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by Adam Gillard
Mon Oct 03, 2022 11:19 pm
Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
Topic: Thursday 29th September 2022 (Series 86, Prelim 74)
Replies: 7
Views: 934

Re: Thursday 29th September 2022 ( Series 86 Prelim 74 )

Wow, awesome stuff to break the high score with a max game. Well done Tom - dreamland!
by Adam Gillard
Thu Sep 29, 2022 6:49 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Replies: 630
Views: 275535

Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised

In tight spaces, Allen keys should sometimes be held shorty-longy and other times longy-shorty depending on the space. I was always holding them longy-shorty and accepting that I could only do about three quarters of a turn (then remove and repeat) before hitting the side of the thing I was assembli...
by Adam Gillard
Wed Sep 07, 2022 6:52 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Overpopulation
Replies: 16
Views: 1460

Re: Overpopulation

and especially if you don't purely look at it from a human perspective. Oh good God, not again! #tedium. It's pretty much an unavoidable part of the discussion when we're talking about humans taking over all of the living space on the planet. "Let's look at this from the cow's perspective; Now...
by Adam Gillard
Wed Aug 24, 2022 6:45 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
Replies: 160
Views: 12144

Re: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse

Gavin Chipper wrote: Wed Aug 24, 2022 4:51 pm Would you rather stay as a "natural" human or become more advanced? And then people will start asking what it really means to be "you". How much change can you go through and still be the same person?
You should write a book on this stuff (and consciousness).
by Adam Gillard
Thu Aug 18, 2022 7:37 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
Replies: 160
Views: 12144

Re: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse

Also, as a meat eater I find animals being used for sport more abhorrent than animals being used for food. Especially horse (particularly jump) racing where the horses get injured and are then put down. I suppose a racing horse does live a fuller life than an animal bred for food in battery-style li...
by Adam Gillard
Thu Aug 18, 2022 7:30 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse
Replies: 160
Views: 12144

Re: Kurt Zouma and animal abuse

I assume that animals are not slaughtered cruelly in this country, outside of Kosher and Halal. Sorry but you assume incorrectly. Animals are treated incredibly cruelly, both during and before slaughter, in this country, and not just in Halal and Kosher. From what I understand (not first hand!) of ...
by Adam Gillard
Wed Aug 17, 2022 9:41 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 630669

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

Because it's smaller it uses less water to reach the requisite depth for washing up your crockery.
by Adam Gillard
Fri Aug 12, 2022 6:49 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Lexico.com Dictionary Website to Close on 26 August
Replies: 16
Views: 1535

Re: Lexico.com Dictionary Website to Close on 26 August

Philip A wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 1:53 pm No problem. Of course it’s lecks-i-co. :P
What a lexi-con you pulled there!
by Adam Gillard
Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:03 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Is it time to introduce the 10 letter conundrums?
Replies: 27
Views: 2574

Re: Is it time to introduce the 10 letter conundrums?

Absolutely stupendous suggestion!
by Adam Gillard
Wed Aug 10, 2022 2:45 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: People you shouldn't trust
Replies: 921
Views: 394317

Re: People you shouldn't trust

People who leave a big gap to the car in front at traffic lights, then edge forward in a stop-start manner while the lights are still red.
by Adam Gillard
Fri Jul 29, 2022 6:23 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
Replies: 252
Views: 49559

Re: Track and Field Athletics

There may be something important I've not considered, otherwise they'd have done this by now, but why not simply allow the athletes to anticipate the gun? Scrap the 0.1 second rule and also scrap the random delay before the bang. Just have an audible 3-2-1-bang countdown to start the race. Then the...
by Adam Gillard
Mon Jul 18, 2022 7:43 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
Replies: 252
Views: 49559

Re: Track and Field Athletics

There was some discussion of the false start rules in this thread . By the way, I think the time between the "set" and the gun generally seems too short to me. The guns seems to go quite quickly after they've all risen. That does leave quite a small window of available start times, making...
by Adam Gillard
Mon Jul 11, 2022 9:44 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
Replies: 252
Views: 49559

Re: Track and Field Athletics

Incredible news story about Mo Farah. Shines a light on trafficking and modern slavery, which are all too present in the UK and around the world.
by Adam Gillard
Mon Jul 11, 2022 7:23 pm
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
Replies: 479
Views: 164146

Re: Words You Would Have Thought...

