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- Sun Aug 01, 2021 5:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 700273
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Why do F1 commentators refer to the starting grid as being formed in rows of 2 when they are clearly rows of 1? The car starting 2nd is as far behind pole as it is ahead of the car starting 3rd.
- Fri Jul 30, 2021 12:06 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Olympics 2020
- Replies: 135
- Views: 17225
Re: Olympics 2020
Yeah, I just meant "we" should ignore them. To officially expunge them from the record books now would be too controversial to even bear thinking about. Unfortunately.
- Fri Jul 30, 2021 10:51 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Olympics 2020
- Replies: 135
- Views: 17225
Re: Olympics 2020
Flo-Jo's world records look as out of reach as ever They should be ignored. Even overlooking the obvious suspicions of such a massive, literally unbelievable improvement so late in her career (exacerbated by the precise timing of her retirement, immediately before random testing was introduced) the...
- Tue Jul 27, 2021 6:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Why do ?.....
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7716
Re: Why do ?.....
Great show, even if all I remember about it is Zammo's future girlfriend pronouncing Grand Prix as Grand Pricks, and then arguing about it when corrected.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Jul 27, 2021 5:53 pm n't you switch off the TV and do something less boring instead!
- Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:15 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Why do ?.....
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7716
Re: Why do ?.....
"Tune in at the same time next week". They should say this at the start of the programme instead of at the end, or the viewer may be disappointed to just catch the closing credits.
- Mon Jul 26, 2021 6:01 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Why do ?.....
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7716
Re: Why do ?.....
....weather forecasters always assume that everybody wants blazing sun and scorching hot temperatures? Last week one of them told me the weather over the next few days was going to be "disappointing". Wtf does that mean? I was glad for cooler temperatures and a bit of rain actually. Tell m...
- Fri Jul 23, 2021 8:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Olympics 2020
- Replies: 135
- Views: 17225
Re: Olympics 2020
Yeah. Not generally a fan of sports where the outcome is decided by judges, but when you have someone so demonstrably better than everyone else I guess it's fine.
- Sat Jul 17, 2021 9:15 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
- Replies: 503
- Views: 159336
Re: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
Because nobody thought to provide a chair?
- Sat Jul 17, 2021 1:16 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 700273
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
My blood test went brilliantly - got A+.
- Thu Jul 15, 2021 4:35 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Sarah Everard/Women's Safety
- Replies: 66
- Views: 14185
Re: Sarah Everard/Women's Safety
Had to get the ghosts from somewhere.
- Thu Jul 15, 2021 4:24 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Sarah Everard/Women's Safety
- Replies: 66
- Views: 14185
Re: Sarah Everard/Women's Safety
I don't recall, I only follow media coverage of murders in great detail when I'm in the frame as a suspect myself.
- Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:10 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 15th July 2021 (Series 84, Preliminary 14)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2038
- Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:09 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Sarah Everard/Women's Safety
- Replies: 66
- Views: 14185
Re: Sarah Everard/Women's Safety
I thought the heavy media focus was because of the murderer's occupation rather than the ethnicity of the victim.
- Thu Jul 15, 2021 10:52 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Joke Items
- Replies: 252
- Views: 85956
Re: Joke Items
Yeah, insisting on complicated passwords (or enforcing regular changes) makes it more likely that people will write them down, which kind of defeats the intention of making things more secure.
- Tue Jul 13, 2021 6:42 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 206160
Re: The C4C Football Thread
No country will ever top Scotland in 1978 for hilariously unjustified overconfidence and arrogance before a tournament, followed by a ritual humiliation at the hands of renowned footballing superpowers like Peru and Iran.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Jul 13, 2021 3:27 amIm curious if this is just an England thing or are other countries the same.
- Mon Jul 12, 2021 9:25 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Monday 12th July 2021 (Series 84, Preliminary 11)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 673
Re: Monday 12 July 2021 (Series 84, Preliminary 11)
I know this got mentioned a couple of times, but has it actually been confirmed yet?Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Mon Jul 12, 2021 9:13 pm That makes it the very first all-female Countdown (Episode Cats97 excluded).
