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Electric Nitwit

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

I think everyone should have a negative score at least once - I did my bit a few days ago!

khalessi

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

I think everyone should have a negative score at least once - I did my bit a few days ago!

rainbowtrout

the purple tin wrote: »

There's none in Ireland, sure there isn't?

Have you never heard of Ballychristmas?:pac:

the purple tin

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Have you never heard of Ballychristmas?:pac:

Go on ourra dat :P

Help! I was upgraded to Sky Q last week. I’ve been out for a couple of hours and have recorded F1 race (please no spoilers).

I’ve gone to recordings and it’s not there but if I look at TV guide I can see it’s recording. How do you work this thing? I hate it so far

Ted_YNWA

Are you including places that are called Christmas in their own native language, or just those commonly know by their English name as Christmas.

Think everyone is watching the hurling, Ted.

Ps: keep bouncing.

khalessi

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Are you including places that are called Christmas in their own native language, or just those commonly know by their English name as Christmas.

Electric Nitwit

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Are you including places that are called Christmas in their own native language, or just those commonly know by their English name as Christmas.

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Just "Christmas"

Siobh73

Please bring back the tree questions...

khalessi

Siobh73 wrote: »

Please bring back the tree questions...

Which three?:D

the purple tin

Siobh73 wrote: »

Please bring back the tree questions...

You do and I'll start me puns again :P

Sephiroth_dude

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

That poor kitten








:pac:

Siobh73

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Help! I was upgraded to Sky Q last week. I’ve been out for a couple of hours and have recorded F1 race (please no spoilers).

I’ve gone to recordings and it’s not there but if I look at TV guide I can see it’s recording. How do you work this thing? I hate it so far

Just got it myself a coupe of weeks ago and still struggling with the controls! , There only saving grace is the voice activation...
It should be showing in your recordings and you should be able to start watching it from the start in there. Did you choose recent recordings?

aaronjennings

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Help! I was upgraded to Sky Q last week. I’ve been out for a couple of hours and have recorded F1 race (please no spoilers).

I’ve gone to recordings and it’s not there but if I look at TV guide I can see it’s recording. How do you work this thing? I hate it so far

Funny enough, I only got it in this Monday as well

Do you know the 'Sky' logo on the remote is a button that takes you straight to your recordings? If it recorded properly, it should be there

Electric Nitwit

1hr klaxon for CJ, hurling and TRS!

Electric Nitwit

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

1hr klaxon for CJ, hurling and TRS!

We'll hold on for a bit in the hope that CJ and hurlingman see this. Don't want them scoring zero when they could be getting negative scores

Posy

You're too kind.

looksee

Way too kind. I would find a few negative scores (for other people of course) very helpful

Electric Nitwit

OK, we'll have to call time on cee_jay

So there are four Christmases in the world. Which is very bad news for a couple of people!

As many predicted, all in the US - Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Mississippi

Median and scores to follow pretty quickly...

Electric Nitwit

Well this one presumably is low right?...

Ugh I haven't a clue. I know there's a place called Christmas in Michigan. I'd say there's more than that though. Places called Santa Claus and North Pole don't count I bloody well hope!!! It's not that many I'd say.

I don't really understand the caveat but heh

Without any add ons such as island I cant imagine there's that many (famous last words no doubt)

Morning, well Christmas Island is out sooo I dont reckon many as we would have heard of them growing up in some awful schmaltzy news report, so this has to be low. Though how low is the question and what does everyone think hmm. There is a place called Santa Claus, but Christmas cant think of any but EN you have it as a question, is it a trick question? Is it 1 or none deffo low, ok Christmas Island one but dont count but that is number 1, still one so higher so

If Hallmark movies are anything to go by then there are a lot.

I'm pretty sure it's just that place in Florida called Christmas?? But people will surely guess more than that... This is a tough one. And maybe there is more...

Today my strategy is 'pick the number of the day we are on' Because nothing else has worked so far!

