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by Roxanne
Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:18 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Home Educators Eat Babies!
Replies: 35
Views: 4247

Re: Home Educators Eat Babies!

And why should you have learnt to conform to what others expected of you? Why shouldn't you have been encouraged to find friends who accepted you for who you were? because who I was, was a completely tactless, insensitive, selfish, self-centred, greedy, intolerant, boastful, bitchy, snobbish, smarm...
by Roxanne
Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:54 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Home Educators Eat Babies!
Replies: 35
Views: 4247

Re: Home Educators Eat Babies!

No doubt there are circumstances where it's beneficial, but I can't imagine how greatly impoverished my life would have been if I'd been home educated. Anyone see that documentary out Britain's smartest kids about 6 months ago? I'm not referring to the most recent one in February this year which wa...
by Roxanne
Tue Mar 17, 2009 6:03 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: FAO Roxanne
Replies: 4
Views: 1371

Re: FAO Roxanne

I failed it, but I couldn't care less because as I walked out of the hotel, I almost literally bumped into Orlando Bloom.
by Roxanne
Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:58 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Save Our Studios
Replies: 53
Views: 7270

Re: Save Our Studios

What with the economy being so fantastic, there being no wars going on, and poverty, disease, and crime all being things of the past, I can't possibly imagine that Gordon Brown would ever ignore the plight of a daytime TV show being relocated.
by Roxanne
Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:35 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Ghosts?
Replies: 157
Views: 18732

Re: Ghosts?

People are very impressionable. It is incredibly easy to manipulate peoples memories (as demostrated by the extensive research of Elizabeth Loftus), or even to create false ones. I can't give you a reference for this experiment, but here's the procedure as far as I can remember: adult participants w...
by Roxanne
Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:49 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: "Frustrated by the programme marginalising her sexuality."
Replies: 223
Views: 27801

Re: "Frustrated by the programme marginalising her sexuality."

I try not to place people in neat little categories labelled by their sexual tastes and needs. I am more of a spectrum person. One can't avoid the straight or gay stereotyping, but privately I like to think of a sliding scale. A whole range of sexual desires (often not fixed) which can change as we...
by Roxanne
Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:48 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Sandwich/Sandwiches
Replies: 195
Views: 15413

Re: Sandwich/Sandwiches

See chunk of cheese above. But where do you draw the line? Or is even the tiniest two-bits-of-bread-with-stuff-in-the-middle a sandwich in your eyes? Yes. When I was younger I used to make loads of little sandwiches by cutting one big one into 16. Having remembered that, I'm now off to have a mini-...
by Roxanne
Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:42 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Drifting semantically
Replies: 61
Views: 7692

Re: Drifting semantically

I've got a better one for Microsoft Word making mistakes; my (severely dyslexic) boyfriend put in his CV that he had worked in a "wherehouse" (warehouse). Word changed it to "whorehouse".
by Roxanne
Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:00 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Best ever contestants
Replies: 509
Views: 352057

Re: Best ever contestants

my favourite ever contestant was the woman who kept getting distracted and not noticing when it was her turn, it was hilarious! bless her
by Roxanne
Mon Feb 23, 2009 3:25 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: "Frustrated by the programme marginalising her sexuality."
Replies: 223
Views: 27801

Re: "Frustrated by the programme marginalising her sexuality."

When has contestant ever talked about their marriage? If they spent ages discussing how she was married to a woman then that would indicate that it's something abnormal. It says in that article that she wants to normalise gay marriage, and surely treating it like it's not an issue is the best way to...
by Roxanne
Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:50 pm
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: How ratings work
Replies: 51
Views: 64569

Re: How ratings work

it's a bit of a pain if people can close a game when they're losing and it doesn't affect their rating, but it's also a pain if your rating goes down because plusnet is rubbish and you lose your connection several times a day.
by Roxanne
Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:14 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Who has non-Countdown-style hobbies?
Replies: 182
Views: 14796

Re: Who has non-Countdown-style hobbies?

If I have one hobby that's lasted me for years, it's dabbling. I've had lessons in ice-skating, ballet, tap dancing, climbing and bouldering, trampolining, and horseriding. At the moment I'm fairly busy with driving lessons, but once I've got my licence and a car, I think I'll have a go at some mart...
by Roxanne
Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:45 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: The Colour Of Money
Replies: 61
Views: 5257

Re: The Colour Of Money

I think they should definately bring back Your Pick Sale, My Line Animal, Tune The Sky, Shot Every Second, Lucky Bullseye, Fortunes Winner, and Up Criss.
by Roxanne
Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:49 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Bring back 15-to-1 and 100%
Replies: 26
Views: 2609

Re: Bring back 15-to-1 and 100%

In one of the breaks when Deal Or No Deal was off the air for a couple of months, there was a show that I think was called "Win My Wage", where the contestant was told what the wages of 8 people were, but not who had which wage, and after eliminating 5 players, if the contestant correctly ...
by Roxanne
Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:32 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Bristol auditions 18th march
Replies: 37
Views: 4731

Re: Bristol auditions 18th march

Jimmy Gough wrote:Mine's 9th of March in Canterbury, anyone going to be there?
are you sure it's the 9th? my audition's in Canterbury on the 8th of March
by Roxanne
Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:42 pm
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: Sexy Sexy Graph Funtime
Replies: 14
Views: 2455

Re: Sexy Sexy Graph Funtime

The main board index says how many posts there are in total, so if you had no life you could check it on the hour for a few days to see how much the number increased by each time.

