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I'd interbreed Messrs Warren and Makepeace if only to get the double-barrelled name Warren-Makepeace.

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Ok so if its an update that you want then here goes We started communicating by IM on Oasis.com Graduated to texting (is there really a better feeling than getting a text from soneone who cares) Then went onto MSN (welcome to the 21st century) We have been practically been talking to each over 24 s...

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I was so tempted to say that I would not use Internet dating to find love buy may use it to find someone who is willing to lick my balls.

Phew, I am glad I didn't say that.

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Stewart Lee's amusing take

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Jon Corby wrote:Some animals eat other animals. Deal with it.

Some animals act immorally, humans especially.

It does nothing to challenge the argument, if anything it augments it.

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Does this come under "talk shit that nobody understands about philosophy reply"? I tried to keep it simple too but I guess I over-estimate my audience. I understood, FWIW. I'd pretty much stopped eating meat (although I don't call myself a vegetarian because then people expect you to eat ...

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Ryan Taylor wrote: Does this come under "talk shit that nobody understands about philosophy reply"?

I tried to keep it simple too but I guess I over-estimate my audience.

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Has anyone suggested going to the cubicle where the seat is up?

Since, in all likelihood, the last user just took a piss.

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Have we got any vegetarians on the board? We should have a thread on that. Idiots. Vegetarianism, purely as a dietary paradigm, is fine by me but don't get me started on militant vegetarians/vegans who claim that 'meat is murder'. Moral theorists advance a strong argument for the case that eating m...

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[quote="Jon O'Neill"][/quote]

Shit dude I wish I could like this twice, it's a winner.

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You little shits are all too smart.

Someone start posting some fails now or at the least some mediocre results.

By that I mean congratulations.

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I once shaved my chest, apart from the nips. Wasn't brave enough. I have far too much body hair to even contemplate it; I did shave my nether regions which made everything seem somewhat grander; I woke up to find an ex-girlfriend trying to wax my shoulder hair. At some point this may have become to...

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Chris Corby wrote: a series' winner is a bit special....

In the sense that they like to lick the windows of yellow buses?

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Crappy, cheap disposables which tear my fucking face off.

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Just watched this, thought the best player on the day won. You both seemed to have fun (Charlie slightly more so).

Great game to watch with some fantastic spots, and a super fast conundrum.

I would have went for THEODOXY^ in one of the rounds which must be gash!

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Mike Brown wrote:
David O'Donnell wrote:I saw it 165 times.
Bugger, that's ruined the competition....

Erm it was 195 times.

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Happy 41st birthday to Damian, wherever you are. (Probably still celebrating in a Blackpool or Manchester bar, after yesterday's result. :lol:) Happy 19th birthday to Conor too. Can't wait to meet you at CoLei. ;) :) :D :mrgreen: 8-) Happy birthday to both. I knew Damian would get old but Conor, al...

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Adam Gillard wrote:This is the first thread

It was well worth the wait, Adam: I do hope you keep continually keep me waiting.

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Burn milk, making animal garment (4) SPOILER: TOGA? Not sure why there is a comma there but a milk making animal is a GOAT, burning it means make an anagram, so TOGA, which is a garment. Punctuation is used deliberately to put you off. It's an anagram of a synonym though which is generally frowned ...

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Lesley Hines wrote:FINGER

(It's all about context, innit? )

If it's a digital age I suspect it's a digital context, no?

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Half way through yesterday's (Thursday 12 Aug) show I saw what I have never seen before on screen. The Countdown clock was winding on clockwise back to the top and visible behind the contestant. I guess that the audience would see this but camera choice would ensure that its not seen on the telly. ...

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Finally.

FELCHER.

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Happy Birthday, Innis.

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Once upon a time there was Matt vs. Charlie. Multiple posts were made, full of hilarity and popular comment that was likeable yet still appropriate. Then DoD came along, posting everything twice to try and rape double likes off everything good he said like the newest like whore in town. HAVE LIKES ...

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Charlie Reams wrote:That's cool, congratulations and thanks for all the cats you've rescued from trees. Oh and the fires and stuff. But mainly the cats.

I tried to like this post and it caused an Internal Server Error: Matt Morrison is teh uberhack3r.

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Charlie Reams wrote:That's cool, congratulations and thanks for all the cats you've rescued from trees. Oh and the fires and stuff. But mainly the cats.

I tried to like this post and it caused an Internal Server Error: Matt Morrison is teh uberhack3r.

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Andy McGurn wrote:My post count is zero

Are you sure?

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Retrospectively liked and bumped so others can do the same (or at the very least, re-open a big ol' can o' worms).

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Dmitry Goretsky wrote:
Andy Wilson wrote:Street Countdown?
STREET COUNTDOWN?????!!!!!

It's Countdown on a street.

Surely not a difficult concept to grasp for one of your obvious intellectual abilities.

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Kirk Bevins wrote:She wasn't cheating -

Try and fuck her then cos she sounds awesome.

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Probably a bit of cheating going on. It's a pity because it raises the standard needed to actually win out on these machines. How would you cheat? Genuine question, I haven't played quiz machines much. You could write a program but it seems like the limiting factor is speed of entry anyway, so that...

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Probably a bit of cheating going on. It's a pity because it raises the standard needed to actually win out on these machines.

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Very, very tiresome ultimately, a Zulu playing the blasted thing? (8)

Almost topical clue in the Guardian today.

