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- Mon Dec 07, 2020 8:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Who should replace Nick Hewer?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3575
Re: Who should replace Nick Hewer?
I mean, as long as they don't mind that I have no experience of hosting anything ever, I see no other problems. Can't be that hard to talk with an earpiece in, right? Might do some minicabbing for a bit, same sort of grind.
- Mon Dec 07, 2020 5:04 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You've just been made producer of Countdown...
- Replies: 72
- Views: 7480
Re: You've just been made producer of Countdown...
Ways to save further time: - Save on the time spent turning the letters board into the numbers board by having it rotate like on Numberwang and make that rotation part of the run time of the show. That's probably, what, another hour saved per filming day right there. - No DC guests. This will also ...
- Mon Nov 30, 2020 8:47 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 292
- Views: 96743
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
SEE? It's right there, and yet, it isn't.
- Mon Nov 30, 2020 9:12 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 292
- Views: 96743
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
In the opening splash screen of Sonic 2 - which I spent my youth playing - the character of Tails is given the full name of Miles Prower. It has just dawned on me that this is not a typo of Power, but a pun.
- Sun Nov 29, 2020 9:47 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: How to host an event (for dummies)?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 18088
Re: How to host an event (for dummies)?
The Ark is also nice and spacious. Too many events are cramped and that's just not fun, especially given the tendency of event-goers to reek heavily of body odour.
- Thu Nov 26, 2020 6:51 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Lookalikes?
- Replies: 294
- Views: 119209
Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Ryan and Michelle got OLD, son
- Wed Nov 25, 2020 4:32 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deathwatch 2017
- Replies: 236
- Views: 84282
Re: Deathwatch 2017
Sneaky-good performance from Wilson here - Mugabe, Henfer, Lynn, Brush, Maradona and Sallis have all died.Ben Wilson wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2016 9:16 pmGo on then.
Donald Trump
Robert Mugabe
Hugh Hefner
Vera Lynn
George HW Bush
Prince Philip
Diego Maradona
Jake the Snake Roberts
Betty White
Peter Sallis
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 9:09 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Weird celebrity crushes
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4588
Re: Weird celebrity crushes
Priti Patel.
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 12:45 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Nick Hewer taking break from Countdown
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1156
Re: Nick Hewer taking break from Countdown
To be honest, I think I misplayed my hand in the audition by wanting to talk money first and not wearing any shoes. Ah well. Next time.
- Mon Nov 02, 2020 10:14 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: the Countdowners In My Place game (CIMP)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 17108
Re: the Countdowners In My Place game (CIMP)
To be fair, it's not only about quantity, but also quality, of both the person and the interaction. Michelle Nevitt has slept in my bed, for example. And there's only about 30 to 35 of us in this community who can claim that.
- Sun Oct 25, 2020 10:41 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Re: Ticket #5803: ZoomDown - evidence of potential cheating
- Replies: 72
- Views: 6936
Re: Re: Ticket #5803: ZoomDown - evidence of potential cheating
To be fair Jon, you know that "Yes, he's a cheat, I agree he definitely cheated, he knows full well he cheated and is barefacedly lying to Fiona about it, but let's just leave it now" is basically my position. To be fair Fiona, that 817 is outlandishly difficult, and I don't think Corby is being hyp...
- Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:01 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 804
- Views: 212889
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Nah, this is me at home in bed, on my laptop, putting on a song I've heard a million times from the same place I always put it on, and it's just faster this time. Surely others have experienced this? Not necessarily in my bed, but at some point in their lives?
- Tue Oct 20, 2020 6:50 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 804
- Views: 212889
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Why does music sometimes sound distinctly higher and faster than you remember it being? Gotta be a tiredness thing, right?
- Fri Oct 16, 2020 11:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Xmas Specials
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1036
Re: Xmas Specials
He's got a point, it didn't. I vote for those two.
- Fri Oct 16, 2020 11:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You've just been made producer of Countdown...
- Replies: 72
- Views: 7480
Re: You've just been made producer of Countdown...
Ways to save further time: - Save on the time spent turning the letters board into the numbers board by having it rotate like on Numberwang and make that rotation part of the run time of the show. That's probably, what, another hour saved per filming day right there. - No DC guests. This will also s...
- Fri Oct 16, 2020 9:17 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You've just been made producer of Countdown...
- Replies: 72
- Views: 7480
Re: You've just been made producer of Countdown...
Scrap the make-up, let these ugly bastards suffer for their sins. Make a standard uniform to give it that schoolyard feel, save some time there. Get whoever does the calendar to set the teasers, outsource that. Take out conundrums cos no one likes those. There you go, that's time saved already.
- Thu Oct 15, 2020 5:19 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 14th October 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 135)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 514
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 14th October 2020 (Series 82, Prelim 135)
David might be the fastest-speaking contestant we've ever seen.
- Tue Oct 13, 2020 4:20 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 804
- Views: 212889
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Why won't the oven work unless the clock is set?
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 2:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdowners in the news
- Replies: 143
- Views: 56707
Re: Countdowners in the news
I always thought it was short for Sushmita. Good to know.
