James Wilson
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Likely to talk about maths, sports, geography and quizzing.
Intrigued by the Belgium-Samoa rugby match at 3:30 today. What does it mean to be an underdog?
November 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Intrigued by the Belgium-Samoa rugby match at 3:30 today. What does it mean to be an underdog?
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I know scheduling isn't supposed to be important any more, but BBC2 and ITV1 are both currently showing Kelvin Fletcher farming programmes 🤔
October 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I know scheduling isn't supposed to be important any more, but BBC2 and ITV1 are both currently showing Kelvin Fletcher farming programmes 🤔
Does anyone else have an unexplainable disinterest in watching any drama called "The [some noun]".
It must help more people watch them or they wouldn't do it, but it has the opposite effect on me.
It must help more people watch them or they wouldn't do it, but it has the opposite effect on me.
September 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Does anyone else have an unexplainable disinterest in watching any drama called "The [some noun]".
It must help more people watch them or they wouldn't do it, but it has the opposite effect on me.
It must help more people watch them or they wouldn't do it, but it has the opposite effect on me.
There is a flaw in rugby union where it's better to score four tries and lose by 200 than score three and lose by 8 because you get a bonus point.
I'm surprised there's never been a controversy where a team deliberately conceded tries so they got the ball back in the centre at the restart.
I'm surprised there's never been a controversy where a team deliberately conceded tries so they got the ball back in the centre at the restart.
September 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
There is a flaw in rugby union where it's better to score four tries and lose by 200 than score three and lose by 8 because you get a bonus point.
I'm surprised there's never been a controversy where a team deliberately conceded tries so they got the ball back in the centre at the restart.
I'm surprised there's never been a controversy where a team deliberately conceded tries so they got the ball back in the centre at the restart.
When I was 17 I noticed that it was possible to play a round-robin tournament with one pitch and five teams so that no one played two games in a row. But this is not possible with four teams.
1 v 2
3 v 4
Then you're stuck as you can't play 1 v 2 again and 3 and 4 have just played.
1 v 2
3 v 4
Then you're stuck as you can't play 1 v 2 again and 3 and 4 have just played.
August 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
When I was 17 I noticed that it was possible to play a round-robin tournament with one pitch and five teams so that no one played two games in a row. But this is not possible with four teams.
1 v 2
3 v 4
Then you're stuck as you can't play 1 v 2 again and 3 and 4 have just played.
1 v 2
3 v 4
Then you're stuck as you can't play 1 v 2 again and 3 and 4 have just played.
When you live in Canary Wharf and your friends mostly live in Canada Water or Colliers Wood, CW ceases to be a useful abbreviation.
July 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
When you live in Canary Wharf and your friends mostly live in Canada Water or Colliers Wood, CW ceases to be a useful abbreviation.
www.thegrocer.co.uk/kvi-price-tr...
18.1% is an underreporting! Kit Kats have gone from 8.5p per finger to 11p per finger at my Tesco. #kitkat
18.1% is an underreporting! Kit Kats have gone from 8.5p per finger to 11p per finger at my Tesco. #kitkat
Nestlé shrinks Kit Kat multipacks to mitigate soaring cocoa costs
Prices of the multipacks have risen by as much as 18.1% in some cases
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June 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
www.thegrocer.co.uk/kvi-price-tr...
18.1% is an underreporting! Kit Kats have gone from 8.5p per finger to 11p per finger at my Tesco. #kitkat
18.1% is an underreporting! Kit Kats have gone from 8.5p per finger to 11p per finger at my Tesco. #kitkat
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Enjoy it, our brief time. Soon enough it’ll be back to nine months of grey and the other team will be posting ‘thank the Lord, all semblance of cheer has vanished from the air again’.
June 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Enjoy it, our brief time. Soon enough it’ll be back to nine months of grey and the other team will be posting ‘thank the Lord, all semblance of cheer has vanished from the air again’.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
Apropos of learning it's in financial trouble, one of those weird student things was learning that when people said "vodka revs" they meant Revolutions, even though the word vodka was nowhere on the signage.
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April 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Apropos of learning it's in financial trouble, one of those weird student things was learning that when people said "vodka revs" they meant Revolutions, even though the word vodka was nowhere on the signage.
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Proper "I'm on live TV" moment this morning when I was talking about how well the pope looked and sounded yesterday only for the presenter to interrupt us to announce that the pope, had in fact, just died
April 21, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Proper "I'm on live TV" moment this morning when I was talking about how well the pope looked and sounded yesterday only for the presenter to interrupt us to announce that the pope, had in fact, just died
Gool Peran lowen. Here's a Cornish fact for St Piran's Day.
Trenja is Cornish for the day after tomorrow.
Godreva is Cornish for the day after the day after tomorrow.
Trenja is Cornish for the day after tomorrow.
Godreva is Cornish for the day after the day after tomorrow.
March 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Gool Peran lowen. Here's a Cornish fact for St Piran's Day.
Trenja is Cornish for the day after tomorrow.
Godreva is Cornish for the day after the day after tomorrow.
Trenja is Cornish for the day after tomorrow.
