Fogies sheepish Advent Calendar 2021

[E.N.]

Toto's a traditionalist too, ours is up in time for The Toy Show every year

Speaking of which...!

Yes, Christmas wouldn't be Christmas in Ireland without the Toy Show, would it? Or would it? Does anyone actually watch it?



#Advent Question 3:
Did you watch this year's Late Late Toy Show? *
What percentage of players do you think will say yes?

PMs to me before this evening, reveal about 9

Ho ho ho

* no real definition for "watched". Maybe over half an hour? I trust your call though

[Wichita Lineman]

[Butty Brennan]

We're doing ours this weekend, guessing that's quite common...?

I will do that too. Tree and decorations can take hours so you need a free day for it really.
You know in America the tree goes up on Christmas eve and comes back down on boxing day!

[E.N.]

We're doing ours this weekend, guessing that's quite common...?

I will do that too. Tree and decorations can take hours so you need a free day for it really.
You know in America the tree goes up on Christmas eve and comes back down on boxing day!

Is that right?!
Mind you, they only get about 20 minutes annual leave over there don't they?

[Spears]

OK, today's answer is lower than I thought, 43.8% (14 out of 32)

So surprised with how low the answer was. I chose super high not because I went too low yesterday, but because i genuinely thought everyone would have there's up already.

And I was even gonna lie and say that I had mine up so that no-one would know how lazy busy I am. 
Takes bloody hours and I just can't be bothered.

We're doing ours this weekend, guessing that's quite common...?

I'm quite a traditionalist at heart, so it never goes up before 8th December here.

Forgt there was a tradition of putting them up on a specific date. I actuallt thought it was the 5th.

I usually put mine up mid november 

[Butty Brennan]

I will do that too. Tree and decorations can take hours so you need a free day for it really.
You know in America the tree goes up on Christmas eve and comes back down on boxing day!

Is that right?!
Mind you, they only get about 20 minutes annual leave over there don't they?

Yes, employers there are under no obligation to give paid leave to employees, so suprise suprise: most of them don't

[Purple Mountain]

I wasn't expecting to open twitter and see a picture of Sephi and BuileBeag

Lol..I hope BB is the cat and Seph is the captured. We wouldn't want to be sexist around here like...!!

[E.N.]

Bumpity-bump

24/32 in. And some of the answers...



(not really, I just wanted to use that gif)

[E.N.]

I wasn't expecting to open twitter and see a picture of Sephi and BuileBeag

Lol..I hope BB is the cat and Seph is the captured. We wouldn't want to be sexidt around here like...!!

Nope, BB is definitely the Krampus. It's the role she was born to play!

[BuileBeag]

Lol..I hope BB is the cat and Seph is the captured. We wouldn't want to be sexidt around here like...!!

Nope, BB is definitely the Krampus. It's the role she was born to play!

My only issue with the first three questions is they haven't invited enough scorn upon you!!!!

[Sephiroth_Dude]

I wasn't expecting to open twitter and see a picture of Sephi and BuileBeag

Hey EN! You promised you wouldn't post that picture! Of me and Kramp....I mean BB,

[Trigger]

Aww Frick!!!! I went from 40 to 35 to 30. Why didn't I stick with my first thought!?!

Least I'm beating Trigger. That's something.

[E.N.]

One hour warning for @Loughc!

[E.N.]

No Loughc unfortunately, so it's 31 players today

"Only" 14 of whom watched the Toy Show! So the winning number is 45.2%

Yes	No
BuileBeag	aaronjennings
cee_jay	ari101
DvB	Barna77
Homer J. Fong	Butty Brennan
Hyblaeus	davetherave
lorcand1990	DejaBoo
Mam of 4	Edser
Necro	Irish Aris
Neowise	jp liz v1
nothing	Kol
Spears	Leg End Reject
Toto Wolfcastle	Purple Mountain
Trigger	Quickbeam
Wichita Lineman	Sawduck
-	Sephiroth_Dude
-	ShaneU
-	Zaph

[quickbeam]

What the .... ?????

[E.N.]

Player	Answer	Guess	Score
DvB	Yes	19%	23
ShaneU	No	25%	17
Irish Aris	No	33%	9
Kol	No	33%	9
Zaph	No	40%	2
Purple Mountain	No	40%	2
jp liz v1	No	45%	3
Edser	No	46%	4
Barna77	No	50%	8
Mam of 4	Yes	50%	8
ari101	No	50%	8
Necro	Yes	50%	8
BuileBeag	Yes	55%	13
Toto Wolfcastle	Yes	55%	13
Sawduck	No	58%	16
Neowise	Yes	60%	18
aaronjennings	No	60%	18
Leg End Reject	No	63%	21
davetherave	No	63%	21
Homer J. Fong	Yes	65%	23
Sephiroth_Dude	No	65%	23
cee_jay	Yes	67%	25
Butty Brennan	No	68%	26
Wichita Lineman	Yes	70%	28
Spears	Yes	70%	28
lorcand1990	Yes	75%	33
nothing	No	75%	33
Trigger	Yes	78.125%	36
Hyblaeus	Yes	80%	38
DejaBoo	No	80%	38
Quickbeam	No	91%	49
Loughc			56

[E.N.]