Susie claimed today when a word got disallowed that it's all frequency-based. It definitely isn't. I suspect the dictionaries are based on frequency analysis of the Oxford Corpus , so Susie's probably right. If CHIRPSY or another word doesn't come up much in the publications used to build the corpu...
by Adam Gillard
Mon Jul 11, 2022 12:36 pm
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
Replies: 479
Views: 164146

Re: Words You Would Have Thought...

What would that mean? Flirtatious basically, but specifically in conversation. "Baz was getting all chirpsy with Shaz at the party". I had no idea this word exisited, but CHIRPSE is in as a verb, but there's no listed adjective to go with it. Interestingly, Apterous has CHIRPSING, as oppo...
by Adam Gillard
Mon Jul 11, 2022 11:16 am
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
Replies: 479
Views: 164146

Re: Words You Would Have Thought...

Gavin Chipper wrote: Mon Jul 11, 2022 7:29 am What would that mean?
Flirtatious basically, but specifically in conversation. "Baz was getting all chirpsy with Shaz at the party".
by Adam Gillard
Mon Jul 11, 2022 7:03 am
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
Replies: 479
Views: 164146

Re: Words You Would Have Thought...

Chirpsy
by Adam Gillard
Sun Jun 19, 2022 6:55 pm
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Unalike Words
Replies: 6
Views: 1853

Re: Unalike Words

So far I've uncovered the rather pleasing "goldfish bankruptcy", which only scores 80 but doesn't use an 'e'. Must be scope to improve on that.
by Adam Gillard
Wed Jun 15, 2022 9:46 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Countdown words spotted in real life
Replies: 122
Views: 54732

Re: Countdown words spotted in real life

Johnny Canuck wrote: Wed Jun 15, 2022 3:01 pm Probably the best accidental conundrum scramble I've found: I passed ROY D. LOCKE Memorial Park while jogging in Montréal West this morning.
I think you need to work on your running posture.
by Adam Gillard
Thu Jun 09, 2022 8:46 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Absolutely terrible claims to fame/celebrity spots
Replies: 74
Views: 28047

Re: Absolutely terrible claims to fame/celebrity spots

I went to a two-morning Paul Reaney football coaching clinic at a Haven Holidays park when I was about 7. I remember doing lots of heading for no particular reason, then coming away with two photos - one, a signed a4 photo of him full of his career stats, and the other, a photo he took with every c...
by Adam Gillard
Tue Jun 07, 2022 10:03 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Absolutely terrible claims to fame/celebrity spots
Replies: 74
Views: 28047

Re: Absolutely terrible claims to fame/celebrity spots

I slide tackled Paul Reaney once. I thought this was a terrible claim to fame but he's a bit more famous than I realised, as he's come up in some recent articles as the first non-white bloke to play football for England.
by Adam Gillard
Thu May 26, 2022 6:02 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Favourite sayings
Replies: 12
Views: 2896

Re: Favourite sayings

Callum Todd wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 5:57 am Think there's also one where if somebody might ask a favour of somebody you could say 'they wouldn't even do that for their own grandmother'. Implying there are stingy/uncaring/lazy/selfish.
Nice one, I think that's it!
by Adam Gillard
Wed May 25, 2022 10:37 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Favourite sayings
Replies: 12
Views: 2896

Re: Favourite sayings

Gavin Chipper wrote: Wed May 25, 2022 10:22 pm There's the one about selling your own grandmother.
Thanks Gevin, that might be the one I'm thinking of actually, although it doesn't encapsulate the stingy / uncaring attributes that I was thinking of.
by Adam Gillard
Wed May 25, 2022 9:30 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Favourite sayings
Replies: 12
Views: 2896

