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Richard Brittain

I'm not really into coke or fizzy drinks in general, but I prefer the taste of the old traditional colas, now normally called 'curiosity cola', which have the proper authentic, natural cola taste rather than the modern chemically stuff. I find the taste of drinks such as 'Coca Cola' and 'Dr. Pepper'...

Richard Brittain

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Richard Brittain

Ah yes, I assumed that was the case because 'matures' must have come up thousands of times, but would usually lead to a higher max. But yes, David, I didn't mean people had 'missed' it. It's just slightly interesting for novelty value, that I am the first person ever to offer this high probability w...

Richard Brittain

This old boy led the 'Never been spotted' list with 246 misses. Well, I've just offered it in a game against James Hurrell, making it one of my 'Unique words' on my Superstats page. The next highest on the list are 'elodea' and 'moreen', which have never been offered despite both being available on ...

Richard Brittain

I must admit I had no idea what was going on until just now, because I haven't watched an episode of Countdown for months and was just browsing the Countdown wiki and saw you got 930. Amazing stuff, very well done. It's wonderful to see Kirk's record broken. Though I'm also inclined to agree with Co...

Richard Brittain

Wow, this Chris Maudsley guy is hilarious. How old is he?

Also, why did Emily say 'i'm only 16.'? How was that relevant?

Richard Brittain

Who is Philip J. Fry, why would someone who's only good at videogames be pretentious enough to put his middle initial in his name, and how and why do some of you memorise things like starting Pokemon and random numbers related to Super Mario games?

Richard Brittain

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=94306 Marcus Hares has a habit of bringing high scores out of me. I've only ever played him 4 times, and now 2 of those have been record highs in bullet rounds. This one increases the Bullet 9 record by 1, and is also the first Bullet 9 perfect game. Clearly the...

Richard Brittain

Yeah, I'll give this a bash.

Richard Brittain

Ian Dent wrote:Sorry David, I didn't realise this was a serious thread.

You didn't realise this was a serious thread but you happened to give deadly serious answers to all the original questions?

Richard Brittain

Can I run as mod?

This is my comeback post on C4C, so I'm expecting a large tide of enthusiasm to get behind me.

Richard Brittain

fcking gays

Richard Brittain

I think Lisa and Ranjit are both none other than Richard Brittain. They most definitely are not me. Give me some credit. There are other people in existence who don't view Countdown as though it is the only thing that matters in life. They include the entire population of the world outside of this ...

Richard Brittain

But I can't believe they edited out the practising online bit, now it looks like I was thrashed by some random chav!

(ask David O'D)

Richard Brittain

Thank you Junaid, Tony, Dan Van, and Jason Larsen.

And again, well done Jon Corby.

Richard Brittain

I thought with OMMIT the implication was that Richard obviously knew how to spell OMIT, hence why he specified "with 2 Ms" (like when someone declares DAEMON or whatever) - if he sees this he could clear that up. Yes, that's right. I said, 'I think it's an alternative spelling', when Susi...

Richard Brittain

PS I know nothing about RB, saw him for first time today, but he looked to me like he was extremely uncomfortable. Hmm, no actually, thinking back, I didn't feel at all uncomfortable. Don't think I even broke a sweat, which surprised me. Maybe it was that you were actually uncomfortable watching, b...

Richard Brittain

No Katherine, I don't watch any of that stuff. In fact I would consider that quite geeky, watching an eggy BBC show with Alan Titchmarsh, doing what he says and grouping together with other BBC-style people carrying unnecessary plastic walking sticks. My birdwatching involves going out into the hill...

Richard Brittain

Matthew Green wrote:Richard Brittain is my new hero.

Thank you.

Richard Brittain

Unfortunately I haven't been able to watch the show yet. But, I'm curious as to why I inspire such hatred in a certain nerdy section of the population. Matt, I don't consider any of those hobbies geeky, apart from chess, and I don't recall shrinking in my seat. If I was, it had nothing to do with wh...

