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Jennifer Steadman

Rhys Benjamin wrote:if you compare the Mail now to two years ago then it's come on a long way. It's no longer gay-bashing, Muslim-smearing, and woman-hating...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh you weren't joking.

Jennifer Steadman

The only two Apterites I can think of off the top of my head who did English at uni were me and (I think) Heather? You new school English fucks. I've been bringing down the averages since before you'd even heard of apterous. Oops, sorry MM! (I tend to lump you in with the mathsy/computery people be...

Jennifer Steadman

I've always been surprised by this too. The only two Apterites I can think of off the top of my head who did English at uni were me and (I think) Heather?

(To answer your question though; wordsmith. Obvs.)

Jennifer Steadman

Jon O'Neill wrote:
Jennifer Steadman wrote:Japan, Morocco or Panama

Jon O'Neill wrote:japan, china, mali, morocco, brazil, chile, chad, guinea, panama, turkey

You absolute shaft. I had to ask someone else for a third because I could only think of 2!

Jennifer Steadman

We are judging her on ONE GAME. The best of any discipline have an off day sometimes - unfortunately, it may be the day that matters most. I'm not suggesting she is usually of Conor's standard, or even of the standard of her opponent, but who are we to start calling her "incompetent" or a ...

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Most pathetically toxic/narcissistic/snobby thread of the weeeeeeeeeek

(apart from Worsley's post)

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Jason, I'd really like to see you recap some more games.

Jennifer Steadman

Sometimes things change and it's either not practical or necessary to repeat things just for the sake of what happened in the past. To flip the viewpoint, how many people are up in arms because contestants in series 67 onwards will never get to take part in the 30th BC, arguably the most prestigious...

Jennifer Steadman

If that's the case, why therefore would those not invited to the 30th BC now be considered candidates for a future CoC? I think due to changes in filming procedure by the time of 30th BC, Eoin wasn't allowed to film unless he'd taken his GCSEs? I've heard it was something convoluted like that, anyw...

Jennifer Steadman

1. Gev - I don't disagree that Dave has a point in as much as people shouldn't be picked solely for the purpose of fulfilling a quota, even if he's undermined his point with unnecessary embellishments. What I DO disagree with is the suggestion that no 'quota-fulfilling' contestants would qualify on ...

Jennifer Steadman

Paul Worsley wrote:I sent my application form in just before Christmas, so should hear in the new year.

Well excited about this

#TeamPaul

Jennifer Steadman

I think we'd all like to see Dave's amended list if he takes into account that a CoC would most likely be drawn from series 67 onwards. It would be interesting to see how his argument (that the female players suggested thus far would be arbitrary box-ticking inclusions) stands up to the fact that a ...

Jennifer Steadman

I agree with Andy that 30th BC was basically just an extended CoC, so series 60-66ers wouldn't (/shouldn't) be involved in a future CoC. Innis's idea in the spoiler thread about having contestants who couldn't make the CoC but would have otherwise been invited (Eoin, Oli Garner et al) invited back w...

Jennifer Steadman

Also, if there is a CoC and I have to play you It would be great to see a rematch, but would you qualify for entry to a CoC tournament? No offence meant, as obviously if it was based on ability alone then you would not only deserve a place, but would be one of the favourites. But if such a competit...

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not entirely accurate cos I always forget to sync my iPod with LastFM until it's too late and the plays don't count

(As a result, it's been skewed towards my Spotify plays lately, which are mostly new songs that I cannae be arsed to buy.)

Jennifer Steadman

John Garcia wrote:
Callum Todd wrote:Thank you for all of that Dylan, and thank you also to Zarte and Jen, for their radically different but equally inspiring pep talks before the final.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm visualizing this as Zarte's and Jen's pep-talk:
http://youtu.be/i0GW0Vnr9Yc

This is more accurate.

Jennifer Steadman

Absolutely fantastic game to watch between 2 contestants whose personalities, attitudes to the game and Apto history are very different, but who would both have been worthy winners of an unbelievable series. Obviously I was a bit biased in wanting Callum to win, partly because I wanted to say I'd lo...

