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by Mark Deeks
Thu Jul 28, 2022 5:34 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 630853

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

So you're saying I should stop tidying up down there?
by Mark Deeks
Thu Jul 28, 2022 3:41 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 630853

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

I get heat retention for head hair and expression for eyebrows (though God knows how that evolved to be the case, I guess genetic mutations are sentient and receptive to feedback), with most of the remainder of body hair being largely the remnants of the days we were all hairy all over. And I guess ...
by Mark Deeks
Thu Jul 28, 2022 10:57 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 630853

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

What is the point of:

a) armpit hair?
b) pubes?
by Mark Deeks
Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:01 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 26th July 2022 (Series 86, Heat 27)
Replies: 9
Views: 704

Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 26th July 2022 (Series 86, Heat 27)

I used it in an article once, which is from whence the name came.
by Mark Deeks
Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:53 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 26th July 2022 (Series 86, Heat 27)
Replies: 9
Views: 704

Spoilers for Tuesday 26th July 2022 (Series 86, Heat 27)

So, anyone ever heard of the nine in round 7?
by Mark Deeks
Fri Jul 22, 2022 11:49 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 630853

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

Is it good or bad for your credit rating to have multiple credit cards?
by Mark Deeks
Wed Jul 20, 2022 6:25 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Countdown Lookalikes?
Replies: 390
Views: 221861

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

I can only apologise, no one should have to look at that.
by Mark Deeks
Mon Jul 11, 2022 7:20 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 630853

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

Could do. Could cleave one in two. In fact, if it was a really long dog that got stuck in both doors at the same time, it could get cleaved into three.
by Mark Deeks
Mon Jul 11, 2022 6:08 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 630853

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

Well there we are.
by Mark Deeks
Mon Jul 11, 2022 1:20 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 630853

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

Those big multi-chamber revolving doors that some offices, hotels etc have. Why? Keeps the inside relatively well insulated while allowing easy access/egress? Not too popular on bring your pet to work day though This is apt as it was reading about a dog getting stuck and dying in one of them that p...
by Mark Deeks
Mon Jul 11, 2022 3:39 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 630853

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

Those big multi-chamber revolving doors that some offices, hotels etc have. Why?
by Mark Deeks
Thu Jul 07, 2022 2:54 am
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: Co:Brighton - 16 July 2022
Replies: 48
Views: 11211

Re: Co:Brighton - 16 July 2022

So I thought I'd Google you, and it turns out you run, or at least have a senior role in the running of, a school. I imagine this comes with safeguarding responsibilities. I therefore find it doubly concerning that you think doxing minors against their will is acceptable. Your behaviour is pretty ap...
by Mark Deeks
Wed Jul 06, 2022 2:50 am
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: Co:Brighton - 16 July 2022
Replies: 48
Views: 11211

Re: Co:Brighton - 16 July 2022

And therein lies the problem with your entire act. You're not a serious person. You can't outfunny the funny and you can't stand up to questions, because that would mean taking yourself seriously, and I don't think you have that ability. So you deflect. Someone asks a question = they're telling you ...
by Mark Deeks
Tue Jul 05, 2022 5:33 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Pig-Headed Man
Replies: 56
Views: 4602

Re: Pig-Headed Man

Weyyyyy. The rats are leaving the sinking ship after all.
by Mark Deeks
Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:09 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Pig-Headed Man
Replies: 56
Views: 4602

Re: Pig-Headed Man

Johnson has practiced this "just act like it will be fine and it will be fine" thing his entire life, long prior to being PM. It's always worked. Still does. He's not stopping now. For as long as we have him, accountability is dead.
by Mark Deeks
Tue Jul 05, 2022 1:45 am
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: Co:Brighton - 16 July 2022
Replies: 48
Views: 11211

Re: Co:Brighton - 16 July 2022

Not only are you a 46 year old early-hours internet edgelord; it seems you're a 46 year old early-hours internet edgelord who is really bad at it all. It's all going really well for you, be proud. Anyway, go ahead and dodge my valid question about your disrespectful behaviour, just like you have don...
by Mark Deeks
Mon Jul 04, 2022 12:48 am
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: Co:Brighton - 16 July 2022
Replies: 48
Views: 11211

Re: Co:Brighton - 16 July 2022

L'oisleatch, why do you do that thing where you 'expose' anonymity? If someone wants to sign up to an event, but not give their name, so as to not have it bandied around among people on a forum they don't even themselves use, that's their right, one that everyone else manages to respect. Why don't y...
by Mark Deeks
Thu Jun 30, 2022 8:30 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Cleverclogs
Replies: 16
Views: 8409

Re: Cleverclogs

I didn't watch your shows.
by Mark Deeks
Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:00 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Cleverclogs
Replies: 16
Views: 8409

Re: Cleverclogs

Would you say you had a personality?
by Mark Deeks
Wed Jun 29, 2022 1:40 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
Replies: 110
Views: 10959

Re: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown

I'm not going to do that, because I'm not 12, but I really can't see it ever happening. There's no point. She left on bad terms, she clearly priced herself out the market even back then, it kinda flips the bird to Rachel, and Carol's not exactly a great presenter anyway.
by Mark Deeks
Mon Jun 27, 2022 7:07 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: 30 Glorious Years for Susie Dent
Replies: 3
Views: 543