Richard Brittain

OK, it seems my attempt at humour with obviously invalid logic and a shameless self promotion passed some of you by. The criticisms were both elaborate and instantaneous. Interesting.

Richard Brittain

You mean to tell me that there are more Apterous games per day than posts on this forum? I don't believe that. Having a game of Apterous generally takes much longer than making a post, and there are people here who make posts almost every minute. I don't think there will ever be a convergence point.

Richard Brittain

Surprised that Des I only got 1.8, given his "housewives' favourite" status and the fact that the show had been off air for some months. He must have been getting well over 2m by Spring 2006 (thanks to the exploits of Conor Travers and the fact that the tabs were running a story a day abo...

Richard Brittain

Yeah, I enjoyed it. It was good to meet you all. David, I enjoyed your company throughout but things went a bit awry on the last night. Lol, I think we were both only joking around though, I actually liked you and your mad Irish ex-catholic drinker demeanour. I think you're right in that we have som...

Richard Brittain

Maybe I did say it then. But I thought I said gandisee but then told everyone afterwards I said gandiseeg because I didn't want to look like a complete idiot by not even being able to make a bullshit 9-letter word. I'm not completely sure, but we'll find out soon enough. Reams definitely said gandis...

Richard Brittain

I think what I actually said was 'gandisee', not realising that I was missing a g. But I think we should imagine that I said 'gandiseeg' for purposes of anagrammic completion, and that the final g was merely inaudible. It definitely wasn't 'gangiseed'.

Richard Brittain

Awesome.

Richard Brittain

Also, I somehow missed Martin Bishop's post in this thread and until now didn't realise he was actually a member of this forum. Lol. Sorry Martin, didn't mean to bring you down or anything.

Richard Brittain

Phil, did you use an anagram solver to find that or just randomly see it? Because that's actually one of the most incredible things I've ever seen.

Richard Brittain

I wasn't joking, Kirk. You often seem to assume deeper meanings behind my posts. Maybe I fluked a good game.. But I just looked at the recap briefly and got words like 'maltiest', 'incense', 'pigeons', and 'tabloid' quite quickly. I worked out that I actually only beat him by 19 points. Didn't get t...

Richard Brittain

I'm really surprised by Martin Gardener's and Kirk Bevin's comments about Martin Bishop. I felt he missed a lot of easy words and I beat him by 20-30 points without really trying. Definitely wouldn't have him as favourite.

Richard Brittain

Haven't been able to watch the game but I just had a look at the recap.. I too am very surprised by the Reamster's performance. But, at the end of the day he got the job done and had the game won after round 13.

Richard Brittain

Cool. I'll be arriving in Leeds at 18:53 on Saturday evening. I presume people will be loitering around the hotel lounge area that evening? Also, I'm getting the 16:30 direct train from London to Leeds, in the off chance anyone else happens to be getting that one too, we can prequaint.

Richard Brittain

I genuinely think this is a brilliant idea. Also, Charlie, remember I suggested a game format whereby every word given scores points, not just the winners? Can you implement this format too? No - it's super shit. Defies all reason to practise learning long words, particularly if conundrums are stil...

Richard Brittain

I genuinely think this is a brilliant idea.

Also, Charlie, remember I suggested a game format whereby every word given scores points, not just the winners? Can you implement this format too?

Richard Brittain

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=11623

Richard Brittain

I think Jeff Stelling is an excellent choice.

Richard Brittain

Interesting.

Richard Brittain

Hi, my name's Richard Brittain and I don't like mince pies. You do seem to like creating duplicate accounts on apterous though. I'm sure you have some excellent rationalisation for this childish behaviour, which I'd love to hear. You only just found out that Ecclesiastes Myanmar was me? Most people...

Richard Brittain

Hi, my name's Richard Brittain and I don't like mince pies.

Richard Brittain

I'm not sure about 'groundest', but Paul Howe and I think that 'mattest' should be in. It's a one-syllable adjective, and it sort of sounds right. The mattest finish.

Richard Brittain

I sort of agree with Corby. If I see someone using rampant text speech, I get the impression that they sort of want to be seen as stupid, low and degenerate, which they clearly are, and this makes them even more worthy of ridicule.

