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Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social)

@elocemearg

Software engineer. Attempted quiz enthusiast. Sentence fragments in bio. He/him.

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Joined January 2009
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Posting here to announce that I can now be found on bsky as graemecole. This feels like the social network equivalent of using Edge to download Chrome.
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Dave Gorman@DaveGorman10 Nov 2023
Scrolling through Twitter & I see this on my timeline. I think, ‘that’s odd there’s no way I’d choose to follow this sort of crypto BS’ So I look at the acct. It’s also followed by dozens of comics. That’s even odder. So I scroll back &find old conversations it was in. And… 1/
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Ana Opp 🇺🇦🇵🇸@AnaOpp21 Jul 2023
It’s always “do people in their 20s have enough life experience to be MPs” and never “do people born into massive generational wealth who never had to worry about rent, bills, shit jobs or tuition fees have enough life experience to be MPs”.
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Dr Alecto Hardwick@AlexHardwick959 Jul 2023
Let's talk about "Dave Garda"; or, did a former Countdown contestant try to scam the quiz community by creating, and then "killing", a fake identity? Thread: 1/7
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This art deserves a far wider audience than it appears to have. youtube.com/@BritishCryptids
British Cryptids (1974)

British Cryptids (1974)

Produced in 1974, the British Cryptids film series was presumably destined to be sold to a UK broadcaster - either the BBC or ITV - however it seems only to have been shown at schools and ended up...

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Andy Ryan@ItsAndyRyan25 Jun 2023
Oh no, just like the Manic Street Preachers warned us
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When did the term "cashless" become hijacked to mean "download app, install app, create account, enter details every time" when everyone was happy with "just tap contactless card"? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-6…
More than 20 councils replacing pay and display parking machines with apps

More than 20 councils replacing pay and display parking machines with apps

Councils say app payments save money but charities warn people without a smartphone could be excluded.

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One day Johnson will be that oddball in your local paper, the one entering their twelfth week of increasingly absurd arguments over a bang-to-rights parking ticket.
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@PinkNews24 May 2023
Tory MP Nick Fletcher has said that pronouns are a “problem” and should be removed from schools completely to “protect children”. “██’re confusing people,” ██ said. (1/8) 🧵
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There are some big caveats on this because it depends which episodes you include and how you count them, but by coincidence I just found this out: As of today, 8,164 episodes of Countdown have been broadcast. 4,082 were hosted by Richard Whiteley, and 4,082 are post-Whiteley.
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Sat down to watch Inside No. 9 only to get an "in a change to the billed schedule" and this #3by3 nonsense. Format needs a bit of work, but a good range of question subject and difficulty, and some superb endgame strategy by the winner.
A wide shot of a cheesy game show called "3 by 3".

ALT A wide shot of a cheesy game show called "3 by 3".

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You can't expect "Austin" to be accepted when the text clearly describes it as a city and Texas as a state. It's a reading exam, after all. But what if a pupil had answered "USA", reasoning correctly that it's a state in America?
An extract from a KS2 Y6 SATs exam. "Question 13 Look at the first two paragraphs. In which American state is the Congress Avenue Bridge found? Relevant extract: By day the Congress Avenue Bridge in the city of Austin could hardly look more normal: a grey, dreary city-centre road bridge. [...] Austin is the capital city of the state of Texas in the USA, but it is also the bat capital of North America. [...] Answer: The answer is Texas but the teacher told us it was likely children would not be familiar enough with American geography to know that Austin is not a state."

ALT An extract from a KS2 Y6 SATs exam. "Question 13 Look at the first two paragraphs. In which American state is the Congress Avenue Bridge found? Relevant extract: By day the Congress Avenue Bridge in the city of Austin could hardly look more normal: a grey, dreary city-centre road bridge. [...] Austin is the capital city of the state of Texas in the USA, but it is also the bat capital of North America. [...] Answer: The answer is Texas but the teacher told us it was likely children would not be familiar enough with American geography to know that Austin is not a state."

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Lesley Jeavons@LesleyJeavons14 May 2023
Fab to co-host @focalcountdown Brighton with @fiona_titcombe yesterday. We had players who span many @C4Countdown’s years, including Louis & Sandie who recreated their boardgame cover with Fiona & I standing in for Richard 💙 & Catherine & @PaulZenon for @GylesB1 🌈 @carolvorders
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Image from Lesley Jeavons (@LesleyJeavons)
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A remarkable game in yesterday's Countdown in Brighton event. 25 vowels were picked in total, but not a single E came out. The vowel pack had 70 cards of which 21 were E. It had been shuffled. Assuming a perfectly random shuffle, we think the probability of this is 1 in 102,140.
A scoresheet for a 9-round Countdown game. None of the six letters rounds features the letter E.

ALT A scoresheet for a 9-round Countdown game. None of the six letters rounds features the letter E.

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@implausibleblog14 May 2023
Lord Peter Cruddas, "If Labour wins they will reduce the voting age, abolish voter ID, and introduce Proportional Representation making it impossible for the Conservative party to win an outright majority in the future." Conservative Democratic Organisation
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The total number of points awarded in each of the two #Eurovision vote phases is exactly 2,146 ((1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+10+12) * 37). So you can work out how many points the last country received before they announce it.
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OK so I *did* cock it up, but I think my result would have been more dramatic.
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Aha! They must treat the "rest of the world" as a 38th country, explaining the extra 58 points.
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