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Mark James

Every so often my windows desktop screen goes a bit nuts (it's windows 8). Instead of the background picture I have set up the screen turns black and often I'm unable to click on any windows that are active. I was playing a game on apterous the other night but the game screen disappeared and I could...

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Rate the Swedish league, do you Callum? The quality of the league in a sense is irrelevant since all the teams are of a similar quality. The EPL is probably an easier league to win if you happen to be managing one of the top teams with an endless bank account. People praise Guardiola but I could pr...

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Fred Mumford wrote:
Ian Volante wrote:Excellent, first time for quite a while if I remember right too.
Yes, we were last unofficial champs during Euro 2000 - another tournament where we didn't do quite so well officially.

Yis were great in 1994 too, although why you changed your name to Ireland is anybody's guess.

Mark James

Why did I put Lichtsteiner in my team? I'd have been better off leaving in the Mexican who wasn't even playing this round.

Mark James

Andy Platt wrote:League table seems to be constantly broken. Anyone (Mark H?) on more than 37 pts?

I have 40 points.

Mark James

Q Q S N D N J G F H W K M I ? Hint: This sequence is associated with the person I've been trying to add to Apterous Dictionary Corner for over a year. The hint made it very obvious for me. It's M for Made in Heaven. Although the sequence should have been Q Q S A A N J T F H T A T I. The words A and...

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2014-06-12 17:05:08 Mark James says: i think englands group ill see all four teams with 4 points 2014-06-12 17:05:22 Andy Platt says: nah, costa rica are useless 2014-06-12 17:05:24 Time's up and Barry Bridger was the only person to get it, solving it in 20.2 seconds and receiving 12 bonus points. T...

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2014-06-12 17:05:08 Mark James says: i think englands group ill see all four teams with 4 points 2014-06-12 17:05:22 Andy Platt says: nah, costa rica are useless 2014-06-12 17:05:24 Time's up and Barry Bridger was the only person to get it, solving it in 20.2 seconds and receiving 12 bonus points. T...

Mark James

JimBentley wrote: See also "You know your problem -"

I hate when people say, "You know what you're problem is".

As If I've only the one.

Mark James

Eoin Monaghan wrote:
Mark James wrote:On the McDonalds' site it says, thanks for registering, come back on June 8th to start selecting your team. It is June 8th and I can't select a team. Anyone know what's going on?
Any further luck? I have my team picked.

Never tried again. I'll stick with the mirror one.

Mark James

Sean Fletcher wrote:Is this open to everyone?

Yeah, Here's the code 1387410-13839.

Mark James

I'm reliably informed that the Maccy D's one is a bit shit this year (100m for 23 players?!). Are people that bothered about playing the McDonald's fantasy football or would people prefer to do the Sun/Mirror ones? For those who don't check Apterous: Robin McKay's already set up a league on the Mir...

Mark James

On the McDonalds' site it says, thanks for registering, come back on June 8th to start selecting your team. It is June 8th and I can't select a team. Anyone know what's going on?

Mark James

Zarte Siempre wrote: I'm perfectly trustworthy. I'm a consistent level of arsehole.

Love this response.

Mark James

Anyone fancy doing a World Cup fantasy football league? I was looking around and found a few places doing one so I didn't know which one people would be keen on. The McDonalds one seems to be the official FIFA one. Any suggestions on which one to go for?

Mark James

People who go to pubs but don't drink. Would you go to brothel to read a book? And I include designated drivers. In fact any group that has a designated driver. Just get a bloody taxi you cheap pricks.

Mark James

10-00pm ITV 2 Tonight..... Yet another chance to see the most overrated film in Movie history! I am of course talking about.....The Shawshank Redemption! Nah, that's a great film. I would urge anyone who's not seen it to watch it if they can. I agree with Jim. I thought it was great. My only critic...

Mark James

Bradley Cates wrote: http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... oalkeepers

Cheers. Good read that.

Mark James

Really would have picked Stockdale in place of Forster I know he plays in an inferior league but Forster is actually the best keeper England have and should start. I'd have left Foster out myself. For another outfield player. I've never understood bringing three goalies. I think its over cautious. ...

