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If this is a vote, I vote for 2!

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Ben Wilson wrote:Ben Wilson 187 - 167 Stuart Arnot

Cracking game from both players, fortunately I was able to find form just when I needed it.

Yeah. One or two that I was annoyed to miss, but Ben was excellent! Jolly well played!

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The second one just seemed to be a sleight on Chris's ability for no reason. I would suggest there's every reason for that post, given Chris's rather comical inclusion of himself among other shock losses in the first round (which IMO aren't really that shock, given that numbers plays a relatively s...

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Chris Maudsley 164 - Stuart Arnot 170.

Really tight contest, I somehow scraped through.

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I don't often come first.

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I'm in!

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My first max numbers attack.

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The last children's series I actually used to make a point of getting home to see was this one . Embarrassingly, I was in my 30s at the time. Crazy series but a brilliant song. I still can't listen to it and keep still. My sister was so frightened by that show that I could give her nightmares just ...

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STIFLE

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I've just emailed Charlie about it.

Edit: About Apterous being down, nothing about anyone's wife.

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It seems churlish to complain after my first 13-max game for a while, but damn! I wish I'd got this game when I hadn't just woken up. Maybe the most gettable max for a 15-rounder ever?

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They're both called Andrew Welch, and both have a masters in Physics. However, "I have above average looks" suggests otherwise...

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Kirk Bevins wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ga ... 7#r1018737

Check out rounds 1 and 6.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=98062

Check out 8 and 12

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Kai Laddiman wrote:
D Eadie wrote:GULLIBLE
That's strange, I thought that was in.

Stuart Arnot · Re: Spoilers for Thur 18 June 2009 [Series 60- 2nd SF] ENORMITY

ENORMITY

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Granada TV is no longer called Granada TV in the UK either. It now says 'ITV Studios' after Coronation Street, etc. As a resident of Granadaland, I find this a little sad.

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yeah, i misclicked the easy second numbers. That's kind of a relief now, because ARMOIRE is one I never see. If i'd messed up a max game on the last letters, that would have hurt more.

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Not a single letters max over 7 here.

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First 13 max game in a while, and my first -2 game. Shame it was at half one in the morning, otherwise who knows? Daisies!

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Small bug on the excellent new TTT. Just noticed this displayed: "You got it, and your 14th point. Time's up and 2 people got a point; Alex Hancocks was the fastest on 25.3 seconds and gets 2 bonus points. The answer to GWYBNSIS was SWINGBYS." I hadn't got it, and don't have 14 points! At ...

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Usually, I panic if there's not an E in the selection, which is why I'm particularly pleased with UNITARILY and UNITARIST. Strangely, against the same player, and only a couple of days apart.

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Stuart Arnot wrote:The ratings aren't moving.

Also the game and win numbers aren't going up.

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The ratings aren't moving.

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Mine, I think, was STUCCO. Not that it's long, but more that it's quite obscure, and was a catalyst in my greatest ever comeback. Maybe a "generous type" could do a handy link to my game? I'm not generous yet (although I should have paypal funds by the time of my 1000th game, so that's ho...

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This appears on the High Scores page: Warning: include(/home/charlie/www/static/statsummary.html) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /media/logdisk/www/statsummary.php on line 14 Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/home/charlie/www/static/stat...

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My best 15-round score. Pleased with the 9s, but perhaps ought to have maxed in the 3 rounds I missed? Still chuffed, though. Are you claiming the 84 or the 140? :D Haha!! Whoops. :oops: edited!! EDIT: I've now edited this post, as I realised that I was still propagating this mistake. The link in t...

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My best 15-round score. Pleased with the 9s, but perhaps ought to have maxed in the 3 rounds I missed? Still chuffed, though.

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Matt Morrison wrote: 20. Creedence Clearwater Couto

It's that knid of thing that makes me wish my parents were hippies.

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No order. No accuracy. Quick 10.

Andrei Rublev
The Godfather Part II
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Even Dwarfs Started Small
The Exterminating Angel
The Holy Mountain
It's A Wonderful Life
Rear Window
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Don't Look Now.

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The meat industry is bad for other moral reasons... You're citing climate change as a moral issue? I strongly disagree. Nor is it a political one, any more than nuclear power is a moral or political issue. Both are scientific questions that are artificially moralicised* and politicised by people wi...

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Charlie Reams wrote: You're the reason no one likes vegetarians.

Really? But I know so few people! And why would they judge other people because of dietary similarities? Weird.

