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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgvR3y5JCXg

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When you wash clothes at a hot temperature it shrinks them. When you wash clothes at a cold temperature, does it make them bigger?

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One problem that I think might exist (and sorry to keep going on about Nick all the time in these spoiler threads) is that contestants don't know how to deal with Nick's chatter and remarks yet. One reason is undoubtedly that most of Jack's challenger's so far probably didn't know who he was or what...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: Was I the only one that thought the house robots just interfered with (ruined) the battles?

No you were not alone!

Anyway, some Cube footage from last year that was amongst UKgameshows.com fans' highlights of TV moments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkiprgx0 ... e=youtu.be

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Well, actually being in the shower (or even in a bath) isn't too bad, but it's completely negated by then having to get out and being cold and having to dry yourself before you can get dressed. Agreed! 100%. I want one of those drying chambers that just pumps hot air out constantly. Like those thin...

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And how can I enjoy a bath. Baths and showers are fundamentally unenjoyable experiences. Sorry to disappoint you. I agree with baths. But how can you say a shower is unenjoyable? It's soooooo freaking nice just stood under a stream of hot water. You never had that feeling where you've been out like...

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Good contribution! I feared it would just be laughed off. I find that if I have had a bath hot enough for my face to sweat in, then after drying I'd still be getting a bit clammy. Yep I was still sweating after like 5 minutes. Had to towel that off which then means that I have sweat on me now even a...

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I posted this to Facebook but I think it is suitable to be in here too: I just had a bath for the first time in a long while. My face was getting pretty sweaty due to the temperature of the bath and ultimately this just ends up as part of the bath water. My question: Is the rest of body sweating but...

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Only Thomas Carey stated which year it would happen so I think he wins.

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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote:Does the same go for your well-spoken accent? And do you just sit on apterous with a calculator?
Do I have a well-spoken accent?

I would say you speak more proper English than I do. That doesn't say much though.

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What?! No. The first things I think of when I think of Gevin are glasses, jumpers, numbers and well-spoken. These things don't even come into it you big turd. Interestingly I hardly actually ever wear my glasses. I'm more likely to in unfamiliar surroundings. Does the same go for your well-spoken a...

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Phil Reynolds wrote:Mmmm... cheese.

Not that cheese Phil!

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Mate, you're shit.

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I am sure you lot sometimes think of Gevin as a bit of a stirrer, a pedant, what have you. But I think you're being a bit stirry to accuse him of being stirry by asking. What?! No. The first things I think of when I think of Gevin are glasses, jumpers, numbers and well-spoken. These things don't ev...

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:So presumably all would be above board on the veggie option, Ben?
Jesus, are you really that picky? Vegetarians...pah.

You see Kirk I thought this but didn't actually say anything. You however did. This is why I love you.

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Edit: Was amused by the Braille card awkwardness. When I was on Xander just re-read the list when it got to my turn, and they edited it out afterwards, smooth as you like. She could have just had that Braille card already in front of her and we wouldn't have known. Instead they have to show Alexand...

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Awesome! £14,000 won! I love how George just strolled on, took his chance and all he did was change one answer and walked out with £11,000! Wasn't too keen on Joe when I watched early on in the week but I'm glad he won too actually £3,000 for a student is good going.

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Watching it now! I'm hooked now. Damn.

There's a truly LOL moment from Aaron! Hahaha. And the tension between Stephen and Aaron after that Percy Edwards/Thrower/Shaw debacle was freaking intense!

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Joseph Krol wrote:OCULUS is good isn't it?

Yes. GLAUCOUS in that round coutesy of someone on Twitter who probably used a solver..

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Nick highlight's today: Nick: Marcia? Marcia: A four. Nick: A FOOOUR??!! I'm not sure we allow fours. [the next round] Nick: Jack, an improvement on 5 I trust? Jack: Six. Nick: *snorts* Marginal! [after being told the definition by Susie] Nick: My foot is always sole down. Unless things have got rea...

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I will need people to bring along copies of the board game where they can. If you can definitely bring along a copy or more, please let me know just so I don't spend the night before COLIN tossing and turning. You won this item on eBay: Countdown game, 2-6 players, age 10-adult 320824501012‏ So hop...

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New series of this has started, and I still can't understand if it's terrible or not. I've watched it twice now and I hate to say I sort of like it. It's fairly fast paced and it's a neat idea and not too impossible to win money on either (not like Eggheads say). The only reason I don't make a habi...

