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Lesley Hines

Obviously, no-one on here would ever use software to rip copyrighted material. However, just supposing, hypothetically, that your usual DVD ripping software (Jesterware) wasn't working for a particular DVD, what other software would you recommend? Preferably free although a reasonable charge may be ...

Lesley Hines

Ben Hunter wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:You were more of a distraction as your head kept moving from your pad to the screen.
As likely an excuse as Richard Brittain hacking your Apterous account and losing to Jason Larsen on purpose.

FIX THE LIKES!!! FIX THE LIKES!!!

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:
Lesley Hines wrote: _________________
Lowering the averages since 2009
What exactly does this mean?

It means I joined in 2009 and have been consistently more rubbish than everyone else since, hence lowering the averages

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In for all three please

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Variation on the woodlouse game:

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Ok - this is an Ewwwwwwwwwwww one, but it's quite interesting. (At least if you live in more rural parts of the country, otherwise it's just ew.) Incest is only incest if it can produce offspring. Therefore it's illegal for Grandad to be banging (adult and consenting) granddaughter, but perfectly le...

Lesley Hines

Of course, all this is assuming that people would put their correct gender and location on their profiles. But once it made any difference to anything, I think it would be more likely that they would. Yeah it's probably time for me to go back to being a man on Apterous. But I felt so liberated :( I...

Lesley Hines

Thanks for this Lesley:- Sticking anything in your ears isn't illegal, but going through red temporary traffic lights is. (Law changed in 1994.) If you get nicked for it, you do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned, something which you later ...

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Going through temporary traffic lights when they are on red and sticking anything at all in your ears are both equally dangerous, but neither are illegal. Didn't quite catch that - can you say that again? Going through temporary traffic lights when they are on red and sticking anything at all in yo...

Lesley Hines

I reckon it'd be interesting, but not just for the sake of 'seein' the wimmen good at summat...'.

It'd be a nice extra statland page, although it would automatically exclude the ladies on here who are happy to play as shims.

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^Yes

Sorry to see you go Jeff. And fwiw Bee is hot - you're a lucky man

(Please don't add me to the gay thread. I'm not homophobic but women are just not correctly equipped to jog horizontally with.)

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D'you know, I was in Disneyland (awesome time, wide-eyed 4yo for very entertaining company, thanks for asking) and missed all of this. Is anyone else wondering if there's a thread about all of this in The Sanctum and wondering what's been written there?

Lesley Hines

Rhys Benjamin wrote:A resign feature.

Aw, you subscribed. Fair play

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"Checkin' my email".

That might just be my house though

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Ryan Taylor wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote:Got an 8 letter word one now. ARSEHOLE and EARHOLES
Awesome work.
Quite fortunate really.

A-lol at that conundrum scramble

Lesley Hines

Love that no-one (so far) got a head start

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Matt Morrison wrote:["Sleep", i.e. knobbing/nobbing, though sadly the balance wasn't 50/50 by any means.

Wait till you guys have got a 4yo - then clock changes will mean nothing

Lesley Hines

Incidentally, can anyone recall any suggestion or feedback that was taken on board by the production team in the near-decade that this forum and its predecessors have been around? Nope. Yeah, there was a TTT suggestion. Yeah, that's it. But the question was any... :lol: Hope you're keeping ok, Dami...

Lesley Hines

Jon O'Neill wrote:I'm a total Bryson fanboy, and Short History thing is pretty amazing.

Yup. Reddit

Try At Home as well, that's a cracking read too

(Tho' tbf I've yet to find one that isn't)

Lesley Hines

Life Ascending by Nick Lane is the best non-fiction book I've read in a long time (and I really like good books!). Figured it my be on some of you guys' radar. Do not attempt to discuss evolution* without having read it - there are some awesome new ideas in there. You can really see how some of the...

Lesley Hines

They do put it in the contestants' briefing notes, and it's the identical information at the start of the ODE2r (where in fact Countdown is specifically mentioned

).

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James Hall wrote:The mouse-over text for the Gold Bug is written in geek-code:

I did exactly the same thing

(and reported it as a bug originally... ) Thanks for making me feel better about being a dweeb!

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James has highlighted 'wecast' is valid on apterous but it's not in the nODE2r. Cheers

Lesley Hines

Apparently the word 'wecast', is valid on Apterous but I can't find a definition anywhere; even in the Oxford Dictionary. Could anyone be so kind as to tell us(Ben, Dan) what the hell it is? I think it must be a typo: reported to Charlie as a bug as my nODE2r goes from WEBZINE to Wed. Thanks for th...

Lesley Hines

So the highest in the series is 133, the record before was 114, and now he has NINE HUNDRED and 46? Are you sure you don't mean 146? Surely it's impossible to get so many points in countdown due to the way the points are awarded and the number of rounds? - Steve, London, 25/10/2010 8:31 Read more: ...

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Sorry for the downtime, it seems one of our technical staff* at Apterous Towers** made a hardware installation error***. The member of staff has now been fired****. * My mum ** My mum's house *** Unplugged the server to use the hoover **** Disowned DOUBLE LIKE ;) :) :D :mrgreen: 8-) DOUBLE LIKE ;) ...

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JackHurst wrote:Still want a statland page for top Diamond difficulty conundrum solvers.

Different to this one?

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abrations - where more than one abration happens. Might be worth investigating why abration isn't in either! it is though. It's not :? ABRASION (as in scraping) is in, although it's a mass noun and therefore not pluralised frequently enough to warrant entry into the dictionary. Abration (and any pl...