The USA is a big country and they're not very original when it comes to naming things....

I want to say zero but there must be some places otherwise it's a stupid question and you wouldn't do that

I know Americans have an obsession with names like that...

I've nothing to say to you this morning

Ah lord , I'm going to go with the number that's in my address

This game has broken me and I can't even think of anything funny, clever, or reasonable to say anymore...

I just asked Alexa for a random number, good a basis as anything else.

Ok so I had to consult with my husband for this because he was almost bang on with yesterday's question and I was so so wrong. So we actually had similar thoughts on this and I'm feeling confident with my guess here. Coz most of these MUST be in the states. The yanks love their stupid town names.

Hmm, I'm going to go with my favourite number for this one.

Man... These questions aren't getting any easier. Can we get something like what is the average number of cards in a 52 card deck.

Definitely an American thing, this, there could be one in every state for all I know

I feel like maybe this is a trick question and there's only the one place called Christmas .. wherever the photo you shared is. Ah maybe you wouldn't do that... Or would you!?!?!

I would have said none only you put up a pic of the street sign so there must be at least one...

HOW COULD I POSSIBLY KNOW THIS, LIKE??!!

Me no likey this question!!!

I am so hungover today my brain hurts

duffman13

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

OK, we'll have to call time on cee_jay

So there are four Christmases in the world. Which is very bad news for a couple of people!

As many predicted, all in the US - Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Mississippi

Median and scores to follow pretty quickly...

Oh no.....

Electric Nitwit

duffman13 wrote: »

Oh no.....

Trust me, you're fine

Electric Nitwit

So, the median was 12.5 but anyone who guessed single or double figures scored OK!
If you guessed triple figures, then, ummm....

Player | Guess | Score
Skyler Scarce Frown | 2 | 9.6
DvB | 3 | 9.7
JohnGreenFan | 3 | 9.7
khalessi | 3 | 9.7
Declan A Walsh | 4 | 9.7
Builebeag | 5 | 9.7
hurlingman97 | 5 | 9.7
kitten_k | 5 | 9.7
Siobh73 | 5 | 9.7
mirrorwall14 | 7 | 9.8
Sephiroth_dude | 7 | 9.8
Zaph | 7 | 9.8
HeidiHeidi | 9 | 9.9
Green&Red | 10 | 9.9
Loughc | 10 | 9.9
Mollyb60 | 10 | 9.9
Necro | 10 | 9.9
ShaneU | 10 | 9.9
Toto Wolfcastle | 10 | 9.9
TRS30 | 10 | 9.9
Reberetta | 11.7 | 10.0
looksee | 12 | 10.0
Mam of 4 | 12 | 10.0
Barney92 | 13 | 10.0
duffman13 | 13 | 10.0
Ectoplasm | 13 | 10.0
rainbowtrout | 13 | 10.0
aaronjennings | 15 | 9.9
Purgative | 17 | 9.8
bubblypop | 20 | 9.7
Homer J. Fong | 20 | 9.7
Hyblaeus | 20 | 9.7
Posy | 20 | 9.7
Spook_ie | 20 | 9.7
Also Starring LeVar Burton | 23 | 9.6
davetherave | 23 | 9.6
the purple tin | 24 | 9.6
Trigger | 30 | 9.4
Neowise | 40 | 9.0
tscul32 | 50 | 8.7
Ted_YNWA | 99 | 7.0
Irish Aris | 100 | 7.0
Collie D | 117 | 6.4
Kolido | 300 | 0.0
Strawberry Milkshake | 620 | -11.1
mustang shelly | 740 | -15.3
cee_jay | | 0.0

Necro

Ah Strawbs and shelly :pac:

Electric Nitwit

So cee_jay and Kol slide down the table. Shelly and Strawbs tumble down it!
Otherwise, much of a muchness...