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Somewhat tangentially, could any of the vegetarians or vegans who post here ever contemplate entering a relationship with an omnivore? My sister is getting married to a man who eats meat and I find it incomprehensible. She's yet to give me a good excuse, only mutterings about not kissing him when he...

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I'm an omnivore for moral purposes. If everyone were veggies, all the farmyard critters aren't exactly going to live in a wonderous sanctuary where they serve man no purpose or financial gain, are they? No, they just wouldn't be born. The meat industry is bad for other moral reasons... "The Fo...

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There's a footballer called PAUL DICKOV.

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She also allowed "fennels" using the same reasoning, which pretty much opens you up to allowing anything you can eat as a plural. What would the plural (in the multiple portions sense) of "molasses" be, I wonder? Yeah. What about 'panini' too? I saw a television advertisement fo...

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Gyles is my all-time favourite tory.

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I'd like to play.

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David Roe wrote:Disappointed that "spawnier" (R2 or R3) doesn't seem to be in. I think Northern slang takes longer to reach the dictionary than Southern slang. Discrimination, that's what it is.

Ha! I was wondering about spawnier too.

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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=50988

Stephen Deakin gets a perfect 15-rounder.

Awesome.

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has anyone got any closer to the 2nd numbers game? 10 10 8 8 2 3, target 985. It's killing me, it'd be nice if one of you guys with your numbers tools could let me know if 982 is the closest? I see 197 x 5 = 985 but that hasn't been much help. I got 984 via (10x(10+2)+3)x8...not sure if 985 is poss...

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3rd numbers alt:

(75 + 1 - 6) * 8 + 7 - 100

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http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=45735

A pretty bad game anyway (how do I go from 13 maxes yesterday to 3 today?), but round 13, in particular, makes my blood boil.

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Darren Carter wrote:
Kai Laddiman wrote: Similarly, I am the only person to have got ABJ.

Blimey.....

hahahahaha

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How about a list, alongside the nines and disallowed words, of the words that only you have successfully declared. I know, for example, that I am the only player to have declared MUNITIONS or DIALOGIC, but are there any more?

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Got my best score, and beat my top maxes by two here.

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This is not true. Multiplication and division are worth the same and so if you have an expression containing just multiplication and division, one should read left to right and thus would read it 10/2 then * 7. Chris was explaining what Apterous does, not how BIDMAS works. It used to trip me up all...

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I'd been a bit down in the dumps as I seemed to be getting worse, but this, this, and this improved my mood no end. Three-in-a-row against players far superior to myself, including my first Speedgoat win in 11 attempts.

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SIRLOIN is in, but I had SIRLOINS disallowed today, incorrectly IMO. It's all opinion. Indeed. According to my hazy understanding of the rules, foodstuff mass nouns can be pluralised, and I remember it being allowed on the show before, in the Fell v Wills special I think. I was going to ask about t...

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i think you might be right

Edit: i posted before reading the edit or that. Now I look weird

Edit#2: And it is down anyway. Can't get onto homepage.

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it's at least plausible that African* people are generally better athletes; faster, more endurance, etc. I don't think it's just conditioning. *As a specific example I read somewhere that there may be a link between the apparent 'superiority' of African-American and African-Caribbean sportspeople a...

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My daughter attended a staff meeting, and the subject was racism. After a long discussion about the evils of racism, they were asked "any questions?". My daughter asked, " What about the racism practiced by the blacks against the whites?. She told me that the only answer she got was ...

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Thanks Charlie.

I can now blame every lost conundrum on this.

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It's quite interesting that a lot of people have been programmed to think that "racial" prejudice is far worse than any other type (I'm not talking about anyone on here, just generally). It's "fine" to mock someone for the colour of their hair, their height, various other things...

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Why, in this game, was Andrew given the opportunity to solve the conundrum first? I buzzed a second before him!

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Matt Morrison wrote:
Michael Wallace wrote:The world would be a much better place if people never took offence to anything. That's the approach I take, at least.
Your passive attitude offends me.

Too right. Thats the sort of attitude that let the Nazis in.

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Jon O'Neill wrote: It's much more silly to be offended on somebody else's behalf.

One does not have to be the victim to find abuse offensive.

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And in any case, a golliwog is a representation of a person in blackface, which is offensive in itself. I don't accept that either. Is a pantomime dame inherently offensive to women? Blackface was a form of entertainment devised by white people to amuse white audiences with stereotypes of black peo...

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