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Adam Gillard

Alright, I read the recent replies that came in... and it is mostly hot air and bluster. Graeme taking a cheap shot about my character? Come on man, you are better than that. And Adam just here for the pile-on, lol, without properly engaging with what's been written. fyi Fiona outed herself, and th...

Adam Gillard

What's this plastic Elvises thing? Sounds like a way to discriminate against a bunch of people to me. I agree with Ian here. Plus some other terms that sounded divisive in that same post that I haven't heard before. I also very much dislike the fact that the person who filed the report and the pers...

Adam Gillard

Not sure if this is the right topic but I'm genuinely proud of this effort having just received a set of A-Z, 0-9 foam tiles for the bathroom. https://i.postimg.cc/Z08mpCXL/IMG-20201214-192752.jpg (The leftover tiles spell "99 WORK X", which is obviously shorthand for "I got 99 problems but work ain...

Adam Gillard

Moira Stuart could be fun. I thought of her and Clare Balding initially when I saw Nick was leaving. Colin Murray probably has first refusal though, as others have noted.

Adam Gillard

Shaun the sheep.

Adam Gillard

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 18, 2019 2:02 pm
Lucky her baby wasn't a boy or she probably would have chopped his nob off or something.

I find this post offensive.

Adam Gillard

A doctor friend of ours once had a patient called L-a, pronounced Ladasha. Citation needed! https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/le-a/ Interesting! I had no reason to suspect he was making it up; perhaps the name came into vogue because of the fake story going around in 2008. This patient would have b...

Adam Gillard

I like to add a slight honey taste to otherwise plain cereals like Shreddies (with milk). To do this normally requires copious amounts of honey in the bowl to retain the slightest taste in each spoonful. I've found that if you dollop a small splodge of honey on the spoon instead (either side) then i...

Adam Gillard

A doctor friend of ours once had a patient called L-a, pronounced Ladasha.

Adam Gillard

This is the most impressive Track and Field thing I've seen this year, from February (BBC Sport article):

Adam Gillard

I agree with Marc. That post will come back to haunt you when you run for Prime Minister, Gevin.

Adam Gillard

How often does Countdown have to edit due to offensive words.....and is the scoring contrived so the person playing said word is not penalised. Once I was in the audience and a contestant offered PISSES, which was valid, but they reshot it, and he offered PASSES, which was also available. I'm not s...

Adam Gillard

Callum Todd wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 14, 2020 8:27 am
My favourite footballer name is a Belgian defensive midfielder, renowned for his man-marking abilities, called Mark De Man.

I very much enjoyed someone's comment on a BBC article that Troy Parrott (young Spurs and Ireland striker) likes to play off the shoulder of the last defender.

Adam Gillard

You can turn on a PlayStation 4 with the remote rather than having to press the power button on the console box.

Adam Gillard

Very touching to hear about Supee and Phil's donation. Keep up the good work, Charlie - apterous and c4c are your babies and they have engendered a great community spirit among their members. It's incredible that Phil has honoured that community togetherness in this way.

Adam Gillard

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 21, 2020 1:05 pm
I'm from Essex. "Pull" is a shorter syllable than the other two.

The vowel sound is the same though - at least for some people; that was the point the lecturer wanted to make.

Adam Gillard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English It appears my Scottish heritage is the differentiator here. "Many non-rhotic speakers also insert an epenthetic /r/ between vowels when the first vowel is one that can occur before syllable-final r (drawring for drawing). " Yep, and as a Yorkshirem...

Adam Gillard

*Do you make an "r" sound in the middle of this word? And in words like "drawing"? I think most people do, right? No, I don't make an "r" sound, because there isn't one. Controversial! There is actually some discussion about it on the internet . The gist of it seems to be that British people stoppe...

Adam Gillard

Ed da best

Adam Gillard

When my friend was working in Leicester he stayed in what turned out to be Gary Lineker's mum's old place and he would occasionally get mail for her. I sent him an anonymous postcard at one point addressed to Mrs Lineker with some jests about Gary.

Adam Gillard

Takeover has been effected; I'll let the new GotYer announce themselves in due course!

Adam Gillard

We have a potential taker-overer - watch this space for further news.

Adam Gillard

Any takers?

Adam Gillard

GotY is now coming up to its tenth running and I'd like to hand over the reins to a more active user of apterous. If you're interested and willing to commit the time to administer the nominations and the poll, then please let me know.

Adam Gillard

My perspective on religion... I'm a Jew by accident of birth, through matrilineal descent over who knows how many generations. I believe in God largely because I want to, and because I've been conditioned to do so in my upbringing, not because anyone has delivered a particularly compelling argument ...

Adam Gillard

THE GotY 2018 POLL HAS NOW CLOSED. Thanks to all those who voted, and once again to those who nominated. I can now reveal the top three games of apterous from 2018! GotY 2018 : Rob Foster 715 - 723 Apterous Rex Joint runner-up : Tim Down 258 - 251 Chris Butler Joint runner-up : Elliott Mellor 147 -...

Adam Gillard

Get yer votes in!

Adam Gillard

Voting thread is live here.

Adam Gillard

Thanks to all those who submitted nominations for GotY 2018 . There were 7 nominees that made the cut-off for the final poll. Voting rules: Each person should submit one of 12 options for each game when voting: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 or Abstain (0 is worst and 10 is best). You can submit t...

Adam Gillard

Nominations have now closed.

As stated, I'll shortly post a new thread with the final nominees for the poll itself.

Adam Gillard

Last couple of days to nominate!