Mark James

Combined with the fact that you don't have a top 'X' or even a helpful opinion means you pretty much may as well have stayed away from the thread and kept your dullard opinions to yourself, yeah? I also have a bottom list of 2 which includes Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2. I think Dave wants to know t...

Mark James

Combined with the fact that you don't have a top 'X' or even a helpful opinion means you pretty much may as well have stayed away from the thread and kept your dullard opinions to yourself, yeah? I do have a top 'X'. I have a top list of 1 which includes Die Hard. I also have a bottom list of 2 whi...

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Steven M. McCann wrote:Yesterdays game (April 27th) had to be seen to be believed,
the player had 1,000 & 100,000 left in his last two boxes, gets offered 30,000 and still manages to go home with NOTHING!

I didn't see it but I still believe you. What I can't believe is that people still watch this show.

Mark James

Dave Preece wrote: You don't rate KB Vol. 2 as high as 1???

I rate them the same. They were both shite.

Mark James

One of the best nights of my life. Check this out. He's only gone and done it again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s5gxdzZOCE I love that he plays for my team in my league but this kid deserves to be playing at the highest level. The technique and the audacity to even try it is amazing. If it wa...

Mark James

I beat Abdi and we both got two nines.

Mark James

What evidence is there (if any) to suggest that having the letters pick gives you an advantage for the round? It did for me in one round in the match I played. The first 8 letters I picked were U I A F D S O G. I realised that if an E came up I would have the word GAUDIES. I asked for a vowel in th...

Mark James

Best final round ever. Shame your man blanked it. I knew every possible answer for Zep 4 and Appetite for Destruction and most of Nevermind.

Mark James

Isn't Deal or no Deal paid for by the phone line you have ring to become a contestant (apparently the phone line for Who Wants to be a Millionaire paid for an entire series payout by the amount of calls needed to fill one episode, everything else was pure profit).

Mark James

Maybe I should put this in the coincidences thread but I'm at a friend's in the Netherlands and I've just gone upstairs for a piss because the seat on the downstairs toilet doesn't stay up. Similarly coincidental, I was given a link to this by someone on my facebook page who I'm sure is totally una...

Mark James

Matt Morrison wrote:Amazing Mark. You're bringing the heat in every thread. Now I just need to know how you stand up to piss when you have your vagina on.

If I have a vagina on I'm usually lying down.

Mark James

A-lolled in the office at Mark pissing up his nose. Mission accomplished. Sounds like you need to clean your bell-end more often if rogue pubes are a regular problem. I exaggerated the frequency of the event for comedic purposes. It might have happened maybe twice. That was Gev, not me. So it was. ...

Mark James

I do a thing where I've just arrived home and I switch on the tv and instead of sitting down to watch it I stay standing up, but not only that, I also tend to have my body turned away from the tv but turn my head to watch it as if my body is ready to go do something else but my head has become enthr...

Mark James

There's so much from everyone here that I agree with, even people who are disagreeing with each other, and I can't be bothered to quote everything so here' my two cents. The plumbers installed my toilet wrong so the toilet is too close to cistern and the seat won't stay upright. It means I tend to h...

Mark James

Had a dream last night Jon O'Neill was showing me his DJ skills on a turntable. He didn't do anything though except play Undone-The Sweater Song by Weezer.

Mark James

Go on youtube, start watching a video, make sure your not clicked in to the search bar and type 1980. Something cools happens.

Mark James

I'm sick of the guests in dictionary corner doing "comedy" songs and poems.

Mark James

I doubt you'll be able to play apterous on a PS4.

Mark James

Johnny Canuck wrote:(Incidentally, why do they have to clarify that "This page is for amusement only"? Odd.)

Because so little of what's posted could be construed as amusing?

Mark James

I knew I had done something stupid on the internet last night. I should really avoid the computer when I come in from the pub.

Mark James

why would that be ironic? Because the man I'm asking is partly to blame. Again, why would that be ironic? It may be my understanding of the word ironic is actually wrong which is fair enough. If it is, please explain to me the definition. As I say, in one sense I was trying to make a joke but at th...

