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Mmmm. Barely even overtops the bowl.
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20 hours ago, AnderooMFC said:
I may be outing my own levels of self-respect but uh, how? Are you eating 5 minis? Standing them on their side? Stacking them up but only 2 get covered in milk and the top three are dry? Breaking them all in half and mushing them up one at a time??
Fair questions. Firstly, I consider some foodstuffs 'fitting' in a bowl as long as you can easily walk with it without any of the food falling out. It's ok if some of the food overtops the rim of the bowl. That's the case with 5 wheat biscuits when dry, but when in their mushy state they don't even overtop the bowl.
If I remember tomorrow morning I'll give myself a rare treat of 5 wheat biscuits and post photographic evidence on here.
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2 minutes ago, craigkillie said:
That is not my interpretation of the rules, they seem to want to break ties one at a time, so after South Africa were selected as group winners it would then come down to head-to-head between Scotland and Ireland.https://www.rugbyworldcup.com/news/35290
As far as I can tell, this is exactly the process (the only bit I'm not sure about is the specific reference to "two tied teams" in step 1, but that seems to be contradicted by everything else.All three teams tied on 15 points, tie-breakers required.
1. Head-to-head - South Africa, Scotland and Ireland all have a win each (and a bonus point each)
2. Points difference - South Africa have the best one and win the group.Group winners are decided, now return to select group runners-up.
1. Head-to-head - Scotland beat Ireland and are runners-up.
Ok, so that seems in line with what Bully Wee Villa said. But my head hurts now and I need to lie down in a darkened room (and sleep for 7+ hours).
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9 minutes ago, Bully Wee Villa said:
Not guaranteed, though. It's very unlikely but if Scotland beat Ireland by more than twenty points and both teams score four or more tries, Scotland win group on points difference, Ireland finish above South Africa by virtue of head-to-head.
So in a 3 way points tie, only the first position is determined by points difference, and then it reverts to head-to-head? Crikey, it's even more complicated than I thought.
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1 hour ago, andrew21 said:
Fair point, need to score four tries in that scenario then
Afraid not. If we beat Ireland by 6, even assuming they don't get the try BP, we are definitely out as we'd all (including South Africa) be on 15 points and our points difference would be the worst of the 3 (SA 117, Ireland 116, Scotland 103).
So we absolutely need to be beat Ireland by 8 points or more.
If we beat Ireland by 8 or more points and both teams get a try BP, then all 3 teams would finish on 15 points. In this scenario, Scotland would have to win by 20 (or 21??) to finish ahead of SA and 13 to finish ahead of Ireland. Either way SA progress to the quarters. BBC says SA are on the brink of qualifying, but I think it's guaranteed as it's impossible for both Ireland and Scotland to beat them on points difference.
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4 hours ago, GNU_Linux said:
Is Weetabix the singular or plural?
Both. Like sheep.
3 hours ago, Scary Bear said:For those who eat more than two. Do you have larger than the usual breakfast bowls? Do you have standard bowls and ram as many as possible in? Or do you have two bowls of weetabix?
No. 5 wheat biscuits, plus accompanying fruit, fit comfortably in a normal breakfast bowl. Any self respecting man would already know this.
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49 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said:
Was that April 1996?
I missed it because my sister got married that day.
That's the one, aye.
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2 hours ago, Otis Blue said:
Can't remember the exact year but I think the worst QOS side I ever saw was back in the early 90s or thereabouts in a game against Stirling. I hadn't been a regular at the time having spent a decade working down south and living in London for a while, so the state of the team was a real shock. I was up for a weekend and think we lost 5-1 at home and I left at the hour mark because we were way worse than an average pub side - it was so easy for the Binos that their players were joking with the home fans at the touchline when taking throw ins. Totally embarrassing it was - must have been the lowest ebb for the club - end of the Harkness years?
It definitely wasn't the lowest ebb - because we beat you 7-0 at Palmerston in the same season!
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5 weetabix plus milk and some fruit for palatability is only about 550 kcal, which is a good breakfast size, enough to keep a real man (like me) going for about 3 hours, until elevenses.
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#Yeardle #557
https://histordle.com/yeardle/eeek
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1 hour ago, Miguel Sanchez said:
How much does it cost for Weetabix nowadays? A fiver for 24? The supermarkets are on to something here, I'll stick with the cheap stuff thanks.
