Agreed. But then, arse like two hard-boiled eggs in a hankie, so meh.Ian Volante wrote: ↑Tue Oct 23, 2018 12:10 pmI just looked him up, and it looks like he's read the instructions on how to smile in a book, and is trying too hard!
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- Tue Oct 23, 2018 1:46 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Scam to watch out for
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Re: Scam to watch out for
- Tue Oct 23, 2018 12:07 pm
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- Topic: Scam to watch out for
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Re: Scam to watch out for
Photos of him have the advantage that you don't have to listen to him talking.
- Tue Oct 23, 2018 10:29 am
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- Topic: Scam to watch out for
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Scam to watch out for
Morning everyone. I've been targeted by a rather nasty scam which I'd like to warn others about. I received an email claiming that my account had been hacked and through it a "trojan horse" virus had been installed on my computer. The sender claimed to have been using this for over six mon...
- Tue Oct 09, 2018 11:13 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How much do you tip?
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- Views: 10500
Re: How much do you tip?
Am totally inconsistent with this. I usually aim for 5-10% for reasonable service but it depends how much cash I have on me. If I have less than £1 in change I will sometimes leave nothing as I feel a few miserable pence as a tip looks like you're saying that's all the service was worth, whereas if ...
- Tue Sep 04, 2018 10:59 am
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- Topic: Deathwatch 2018
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Re: Deathwatch 2018
Jacqueline Pearce, aka Servalan in Blake's 7.
- Tue Aug 21, 2018 10:26 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Change one letter of a film title to make a funny one
- Replies: 63
- Views: 49623
Re: Change one letter of a film title to make a funny one
I'm sure he'd be gratified to know that.
- Wed Aug 15, 2018 10:18 am
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- Topic: The Irish Question
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Re: The Irish Question
Here is how much I know about Ireland. If it's any consolation I probably would have said six as well and I'm Irish. You hear Ulster and you think the six counties of Northern Ireland. You forget there's three other ones in the Republic. Yep, I had the phrase "the six counties" in my head...
- Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:34 pm
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- Topic: The Irish Question
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- Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:27 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Change one letter of a film title to make a funny one
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- Views: 49623
Re: Change one letter of a film title to make a funny one
Alpen vs. Predator
- Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:14 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Change one letter of a film title to make a funny one
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Re: Change one letter of a film title to make a funny one
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hole
- Thu Jun 07, 2018 9:29 am
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- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
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Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
A Very English Scandal. It was good , though maybe they could have condensed it into a 2 hour film. What would be the point of that? When TV's this good you want more of it, not less. But as it happens the story divided very logically into three - the affair and its aftermath, the murder plot, and ...
- Wed Jun 06, 2018 10:07 pm
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- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
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Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
And they say men can't multitask.Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 6:33 pmBecause it's easier to hold it one handed that way.Phil Reynolds wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 2:24 pm When people are videoing something on their phone, why do they invariably hold it upright
- Wed Jun 06, 2018 5:41 pm
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- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
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Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
When people are videoing something on their phone, why do they invariably hold it upright, in portrait mode, even though that's rarely the optimal framing for the scene being recorded? In fact, people who do this probably belong in the "People you shouldn't trust" topic, with a special ci...
- Wed Jun 06, 2018 2:29 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Shouldn't have to ask
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Re: Shouldn't have to ask
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iopcslbsXxQZarte Siempre wrote: ↑Tue Jun 05, 2018 7:52 amYou'd think you'd enjoy something you have so much in common withPhil Reynolds wrote: ↑Mon Jun 04, 2018 5:48 pmAnyway, grated cheese in a sandwich is simply annoying and wrong.
- Wed Jun 06, 2018 2:24 pm
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- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
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Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
When people are videoing something on their phone, why do they invariably hold it upright, in portrait mode, even though that's rarely the optimal framing for the scene being recorded? In fact, people who do this probably belong in the "People you shouldn't trust" topic, with a special cir...
- Wed Jun 06, 2018 2:18 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 774
- Views: 685196
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
A Very English Scandal. Just outstanding in every way - writing, acting, direction, all superb. And for those of us old enough to remember the Thorpe trial and the sensation it caused, the blackly farcical tone is spot-on.
