Glad you posted that Adam, because I fell for it completely and was about to kick off a bit. What a tit.Adam Gillard wrote:Ooh, an accolade!Ben Hunter wrote:http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363 <- definitely the worst member of C4C
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- Sat Jun 18, 2011 11:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C Link Dump
- Replies: 329
- Views: 62129
Re: C4C Link Dump
- Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:53 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Are you a quitter?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 8823
Re: Are you a quitter?
Oh my god Dinos. I'm so sorry that happened to you That's so terrible. I was fuming just reading it.
- Sat Jun 11, 2011 10:45 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Favourite Scrabble words
- Replies: 61
- Views: 12616
Re: Favourite Scrabble words
My best play within the last year was probably ACUITIES across two triples for 149 points, through a C which was placed in the previous turn.
- Wed Jun 08, 2011 5:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Marc's Musings
- Replies: 40
- Views: 5433
Re: Marc's Musings
Marc... I just don't understand. Why have you not got over the whole Sanctum business, and why are you still here arguing with certain members of C4C? You're never going to get on. It's just no way to spend your time. There are people who like or love you - invest your time in them , ignore those wh...
- Wed May 25, 2011 2:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Wednesday May 25th 2011
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1302
Re: Spoilers For Wednesday May 25th 2011
SAUDADE was there in round 6.
Re: WEED
Nope, never done it. I've had plenty of opportunities to but I doubt I ever will.
- Tue May 03, 2011 3:37 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Tuesday May 3rd 2011
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5619
Re: Spoilers For Tuesday May 3rd 2011
EARDRUMS in round 9. Awesome spot Eoin.
- Tue May 03, 2011 3:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Tuesday May 3rd 2011
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5619
Re: Spoilers For Tuesday May 3rd 2011
TALAPOINS was there in round 4.
- Sun Apr 24, 2011 11:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: This year's final?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4479
Re: This year's final?
I may have meant May 11th. Edited to make you look sillyJames Robinson wrote:You sure about that, Chris I don't think Jeff does Countdown Saturdays.............Chris Davies wrote:Who's going to watch the recordings? I'm there on June 11th
- Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: This year's final?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4479
Re: This year's final?
Who's going to watch the recordings? I'm there on May 11th for the last two quarters, the semis and the final. Can't choose between my 'epic cunt' or 'I conquered the world by winning Countdown' T-shirts though.
- Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:39 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 504513
Re: Bug reports
Cheers I hadn't realised. I'm keen to know what I got the gold bug for all that time ago though.
- Tue Mar 29, 2011 2:41 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 504513
Re: Bug reports
Hardly a bug, but the home page still says 'Bold shows bronze pencils (from ODE games)' under the 'latest pencils' table.
- Thu Mar 10, 2011 10:21 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Valentine's Day stories
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1963
Re: Valentine's Day stories
I took my girlfriend out for a meal at a fairly expensive restaurant, and she got me these. Not sure who was more happy.
- Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: 5 Random Songs
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6827
Re: 5 Random Songs
1. The Bottom Line - Spock's Beard
2. Prodigal - Porcupine Tree
3. Perfect Tense - Kino
4. Open Mind - Blackfield
5. Comatose - Enchant
2. Prodigal - Porcupine Tree
3. Perfect Tense - Kino
4. Open Mind - Blackfield
5. Comatose - Enchant
- Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:33 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 504513
Re: Bug reports
In a Lockdown letters round, the dictionary corner guest dialogue read:
"I couldn't find a nine this time, but I did better than these guys with SHMEARING".
"I couldn't find a nine this time, but I did better than these guys with SHMEARING".
- Wed Feb 16, 2011 10:41 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Coincidence
- Replies: 224
- Views: 90168
Re: Coincidence
On a similar theme to my original post, I've just met Jon Stitcher at my local. I knew he lived in the Wirral but didn't realise quite how close. Nice guy.
- Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:23 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Censoring words
- Replies: 110
- Views: 12608
Re: Censoring words
Jon O'Neill wrote:...Jon Corby wrote:I can see and understand both sides of the debate.
