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Julie T

Please form an orderly queue for autographs ............ but I made another appearance on tonight's episode of The Hotel on Channel 4. Me, my wife Julie and my 2 youngest daughters Georgina and Gabriella can be seen at the back of the restaurant just after the Torquay restaurant reviewers come in (...

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I gave up searching after 15 pages! Julie Taylor appears to be a very common name, and I'm not on Facebook, Twitter or other social networks, don't do blogs, and I'm not a professional with a profile anywhere. This is the only forum I belong to that you don't need to log into to read. So, not surpri...

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It makes sense to not have too many contestants in one series of the standard to possibly be a series winner. But it depends on whether Andy or Josh just happened to apply when a lot of other Apterites did, or whether it was just an average amount. If Damian only wants x Apterites a series when say...

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It makes sense to not have too many contestants in one series of the standard to possibly be a series winner. As has been previously mentioned, they already space out those who do exceptionally well in the auditions. I would hope that this apterites 'rule' wouldn't affect more average players. I'm n...

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What standard is roughly the benchmark for getting on the show? I get mainly 6's and 7's and home and get the odd 8 or 9 as well. I am thinking of sending away my application form to get on the show, also when they ask for a photo for the application form what should it be? I know some ask for a pa...

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I always think that practical jokes are nasty. I've never understood the mentality of people who derive pleasure from hurting others.
This sounds particularly bad, especially as your wife saw the text first.
Yet more proof that the world is full of arseholes (with or without chlamydia).

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I had my audition last Tuesday. Didn't get through due to too many silly mistakes. I didn't deserve to get on given my performance but it's annoying as I'm better than many that do get on! I'll try again. Niall Seymour and Kieran Bray filmed yesterday I believe. It is annoying what nerves can do to...

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This is a bit stalkery from Google. I've turned this off. Thanks for letting me know about this! I agree. I have cookies disabled anyway, so no data. :D Your demographics We infer your age and gender based on the websites that you've visited. You can remove or edit these at any time. Age: 65+ Gende...

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Ouch, what an absolute nightmare. Poor guy. Especially the last numbers, he was clearly a good numbers player, but it's remarkable what tiredness/panic can do to the mind. This certainly was a surprise. Susan was a good player, while, as you say, Sri was unlucky and fell down a bit on the numbers. ...

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Mark seems like a cool guy, he handled a convincing defeat (and rather bizarre mockery from Nick) with good humour. Sri definitely deserved to win though, will be hard to imagine him losing if he keeps that standard up. I agree, Innis. Mark was definitely outclassed, but a good loser. I had thought...

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Is there any merit to the three-second rule of dropping food on the floor? i.e. does the "amount of bacteria" on the food increase with time? Linearly? Is the "amount of bacteria" gained by dropping a crisp on the floor and it rolling about a bit, for example, significant when y...

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I think it's pretty good actually. Have you ever eaten real black pudding? If it's anything like the real thing I'd buy shedloads. The site that sells it wants £7.10 shipping :o Seems a strange thing to try to make a veggie version of, as pigs' blood is a major ingredient, but presumably there's a ...

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Walking home from town just now I stopped to watch the BBC doing some filming for the new series of Upstairs Downstairs , Anyone else interested in this kind of stuff and with stories to tell? I'm certainly interested, but I must go around with my eyes closed! :( It always surprises me when I hear ...

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So, we're entering the 3rd week of Countdown in 2012, and a very important one too, as it's COLIN week this week. The big event on Saturday will be the 8th competition in the city in the county that took its name from the city. So, how appropriate would it be if our current champion, Mark Murphy, w...

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Interesting point Julie: "but there's maybe been a mistake in choosing contestants, in that there aren't as many little old ladies/men as there used to be. Perhaps there are just too many good younger players at the auditions these days to ignore them, but I feel that the older audience probab...

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Ryan Taylor wrote:I think it's pretty fair to say that you and him [Charlie] are very similar and are telepathically linked.

Now, that really would be a nightmare!

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Damo's main point (I believe) is that crap contestants make Joe Bloggs out there in armchair-land feel good about himself because he can beat the speccy boffin that's managed to make it onto the telly. The occasional (relative) genius was a stand-out event, and are often remembered many years later...

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Wasn't sure whether to post this here or on "You know you're playing too much apterous when...", so I've put it in both! I had a dream last night where I was playing apterous, and started a new star chart path. I'd forgotten to click on 'details' first, and found that I had no idea how to ...

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Wasn't sure whether to post this here or on "C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams", so I've put it in both! I had a dream last night where I was playing apterous, and started a new star chart path. I'd forgotten to click on 'details' first, and found that I had no idea how to play the variant, and th...

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Congratulations, Jack! :D Epic set of wins, and good luck in the finals. I'd stopped watching Countdown regularly in early 2010, but you and Nick have got me hooked again! Nick is settling in nicely IMHO. Witty and drole, and I know it's been said before, but he appears genuinely interested in the c...