Place | Player | Old total | Today's score | Total
1 (1) | Green&Red | 104.7 | 9.9 | 114.6
2 (2) | Siobh73 | 103.2 | 9.7 | 113.0
3 (3) | Loughc | 100.8 | 9.9 | 110.7
4 (4) | Necro | 100.1 | 9.9 | 110.0
5 (5) | JohnGreenFan | 99.5 | 9.7 | 109.2
6 (6) | hurlingman97 | 99.1 | 9.7 | 108.8
7 (7) | rainbowtrout | 97.9 | 10.0 | 107.9
8 (8) | duffman13 | 97.7 | 10.0 | 107.6
9 (10) | Toto Wolfcastle | 96.1 | 9.9 | 106.0
10 (12) | DvB | 95.4 | 9.7 | 105.1
11 (13) | Reberetta | 92.9 | 10.0 | 102.9
12 (11) | Irish Aris | 95.9 | 7.0 | 102.9
13 (14) | Posy | 92.2 | 9.7 | 102.0
14 (15) | davetherave | 92.1 | 9.6 | 101.7
15 (16) | khalessi | 91.8 | 9.7 | 101.4
16 (17) | Zaph | 91.5 | 9.8 | 101.3
17 (18) | mirrorwall14 | 91.3 | 9.8 | 101.1
18 (19) | bubblypop | 90.1 | 9.7 | 99.8
19 (20) | Trigger | 89.2 | 9.4 | 98.6
20 (9) | cee_jay | 97.5 | 0.0 | 97.5
21 (21) | Spook_ie | 87.2 | 9.7 | 96.9
22 (22) | Homer J. Fong | 86.5 | 9.7 | 96.2
23 (25) | ShaneU | 83.1 | 9.9 | 93.0
24 (24) | Neowise | 84.0 | 9.0 | 93.0
25 (23) | Collie D | 85.8 | 6.4 | 92.1
26 (28) | Builebeag | 81.1 | 9.7 | 90.8
27 (29) | Ectoplasm | 80.6 | 10.0 | 90.6
28 (30) | HeidiHeidi | 77.6 | 9.9 | 87.5
29 (31) | Hyblaeus | 77.5 | 9.7 | 87.2
30 (32) | TRS30 | 75.4 | 9.9 | 85.4
31 (33) | Purgative | 73.4 | 9.8 | 83.3
32 (34) | tscul32 | 73.1 | 8.7 | 81.8
33 (27) | Kolido | 81.1 | 0.0 | 81.1
34 (35) | Declan A Walsh | 69.6 | 9.7 | 79.4
35 (36) | kitten_k | 66.9 | 9.7 | 76.6
36 (37) | Mam of 4 | 65.7 | 10.0 | 75.7
37 (38) | Barney92 | 65.1 | 10.0 | 75.1
38 (39) | Sephiroth_dude | 62.6 | 9.8 | 72.4
39 (41) | aaronjennings | 60.2 | 9.9 | 70.1
40 (42) | Mollyb60 | 58.6 | 9.9 | 68.5
41 (26) | mustang shelly | 81.6 | -15.3 | 66.3
42 (43) | the purple tin | 53.8 | 9.6 | 63.4
43 (44) | Skyler Scarce Frown | 46.3 | 9.6 | 56.0
44 (45) | Ted_YNWA | 44.8 | 7.0 | 51.8
45 (40) | Strawberry Milkshake | 61.5 | -11.1 | 50.4
46 (46) | looksee | 33.5 | 10.0 | 43.5
47 (47) | Also Starring LeVar Burton | 30.9 | 9.6 | 40.5

the purple tin

Yipee it's my best score ever
Up one step I go, too.

Purgative

Thank you Strawbs and Mustang - I owe you some bacon.

Necro

I was about to say 'Kolido's score in the table is wrong, sure he answered the question'

Then I looked at his answer- he was as well skipping

Mollyb60

the purple tin wrote: »

Yipee it's my best score ever
Up one step I go, too.

Mine too I think. I shall consult my husband on all future questions.