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I was sitting next to you at the time and I also remember your smugness. What a moment.

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Awkward rounds are the best rounds, anyway. Actual anagramming ability rather than memory tests.

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Johnny. Mark. Hi. Whatever the answer is, please please please please please don't give up your job for Countdown.

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When a law student, I went along to a networking event, where the idea was to try and seduce them coveted mini-pupillages from the barristers and high-falutin' folk in attendance. In reality, I spent my entire time talking to this guy . (I had completely forgotten about this until YouTube's autoplay...

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Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 8:16 pm
Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 6:50 pm The world's joint-largest container ship is named after my aunt.
What deliberately or coincidently?

Deliberately!

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Wow. That one is a startler.

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There you go, now we're cooking on gas.

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Andres Sanchez wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 4:16 pm Milk then cereal is an acceptable way of eating cereal in the morning.

Acceptable, yes, but surely less satisfying. I like watching the Weetabix get progressively soggier.

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There are two types of people in this world. Those who contribute to an unpopular opinions thread with their own, and those who seek only to judge the contributions of others. Step up to the plate, cowards.

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There may well have been, but I am neither a comics guy nor of the Beano generation. Just never heard of that phrase, guess it's more ubiquitous than I would ever have thought.

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There was a £100 question on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire once where the answer was His Nibs. Nope, never heard of it. Woulda have to have lifelined.

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It's OK to marry your cousin. Men should sit down to urinate. Steve Irwin was really annoying. Alcohol is a scourge on society. The correct way to insert capital letters when using a keyboard is to go caps lock -> letter -> caps lock. Tea and coffee are too hot to drink and when they've cooled down ...

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People with wind chimes in their garden. We live in a society, you sociopaths.

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The Bakerloo line is so named as a portmanteau of Baker Street and Waterloo.

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My parents used to have a copy of Constable's The Haywain in their (incredibly 1970s) front room. I didn't know you have copies of things at the time, sooo, yeah.

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If you drink an orange juice within about an hour of brushing your teeth, why does it taste like actual arse?

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In an entirely selfish answer, I found it remarkable the day that I found out (through Countdown-adjacent Quinn James) that NBA player Sam Dekker's name is an anagram of mine own. Two Ks in nine letters, it's gotta be unlikely.

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implication that 'we know what they are like but let's not make a fuss as we are safe'

How on earth was this your takeaway?

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This entirely male thread should maybe listen to women about why they don't often go to the police, so that we don't get comments such as...

Certainly going to the police is better than setting up a WhatsApp group.

...ones where we don't tell women "certainly" what is "better".

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Sixto Rodriguez. Mrs Warboys from One Foot In The Grave. Heath Streak.

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Duck's beaks look like dog's heads.

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You should probably consider #6, at least. It's not working out as constructed.

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You'll never get #3 or #4. #6 is the likeliest I reckon.

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Also, I eat mustard now, and de-escalate rather than escalate. Beyond that, my life is worryingly similar to what it was then. Eep.

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I used the Essex County Council website to report a pothole the other day. No way back from that, it's over.

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You don't kiss people on the lips unless it's a romance thing, and I guess some people also do it to their kids. He did that, clearly used force to do it, did it on the biggest possible platform as a demonstration of power, it wasn't an isolated incident, and he was unrepentant. This is no witch hun...

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Why is it 50 years ago the yanks sent men to the moon but it seems landing on the moon atm is proving to be difficult? This isn't a "Moon Landings were fake" post but no progress in 50 years. C'mon Elon sort it out!! Because of the political importance given to it, absolutely immense amou...

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Paul Talmey, Countdown alumnus, is a subtitle writer.

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Could it possibly also be, given the somewhat ambiguous posts that they put out (which seemed to even imply that they may be planning to keep him), that they were trying to gauge the reaction if they were to retain him, and only after it has become clear that it was completely untenable for them to...

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Might not mean anything to anyone here, but, Magoo the rapper just died.

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Someone can't just demand someone's opinion on a subject and expect them to research it. That's a selective interpretation of what happened. Adam essentially demanded consistency from you, not your opinion. If you saw fit to pass judgement with the previous "I see that Rachel Riley has decided...