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If you ignore the rest of the game, I'm rather proud of round 14.
The Guardian rather sneakily chose 8 small numbers in hyper. Apterous reckoned it wasn't possible to get anywhere near.
However, even with no tens, I managed to solve it spot on!

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=610578

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I agree with Brion Moorby. Neologisms are an integral part of any language, but some recent ones seem to have been invented just because they make a nice portmanteau, rather than to enrich the lexicon. Reminds me of an article in the Times by Carol Midgley "Why the latest neologisms are for nu...

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Only soup for me tonight, while eldest cooked dinner for everyone else, as I'm feeling rather queasy. :( I'll have to cook the roast chicken dinner tomorrow night. Anyhoo, main reason I bumped this thread is for an article I read in The Sunday Times, and there's a New Scientist linky: http://www.new...

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I always wondered how obvious it must have been. Was probably around that time that my mother encouraged me to deal with my bedclothes rather than her having to play Rubik's Sheet. My kids do their own laundry from 12/13 years onwards. Mainly so I'm freed from some of the machine loads necessary in...

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you have to buy double the amount you use so that you can keep some charged up ready Surely you only need as many as might reasonably run out at once? In theory, yes. In practice, having plenty avoids arguments if you have multiple kids depleting batteries in their gadgets at any one time. It also ...

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Rachel was very impressive I thought, especially in the GK (even though it is clearly easier than regular Mastermind), when she was the best of the contestants. She certainly did do well in GK. She had the knowledge, but also, just as importantly, she rattled through her answers so that she got mor...

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the albums question was a right bitch for those two poor older ladies And not just for older ladies. I knew precisely one answer in each pass. The only one I knew in either pass was James's Amy Winehouse - Back to Black, and I'm not particularly old. ;) 2 pointless answers in the game was awesome, ...

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I wonder how they decide what a valid "specialist subject" is? Surely there's a huge difference in depth? The criteria for the celebrity editions appear to be relaxed somewhat, as is the difficulty of the general knowledge questions. Quite. Admittedly I'm a huge Frasier fan, but I got all...

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Great recap, James! :) Good fun, lots of laughs with the type of naughty stuff not allowed in a teatime show, and both contestants took it seriously enough to make a decent showing. Result! :D Worth noting, I think, that Jon only noticed WHEREUPON after Susie mentioned WHEREON, but still a good spot.

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Kerplunk http://www.hoax-slayer.com/6-volt-battery-hack.shtml http://www.snopes.com/photos/humor/batteryhack.asp Crap hoax, but then I'd read the bollix comment before viewing. Why don't youtube remove it? Rechargeable batteries are the way to go, certainly for AA and AAA size which are readily ava...

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Bumping this, as it's on tonight at 9:05pm. I'll be watching!

Maybe later on catch up though.

The other mash ups look a bit crap, but then I would think that as I don't watch those shows.

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Two I liked My next door neighbours got married on the same day in 1989 as me. I have written one letter to the Daily Telegraph in my life, as a 16-year-old. 2 years later when I met my first boyfriend he told me he had written one letter to the Telegraph too - his was published and mine, which was...

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Thanks for bumping this - most entertaining catching up!

My contribution:

... you deliberately miss a couple of duels a month to prove to yourself that you're not addicted.

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In please

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Judging by Nick's performances on WILTY? and HIGNFY, he appears to be clever, witty, insightful and drole. Certainly a welcome change from the smarmy cheesiness of Jeff Stelling.

Nick might turn out to be as good a host as Des Lynam, who IMHO is the best host so far in the post Richard Whiteley era.

Julie T

I made a superb pasta bolognese tonight which my kids and I yummed up. :) Jon's toastie reminded me of a sandwich my XH used to make - not sure why, since only the chilli and bread ingredients are the same: In Red Dwarf, Lister has fried egg, chilli and chutney sandwiches. XH tried making them (with...

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Come live here, then you'd have something worthwhile to whinge about. Are you refering to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Trams Costed at £375 million, now estimated to be £1 billion by the time it's finished, and years of disruption during construction. All for a few yards of tramline...

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A repeat of Dinos's appearance on Weakest Link is on BBC2 as I type.

It should go on to BBCiplayer and be there for a week.

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According to Alistair McGowan, it's not only the best impression of Thatcher he's ever seen, it's the best impression of anyone he's ever seen. When I heard it was Meryl Streep in the role, I pretty much knew it would be good, but that does sound impressive. I'm quite interested in seeing the film ...

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Nurses are low-skilled You what? Come again? I'm going to need something from you to back up that statement please, as I guarantee the guy that put me on an aspirator and was inserting NG tubes and compression apparatus, and balanced my internal pressures, seemed to know what he was doing. All nurs...

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Just thought I'd point out that the tickets aren't transferable, so unless anyone has photo ID proving that they're Matt Morrison, they can't use the tickets. THANKS FOR THAT MATT. Actually, I also blame Calvin Harris, as it's probably his fault that security is so tight for the X Factor. And as De...