Re: Favourite sayings

Hoping someone can help me here and that I haven't imagined this. There's a saying about someone being stingy or uncaring that goes something like "wouldn't [__] [__] for their grandmother". Does anyone know what I'm talking about and can help me fill in the blanks?
by Adam Gillard
Fri May 20, 2022 6:46 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Dr Imafidon to stand in for Riley
Replies: 40
Views: 5030

Re: Dr Imafidon to stand in for Riley

Sometimes, if everyone except you thinks the same thing be it implicitly or explicitly, they're not seeking to be dumb or holier-than-thou - they're just right. You're 46, the edgelord window should be shut by now. I don't know what an edgelord is but I think I now understand what an internet troll...
by Adam Gillard
Thu May 05, 2022 6:56 pm
Forum: Other game shows
Topic: Countdowners On Other Quizzes
Replies: 253
Views: 165324

Re: Countdowners On Other Quizzes

I've been reliably informed that "Your mate Krik Bevins(darts ref) was on Eggheads channel 5".
by Adam Gillard
Tue Apr 26, 2022 6:55 pm
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Down for the count
Replies: 9
Views: 2519

Re: Down for the count

Got them all in about an even amount of time, maybe 90 seconds per answer. Good puzzle, thanks for sharing.
by Adam Gillard
Tue Apr 19, 2022 8:45 pm
Forum: Countdown - Events
Topic: The future of COLIN
Replies: 21
Views: 3267

Re: The future of COLIN

I've really enjoyed COLIN when I've been, and I appreciate all the effort you've put in to organising and running it. I'm sorry to hear that you made a significant loss this year and it's natural for you to consider the continued cost and effort of running the event. If you don't already have a pref...
by Adam Gillard
Thu Mar 31, 2022 6:38 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Countdowners in the news
Replies: 238
Views: 116814

Re: Countdowners in the news

Thomas Carey wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 12:02 am Not the most impressive news, but certainly one of the more bizarre ones.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/20 ... 157861001/
Caption competition:
"Big Cheese heads to Big Apple".
by Adam Gillard
Thu Mar 17, 2022 7:57 pm
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Wordle
Replies: 81
Views: 11416

Re: Wordle

How well do people generally do on this? I've never failed, but never done better than guess 3, with the vast majority of games solved on guess 4. Similar for me although I'm a bit more even between the 3s and 4s: STATISTICS 61 Played 100 Win % GUESS DISTRIBUTION 1 - 0 2 - 0 3 - 21 4 - 27 5 - 10 6 ...
by Adam Gillard
Wed Mar 09, 2022 9:55 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Sports you would like to see.
Replies: 13
Views: 1246

Re: Sports you would like to see.

Fred Mumford wrote: Tue Mar 08, 2022 8:16 pm British Bulldog played with professional teams..
Kabaddi seems like a badass version of British Bulldog and is a real sport.
by Adam Gillard
Mon Mar 07, 2022 7:53 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Cricket
Replies: 196
Views: 33657

Re: Cricket

I do seem to remember there being some controversy about some guy's bowling style, which was likely him. You might be thinking of Lasith Malinga "The Slinger" actually. And inside the world of cricket, everyone knows who they both are. ( 88 words and two nested brackets ) Top closing brac...
by Adam Gillard
Mon Feb 28, 2022 10:17 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Putin/Russia invading Ukraine
Replies: 19
Views: 1953

Re: Putin/Russia invading Ukraine

Part of me worries that the apparently slower than expected ground invasion is a ploy to allow thousands of weapons to be brought to Ukraine's borders and then seized by the Russian army when they bring out their big bombs.
by Adam Gillard
Thu Feb 17, 2022 10:56 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Dr Imafidon to stand in for Riley
Replies: 40
Views: 5030

Re: Dr Imafidon to stand in for Riley

I haven't watched Dr Imafidon but happened to channel flick the other day and saw a couple of seconds of Countdown, so I know she's black and that leads me to detect some casual racism in the previous two posts. First post: black lady talks funny. Second post: black lady has funny name. Do you see t...
by Adam Gillard
Fri Jan 28, 2022 2:23 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: No Vax Djokavic
Replies: 22
Views: 2575