- Sun Aug 23, 2020 10:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co:Wat?! 2020 - Countdown in Waterford (15/08/2020)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6425
Re: Co:Wat?! 2020 - Countdown in Waterford (15/08/2020)
No, wait, sorry, that's Fifty Shades of Grey, my bad.
- Sun Aug 23, 2020 10:45 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co:Wat?! 2020 - Countdown in Waterford (15/08/2020)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6425
Re: Co:Wat?! 2020 - Countdown in Waterford (15/08/2020)
My heart is beating in time with the pulsing need in my sex as I root through the box for the lacy bits I seek. Christian is always seductive, sensual but today he’s gone out of his way to tease and hike up my desire – I’m ravenously ready. For a moment I wonder what to do about the panties, Christ...
- Mon Aug 17, 2020 6:26 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Accentuate the positive
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1364
Re: Accentuate the positive
Shit happens, don't worry about it. We've all got receipts out there on the internet.
- Mon Aug 17, 2020 3:41 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Accentuate the positive
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1364
Re: Accentuate the positive
I don't know you at all, Marc, but I like the way you stand by your past. No wriggling out of it, you own it without being proud of it. Nicely done.
- Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Words and expressions that grind your gears
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4547
Re: Words and expressions that grind your gears
"In and of itself". Just a thing people say without them knowing why.
- Mon Jun 22, 2020 3:57 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Lookalikes?
- Replies: 294
- Views: 119209
Re: Countdown Lookalikes?
Turns out Conor Travers was in Veruca Salt.


- Sat Jun 20, 2020 4:05 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 736
- Views: 192213
Re: People you shouldn't trust
Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 10:48 amGrammar and spelling pedants. Basically a game of one-upmanship, of intelligent/pseudo-intellectual/people who for some reason think that they are intelligent trying to prove they are more intelligent than you. Good for you, big man, but it really doesn't matter.
- Sat Jun 13, 2020 3:21 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: B'day Championship Spoilers For Friday February 15th 2013
- Replies: 48
- Views: 7912
Re: B'day Championship Spoilers For Friday February 15th 2013
As someone who cares about your welfare, it's kinda upsetting watching you fall apart in real time like that.
- Sun Jun 07, 2020 2:24 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 804
- Views: 212889
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
And while we're here - why is it that people think it's hilarious that I tend to wear the same two or three colours of sweatshirt all the time when most of these cunts spend their entire existence in blue jeans? There really is no fucking difference. It's not in the hilarious in the you're-wrong ki...
- Sun Jun 07, 2020 2:22 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 804
- Views: 212889
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
What is Pinterest for?
- Fri Jun 05, 2020 1:24 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unusual Fears/Phobias
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3616
Re: Unusual Fears/Phobias
I can't be in the same room as a boiling kettle. You spend my childhood telling me not to mix water and electricity, then spend my adulthood telling me to put them together? No sir, not going to happen.
- Wed Jun 03, 2020 5:08 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: apterous update
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5382
Re: apterous update
No, it was before the pandemic happened. The newspaper report said he had undetected cancer.
- Wed Jun 03, 2020 4:01 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: apterous update
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5382
Re: apterous update
Phil died, Jason.
- Mon Jun 01, 2020 6:41 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
- Replies: 294
- Views: 31038
Re: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
Well Boris has made it clear he's prepared to increase lockdown back to where it was if things get worse again. The theories are that the virus doesn't like hot weather which is why third-world countries have been largely spared, and so what we really need is a huge, 40-degree heatwave across Europ...
- Fri May 29, 2020 3:48 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
- Replies: 669
- Views: 246129
Re: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
45 conundrums? I think you'd stalled for enough time already.
- Wed May 27, 2020 7:43 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Birthday Championship Spoilers For Tuesday January 29th 2013
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3925
Re: Birthday Championship Spoilers For Tuesday January 29th 2013
I'm fine with this.
- Wed May 27, 2020 3:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Birthday Championship Spoilers For Tuesday January 29th 2013
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3925
Re: Birthday Championship Spoilers For Tuesday January 29th
Start a poll, it's the only way we'll know for sure and Damian will be bound by its results.
- Mon May 25, 2020 12:34 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Is picking the letters an advantage?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5670
Re: Is picking the letters an advantage?
You're using that to rebut a different situation. See what David wrote again.
- Sun May 24, 2020 1:46 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Is picking the letters an advantage?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5670
Re: Is picking the letters an advantage?
If his eight is fine, then even if your eight is fine, you've lost anyway. Whereas if his eight is not fine, but neither is yours, you've also lost anyway. Might as well take the possibility of the sure points to potentially cut it to 14 and hope he's wrong about his.
- Wed May 20, 2020 5:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
- Replies: 669
- Views: 246129
Re: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
It was actually much more reminiscent of Stevenage bowling alley, but either way, thanks for the top-tier wingmanning.
- Wed May 20, 2020 5:23 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
- Replies: 669
- Views: 246129
Re: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
In these social distancing times, and the need to space out, that's not as impressive of a brag as I would have hoped.
