Gnash

Mmmm. Barely even overtops the bowl.

Fair questions. Firstly, I consider some foodstuffs 'fitting' in a bowl as long as you can easily walk with it without any of the food falling out. It's ok if some of the food overtops the rim of the bowl. That's the case with 5 wheat biscuits when dry, but when in their mushy state they don't even overtop the bowl. If I remember tomorrow morning I'll give myself a rare treat of 5 wheat biscuits and post photographic evidence on here.

Ok, so that seems in line with what Bully Wee Villa said. But my head hurts now and I need to lie down in a darkened room (and sleep for 7+ hours).

So in a 3 way points tie, only the first position is determined by points difference, and then it reverts to head-to-head? Crikey, it's even more complicated than I thought.

Afraid not. If we beat Ireland by 6, even assuming they don't get the try BP, we are definitely out as we'd all (including South Africa) be on 15 points and our points difference would be the worst of the 3 (SA 117, Ireland 116, Scotland 103). So we absolutely need to be beat Ireland by 8 points or more. If we beat Ireland by 8 or more points and both teams get a try BP, then all 3 teams would finish on 15 points. In this scenario, Scotland would have to win by 20 (or 21??) to finish ahead of SA and 13 to finish ahead of Ireland. Either way SA progress to the quarters. BBC says SA are on the brink of qualifying, but I think it's guaranteed as it's impossible for both Ireland and Scotland to beat them on points difference.

Both. Like sheep. No. 5 wheat biscuits, plus accompanying fruit, fit comfortably in a normal breakfast bowl. Any self respecting man would already know this.

That's the one, aye.

It definitely wasn't the lowest ebb - because we beat you 7-0 at Palmerston in the same season!

5 weetabix plus milk and some fruit for palatability is only about 550 kcal, which is a good breakfast size, enough to keep a real man (like me) going for about 3 hours, until elevenses.

#Yeardle #557 https://histordle.com/yeardle/ eeek

I sometimes have 5 and my BMI is 19, I'll have you know. Two wheat biscuits is nowhere near a satisfactory breakfast.

The permutations are still myriad, but I think it's now virtually impossible to win the group. You have to assume South Africa will get a BP win v Tonga and so would end on 15 points. We would have to get a BP win v Ireland to reach 15 points, but as SA beat us, we could only finish ahead of them if Ireland also finish on 15. Then Ireland would have to get either a losing BP or a try BP (but not both) to finish on 15. Then we'd have to beat Ireland by 13 points or more AND have a winning margin within 11 points of SA v Tonga.

I presume it's almost impossible that a train will rapidly decelerate. Unlike road transport.

If it's just Weetabix then 5 is acceptable. No more though. The 'normal' own brands are fine. It's the value stuff that is akin to consuming gravel.

By my reckoning that was our first ever live game on the telly not against the old firm. Am I right?

I've taken Octopus on their fix offer. If the price cap moves in line with the current predictions I'll save during most of the next year, plus a wee Brucie bonus of 5 days this month at the cheaper price. Roughly £80 saving I reckon, plus protection should the geopolitical situation go even more tits up. Worse case, prices drop significantly and I'm no more than £150 worse off than I would have been sticking on the price cap.

Graham's number shits on a googolplex.

Even worse for me, typo on the 7th guess! #Yeardle #549 https://histordle.com/yeardle/

I'm currently reading the Thursday Murder club. It's no literary masterpiece, but enjoyable enough.

Initially. Then you realise you'll have to bid £70k more on the next one, or downscale to a shoebox.

#Yeardle #546 https://histordle.com/yeardle/ Great luck given I'd narrowed this one down to a 6000 year window for the first guess.

It's worse when you find out you were outbid by £70k.

Big hand to Evenepoel for lighting up the race. He made it worth sticking with once the GC race died. Cracking breakaway and chase in the last stage. I don't think I've ever seen the breakaway get caught but the stage still get won by someone that was in it.

Just as well, otherwise that would have scuppered my run of 4.

Totally different situation. That day, Roglic was in a tight GC battle with Kuss nowhere near. Now, Jumbo have the GC wrapped up and Kuss is going to win because of team orders, not because he's the best rider. It stinks, frankly, and worse than that, it's boring.