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- Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:06 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Like
- Replies: 54
- Views: 7737
Re: Like
Since Facebook is well popular and stuff, I've added a "Thumbs Up" button similar to C4C, similar to Facebook's Like button. It's based on an existing mod but I specialised it quite a bit, so it's a C4C exclusive omg omg omg. The button is at the top right of each post. It's currently onl...
- Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:45 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: TIME FOR A CHANGE?
- Replies: 117
- Views: 19212
Re: TIME FOR A CHANGE?
Just one question . . . How many posts slagging off my forum does it take to make up for those few posts about Charlie that you found which started all this? Upto over 100 so far. I dread to think how many if it is based on either a pro rata percentage in member numbers or post counts. But, with so ...
- Mon Jan 11, 2010 1:49 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Goodbye Poll
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1430
Goodbye Poll
Hi, I have been left with no choice now but to resign from this forum. Charlie has made it extremely clear that he cannot share this large space with me anymore. I have tried several times to stick it out despite all the sniping, but it always starts up again, and I cannot post naturally anymore bec...
Re: Apology
apparently the same does not apply when it comes to posting 10 million incredibly shit puns punctuated only by some tragic self pity and confused analogies about skunks. I don't pity myself, I'm quite a relaxed person, and that seems to be one of the problems, because several people around here are...
Re: Apology
Meh, it was fine. I'm sure we've all done worse. At least we have a reference point now though - any humour based on people's names is unacceptable, particularly if they're likely to have heard similar before. Get Julie T to include it in her posting rules. With a name like Hazell, I've probably ha...
Re: Apology
What are you talking about?Charlie Reams wrote:Haha. Are you the kind of person that punches someone and says "that wasn't meant to hurt!!"? The evidence that you belong in Year 1 continues to accumulate.
Go on admit it, you just love a fight. I remember that from Year 1 too!
Re: Apology
Charlie Reams wrote:It wasn't very funny though, was it?
(about the juxtaposition of the post content and the name of the poster)Derek Hazell wrote:Wasn't meant to be a joke, just an observation . . .
- Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:08 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: International Freedom in Education Day 15 Sep 2009
- Replies: 77
- Views: 9847
Re: International Freedom in Education Day 15 Sep 2009
Is there anybody at all on the forum who has been home educated themselves? Would be interesting to hear a first-person perspective.
Re: Apology
Wasn't meant to be a joke, just an observation. Or maybe you're just attempting more "irony" by being nasty in a thread titled "Apology".Phil Makepeace wrote:Derek, if you're happy to crack jokes of the ilk that my Year 1 classmates did 15 years ago, feel free. Or just don't.
- Sat Jan 09, 2010 4:05 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Favourite Britney song.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3743
Re: Favourite Britney song.
Britney possibly counts as a guilty pleasure, so some people might not want to admit liking some of her stuff, whereas at least polls are anonymous. I don't care though. Lucky is my favourite. It talks about the downside of her strength of celebrity, but in a non-mawkish way. Piece of Me is also goo...
Re: Apology
Someone will be along to debate whether this is irony shortly.[u]Make peace[/u] wrote:I preferred it when you were angry.
- Fri Jan 08, 2010 3:12 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Most Improved Player
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6448
Re: Most Improved Player
Thanks for the reply and charts! Pleased to see my (gradual) letters progress confirmed. I despair of my conundrums. Chris's conundrum chart does look odd/unlikely, although as a better player than me maybe his earlier level is as surprising as his current one. For a player who has always been bett...
- Thu Jan 07, 2010 11:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Jason's sequence of events
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5089
Re: Jason's sequence of events
I find myself asking these three questions. Okay, I'll have a go at these, since I've got no hope with any of Matt Bayfield's sports/maths puzzles 1. Why would Jon Corby turn down my friend request on Facebook? He is jealous of you 2. If Debbi Flack told me "not to ever change, and that I was ...
- Thu Jan 07, 2010 10:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: International Freedom in Education Day 15 Sep 2009
- Replies: 77
- Views: 9847
Re: International Freedom in Education Day 15 Sep 2009
This will make Julie T very happy: Teen maths prodigy offered Cambridge place
All she needs to do now is get him to appear on Countdown!
All she needs to do now is get him to appear on Countdown!
- Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:30 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Tuesday December 15th 2009
- Replies: 57
- Views: 7625
Re: Spoilers For Tuesday December 15th 2009
More ginger controversy, this time from a programme you all love and I hate: Doctor Who Accused Of Anti-Ginger Agenda
- Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:17 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Temporary chat thread while aptochat is down
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3159
Re: Temporary chat thread while aptochat is down
Why da fuk do I always loose u fookin loosers
U sure u lot ent cheetin
ORANGUTANGS?
