This. Why are people happy to spend this much or more every month on phone contracts? It's like they've been brainwashed or something.David Williams wrote:I probably top up less than £10 a year.
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- Tue May 08, 2012 2:26 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Phones and networks
- Replies: 36
- Views: 5213
Re: Phones and networks
- Mon May 07, 2012 8:13 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1791483
- Thu May 03, 2012 4:43 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Pointles Series 6
- Replies: 76
- Views: 22583
Re: Pointles Series 6
Although weirdly for some reason today they've thrown in an unscheduled repeat.James Robinson wrote:Yeah, all this week has been new episodes
- Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:53 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Name Our Child
- Replies: 110
- Views: 18256
Re: Name Our Child
Is 'Laxmi Badcock' how you describe Heather to your homies?Matt Morrison wrote:Laxmi was our first 'favourite'.
- Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:00 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Pointles Series 6
- Replies: 76
- Views: 22583
Re: Pointles Series 6
Or you could just look in the Radio Times.Matt Morrison wrote:Thanks so much James. I'd be fucked without your help
- Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:28 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: aptoSOS.02 - Order of play
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7720
Re: aptoSOS.02 - Order of play
Yeah, Jono loves a white transit van, a quartet raunchily performed or a shite transvestite.Matt Morrison wrote:You love stuff with "tetra" in it to a ridiculously disproportionate level.
- Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:24 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Best ever contestants
- Replies: 526
- Views: 413989
Re: Best ever contestants
I thought we'd agreed to stop talking about Easter.David Barnard wrote:It's definitely a god thing
- Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:36 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CoLei5 - Saturday 14 April 2012
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8218
Re: CoLei5 - Saturday 14 April 2012
It isn't.Matt Morrison wrote:Ok, it's probably only me
- Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:47 am
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Thursday 12th April 2012 (Series 66, Prelim 63)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1114
Re: Thursday 12th April 2012 (Series 66, Prelim 63)
There's a joke about "going down" in there somewhere but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.Matt Morrison wrote:Phil is known to hand out some of the harshest grammar sentencing around
- Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:24 am
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Thursday 12th April 2012 (Series 66, Prelim 63)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1114
Re: Thursday 12th April 2012 (Series 66, Prelim 63)
I'm sure you know this but, for the record, there's no such thing as "the past tense of SLAIN". The verb in question is SLAY and its past tense is SLEW; SLAIN is its past participle. Hope that's cleared that up.James Robinson wrote:the past tense of SLAIN is SLAIN
- Thu Apr 12, 2012 12:18 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1791483
Re: Politics in General
Booyakasha.Rhys Benjamin wrote:And I, your pet mini-Tory, is back
- Thu Apr 12, 2012 7:45 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Kerry Alcock's voice
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2377
Re: Kerry Alcock's voice
Somewhat impressed that you managed to get Dave Stewart to play guitar for you.kerryalcock wrote:Jason, if you so desperately want to hear me sing (and you may regret it), here is a link to a video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3j6Id_g ... e=youtu.be
- Wed Apr 11, 2012 10:31 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The Chase
- Replies: 153
- Views: 85568
Re: The Chase
One of the questions today was "what is the collective term for a group of raccoons". I'm sure we could come up with some more entertaining suggestions than whatever the drearily forgettable answer given on the show was. (That sentence doesn't sound right but I'm too pissed to work out why.)
- Wed Apr 11, 2012 1:35 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Breakaway
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4963
Re: Breakaway
What was he doing on a TV game show then?Ryan Taylor wrote:Ed had a life.
- Fri Apr 06, 2012 10:14 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:REA - Reading - Saturday of Easter Weekend 2012
- Replies: 63
- Views: 16144
Re: CO:REA - Reading - Easter Saturday 2012
Reminds me of those people who claimed that they weren't going to celebrate the arrival of the year 2000 but would wait until 2001 because that was the "correct" start of the new millennium, thereby managing in one statement to be party poopers, pointlessly anal, and wrong. But that's you...
- Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:37 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:REA - Reading - Saturday of Easter Weekend 2012
- Replies: 63
- Views: 16144
Re: CO:REA - Reading - Easter Saturday 2012
I would automatically have assumed that Easter Saturday was between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. The alternative (i.e. what Stewart says) may well be right but it just seems silly. Reminds me of those people who claimed that they weren't going to celebrate the arrival of the year 2000 but would w...
- Wed Apr 04, 2012 1:52 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Lookalikes?
- Replies: 390
- Views: 256525
Re: Countdown Lookalikes?
Ryan Taylor wrote:It's undoubtedly Jimmy Gough!
- Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:30 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Lookalikes?
- Replies: 390
- Views: 256525
Re: Countdown Lookalikes?
Who's that meant to look like?Ryan Taylor wrote:
- Mon Apr 02, 2012 6:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Matt Morrison Computer Corner
- Replies: 452
- Views: 122225
Re: The Matt Morrison Computer Corner
I've been asked by the owners of a website that I maintain if I can set up a simple poll on the site. It's just a straightforward question, where visitors are asked to express a preference for one of two possible choices. I can easily create a page with an HTML form where you specify your choice by ...
- Sat Mar 31, 2012 9:26 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: 'Gevin's Delight' Tournament 2012
- Replies: 65
- Views: 19219
- Sat Mar 31, 2012 8:36 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday March 30th 2012 (Series 66 Prelim 54)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2128
Re: Spoilers for Friday March 30th 2012 (Series 66 Prelim 54
Why do you keep blaming the editor? The blue mask is there (or not) on the studio monitors during recording, which means it's added by the vision mixer in the studio gallery at the time. Editors can only work with what they're given.James Robinson wrote:and that editor needs another telling off again today
- Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:12 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The Chase
- Replies: 153
- Views: 85568
Re: The Chase
Just watched this - Heather seemed to take a while to warm up in the cash builder round but was absolutely stonking in the final, so well done. Paul's comment that if he won he'd "take this lass on holiday" came across as distinctly creepy I thought - I wonder if he's actually married, or ...
Re: Mrs.
Nope, fourth for me - the same as without any quotes at all, which is what I tried originally.Gavin Chipper wrote:Name in quotes, "twitter" not in quotes puts it second.
Re: Mrs.
Rather depends on what you Google for - it isn't if you Google "Kai Laddiman" or "Kai Laddiman twitter".Michael Wallace wrote:(And even if he did, his real twitter is the second hit on google...)
Re: Mrs.
@kailaddiman hasn't tweeted yet. You're only 4,567 tweets out. How annoying. What's the point of setting up one Twitter account using your actual name, then setting up another one under a pseudonym and only using that one? But anyway, looking through some of the tweets, it looks like Kai has indeed...
- Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Tuesday 27 March 2012 (Series 66, Prelim 51)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2392
Re: Tuesday 27 March 2012 (Series 66, Prelim 51)
Round 6: T L U E T F O T S I think Fiona said flats, which went by unnoticed, correct me if I'm wrong. I haven't seen it but given the selection I'm guessing she said FLOUTS. Edit: Just watched the bit in question and you're not wrong. She even said "I've got FLATS, which is only 5." Thic...
- Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:15 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Cyphers and letters test
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4680
Re: Cyphers and letters test
In my second game I had BLOGGED disallowed.Francisco Segura wrote:I hope you don't find missing words anymore. It is amazing you have discovered this in your first game!!
- Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:10 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Cyphers and letters test
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4680
Re: Cyphers and letters test
Hmm, not bad. I was disappointed though in my first (and only) game that it disallowed POSTERIZE, which is valid according to the ODE.
Re: Mrs.
Really? I searched Twitter users for "Kai Laddiman" and got:Matt Morrison wrote:When I occasionally go on Twitter, Kai always seems to be posting something on there.
@kailaddiman hasn't tweeted yet.
Re: Mrs.
Dinos still posts occasionally (most recently in your Name our Child thread just over a week ago). People's posting rate slowing right down is one thing, but when people I like suddenly just stop altogether without comment I worry about them. I'm a worrier.Matt Morrison wrote:Dinos?
