LongTimeLurker
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You missed this part of the linked text: The election count was conducted in Garioch Sports Centre in Inverurie, on Friday, 4 November and the first preference votes for each of the candidates was as follows:
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These by-elections get decided by STV not by first past the vote, so there's no obvious reason why doing that would help the Tories.
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There was a 19.2% drop in SNP support in Banff compared to 2.5% in Iverurie. Surprised anyone would need to have that spelled out to them.
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I guess the fishermen are not happy with the SNP for being pro-EU?
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Think the main problem with the books (I am slowly wading my way through) is the sheer number of characters and the author expecting too much from the reader in terms of keeping track of every minor sub-plot. A few sentences here and there to remind the reader who people are would help a lot. The TV show emphasizes the Mereen and north of the wall stuff more than they needed to along with the tedious Arya and Brienne sub-plots that come across as filler to meet contractual requirements on page numbers a lot of the time. Not sure they made the most of the material available to them. Having more of a Lannister and King's Landing focus rather than a Stark family one might have worked better, but obviously it's difficult to be critical of something that has clearly had a major cultural impact. Got a sinking feeling it's going to fizzle out with an ending like The Sopranos or The Prisoner, because they ultimately won't know where they want to take it. "Bittersweet" may be a coded way of saying that. Having someone like Littlefinger or Tyrion wind up as the winner would be the way it should go based on the character development downplaying heroism and going for realism, but HBO will probably want more of a Hollywood ending.
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8/10 and a message that says "Your lucky day" even though I knew 6 of them. -
6/10 and knew 5
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8/10, that's mair like it. The two song titles were what tripped me up.
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A pathetic 3/10 made all the more ignominioius by getting a Canadian themed question wrong despite living there for many years and frequently having been in the chain where dutchies are most likely to be sold.
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Finally able to post again after a week in Russia and a stream of captcha verifications any time I tried to post. 5/10 and 5/10 yesterday.
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6/10 and knew 4
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5/10 and knew 3.
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You'll find very little footage or pictures of air raid damage in the UK from WWII, because it was viewed at the time as bad for morale and actively suppressed. Suspect the US military were not keen on pictures of their HQ being hit by a plane being shown endlessly for similar reasons, so don't see anything hugely untoward in that being withheld. The key detail that gets left out of the "9/11 truth" youtube clips on the Pentagon thing is that lots of witnesses saw the plane from their vehicles on a nearby highway, so it really isn't in question that a plane hit the building. Building 7 is a strange one. Not sure whether we got the full story on that, and it's not unreasonable that could be because of some national security angle given the organisations that had offices there, but given it came down many hours after the twin towers, I don't think that calls into question what happened with the other buildings in any way, which is the extra step in questionable logic terms that the so called "truth movement" always wants people to make. Also think the president and US air force would have had an agonizing decision over what to do with the last plane in moral terms, and the passengers heroically forcing it to crash is something that is probably better not questioned.
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7/10 and knew 3.
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4/10 and knew 2.
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4/10 and knew 3.
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Feel sorry for the keeper, because his defence did him no favours and he was close to getting it right on angles on stuff like that a few times, so can see why he would be rated, but you definitely need somebody a bit more athletic and agile in that position, like the guy at the other end.
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I used to (long time ago) watch the Shire reasonably regularly, so it's always one of the first results I look for. Have watched the extended youtube clips highlights a few times and they looked to me to be playing to a decent standard. 11 points back with one game in hand is not going to be easy.
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How on earth did you lose 7 goals to Selkirk? Looks like a betting scam, but I'm sure there must be an innocent enough explanation.
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4/10 and only knew the 2 geography related ones.
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5/10 and knew 3. First five correct then went downhill from there.
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Some people prefer to think that someone or some group is in ultimate control of everything important to the alternative possibility that seismic events in world history can unfold thanks to the actions of a few random nutters and will do intellectual contortions to force the facts to fit their preferred world view in that regard. Having said that though, if you are an American that was sent to Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin incident that now appears to have probably been falsified, who later watched Iran-Contra unfold in the 80s and watched aghast as no WMDs showed up in Iraq under Dubya, it's maybe understandable if you wind up like Jesse Ventura.
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His grandad had bigger issues than hairstyles and had to be filmed and photographed only from certain angles:
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A more mundane 6/10 today and knew 5.
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Can't quite believe I got 9/10 as I only knew 4 for certain. Messed up on East Timor's flag.