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- Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:00 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: McCanns v Amaral injuction hearing
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1264
Re: McCanns v Amaral injuction hearing
My sister (living in Portugal at the time) and cleaner (Portuguese) have both read it and are absolutely convinced of their guilt. I'll have to ask her for a copy - she did give me quite a detailed synopsis but, if truth be told, I'd had rather a few on board and it was late... :oops: The situation...
- Fri Jan 15, 2010 10:43 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Sports / Maths Puzzle(s)...
- Replies: 205
- Views: 22176
Re: Sports / Maths Puzzle(s)...
If we really want to nitpick, the question didn't say the final black just had to be potted. Just that all balls had to be potted, including the black. So, first shot, pot all 15 reds and the black, 7 points away. Then, opponent pots 5 colours to the pink and misses the black. The game's over. Total...
- Mon Jan 11, 2010 1:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Countdown in Lincoln 2010- Saturday 30th January
- Replies: 204
- Views: 29827
Re: Countdown in Lincoln 2010- Saturday 30th January
Lunch, please.
- Fri Jan 01, 2010 10:16 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Sports / Maths Puzzle(s)...
- Replies: 205
- Views: 22176
Re: Sports / Maths Puzzle(s)...
I'm willing to share my share, Gavin.
- Fri Jan 01, 2010 10:15 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Defending you property
- Replies: 125
- Views: 12280
Re: Defending you property
The Daily Telegraph did a survey of Chief Police Officers a couple of years back, and about a third of them said that keeping a baseball bat by the side of the bed just in case of attack, would constitute premeditation if it was used and therefore be unreasonable force. I sincerely hope they are pla...
- Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:09 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Defending you property
- Replies: 125
- Views: 12280
Re: Defending you property
There's been a proposed change of law for some years now, sadly not yet in force, where the householder will not be prosecuted unless he uses grossly unreasonable force. Which would mean Charlie torturing the boy who wanted his ball back would still be criminal; Rosemary whacking the burglar on the ...
- Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:03 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Sports / Maths Puzzle(s)...
- Replies: 205
- Views: 22176
Re: Sports / Maths Puzzle(s)...
Without checking anyone else's answer, my first go is: Lose 2 sets by 0-6, scoring 0 points to 24. Win 2 sets on tie breaks, scoring 31 points and conceding 41 - 4 in each lost game, 2 in each won game, 5 in the tie break. Win the last set 6-4, scoring 24 points in the 6 wins, conceding 28 - 2 in ea...
- Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:06 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Sports / Maths Puzzle(s)...
- Replies: 205
- Views: 22176
Re: Sports / Maths Puzzle(s)...
Bring them on! Sport and numbers, the perfect combination. One a day for the next year would seem about right.
- Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:09 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Sports / Maths Puzzle(s)...
- Replies: 205
- Views: 22176
Re: Sports / Maths Puzzle(s)...
The darts one: if you lose the match 10-1, you can score 360 in losing the 6 odd numbered games, 500 (well, you can't, but you get what I mean) in 9 darts in 4 of the losses, and 501 9 dart finish in your only win. This gives 4661 points in 81 darts, ave. 172.63. When your max in the four losses is ...
- Wed Dec 30, 2009 12:13 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Series 62
- Replies: 48
- Views: 5971
Re: Series 62
Applied January, audition February, recording April, broadcast June. But as that was in 2001 it'll be of no relevance. Waste of a post really. Bye. :roll: Awesome, you applied after I did, got an audition before me and was on five months earlier. :) Then again, iirc Tom Hargreaves applied sometime ...
- Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:59 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Sports / Maths Puzzle(s)...
- Replies: 205
- Views: 22176
Re: Sports / Maths Puzzle(s)...
I thought I'd just squeezed it up to 172.63, but that was relying on scoring 500 in a losing frame. But I think 500 counts as bust, doesn't it? So it won't work - the 4 points lost brings it down to 172.48.
- Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:50 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Series 62
- Replies: 48
- Views: 5971
Re: Series 62
Applied January, audition February, recording April, broadcast June. But as that was in 2001 it'll be of no relevance. Waste of a post really. Bye.
- Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:13 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Sports / Maths Puzzle(s)...
- Replies: 205
- Views: 22176
Re: Sports / Maths Puzzle(s)...
Is it 10 x 9 dart finishes, 9 x 360 scores as your opponent does 9 x 9 dart finishes, overall total 8250 points, average 171.87?
[Test for colour, first time I've done this.] OK.
[Test for colour, first time I've done this.] OK.