U sure u lot ent cheetin
ORANGUTANGS?
- Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:12 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Countdown in Lincoln 2010- Saturday 30th January
- Replies: 204
- Views: 30329
Re: Countdown in Lincoln 2010- Saturday 30th January
That's interesting, j jjjjjj. Another is that with only 3 weeks and 6 places left, it would only take 2 people to register each week now for the event to be full for the first time ever. With 5 people who have expressed interest on here but not confirmed yet (Andrew Herbertson, Ben Hunter, DOD, Alla...
- Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:07 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Good chat logs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1733
Re: Good chat logs
I'm glad I was around for this . It also continued . Thanks for sharing. Although you have obviously started this thread because unlike the Classic Aptochat moments one, you think the whole log is worth reading, I have to say I particulary enjoyed the bit where you said: my tea's ready! and then on...
Re: Religion
I did actually look at his Wikipedia article but still thought the same. It depends what kind of films you watch. While the most famous brother Alec is known for big Hollywood films, Stephen's tend to fall more into the straight-to-video category. He once made a film where he spent most of the time...
- Wed Jan 06, 2010 11:35 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Neutral news
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4240
Re: Neutral news
And if the heat of your passion caused her botox-filled face to explode resulting in you accidently ingesting some of the botulinum toxin, you wouldn't be able to!Alec Rivers wrote:Well, I wouldn't kick her out of the bed if she farted.
- Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:44 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Sports / Maths Puzzle(s)...
- Replies: 205
- Views: 22664
Re: Sports / Maths Puzzle(s)...
Shouldn't you be saving that sort of stamina for your last night of freedom?Dinos Sfyris wrote:Howard has suggested I open the same puzzle up to a 18-hole scenario, which I'm more than happy to do.
Re: SNOW!
Michael Wallace wrote:Faggotty homophobes, the lot of you.
- Wed Jan 06, 2010 3:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Youtube vids
- Replies: 54
- Views: 8300
Re: Youtube vids
Not a very good one (imo) this one, but from 6:37 to 8:37 is Countdown. You don't do it justice again, Kirk. That was absolutely abysmal. I don't remember David Brent being either thick or having a Brummie accent . . . and I certainly hope no one associated with Countdown would ever say "haitc...
- Wed Jan 06, 2010 3:21 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown on Big Brother
- Replies: 78
- Views: 11023
Re: Countdown on Big Brother
I have served Susie Dent, Rory McGrath and Gaz from Supergrass.
- Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:51 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Neutral news
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4240
Re: Neutral news
Subtle jokes are the best kind, but the downside is sometimes they pass by without being recognized. I had to read this one of Matt's in Jason's other thread about 4 times before I finally got it!Marc Meakin wrote:Tilefish?
(used to be Stewart's company)
- Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:46 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Most Improved Player
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6448
Re: Most Improved Player
Why so much fuss over the c word? I mean, I know officially it's not the same thing, but I think we all know what apterous is based on... Some people like to play it safe because of the Scrabulous debacle. I suppose once Marcel Stellman signs up to play, we'll all finally be able to talk about it f...
- Tue Jan 05, 2010 11:10 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Discount link dump
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3493
Re: Discount link dump
Sorry, there's no discount here - unless you take the £9.99 "bargain" bucket at its word - but I just found this funny:
Entire Refrigerator Rearranged To Accommodate Leftover KFC Bucket
But of course, saving leftovers and not binning them counts as a form of money saving too.
Entire Refrigerator Rearranged To Accommodate Leftover KFC Bucket
But of course, saving leftovers and not binning them counts as a form of money saving too.
- Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Who do you miss?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3912
Re: Who do you miss?
I'm not voting because I wanted to vote for Tony Harding and he's not in the poll. He used to post on Gevin's group quite regularly and then occasionally on the c4c group (always under a pseudonym but I was dead clever and figured out it was him) and he was really funny. I do miss his stuff, I must...
- Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:25 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Who do you miss?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3912
Re: Who do you miss?
No votes for Martin Gardner? It's like you all only joined three months ago. Hell even Zef got a vote, which I can only assume was ironic. Actually come to think of it Derek, were you ever even privy to any of Zef's sociopathic ramblings? Not personally, no. I didn't used to post very much back the...
- Tue Jan 05, 2010 8:04 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Classic Editions.
- Replies: 73
- Views: 10397
Re: Classic Editions.
Well not everybody. But some people in America will have heard of him, as he writes (wrote?) for an American magazine called The Anglo-file (sp?).Jason Larsen wrote:Everybody knows who Will D. Downing is? Even in America?
Really?
- Tue Jan 05, 2010 7:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Classic Editions.
- Replies: 73
- Views: 10397
Re: Classic Editions.