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SECOND MAX GAME OF THE WEEK!!!

1st Numbers Alt: (75 - 4) * 6 + 25 = 451

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Huzzah! I have managed to fix it. I went into safe mode on start up and this let me System Restore the fucker. I got a new laptop for Christmas so I'm going to transfer anything worthy on to that.

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Matt Morrison wrote:I can't remember what OS you are on but it's generally the same - look for "Help" or "Help and Support" on the Start Menu and find it in there.

Yeah. I can't open that either. It has presumably opened up behind the kind of 'layer' that I'm on.

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Matt Morrison wrote:Fucks sake. You and your dodgy sites. Have you tried System Restore? That will be the easiest option.

How do you do System Restore? Do you need to go in to Computer or Control Panel? Because I can't get into them because of the problem.

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When I log on it also automatically opens up two Internet Explorer windows (I use Firefox) and they both have the url http://92.241.176.35/ entered in the URL bar already. I Googled these and it's some threat that is of low risk but has somehow changed some of my settings. And I also got a link that...

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Bit of a strange one. When I start my laptop up it all starts up OK and then after about 30 seconds it sort of flashes off and the back in (like as if it's refreshed itself) but the graphics are like poor. As in it goes into the mode it would go if it was trying to save usage in some areas. So like ...

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I wish more exam questions lower down the school started with things like this:

Q. 'Jon says that "if you covered the moon with mirrors it would be daylight all of the time". Explain why Jon is wrong.' (8)

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You guys are so critical! I really enjoyed Nick's early banter n chit chat, and his dryness of humour and droll demeanour really add a new frisson. I'm with you! By the way: [on Catherine's gorge walking hobby] Nick: Do you get wet? Catherine: *giggles* Well welcome, I think you're a very strange c...

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It's Nick's second show, Jack Worsley's third show and it will be good that's four show.

Little in-game to play: Which phrase will be said by Nick most? Very good or well done?

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Matt Morrison wrote: Didn't entirely hate it but the opening introductions were so awkward I had to pause and pluck up the courage to carry on.

Everyone will be doing this when you're on The Chase.

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Didn't think it was painful in the slightest. This. If anything he was more relaxed than Rachel was on her first shows, and look at her now. Yes, stuff to improve (he's obviously trying to be encouraging to the contestants, even if it's not flowing naturally yet), but given the history and baggage ...

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I've not watched any of these, but the online game was pretty cool. Can someone just briefly explain what kind of happens as you're talking about a final? Did the winner's of each show not actually win the money from the show but instead just won a place in the final which was then when money was p...

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More to the point, that was almost painful to watch :| At least it can only get better Didn't think it was painful in the slightest. Nick today was quite awful and I missed half of the show. If he thinks that OoW is the most fun part of the afternoon then he has some way to go. Worst Countdown epis...

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I've not watched any of these, but the online game was pretty cool. Can someone just briefly explain what kind of happens as you're talking about a final? Did the winner's of each show not actually win the money from the show but instead just won a place in the final which was then when money was pl...

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Jon Corby wrote:Rats, turns out I was 450 out on the answer yesterday - the solution to 380 was given as

50-2x10-100

Don't be so negative.

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As for Paramaribo guy - not watched it but he sounds like a right wankmaster general. If you're that confident your opponent's answer is incorrect just say any other correct answer and win the round! Haha oh yeah hadn't even thought he could do that. I guess he wanted to make sure that by saying it...

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I played on a machine (hexagrams) in Flares. I played it twice and won the jackpot of £1 both times so I had £2 in the bank. I'd already missed out on dancing to the YMCA etc so I stopped there and went to collect. Upon pressing collect the screen went white and said "hopper error, call engine...

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Liverpool vs Manchester United Colin weekend. Please, please play Sunday lunchtime or Saturday evening you cunts. I'm not missing it. Can't wait. Hopefully it will be Saturday evening. Last year was Corby's Southampton going out at home and this year will be Liverpool going out at home. Happy COLIN...

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Funny, now you see I thought the guy from the other team was a cock for saying rather haughtily "It's only a difference in pronunciation" when what he'd said clearly wouldn't be spelt the same way, as Richard pointed out. I think I need to watch this, sounds fun. I thought the same. It wa...

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See Simon Curtis who is ridiculed (wrongly) ( see the 2008 Mastermind champion's blog ) for his performance on the show. I'm not too sure what happened there since the questions seemed to be mostly the sort of thing someone ought to know if they were a fan of Jim Carrey's films and had watched at l...