Re: No Vax Djokavic

Gavin Chipper wrote: Fri Jan 28, 2022 12:32 pm Dodgy batch numbers.
So he lied / falsified the positive test date to get to the Australian Open, which is bad, but that means he wasn't deliberately infecting children at that awards ceremony the next day, which is good!
by Adam Gillard
Tue Jan 18, 2022 10:11 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: No Vax Djokavic
Replies: 22
Views: 2575

Re: No Vax Djokavic

Matt Morrison wrote: Tue Jan 18, 2022 8:31 am
Marc Meakin wrote: Tue Jan 18, 2022 4:24 am
Gavin Chipper wrote: Sun Jan 16, 2022 11:13 pm Anyway, he's been deported now.
Serbs him right
Serves him right
Took me a minute, ace pun!
by Adam Gillard
Sat Jan 15, 2022 8:42 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: The Countdown Android App is now out!
Replies: 153
Views: 28686

Re: The Countdown Android App is now out!

I haven't had much practice with the ODO dictionary yet; I reckon someone with a bit more experience would have smashed this game - three 9s I haven't heard of but with common letters:
http://jackhurst.co.uk/countdowngame?QX2Og4
by Adam Gillard
Sat Dec 18, 2021 7:27 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 630669

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

According to our council recycling policy, we can recycle things like ketchup bottles, jars of honey, shampoo bottles, soap dispensers etc. if they are clean but not if they are soiled. Is it better for the environment to chuck a soiled container in the general waste or to use a load of water (some ...
by Adam Gillard
Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:21 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Biggest sporting upsets or long odds victory?
Replies: 30
Views: 3916

Re: Biggest sporting upsets or long odds victory?

While we're taking comebacks, Floria Guei anchoring France to gold in the 4x400m at the 2014 European Championships sticks in my memory. I watched it live on the telly at the time and I've watched it back a number of times since and still don't believe she's going to win it until the last moment. Ye...
by Adam Gillard
Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:26 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: TENNIS
Replies: 136
Views: 38022

Re: TENNIS

Emma Raducanu
by Adam Gillard
Tue Jul 27, 2021 10:47 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Olympics 2020
Replies: 135
Views: 16330

Re: Olympics 2020

I caught some of the skateboarding highlights, and it seemed a bit rubbish and limited in scope. Not much to watch. Just how good you are at sliding down a bannister. [...] I think there's an unspoken assumption (actually I say unspoken but a number of years ago I think I did hear a commentator say...
by Adam Gillard
Mon Jul 12, 2021 6:22 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 630669

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

Why don't people riding or leading a horse down a public street clean up their (horses') poo? Are they supposed to / are there laws about these things? Has anyone ever seen someone clean it up? It's been long since established that horse people are not to be trusted , so it would be surprising if t...
by Adam Gillard
Thu Jul 08, 2021 7:51 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
Replies: 1615
Views: 630669

Re: Questions you've always wanted answered

Why don't people riding or leading a horse down a public street clean up their (horses') poo? Are they supposed to / are there laws about these things? Has anyone ever seen someone clean it up?
by Adam Gillard
Thu Jun 24, 2021 9:07 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Replies: 630
Views: 275535

Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised

Johnny Canuck wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 2:23 pm
Adam Gillard wrote: Sun May 30, 2021 7:36 am Clothes pegs have two settings.
In one piece and busted?
There's the larger aperture near the bottom and the one I never used, the smaller aperture near the middle. Can use one or the other depending on the thickness of the material.
by Adam Gillard
Sun May 30, 2021 7:36 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Replies: 630
Views: 275535

Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised

Clothes pegs have two settings.
by Adam Gillard
Tue Mar 30, 2021 9:17 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Countdown Lookalikes?
Replies: 390
Views: 221756

Re: Countdown Lookalikes?

Chris Hare
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Daddy Cat from Little Baby Bum
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by Adam Gillard
Mon Feb 15, 2021 8:11 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: ROBINSON TO HOST COUNTDOWN!!
Replies: 60
Views: 14368

Re: ROBINSON TO HOST COUNTDOWN!!

