jason
i'm glad you've managed to sort this out
it's clever
you have to stop now,
I don't know american tv references like i should and i need to look after my partner sara,
but it's been nice posting so stop now
goodbye
kate
Search found 45 matches
- Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:47 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: A clip Kate Richardson will love!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1150
- Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:57 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: "Frustrated by the programme marginalising her sexuality."
- Replies: 223
- Views: 28153
Re: "Frustrated by the programme marginalising her sexuality."
For many reasons I’ve decided not to post, but for a summary see below. My partner sara (not sarah) had a fall recently and damaged her eyes further, this, her sight loss (oh yeah something else the production team neglected to mention, her partner sara is not just a lesbian, she’s blind, how we la...
- Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:55 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: "Poofter" on Countdown
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5770
Re: "Poofter" on Countdown
ok boys try to think of it as a haiku, does that make it any better, just read it in a measured way (that's how i wrote it) ok yeah, and calm yourselves is less than 9 bleeding words
- Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:38 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: "Poofter" on Countdown
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5770
Re: "Poofter" on Countdown
it's about being out love not about sex son
i'm quite a fan of pinter and loach read it out loud sweeties stop being so sodding literal
i'm quite a fan of pinter and loach read it out loud sweeties stop being so sodding literal
- Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:33 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 13th February 2009
- Replies: 65
- Views: 10054
Re: Spoilers and comments for Friday 13/02/2009
junaid
i did not see anything else, just like i really wrote down theropods straightaway.
my dilemma was do i play poofter or woofter, sod the weapons of mass destruction, whats a girl to do ?
i did not see anything else, just like i really wrote down theropods straightaway.
my dilemma was do i play poofter or woofter, sod the weapons of mass destruction, whats a girl to do ?
- Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:18 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: "Poofter" on Countdown
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5770
Re: "Poofter" on Countdown
it's about being out love not about sex son
- Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:13 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 13th February 2009
- Replies: 65
- Views: 10054
Re: Spoilers and comments for Friday 13/02/2009
I'm going to do a bit of research into the history of words like "queer" and "gay" before i post again. But i am going to post on this subject, looking forward to it (I once helped bring together a group of learning disabled adults who identified as lesbian or gay, the title they...
- Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: "Poofter" on Countdown
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5770
Re: "Poofter" on Countdown
the lgf are a good old lesbian and gay charity in manchester, worth supporting (like george house trust is worth supporting, the charity hiv charity i work for) The guy who put this on the web-site delivers condoms to me at work on a regular basis (it's part of my work - how i wish i could of talked...
- Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:19 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 13th February 2009
- Replies: 65
- Views: 10054
Re: Spoilers and comments for Friday 13/02/2009
As someone who the local lads on an estate I used live on would shout out "paedophile" to (among other things) as I walked down the street believe me lesley queer is most definitely a homophobic word. Lesbians and gay men very rarely muse on semantics when their heads are being kicked in. ...
- Sat Feb 14, 2009 3:55 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Welcome! - Post here first
- Replies: 1962
- Views: 1108280
Re: Welcome! - Post here first
am i the only one who stays up late ?
- Sat Feb 14, 2009 3:42 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: dress code
- Replies: 120
- Views: 14492
Re: dress code
hmm i'll try this post again i wore hand tailored shirts from james the personal tailor in manchester (I'm hoping for peronal sponsorship) on weds 11/12/13th feb something that was censored was i wore the shirt i was civilly partnered in on friday...and i won ....just...think on what you're doing to...
- Sat Feb 14, 2009 3:33 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 13th February 2009
- Replies: 65
- Views: 10054
Re: Spoilers and comments for Friday 13/02/2009
by the way, matt, why ever go to london on a whim surely one has an extremely efficient administrator (like me) to arrange ones journeys for one.
or maybe one is slightly more prepared ???
heaven forfend !
or maybe one is slightly more prepared ???
heaven forfend !
- Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:40 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers and comments for Thursday 12/02/2009
- Replies: 48
- Views: 6021
Re: Spoilers and comments for Thursday 12/02/2009
but you look like a boy and younger than me, or....are you dorian gray.....perchance ???
- Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:17 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 13th February 2009
- Replies: 65
- Views: 10054
Re: Spoilers and comments for Friday 13/02/2009
i thought i was playing countdown not the moral maze! but that game it felt like it
- Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:11 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 13th February 2009
- Replies: 65
- Views: 10054
Re: Spoilers and comments for Friday 13/02/2009
ok charlie homophobic words poofter, queer, fucking dyke,you know the sort of words thrown at you when you are walking down the street thinking i'm going to get a bottle in my neck if i'm not careful..... sub-homophobic words (my category) woolly woofter, nancy boy, lezza insults you can banter with...
- Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:43 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 13th February 2009
- Replies: 65
- Views: 10054
Re: Spoilers and comments for Friday 13/02/2009
thanks martin, all i can remember about this programme is, dying to go for a pee but being too polite to ask, gelatins ? stealing seemed a better bet, and having a horrible poofter/woofter dilemma, which word will make me less hated by the gay community ? If i go to tea shops will i get pelted with ...
- Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:34 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers and comments for Thursday 12/02/2009
- Replies: 48
- Views: 6021
Re: Spoilers and comments for Thursday 12/02/2009
"tragic self-congratulaltion" charlie ???
wait for the even more tragic denoument dear boy
wait for the even more tragic denoument dear boy
- Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:31 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers and comments for Thursday 12/02/2009
- Replies: 48
- Views: 6021
Re: Spoilers and comments for Thursday 12/02/2009
I think the voices in your head help a bit too (not the voices in my head, they just keep telling me about phantom letters)
- Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:50 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers and comments for Thursday 12/02/2009
- Replies: 48
- Views: 6021
Re: Spoilers and comments for Thursday 12/02/2009
Just caught the game on 4oD, I was out plotting the revolution tonight (well planning may day in manchester with the trades council and refugees) a bit of inside information....Susie initially said "I don't think brassie is a word" then looked it up and discovered it was a golf club. So......
- Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:23 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers and comments for Thursday 12/02/2009
- Replies: 48
- Views: 6021
Re: Spoilers and comments for Thursday 12/02/2009
In my younger days when I was a greenham common woman I used to call myself k8, this was the early 1980's before mobile telephones had been heard of Yorkshire curd tart is very nice, it takes a while in our house 'cos we make our own curds (curdle milk by heating it up with lemon juice then strain f...
- Thu Feb 12, 2009 7:48 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: dress code
- Replies: 120
- Views: 14492
Re: dress code
If it helps anyone my shirts are hand-tailored by James the personal tailor in manchester (I'm hoping for sponsorship). A little indulgence when you don't have kids
- Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:10 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How many swear words does Kai know?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 8777
Re: How many swear words does Kai know?
I am formulating a theory that having an extensive knowledge of slang and swearwords is a pretty good tactic to playing countdown, paticularly archaic words, might give the viewing public a collective heart attack tho'
- Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers and comments for Wednesday 11/02/2009
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4549
Re: Spoilers and comments for Wednesday 11/02/2009
A few other things Yes it did feel good to be able to mention my partner sara without a big deal being made out of it (I've been out for 25 years so I think we can safely say it's not a phase), it is a terrifying ordeal but worth it for the teapot. Theropods means "beast feet" there's a lo...
- Wed Feb 11, 2009 4:30 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers and comments for Wednesday 11/02/2009
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4549
Re: Spoilers and comments for Wednesday 11/02/2009
yes this is my debut game, I still don't know where theropods came from, but I wrote it straight down and thought I've got to play this I'll be so gutted if it is correct and don't play it. Thought some form of animal as pods = feet that's about it I am amazed at my ability to see phantom letters, a...
- Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:08 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How many swear words does Kai know?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 8777
Re: How many swear words does Kai know?
giles coren as a guest ??
- Wed Feb 11, 2009 12:15 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How many swear words does Kai know?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 8777
Re: How many swear words does Kai know?
ok is nosh is yiddish
what is dosh ?
dying to know
what is dosh ?
dying to know
- Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:31 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How many swear words does Kai know?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 8777
Re: How many swear words does Kai know?
ON THE SUBJECT OF NOSH This was the letter that Giles Coren wrote to "The Times" sub editors on the subject, it's hilarious. A sub-editor changed copy from "a nosh" to "nosh". I particularly love the swearing Gile Coren said "Chaps, I am mightily pissed off. I have...
- Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:43 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: How-To Guides
- Replies: 172
- Views: 43732
Re: How-To Guides
Remember how many word games there are compared to how many numbers and conundurum games. If you get maximum points in all numbers and conundurum you get 40 points, and are running the risk in the numbers games that your competitor is going to get the same as you so net result = 0. Tactical play in ...
- Sat Feb 07, 2009 1:55 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: um, How Long is the Current Series?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4297
Re: um, How Long is the Current Series?
charlie,lad, i understand what you're saying but......how do we move on from people out to play, and kill and win (geeks if you will)....perhaps they're called with octochamps (perhaps they're not) ...compared to championes.....compared to people who applied on a whim, or a bet or with no university...
- Sat Feb 07, 2009 1:43 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: um, How Long is the Current Series?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4297
Re: um, How Long is the Current Series?
having thought about it a bit, what i meant to say was empower your geekiness for womankind...purlease,,,, appropriate it from the timorous beasties (both male and female) but above all, stop trying to over-analyse, just go for it....everyone whoever plays this game is left with a blank page we must...
- Sat Feb 07, 2009 12:09 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How many swear words does Kai know?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 8777
Re: How many swear words does Kai know?
hey kai do you know ***@????!