- Mon Jun 04, 2018 5:48 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Shouldn't have to ask
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Re: Shouldn't have to ask
How does altering the surface area of the cheese give it more flavour? I posit that this is entirely a product of your imagination. http://qi.com/infocloud/cheese Even if true, I don't care. As a snack I'll quite often cut myself a thick slice off a slab of extra mature cheddar and eat it with noth...
- Mon Jun 04, 2018 4:14 pm
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- Topic: Shouldn't have to ask
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Re: Shouldn't have to ask
How does altering the surface area of the cheese give it more flavour? I posit that this is entirely a product of your imagination.Zarte Siempre wrote: ↑Mon Jun 04, 2018 1:42 pmgrated cheese is by far the more sensible option for a sandwich that you can eat over a plate. It alters the surface area of the cheese and gives it more flavour
- Mon Jun 04, 2018 12:32 pm
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- Topic: Shouldn't have to ask
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Re: Shouldn't have to ask
Apart from the Oxford Dictionary... (Note that "typically served in a bread roll" is added information, not part of the definition.)Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Mon Jun 04, 2018 12:01 pm I've always thought of a hamburger as a burger in a bun. No-one would call a burger on its own a hamburger.
- Mon Jun 04, 2018 12:21 pm
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- Topic: Shouldn't have to ask
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Re: Shouldn't have to ask
And what else should you not have to ask for? More than two English Breakfast tea bags in a double room in a hotel. By all means provide a selection of alternatives - green tea, decaf, whatever. But for fuck's sake bias the numbers towards the one that most normal people are going to want. The litt...
- Mon Jun 04, 2018 11:48 am
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- Topic: Shouldn't have to ask
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Re: Shouldn't have to ask
Random observations on this thread: RO#1: I've never in my life heard anyone order a "hamburger" in a restaurant. It's just a burger. By default a burger is made of beef. Other types of burger are qualified by an appropriate prefix (chicken burger, veggie burger etc). Asking for a hamburge...
- Mon Jun 04, 2018 11:24 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
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Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Young Offenders was ok, kind of vaguely fun and with some level of a kind of nostalgic cuteness to it, but hasn't impressed that much. Didn't really seem like a Reynolds pick even (which made me wonder if I was missing something). You're missing something. (If you weren't bawling your eyes out by t...
- Mon Jun 04, 2018 11:03 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: the Countdowners In My Place game (CIMP)
- Replies: 38
- Views: 37914
Re: the Countdowners In My Place game (CIMP)
Well, I have been visited at home a few times by Sue Sanders and on one occasion Dez Hazell. But I haven't had either of them, in my home or elsewhere, and anyone who says I have is lying.Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2017 5:48 pm How many people from the apterous and Countdown world have you had in your home?
- Tue May 01, 2018 7:38 pm
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- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
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Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Also don't forget to watch the Film version. [of The Young Offenders] It was made in 2016 and is set in 2007 . Still very funny although I recommend you watch the series first Watched the film last night. It was enjoyable up to a point but the plot ran out of steam towards the end and the minor cha...
- Sat Apr 14, 2018 12:15 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Stand-up comedy
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- Views: 20170
Re: Stand-up comedy
Vine just does classic gags anyone can do. The one that slaughtered us was: I was in my local record store. I said, what do you have by the Doors. He said a bucket of sand and a fire blanket. My favourite Tim Vine gag: I said to my girlfriend, how do you like my new shirt? It's got cactuses on it. ...
- Wed Apr 04, 2018 11:40 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
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Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Next in the sequence presumably being elvis.Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Wed Apr 04, 2018 10:03 pm I use quadrice, quintice, sextice, heptice, octice, nonice, tennis.
- Wed Apr 04, 2018 9:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
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Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Once, twice, thrice, quice, quince, since, spice, ace, nice, tense.
- Tue Apr 03, 2018 9:55 am
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- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
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Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Is it that surprising though? It's "on BBC 3" - i.e. stuffed away on the iPlayer to be forgotten about. No-one would have any reason to know about it, until you pointed it out. It was also shown on Friday nights on BBC1, which is how I initially came across it. Anyway, I'm going to watch ...
- Tue Apr 03, 2018 9:50 am
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- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
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Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Phil Reynolds wrote: The full series is on iPlayer for at least another couple of months
Um...Gavin Chipper wrote: Strange that you Young Offenders fans haven't mentioned where to get it from. (It's a BBC3 programme, so on the iPlayer, it would appear.)