From watching the relevant programmes. All the links are here in this thread if you want to watch them too, Jason. That's if they work in America.Jason Larsen wrote:How do you know all that, Kirk?
- Tue Jan 05, 2010 3:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Who do you miss?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3912
Re: Who do you miss?
Right. That's my planned Best of Matthew Green thread canned.Matthew Green wrote:You can add me to the list if you're gonna keep posting shit like this.
Re: SNOW!
Apparently the snow has hit Manchester particularly badly. People are snowed into their homes, and the airport has had to be closed. Will this affect the filming of Countdown at all? Will we have another situation where contestants have to be reshuffled because they cannot get to the studio for film...
- Tue Jan 05, 2010 12:29 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Internet
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3316
Re: The Internet
Lol brilliant.Hugh Binnie wrote:Why have you lumped work/my own business together? "What I do on the internet is work"; "what I do on the internet is my own business" — hardly the same.
You're on some kind of list now as well.
Probably a list of funny people.
- Tue Jan 05, 2010 11:57 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Who do you miss?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3912
Who do you miss?
Do you miss anybody who used to post a lot on here, or on Yahoo! before, and no longer does much anymore? Or don't you care?
I've tried to include a cross-section of people from all 3 main places and genders.
I've tried to include a cross-section of people from all 3 main places and genders.
- Tue Jan 05, 2010 11:54 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Internet
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3316
Re: The Internet
Not Internet Dating I hope, Howard . . . your wife seems very niceHoward Somerset wrote:Would've been 11 if you added "Anything Else".
Actually I did think of putting "Other (please specify)", but I got a bit bored with that option, so feel free to share in a post if you do anything else.
- Tue Jan 05, 2010 11:09 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Internet
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3316
The Internet
This place gets a lot quieter when Countdown's off air, so maybe people indulge in their other Internet hobbies. Which things do you do regularly online?
- Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:10 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Youtube vids
- Replies: 54
- Views: 8300
Re: Youtube vids
Pretty 'funny' Dead Ringers Countdown sketches: Here and here . I thought they were funny without the inverted commas, particularly the first one. Thanks for posting those, Kirk. Of course Jan Ravens who played Carol has actually been on Countdown as the Dictionary Corner guest while Des Lynam was ...
- Tue Jan 05, 2010 12:21 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Favourite sad songs.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3963
Re: Favourite sad songs.
All By Myself - the original by Eric Carmen (it's based on Rachmaninoff's "Piano Concerto No. 2", which was also used to great effect in Brief Encounter ) Will You - Hazel O'Connor Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore Without You - Nilsson Cheesy country music by someone who puts every last dr...
- Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Who is more awesome: Kai or Conor?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3477
Re: Who is more awesome: Kai or Conor?
Too late - Jason Cullen's nicked your place!Howard Somerset wrote:lol - I certainly wouldn't be able to get back on again.
- Sun Jan 03, 2010 5:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: DJ Chris Evans
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2386
Re: DJ Chris Evans
Well, the bafflingly popular Sir Michael Terence Wogan KBE should have more free time on his hands, now he is leaving his daily breakfast show to be replaced by Chris. With his loyal band of "TOGs" he could bring a sizeable audience of all ages with him. I see he has been on before in 1997...
- Sat Jan 02, 2010 5:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Dictionary Corner Guests for the new series
- Replies: 276
- Views: 32204
Re: Dictionary Corner Guests for the new series
Both as a fan of them and also because I think they'd be good, I wouldn't mind seeing Michael McIntyre or David Mitchell on the show. I reckon McIntyre would be hilarious, if only paired with the rather more reserved (but lovely) Susie. This after but him want you would still? http://www.c4countdow...
- Sat Jan 02, 2010 5:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Dictionary Corner Guests
- Replies: 143
- Views: 20317
Re: Dictionary Corner Guests
I think David Mitchell would be a really good guest, he's brilliantly funny and it would fit in perfectly with his public persona of being a bit geeky. There are plenty of comedians out there that I love, but Mitchell is probably the only one inoffensive enough that I'd feel happy to watch him with...
- Sat Jan 02, 2010 5:41 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Characters you'd like to see
- Replies: 89
- Views: 11670
Re: Characters you'd like to see
But, after this would you still want him? http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic. ... 813#p72813Joseph Bolas wrote:David Mitchell
Robert Webb
Eric Cartman
- Sat Jan 02, 2010 5:40 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Who would you like to see in DC?
- Replies: 219
- Views: 42668
Re: Who would you like to see in DC?
Someone expressed concern that David Mitchell wouldn't be palatable to an older audience when in fact his image is so middle England that I am sure they would love him: he already sounds like a grumpy old man albeit a mightily humourous one. Richard Herring might go a little nearer the knuckle but ...