Re: 30 Glorious Years for Susie Dent

And still looks exactly the same. Susie, if you're out there, drop your skin care routine in the chat, cheers.
by Mark Deeks
Sun Jun 19, 2022 11:34 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 630853

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

Well, yeah, that too.
by Mark Deeks
Sun Jun 19, 2022 10:18 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 630853

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

I think the real question here is why does my bloody dad keep turning the oven off at the plug for no reason. But I don't think this thread is going to help me answer that.
by Mark Deeks
Sun Jun 19, 2022 10:17 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 630853

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

Sometimes it's the bigger man who simply says, "I don't know."
by Mark Deeks
Sun Jun 19, 2022 9:15 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 630853

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

But they don't require an alarm. This isn't about the alarm. I cannot use my oven until I've set some kind of time on its clock (again, not its alarm timer), even if I do not use an alarm. Madness.
by Mark Deeks
Sun Jun 19, 2022 9:14 pm
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Unalike Words
Replies: 6
Views: 1853

Re: Unalike Words

Kinda killed the game, though.
by Mark Deeks
Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:28 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 630853

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

Why do some ovens refuse to work until you've set the clock?
by Mark Deeks
Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:27 pm
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Unalike Words
Replies: 6
Views: 1853

Re: Unalike Words

Sounds like something Vorderman might do an advert for.
by Mark Deeks
Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:27 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
Replies: 110
Views: 10959

Re: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown

There's not a chance of Vorderman returning.
by Mark Deeks
Tue Jun 14, 2022 4:52 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Why No Reserve Lexicographers?
Replies: 9
Views: 1099

Re: Why No Reserve Lexicographers?

Of course he hated it, it was work.
by Mark Deeks
Thu Jun 09, 2022 4:38 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Absolutely terrible claims to fame/celebrity spots
Replies: 74
Views: 28049

Re: Absolutely terrible claims to fame/celebrity spots

I went to a two-morning Paul Reaney football coaching clinic at a Haven Holidays park when I was about 7. I remember doing lots of heading for no particular reason, then coming away with two photos - one, a signed a4 photo of him full of his career stats, and the other, a photo he took with every ch...
by Mark Deeks
Sat Jun 04, 2022 12:12 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Rachel Riley Post
Replies: 76
Views: 16550

Re: Rachel Riley Post

I mean, I understand the broad optics - she called him a wife beater, he yeah-butted it, she lost. It's not good. But neither is she.
by Mark Deeks
Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:12 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Rachel Riley Post
Replies: 76
Views: 16550

Re: Rachel Riley Post

There does seem to have been a bit of a movement to use Heard as a representation of the DA victim's battle, and that's a bit troubling, because Heard looks to be an abuser herself, and certainly a completely unsympathetic character. I don't doubt Depp abused her (even if he did stop short of laying...
by Mark Deeks
Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:09 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Why No Reserve Lexicographers?
Replies: 9
Views: 1099

Re: Why No Reserve Lexicographers?

Ok then fine, I'll do it. Just don't call me Susie, that would be too weird.
by Mark Deeks
Thu Jun 02, 2022 1:31 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Why No Reserve Lexicographers?
Replies: 9
Views: 1099

Re: Why No Reserve Lexicographers?

Damian could do it. Would be nice to see him actually put a bloody shift in for once, the freeloader.
by Mark Deeks
Wed Jun 01, 2022 8:34 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Replies: 630
Views: 275625

Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised

The truffles that pigs supposedly dig up are not made of chocolate.
by Mark Deeks
Mon May 30, 2022 6:48 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Countdown Lookalikes?
Replies: 390
Views: 221861

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

https://twitter.com/TomWitherow/status/ ... 1045550080

A sad and cautionary tale of predatory behaviour, but at least it's not Countdown's very own Oli Moore, as I first feared.
by Mark Deeks
Sun May 29, 2022 5:56 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Hypothetically, if you gave it your best efforts, which celebrity do you reckon you could get off with?
Replies: 2
Views: 422

Hypothetically, if you gave it your best efforts, which celebrity do you reckon you could get off with?

For the purposes of this hypothetical - you're exactly who you are, they're exactly who they are, and the only possible deviation from reality is that you're both single. Anyway, I reckon, Lorraine Kelly. I'd drive everywhere and she could choose both of our dinners, seems like the way she'd prefer ...
by Mark Deeks
Fri May 27, 2022 3:46 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Spare parts
Replies: 11
Views: 977

Re: Spare parts

Then how come potato has loads of DNA? Surely the options there are "grow more potato" and "do not grow more potato"?
by Mark Deeks
Fri May 27, 2022 3:08 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Spare parts
Replies: 11
Views: 977

Re: Spare parts

I think I'd rather be a newt. Also, how come if a salamander loses a leg, it grows a new leg, but only one? Why doesn't it grow two? How does a cell have the sentience to know what it can and can't be? Where's the blueprint?
by Mark Deeks
Fri May 27, 2022 1:11 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Spare parts
Replies: 11
Views: 977