Jon Corby wrote:Seriously I think you're a bit fucked upJon Corby wrote:I can't work out whether you're just being obtuse for the sake of it, playing devil's advocate, or are genuinely retarded.Jon Corby wrote:Cool, option three it is then.Jon Corby wrote:Stop being retarded.
- Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Tuesday February 8th 2011
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3999
Re: Spoilers For Tuesday February 8th 2011
BALAFON was there in round 6, and UNNAILED in round 8.
- Tue Feb 08, 2011 10:40 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Crossword WITHOUT A PRIZE!!!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1915
Re: Crossword WITHOUT A PRIZE!!!
I enjoyed having a stab at this. I have little experience of cryptic crosswords and only managed about 7 answers.
- Mon Feb 07, 2011 12:40 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Masters 2011
- Replies: 167
- Views: 30143
Re: Apterous Masters 2011
Why not?
- Thu Jan 06, 2011 5:52 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: User Images: a plea, and an offer.
- Replies: 52
- Views: 8989
Re: User Images: a plea, and an offer.
Cheers for that Matt
- Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:43 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: User Images: a plea, and an offer.
- Replies: 52
- Views: 8989
Re: User Images: a plea, and an offer.
What if you already have a picture of yourself on apterous but think it's a bit rubbish? If I can replace my current one, this one will do.
- Sat Dec 18, 2010 2:04 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Grand Final Spoilers For Friday December 17th 2010
- Replies: 70
- Views: 12528
Re: Grand Final Spoilers For Friday December 17th 2010
Superb game. I was sitting on the sidelines with a few of the crew during this game (someone took my seat) and when Jack said MARCASITE, there was a resounding 'wtf' from them all! Jack and Eoin, you are both awesome. Extra special thanks to Marcus, who saw to it that I got a ticket, after they had ...
- Mon Dec 06, 2010 11:24 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Hyper Numbers Tourney + Duel
- Replies: 115
- Views: 14649
- Thu Nov 18, 2010 9:24 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Hyper Numbers Tourney + Duel
- Replies: 115
- Views: 14649
Re: Hyper Numbers Tourney + Duel
Chris Davies 180 - 160 Ben Wilson
The Eye of apterous gave my chances of winning this one as 1%, which equates to about the same odds that Ben gave that I would re-apply for Countdown as a woman.
Going out to buy 8 dresses tomorrow
The Eye of apterous gave my chances of winning this one as 1%, which equates to about the same odds that Ben gave that I would re-apply for Countdown as a woman.
Going out to buy 8 dresses tomorrow
- Wed Nov 17, 2010 9:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What the hell?
- Replies: 175
- Views: 25351
Re: What the hell?
I always thought of the sanctum as a place for idle chat about things/people with no consequences on what you said, which means you'd sometimes say a lot of things you didn't truthfully mean just for the sake (like Jono said) shock humour. On the whole, I don't regret what I put in there. I say thi...
- Wed Nov 17, 2010 4:19 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What the hell?
- Replies: 175
- Views: 25351
Re: What the hell?
I can see how one post by me in that thread surprised you (my view about conquering the world by winning Countdown etc.) which I did think at the time after reading your Facebook post and since I'd only met you once before I didn't have much to go on. Obviously I saw you just 2 weeks ago today and ...
- Tue Nov 16, 2010 7:37 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Hyper Numbers Tourney + Duel
- Replies: 115
- Views: 14649
Re: Hyper Numbers Tourney + Duel
Haha, love it! Really, you're just far better than me at Hyper numbers. Well playedMatthew Tassier wrote:Matthew Tassier 179 - 80 Chris Davies
Think I rather surprised Chris by telling him he'd qualified for this, so I took advantage quickly before he really understood what was happening.
- Tue Nov 16, 2010 3:39 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What the hell?
- Replies: 175
- Views: 25351
Re: What the hell?
It seems to have all started because Jon Corby hated my cheating in my earliest days on apterous. Yes, I did, and I denied it, and I'm very sorry to everyone for that. Cheating is for bastards, and I was a bastard. Lots of the comments I have read, pre 2010, were in relation to my cheating, and are...