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Likin' the over-Christmas option, although is the Christmas break just for the people that are visiting families etc? I'd've thought Christmas week would be a busy time on apterous, what with folks not being at work / college / Job Centre etc. Or are you just filling in your time with all the extra ...

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He must mean something different if the chat answers didn't make sense - HTH

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sluttier! How is that not there? The Oxford lexicographers have never been to Worcester, I can tell you

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Today's Duel format is Unlimited Junior, but it's given me the Aegilops rules. Jus' sayin'

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The thing is with this, while science is so obviously vital it doesn't need saying, I've read this website and I've still got no idea what they're campaigning about. What funding is going to be cut? To support which research projects? How much of that funding could come, or indeed does already come,...

Lesley Hines

I love getting older. It's a massive improvement on the alternative. I really do sincerely mean this!

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Charlie Reams wrote:
George F. Jenkins wrote:the interest on money borrowed to prop them up running into millions of pounds

There is always a better answer.

Lesley Hines

Fair play James that was an awesome recap. Congratulations on your first year, and many more to come

Lesley Hines

Surely if you really liked raccoons you wouldn't want to ram your foot into them as far as possible and then walk around on them all day, so reported for racism. In fact, if you really liked raccoons you would wear wolf / coyote / owl or human -stylie slippers to do that to their natural enemies :lol:

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but Likes seem to broken. Is it something to do with the new logo? When will Likes be back? **** LIKE **** It does look great. Yes, the likes seem to be broken. Let's all pester Charlie as much as possible over this - a thread would be useful for that, or it might be more effective to pepper naggin...

Lesley Hines

Cheryl Cole is absolutely retarded. What actually qualifies her to be a judge on X Factor? Putting Katie through ahead of Gamu is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. I'm never watching this program again. OMFG I hated it tonight. It was all so predictable and I knew she would get put throug...

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Matt Morrison wrote:THE NEXT PERSON TO SPEAK IS GAY *

Fair point lol. Doesn't bother me tho - women can't be gay. IIRC woman-on-woman is art, apparently

Lesley Hines

I can't pay £15 a year. Ten easy ways to make £15: 1. Blag your granny - she too crippled to reach her money. All the more reason to get off your lazy arse and help her. 2. Take some old games / DVDs / CDs / hardware into GAME, CEX or similar, and walk out clutching pictures of the queen - No old g...

Lesley Hines

Charlie Reams wrote:
Michael Wallace wrote:they're trying to demagnetise the poles to make our compasses not work
All the bloody Poles are over here mate, and they certainly don't work! And yet they're stealing our jobs! It's political correctness gone zloti!

Said the emigrant.

Lesley Hines

Man, that's tmi even for quoting! Make sure she doesn't know you've posted details like that on the internet, or you'll be back to Maccy D's faster than you'd thought :lol: Oh, and make sure you take the right hand side of your script with you - the bit that lists all of your meds and repeat scripts...

Lesley Hines

George F. Jenkins wrote:Has the word YES disappeared from our spoken vocabulary. All I hear on television is YEAH, which is American, and possibly came from the German word JA.

Yup. I reckon.

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Marc Meakin wrote:I DON'T RECOMMEND THIS THO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsS811o2 ... re_related

Er, I think you just did

I take it you're not in up to your nuts then any more, eh Marc?

Lesley Hines

Gavin Chipper wrote: I'd prefer it if we went to Damian and shouted:

CoC!
CoC!
CoC!
CoC!
CoC!
CoC!

Do you think Damian might get offended if we all went up to him and shouted "Coc! Coc! Coc! Coc! Coc!"?

Lesley Hines

Rhys Benjamin wrote:No teacher at my school can spell BALALAIKA, only me

Wow, that's some research you did. Which method did you use?

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At the risk of staying on topic, SPLOTCHED

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:date?

Oh. and don't say it......

Unless you want Charlie to start charging £15 a year each for membership to this forum and the wiki too, for all the hard work and maintenance he puts in to it, I really wouldn't start exercising too many complainers' rights.

Lesley Hines

I like my porridge the way I like my women - with a Y chromosome

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Good luck Charlie!

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Lesley Hines wrote:
Michael Wallace wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:-old
Doesn't count if I've seen it before, you loser.
Ha ha

Aw man, the bastards have moved it. It was ace, too

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Michael Wallace wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:-old
Doesn't count if I've seen it before, you loser.

Ha ha

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Ryan Taylor wrote:So to keep you happy I liked it.

There are easier ways of keeping him happy than that...

Lesley Hines

I can't pay £15 a year. Ten easy ways to make £15: 1. Blag your granny 2. Take some old games / DVDs / CDs / hardware into GAME, CEX or similar, and walk out clutching pictures of the queen 3. Offer to wash your Mum's / Dad's car for a fiver, then repeat a couple of times (for £7.50 I'd do an inter...

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Michael Wallace wrote:
James Robinson wrote:Or if you prefer English, it's just been recommissioned in the UK.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a27 ... irmed.html
I am genuinely shocked by this.

I know. Where the devil did they find 9 people to recommend it from??

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Dmitry Goretsky wrote: News: Шоу на два мiльйони (literally from Ukrainian: Show for Two Million) casting in Ukraine!

Please form an orderly queue.

Lesley Hines

Is the hypothetical job hypothetically shitty because of the hypothetical nature of the job, or because the hypothetical people there are twats? The hypothetical managers are twats. Most of the hypothetical "normal" people are OK. But it is also a shitty job anyway (hypothetically). But t...

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Matt Morrison wrote:Read from here downwards. Enjoy.

Aw, I miss Damian

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Fair play Tom - huge congratulations. It's a great achievement

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