Richard Brittain

No. I often spot things late. 30 seconds is good.

Richard Brittain

Damian E wrote:Only 14 of the original 16 are likely to take part, so we'll be inviting 2 new players.

Who else has pulled out apart from Aaron Webber?

Also, I am willing to take real bets too. Payments can be made online.

Richard Brittain

There wasn't any devious intent behind my predictions.. I am just giving you my honest opinion. To tell you the truth, my real hope is that Charles Reams win the CoC, but only because it will stick in the craw of Julian Fell, who I understand is racist against blonde people. Also, Kirk, those stats ...

Richard Brittain

Matthew, I think you have massively overrated David O'Donnell, who although being a very good player is no Julian Fell and is not a level above 5 or 6 other players there. He sometimes spots very obscure words, but also misses a lot of maximums and is prone to missing easy words like 'waiter'. Jon C...

Richard Brittain

Isn't my thing. Make no bones about it, reports of my demise were premature and grossly exaggerated, but nonetheless, my aficionados may remain disappointed, because my interest has bombed; and I won't be returning. The truth is, Countdown is a pretty crap gameshow. Still, worry ye not yet, for the ...

Richard Brittain

Kirk and I are actually planning to start at about 4.30 pm. Everyone is welcome to watch.

Richard Brittain

OK. I tell you what, you give us the odds.

Richard Brittain

jasoncullen wrote:
Richard Brittain wrote:Blimey, goes to show how distorted my odds are. At this rate, I will beat Kirk Bevins.
They need amending Richard otherwise you would lose a lot of money on outsiders (if this was real of course!).

Perhaps, but I've already made a few grand from the eliminations of Jon O'Neill and Jon Corby.

Richard Brittain

Yeah. I think these odds are quite reasonable now.

As for match betting, I'll say..

3-5 Kirk Bevins vs. Richard Brittain 3-2

1-2 Damian Eadie vs. Dinos Syfris 2-1

Although I really have no idea what form these people are in; these odds just come off the top of my head.

Richard Brittain

Updated. A massive leap by Jason Cullen! I admit now, after their recent performances, Jason Cullen and Matt Coates should have been much shorter than 60-1 or 40-1 and much closer to the main pack. I've shortened Dinos' odds too because he will probably now go and mutilate Damian Eadie.

Richard Brittain

Wow, wish I'd staked £100 on JaCu when he was 60-1 now. Very high quality game.

Richard Brittain

Blimey, goes to show how distorted my odds are. At this rate, I will beat Kirk Bevins.

Richard Brittain

Surely the loss of Corby towards the top of the list would bring the odds down now on the others?? Yeah, you're right, but I couldn't be bothered to give all those people fractional odds, because Corby's elimination would only shorten everyone else's odds by about 0.05 or 0.10 (and Paul Howe's by a...

Richard Brittain

OK, I've updated the odds and made some minor adjustments, and will continue to do so as the tournament progresses. Karen, I wasn't really sure how good you were/are to be honest, but since you're convinced you're the worst player here, I've put Cullen, Coates and Syfris up a bit, as on reflection 6...

Richard Brittain

Kirk and I are planning to play at 5pm on Thursday.

Richard Brittain

Oh dear.

Richard Brittain

18-1 Martin Gardner 60-1 Jason Cullen Why is there such a huge gap between an 18-1 player and the 60-1 players? Well, that happens quite commonly actually. To give an example, for the outright winner of the Premiership next year, Paddy Power are offering Arsenal at 5-1, Liverpool at 7-1, and then s...

Richard Brittain

These are the current tournament odds being offered by Paddy Power:

Evs Julian Fell
7-4 Paul Howe
7-2 Damian Eadie
4-1 Kirk Bevins
8-1 Ben Wilson
8-1 Jason Cullen
8-1 Martin Gardner
10-1 Rich Priest
12-1 Richard Brittain
25-1 Dinos Syfris
40-1 Karen Pearson

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