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Dmitry Goretsky wrote:I have a copyright war with JackHurst. HE COPIED MY PROFILE!!!!!

Jack had the profile first as far as I can recall.

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Ben Hunter wrote:Thought I'd mentioned, during the credits roll on 4oD you can see Dinos and Kai getting up to no good, something which was obscured by an advert during the actual broadcast. Worth a watch

Pretty sure Alec taped it if anyone missed it.

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Better give the answer then: Moan around the French to kill perhaps. (6) The answer is SLEIGH. Moan = SIGH The French = LE, so SIGH around LE is SLEIGH. Also "To Kill" is SLAY. Excellent, although the clue should read: Moan around the French to kill, say. Thus you say out loud SLAY and it...

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Ian Volante wrote: As a spud-muncher yourself, surely you understand the inevitable outcome of having two Irish ladies in a room together?

Actually, sometimes racism is based on a stereotype that's fairly near the truth.

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You know you're playing too much apterous when... ...you have actually missed out on sex for the sake of "one more game". On more than one occasion. Yup - *hangs head in shame* - another true story. Most people are playing on apterous because they don't get sex but you give up sex to play...

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Ryan Taylor wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:In what sense does a Klein bottle "never end"?
My friend is special.

He can insert the Klein bottle?

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Good to see a C of C series for this show, great to see some of the past champs again also. :D Here is the first episode on iplayer for those that missed it (well worth watching): http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tc2zm/b00tc2ws/Mastermind_Champion_of_Champions_Episode_1/ I was grumpy as ther...

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Isn't most of this stuff bordering on schizophrenia? How? It actually happened. I think one of the symptoms is an inability to properly process information and attributing significance to data that is not really significant. For instance you might see two cars with an E and a 6 in their registratio...

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Setanta Sports have the uk rights I think? Kildare were brilliant the last day and Meath just couldn't live with their pace and fitness. The result also made me happy because of the way Meath won the Leinster championship, with help from that cheating cunt from Tyrone. Down were also impressive at ...

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Isn't most of this stuff bordering on schizophrenia?

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Michael Wallace wrote:
Jon O'Neill wrote:What does muff actually mean here?
Pervert.

Amusingly, I thought I'd try google image searching first. I wasn't successful.

We obviously have different definitions of "success".

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Where can we watch Gaelic Football in GB? I think this and hurling are great sports but I can never seem to find any coverage, on TV or online. Been having the same trouble since I moved to Cardiff. Glad I didn't see the Tyrone-Dublin game though. I normally find I have to get to a pub. The Irish p...

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QUODLIBET, who got it? Edit: Lexplorered it, James Doohan and Kirk missed it, so they may have got it. Edit Edit: Innis got it. (Shocker, he hasn't been ion long enough to have seen it before.) ;) I thought Dinos was actually fishing for it when he chose the final vowel. Brilliant game lads, well d...

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I was a little harsh there; hit my shitfaced reply button.

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Matt Morrison wrote:How has Meakin not suggested an ANY key yet?

I'll have a think though - good question, but, almost unexpectedly, nothing is really springing to mind.

Seriously, all this Meakin bashing is in really bad taste and, frankly, I expected better from you.

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Eoin Monaghan wrote:Err, FEEBLE isn't right.

Good stuff then.

Moan = Beef - around = feeb the French = le

but yeah it doesn't work since there is no straight component so I am glad it isn't the answer.

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Eoin Monaghan wrote:Err, FEEBLE isn't right.

Good stuff then.

Moan = Beef - around = feeb the French = le

but yeah it doesn't work since there is no straight component so I am glad it isn't the answer.

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Ryan Taylor wrote:

Yeah actually, that's fair enough. Charlie wasn't even ambiguous about it.

Guess I must have been stocious.

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Peter Mabey wrote:
Eoin Monaghan wrote:I made this one up:

Moan around the French. (6)
I suspect the intended answer is FEEBLE - but if so, you've forgotten to include a definition: "Slight moan ..." would be OK.

Nice spot given there was no straight component.

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Martin Jarvis.

/thread

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Yeah, true enough but Eoin is only 14 years of age. He is just discovering how cryptic clues work, and has yet to go on to further education, university and California. If it had been me I would have worded the clue "Taking taxi back....." which is slightly less obvious. What's 14 got to ...

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Chris Corby wrote:Sorry Eoin, only just got to this thread having fallen behind for a few days.

For what it's worth, for a first effort I think it is excellent.

Agreed.

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Found this nice one: Taking cab back to a short road, one gets rum. Bacardi That's nice! I'm always impressed by you guys both setting and solving these things, I can't do shit all of them. So I might be wrong in suggesting this, but shouldn't the clue be "Taking a cab back..." to get the...

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JackHurst wrote:Sorry to be a smug bastard, but I'm pretty happy with my top maxes column at the moment:

You smug bastard.

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I can't believe Kirk likes the fact that Charlie is going: obviously some animosity there I had never picked up on.

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I'm heading over with a couple of mates to see a gig in Bologna on 2nd Sept and aside from the obvious, don't really know much about the places, so if anyone's ever spent any time over there and can recommend stuff to do/see/places to stay on the cheap, i'd love to hear from you. Weekend in Bologna...

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
Lesley Hines wrote:Speak of the devil...
Don't call him a devil...he'll be upset.

She's kidding, Kirk!

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