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- Tue Aug 24, 2010 4:24 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Goatblitz 2010
- Replies: 40
- Views: 3989
Re: Goatblitz 2010
Adam Gillard was meant to post our results but it looks like he was too ashamed to admit defeat. I can't find the games now but I won both of them, one by a record-breaking margin and one where I got about eight pencils and an egg. This might be the thread you are looking for Adam and I appear to h...
- Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:41 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Goatblitz 2010
- Replies: 40
- Views: 3989
Re: Goatblitz 2010
Adam Gillard was meant to post our results but it looks like he was too ashamed to admit defeat. I can't find the games now but I won both of them, one by a record-breaking margin and one where I got about eight pencils and an egg.
Re: X Factor
I wish I was around in the '60s and '70s. Look at the amount of talent in the first 30 seconds of this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TscxLlhMiig . I can't remember ever hearing a modern pop singer who sounded as subtley amazing as the old singers. I'm not that bothered because good singers ar...
Re: X Factor
I just watched a load of X Factor series 7 clips on Youtube, they all sounded autotuned. It's probably a result of audio compression during the upload of the clips.
- Sat Aug 21, 2010 10:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Would you use internet dating to find love
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4222
Re: Would you use internet dating to find love
I've got a mate who's always blazing birds off that site.Chris Davies wrote:I met my girlfriend on plentyoffish.com. Our 1st anniversary is in two weeks.
Best of luck Marc, really hope it works out for you!
- Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:09 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Goatblitz 2010
- Replies: 40
- Views: 3989
Re: Goatblitz tourney anyone?
After three months in exile I have internet back in my room. I planned to celebrate by joining a goatblitz tournament and I'm going to stick by it.
- Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:07 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Exam results
- Replies: 151
- Views: 18854
Re: Exam results
I'm a drop out if that helps.David O'Donnell wrote:Someone start posting some fails now or at the least some mediocre results.
- Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:28 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Jon O'Neill has a nob
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2300
Re: Jon O'Neill is a nob
I was just thinking how good it was that Charlie spelt it "nob", which is the proper way. I mean, in the dictionary I think it says "knob", but it was never that way at school. It's just "nob". There's no point in a dictionary trying to give a word like that a formal s...
- Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:58 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Shaving (other)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1439
Shaving (other)
This thread is dedicated to the act of shaving parts of your body that exist from the neck down.
- Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Shaving (face)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2213
Re: Shaving (face)
Electric razor, less effort. Can't see any disadvantages with this.
- Mon Aug 16, 2010 11:40 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Was this a first?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3772
Re: Was this a first?
I agree, people could have died.Ciaran Thompson wrote:Surely if there was a fault or something, they should wait until its fixed.
- Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:39 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 217307
Re: The C4C Football Thread
I knew my gamble on Blackpool defender Baptiste would pay off...
- Fri Aug 13, 2010 9:28 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Was this a first?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3772
Re: Was this a first?
Seen it once or twice. It's a rare treat.
- Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:35 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: COLEI guessing game spimlimminees
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3843
Re: COLEI guessing game spimlimminees
I've somehow managed to accumulate points without even doing the quiz, I must be some sort of boff.
- Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:12 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: New dictionary to be used from 2011
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5570
Re: New dictionary to be used from 2011
I'm also getting ODE3 asap so I'll lend a hand with spindlexing.
- Tue Aug 10, 2010 7:48 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Words for 0
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5051
Re: Words for 0
nowt, naff all, fanny all
- Tue Aug 10, 2010 6:10 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: General feedback
- Replies: 284
- Views: 53556
Re: General feedback
Looking forward to finding out what 'bunny boiler' and 'ostracon' are for. And now there's 'silver pencil' I can see what it's all building up to. Awesome :mrgreen: The bad news about this is people are gonna find out how broken some of the items are/have been. Just found out my silver bug item isn'...
- Tue Aug 10, 2010 4:04 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Tuesday August 10th 2010
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2430
Re: Spoilers For Tuesday August 10th 2010
TWOCCED is in though. I have the pencil for itMalcolm James wrote:Is TWOCED (taking without consent) valid in (I think) R10?
- Mon Aug 09, 2010 8:45 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 488294
Re: Feature requests
A facebook app that reports your newly gained pencils to your friends' newsfeeds, so you can bewilder them.
- Mon Aug 09, 2010 7:53 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Copyright war: JackHurst's side
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2913
Re: Copyright war: JackHurst's side
Huh?Dmitry Goretsky wrote:This post was made by Dmitry Goretsky who is currently on your ignore list. Display this post.
- Mon Aug 09, 2010 6:20 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The "new look" WWTBAM
- Replies: 56
- Views: 8481
Re: The "new look" WWTBAM
Not watched it for years, precisely because it was too fucking slow, so maybe the next time I'm flicking through channels I'll give it a whirl.
- Sun Aug 08, 2010 11:08 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Copyright war: JackHurst's side
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2913
Re: Copyright war: JackHurst's side
Ace.Dmitry Goretsky wrote:This post was made by Dmitry Goretsky who is currently on your ignore list. Display this post.