What if it's a boy?
- Mon Jul 12, 2021 1:35 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 206160
- Mon Jul 12, 2021 1:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 206160
Re: The C4C Football Thread
You have to admire the sheer wit and hilarity though, and of course everyone cares about the FAI's take on it. How did their team do by the way?
- Mon Jul 12, 2021 11:55 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 700273
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I believe it to be an "Ian Broudie looks quite similar to David Baddiel" joke, m'lud.
- Sat Jul 10, 2021 6:21 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 206160
Re: The C4C Football Thread
If it's any consolation the unofficial world championship is also at stake, with Italy being the current holders.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Jul 07, 2021 1:19 pmall the hard work to win but without the World Cup at the end of it. Just some regional championship.
- Wed Jul 07, 2021 10:34 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 206160
Re: The C4C Football Thread
That was deliberate, albeit a misunderstanding. The stadium announcer said "Miss Diana Ross", and so that's what she did.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Wed Jul 07, 2021 9:41 amStill beggars belief when a player misses the target completely.
Ala Miss Diana Ross
- Mon Jun 28, 2021 7:45 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 28th June 2021 (Series 84 Prelim 1)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1327
Re: Spoilers for Monday 28th June 2021 (Series 84 Prelim 1)
Evidently, or I guess you wouldn't have asked. I even rewound it twice to check, so I missed it three times.Sam Cappleman-Lynes wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 7:14 pm She said "You'll never eat a Kat-Kit or _wear_ a pair of flop-flips" - did you miss the word "wear"?
- Mon Jun 28, 2021 7:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 28th June 2021 (Series 84 Prelim 1)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1327
Re: Spoilers for Monday 28th June 2021 (Series 84 Prelim 1)
In Susie's section when she spoke about how certain terms don't sound quite right unless the words are in the usual accepted order, one of her examples was that nobody would eat a pair of flop-flips. Is eating flip-flops an actual thing?
- Sat Jun 26, 2021 4:10 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1740
- Views: 742370
Re: Ask Graeme?
Spoiler alert - if excessive wanking doesn't make you go blind (and I can confirm that it doesn't), then staring at the above text for a few seconds soon will.
- Sat Jun 26, 2021 3:12 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Next Champion of Champions series
- Replies: 197
- Views: 29005
Re: Next Champion of Champions series
So clearly you have inside information that Series 88 is going to be shit?
- Thu Jun 24, 2021 10:14 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 206160
Re: The C4C Football Thread
I know what you mean, it can get a bit cringeworthy when the media/fans get carried away. You would think history would have taught them to be a bit more circumspect. Pessimistic even. The 0-0 defeat to Scotland seemed to slow the hype train briefly, but no doubt it'll be in full swing again come Tu...
- Thu Jun 24, 2021 1:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 206160
Re: The C4C Football Thread
Yet when, for example, Republic of Ireland were in the finals and England weren't (eg World Cup 1994), the media seemed to expect the English to cheer for the Ireland team. Why on earth would we? Yes I know a lot of the squad were basically English and Scots with somewhat distant (if any?) Irish con...
- Tue Jun 15, 2021 9:48 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1740
- Views: 742370
Re: Ask Graeme?
Joe McElderry as younger?
And yeah, I did have to Google/google to recall his name.
And yeah, I did have to Google/google to recall his name.
- Tue Jun 15, 2021 8:30 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 700273
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
My partner was born on the 12th December In the UK at least, the 12th December is normally the date of the earliest sunset time in the whole year - the nights start getting lighter from then on. However, the shortest day is the 21st as the mornings continue to get darker until New Year's Eve - so f...
- Sat Jun 12, 2021 8:57 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Series 83 Player Analysis and Discussion Page (Contains Spoilers)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2974
Re: Series 83 Player Analysis and Discussion Page (Contains Spoilers)
Exactly. Your over-inflated, unjustified and mathematically challenged sense of worth regarding your lunar landing ranking is ultimately what this is all about - and you know it.