Godreva is Cornish for the day after the day after tomorrow.
On a similar note, here's a clock near where I work, the church of St Edmund the King. What time did I take this picture?
If you said 11:15, you'd be wrong, because it is running 73 minutes fast.
I am starting to tire of it chiming each hour to tell me a time I know is 73 minutes from being true.
If you said 11:15, you'd be wrong, because it is running 73 minutes fast.
I am starting to tire of it chiming each hour to tell me a time I know is 73 minutes from being true.
February 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
On a similar note, here's a clock near where I work, the church of St Edmund the King. What time did I take this picture?
If you said 11:15, you'd be wrong, because it is running 73 minutes fast.
I am starting to tire of it chiming each hour to tell me a time I know is 73 minutes from being true.
If you said 11:15, you'd be wrong, because it is running 73 minutes fast.
I am starting to tire of it chiming each hour to tell me a time I know is 73 minutes from being true.
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Of course there will be people for whom wfh is right/possible, it isn't one size fits all (and on flip side this debate only applies to part of the workforce who ever have that option). But where i've shifted is making in person working the default feels the least harmful option.
January 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Of course there will be people for whom wfh is right/possible, it isn't one size fits all (and on flip side this debate only applies to part of the workforce who ever have that option). But where i've shifted is making in person working the default feels the least harmful option.
Why is 800g wholemeal bread just so much worse than 400g wholemeal bread? In theory it's the same thing but somehow in practice it's not.
January 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Why is 800g wholemeal bread just so much worse than 400g wholemeal bread? In theory it's the same thing but somehow in practice it's not.
Fair warning, if you're doing dry January you're not allowed to post that really boring, overdone meme about it having 6,184 days on January 29th.
January 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Fair warning, if you're doing dry January you're not allowed to post that really boring, overdone meme about it having 6,184 days on January 29th.
This and the subsequent posts are eloquently put, and match my experience.
At a risk of sounding terrible, I am a thirty-something who recently began dating for the first time and ticks all those boxes - but I'm missing something. My female friends are happy with how I behave on dates (from my reporting, granted), I try to listen > speak etc, but I inspire no interest.
December 17, 2024 at 2:32 PM
This and the subsequent posts are eloquently put, and match my experience.
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Can we take a moment to love and respect DIANNE. What an incredible teacher she has been 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
December 14, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Can we take a moment to love and respect DIANNE. What an incredible teacher she has been 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
It took me a while to realise that's this what Birmingham Christmas Market is - a huge fake pop-up pub so that the real pubs aren't rammed for the rest of us - we actually need more of these.
So much truth!
My first thought for the pop-up pubs for the cunt buffaloes was “Christmas Markets” - my eyes continue reading and it is the next point made 🤣
My first thought for the pop-up pubs for the cunt buffaloes was “Christmas Markets” - my eyes continue reading and it is the next point made 🤣
December 14, 2024 at 10:36 AM
It took me a while to realise that's this what Birmingham Christmas Market is - a huge fake pop-up pub so that the real pubs aren't rammed for the rest of us - we actually need more of these.
Austria, Romania, Bosnia, Cyprus, San Marino all in the same group - at least one of those going to the next world cup. Bosnia in 2014 is the only time this millennium any of those countries have qualified. #uefa #worldcupqualifying
December 13, 2024 at 12:28 PM
Austria, Romania, Bosnia, Cyprus, San Marino all in the same group - at least one of those going to the next world cup. Bosnia in 2014 is the only time this millennium any of those countries have qualified. #uefa #worldcupqualifying
When I lived in Birmingham, someone walking past me in the street would tell me to smile and this would happen quite regularly, say 4 or 5 times a year. Living in London, it has never happened.
December 10, 2024 at 9:48 AM
When I lived in Birmingham, someone walking past me in the street would tell me to smile and this would happen quite regularly, say 4 or 5 times a year. Living in London, it has never happened.
Do you think Wasabi (Sushi & Bento) keep their restaurants freezing on purpose so people don't linger and therefore they don't need so much seating space?
December 9, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Do you think Wasabi (Sushi & Bento) keep their restaurants freezing on purpose so people don't linger and therefore they don't need so much seating space?
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People are posting about “losing” Whamaggeddon already so I’m starting #ReverseWhamageddon early; whoever hears it the most wins.
Rules:
A. Only one listen a day on purpose
2. Post a time, location and tally for each listen in the wild
And D) ENJOY IT: it’s a banger and George Michael was a dude.
Rules:
A. Only one listen a day on purpose
2. Post a time, location and tally for each listen in the wild
And D) ENJOY IT: it’s a banger and George Michael was a dude.
November 28, 2024 at 8:25 AM
People are posting about “losing” Whamaggeddon already so I’m starting #ReverseWhamageddon early; whoever hears it the most wins.
Rules:
A. Only one listen a day on purpose
2. Post a time, location and tally for each listen in the wild
And D) ENJOY IT: it’s a banger and George Michael was a dude.
Rules:
A. Only one listen a day on purpose
2. Post a time, location and tally for each listen in the wild
And D) ENJOY IT: it’s a banger and George Michael was a dude.