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General

  1. Nothing Matters
  2. People are a result of their history
  3. Herbert
  4. Consistent versus right
  5. Attractiveness grade 1 to 4
  6. How to swallow pills
  7. The Connoisseur effect
  8. Theory of Wine
  9. Theory of Dancing
  10. 3 Book solution to trials involving secrets
  11. 5 Layer model of Travel
  12. Layers of Drama
  13. Labels
  14. Selffulness
  15. Common enemy
  16. Scatological humour
  17. Park art
  18. Beware the man who smiles in the street
  19. The 3 body problem
  20. Symmetry when evaluating medical issues
  21. There's a lot of Asbergers about
  22. People sing 6-from-8 when there's no music
  23. Modern music 5-from-8 as iambic pentameter
  24. Fast walkers should walk behind their friends
  25. Why I wear a coat when it's hot
  26. The Council of 17
  27. England leaving the UK
  28. Jaywalking rules
  29. Sit-com spin-offs
  30. Write what you know
  31. The nature of War
  32. Reasons to interrupt someone
  33. See-saw economics
  34. The rule of Plenty
  35. Shopping by Numbers
  36. 3-from-5 using chain loops
  37. Live tweeting
  38. Turkish Vaccination
  39. Teeth familiarity
  40. Selling Quince wine
  41. Lack of discussion of bottom hygiene management
  42. Use of a torch to identify wet patches on floor
  43. Reckless and Responsible practice when crossing roads
  44. If you're not crossing the road, look away
  45. Not the last place you look for something
  46. A place for everything but it's not necessarily there
  47. Strong sense of direction but not accurate
  48. Benford's law - pick random X, pick Y between 1 and X, Y likely to start with 1
  49. Benford's law - 2*X likely to start with 1
  50. Benford's law - explained by logarithmic approach?
  51. Most fictional futures are a group rebelling against the dictatorship - except Star Trek
  52. Kitty system for bistro math - meal together, couple with multiple meals, larger group carrying credit/debt
  53. Piece of art with 256 blue dots all aligned, one is red, but one blue is mis-aligned
  54. When it's reasonable to put your bag on the seat next to you on public transport
  55. Quiz question: What number am I thinking of?

Broad concepts

  1. Anthropic
  2. Evolution
  3. Social contract people who want to operate within society should be bound by its rules
  4. The point of prison
  5. Pay by use pay based on the value you get from an item

The Value of Life

  1. Introduction to Life
  2. Suicide
  3. Abortion
  4. Euthanasia

Inventions

  1. Toaster Whistle
  2. Stair Walker
  3. Plastic package opener
  4. Gate Squeaker
  5. Pre-fire combi boiler to save water
  6. Nugget Restaurant
  7. Streaming TV, never see the same advert twice
  8. Monument making use of solar alignment
  9. Magnets move up a spinning screwdriver
  10. Drip silencer
  11. Calendar of last year's photos
  12. Parser planned for final project
  13. Sack over head to manage rioting prisoners
  14. Self-generating quiz, player asks question, they get points if 25%-75% of teams get it right
  15. 8-bit character set so you can tell if you're in the middle of a multi-byte character
  16. Finger counting in binary

Trivia

  1. Months on a Piano
  2. Dishwasher loading
  3. Pre-soak
  4. Sport in Odd Years
  5. Twitter 4 types of followers
  6. Allergy to Nut
  7. Films in two halves
  8. Location of disabled toilet cubicles
  9. My second million pounds/second book
  10. The Usual Suspects poster
  11. First/third generation
  12. Who knows the mass of the Higgs Boson?
  13. When is a minute 4 seconds?
  14. Two year/Twenty year argument
  15. Trigger's broom
  16. Fridges are like lightbulbs
  17. Rationing on a desert island
  18. Spare locks for your house
  19. What I thought Karaoke was
  20. Dark lower light upper
  21. How many blobs on a power bar
  22. Theory of pins
  23. Thinking time to let an idea settle, eg interventions
  24. Rotate your toilet rolls
  25. Perennial Poke
  26. Unconscious interpretation of traffic movements
  27. TV show lengths
  28. Use of labels for bisexual groups etc
  29. Toilet roll direction
  30. Dusk ultraviolet
  31. Playing Pointless as a pub quiz round
  32. Local compass
  33. Gay versus camp
  34. Left/right Ant/Dec taps
  35. Past weather forecasts for comparison
  36. Walking the synonym homonym tree
  37. Insurance is for people who can't afford it
  38. They only listen to the last 3 seconds
  39. Bad cats go to dog heaven
  40. Perfect preparation for ABC candy
  41. Things that are interesting
  42. Why I don't get on with Shakespeare
  43. Different quality of vision indoors versus outdoors
  44. Sinister disposition
  45. The Bacon Sandwich effect
  46. See you soon/later
  47. Female names end with an E
  48. Use the smaller toilet roll first
  49. Pronunciation indicates news from tv or text
  50. Dying author writes an unfinished last book
  51. Differences between people more than differences between genders
  52. Secondary adjectives - sino/franco
  53. Quiz tie breaker questions - estimate
  54. Childhood is just Stockholm Syndrome
  55. Rhythmic clapping
  56. Train fill pattern
  57. The curse of remembering something each time you do something
  58. How to dispose of tissue while on toilet
  59. The importance of Scrappy Doo
  60. Why licence plate recognition doesn't have to be perfect for congestion zone fining - and fingerprint checks
  61. Toilet cubicle locks
  62. Fantasy Football, such a good idea!
  63. Augmentation - embracing something you like
  64. The benefits of being 5'8" - BMI
  65. Don't make final arrangements for meetings too soon
  66. New words Theyr and tuw
  67. Affluence test - how much to return a product
  68. Buying something and never opening it
  69. Take security tags off your fire extinguisher
  70. Using tile samples as drink coaster - with ridges
  71. Men's suits are dull, they have to compress their personality into their tie
  72. Set your timer to 17 minutes
  73. I can't hear weather
  74. Protocol for cancelling weather
  75. Seesaw economics - more tax for more services or don't
  76. Don't clear your plate
  77. Yes - Oui - We - Nous - No
  78. Pickpocket taking nothing but leaving a "you could have been pickpocketed" card
  79. When have Olympics not been in a leap year?

Maths observations

  1. thingy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mortice/Maths
  2. As x tends to 1, square tends to double
  3. Power Spiral - The full shape plotted by y=x^n

Talks

  1. DNA
  2. Memorising a Pack of Cards
  3. How play scriptwriters can make zoom based films
  4. Approximations - seconds in a day
  5. BPPV
  6. Bitcoin
  7. Conic sections using a lamp
  8. 5 Kennedy events of the 1960s

Dramatic works

  1. The Loneliest Man in the Universe
  2. Gameshow where contestants place a stake
  3. My Fair Lady based on handwriting

Profound thoughts from others

  1. Dropping a glass of water
  2. A big brown shaggy dog called sunshine
  3. Avoid nice food/tv while drunk
  4. Atheism is a faith
  5. Which urinal to use

BGT

  1. 3 cups trick with tea jar
  2. Spinning plates, but charging mobiles
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