- Tue Nov 16, 2010 3:02 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What the hell?
- Replies: 175
- Views: 25351
What the hell?
I've just had it brought to my attention by Kirk that there were Internet forum threads dedicated to my hatred which had been reposted on gandiseeg.com. I can't believe this has been going on for so long and I didn't know. I also can't believe how many misconceptions about me have been expressed. Th...
- Sat Oct 30, 2010 11:31 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Thursday October 21st 2010
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6910
Re: Spoilers For Thursday October 21st 2010
It dawned on me (the day after this show) - what a superb conundrum scramble. 'Ugly' hints at the answer...
- Mon Oct 25, 2010 7:11 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Friday October 22nd 2010
- Replies: 75
- Views: 11746
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 22nd 2010
On the homepage of Yahoo! UK now, awesome!
- Sun Oct 24, 2010 6:36 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 399583
Re: Is Apterous down?
Charlie Reams wrote:Sorry for the downtime, it seems one of our technical staff* at Apterous Towers** made a hardware installation error***. The member of staff has now been fired****.
* My mum
** My mum's house
*** Unplugged the server to use the hoover
**** Disowned
- Sat Oct 23, 2010 1:45 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Friday October 22nd 2010
- Replies: 75
- Views: 11746
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 22nd 2010
Left it too late to get tickets.
- Fri Oct 22, 2010 8:52 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Friday October 22nd 2010
- Replies: 75
- Views: 11746
Re: Spoilers For Friday October 22nd 2010
Amazing stuff, many congratulations! I'm so disappointed I won't be at the finals.
- Tue Oct 19, 2010 6:10 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 19 October 2010
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2659
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 19 October 2010
"fucking countdown nerd cunt" says Danny Darkslide Corcoran. I wonder what he's ever achieved though - probably shit all.
- Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 19 October 2010
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2659
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 19 October 2010
NOUMENAL in round 6.
- Thu Sep 30, 2010 4:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Thursday September 30th 2010
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1969
Re: Spoilers For Thursday September 30th 2010
I was in the audience for this game. There was a few brilliant Martha moments which didn't make it to the edit. In one round (the ROMANCES round I think) she asked for a final consonant, which would have made only 2 in total, so she was prompted to say 'And vowel please, Rachel'. The cameras started...
- Sun Sep 26, 2010 5:24 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Word Scrambler
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3417
Re: Word Scrambler
I've made one with Javascript, but I have nowhere to upload it. Give me your email and I'll send you the file.
- Wed Sep 22, 2010 3:43 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Monosyllabic Conundrums
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4938
Re: Monosyllabic Conundrums
TEPIDARIA and VOMITORIACharlie Reams wrote:There was a discussion long ago about the most syllables in a conundrum, I don't think anyone could match OCEANARIA at the time.
- Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:27 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 485267
Re: Feature requests
Liking the new arrangment of links in the top right corner of the website when logged in, but when clicking on your name it may be easy to miss and accidentally click 'Logout', so maybe the logout link ought to trigger a Javascript function (or something else) to say 'Are you sure you want to logout...
- Sat Sep 18, 2010 6:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Friday September 17th 2010
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3890
Re: Spoilers For Friday September 17th 2010
The only reason I didn't mention Apterous was because if any of my friends or family had have been watching (indeed the whole school is!) I wouldn't want them to know that I spend my time playing Countdown on the computer, which I would have been embarrassed by. I know you probably think that's wei...
- Wed Sep 15, 2010 3:48 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 15th September 2010
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6597
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 15th September 2010
That was stunning, well done Excellent debut and I'm really looking forward to watching the rest.
- Thu Sep 02, 2010 3:54 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for 2nd September 2010 (AND ALSO SEP 1st)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3396
Re: Spoilers for 2nd September 2010 (AND ALSO SEP 1st)
I did (75+9)*(7+5)-50-5 for the second numbers to get it exactly. Watching on +1 so I'm not sure whether Rachel will solve it after the break.
