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Green&Red

Mollyb60 wrote: »

I'm gonna assume that includes us heathens up north so.

Protestants don’t believe in Santa though so it’s just your half

Electric Nitwit

khalessi wrote: »

loving this show

I really like it too. I get the impression that most don't though, which is a real shame. The good definitely outweighs the bad with it. The new characters this series (Book, Adira, the federation head honcho) are all really good

Mollyb60

khalessi wrote: »

loving this show

Has there been a Star Trek themed werewolf yet?

There has, I ran it with Baggsy and Uriel. Twas great craic if I do say so myself. Re-run due next year if we can get our **** together.
(caveat - I fcuking DESPISE Disco. So there will be no STD elements involved.)

Green&Red wrote: »

Protestants don’t believe in Santa though so it’s just your half

Dont you assume my religion ya little bollix! Santa isn't on the list so you must be lying!

Mollyb60

Also I've redone my maths and I'm feeling better now. Thanks Stamets!

Loughc

Right I cracked out my busy at maths 3 and went to work. I’m either going to be fairly ok or wayyyyy off. Just like every other day.

Did I really try to apply logic to an illogically game.

looksee

Ha! I put in my guess, then checked it and was pretty close! Whether the median will agree is another matter entirely

khalessi

Loughc wrote: »

Right I cracked out my busy at maths 3 and went to work. I’m either going to be fairly ok or wayyyyy off. Just like every other day.

Did I really try to apply logic to an illogically game.

Wrong book, Christmas tree question doesn't appear until Busy at Maths 4, you will have to recalculate

Zaph

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

I really like it too. I get the impression that most don't though, which is a real shame. The good definitely outweighs the bad with it. The new characters this series (Book, Adira, the federation head honcho) are all really good

It's OK, although this season is definitely better than the first two. I feel that if it wasn't called Star Trek I possibly wouldn't watch it. Of the new characters, I like Book, the other two I can take or leave. The admiral is necessary, somebody has to be in charge of Starfleet, but I'm not really sure what Adira adds to the show yet.

Mollyb60

Zaph wrote: »

It's OK, although this season is definitely better than the first two. I feel that if it wasn't called Star Trek I possibly wouldn't watch it. Of the new characters, I like Book, the other two I can take or leave. The admiral is necessary, somebody has to be in charge of Starfleet, but I'm not really sure what Adira adds to the show yet.

Agree that this season is better than the previous 2 but it's the only show I've ever watched where I have to pause it frequently to rant about how ridiculous it is. It's not a Star Trek show, it's the Michael Burnham show. She is treated like the messiah and my husband and I frequently laugh at how almost every scene in the show fails the Burnham Bechdel test. It's ridiculous. The writers are just awful.

In saying that I do actually like Saru (despite his weak captaincy - it's ok though! Burnham forgives him for demoting her :rolleyes:), Stamets and Culber, and Book. Tilly should be shot out the airlock, especially now she's acting XO (that was a particularly long rant). And the other nameless bridge crew just show no respect for Saru at all. It's worse than Enterprise.

But enough ST talk!

mirrorwall14

Ah jaysus I don’t even know if the figure in my head for the population of the country covers the north too..... and then I’ve no idea how many households

khalessi

mirrorwall14 wrote: »

Ah jaysus I don’t even know if the figure in my head for the population of the country covers the north too..... and then I’ve no idea how many households

pick a random high number, half it, add 10, divide by 8 and multiply by 6.874 then round up

Zaph

Mollyb60 wrote: »

Tilly should be shot out the airlock

If you could make that happen it would be a wonderful Christmas present.

STEP #1: Send an answer based on terrible assumptions.
STEP #2: Google real answer.
STEP #3:

Zaph

khalessi wrote: »

pick a random high number, half it, add 10, divide by 8 and multiply by 6.874 then round up

Round up to the nearest 10? 100? 47,000? You can't be giving out such vague instructions, this is far too important!

khalessi

Zaph wrote: »

Round up to the nearest 10? 100? 47,000? You can't be giving out such vague instructions, this is far too important!

The next step is to get a 10 sided dice and label it 10? 100? 47,000? not at present, future uncertain, try again, and toss it.

Zaph

khalessi wrote: »

The next step is to get a 10 sided dice and label it 10? 100? 47,000? not at present, future uncertain, try again, and toss it.

Now was that so hard to do in the first place?

khalessi

Zaph wrote: »

Now was that so hard to do in the first place?

buiding the suspense.

ShaneU

I was way off

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Ah balls, I looked up the real answer after sending mine in...

I've made a terrible mistake.

the purple tin

The real answer matters not a jot.
It's that all important and elusive median which I seek.

Electric Nitwit

the purple tin wrote: »

The real answer matters not a jot.
It's that all important and elusive median which I seek.

How I visualise you saying that...

Purgative

looksee wrote: »

Ha! I put in my guess, then checked it and was pretty close! Whether the median will agree is another matter entirely

I gave up checking my guesses computations days ago.



I find I'm happier longer that way.:)

Spook_ie

Well I do be thinking of the piles of old Xmas trees that are left for recycling, just in Fingal alone.

So 10s of 1000s, 100s of thousand or 1000s of thousands, is the question

looksee

I saw a thing where they said that people were giving up their plastic trees for real ones, which on the face of it is an environmental benefit. However years ago, probably 20 years ago we had real trees each year. This was before there was any council service picking up the dead ones. So I put the tree in the back garden on 6th January and literally put a match to it - not thinking this would be effective and expecting I would have to actually make a little fire under it to get it going. Poof, It was gone. Frightened the life out of me. We never had another real tree in the house.

Edit - as a kid we had a tree made from what in retrospect I think must have been green-dyed bottle brushes (1950s). We thought it was amazing. We also had little clip on holders that held real candles, that my dad lit with great care for half an hour or so on Christmas eve. Health and safety how are ye!

the purple tin

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

How I visualise you saying that...

Stuff and nonsense, Dear Boy!
I haven't worn a pith helmet in over a year.

Electric Nitwit

Lunchtime bump
26/47 answers in

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Q10: How many homegrown, real Christmas trees were sold on the island of Ireland this Christmas?

davetherave

khalessi wrote: »

The next step is to get a 10 sided dice and label it 10? 100? 47,000? not at present, future uncertain, try again, and toss it.

Good enough for me. Just rolled a D10 a bunch of times to come up with an answer, that does seem plausible. Emergency dice set to the rescue :pac:


(Numbers on dice not related to my answer)

Posy

I was dithering between 2 answers, so if you could just accept whatever answer is the closest to the median, that would be great, thanks, EN.

mirrorwall14

Holy **** I was right despite all the guessing and splitting and maths??!? I couldn't wait for the reveal tonight.

However I regret checking. Now I know I'm completely screwed because from the looks of it everyone else did not get it correct lol

Electric Nitwit

Posy wrote: »

I was dithering between 2 answers, so if you could just accept whatever answer is the closest to the median, that would be great, thanks, EN.

No probs Posy, I've been doing that for a few people already