- Mon Apr 02, 2018 11:22 pm
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- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
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Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Finished watching The Young Offenders. Cant praise it highly enough. Cant remember the last time a series has made me laugh out loud and cry like a baby so much. I urge you to watch it. Cant wait for a second series. This. The full series is on iPlayer for at least another couple of months so do yo...
- Tue Mar 27, 2018 11:06 pm
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- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
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Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Just called in here to see if anyone had mentioned The Young Offenders yet. Astonishingly, no one has. So, The Young Offenders. Also, Two Doors Down is very good. But really: The Young Offenders. Just watched the first three episodes. Fucking hilarious , and moving at times, although it took me a w...
- Fri Mar 23, 2018 1:18 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How much do you weigh?
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- Views: 51194
Re: How much do you weigh?
About 12st 12lb last time I checked.
- Wed Mar 21, 2018 2:30 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How much do you weigh?
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Re: How much do you weigh?
Cue for a spin-off thread?
- Tue Mar 20, 2018 6:10 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Truly Dumb Designs.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 15741
Re: Truly Dumb Designs.
We've got this television where if you adjust the volume, you have to wait for the volume bar thing to disappear off the screen before you change the channel. That would be annoying enough but if you do attempt to change the channel, it seems to reset the timer on the volume bar so it will stay up ...
- Wed Mar 14, 2018 1:21 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Calling Mike Brown
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- Views: 3016
Re: Calling Mike Brown
Belated thanks Matthew. As a nice side-effect of your efforts, at Elstree Studios in a few weeks' time Mike and I will be meeting for the first time in 9 years. Which is nice.
- Tue Feb 27, 2018 1:35 am
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- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
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Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
No.Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2018 1:00 amOh yeah , The Young Offenders, I should have used the quote feature for Phil's postMatt Morrison wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2018 10:25 pmwhich oneMarc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2018 10:27 am Have you seen the film that was made a couple of years ago ?
- Sun Feb 25, 2018 11:19 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 774
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Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Just called in here to see if anyone had mentioned The Young Offenders yet. Astonishingly, no one has. So, The Young Offenders. Also, Two Doors Down is very good. But really: The Young Offenders.
- Sun Feb 25, 2018 2:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Calling Mike Brown
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3016
Calling Mike Brown
I'm trying to put the author of a book I'm editing in touch with Mike Brown, but my several attempts to contact Mike have failed. The contact email address on The Countdown Page appears to be no longer active; I've tried sending him an email via his member profile on this board, and also a Facebook ...
- Wed Nov 08, 2017 7:52 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Countdowners On Other Quizzes
- Replies: 253
- Views: 234295
Re: Countdowners On Other Quizzes
He's very cute. Endearingly dim, but very cute.Tom S wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2017 5:49 pmCoincidentally you're on with my neighbour SamCiaran McCarthy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2017 12:47 pm I will be on BBC'S Impossible on 30th October until 10th November for 2 weeks at 2.15pm on BBC1
- Wed Sep 20, 2017 10:05 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Songs that make you switch off the radio
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17315
Re: Songs that make you switch off the radio
A non-mover at number 3: Prince Charming by Adam and the Ants. The introduction sounds like someone projectile vomiting and it goes downhill from there. Up from last week's 4 to this week's 2: Party Fears Two by The Associates. Great hook but the worst lead vocal of any UK chart single, ever. And st...
- Mon May 08, 2017 8:45 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: The Countdown App
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8216
- Mon Jun 20, 2016 11:31 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Cool Things You Did
- Replies: 74
- Views: 19461
Re: Cool Things You Did
A few weeks ago my other half and I filmed ourselves being chucked off a mountain . Can I be gauche and ask how much it cost? The adroit (geddit) answer is it didn't cost us anything as my father-in-law bought us vouchers as a Christmas present. But anyway it's £60 each; I don't know if there are a...
- Fri Jun 17, 2016 11:09 am
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- Topic: Cool Things You Did
- Replies: 74
- Views: 19461
Re: Cool Things You Did
#NexitGavin Chipper wrote:Are you the next one after Nick? The timing could be good. He's unlikely to want to carry on for too much longer at his age.
- Fri Jun 17, 2016 12:42 am
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- Topic: Cool Things You Did
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- Views: 19461
Re: Cool Things You Did
Ta!Gavin Chipper wrote:Nice, and nicely put together video as well.
