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David Roe

I also agree with Philip A about the commenting on promising selections, and with Ian that it also applies to numbers games. Seeing the 'co-host' standing at the board after 5 seconds having obviously solved it (unless it's obviously an easy one) doesn't help! In fact it makes it worse because I sp...

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I saw episode 1, but wasn't impressed. It was perhaps a couple of years later that I started watching regularly.

David Roe

"The Colne Crusher". Wow. I think that's better than "The Egg Man, but then again, I might need a bit more thought ...

I didn't think Colin mentioned I was from Colne, did he?

David Roe

I'd replace the conundrum with another numbers round or several. ;) I needed more difficult numbers rounds to have a chance. Chris is better than me on the letters; I could have got a couple more word rounds (traitors and plonkers) if I'd been on top form, but tensile and mucoid are both words I don...

David Roe

Round 2? Susie gave PRUDISH, but would PROUDISH have been OK?

David Roe

I'm sure he could do both. Countdown 50 days a year, Match of the Day another 35 or so. And never a fixture clash.

David Roe

Yeah I watched the Pie video. I didn't follow the campaigns that closely but in general you need to make the case for yourself rather than just scaremongering on the opposition. (But also it helps to say what you're linking to.) I can see similarities to Corbyns attempts to over come buffoon Boris ...

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Only 8% obscurity according to Apterous. Yeah that's BS though. When I looked it up I was like "Oh yeah, birds summer in places" but seeing it in isolation I was ??? and I wasn't the only one in my household. For comparison, POTHOLE has an obscurity of 69% and is considered rare. 8% corre...

David Roe

From memory, Colin said that the number of conundrums was tied as well, but I couldn't swear to it. I do think that number of conundrums got a mention, though, but I would also have said that my hypothetical highest would have been 1 more than Fiona's (not 5 more) so clearly my memory can't be fully...

David Roe

POTEENS surprised me. I didn't think it was a dubious one. FOREWENT actually generated quite a discussion between Susie and Damian on its allowability. Obviously I didn't get the inside track, but it seems that FORGO is the main dictionary entry and FOREGO as an alternative; but the past tenses are ...

David Roe

"Wintered" is probably more commonly used, and summered is (I would presume) the direct opposite. Nothing was edited out for that one IIRC, it was treated as needing no explanation.

David Roe

Thanks.

David Roe

Another "nonsense but allowable" single syllable adjective's comparative that occurred to me in the dark watches of the night is "CHASTER", "CHASTEST". It really doesn't feel like a word.

David Roe

[Edit - double post, sorry]

David Roe

Why at football matches when there is added time does the clock stick at 45/90 and just have +5 on the side, but it doesn't show the updated time. Everybody would want to see oh its the 93rd minute now 2 minutes left, but they just simply don't show it. Do the clocks not work? Is this a deliberate ...

David Roe

I don't disagree with anything you say about the one-syllable words. However, with the two-syllable word that end in Y, I would allow the comparative. Happier, Jollier, Prettier, Grumpier (in case you think I'm too cheerful!) are all standard inflections and would no doubt be in the dictionary, but ...

David Roe

Why at football matches when there is added time does the clock stick at 45/90 and just have +5 on the side, but it doesn't show the updated time. Everybody would want to see oh its the 93rd minute now 2 minutes left, but they just simply don't show it. Do the clocks not work? Is this a deliberate ...

David Roe

Does that mean a criminal or their lawyer could post stuff online (under some other name or names presumably) about their crime to get the trial thrown out? I know. Good point Gev, which helps highlight the extent to which Graeme's paranoia on this issue is OTT. Anyone can pretty much say anything ...

David Roe

^ Interesting post. Still, I am afraid you don't understand the nature of commercial TV, they can't risk their math expert constantly failing to get the answer (even considering the fact that neurons get sharper with practice). It makes for bad TV. I'm sure Rachel gets about say 65-70% of the numbe...

David Roe

Series 44 semi-finalist David Roe brings numbers to 28 and sets a new record for most time between consecutive COLIN appearances at 14 years since he played at COLIN 2010. Only two other people have gaps of 10 years or more between appearances- can you name either of them? Quarter-finalist. I was w...