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There's also the pleasure of seeing people do amazingly well, and of course the corresponding schadenfreude when somebody scores 1 point in their specialist subject (which has happened). But again that might not be down to their idiocy, just the fact that they picked a broad subject and got asked s...

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But I did sort of think with my limited PC skillz that zipping them all in one place would keep the music in tact but when I tested it by downloading it on to my other laptop it didn't work. Did you perhaps attempt to run it by double clicking on the PPT file in the zip contents? This will unzip th...

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Nice one Ryan cheers - kind of wish I'd known the answers were in the presentation itself BEFORE I'd typed every single one into a C4C post as we went along! Ah well. Didn't tot up but got about 90-95%, perfect level of questions for the quiz really to make it Channel 4 style. Thanks for doing it! ...

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I didn't actually bother Google searching because, well, I don't really know why. But I did sort of think with my limited PC skillz that zipping them all in one place would keep the music in tact but when I tested it by downloading it on to my other laptop it didn't work. So are you saying the music...

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THESE ARE THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR 2011's BIG FAT QUIZ, SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS TOPIC FOR 2012's QUIZ INFO. Channel 4 have done theirs so here is a very substandard one that doesn't have a huge budget to waste on people like Cee Lo Green and Lee Evans to read questions. In the folder that you...

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Matthew Tassier wrote:Impressive stuff.
9d is the pairs of tennis players who have shared the singles grand slams 2 each in a year. 1964 Court/Bueno, 1967 Emerson/Newcombe, 1982 Evert/Navratilova, 2001 Capriati/Venus, 2003 Henin/Serena

Awesome work!

Now who's this fucking Eugene?

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Yeah.

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So what hasn't been cracked yet? Just 9 (d)? Yeah. And also I think we still need the fruity Eugene in part 2a). Ryan - I wasn't intending on entering, no, since it seems a little against the spirit of things to crowdsource a quiz forum. (I was a little unsure about posting it at all, in case some ...

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Bob De Caux wrote:Finally got the connection for 2b!

JL (1963) is Jerry Lewis, EM (1996) is Eddie Murphy, both of whom played the Nutty Professor!

Haha love it!

Michael you will surely be sending these solutions in I hope?

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Cheers for posting this - it's a great quiz. I've got a couple that we're missing. 6) When written as words, the number of letters in each number increases by one each time, i.e. Ten (3), Nine (4)...Ninety-six (9). This works for both sequences. 7) The phrases are mnemonics for the first notes in n...

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Got four on both of them. They're far too hard!

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OK I done a little bit of work on this now and I've bolded everything that I think I am missing: ***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

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Countdown recap for Monday 10 October 2011. If someone is willing to take up this slot for recapping as from next Monday then I'd be very grateful, thanks. C1: Champion Nikki Roberts (2 wins, 162 points.) C2: Challenger Rob Smith. DC: Susie Dent and Dr Phil Hammond. RR: Rachel Riley. OT: Other words...

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Countdown recap for Monday 3 October 2011. Hey! I apologise for today's lack of commentary. Although that's probably a good thing. I calculated I have 14 hours worth of TV to catch up on so that's the reason for my sluggishness. C1: Champion Jayne Wisniewski (6 wins, 512 points.) C2: Challenger Kate...

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Countdown recap for Monday 26 September 2011. C1: Champion Jayne Wisniewski (1 win, 88 points.) C2: Challenger Craig Anderson. DC: Susie Dent and Kate Humble. RR: Rachel Riley. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: R D O I L T A E Z R02: D T E O S F A X M R03: R C E O N T A E O R04: N R S I E O L N U R...

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Countdown recap for Monday 19 September 2011. Welcome to a special late night recap. Are you sitting comfortably at this hour? I know I am *nudge nudge wink wink*. C1: Champion Peter Metcalfe (1 win, 94 points.) C2: Challenger Julie Harrington. DC: Susie Dent and Dave Spikey. RR: Rachel Riley. OT: O...

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Countdown recap for Monday 12 September 2011. C1: Champion Carl Williams (4 wins, 368 points.) C2: Challenger Campbell Ure. DC: Susie Dent and Paul Zenon. RR: Rachel Riley. OT: Other words or solutions. R01: D T P S I A E N I R02: H N G A E A D T E R03: S Y O S D J U A N R04: R S M E O U E R M R05: ...

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