Re: Anagrams
I identified with my anagram in the 1980's ...kate richardson = i take hard scorn
- Sat Feb 07, 2009 12:02 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday February 6th 2009
- Replies: 67
- Views: 8944
Re: Spoilers for Friday February 6th 2009
it was good watching this game, two good contestants enjoying themselves, well done both
- Fri Feb 06, 2009 11:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: um, How Long is the Current Series?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4297
Re: um, How Long is the Current Series?
stop agonising clare, go for it, what happens, happens, winning is for fat cats, any timorous countdown beasties out there, please apply, please audition, please appropriate this wonderful, nostalgic, emotive, empowering game from geeks, nerds, lexicons and start smelling the flowers again...allow y...
- Fri Feb 06, 2009 11:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Oops
- Replies: 62
- Views: 14961
Re: Rachel Riley at the numbers board
I want to defend the word "times" When you're under the spotlight, having to explain how you've reached a number conclusion, simply and concisely, believe me, it's much easier to say "times" than pronounce than "multiply" any day of the week.....and....... I'm also a bi...
- Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:31 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Talk a bit about yourself
- Replies: 185
- Views: 16408
Re: Talk a bit about yourself
you should see my identical twin sister liz, when she's around people think I'm wearing drag
- Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:12 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Talk a bit about yourself
- Replies: 185
- Views: 16408
Re: Talk a bit about yourself
Hello I'm Dinos, a successful Maths and Chemistry undergraduate in his early twenties 8-) I too am an omnivore. For their own safety my opponents at COLIN should sit at least 6 feet away from me. Good retro-active look on the show Kate! This is a 'Talk about yourself' topic, not a dating area. Kai/...
- Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:04 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Welcome! - Post here first
- Replies: 1962
- Views: 1108280
Re: Welcome! - Post here first
Neil let me tell you a little story about a student at manchester university 20 years ago....he missed some lectures to sell jeans and posters at the students union......that man was tom bloxman, founder of urban splash, the man who first started turning manchester warehouses into lofts and he is no...
- Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:58 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Talk a bit about yourself
- Replies: 185
- Views: 16408
Re: Talk a bit about yourself
just to be clear, i'm an omnivore
my partner sara made my dad a steak and kidney pie and rhubarb crumble first time she met him, neer looked back frankly
kate
my partner sara made my dad a steak and kidney pie and rhubarb crumble first time she met him, neer looked back frankly
kate
- Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:14 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Characters you'd like to see
- Replies: 89
- Views: 11657
Re: Characters you'd like to see
I just watched QI after seeing Pam Ayres on that she would be fan-tast-ic
quelle droll
quelle droll
- Fri Jan 16, 2009 6:16 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Characters you'd like to see
- Replies: 89
- Views: 11657
Re: Characters you'd like to see
People I'd like to see in dictionary corner in no particular order Bill Bailey Zoe Wannamaker Helen Mirren Mark Steel Jeremy Hardy Sandi Toksvig David Tennant Russell T Davies Patrick Stewart Maureen Lipman June Brown Adam Hart-Davies Mark Watson (I love is radio 4 programme) Russell Howard Alan Tit...
- Fri Jan 16, 2009 6:10 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Talk a bit about yourself
- Replies: 185
- Views: 16408
Re: Talk a bit about yourself
Something I didn't mention on the show, but wish I had. One of the best purchases we made last year was from lakeland it's a jelly stand and bag. This means you can make raspberry jam by straining the fruit so you don't get irritating little pips in your teeth. We also make our own fruit vodkas. You...
- Fri Jan 16, 2009 5:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Talk a bit about yourself
- Replies: 185
- Views: 16408
Re: Talk a bit about yourself
kate richardson wrote:
I'm Kate Richardson... into baking
one word: sweet or savoury?
SWEET
kate richardson wrote:
jam making
one word: favourite fruit?
RASPBERRY
kate richardson wrote:
Man City
one word: Ka'ka; yes or no?
NO
glad you had fun kate!
I'm Kate Richardson... into baking
one word: sweet or savoury?
SWEET
kate richardson wrote:
jam making
one word: favourite fruit?
RASPBERRY
kate richardson wrote:
Man City
one word: Ka'ka; yes or no?
NO
glad you had fun kate!
- Fri Jan 16, 2009 5:14 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Talk a bit about yourself
- Replies: 185
- Views: 16408
Re: Talk a bit about yourself
I'm Kate Richardson just finished filming, my countdown career starts on wednesday 11 feb and ends........well who knows when ! I had an absolute ball, to those of you umming and aahing about applying please just go for it, win or lose you'll have a good time I'm from Manchester, live with my partne...
- Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Welcome! - Post here first
- Replies: 1962
- Views: 1108280
Re: Welcome! - Post here first
I'm new to this, just finished filming, I ha an absolute ball.
I guess I cannot talk about anything yet ?
I guess I cannot talk about anything yet ?