- Wed Jun 15, 2016 12:33 pm
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- Topic: Cool Things You Did
- Replies: 74
- Views: 19461
Re: Cool Things You Did
A few weeks ago my other half and I filmed ourselves being chucked off a mountain.
- Wed May 04, 2016 11:44 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
- Replies: 774
- Views: 685196
Re: What TV programmes have you been watching lately?
Hinterland. The opening episode of series 2, while good, felt a bit drawn out, but this week's was back to form and unexpectedly moving.
- Mon Apr 18, 2016 11:25 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
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Re: People you shouldn't trust
Does anyone say "thuh"? In my dulcet tones, it's usually "ther" as per "per". Well, "uh" was my attempt at rendering a schwa (unstressed vowel) without resorting to symbols from the International Phonetic alphabet. In the context of a phrase like "all th...
- Sat Apr 16, 2016 10:55 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 490837
Re: People you shouldn't trust
People who always pronounce the word "the" the same way regardless of context. When someone says "Thuh idea is..." I assume that they are aliens masquerading as humans who have made the basic error of not listening to how real people talk.
- Sat Mar 05, 2016 12:07 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The Chase
- Replies: 153
- Views: 86558
Re: The Chase
So when I was on you wereJon Corby wrote:This is exciting news.Mark Deeks wrote:Add my name to the list of Countdowners going the now cliche The Chase route. I'm on Wednesday 16th March.
but Mark has youinterested
?excited
None taken.
- Fri Feb 12, 2016 5:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Who are your heroes?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5770
Re: Who are your heroes?
It's pretty hard to read Andrew Hodges' biography and not come out of it viewing Alan Turing as something of a hero. Besides "inventing the computer" and "cracking the Enigma code" (neither of which he actually did by himself, but his contributions in both were significant), his ...
- Thu Jan 14, 2016 12:00 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 72315
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
By the way, there's no way I would have labelled the meat sausages as vegetarian so I wouldn't have been a good subject. But you probably wouldn't have gone along with the whole stand-up-sit-down thing and so wouldn't have progressed to that stage anyway. I thought it was interesting and more plaus...
- Thu Jan 14, 2016 11:41 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: How many countries have you been to?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 99464
Re: How many countries have you been to?
12/197: UK (3/4), Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, USA, Australia, Hungary, China (Hong Kong airport for several hours on the way to/from Oz). Also passed through Luxembourg on coach going to Germany once but can't remember if we got off or not (it was 40 years ago, FFS)...
- Sat Jan 09, 2016 1:46 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 72315
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
Well, one variety of it anyway. It's called "Brown Ale". Haha, I am funny.Gavin Chipper wrote:And the twist at the end is that Derren Brown invented beer.Phil Reynolds wrote:this one is apparently an exploration of the power of peer pressure.
- Fri Jan 08, 2016 7:15 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 72315
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
guessing it is suicide Wrong. unnecessarily harsh. I could have googled Or turned to page 33 in your copy of next week's Radio Times and read Derren's article about it. Oh hang on - for incomprehensible reasons, not everyone buys RT, do they? I keep forgetting that. :roll: @Corby: The difference be...
- Thu Jan 07, 2016 9:35 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 72315
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
Wrong.Matt Morrison wrote:it's "pushed over the edge" or something, "driving a normal man to do the unthinkable"
guessing it is suicide
- Wed Dec 30, 2015 1:08 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Records on the wiki
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6739
Re: Records on the wiki
Should have gone to Specsavers.Jon Corby wrote:I care.
- Wed Dec 16, 2015 11:40 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C Photo Dump
- Replies: 343
- Views: 55972
Re: C4C Photo Dump
This year's Countdown Diversity Parade is in full swing, but I think this lot will struggle to get more than 6s and 7s.
- Thu Dec 10, 2015 5:40 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: GCHQ Christmas Puzzle
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8137
GCHQ Christmas Puzzle
Anyone had a go at this?
Re: Cooking
I tried to start a similar thread once but it never really caught fire (unlike my dinner last night, haha I am funny).
Rumour has it that Matt Morrison is a fully blown vegetarian but I wasn't involved so can neither confirm nor deny.
Rumour has it that Matt Morrison is a fully blown vegetarian but I wasn't involved so can neither confirm nor deny.
- Mon Nov 30, 2015 7:02 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 490837
Re: People you shouldn't trust
What have you got against the postman?Gavin Chipper wrote:People who ring the doorbell twice.