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John Avocado 宇杰 @supercroup.com · 4h

Freshly shorn 💇‍♂️

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John Avocado 宇杰 @supercroup.com · 4h

They also have a security setup – for the dentist! (We didn't have to go through it today.)

John Avocado 宇杰 @supercroup.com · 4h

We're here at the dental hospital for cleaning and polishing. The gallery of certificates is impressive!

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John Avocado 宇杰 @supercroup.com · 5h

New face furniture

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John Avocado 宇杰 @supercroup.com · 15h

I have never watched it – I mainly focussed on UK quiz shows (and specifically avoided Australian ones to avoid bias based on my disdain for Australian television and my feeling that it panders to stupidity, even when it shouldn't).

John Avocado 宇杰 @supercroup.com · 15h

She did. I'm actually undecided on where I would put Eggheads, but I lean towards category 2.

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John Avocado 宇杰 @supercroup.com · 15h

You may disagree with my categorisation of Millionaire, but I put to you that the first UK winner was Judith Keppel, the granddaughter of Walter Keppel, 9th Earl of Albemarle, and she won by answering the question "Which king was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine?". This is not a low-brow quiz show.

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John Avocado 宇杰 @supercroup.com · 15h

3. For stupid people who think they're smart (The Chase, The Weakest Link)

4. For stupid people who know they're stupid (Wheel of Fortune, Family Fortunes)

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John Avocado 宇杰 @supercroup.com · 15h

I maintain that TV quiz shows all fall into one of four categories:

1. For smart people who know they're smart (University Challenge, Only Connect)

2. For smart people who think they're stupid (Jeopardy!, Who Wants to be a Millionaire?) – this is the rarest category

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John Avocado 宇杰 @supercroup.com · 17h

Driving a car in a city.

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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John Avocado 宇杰 @supercroup.com · 17h

I also 100% believe this. Sadly, many of the people I report to do not, and I am yet to convince them that a slide deck exists to accompany a talk, and that if they need a standalone document for people who can't attend the talk, it won't take me more than a couple of hours to also write a paper.

Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · 22h

probably my most deeply-held belief: it is not possible for a slide deck to be both (1) a good presentation aide; and (2) a standalone document that can be read and understood in isolation.

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John Avocado 宇杰 @supercroup.com · 18h

Yep, in high school, all of my friends had phone numbers starting with 652, so I only had to remember a 3-digit number. And I can remember most of them now, 25 years later. I can remember my Dad's fax number (!), which he hasn't had since about 1998, because it was a 6-digit number starting with 228

Theo @kinkytheo.com · 19h

People are used to 11‐digit mobile phone numbers.
In ye olden days (the 90s) with landlines you only had to memorise 6 digits. And in my local area all the numbers started with 26 or 27.
This wasn't the feat of memory that modern kids think it must have been.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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Theo @kinkytheo.com · 19h

People are used to 11‐digit mobile phone numbers.
In ye olden days (the 90s) with landlines you only had to memorise 6 digits. And in my local area all the numbers started with 26 or 27.
This wasn't the feat of memory that modern kids think it must have been.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.