- Fri Aug 27, 2010 9:18 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Favourite day
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1425
Re: Favourite day
Throughout school (primary and secondary), my WORST day was always Tuesday for whatever reason - history lessons, scripture lessons, games lessons, all of which I hated with a burning passion. I voted for Monday.
- Sun Aug 22, 2010 9:47 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Would you use internet dating to find love
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4211
Re: Would you use internet dating to find love
BTW what was the timeframe between first contact (IM or text) to actual gf/bf status? About a month, but she'd just come out of a bad relationship and said at first that she wasn't looking for a relationship just yet (although, me being me, I assumed it was just a polite rejection). She originally ...
- Sun Aug 22, 2010 12:03 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Would you use internet dating to find love
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4211
Re: Would you use internet dating to find love
I met my girlfriend on plentyoffish.com . Our 1st anniversary is in two weeks. :D Best of luck Marc, really hope it works out for you! Jeff says in his book that you "even managed to score a girlfriend" through the show. Is this true? I think having been on Countdown helped me find the co...
- Sat Aug 21, 2010 8:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Would you use internet dating to find love
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4211
Re: Would you use internet dating to find love
I met my girlfriend on plentyoffish.com. Our 1st anniversary is in two weeks.
Best of luck Marc, really hope it works out for you!
Best of luck Marc, really hope it works out for you!
- Fri Aug 20, 2010 9:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Venus Fly Traps
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4854
Re: Venus Fly Traps
Have we got any vegetarians on the board? We should have a thread on that. Idiots. Vegetarianism, purely as a dietary paradigm, is fine by me but don't get me started on militant vegetarians/vegans who claim that 'meat is murder'. Incidentally, I did have a Venus Flytrap as a kid, they're awesome.
- Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:18 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 504513
Re: Bug reports
I was given an ambulance in round 11 of this game
- Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:02 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 504513
Re: Bug reports
Hardly a big deal, but I didn't get a soapy mouth for this round!
- Thu Jul 22, 2010 4:34 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: CountMax errors
- Replies: 727
- Views: 92567
Re: CountMax errors
QUANTUS is listed as valid on apterous and CountMax, but I can't find it in the ODE and definitions of the word on the Internet seem to be non-existent.
- Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:03 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: The real Jon Gaunt surfaces.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3478
Re: The real Jon Gaunt surfaces.
My dad has just suggested Rolf Harris as a DC guest. Good idea, I reckon.
- Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:50 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: The IT Crowd - Channel4- Friday 10pm
- Replies: 59
- Views: 7810
Re: The IT Crowd - Channel4- Friday 10pm
I can...Jon Corby wrote:Can't believe I got some bites.
- Thu Jul 01, 2010 6:07 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Unofficial Mystery Event Excitement/Speculation Thread
- Replies: 50
- Views: 3466
Re: Unofficial Mystery Event Excitement/Speculation Thread
I'm working Saturday evening, will this event start before 5pm?
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 7:21 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spimliminees for Thursday 1st July 2010
- Replies: 65
- Views: 6915
Re: Spimliminees for Thursday 1st July 2010
Yes.Michael Wallace wrote:Is it bad to have an erection for 3 days?
- Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Friday June 25th 2010
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2413
Re: Spoilers For Friday June 25th 2010
I didn't find Chris too annoying to watch, but I can understand why some people did, if that makes sense.
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:11 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Where are they now?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4575
Re: Where are they now?
Mine are in the storage space under my bed - I haven't even unwrapped all of the volumes yet.
- Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:07 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Sleeping Beauty Problem
- Replies: 53
- Views: 8067
Re: Sleeping Beauty Problem
The key here is that if the coin lands on tails, you wake up twice . If heads, you wake up only once. So when you wake up, 2 times out of 3 the coin will have landed on tails. I still can't get my head around this though (the second problem). Probability is mind-boggling. Edit: After a re-read of so...
- Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:01 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How autistic are you?
- Replies: 125
- Views: 18978
Re: How autistic are you?
I got 14. Expected it to be a little higher, especially as I've been asked more than once whether I'm autistic.