- Thu Dec 24, 2009 4:07 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Christmas is here again
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4809
Re: Christmas is here again
So! all you lads who don't like women and think that they are inferier, as in the bible, send them to me, I love 'em. But Lot was Jewish, so nothing to do with Christmas. "Goodwill to all men" is from Luke, who was very definitely pro-women. So it's either a mistranslation or it means &qu...
- Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:17 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Defending you property
- Replies: 125
- Views: 12280
Re: Defending you property
This bloke whose head looks like a cricket ball is clearly in favour of violence. You don't break into someone's house and hold a knife to his throat if you don't like violence. He likes violence, he got violence, what's the problem? There are a lot of things in life which people do under pressure. ...
- Thu Dec 17, 2009 1:31 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Defending you property
- Replies: 125
- Views: 12280
Re: Defending you property
It's important, under the current justice system, to remember that (i) the man who wants to murder your family has exactly the same human rights as you; and (ii) you must not let the fact that he wants to murder your family cloud your judgement as to how to treat him.
- Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:23 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 195305
Re: The C4C Football Thread
Arsenal again played shockingly bad, and were extremely lucky to avoid defeat. They've been really lucky this season so far. I can easily see Liverpool overhauling them. Arsenal will probably finish outside the top 4. There's been a whole string of teams come to Turf Moor and lost/drawn, and every ...
- Sun Dec 13, 2009 2:43 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
- Replies: 479
- Views: 164439
Re: Words You Would Have Thought...
I've never quite understood the oft-quoted rule that single syllable adjectives can have -ier and -iest but two or more can't. From my experience, not from any allegedly definitive rule book, two-syllable adjectives that end in -y (like happy, jolly, busy, gloomy) could all be -ier and -iest as well...
- Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:53 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Greatest Ever Sportsman?
- Replies: 126
- Views: 31498
Re: Greatest Ever Sportsman?
I disagree. Assuming you accept darts as a sport (which it is) then you can compare the best sportsman in their respective field to the rest of the field. In darts Phil Taylor is so far ahead of everyone else it's ridiculous. He recently beat Scott Waites in the Grand Slam final 16-2. Ridiculous. H...
- Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:35 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Sports Personality
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3208
Re: Sports Personality
Award not made due to lack of a deserving recipient. Alternatively, Mark Cavendish, though he is actually Manx, not British. If that matters.
- Fri Dec 11, 2009 11:49 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: New sports for the Olympic games
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2566
Re: New sports for the Olympic games
rugby 7's (which I believe is a form of union) Rugby 7's is like Union, except that when someone's tackled they have to get up and carry on instead of lying in a heap for several minutes, and that they run with the ball instead of kicking it to each other all the time, and that the winner tends to ...
- Fri Dec 11, 2009 11:34 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Friday December 11th 2009
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5887
Re: Spoilers For Friday December 11th 2009
So decades and millennia and suchlike ought officially to start on xxx1 years, not on the xxx0 years when we celebrate them. Decades can begin whenever you want them to. If you want to talk about the "swinging 197th decade", then obviously you mean the years 1961 to 1970; but if you want ...
- Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:39 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Greatest Ever Sportsman?
- Replies: 126
- Views: 31498
Re: Greatest Ever Sportsman?
One more criterion for me would be that your sport is widely played throughout the world. I've seen it suggested that if 1% of Africans had access to a boat, Steven Redgrave would never have made an Olympic final. So out with Grace, Ruth and Bradman. Laver didn't have to worry too much about anyone...
- Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:01 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Greatest Ever Sportsman?
- Replies: 126
- Views: 31498
Re: Greatest Ever Sportsman?
I used two main criteria - that the person should have been the undisputed best at his game for at least 10 years, and that it needs to be a game where running around is part of it. (Otherwise I'd be putting a case for John Solomon, croquet, which is my game.) So that means Grace, Laver, Ruth. Bradm...
- Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:53 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The World Cup
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3413
Re: The World Cup
Clearly, it's going to be the team with most Burnley players in it. Which is Cameroon.
Re: My hero
I gave it 10 seconds, it was boring. Who was it? Not a virus is it?
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Re: My hero
I gave it 10 seconds, it was boring. Who was it?
- Fri Nov 20, 2009 7:37 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: UK Citizenship Test
- Replies: 83
- Views: 8117
Re: UK Citizenship Test
Job done. You can switch it off now. Unless anyone else wants to vote before they've done the quiz?Michael Wallace wrote: I enabled re-voting just for you
- Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:31 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: UK Citizenship Test
- Replies: 83
- Views: 8117
Re: UK Citizenship Test
(I ticked 18+ on the strength of my previous effort, before re-taking the test. So I'm the second "pass".) Right...so you recorded your score based on a test you said was now (at least in part) different? YES THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT :evil: :evil: :evil: I'd change it if I knew how. :(
- Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:30 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: UK Citizenship Test
- Replies: 83
- Views: 8117
Re: UK Citizenship Test
When you go to hospital for a non-emergency, you've been refered by your doctor (or optician). Normally you'll be required to attend a clinic run by the out-patients department - for which you're given a date and time to attend an appointment. Or you might need to stay overnight. But it'll still be...
- Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:07 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: UK Citizenship Test
- Replies: 83
- Views: 8117
Re: UK Citizenship Test
There's at least 2 questions where the answer given is plain wrong. You can't attend a hospital for a non-emergency? Do they have scouts on all the approach roads cutting off the freeloaders? If you sneak past them, does the doctor say "I can't see you, you're a non-emergency, so you aren't her...
Re: Books
Dan Brown's a bit like Jeffrey Archer then?
- Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:00 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Countdown in Lincoln 2010- Saturday 30th January
- Replies: 204
- Views: 29827
Re: Countdown in Lincoln 2010- Saturday 30th January
Video's a possibility, but live is better.Kirk Bevins wrote:Sky +?David Roe wrote:Is there a nearby pub with Sky Sports? And what time does CoLin finish? It's competing with Burnley v. Chelsea for my attentions at present, and the match is on live at 5.30.
- Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:30 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Countdown in Lincoln 2010- Saturday 30th January
- Replies: 204
- Views: 29827
Re: Countdown in Lincoln 2010- Saturday 30th January
Is there a nearby pub with Sky Sports? And what time does CoLin finish? It's competing with Burnley v. Chelsea for my attentions at present, and the match is on live at 5.30.
- Mon Nov 09, 2009 4:44 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Friday November 6th 2009
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5472
Re: Spoilers For Friday November 6th 2009
I'd have thought if you've seen the word before you're asked, it's OK. Even if you only saw it because you're opponent's declaration suggested it was there. If declare 7 when you haven't got a 7, hoping to spot one, that's a different matter.
- Mon Nov 09, 2009 4:35 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 195305
Re: The C4C Football Thread
I once saw possibly an all-time fast scoring record at the McAlpine. Huddersfield reserves v. Burnley reserves, and 51 seconds into the game, Burnley equalised.
- Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:01 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Global Warming - your view
- Replies: 82
- Views: 5888
Re: Global Warming - your view
I have a theory about paper recycling which I can never get anyone to agree with, but I can't get anyone to explain what's logically wrong. Theory - paper recycling is not just a waste of effort, it's counter productive. 2 reasons: 1. If someone in Sweden has a huge forest and is making money by sel...
- Mon Nov 02, 2009 1:37 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Global Warming - your view
- Replies: 82
- Views: 5888
Re: Global Warming - your view
Second one - your article doesn't debunk anything. It just says that the evidence about Vinland is not convincing, not that Vinland didn't exist. So you accept that it's not convincing? If you think there's any significance to the name then I suggest you visit Greenland. I said the article says the...
- Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:03 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Global Warming - your view
- Replies: 82
- Views: 5888
Re: Global Warming - your view
According to NASA, the temperature on Mars has risen by 1 degree Fahrenheit over the last 30 years. That's twice as much as Earth's rise. I don't know how much fossil fuels they're burning over there, but it must be a lot. Mars' atmosphere is already 95% CO2 so there's no useful comparison to be ma...
- Sun Nov 01, 2009 2:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Dictionary Corner Guests for the new series
- Replies: 276
- Views: 31647
Re: Dictionary Corner Guests for the new series
Rumour has it that one of the Premier League's finest centre halves (Clark Carlisle, Burnley) is due to be on in January. Can anyone confirm?
- Sun Nov 01, 2009 2:39 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Global Warming - your view
- Replies: 82
- Views: 5888
Re: Global Warming - your view
You think we've got problems? What about the Martians? According to NASA, the temperature on Mars has risen by 1 degree Fahrenheit over the last 30 years. That's twice as much as Earth's rise. I don't know how much fossil fuels they're burning over there, but it must be a lot. In the 6th century app...
- Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Wednesday October 21st 2009
- Replies: 78
- Views: 6455
Re: Spoilers For Wednesday October 21st 2009
Query - IONIZE has an alternate spelling of IONISE, but IONIZER has no alternate spelling. Would IONISER have been allowed?
- Sun Oct 11, 2009 11:27 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CoRigRig
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2661
Re: CoRigRig
You missed the qualifying rounds then? Shame.
- Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 5th October
- Replies: 52
- Views: 5923
Re: Spoilers for Monday 5th October
Maybe the reshoot was because one of the contestants' mothers had a hearing aid in her pocket which was whistling just loudly enough for the cameras to pick up but not loudly enough to be heard anywhere around. It does happen, I can speak from experience.
- Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:30 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unintended gaffes
- Replies: 66
- Views: 9258
Re: Unintended gaffes
Jack de Manio once got suspended for mispronouncing the word "Niger" when introducing a radio show called "Land of the Niger". It's not a double G, Jack. It really didn't help that the show was going out live to a special gala function at the Nigerian embassy with all possible BB...
- Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How autistic are you?
- Replies: 125
- Views: 18609
Re: How autistic are you?
Now, 15. Reverting to age 15, 25. Reverting to age 8, still 25.
- Mon Sep 28, 2009 4:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Who butters your bread? [Updated poll]
- Replies: 56
- Views: 5282
Re: Who butters your bread? [Updated poll]
Full-time for me, 36.25 hours per week. Though when my Grandma was 12, she went part-time in the mill, which was 36 hours. The year later, she went full-time, 60 hours. 1909-10, that was. (PS - they had very strict rules on the use of the Internet in works time, as well.)
- Mon Sep 28, 2009 4:20 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: United States of America
- Replies: 61
- Views: 6074
Re: United States of America
Just got back, yesterday. Very nice too. I've been 5 times, mostly sport related - most often Chicago (I don't normally like any city, but I like Chicago) Milwaukee, for the Brewers (baseball), and most important of all, Lambeau Field, Green Bay, Wisconsin. Home of the Packers (American football). I...
- Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:18 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Date Dice
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2160
Re: Date Dice
Do I get bonus points if I tell you what the days and months are in Danish? Because that's where my date dice calender came from. And no, I'm not going to pm the answer.
- Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:19 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thurday 3rd September
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3329
Re: Spoilers for Thurday 3rd September
And he picked 6 small.Charlie Reams wrote:Are you sure about that?David Roe wrote: But Kirk - you've never actually been in the position of having lost or drawn every round and coming up to your absolutely last ever chance of winning a round of Countdown.
- Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thurday 3rd September
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3329
Re: Spoilers for Thurday 3rd September
He did have a right to go for whatever he wanted and probably wanted his last numbers round to impress people, which is fine. The problem people have is that when you know you can't beat your opponent as you are more than 20 behind and you see he's on for a massive score then I, for one, would want...
- Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:30 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What Music was around Pre Beetles
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1677
Re: What Music was around Pre Beetles
Beetles first appeared around 140 million years ago, so it's unlikely there was much music before them, ignoring the music of the spheres and so on. And yes, I believe some people do have a favourite musical artist, although the question appears something of a non sequitur. Not the insects, Charlie...
- Fri Sep 04, 2009 6:00 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Celebrity Countdown
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1926
Re: Celebrity Countdown
No. they GAPED.
- Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:18 am
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Monday 31st August 2009 (Series 61, Prelim 31)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1161
Re: Monday 31st August 2009 (Series 61, Prelim 31)
Fair comment about the records being broken, if that's what you like. For me, the best games IMO are where two good players are both capable of beating the other in any given round, resulting in a ding-dong game, the lead changing hands several times, and of course low scores because they each fail ...
- Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:47 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Monday 31st August 2009 (Series 61, Prelim 31)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1161
Re: Monday 31st August 2009 (Series 61, Prelim 31)
The numbers weren't horrible. They were very nice numbers. If someone got the word "exquisite" would it be a horrible set of letters, because of the q and the x? :) (Anyway, numbers are my only chance of beating people who know and play words like "oestrone" and "dehisce&quo...
Re: Dilemmas
Have you considered going via Southampton? You'd at least miss the M25.Sue Sanders wrote:I was reminded today of one of my big dilemmas - and as I drive between the Midlands and Kent a lot, it is always raising its ugly head......
- Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:16 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 195305
Re: The C4C Football Thread
I apologise for misunderstanding. It was the whole tone of the post - admiration of passionate supporters, reference to football "firms" which gave (me, at least) the impression that you thought they were legitimate organisations, blaming the police for the fighting without blaming anyone ...
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:04 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: My Premier League Predictions
- Replies: 46
- Views: 5710
Re: My Premier League Predictions
I don't suppose Burnley are a popular team in the Countdown studios just now. First Man United, now Hartlepool.
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:02 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Exam results
- Replies: 151
- Views: 17862
Re: Exam results
Wouldn't worry, Kai. You can always take it again next year. And the year after. And the year after that.
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:01 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The C4C Football Thread
- Replies: 1265
- Views: 195305
Re: The C4C Football Thread
By "most passionate" presumably you mean "most obnoxious, unpleasant, antisocial, violent"? It's a throwback to the 70's, which by the tone of your comment, presumably you're in favour of?