- Fri Jun 11, 2021 7:27 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Series 83 Player Analysis and Discussion Page (Contains Spoilers)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2974
- Sun May 30, 2021 8:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 58039
Re: Track and Field Athletics
The javelin record used to be well over 100m. I kind of lost interest once it became obvious that the IAAF thought that steeplechasers being speared by javelins might not be in the best interests of the sport.
- Fri May 07, 2021 3:20 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 700273
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Long after 79AD, that's why I hate that twattish advert so much.
- Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Baby Riley-Kovalev
- Replies: 55
- Views: 32505
Re: Baby Riley-Kovalev
A couple of days ago my wife mentioned that it looked like she was developing a bump but I said it was probably an optical illusion of her black and white dress, but yesterday in the "carpet" dress she certainly looked like there was one developing - even to my eyes! Congrats to you both.
- Fri Jan 22, 2021 5:19 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 22nd January 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 15)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3290
Re: Spoilers for Friday 22nd January 2021 (Series 83, Prelim 15)
No, I think a couple of players have scored in the 150s.
There was a 41-37 game early in series 71.
- Thu Dec 17, 2020 9:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Obscenity democracy
- Replies: 205
- Views: 31047
Re: Obscenity democracy
Yes - around the 1970s, I believe. The original version of "Henry's Sneeze" in the Rev W Awdry stories (early-mid 1950s) features the line "as black as n..." That's exactly where I first became aware of the word, the 1974 edition of the Henry book. I remember asking my dad what ...
- Mon Nov 16, 2020 4:19 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 700273
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
The problem is that nobody who knows Frank Mulvey has ever known anyone else.
- Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:19 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 58039
Re: Track and Field Athletics
Edwards' 18.29 was well behind the line, at least 10cm I would say. It's a shame his 18.43 was non legal for wind (2.4 ish I think), I wonder how much difference that really made. Either way I definitely think his world record doesn't quite do him justice, and am surprised it still stands today.
- Sat Oct 10, 2020 12:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 162591
Re: You Are The Ref
In the famous James Martin 952 game he didn't know the intermediate total, and it would have been unfair to have expected him to know it.
- Fri Oct 09, 2020 4:26 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: I keep getting logged out of c4c on my mobile phone
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2772
Re: I keep getting logged out of c4c on my mobile phone
At least it doesn't suddenly log you out midway through typing a
- Fri Oct 09, 2020 4:25 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1757405
Re: Politics in General
In fairness I can think of no more heartbreaking job for someone who likes animals.Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Fri Oct 09, 2020 1:12 pm It told my mother she should retrain as a vet, and she doesn't even like animals.
- Thu Sep 10, 2020 9:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 58039
Re: Track and Field Athletics
The worst events are the high jump and pole vault due to their binary nature - setting the target in advance and then just seeing whether you can make it or not. It's what allowed Bubka to break the world record countless times by touring the big events and upping the record by a centimetre at a tim...
- Sat Aug 22, 2020 12:22 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
- Replies: 252
- Views: 58039
Re: Track and Field Athletics
Like darts and snooker, I think athletics is one of those sports that was huge in the 80s but that nobody really gives a shit about anymore. Whilst I was massively impressed that they came clean that Ben Johnson had failed a drugs test, in the years since it has unfortunately become too easy to be c...
- Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:49 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Most Famous People without a Wikipedia Article
- Replies: 55
- Views: 37905
Re: Most Famous People without a Wikipedia Article
the child who played Jessica in Some Mother's do have 'Em I have a vague recollection of the child appearing on Wogan or somesuch as a teenager in a surprise reunion with Michael Crawford, and the whole thing falling a bit flat after Crawford revealed that the two had never previously met at all - ...
- Fri Jul 17, 2020 10:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Tuesday May 3rd 2011
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5604
Re: Spoilers For Tuesday May 3rd 2011
Even worse, it didn't occur to anyone in the audience or on the production team to wonder what the fuck Nick was even doing there.
- Sat Jun 27, 2020 7:30 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: 30BC Grand Final Spoilers For Friday March 1st 2013
- Replies: 132
- Views: 37667
Re: 30BC Grand Final Spoilers For Friday March 1st 2013
Actually, on re-reading it, it's the "presuming no miracles" bit that makes me grudgingly concede that you are probably right. That's two minutes of my Saturday morning that I'll never get back. As you were.