- Sat Aug 07, 2010 5:48 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 217307
Re: The C4C Football Thread
Psychic Octochamp FC have been promoted from the deep abyss to the C4C league, and have predicted for themselves a top table finish.
- Sat Aug 07, 2010 11:49 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: lets come up with fun nicknames for countdowners
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3282
Re: lets come up with fun nicknames for countdowners
Ian Bent, because he's corrupt.
- Fri Aug 06, 2010 11:47 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Copyright war: JackHurst's side
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2913
Re: Copyright war: JackHurst's side
I've never foed or killfiled anyone in my life but Dmitry made me break, mainly because he's just boring and spammy but also prolific. Too bad it doesn't kill his threads as well.
- Thu Aug 05, 2010 12:44 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Australian Countdown!
- Replies: 60
- Views: 14364
Re: Australian Countdown!
Hi I'll start with a consonant thanks.
- Wed Aug 04, 2010 12:42 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Mini Mischief Madness Mega Mayhem (August 2nd)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4093
Re: Spoilers for Mini Mischief Madness Mega Mayhem (August 2nd)
Thought I'd mentioned, during the credits roll on 4oD you can see Dinos and Kai getting up to no good, something which was obscured by an advert during the actual broadcast. Worth a watch
- Mon Aug 02, 2010 8:53 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Mini Mischief Madness Mega Mayhem (August 2nd)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4093
Re: Spoilers for Mini Mischief Madness Mega Mayhem (August 2nd)
CoSheff 2.0, September?Matt Morrison wrote:Me and BC also really touched by this too. Proper warm inside, makes us all lookingforwardy to the next CoSheff.Ben Hunter wrote:It was an honour to watch the best episode of Countdown ever with the man himself
- Mon Aug 02, 2010 4:01 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Mini Mischief Madness Mega Mayhem (August 2nd)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4093
Re: Spoilers for Mini Mischief Madness Mega Mayhem (August 2nd)
It was an honour to watch the best episode of Countdown ever with the man himself
- Sun Aug 01, 2010 11:01 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 488294
Re: Feature requests
I think it would be good if there was an occasional foreign language duel I'm against this, if any foreign languages came up I simple wouldn't bother clicking play. I'm sure their must be other ignorant sods like me who have never bothered to learn a language or languages. I'm for it. There's the p...
- Sun Aug 01, 2010 10:48 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Inception, masterpiece or turkey.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 884
Re: Inception, masterpiece or turkey.
The IMDB top 250 has been a joke ever since The Dark Knight came out. Edit, now I think about it, ever since Lord of the Rings 3 came out.Matt Morrison wrote:Enjoyed it much, though I didn't think it warranted the almost-10-out-of-10 rating it has on IMDB (9.2 ranks it as the #3 movie ever on the site).
- Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:42 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Truly Dumb Designs.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 15798
Re: Truly Dumb Designs.
Black magic.JimBentley wrote:I've had one of those for the last ten years or so and it still works perfectly every time.
- Thu Jul 29, 2010 2:25 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Da Vinci Code, or what?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1677
Re: Da Vinci Code, or what?
It takes time to develop important theories like these.Ryan Taylor wrote:You waited over 2 years to post this shit?
- Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:46 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Official thread of scrag
- Replies: 328
- Views: 65917
Re: Official thread of scrag
I'm getting evicted from my house and have a court date coming up, I also have a yeast infection.
- Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:37 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Truly Dumb Designs.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 15798
Re: Truly Dumb Designs.
Has anyone seen those mad new tin openers that you align parallel to the lid and don't ever fucking work properly? I thought I was just stupid but even proper grafters I know can't get them to work. I'm a fan of the heavy knife method of opening tins. Just stab it loads until you can get the lid off...
- Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:23 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Sex, Sleep or Scrabble?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1473
Re: Sex, Sleep or Scrabble?
Your main problem appears to be paranoia.
- Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown specials: The Secret's Out
- Replies: 80
- Views: 12390
Re: Countdown specials: The Secret's Out
lost the?Eoin Monaghan wrote:Damn, just realised I'm in Spain when the final special goes on, will to watch on 4OD.
- Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:23 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Special Spoilers For Monday July 26th 2010
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2095
Re: Special Spoilers For Monday July 26th 2010
Great game, you played amazingly Lesley
- Fri Jul 23, 2010 1:14 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Off for a bit
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3859
Re: Off for a bit
Keep on living the dream Charlie.
- Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:32 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Straplines
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2999
Re: Straplines
I like the slogan for the new Hollyoaks sponsor - I Am Hollyoaks - I like how much sense it makes.
- Thu Jul 15, 2010 3:23 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Good idea for a variant?
- Replies: 277
- Views: 39390
Re: Good idea for a variant?
How about this: LLLNCLLLNMLLLNC? M means mental arithmetic. For example, you need to quickly add 456 to 237, then divide by 11, then subtract 14, then multiply by 15, then subtract 69. I mean, ((((237+456):11)-14)*15)-69 Like in Conundrum, you need to buzz in. If you're right, you won 10 points. If...