Re: Mrs.
It occasionally occurs to me that someone or other who used to be a regular here has just disappeared without any explanation. (I'm not suggesting that they're under any sort of moral obligation to provide one, just that I'm curious as to what's happened to them.) Kai just quietly stopped posting, g...
- Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Best ever contestants
- Replies: 526
- Views: 413989
Re: Best ever contestants
Are we talking personal hygiene, or sexual habits?Ian Volante wrote:she shagged Julian Fell a few years back at uni, and he was described as being "dirty"
Edit: if Julian Fell makes a move on you, is this what's called a Fell Swoop?
- Sun Mar 25, 2012 11:25 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Name Our Child
- Replies: 110
- Views: 18256
Re: Name Our Child
Saddling your baby with a bizarre name is child abuse.Gavin Chipper wrote:He went for Allegra didn't he? Right.Matt Morrison wrote:Sorry James, should have said, as Matt Green put it "Nothing too boring" (but also "Nothing too freaky")
- Sat Mar 24, 2012 9:48 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C Link Dump
- Replies: 329
- Views: 61939
- Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:52 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Shampoo v Shower Gel
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5058
Re: Shampoo v Shower Gel
Oh, he's both, believe me.Lesley Hines wrote:Really sorry, meant hwmbo (lovely other half whom we try to please cos we love 'em) rather than himbo (derogatory, far ruder than intended).
- Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:16 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Shampoo v Shower Gel
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5058
Re: Shampoo v Shower Gel
Tbh Phil, you're a rubbish gay if you didn't realise that shampoo and conditioner did different things. Who said I didn't? :? I never mentioned conditioner. Corby and Hines brought that into the conversation and I conceded that I have no problem with people using 'special' shampoos (including, but ...
- Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:52 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Shampoo v Shower Gel
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5058
Re: Shampoo v Shower Gel
I refer you to my previous answer.Lesley Hines wrote:In the guest rooms we now put the combined shampoo and shower gel, but I wouldn't use that on my hair. Firstly the conditioner definitely does something different and they work best when used in tandem
- Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:33 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Shampoo v Shower Gel
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5058
Re: Shampoo v Shower Gel
I always use a 2-in-1 shampoo/conditioner, and my hair definitely feels different than just using shampoo. You may well be right in that there isn't a great deal of difference between shampoo & shower gel, but add conditioner into the mix, and I'm not sure. I'm not arguing with the point that t...
- Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:06 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Shampoo v Shower Gel
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5058
Shampoo v Shower Gel
It has come to my attention that there are otherwise supposedly intelligent people (my own partner among them, it shames me to say) who have fallen for one of the biggest marketing cons around at the moment; namely, the idea that "shampoo" and "shower gel" are somehow two distinc...
- Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:57 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Name Our Child
- Replies: 110
- Views: 18256
Re: Name Our Child
It's got an X in it.Jon O'Neill wrote:Why inbox?
- Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:19 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Name Our Child
- Replies: 110
- Views: 18256
Re: Name Our Child
Trevor Not such a daft idea. There are women called Trevor. In San Francisco I once spent a memorable couple of hours in the company of this wonderful woman , although on looking her up just now I was not only saddened to find that she passed away in 2007 but also reminded that she was christened D...
- Sun Mar 18, 2012 11:10 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Name Our Child
- Replies: 110
- Views: 18256
Re: Name Our Child
I'm guessing I'm no longer supposed to keep this a secret then?
- Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:42 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Raccoon Boy on Pointless
- Replies: 100
- Views: 12367
Re: Raccoon Boy on Pointless
Do you deliberately keep the meaning of the initials "CF" a secret so it can be a special thing between the two of you, or has no one asked explicitly enough what the letters stand for before? I asked explicitly in this very topic and received a highly implausible answer , so I'm guessing...
- Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:36 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: University Challenge 2011/12
- Replies: 89
- Views: 19700
Re: University Challenge 2011/12
Was on holiday last week but we had a night in on Monday so I suggested to the other half that I'd quite like to watch UC "as it's a semi final, oh, and I've met the boyfriend of one of the team captains". Having identified which captain during the intros, I realised I was getting some har...
- Fri Mar 16, 2012 5:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Pete Cashmore
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1828
Re: Pete Cashmore
We already did this.David Williams wrote:Reading my paper today I thought we had a multi-millionaire in our midst (sort of). But it's not the same guy, is it?
- Fri Mar 09, 2012 6:19 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Interesting video
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4978
Re: Interesting video
Probably true of a lot of things.Innis Carson wrote:I think Cthulhu is perhaps more widely known that you realise Phil, particularly on the Internet.
- Thu Mar 08, 2012 11:01 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Interesting video
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4978
Re: Interesting video
Haha, very clever. Did anyone else spot the significance of the letters selection? Aren't you supposed to, or it's not gonna make much sense? Surely (and particularly given the title) most people would just see it as an amusing mash-up of Countdown and The Thing . The CTHULHU reference just adds an...
- Thu Mar 08, 2012 4:42 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Interesting video
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4978
Re: Interesting video
Haha, very clever. Did anyone else spot the significance of the letters selection?
Re: Music
Yeah, and also that one called di Bart Man where he put on that squeaky voice.Matt Bayfield wrote:And if we're totting up unlikely number one singles, I'm tossing in The Real Thing by Tony di Bart.
- Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:32 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: University Challenge 2011/12
- Replies: 89
- Views: 19700
Re: University Challenge 2011/12
Somewhat surprised to see CF shuffling alongside Olly Murs on BBC's Let's Dance for Sport Relief at the weekend.
- Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:09 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: OFF-TOPIC TOPIC:M
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1716
Re: OFF-TOPIC TOPIC:M
Mornington Crescent.
- Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:10 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: OFF-TOPIC TOPIC:M
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1716
- Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:29 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Is it acceptable to order just a naan?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2278
Re: Is it acceptable to order just a naan?
You do know you're meant to eat them, right?Jon O'Neill wrote:Gonna get me some of these.Phil Reynolds wrote:hot, moist and steaming in about five minutes. Yum.
- Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:04 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Is it acceptable to order just a naan?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2278
Re: Is it acceptable to order just a naan?
Tesco Garlic and Coriander Mini Naans are the answer. They taste nice, they're small enough that you can have rice and a naan without feeling overstuffed, and they come in packs of six so you can pop the leftover ones in the freezer. Plus, ignore the rubric on the back that says that if you do freez...
Re: Advert
I always thought the Meltus ads with Johnny Vegas were clever in that the strapline sounds like a profanity while actually being entirely inoffensive.
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 9:15 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What did you want to be when you were a kid?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6454
Re: What did you want to be when you were a kid?
Because a cat's the only cat who knows where it's at, right?Chris Davies wrote:I wanted to be a cat.
Edit: A-rinky-tinky-tinky.
- Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:39 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C Link Dump
- Replies: 329
- Views: 61939
Re: C4C Link Dump
Wow. 2 hours 47 minutes... It took me longer than that to walk up Snowdon about 18 months ago.Brian Moore wrote:Can't remember if I posted this anywhere. I caught it on Ski Sunday, and each time I watch it it takes my breath away. Quite insane.
- Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:06 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C Link Dump
- Replies: 329
- Views: 61939
Re: C4C Link Dump
Things you never knew you wanted: the Andy Wilson Hat.
(This is a really amazing site - follow the left/right links and you'll find some truly creative stuff. I particularly like this and this.)
(This is a really amazing site - follow the left/right links and you'll find some truly creative stuff. I particularly like this and this.)
- Sat Feb 25, 2012 10:39 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Mastermind
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6558
Re: Mastermind
Wow. The second of last night's two episodes featured a Countdown series champ, a University Challenge team captain, and an Only Connect series finalist. (Oh, and three other people.)
- Sat Feb 25, 2012 12:06 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: UK Open Sudoku and Puzzle Tournament 28-29 April 2012
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2152