David Roe

Questions like this should go here http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=9519 No 8th seed has yet won a Grand Final, 7th is the lowest (most recently Callum Todd in Series 69). No 8 knocked out No 1 in the following series: Series 05 (1984) Series 21 (1991) Series 24 (1992) Series 30 (1995) ...

David Roe

1. The conundrum is revealed: RAINTENTS. Alice buzzes first with INSTANTER. The host says that's wrong and restarts the clock. Then Bob buzzes with TRANSIENT. Then after the conundrum, the host finds that INSTANTER is in fact a valid word. (a) Scrap that conundrum round and redo it with a spare. (b...

David Roe

What I have yet to understand is why clutching at straws for a cause you still believe in is a bad thing. This was never a mandatory referendum, only advisory. I know Parliament suffers from playground politics to far too great an extent, but not quite to this extent. There's always the risk at sch...

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The various things that are stacking up here make me think that Parliament may have the chutzpah to give the electorate two fingers, which may lead us to a general election. That election would then really test the issues around the idea of leaving the EU more thoroughly (well, it bloody well bette...

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True - I suppose an MP with expertise in formerly being a businessman, for example, doesn't necessarily have any other expertise. I'm still cross with Cameron, though, for not showing more backbone as a leader and saving us the rigmarole of this referendum. I'm not. I have a deep distrust of politi...

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True - I suppose an MP with expertise in formerly being a businessman, for example, doesn't necessarily have any other expertise. I'm still cross with Cameron, though, for not showing more backbone as a leader and saving us the rigmarole of this referendum. I'm not. I have a deep distrust of politi...

David Roe

There was a man from Dublin in the last quarter-finals, and that's not UK.

David Roe

It's not done "as live". I've seen it done live once, when for some reason the proper subtitles didn't come up, and while you can't fault the subtitler for effort, it was a bit of a disaster. From what I've seen of American TV, which isn't much, when they're doing live shows the subtitler ...

David Roe

Can anyone please tell me the date of this year's first season final? Presumably late June, but when exactly? Thanks in advance.

David Roe

It's a better option than "Richard Keys replaces Jeff Stelling".

David Roe

CC - Clarke Carlisle can appear again. But I don't think Zinedine Zidane has been on the show yet.

David Roe

Blaming it all on Benitez is a bit mad. Remember, 8 of the 11 who slaughtered RM 4-0 at Anfield a couple of years ago are still here, and we sent more players to the 2010 WC than any other club in the world. But for 4 or 5 years we have been basically starved of any real investment, and that is rea...

David Roe

Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:Our DAB radio suffers from interference when the microwave is on - do you think it's time it was chucked?

The DAB radio? Too right. It uses far too much power.

David Roe

Joking aside, it pisses me off when Jeff makes comments about obscure words like 'Don't worry Gino - we don't know the meaning of these words either' when DC found an obscure word in one of Gino d'Acampo's shows and 'He speaks a completely different language to us' to Jack. When an obscure word com...

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Press Previous on the same link - Haunted House. It's the same game, that's what my version was called in about 1974.

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Reading the original question, there is only one coin toss on the Sunday. It doesn't actually say there's another coin toss on the Monday to determine if you will be woken on the Tuesday. Only one coin toss means it's 50:50. Although according to Qi even fair coin tosses aren't quite 50:50 because ...

David Roe

Last time I checked though being an anorexic shortarse whilst an animal does all the work wasn't a pre-requisite for any sport I can think of. I'd sooner call darts a sport than horse racing. Particularly if it's flat racing. Could Phil Taylor maintain his high level if every dozen matches or so, J...

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McCoy's at about the same level in his sport as Taylor is in his, and McCoy has to work a lot harder for it.

As for "personality", Nigel Mansell won it. Which roughly demonstrates how important the "personality" part of it is, as against sporting achievement.

David Roe

It's a bit strange in NODE1 (I don't have NODE2 so can't comment about that) but "head first" is shown as two words in the lead entry, but within the definition it's used in an example as head-first. Not that it matters for Countdown purposes because it's disallowed either way, but what wo...

