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- Wed May 15, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Best ever contestants
- Replies: 551
- Views: 429088
Re: Best ever contestants
Admittedly I haven't seen the last 10 series or so, but the best performing contestant for me is Conor Travers. My favourites were ones who resonated with me as most of my viewing time was while I was primary school age, namely Tanmay Dixit and Kai Laddiman.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:30 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 649
- Views: 340856
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
The lyrics to Chain Reaction are proper filthy!
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:06 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: OED vs ODP: what’s the difference?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2567
Re: OED vs ODP: what’s the difference?
I guess drawing the line over what is a used word and what isn't is what I'm finding a bit weird. And classifying current usage. There's a thing called the Oxford Corpus which is basically a big list of words and how many times they appear. It is heavily biased towards traditional print media, e.g....
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:00 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The 1% Club
- Replies: 71
- Views: 19435
Re: The 1% Club
Hem and Hex alongside Hen in that caseCallum Todd wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:31 pm Regional accents probably changed the answer for that one too. For example I would consider OUR and HEN to be valid answers in my dialect but not in Queen's (King's?) English
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 217563
Re: The C4C Football Thread
I'm sure the British press will be all over this, particularly if the Mendy case goes to trial and he is convicted They are decidedly not all over this. The coverage of Ronaldo's return and re-debut today has been nauseating. There is still an open civil case in the US, I wonder if Man United will ...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:31 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 254
- Views: 68591
Re: Track and Field Athletics
And on the high jump / pole vault thing, surely nowadays they could have a system of laser beams or something to measure the height you reach, so each jump is properly measured, rather than having to get over each set height! Aye, but you can't ask people to jump over nothing. The bar provides a po...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 7:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1757
- Views: 780388
Re: Ask Graeme?
What is the most successful first name in countdown (if we say at least 3 people have to have been called this and do it by percentage of games won) My money is on Tom/Thomas. Or maybe Mark. My gut is it will be a more unusual name. Lets say there's been 2 random people called Innis pop up over the...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 8:44 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 254
- Views: 68591
Re: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
Horrible and shocking. Similar happened with Sammy Wanjiru in his prime.Thomas Carey wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 6:56 amThese are the kinds of celebrity deaths that get me the most. I struggle to really care when someone old dies, but he had so much ahead of himGavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 11:28 pm Kelvin Kiptum has died in a road accident. Shit. I mean, fucking hell.
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 11:30 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Words with disappointing meanings....
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3717
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 6:51 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 496354
Re: People you shouldn't trust
People who put the squash/Ribena/whatever in AFTER the water. what in god's name are you thinking When at leisure, I put the squash in first and then the water, like a normal person. However, when there's a queue behind me at the office for the taps, I go mixologist style with the water and the squ...
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 32437
Re: Was Jeanne Calment a fraud?
To be honest that was the main take-away from the article for me too.
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:25 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Worst word ever
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4739
Re: Worst word ever
Losingest
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 3:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What’s the best three-word phrase formed from the conundrum answers on consecutive days?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4509
Re: What’s the best three-word phrase formed from the conundrum answers on consecutive days?
Sounds like a veiled statement from the conundrum setter/s there! Loving this thread; this is my favourite set of three so far
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 752269
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Proliferation of nose hair?Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 7:55 pm What happens to old men that sees them become unable to shut their mouths properly?
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 7:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Strange things you used to believe as a child
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10581
Re: Strange things you used to believe as a child
That's how it's pronounced in our house. I don't understand how else it would be pronounced, I assume the 'correct' makes it sound like "tight least". Title-ist? I mean, I've not heard of it before this discussion. Yes, one time I heard an advert during the golf coverage that pronounced i...
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 7:58 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Strange things you used to believe as a child
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10581
Re: Strange things you used to believe as a child
Watching golf on the TV I'd occasionally see players sporting the brand 'Tit-leist', which I parsed similarly (second half rhyming with 'heist').Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 7:38 pm I thought Microsoft had misspelt Tilting in the name of the font Perpetua Titling MT, or I was like "what the hell is a tit-ling"
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 8:04 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 14037
Re: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
I think Adam G's comment was fair. But I appreciate people understanding where I was coming from. My comment was directed more towards the stereotype of people who leave university, get a comfortable job and blindly follow a standard career path without stepping back and thinking about the potentia...