I'm afraid the correction to nothing's vote drops Leggie back to second. Zaph will be delighted!

Player	Old total	Today's score	New total
Zaph	20	2	22
Leg End Reject	5	21	26
Homer J. Fong	5	23	28
Necro	20	8	28
jp liz v1	27	3	30
Neowise	15	18	33
ari101	25	8	33
Irish Aris	27	9	36
BuileBeag	25	13	38
cee_jay	15	25	40
Edser	37	4	41
Sawduck	26	16	42
Mam of 4	37	8	45
lorcand1990	17	33	50
ShaneU	35	17	52
Kol	43	9	52
Quickbeam	14	49	63
Toto Wolfcastle	50	13	63
aaronjennings	47	18	65
nothing	37	33	70
Trigger	35	36	71
Butty Brennan	45	26	71
Barna77	65	8	73
DvB	50	23	73
Purple Mountain	82	2	84
DejaBoo	47	38	85
davetherave	65	21	86
Loughc	52	56	108
Wichita Lineman	82	28	110
Spears	87	28	115
Sephiroth_Dude	92	23	115
Hyblaeus	102	38	140

[quickbeam]

I thought everybody watched it??

[Leg End Reject]

I was going to say 40% but talked myself into believing it was too low! The 2 times I changed from my first instinct I was wrong.

[nothing]

I did say 75% but I said "no"

[quickbeam]

I did say 75% but I said "no"

I said No too, but I thought I'd be one of the few outliers.

[Leg End Reject]

I was going to say 40% but talked myself into believing it was too low! The 2 times I changed from my first instinct I was wrong.

Bugger! I could have built up a nice lead today before I inevitably slide to the middle of the table.

[lorcand1990]

Ah lads.. I work in TV advertising,  how could I feck that one up! I thought 75% would have been too low 

[E.N.]

I did say 75% but I said "no"

Oh crap! I'll update that later
It'll add a couple of points to most, but take them off anyone who guessed low

[Mam of 4]

Ha I said50% but that it really would be lower , two days in a row second guessing myself !

[E.N.]

I thought everybody watched it??

Me too, it was the one thing I could never get about this country. I feel more at home here now

[nothing]

I thought everybody watched it??

Me too, it was the one thing I could never get about this country. I feel more at home here now

According to my facebook memories, it's 10 years since I last watched it

[quickbeam]

Me too, it was the one thing I could never get about this country. I feel more at home here now

According to my facebook memories, it's 10 years since I last watched it

I've never watched. Ever.

There's a clue if that's a future question.

[Purple Mountain]

@Mam of 4 Stop lying, we all know you didn't watch it. Lol.
So, the lower our score in this game, the better, right??

[Mam of 4]

@Purple Mountain , I watched about twenty minutes of it , so I could talk to munchkin on the phone about it

[Trigger]

Fuckin grinches

[Purple Mountain]

@Purple Mountain , I watched about twenty minutes of it , so  I could talk to munchkin on the phone about it

It's 20 more minutes than I could manage of drunk on wine gums Tubridy!

[Mam of 4]

@Purple Mountain , I watched about twenty minutes of it , so  I could talk to munchkin on the phone about it

It's 20 more minutes than I could manage of drunk on wine gums Tubridy!

He is the reason I don't watch it ! Intensely dislike him . Luckily one of the bits I watched was the young girl playing the Harp , she was fantastic !

[ShaneU]

I thought everybody watched it??

I thought everybody would have their decorations up by now!

[Leg End Reject]

@Purple Mountain , I watched about twenty minutes of it , so  I could talk to munchkin on the phone about it

It's 20 more minutes than I could manage of drunk on wine gums Tubridy!

The last time I saw it Tubs looked like he was coked off his head!

[Zaph]

I thought everybody watched it??

I never even watched it as a kid.  Ours must have been one of the few houses in Ireland that The Late Late Show wasn't on TV every week.  I've seen The Toy Show exactly once, a few years ago, and that's enough to last a lifetime.

[aaronjennings]

According to my facebook memories, it's 10 years since I last watched it

I reckon that's how long it's been for me as well

[Wichita Lineman]

[DvB]

I'm really crap at this... I foolishly thought that most boardsie type folk were grinches so went waaaay too low.... Good to dismiss any sense of optimism early though ?

[nothing]

According to my facebook memories, it's 10 years since I last watched it

I reckon that's how long it's been for me as well

I think I gave Tubs a couple of years before I gave up