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Anyway, turns out, perhaps unsurprisingly, that for the 18:20-18:50 doors you really want to be queueing up by 4pm at the latest to guarantee yourself entry to the studio. Neither of us can be even close to bothered to do this. Hopefully someone will want them as I put in a shit ton of complaining ...

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BTW, I don't recommend going to see a sitcom recording - far too many retakes. I've always enjoyed them, just as a chance to observe the process of how what you see in the studio translates into what ends up on screen. Probably your thesp background helping there. But admittedly my opinion was rath...

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Phil Reynolds wrote:
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Keep trying, I'm sure you'll hit on the right combination of letters eventually, if only by accident.

aerosol!

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3 tickets to Russell Howard's Good News TOMORROW 22/11/11 at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith. I thought it was probably a bit short notice for anyone to be interested. No-one replied, so I cancelled the tickets. Not short notice, just rather a long way for us to travel on a midweek evening. If I see...

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Eugh. I haven't been this disgusted since I get excema inside my ear etc. Sorry Jono! Anyhoo, disgusted isn't as bad as having the condition! :( I suggest you don't read on. I get excema inside my ear [...] eventually it gets so itchy I have to scratch, so it gets infected Does it bleed Julie? Do y...

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I get excema inside my ear, but no over the counter eardrops/lotions/potions seem to ease the itch. I was even recommended olive oil, but that didn't work either. So, what happens is, eventually it gets so itchy I have to scratch, so it gets infected, so I get an antibiotic ear spray prescription fr...

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3 tickets to Russell Howard's Good News TOMORROW 22/11/11 at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith. We suddenly can't go, since son has important assignment to finish. Doors open at 6pm, and, as these are NOT priority tickets, i.e. you might not get in as they over-subscribe, I would say that it's probabl...

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3 tickets to Russell Howard's Good News TOMORROW 22/11/11 at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith. We suddenly can't go, since son has important assignment to finish. Doors open at 6pm, and, as these are NOT priority tickets, i.e. you might not get in as they over-subscribe, I would say that it's probably...

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The Mirror a bit out of date: "He lives in a luxury home in Northamptonshire and will travel to work in Leeds, where Countdown is filmed." I don't watch reality shows, so haven't seen him much. I saw that Would I Lie To You? episode not long ago, and thought he made a good comedy game show...

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Aye, Moon Cups are supposed to be great, once the dexterity is learnt. Not that I get embroiled in girly conversations at all. Thanks for joining in, Ian! :) They do take some getting used to, I'll admit, especially extricating them. But so much easier than other methods once you've persevered and ...

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Definitely one to put on full screen mode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=430ykbW1zqA From The Times: "This amazing time-lapse video was created by the Crew Earth Observations team at Nasa’s Johnson Space Centre from a series of still images taken by astronauts onboard the International Space S...

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May I give another plug (pun intended!) for washable sanitary products? There are a small number of women on the forum, and I expect some of the blokes have wives/girlfriends! :) menstrual cups: http://www.earthwisegirls.co.uk/menstru ... akbkpuvf17 washable pads: http://www.earthwisegirls.co.uk/reu...

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Just in case anyone clicks on this thread expecting to read about menstruation issues, may I give another plug (pun intended!) for washable sanitary products? There are a small number of women on the forum, and I expect some of the blokes have wives/girlfriends! :) menstrual cups: http://www.earthwi...

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Wine will soon be sold in papier mache bottles! http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/nov/13/paper-wine-bottle-greenbottle?INTCMP=SRCH Supposed to be eco-friendly, but with a plastic inner lining, I don't see it frankly. Going back a few decades to returning glass bottles for reuse would surel...

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The government should cover the costs of its current/former employees, and poppies should only raise funds for conscripts. I had a similar argument with 2 of my kids a few months back after they gave some money to a "Help For Heroes" collector, but I declined to contribute. In the 2 world...

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http://assets.vice.com/content-images/article/photo-dump-vol-34/5b25b6feb28ea30ba12b489fec029074_vice_670.jpg Briliant! I was wondering whether to buy myself for birthday and Xmas, one of those digital radios that also do internet radio and radio iplayer via wi-fi, or invest in a pair of pricey dig...

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FIFA are now allowing them to wear poppies on black armbands: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15666769.stm Personally, I used to wear a poppy years ago, when almost everyone wore one. Nowadays I don't. Remembering, and being grateful for, the huge losses of life in the world wars, is what i...

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You guys are rubbish. It's Dave Gorman. Which one? There are at least 54. Excellent comment! :D My kids and I love Dave Gorman - he manages to be a geek and a comedian. We follow his stuff on the telly, and occasionally radio 4 stuff too. We went to see him live on his bicycle tour a couple of year...

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Eddie Izzard?

(I know you said not an actor, but it's not what he's most famous for)

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