Re: Spare parts

I don't mean this flippantly, I just really have no idea what I'm talking about - how come livers and salamanders can regenerate, but most other things can't, and why can't we harness that power?
by Mark Deeks
Tue May 24, 2022 11:54 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Absolutely terrible claims to fame/celebrity spots
Replies: 74
Views: 28049

Re: Absolutely terrible claims to fame/celebrity spots

We all coped in our own ways.
by Mark Deeks
Mon May 23, 2022 2:49 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Dr Imafidon to stand in for Riley
Replies: 40
Views: 5030

Re: Dr Imafidon to stand in for Riley

It's a cop out because it allows the person who uses it to evade any discussion as to how two people arrived at that point. Which seems to be exactly what happened here. So let's go back to it. Why must women on TV be telegenic?
by Mark Deeks
Sat May 21, 2022 9:38 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Dr Imafidon to stand in for Riley
Replies: 40
Views: 5030

Re: Dr Imafidon to stand in for Riley

Also, jog on with that lazy "virtue signalling" trope against anyone taking a different position than you. Absolute cop-out.
by Mark Deeks
Sat May 21, 2022 9:35 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Dr Imafidon to stand in for Riley
Replies: 40
Views: 5030

Re: Dr Imafidon to stand in for Riley

No, you're missing the point. It is not in dispute that women on TV have usually been telegenic. The point is, why should they have to be?
by Mark Deeks
Fri May 20, 2022 10:01 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Dr Imafidon to stand in for Riley
Replies: 40
Views: 5030

Re: Dr Imafidon to stand in for Riley

Sometimes, if everyone except you thinks the same thing be it implicitly or explicitly, they're not seeking to be dumb or holier-than-thou - they're just right. You're 46, the edgelord window should be shut by now.
by Mark Deeks
Thu May 19, 2022 3:27 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Dr Imafidon to stand in for Riley
Replies: 40
Views: 5030

Re: Dr Imafidon to stand in for Riley

I know I'm running the risk of giving you the reaction that you want here, which I do not want to do, but I nevertheless thinks it bears repeating that you really are a pillock.
by Mark Deeks
Fri May 06, 2022 2:24 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
Replies: 110
Views: 10959

Re: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown

I sent this to the head of Channel 4. Haven't heard back yet but I've filled up a tank to get to Leeds and back in optimistic expectation, seems likely I'll get a call. She must have just been busy yesterday.

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by Mark Deeks
Thu May 05, 2022 4:34 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
Replies: 110
Views: 10959

Re: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown

The show has struggled on for fourteen years without that particular piece of fabric, so perhaps she wasn't that integral.
by Mark Deeks
Thu May 05, 2022 6:23 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
Replies: 110
Views: 10959

Re: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown

She was essentially made redundant in a business restructure. It will have sucked for her, but it's not unfair. We all are at some point, c'est la vie. The show gave her 26 years of gainful employment and a giant platform for all the other things she has gone on to do, I see no redemption narrative.
by Mark Deeks
Thu May 05, 2022 2:16 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
Replies: 110
Views: 10959

Re: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown

Does Carol need redemption?
by Mark Deeks
Wed May 04, 2022 11:16 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
Replies: 110
Views: 10959

Re: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown

Jayne Middlemiss is 51? Dang. It really does fly.
by Mark Deeks
Tue May 03, 2022 10:23 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
Replies: 110
Views: 10959

Re: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown

If by trolling you mean voicelessly supporting, then sure. Anyway, he really is from there, I learned today several years too late, so it'd be some nice serendipity.
by Mark Deeks
Tue May 03, 2022 4:11 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
Replies: 110
Views: 10959

Re: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown

Whether or not you believe in nominative determinism, it is of note that Colin Murray was quite literally born and raised in County Down. Kind of wishing I'd been born in Excellentpersonalityshire to have any chance here, but, nah, sadly, it was Essex.
by Mark Deeks
Tue May 03, 2022 8:19 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
Replies: 110
Views: 10959

Re: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown

(^ not my best chat-up line ever)
by Mark Deeks
Tue May 03, 2022 8:19 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
Replies: 110
Views: 10959

Re: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown

Two weeks? How big is your downstairs loo for God's sake?
by Mark Deeks
Tue May 03, 2022 7:51 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
Replies: 110
Views: 10959

Re: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown

That's the spirit. It's only nine letters, but I pack a lot into them. Actually, I could make that one of my catchphrases, that wouldn't be cringey or anything. It's all coming together, this, I can feel the groundswell.
by Mark Deeks
Mon May 02, 2022 9:39 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
Replies: 110
Views: 10959

Re: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown

Anyhoo. Richard Osman recently became available, so I'd be up for that.
by Mark Deeks
Mon May 02, 2022 9:27 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown
Replies: 110
Views: 10959

Re: Anne Robinson to leave Countdown

As luck would have it, I'm available from July onwards. Better get on the rowing machine and hope there's still some of Jeff Stelling's hair dye left, cos I'm coming in hot.
by Mark Deeks
Sun May 01, 2022 2:50 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 630853

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

None of this has convinced me.