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 10:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 14037
Re: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
Exactly. What I'm asking is, does it really have to come to that or not? If I know the minimum buffer time, I'd be able to determine. If quitting were what I'd need to do then forget it. I'd be a pretty trash human being if I did that. Why would quitting your job to do something you're passionate a...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 10:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 326
- Views: 106732
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
My sister, a guide leader, recently discovered that more than half of her group (many of whom are in secondary school) were completely incapable of reading an analogue clock, and in an activity that involved some basic maths (like, 12x4 level of basic), where they insisted phones were put away, a l...
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 9:09 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 752269
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Is it better to fill a kettle with cold water or warm water? Why? Well it's said that hot water freezes more quickly so maybe cold water boils faster. But how are you warming the water? If it's from the hot tap it's probably not drinking water. Only if its from a water tank rather than the mains Ho...
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 10:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 752269
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Is it better to fill a kettle with cold water or warm water? Why?
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 11:01 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 649
- Views: 340856
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
1) "Outside in" is not the opposite of "inside out".
2) "Match of the Day" is (likely) a play on words based on "Catch of the Day".
2) "Match of the Day" is (likely) a play on words based on "Catch of the Day".
- Sun Oct 15, 2023 7:35 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Can you be pro-Palestinian without being anti-semetic?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2739
Re: Can you be pro-Palestinian without being anti-semetic?
Also I re-read that post a few times before posting it as I feel more pressured to be word-perfect in case I imply something that I didn't intend. That's because I'm not a disinterested observer in this and I do worry about a backlash. I'm still not entirely happy with the post but I felt like I was...
- Sun Oct 15, 2023 7:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Can you be pro-Palestinian without being anti-semetic?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2739
Re: Can you be pro-Palestinian without being anti-semetic?
Yes. You can also be pro-Palestinian without being anti-Israel or anti-Zionist, and vice versa. It's very easy to sympathise with the other cause if you sympathise with one, as they are so similar. Both are peoples with a valid claim to the same land, who have been rejected and oppressed for many ye...
- Tue Oct 03, 2023 6:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What’s the most remarkable anagram you know of?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5261
Re: What’s the most remarkable anagram you know of?
That Britney Spears one and ELEVEN PLUS TWO = TWELVE PLUS ONE are the two more oft-cited that came to mind for me.
- Wed Sep 13, 2023 6:00 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Joke Items
- Replies: 252
- Views: 93787
Re: Joke Items
"Click and collect". What's the point of it? Who's using it? There are two main ways to buy something. You could go to an actual bricks-and-mortar shop, and get it the same day but have the inconvenience of having to go all the way to the shop. Alternatively, you could order it from a web...
- Tue Sep 12, 2023 5:07 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Joke Items
- Replies: 252
- Views: 93787
Re: Joke Items
Is there no intrinsic value in the activities one would undertake to achieve the award?
- Sat Sep 09, 2023 9:31 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 649
- Views: 340856
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Everyone at the (Last Night of the) Proms is white. Performers, audience, everyone. Watched about half an hour and must have seen 400 different faces, maybe 6 weren't white*. Ironically the conductor was talking about diversity and inclusion. *I know that 394/400 is not equivalent to "everyone&...
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 10:42 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Rachel Riley Post
- Replies: 76
- Views: 18471
Re: Rachel Riley Post
A highly intelligent young woman with a history of charitable work and campaigning, including against domestic abuse and other issues impacting women, has spoken out about a public case related to domestic abuse.
But I wonder what Gevin has to say on the matter?
But I wonder what Gevin has to say on the matter?