- Sat Jan 02, 2010 5:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: David Mitchell
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4780
Re: David Mitchell
Not sure you'd want David Mitchell anymore after this comment on The Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2009 . . . or even if he'd actually want to do it: Talking about the fourth plinth, one of the panellists suggested that the idea of featuring members of the public doing their own thing on there should be ...
- Sat Jan 02, 2010 5:22 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 743547
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Or mice coming out at night to play football.
- Sat Jan 02, 2010 5:18 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Rate the above user's avatar
- Replies: 97
- Views: 14428
Re: Rate the above user's avatar
Andy's avatar, taken on a recent fancy dress night when he fulfilled his dream of being a young bearded Andy Wilson isn't as cool as the shocked picture of himself he used to use, but due to it's very subtle use of swearing (whether as an invitation to admirers or an expletive against said Andy) it'...
- Sat Jan 02, 2010 5:12 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 485375
Re: Feature requests
Is there any way of calculating the best players of an entire year? I suppose this would be based on averages of the charts published all through the year. Now that Apterous has been running for well over a year, I was thinking it is something which could be announced on here or on the Wiki at the e...
- Fri Jan 01, 2010 1:06 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Rosy Glow Thread
- Replies: 58
- Views: 7201
Re: The Rosy Glow Thread
So not knowing your mom is a good thing about Dinos?Jason Larsen wrote:Dinos has to realize that he doesn't know her!
Okay then, Jason is a great person because he has never met any of us!
- Fri Jan 01, 2010 12:53 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Oh god it's 2010
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4183
Re: Oh god it's 2010
All the best New Year wishes and ALL THAT SHIT everyone. Fuck's sake they've started setting fireworks off now. Has everyone gone insane? Yep, there were fireworks on TV, fireworks outside, so I came to c4c for solace, and there were flames shooting from your new avatar! But yeah, I'm already insan...
- Thu Dec 31, 2009 7:34 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Have I Got News For You
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5664
Re: Have I Got News For You
Gyles Brandreth's 1999 appearance (the first of four he has made so far) is on Dave at 7:40 and Dave Ja Vu at 8:40 tonight.
Edit: Countdown just got a mention, as Paul Merton said the music should be used as the theme to take us into the next election.
Edit: Countdown just got a mention, as Paul Merton said the music should be used as the theme to take us into the next election.
- Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:40 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: A Question of Genius
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8673
Re: A Question of Genius
Congrats, Ian. Good luck. I hoped to go on, but I didn't think I did well, and am not too surprised that I haven't heard anything. Having said that I did have my audition for Pointless earlier that same day, and it looks like I've missed out on that as well. Oh well. Not sure whose turn it is to ma...
- Wed Dec 30, 2009 5:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Xmas=Darts
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6494
Re: Xmas=Darts
On "The Greatest TV Shows of the Noughties" they showed a clip of Coronation Street with Phil "The Power" Taylor helping the pub darts team, and Ashley says "we haven't even got nicknames", and Craig Charles replies "yeah, but on the upside we do have a captain cal...
Re: Religion
"I never use the word atheist of myself; it's scarcely worth having a name for. I mean I don't have a name for not believing in pixies." - Sir Jonathan Miller
- Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown mentions on other shows
- Replies: 315
- Views: 153951
Re: Countdown mentions on other shows
The 100 Greatest Christmas Moments , a 2004 show (revised 2005) which was repeated this Christmas on More4 had a segment on the Countdown Christmas Special from 1997. Richard Whiteley was interviewed about the show, in which he played Carol (billed under her married name of Carol King), and lost on...
- Mon Dec 28, 2009 10:27 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Name for the next decade
- Replies: 38
- Views: 4978
Re: Name for the next decade
From Piers Fletcher, chief question wrangler and producer of QI : It's anyone's guest what we are going to call the next decade. It's not even clear how individual years will be pronounced: David Crystal, author of the Cambridge Enclyopedia of the English Language, predicts we'll say "two thous...
- Mon Dec 28, 2009 9:57 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Countdowners On Other Quizzes
- Replies: 253
- Views: 234478
Re: Countdowners On Other Quizzes
Alex Horne will be on surreal quiz "We Need Answers" on BBC4 on Tuesday 5th January.
Re: My hero
There is another fun interactive Christmas site here - and this one even has Countdown in the title! Possibly a bit young for other forum members though. Lesley and anyone else with kids (or any big kids on here), now is the time to be doing this, as the countdown has actually begun, and now it is ...
- Thu Dec 24, 2009 3:18 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Christmas is here again
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4878
Re: Christmas is here again
Yeah, Merry Christmas lovers and haters