David Roe

You can surely get reds and greens and things, so why not mauves? The justification Susie has given on the show is that 'primary' colours like reds and greens have various shades, while colours like mauve are a shade already and don't have sub-shades. (That's a paraphrase.) [Edit - And I dare say r...

David Roe

What is the real problem with capitalism? It introduces a medium by which value is assessed and this medium may lose/gain value independently of the value of the thing-in-itself. It's introduces the spectre of speculation in what were previously held to be concrete values. But didn't this arise rig...

David Roe

If all the children now at private schools were put back into the state sector, compulsorily or otherwise, then the cost to the taxpayer in educating them would be greater than the charitable benefit per child that the taxpayer now pays. As for the schools Jeff's children would have to attend, how d...

David Roe

I don't associate all kissing with sex. In my lifestyle, and in the lifestyles of the people I know, there is a huge difference between kissing a baby and kissing someone you want to have sex with. It's a very obvious difference for me, even if you can't see it. I do not want to extend my "limi...

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OK, maybe the association wasn't automatic. But you did make the association, as would so many people. And that's what disturbs me, that many people (even if it takes an effort) do associate kissing babies with child molesting.

David Roe

Charlie Reams wrote:Another David Roe post, another point for "all conservatives are idiots". Ho hum!

Do you put on a veneer of politeness when you're out in public, Charlie? Or is politeness your normal self and you put on a veneer of unpleasantness for here?

David Roe

I voted for other - ie. women. I know women aren't literally a minority, but politically they get treated as one with all the special sex discrimination rules which apply 98% to women, and of course they get to retire 5 years earlier and live 5 years longer. 10 years extra retirement sounds good to ...

David Roe

Burnley Football Club. Antonia Forest's books. And the chances of me needing a third are negligible-to-nil, if that. (As are the chances of me needing a second, or even a first.) [Edit - I should add, I have actually appeared on Mastermind. In two of last year's heats, if you looked very carefully i...

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Interesting that, after an admission on his arrival that the catholic church made big mistakes in its handling of paedophile priests, he should then lean out of his vehicle and kiss a kid when he turned up at the mass in Glasgow. I find it interesting that anyone should automatically associate kiss...

David Roe

18/23/18/18. Which means that my brain's wandering round having a good time and staying young, while my body's stuck in the attic getting older and older.

David Roe

It's painful to watch. I'd have read it with my eyes shut, if that were possible. I've just replayed it and beat myself 71-22 - can I have another go please?

David Roe

Bah. Unplaited. Not that I'm bitter or anything, but UNPLAITED! It's a perfectly good word. Magnus Magnusson thought so , too.

(I had pantiled, as well.) And I got FACETIOUS this time round. Please may I have another go? Pretty please? Oh well, thought not.

David Roe

Yay! Thanks for this, Ian. Idolaters, eh? It was up about twice a week at that time.

David Roe

Ricicles win. Frosties and Golden Nuggets placed.

David Roe

If today's result doesn't get a certain Countdown producer posting again, nothing will.

David Roe

It's not really a max game if the opponent isn't trying. One of my opponents in real life got the Conundrum ahead of me to reduce my lead. She suggested I might have deliberately let her get it to score some points; I was happy to be able to say that would have been patronising and I hadn't done it....

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Dmitry Goretsky wrote:JackHurst. I'm Truly yours, Dmitry Goretsky <0668964628@mail.ru>

And you can't deny you wrote that. I've lifted it all out of the first post in this thread.

David Roe

I'm not sure how big the question base is, but I did it twice and got three repeated questions.

David Roe

Venice - get a day pass for the vaporettos, water-buses. Unlimited travel, Grand Canal or little backwaters, take your pick. (And your map.)

David Roe

I've just spent 3 days in Blackpool and it's the most run down place in the world. I nearly killed myself through boredom. It didn't stop blowing gales or raining and I walked for miles looking for proper shops and pubs, particularly ones with dartboards or people in that didn't look like they were...

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When you drive from Yorkshire into Lancashire you are greeted by signs that say "Welcome to Lancashire - Where Everyone Matters". Who can see that without wondering what the signs on the other side of the road welcoming you to Yorkshire say? I think the Yorkshire ones say "If you're ...

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