And two at a time, because I'm not a fat b*****d like so many in here apparently are.
I sometimes have 5 and my BMI is 19, I'll have you know. Two wheat biscuits is nowhere near a satisfactory breakfast.
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The permutations are still myriad, but I think it's now virtually impossible to win the group. You have to assume South Africa will get a BP win v Tonga and so would end on 15 points. We would have to get a BP win v Ireland to reach 15 points, but as SA beat us, we could only finish ahead of them if Ireland also finish on 15. Then Ireland would have to get either a losing BP or a try BP (but not both) to finish on 15. Then we'd have to beat Ireland by 13 points or more AND have a winning margin within 11 points of SA v Tonga.
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8 hours ago, Cosmic Joe said:
And, why are seatbelts not provided on trains?
I presume it's almost impossible that a train will rapidly decelerate. Unlike road transport.
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9 hours ago, Big Gus said:
Any more than 2 are basically a brick shit in your future.
How shite are the various "own brand" Weetabix btw? Pure pish.
If it's just Weetabix then 5 is acceptable. No more though.
The 'normal' own brands are fine. It's the value stuff that is akin to consuming gravel.
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By my reckoning that was our first ever live game on the telly not against the old firm. Am I right?
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On 23/09/2023 at 17:54, dundeefc1783 said:
Just had an email from Octopus. They are lowering the prices by 8%.
So now offering a 12 month fixed at the same price as their flexible price. Is it worth fixing for 12 months or am I as well staying on the flexible and take the risk prices don't go up?
I've taken Octopus on their fix offer. If the price cap moves in line with the current predictions I'll save during most of the next year, plus a wee Brucie bonus of 5 days this month at the cheaper price. Roughly £80 saving I reckon, plus protection should the geopolitical situation go even more tits up. Worse case, prices drop significantly and I'm no more than £150 worse off than I would have been sticking on the price cap.
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6 hours ago, throbber said:
The number of possible sequences a 52 pack of card can be shuffled is 8^67 which is larger than the number of individual atoms there are on earth (there are 10 million alone in the tip of a needle for example)
The number googolplex is a 10 to the power of a googol worth of zeros, and if you were to write every 0 in that number out there wouldn’t be enough particles in the visible universe for every 0 that’s in a googolplex. A googolplex would actually be close to representing the total number of possible combinations an observable universe full ofsand particles could be arranged (similar to the sequences you could find a shuffled pack of cards in).
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13 hours ago, Lurkst said:
First guess wasn't too far out but I kept going the wrong way
#Yeardle #549
https://histordle.com/yeardle/Even worse for me, typo on the 7th guess!
#Yeardle #549
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2 hours ago, welshbairn said:
On the subject of crap books I got about 10 pages through one of Richard Osman's "cosy" detective novels before binning it, I suspect it was written by a special needs AI, clunky, unfunny, self satisfied cringe. Glad to see somebody agrees with me..
https://www.gawker.com/culture/the-thursday-murder-club-books-are-criminally-bad-richard-osman
On the plus side I've ordered James Ellroy's new epic, The Enchanters, supposed to be coming out today I think, can't wait..
I'm currently reading the Thursday Murder club. It's no literary masterpiece, but enjoyable enough.
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1 hour ago, Todd_is_God said:
Agreed.
I'm not sure about this. I'd rather miss out by £70k than £1k.
Initially. Then you realise you'll have to bid £70k more on the next one, or downscale to a shoebox.
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#Yeardle #546
https://histordle.com/yeardle/Great luck given I'd narrowed this one down to a 6000 year window for the first guess.
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1 minute ago, die hard doonhamer said:
Put an offer in on a house today. The wait to hear back is horrible.
It's worse when you find out you were outbid by £70k.
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Big hand to Evenepoel for lighting up the race. He made it worth sticking with once the GC race died.
Cracking breakaway and chase in the last stage. I don't think I've ever seen the breakaway get caught but the stage still get won by someone that was in it.
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8 hours ago, Lurkst said:
Just as well, otherwise that would have scuppered my run of 4.
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How many Weetabix would you consider excessive?
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I already added standard size wheat biscuits for scale.