- Sat Jun 27, 2020 6:43 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: 30BC Grand Final Spoilers For Friday March 1st 2013
- Replies: 132
- Views: 37667
Re: 30BC Grand Final Spoilers For Friday March 1st 2013
I interpreted it the same way as Bradley and wonder if you are both being too generous. Andy needs to tell us. Wouldn't it have been a perfectly reasonable assumption that the lost opportunity for an extra 18 points would make the 146 seem safer? The new format was always going to increase the overa...
- Sat Jun 27, 2020 6:36 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 458076
Re: People you shouldn't trust
Obviously the ones not exposed must use actual magic.Mark James wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 12:05 am what really amazes me is that every trick hasn't actually been exposed on YouTube yet.
Agree completely though. Knowing how it's done has never spoiled a trick for me.
- Thu Jun 25, 2020 3:52 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: You Are The Ref
- Replies: 355
- Views: 162591
Re: You Are The Ref
has anyone ever queried a word or numbers solution after examining what was written down? I've seen it done jokingly, albeit deadpan. I think it might have been Liam Moloney (not certain about that) who examined his opponent's paper and I think shook his head and said "ooh I don't know about t...
- Mon Jun 01, 2020 7:53 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1740
- Views: 742370
- Mon Jun 01, 2020 5:29 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Cummings and goings
- Replies: 73
- Views: 21961
Re: Cummings and goings
Have I Got News For You hasn't been "brutal" in years. And hasn't been impartial since the referendum. Jon Richardson was a guest soon after the most recent election and was bloody awful - just so bitter and disappointed about the outcome that he completely forgot about trying to be funny.
- Sun May 31, 2020 8:00 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ratio of letters to numbers
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9287
Re: Ratio of letters to numbers
4 hours 10 minutes? I doubt it. In fact, I've just beaten that already.
- Fri May 29, 2020 9:47 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Birthday Championship Spoilers For Friday February 1st 2013
- Replies: 62
- Views: 15042
- Fri May 08, 2020 8:25 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday January 9th 2013 (Birthday Prelim 3)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 13259
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday January 9th 2013 (Birthday Prelim 3)
Or Jack might even have seen it but knew it was invalid.
Anyway, having only rediscovered Countdown in mid-2013 it's the first time I'm able to see this great series - loving it already.
Anyway, having only rediscovered Countdown in mid-2013 it's the first time I'm able to see this great series - loving it already.
- Sun May 03, 2020 9:13 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Joke Items
- Replies: 252
- Views: 85956
Re: Joke Items
Sometimes more precision is required anyway and digital watches are more useful for that Analogue watches are obviously more precise than digital ones as digital can only show full elapsed units of time whereas an analogue moving needle has no such restrictions. Admittedly most "analogue"...
- Fri May 01, 2020 7:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 700273
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
The less extreme version of your question is why do we change the clocks twice a year? Do you know that 1968 was only 22 hours longer than 1971? Don't mess with this shit. As for Family Fortunes, I never met anyone who had ever been asked to participate as one of the hundred, so I conclude that the...
- Fri Apr 17, 2020 6:11 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: When Countdown episodes run out
- Replies: 80
- Views: 29632
Re: When Countdown episodes run out
I can't believe you got Hancocked that easily.
I should probably rephrase that.
I should probably rephrase that.
- Sun Apr 12, 2020 7:49 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: When Countdown episodes run out
- Replies: 80
- Views: 29632
Re: When Countdown episodes run out
So why did they bother doing a couple of sex offender specials if they knew they wouldn't be able to show them?
- Wed Jan 08, 2020 11:23 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Who are Countdown's unluckiest losers?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10087
Re: Who are Countdown's unluckiest losers?
In category 1, I can't help thinking of poor old Jonny Rye.
- Sat Dec 21, 2019 8:16 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 640
- Views: 310958
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Fred Astaire ate my hamster.