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 10:43 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Big Ben
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8016
Re: Big Ben
Cracked the 400:
#BigBenGame for 23:19:46
422 points
Longest word: CHEAPENERS
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
#BigBenGame for 23:19:46
422 points
Longest word: CHEAPENERS
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
- Mon Jul 31, 2023 6:01 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Big Ben
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8016
- Sat Jul 29, 2023 10:12 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Big Ben
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8016
Re: Big Ben
Nice one! I've had a couple of 12s but not finished the board on either occasion. The latest one (SERENENESSES) I had 340 without finishing the board; I think the previous one was REPRESENTING.
- Sat Jul 29, 2023 9:22 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Big Ben
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8016
Re: Big Ben
That's fun that my game has been made replayable. I beat my own score by a few points just now by tweaking the shorter words I did at the end.
- Thu Jul 27, 2023 8:48 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Big Ben
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8016
- Tue Jul 25, 2023 7:55 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Big Ben
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8016
Re: Big Ben
Challenging game - starting to use a method of spreading my words horizontally as much as possible.
#BigBenGame for 20:46:59
318 points
Longest word: MUTANTS
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
#BigBenGame for 20:46:59
318 points
Longest word: MUTANTS
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 7:08 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Threads app by Instagram
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2042
Re: Threads app by Instagram
Because I associate Instagram with photos, I assumed "Threads" was related to clothing / fashion. Reading this topic it seems it's a rival to Twitter, but the name threw me.
- Mon Jul 10, 2023 7:49 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 752269
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I still think I could do it as well, and the optimism / belief would help with that. If you're going into it thinking you have no chance then you will be more likely to fail.
- Sun Jul 09, 2023 8:00 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Joke Items
- Replies: 252
- Views: 93787
Re: Joke Items
Saw a bus stop today that had a digital display reading "Please refer to timetables".
- Sun Jul 09, 2023 5:41 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 752269
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I've played a bit of tennis for fun in my life. Not enough to know what facing a really good serve feels like. But I think that anyone vaguely sporty with a decent amount of hand eye co-ordination would be a big favourite in this bet. You get to learn on the job with pretty good feedback . I think ...
- Mon Jun 12, 2023 6:09 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Matt Morrison Computer Corner
- Replies: 452
- Views: 124154
Re: The Matt Morrison Computer Corner
A couple I think I know the answer to, but I am a bit scared / Ludditeish about changing my ways and I still think of computers as more secure than phones: 1) Is it safer to use internet banking on my 2014 Chromebook laptop where the OS and browser are both out of support, or on my 2020 mobile phone...
- Sun May 07, 2023 10:29 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Is it time to end, the Monarchy?
- Replies: 66
- Views: 5467
Re: Is it time to end, the Monarchy?
This is a good point. The UK is a majority atheist society nowadays, and swearing all manner of allegiances and oaths to a god that, in my mind and that of a large number of others, is purely fictional isn't really something that people can get behind. As Mark said, the ceremony yesterday seemed ex...
- Mon Apr 17, 2023 7:06 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)
- Replies: 97
- Views: 98387
Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)
Correctly Correctington!
- Sun Mar 19, 2023 8:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Getting back on for a second go
- Replies: 93
- Views: 22425
Re: Getting back on for a second go
I think the key thing is don't apply until you're ready. I don't think people on the whole apply unless they feel ready I would have thought. But hindsight is a wonderful thing 😊 I wasn't "ready" when I applied, in the sense that I hadn't been on apterous for very long and I was an averag...
- Tue Jan 31, 2023 7:03 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown mentions on other shows
- Replies: 315
- Views: 154898
Re: Countdown mentions on other shows
Not exactly a show, but Bolton Wanderers just used Jeff Stelling-era Countdown to announce the signing of a useless player… I can say he’s useless, cos Town have had him for 5 months, in which he played 6 times, starting just 3, and in one of them, he played so bad that he basically helped concede ...
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 10:33 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdowners in the news
- Replies: 243
- Views: 158062
Re: Countdowners in the news
Maybe a candidate for the first de-spooning?
- Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:58 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 774
- Views: 692773
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
commercialised version Oh, I'm sorry, how did we get onto the topic of Mog? Twat. Don't fuck with me, you idiotic cunt, or I'll expose your paedophilic love all over the internet. You know I've got the evidence and you know I can expose you at the drop of a hat. By choice, I think the hat should be...
- Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:47 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdowners in the news
- Replies: 243
- Views: 158062
Re: Countdowners in the news
Unless there are two people of that name who live on that road, then... https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/paedophile-loner-amassed-over-50000-19453696 Yikes. Looking back over Jim's posts on the first page of this topic I've done something that will annoy him, by taking a number of h...
Re: TENNIS
There are active American tennis professionals named Katie Volynets and Tennys Sandgren. Nominative determinism?
- Sun Jan 15, 2023 2:00 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 752269
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Why is Vanilla extract £7 in one supermarket and 60p in another (for the same quantity)? Same quality? Madagascar vanilla is more expensive (yes I work for Waitrose) The 60p one was Madagascan. I just can't comprehend that the quality would be so different to warrant such a vast difference in price...
- Sun Jan 15, 2023 9:06 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 752269
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Why is Vanilla extract £7 in one supermarket and 60p in another (for the same quantity)?
- Thu Jan 12, 2023 10:05 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 649
- Views: 340856
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
What a country!Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 8:15 pm There isn't any obvious difference between flammable and Inflammable
- Thu Jan 12, 2023 7:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 649
- Views: 340856
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
I also assumed they were spheres until recently.Elliott Mellor wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 6:48 pmI'm impressed you have managed to live for over half a century without learning this. Just wait until you find out what a titmouse is, or a gravy train, or a cat burglarMarc Meakin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 5:30 am The Elgin marbles are not a set of spheres but sculptures
- Mon Jan 02, 2023 7:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 649
- Views: 340856
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Shea butter is pronounced as in "SHEER drop" rather than as in "John O'SHEA".
- Sat Dec 31, 2022 7:30 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdowners in the news
- Replies: 243
- Views: 158062
Re: Countdowners in the news
Good article, thanks for sharing.Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 6:41 pm A nice profile piece here on Sky. https://news.sky.com/story/countdown-ch ... a-12767414
- Mon Dec 19, 2022 8:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: World Cup 2022 Qatar
- Replies: 54
- Views: 6093
Re: World Cup 2022 Qatar
Fair play. Which is all England won, coincidentally.
- Sun Dec 18, 2022 10:00 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: World Cup 2022 Qatar
- Replies: 54
- Views: 6093
Re: World Cup 2022 Qatar
I don't watch much football but when I do the kits heavily influence who I support. Blue is generally frowned upon. Blue and white stripes even more so. Not a good world cup. Brazil v Netherlands would have been good. Why comment on this thread at all? It's like a tortoise commenting on the Parkrun...
Re: Religion
Can you be openly gay and religious? Wouldn't it just be contradictory? Although I'm talking about Christian faiths, Judaism and Muslim faiths as I don't know enough about other faiths like Hinduism and Budhism In Judaism it's very hard to be openly gay and religious, in this country at least. The ...
- Sat Dec 17, 2022 9:58 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: David Barnard, 1991-2022
- Replies: 85
- Views: 13451
Re: Please say a prayer for David Barnard
David's funeral service is available to watch here. https://screenrec.com/share/qELHatc348 Thank you for sharing this, Mark. David was a real character within our community and I could almost see his cheeky smile and hear his witty comebacks as you were speaking. Thank you for speaking on behalf of...
Re: Religion
If you use the tool on the website I linked to choose different Bible versions, many of them are quite explicit in saying "have sexual relations with a man" or similar. So, the KJV's flowery language aside, it's fairly well agreed what that bit means. Essentially, to counter my original p...
- Sat Dec 10, 2022 10:25 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Done gone done made a quiz
- Replies: 26
- Views: 25272
Re: Done gone done made a quiz
Annnnnnnnnd it's done. Recycled a few rounds from the 2017 edition but as it's been five years and nobody did that quiz anyway, I doubt it'll matter much. Quiz can be downloaded here for the full .docx version or here if you're Gevin and you need a pdf (this version doesn't include the audio files ...