Adam Gillard

Reminder to get your nominations in!

Adam Gillard

Evening, all! I'm setting up this thread to open the nominations for GotY 2018, and also for information and discussion about the GotY process. Nominations are now open and will close on Saturday 16 February 2019 at 11.59pm. After nominations close, I'll post a new thread with the final nominees for...

Adam Gillard

Apparently Jonathan Rawlinson did the London Marathon as well and absolutely smashed it in 2:58:36. So we have: 1. Tim Down - 2:57:19 2. Jonathan Rawlinson - 2:58:36 3. Gevin Chapwell - 3:09:16 4. Matt Bayfield - 3:09:22 5. Giles Hutchings - 4:19:15 I've done one marathon, 3:53:53. So I'm top of th...

Adam Gillard

Fred Mumford wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 08, 2018 9:26 pm
A Wank To Remember

This one gets my vote so far!

Adam Gillard

I like how the Countdown Finals start the same time as the World Cup Finals. Strong alternative offering there from Channel 4!

Adam Gillard

What are those tripod thingies with camera thingies with people in fluorescent jacket thingies manning them? Seems to be some sort of survey equipment but what is it used for? They've had them manned every morning for about a month next to a road I pass on my commute and I'm too scared to ask one of...

Adam Gillard

Mark Deeks wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 19, 2018 5:48 pm
absolute classic

Did you miss the nuance that they were both 1st of 1 and the ensuing existential crisis?

Adam Gillard

THE GotY 2017 POLL HAS NOW CLOSED. Thanks to all those who voted, and once again to those who nominated. I can now reveal the top three games of apterous from 2017! GotY 2017 : Ben Andrews 200 - 200 Martin Hurst Runner-up : Apterous Rex 480 - 520 Callum Todd Joint third place : Apterous Prune 0 - 2...

Adam Gillard

Only about 6 days left to vote!

Adam Gillard

Thanks to all those who submitted nominations for GotY 2017. There were 6 nominees that made the cut-off for the final poll. Voting rules: Each person should submit one of 12 options for each game when voting: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 or Abstain (0 is worst and 10 is best). You can submit th...

Adam Gillard

GotY 2017 nominations have now closed. The poll will open shortly in a separate thread.

Adam Gillard

About one week left to nominate.

Adam Gillard

Nominations are now open and will close on Saturday 3 February 2018 at 11.59pm.

The rules and preferred format for the nominations are stated in the original post in this thread.

Adam Gillard

Stop right there. If we had a game of the decade, I think it should be more open, rather than to just winners of GOTY, just like GOTY is open to non-GOTW winners. A few games have been missed and were highlighted later on, like Rahul Suresh's max bullet hyper nasty numbers attack. Mathematically, i...

Adam Gillard

Since this is Apterous' 10th year, could we also do a Game of the Decade? Yes we could, nice idea! It'd be easy. Just do it after the 2017 winner is chosen... Allow people vote on what they consider the greatest of the 10 annual winners so far. I've been running the annual poll since 2010, the year...

Adam Gillard

Evening, all! I'm setting up this thread for information and discussion about GotY 2017. I'm planning to accept nominations for a one-month period after all of the GotW results for 2017 have been confirmed (around the second week of January 2018). After nominations close (mid-February 2018), I'll po...

Adam Gillard

Wow, that was a thrilling contest! Well done to Innis and team for coming through against strong opponents. Can just apply that comment for this round as well. So evenly matched all the way through, and just nicking it at the end. Yep! Just watched it - another nail-biter and some good educated gue...

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Matt Bayfield wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 01, 2017 4:44 pm
1) Mark Lewis-Francis Obikwelu
2) Yelena Isinbayevalerie Adams
3) Steve Cramantle Montsho
4) Lorraine Ugenzebe Dibaba

Correct! Francis Obikwelu was pervading my consciousness this morning for some reason so I decided to incorporate his name into a quiz.

Adam Gillard

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Adam Gillard

Figure out directions apart from straight / up without tilting my head or the map.

Adam Gillard

Yeah, agreed on MYOGLOBIN. FORTALICE also impressed me.

Adam Gillard

Tony Atkins wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 31, 2017 9:00 am

Adam Gillard wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 14, 2017 9:09 am
On the website it says there's £100,000 in prize money. Is any of this available in the Countdown event?
Sadly it seems the best one can hope for is a very small pocket dictionary...

Ah right, count me out then!

Adam Gillard

Wow, that was a thrilling contest! Well done to Innis and team for coming through against strong opponents.

Adam Gillard

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 08, 2017 9:10 pm
Around 21% chance of Corbyn as Prime Minister according to Betfair.

Edit - follow it here.

What are the chances of Toby Pereira as Prime Minister?

Adam Gillard

On the website it says there's £100,000 in prize money. Is any of this available in the Countdown event?

Adam Gillard

Yay, well done to Graeme, Phyl and Tom! Superb quizzing

Adam Gillard

Why do people eat fruit-flavoured sweets? Why wouldn't they? They give nice flavours. There are other flavours too, like mint, aniseed, liquorice, violet, rhubarb & custard, and non-specific. Just because they don't really taste like fruit and fruit is better for you and probably cheaper, at least ...

Adam Gillard

Marc Meakin wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 07, 2017 7:40 am

Adam Gillard wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 07, 2017 7:20 am
Why do people eat fruit-flavoured sweets?
Because vegetable ones are disgusting

Hehe, good answer!

Adam Gillard

Why do people eat fruit-flavoured sweets?

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