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If Rachel Riley knows more about the case than I do She really does. You can be quite intellectually lazy sometimes, far more willing to give opinions than research them. Like Jono says, the case has taken place very publicly, and there's transcripts/audio files out there from which to draw your ow...

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And she's right. Mason Greenwood can fuck all the way off.

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Also, in addition to all apparently being made of empty space with the occasional magnetic lump in it, how can basically everything - from the shorts I am wearing right now to the pencil on the table over there to the table itself to the bit of wood that just hit the window - all be made of carbon?

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I'll be honest, I still don't really get it. It's like when they say that molecules (or atoms or whichever it is) are made up of electrons or whatever orbiting nucleuses through magnetism, meaning they are mostly just loads of empty space. How can everything be made up of mostly empty space! And why...

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Something really dense can be massive but not big.

Half a mind to report you for this personal attack.

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I don't think I understand the difference between big and massive in this context!

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How can there be a shitload of gravity if there's not, like, a giant lump in the middle that actually causes it?

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I'm saying. 2023. It's up there.

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What actually is/happens in a black hole? How can there just be nothing?

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I launched Avi TV, centred around business, wealth and success.

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Myself and Lauren Hamer opened a car wash just outside Derby, one we jointly operated while dressed in differently inappropriate ways - her, with a denim skirt jacked up to the armpits in that way usually seen in 95 year old men, and me in a scuba suit with a purple felt hat. Lauren was clearly the ...

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It's possible. If they can smell cancer from outside the body then they can definitely smell certain countrysidey smells through a Volvo window. If it isn't that, though, then I've no idea. It can't have been time because no two trips ever took the same amount, and he definitely wasn't looking out t...

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When I was young, we would load up the dogs in the car and make the drive to my Granny's house a few times a year. It was about 100 miles/2 hours each way. Every single time, without fail, our dog Sam - who had been sitting in the back with his head down the whole way, not looking out the window or ...

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There were three eras. The Kirk era, the Innis era, the Jack Worsley era. All three unplayable in their era for everyone except Conor, who straddles the timelines and remains the greatest player the game has ever seen.

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Perfectly willing to accept that Rob Foster is the Lionel Messi of Countdown.

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but might forever be plagued by the "can he do it on a wet Wednesday night in Salford?" question

Point taken, but, ehhh, the guy's sublime. He could do it any night anywhere. (Matron.)

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The rare ass/diq/ars/crunt scramble.

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Anything including "midnight" it turns out is quite a good time.

#BigBenGame for

00:16:31
361 points

Longest word: TELLINGS
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/

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With no obvious connection to the plot of the rest of the night's dream - which broadly consisted of Danny John-Jules driving a commercial airliner down the A421 towards Bedford at about warp nine and wondering why the thing wouldn't lift off the ground - my sleep brain did a jump cut to a large emp...

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I dunno man. The flute's a sneaky-cool instrument and all, but I can't remember us beatifying a flautist before. She seems to have transcended society with it. My take on her is like Keanu Reeves, who is so personable and an all round Nice guy and you can forgive his crap serious acting. Lizzo is a...

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Whoever it is gets 45 bonus points. Could decide the title.

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I also enjoyed on this journey the ways people were dreamt about. That is to say, some people were dreamt about in a Countdown context and some were not, but also, how people's depictions in the dreams of community members en masse trended in ways that could not be random and speaks to their reputat...

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In an impulsive decision which ended up taking consiiiiiiiiderably longer than I expected, I decided to put together a matrix that counted how many times Apterous/Countdowners have been specifically named as being in dreams. METHODOLOGY: Countdown and Catsdown hosts included because eh why not. The ...

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I lied. One more.

#BigBenGame for

07:11:38
322 points

Longest word: VELVETEENS
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/

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#BigBenGame for

03:40:17
312 points

Longest word: UNOPPOSING
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/

That'll do for now. Fun game!

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Took a few goes but cracked 300. It seems it reeally makes a difference when you play, because you need them vowels.

#BigBenGame for

03:16:15
320 points

Longest word: PRIZEMEN
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/

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Why, when your voice gets louder, does it also go higher?

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A lull in star names recently, but a double whammy of George Alagiah and Trevor Francis today. Also recently - Vince Hill, Tony Bennett, Cedric Roussel.

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FIFTH PLACE with 32 left. Amazing.

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