56.
This is a brilliant shout. I urge people to check it out. I would send a screencap but ...

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Crufts.

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On at 3:40 today. Why did no-one tell me?

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Whatever one thinks of people like Ian Huntley and Ian Watkins (or anyone called Ian), prisons should be able to protect them from other prisoners.

I always think smoking gun evil murders or paedos should get the option of lethal injection or run the risk of being murdered
Either way the ...

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Whatever one thinks of people like Ian Huntley and Ian Watkins (or anyone called Ian), prisons should be able to protect them from other prisoners.

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Marc Meakin wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2026 6:55 am I see Kier Starmer is really running with this stop the boats idea....by not involving tge royal navy in Trumps war.
(Yes I know The Royal Navy has ships mainly)

Ships are just big boats.

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Ok so if you've been caught doing something bad at home to try and deflect attention away from that you pick a fight with one of your enemies.

Isn't this exactly what Trump is doing ?

Well yeah. Start an illegal war with no particular objective. Just make it up as you go along. And all the ...

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Ian Huntley

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That's a good point. When I saw the solution I didn't see it that way!

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It still involves doing 618 × 75 / 50 to get 927 (and then adding 25). And because you're not allowed intermediate fractions (like 1.5), you still end up going to 46,350. In any case I'd say it's unlikely that a contestant not versed in 4 large would have seen that.

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Fucking hell.

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Yeah, maybe a 4th...

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Is there a third clue?

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To follow up on that, we have:

Buzz Aldrin (96)
David Scott (93)
Charles Duke (90)
Harrison Schmitt (90)

So we probably don't have that long to get someone to the moon if we want there to continuously be a living person who has been to the moon.

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I don't think we will ever a man walk on the moon, this century

I was just going through this thread and came across this. While I'm still not sure about your claim, it seems likely now that there will be a time quite soon when there are no living people who have walked on the moon. Given the ...

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I'm going to rewrite my list:

Jon O'Neill (various, probably the first time was at Chelmsford parkrun)
Mark Deeks (various, probably the first time was on election night in 2015, and he also came to mine with Jen)
Matt Morrison (various, been to his flat several times)
Heather Badcock (various ...

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Fartlek is when you're alternating running hard / easy, rather than actually walking.

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It's also a bit like MERER, MEREST. No-one ever says MERER but it's just valid because MERE is one syllable.

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We've discussed all this before. MINUTEST is in as its own thing for emphasis when something is really small. It's not there as superlative, even if it happens to take that form. (It's arguably a bizarre stance but that's why they've skipped the comparative.)

As for the not enough time thing, it ...

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Runner Jeff Galloway who "Jeffing" (meaning run/walking) was named after.

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Ian Volante wrote: Sat Feb 28, 2026 6:07 pm Elo, rather than ELO

Yes, because it's from Arpad Elo rather than Electric Light Orchestra.

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On e.g. a Facebook post "Love this!" as a response seems to have become a thing and there's something quite grating about it that's hard to fully explain.

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Oh yeah. Just watched it back. I think I was having a conversation over that bit.

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Co-creator of Red Dwarf Rob Grant!

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Luke becomes the 4th octochamp of the series and it's still only February. 0 points from the last 2 rounds means 913 instead of potentially 933 but he's still number 1 seed.

Did they give him a nickname? But as an MI6 spy (keep it quiet though) surely Luke the Spook. Maybe they didn't choose that ...

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I'll check this out.

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It's terrible at the moment. It's had its ups and downs but it's never been good for a prolonged time since the start of this thread. It would be a shame for the forum to die of neglect.

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According to oddschecker, the Greens are odds on to win this by-election. I'd consider this to be very good. Obviously negligible in terms of the make up of parliament, but if they win, more people are likely to see them as electable and worth voting for. And pressure from the Greens would hopefully ...

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Cool. Good info.

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Here's a thing. I think the term anti-Semitic (or antisemitic) is generally not a good one to use. If someone is racist against black people, they are racist. If they are racist against Asian people, they are racist. But if they are racist against Jewish people, they are anti-Semitic. Why does it ...

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What do people think of the whole thing about the BBC broadcasting the N-word from the BAFTAs ? Personally I think (as you may have guessed) it's a bit of a non-event. The guy has Tourette's. It's what he does. You could argue the opposite and say that it's bad that they would try to hide the ...

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Some discussion about BRANDIES being allowed but not LAGERS in the olden days.

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