Jennifer Steadman

Jack Worsley wrote:C4C: Graeme for his awesome stats, as well as legendary GIF's such as the one at the start of this recap. http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9875

I hadn't seen this! Brilliant

Jennifer Steadman

Fuck it

Countdown: Conor Travers, for owning incredible jumpers
Apterous: Jason Larsen, for encouraging my nan to wear nipple tassels
C4C: Graeme Cole, for being our stats bitch

Jennifer Steadman

How about providing some evidence for why your reasoning for segregated awards isn't totally shit, instead of avoiding it by instigating pointless sexist ad hominem barbs?

Jennifer Steadman

I feel that the main difference between a potential 'female' category in these awards (which I don't think are a good idea anyway - what's the point? Don't we have enough stats and ranking systems and Countdown-related accolades already?) and gendered awards at the Oscars is that there are so few wo...

Jennifer Steadman

Obviously I'm a wee bit biased, but I think gendered Countdown records are worthy of mention if there's a significant disparity between male and female records. Is there a significant disparity between male and female personalities...?

Jennifer Steadman

Anthony Endsor wrote:Don't forget, in Thursday's game, Dylan got a max game.

Difficult to forget something that didn't happen

Jennifer Steadman

Rhys Benjamin wrote:Quick, someone put her back in the cage!

I think we'd all rather put you in it. #TeamKrol

Jennifer Steadman

Had one of the top 8 been unable to play in the Series 65 finals, that would've happened (Phyl Styles would've played instead of Matt Croy, having lost to some no-hoper called Jack Worsley who we never heard of again in the final prelim of the series). Dunno if it's happened properly but it wouldn't...

Jennifer Steadman

Callum Todd wrote:
Jennifer Steadman wrote:
Callum Todd wrote:James-inspired reply.
Well, Dylan did get a MAX GA- oh wait
MATE, that was too soon. LOTS too soon.

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Guide to Finals, if anyone's interested/likes fish puns.

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Callum Todd wrote:
Jennifer Steadman wrote:
Callum Todd wrote:Jen-inspired conundrum

James-inspired reply.

Well, Dylan did get a MAX GA- oh wait

Jennifer Steadman

Callum Todd wrote:Jen-inspired conundrum

Jennifer Steadman

They do exist. They're 4th in the table of their league at the moment (the glamorous-sounding Sills and Betteridge Lincolnshire Football League Premier Division), a league that apparently has no fixtures in January - so they'll be well prepared for that game against United.

Jennifer Steadman

ok not really but it's more interesting than being an insurance underwriting temp Company? Just realised I never responded to this. It's for a small 'niche' motor insurance company (that's how my recruitment agency sold it to me anyway) called Service Underwriting. Basically I just enter data about...

Jennifer Steadman

Me, obviously!

edit: oops spoilers

Jennifer Steadman

I'd be a hypocrite to say that people should know definitions of the words they play, but I think someone who knows the definitions AND spots the best words available is the most impressive player. There's nothing wrong with not knowing them, because it's fun trying to guess what a word means from h...

Jennifer Steadman

What Mark said (though I had noticed it before looking it up). Basically the higher a song's bit rate (kbp) is, the higher the sound quality is. Songs purchased on iTunes seem to come standardised at 256 kpbs, whereas some of the lossless ones I've uploaded from CDs are over 1000 kbps - it doesn't m...

Jennifer Steadman

I've always got the impression that people who buy vinyl copies of new albums do it as an affectation. Certainly I think quite a few people do that. No problem with people buying old records though, cos they're so cheap in charity shops and there tends to be a larger range of quality vinyl records t...

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Dylan got 101 maxes and I got 99.

Any form of ranking people by overall game performance should include conundrums. The fact that you can be beaten on them by anyone Hansfording quick enough doesn't make them irrelevant...

Jennifer Steadman

It took me about 10 seconds to solve the anagram at the top when I saw this this morning...

Sad news though

Jennifer Steadman

Who's getting the train from London on Friday? And what train are you getting? The 15:08 from King's Cross is ideal for me (read: cheap).

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Thank you Andrew.

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I think this is more Zarte's area of expertise.

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I think I'm on the spoilers thread, but there aren't any spoilers. Can someone please direct me to the appropriate forum so I can find out who won? Ta.

Jennifer Steadman

Start using some lube, perhaps?