Cool, she's a bigger TV personality than the recent hosts, probably since the Deses. I think she's a good fit and looking forward to her tenure.
by Adam Gillard
Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:12 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Replies: 630
Views: 275535

Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised

Those things that come up on Facebook "find out your superhero name" and similar are targeted scams to get the answers to common account security questions for password reset. They'll ask for things like your first pet, mother's maiden name and first street you lived on.
by Adam Gillard
Sat Jan 23, 2021 7:51 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread
Replies: 503
Views: 155328

Re: COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread

I am sick and tired [...] you really don’t understand how much we are suffering [...] The cure, for me, and for many, is worse than the virus could ever have been [...] leaves me at the end of my tether [...] it’s ruined my life by prolonging the misery longer than it needed to be [...] Throw in a ...
by Adam Gillard
Thu Dec 17, 2020 7:05 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Obscenity democracy
Replies: 205
Views: 30667

Re: Obscenity democracy

Alright, I read the recent replies that came in... and it is mostly hot air and bluster. Graeme taking a cheap shot about my character? Come on man, you are better than that. And Adam just here for the pile-on, lol, without properly engaging with what's been written. fyi Fiona outed herself, and th...
by Adam Gillard
Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:59 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Obscenity democracy
Replies: 205
Views: 30667

Re: Obscenity democracy

What's this plastic Elvises thing? Sounds like a way to discriminate against a bunch of people to me. I agree with Ian here. Plus some other terms that sounded divisive in that same post that I haven't heard before. I also very much dislike the fact that the person who filed the report and the pers...
by Adam Gillard
Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:34 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Anagrams
Replies: 107
Views: 17075

Re: Anagrams

Not sure if this is the right topic but I'm genuinely proud of this effort having just received a set of A-Z, 0-9 foam tiles for the bathroom. https://i.postimg.cc/Z08mpCXL/IMG-20201214-192752.jpg (The leftover tiles spell "99 WORK X", which is obviously shorthand for "I got 99 proble...
by Adam Gillard
Wed Dec 09, 2020 7:15 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Ladbrokes - Next Presenter Odds
Replies: 40
Views: 11038

Re: Ladbrokes - Next Presenter Odds

Moira Stuart could be fun. I thought of her and Clare Balding initially when I saw Nick was leaving. Colin Murray probably has first refusal though, as others have noted.
by Adam Gillard
Sun Nov 15, 2020 4:33 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Replies: 630
Views: 275535

Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised

Shaun the sheep.
by Adam Gillard
Thu Oct 08, 2020 10:55 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Rachel Riley Post
Replies: 76
Views: 16549

Re: Rachel Riley Post

Gavin Chipper wrote: Wed Dec 18, 2019 2:02 pm Lucky her baby wasn't a boy or she probably would have chopped his nob off or something.
I find this post offensive.
by Adam Gillard
Thu Oct 01, 2020 9:38 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Name Pronunciations
Replies: 11
Views: 3806

Re: Name Pronunciations

A doctor friend of ours once had a patient called L-a, pronounced Ladasha. Citation needed! https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/le-a/ Interesting! I had no reason to suspect he was making it up; perhaps the name came into vogue because of the fake story going around in 2008. This patient would have b...
by Adam Gillard
Thu Oct 01, 2020 8:28 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Trade Secrets
Replies: 155
Views: 42837

Re: Trade Secrets

I like to add a slight honey taste to otherwise plain cereals like Shreddies (with milk). To do this normally requires copious amounts of honey in the bowl to retain the slightest taste in each spoonful. I've found that if you dollop a small splodge of honey on the spoon instead (either side) then i...
by Adam Gillard
Thu Oct 01, 2020 8:24 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Name Pronunciations
Replies: 11
Views: 3806

Re: Name Pronunciations

A doctor friend of ours once had a patient called L-a, pronounced Ladasha.
by Adam Gillard
Mon Aug 24, 2020 9:45 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Track and Field (and Road) Athletics
Replies: 252
Views: 49559

Re: Track and Field Athletics

This is the most impressive Track and Field thing I've seen this year, from February (BBC Sport article):

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