- Thu Jul 15, 2010 3:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Thursday July 15th 2010
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2773
Re: Spoilers For Thursday July 15th 2010
Can't remember there being two Es in that round...Peter Mabey wrote:R13
- Thu Jul 15, 2010 3:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Thursday July 15th 2010
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2773
Re: Spoilers For Thursday July 15th 2010
A subtle clue to my beater in round something
- Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:17 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Thursday July 15th 2010
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2773
Re: Spoilers For Thursday July 15th 2010
I don't know.James Robinson wrote:can he maintain his good form for a longer period of time
- Wed Jul 14, 2010 9:54 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: You know you're playing too much apterous when...
- Replies: 114
- Views: 70243
Re: You know you're playing too much apterous when...
You're playing it on Lightweight Mode because you're logging in from a dodgy wifi spot in the town centre after having been evicted from your house for spending all your housing benefit on updating the subscriptions to your multiple accounts, and a tramp keeps suggesting five letter words that aren'...
- Wed Jul 14, 2010 9:44 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: You know you're playing too much apterous when...
- Replies: 114
- Views: 70243
Re: You know you're playing too much apterous when...
When your girlfriend points at your c4c display pic and shouts "that's you" and starts sobbing and after you've finished your marathon Letters Attack with Prune you turn around and all her stuff is gone.
- Wed Jul 14, 2010 2:17 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: You know you're playing too much apterous when...
- Replies: 114
- Views: 70243
Re: You know you're playing too much apterous when...
When you think everything written in ALL CAPS is an anagram.
Love itSimon Myers wrote:"in the wild".
- Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:44 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Insert Key
- Replies: 59
- Views: 4866
Re: The Insert Key
I'm stunned about the right-shift key thing, Raccoon. I'm a pretty fast typist and I don't think I've ever used it. I've never thought about which shift key I use so I just did a test type and found I use both left and right shift keys interchangeably. This is probably why I'm the fastest typist in...
- Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:31 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Insert Key
- Replies: 59
- Views: 4866
Re: The Insert Key
^_^ just looks like a smug person to me.Michael Wallace wrote:This reminds me of how East Asians tend to use smilies that focus on eyes (^_^), compared to Western ones that focus on the mouth
- Tue Jul 13, 2010 1:30 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C Link Dump
- Replies: 329
- Views: 62473
- Tue Jul 13, 2010 1:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: The real Jon Gaunt surfaces.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3486
Re: The real Jon Gaunt surfaces.
The real Jon Gaunt surfaces, two years ago, on his own show.
- Mon Jul 12, 2010 7:52 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Insert Key
- Replies: 59
- Views: 4866
Re: The Insert Key
When I first got a computer I always used to brush the insert key by accident and not know what's going on. It was great when I finally found out it was The Insert Key that was making me overwrite test, I didn't have to reset my computer ever again.
My favourite key is scroll lock. What does he do?
My favourite key is scroll lock. What does he do?
- Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:29 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: FIFA World Cup 2010
- Replies: 328
- Views: 29822
Re: FIFA World Cup 2010
Oh right. I forgot that the Spain team will all obviously rush off to the dressing room and bring up c4countdown on their laptops. Of course every forum should just be an extension of the hyperbole-fest that is the media. Also all people should reflect the same cheery 2.4 children family that you s...
- Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday July 12th 2010
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3337
- Sun Jul 11, 2010 9:57 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: FIFA World Cup 2010
- Replies: 328
- Views: 29822
Re: FIFA World Cup 2010
Man what a wet blanket.Craig Beevers wrote:Netherlands had the better, gilt-edged chances in normal time. Same as Portugal and Paraguay did against Spain and blew it.Marc Meakin wrote:Best team won, well done Spain even if they remind me of George Graham's Arsenal (1-0 and all that)
They should just void this World Cup really.
- Sun Jul 11, 2010 1:51 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Favourite mammal
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5113
Re: Favourite mammal
I voted camel ages ago but didn't want to post anything until I found this video of a camel chewing with loads of people around him admiring the scene, but I can't find it. It was shown during the build up to Algeria vs England on Match of the Day but I can't find it :( Did I say summat wrong? Threa...
- Sun Jul 11, 2010 1:44 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What's your ringtone?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2739
Re: What's your ringtone?
I used to put my favourite songs as my ringtones but I stopped doing that because I started assosciating them with debt collectors getting on my case, so I just stick to the default ringtone now.
- Thu Jul 08, 2010 10:24 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Wednesday July 7th 2010
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2110
Re: Spoilers For Wednesday July 7th 2010
I knew you had something good when you took that massive sip of water five seconds into that round.Dinos Sfyris wrote:Had Ben round for tea and Countdown earlier. Was wicked. I recommend having a forum friend round for Countdown
ASEISMIC in the SICKIES/SEASICK round. Wonder how I learnt that
- Wed Jul 07, 2010 9:20 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: FIFA World Cup 2010
- Replies: 328
- Views: 29822
Re: FIFA World Cup 2010
They need to get that psychic octopus solving crimes...