Or you could not care.
by Roxanne
Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:39 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Maths Homework - Dodgy equation
Replies: 40
Views: 2989

Re: Maths Homework - Dodgy equation

Allan Harmer wrote:Mike is 16 and on track for A* in his GCSE maths.
based on his classwork or the homework that you do for him? :P
by Roxanne
Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:57 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Countdown rules
Replies: 25
Views: 3322

Re: Countdown rules

People do sometimes make jokes in articles, and companies occasionally delete things that they want to keep quiet, but the vast majority of information on wikipedia is right, and most of it is referenced. That's just not much of a story.
by Roxanne
Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:59 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Countdown rules
Replies: 25
Views: 3322

Re: Countdown rules

I had no idea that you had to have 3-5 vowels until Jeff said so. If the first two letters were T and R, I would want to go with all vowels afterwards to try and get etaerio (the most likely 7 letter word in Scrabble).
by Roxanne
Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:31 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Anagrams
Replies: 107
Views: 17075

Re: Anagrams

how about a game of making anagrams with celebrity names?

Agile Jail One
Hit Porn Ails
Ho Jackal Minces
Crab Pensioner
The Agiler Kinky
Jet Flings Elf
by Roxanne
Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:53 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Anagrams
Replies: 107
Views: 17075

Re: Anagrams

Among the ones on wordmith.org were: Lax Rogering Inn, Oral Ex Grinning, and Groin Annex Girl. For my boyfriend's name I found I'll Clinch Arse Ho and Chill Oral Niches.
by Roxanne
Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:59 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Say hello to Susie
Replies: 67
Views: 11932

Re: Say hello to Susie

If you want people to know the difference between mathematics and arithmetic, you need to start at school. That's where the two get confused, with GCSE mathematics. By and large it's only people who've seen or studied maths at university that realise you can be a competent mathematician even though...
by Roxanne
Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:01 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: dress code
Replies: 120
Views: 14314

Re: dress code

I take some of your points, but, for example, you sometimes also hear scare stories of employers Googling people's names and if they don't like what they find they don't employ them. And you might then say "Don't post crap then" but it's very subjective and a Jon Corby style poster could ...
by Roxanne
Thu Feb 12, 2009 2:49 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Say hello to Susie
Replies: 67
Views: 11932

Re: Say hello to Susie

To be honest, I find the forced "banter" that you tend to get on daytime TV to be boring and pointless. I'd rather it was just "I'm Jeff, this is Rachel, that's Susie and our guest, there are the contestants, lets get on with round one". On the other hand, the time it takes up le...
by Roxanne
Thu Feb 12, 2009 2:31 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Dictionary Corner Guests
Replies: 143
Views: 19751

Re: Dictionary Corner Guests

I think David Mitchell would be a really good guest, he's brilliantly funny and it would fit in perfectly with his public persona of being a bit geeky. There are plenty of comedians out there that I love, but Mitchell is probably the only one inoffensive enough that I'd feel happy to watch him with ...
by Roxanne
Thu Feb 12, 2009 2:09 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: dress code
Replies: 120
Views: 14314

Re: dress code

Yes, different people do have different opinions on what constitutes looking good and when it matters. You might really love Hawiian shirts, but you wouldn't wear one to a funeral (apart from Margaret Thatcher's perhaps); you might think there's nothing more wonderful than a leopard print bodystocki...
by Roxanne
Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:04 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Rachel Riley at the numbers board
Replies: 19
Views: 5094

Re: Rachel Riley at the numbers board

My maths teacher always used to complain about the way I wrote my 4s and 9s. To be fair they both looked exactly the same, so he did have a point.
by Roxanne
Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:58 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: dress code
Replies: 120
Views: 14314

dress code

Honestly, some of the outfits I see on Countdown contestants make me cringe. A cat-sick yellow shirt with a "jazzy" tie, a polo shirt with silly pictures on it worn by someone over the age of four, and what I can only presume was a man's shirt on what I could just about recognise as a woma...
by Roxanne
Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:57 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Shuffling
Replies: 76
Views: 17870

Re: Shuffling

If I were the shuffler, I wouldn't be able to resist ordering the consonants F C K S H T C R P B G G R W N K...
I think you can guess how I'd order the vowels ;)
by Roxanne
Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:08 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: How many swear words does Kai know?
Replies: 68
Views: 8651

Re: How many swear words does Kai know?

I think he was in the episode that I got my banner from. Sometimes the shortest words are the best ones :lol:
by Roxanne
Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:06 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: How-To Guides
Replies: 172
Views: 37243

Re: How-To Guides

As the small numbers go up, I multiply them in my head, then they're fresh in my memory when the target comes up. Say the numbers going up are 4, 9, 7, 5, 5, 75. In my head I'm going 36, 63, 28, 45, 35... There's usually a 10 or a 1 or a duplicate so it doesn't get too tricky. Knowing your 75 times ...
by Roxanne
Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:35 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Dictionary Corner Guests
Replies: 143
Views: 19751

Re: Dictionary Corner Guests

I'm still waiting for Amy Winehouse to appear. link I would love to see that happen. I don't think I've ever seen her on TV in a situation where she was free to talk about what she wanted, instead of being asked "so you're a drug addict and your husband's in prison, tell me a bit about that&qu...
by Roxanne
Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:11 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Welcome! - Post here first
Replies: 1961
Views: 1026487

Re: Welcome! - Post here first

My name's Roxanne and I'm a Countdownaholic. I finally realised that I had a problem when I found myself, pen in one hand and cup of tea in the other, screaming LEYLANDII at the TV.