Jennifer Steadman

Airdates Air dates Air-dates Who cares, really? Butthurt Butt hurt Butt-hurt I could be wrong but I didn't even think Corby was taking the piss (admittedly, a rare occurrence) :? Thought it was more to do with AIRDATES^ previously being valid as one word, but is now two. Even if he was - no need to...

Jennifer Steadman

I'm guessing there's only one session on the Monday, and two on the Tues - one for the heats in the morning and one for the first 2 QFs (and maybe the last heat game as well?) in the afternoon, before the 5 as usual on the Weds (2 in the morning for the last 2 QFs, 3 in the afternoon for the SFs and...

Jennifer Steadman

GRAEME!!! Thank you for Ask Graeme (even though I told you this at the weekend) and also for forgiving me for calling you a serial killer that time <3

Jennifer Steadman

Is it the best movie though or just my favorite though? Is there a difference? When it comes to music there's stuff I like that I know is bad but I still like it. Then there's stuff I don't like but I know is good. For me that means that I have a good taste in music insofar as I know the difference...

Jennifer Steadman

Taxidermist.

ok not really but it's more interesting than being an insurance underwriting temp

Jennifer Steadman

I'm almost certain it's 20th December - there are 6 prelims left to film before the finals (presumably to be broadcast 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th and 11th December), and then there'll be 7 shows for finals (so QFs would be 12th, 13th, 16th and 17th; SFs on 18th and 19th; the final on the 20th).

Jennifer Steadman

Her letters/conundrums were absolutely brilliant (hepatica?! whaaaat?). Numbers were self-confessedly crap though.

Jennifer Steadman

Heh, my implication was that he hadn't seen your post - he was thinking about the thread anyway.

Jennifer Steadman

James S Roper wrote:
Dave Preece wrote:Is Graeme still playing with us???

He's a busy man, give him all the time he needs.

At the time Dave posted his message, Graeme was in the pub discussing this thread and saying how he needed to answer people's questions

Jennifer Steadman

Whenever I'm on Youtube on Chrome, it works, but as soon as I try to click off it won't let me close the tab/window or any of the other tabs I have up. The video keeps playing and there isn't a 'Not responding' message - the only way to close and restart is to bring up Task Manager and end it via th...

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Tony Atkins wrote:
Jennifer Steadman wrote:7pm on Friday night, 'fresh' from a 9 1/2 hour Megabus journey. Who else is arriving on the Friday night? Please keep me company, I don't wanna be third-wheeling the Robinson-McCullagh bromance all night.
Where are folk meeting up on Friday?

Err, good question. Dunno.

Jennifer Steadman

7pm on Friday night, 'fresh' from a 9 1/2 hour Megabus journey. Who else is arriving on the Friday night? Please keep me company, I don't wanna be third-wheeling the Robinson-McCullagh bromance all night.

Jennifer Steadman

THIS IS EVEN MORE EXCITING THAN FINDING OUT WHO JAMES NGUYEN REALLY IS.

SO EXCITED.

#TeamHorace

Jennifer Steadman

Is Bradley an apterite under a psuedonym or one of the best non-apterites in recent memory? I'm not sure. I have an inkling that it's Matthew Brockwell, however correct me if I'm wrong. That was who I suspected. But Matthew was playing on Apto while (I believe) Bradley would've been filming on the ...

Jennifer Steadman

MIDFIELD: Hazard [15], Mirallas [10], Ramsey [9], Ozil [12] STRIKERS: Sturridge [5], Lukaku [2], Giroud [8] WHO DID I FUCKING CAPTAIN? LUKAKU, OBVIOUSLY :evil: :D I don't know if I have pointed this out to you but you'd probably be top of the league by now if you'd picked Hazard ;) YES, YOU HAVE AL...

Jennifer Steadman

MIDFIELD: Hazard [15], Mirallas [10], Ramsey [9], Ozil [12]
STRIKERS: Sturridge [5], Lukaku [2], Giroud [8]

WHO DID I FUCKING CAPTAIN? LUKAKU, OBVIOUSLY

Jennifer Steadman

Rhys Benjamin wrote:This forum's been quoted in the Mail article about it: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... aptop.html

We know.

Jennifer Steadman

Judging by the comments underneath, it's almost Mail readers like to get righteously indignant about any kind of sensible modernisation/progression and are massively hung up on how things were back in Thatcher's day!! Surely not!

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