- Wed May 20, 2020 12:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
- Replies: 669
- Views: 246129
Re: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
Last night, I dreamt that myself and Graeme Cole were playing pool in a dimly lit bar on a pool table that didn't have any edges [basically this all the way around]. Every single ex girlfriend I have ever had was in attendance, lining the edges of the place, watching. I said to Graeme "please make m...
- Tue May 19, 2020 9:37 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Weird celebrity crushes
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4588
Re: Weird celebrity crushes
Rather than piss on it, the fact that you yourself just described this imaginary person as a "freak" kinda lends support to my theory that it is unconventional to be attracted to someone much older than you.
- Tue May 19, 2020 4:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's your skin colour?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4215
Re: What's your skin colour?
"I like to search by active topics", says Gev while dragging up yet another thread from a decade ago.
- Tue May 19, 2020 1:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Weird celebrity crushes
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4588
Re: Weird celebrity crushes
She's also 25 years older than me, which isn't conventionally attractive. But here we are.
- Tue May 19, 2020 3:50 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: When Countdown episodes run out
- Replies: 80
- Views: 13338
Re: When Countdown episodes run out
Maybe Jill Bright has killed like eight people before and it has only come to light over the last few years.
- Tue May 19, 2020 3:49 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Weird celebrity crushes
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4588
Re: Weird celebrity crushes
Lorraine Kelly.
- Sun May 17, 2020 8:23 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Weird stuff that's happened to you
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5451
Re: Weird stuff that's happened to you
We definitely shouted some things but it wasn't that. I remember then running home to tell my mum the story, not with fear, but almost with glee. She....saw it differently.
- Sun May 17, 2020 2:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Weird stuff that's happened to you
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5451
Re: Weird stuff that's happened to you
Also, around the same time, me and a couple of friends (I KNOW RIGHT!!!) were playing football up the park, having a knockaround at one of the portable five-a-side goals. A man (absolute Dave type) and his young lad of about our age started doing the same at the other goal. Conversation struck up, a...
- Sun May 17, 2020 2:30 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Weird stuff that's happened to you
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5451
Re: Weird stuff that's happened to you
One Wednesday nght, about 23 years ago, I needed to get to football practice in Buntingford, during my fabled stint as the finest ginger related-to-Barbara-Windsor centre back that the Cougars have ever seen. However, my dad's car was on the fritz, so we went by taxi. As I practiced for an hour, my ...
- Fri May 15, 2020 11:08 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: When Countdown episodes run out
- Replies: 80
- Views: 13338
Re: When Countdown episodes run out
Atta boy. I'mma get you a massive clock neckless and a loudhaler; head up my bandwagon. Drive the Deeks Train to Host Town. Choo - and I cannot stress this enough - choo.
- Fri May 15, 2020 5:27 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: When Countdown episodes run out
- Replies: 80
- Views: 13338
Re: When Countdown episodes run out
Aw, you guys. (But yeah I'd do it, initial backlash be damned.)
- Fri May 15, 2020 4:40 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: When Countdown episodes run out
- Replies: 80
- Views: 13338
Re: When Countdown episodes run out
Are you hyping me up, or announcing yourself as competition for this opportunity that isn't available?
- Fri May 15, 2020 2:37 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: When Countdown episodes run out
- Replies: 80
- Views: 13338
Re: When Countdown episodes run out
I'm under 70, let's do this.
- Thu May 14, 2020 3:45 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday January 17th 2013 (Birthday Prelim 9)
- Replies: 57
- Views: 6869
Re: Spoilers for Thursday January 17th 2012 (Birthday Prelim 9)
Is this a snipe at someone? If so, who? And why? And if it wasn't, then......what the hell was it? I am confused by your post.Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2020 1:50 pmSurprised the ISOLATED round wasn't excised from the repeat given the public's utter hatred of anything remotely connected to Covid.
- Wed May 06, 2020 9:35 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 292
- Views: 96743
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
But not unexpected.
- Tue May 05, 2020 10:48 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 736
- Views: 192213
Re: People you shouldn't trust
Grammar and spelling pedants. Basically a game of one-upmanship, of intelligent/pseudo-intellectual/people who for some reason think that they are intelligent trying to prove they are more intelligent than you. Good for you, big man, but it really doesn't matter.
- Sat May 02, 2020 2:32 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Lookalikes?
- Replies: 294
- Views: 119209
- Tue Apr 28, 2020 6:45 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 292
- Views: 96743
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Sandra Bullock is niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.
- Tue Apr 28, 2020 6:42 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Focal Talk podcast Episode 5 out now! featuring Gavin Chipper and Jack Worsley
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1302
Re: Focal Talk podcast Episode 5 out now! featuring Gavin Chipper and Jack Worsley
Gents, Mark, hi. So, I appreciate the intent, and the video element helps. It is however really too long. Tighten everything up to an hour - if you can't think of anything to say, don't feel as though you have to - be strict in the edits, and you can turn this around in a quick hour. You have a nich...
- Sun Apr 26, 2020 1:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 292
- Views: 96743
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
When the electric toothbrush stops spinning temporarily every 30 seconds or so, it isn't constantly suffering from a duff battery - it's telling you to change area.