Mark James

Arguing over the meaning of "ironic" has got to be in the top ten of common Internet debates. Always fun to get such an argument going. Things are either ironic or they're not. It's a simple thing to get right really. Unless you want to argue about what "ironic" actually means, ...

Mark James

Fred Mumford wrote:Graeme, which players have appeared on the show more than once and lost every time? The rather unlucky James Hall springs to mind, ironically.

Graeme, why would that be ironic?

Mark James

I don't think taking issue with quality of play is unreasonable, because for most people here, it does actually make for a less enjoyable watch if contestants are missing very easy numbers games, trying proper nouns, whatever, and there's really nothing wrong with hoping or expecting one of your fa...

Mark James

Dave Preece wrote:What a shit bit of 'journalism'.

"Thanks" for that.

Mark James

I feel that winning a series doesn't mean much, This is the kind of stupid thing Liverpool haters (I'm not a Liverpool fan btw) were saying in 2005. "Sure they won the competition but they weren't the best team in it". Well they were. That's what winning the thing means. As someone who pa...

Mark James

Had a dream I was playing the video game Dark Souls and I was invading Gemma Church. And no, that is not sexual in anyway (I wish it had been).

Mark James

Soph K wrote:the big bang theory & how i met your mother

I can't watch sitcoms with laughter tracks anymore. I still like Frasier and Seinfeld and all but modern comedies should drop it.

Mark James

Matt Morrison wrote:repeats this week so been deleting the fuckers

You know when you press the i button on your sky remote to find out what the show is about. Why can they not say when things are repeats. I'm pretty sure they used to have (R) at the end but I haven't seen one in ages.

Mark James

(cos MP3 quality is crap) Is it? What makes you say that? I learned about this last year but can't remember the exact technical reason of what is going on. Basically it's a condensed format. It's a smaller version of the original WAV files shrunk so that you can fit thousands of songs on mp3 player...

Mark James

Tony Atkins wrote:The question submitted by Tony Atkins from Berkshire on last week's show was not from me, in case you were wondering.

Ha, I was actually.

Mark James

I hope they make sturdier pens that come with the goody bag. Mine's after breaking after only 4 months. Although in fairness, I was twiddling it between my fingers like Alan Cumming in Goldeneye and I dropped it a shit load of times.

Mark James

So, is a film buff, a film expert? According to urban dictionary film buffs are basically addicted to going to the movies. I would say it's more a case of liking movies rather than being an expert on them. Where buffs do tend to be experts is knowing movie trivia more than what actually makes a goo...

Mark James

Top 20 is too big a list to name definitively. Like all of these kinds of favorite movie, music or whatever kind of lists, they change all the time the more you think about it. The one movie that crops up perennially though which is the one I say is my favorite movie of all time is Die Hard. Is it ...

Mark James

Top 20 is too big a list to name definitively. Like all of these kinds of favorite movie, music or whatever kind of lists, they change all the time the more you think about it. The one movie that crops up perennially though which is the one I say is my favorite movie of all time is Die Hard. Is it t...

Mark James

I worked in a leisure centre for about 10 years. Back in school now.

Mark James

I was told Bradley has a photographic memory. He plays Countdown games, just not apterous.

Mark James

Cheers all. My mistake with the numbers was writing it down. I had it done in my head and wasn't going to bother but then thought I'd be better off but wrote down 3-2 instead of 4-3. We actually had to do a re-take because Rachel didn't spot it at the time. Someone in the gallery did. Thought the co...

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Zarte Siempre wrote:Could've stuck the R in PARTIES to make PARTIERS

Had it but wasn't risking it at that stage when Abdi only declared 7. I have to say, that was the last game of the day to be filmed and he was visibly shattered before we even started playing. It was a huge advantage for me.

Mark James

Amazing two days. St Pats win the League of Ireland. Huge celebrations including a night in the pub watching the Irish equivalent of Match of the Day in the company of the team. Sing song and all with the players too. Pure magic.

Mark James

Contestant A - 7 Contestant B, currently with a 6, then gets looking for a 7. Nick to Contestant B - "and yours" .. Contestant B - (now having seen the 7), "7 not written down" ? If this is what you mean, then yes technically it can happen, but not very often and it's not provab...

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