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David O'Donnell

None of these losers are a patch on Corby's or Bentley's (especially in terms of span).

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Charlie Reams wrote: Kinda. I'll be doing some work on power-efficient computing for a small local company. Since this is (broadly) the subject of my PhD, hopefully some related stuff will come out of it, but I've got to be careful with all the intellectual property business.

Very impressive!

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Lesley Hines wrote:Have a safe journey and a ton o' fun

Ditto, is it uni related?

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Kai Laddiman wrote:Cool beans.

A workmate also says "cool beans", never ever heard it before.

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A lot of public toilets at stations have these weird turnstyles that you have to pull towards you so you can squeeze through the gap. They do also have the option of pushing them normally but you have to pay for that. First class turnstyles - whatever next? :? Really? I defer to your greater experi...

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I was sectioned a few years ago for what was perceived to be a suspected suicide attempt. In reality I had built up a fairly heavy prescribed drug habit which (and also a fairly healthy tolerance for these drugs), combined with the copious amounts of booze I ingest, had a deleterious effect on my sy...

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I've had a similar experience. A few years ago I joined a search for a neighbour who'd gone missing after an argument with his wife. I was the one who found him, in a field behind my house. He killed himself by putting both barrels of a shotgun to his chest. I then had to return to their house to t...

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Matt Morrison wrote:This confirms Hulme didn't make it past Day 1. Someone delete this thread, it went wrong.

Unless he was playing in Day 1B ??

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Does recap-writer always use OED2r for maxes? Or does it know which series uses which dictionary? It uses ODE2r for Series 51+ and NODE before that, so you just need to set the "Series" correctly at the top. It's possible that our version of the NODE is not 100% correct but it's pretty go...

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Jeff Clayton wrote:Risen to the bait. What a fucking star you are.

Sorry Jeff, I think you rose to the bait. Corby is obviously taking the piss from post 1.

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Lesley, I suggest you take it up with David if it bothers you that much. I don't know why he started this thread (seeing as the main theme had already been done better by me) but like Ben said I imagine alcohol was involved. Of course alcohol was involved. It's a blatant Corby rip-off and as he sta...

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This forum used to be so great These are the words of one on the verge of collapse, let us not let this occur. Some would call this a time of internecine strife; others would call it a parasitic relationship: whatever your outlook gandiseeg.com performs an important function. We do not disapprove o...

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I would have went with mole.

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Erm yeah changed my mind. Decided to head to Spain around the same time.

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Is there still time for me to enter this too?

Edit: Just read about the initial parameters (8 contestants) so never mind. Might watch it!

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Arrrgh, my favourite forumite celebrates a Birthday.

I hope you have the good sense to arrange a babysitter, go out, and get absolutely fucked up.

Whatever you do, have a good one.

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I had a teacher (male), when I was 13, who used to stand behind me and run his hands through my hair for about 20 minutes each time I had a class with him. In those days I had beautiful, thick, long flowing hair ... I know, hard to comprehend. The rest of the class used to piss themselves while I s...

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Jeff. Rachel. Even Gyles. But where was Susie?!! And why has this show suddenly become so crap?! Fuck off! The show is letters, numbers, conundrum. It's perfect; no-one could make it shit: not even Des O'Connor but God bless him he tried as best he could. Er, this is a thread about The IT Crowd. So...

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Steve Durney wrote:Jeff. Rachel. Even Gyles. But where was Susie?!! And why has this show suddenly become so crap?!

Fuck off!

The show is letters, numbers, conundrum.

It's perfect; no-one could make it shit: not even Des O'Connor but God bless him he tried as best he could.

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Loved it too. Moss' water-sipping moment and the whole Fight Club concept was fucking hilarious.

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I had a teacher (male), when I was 13, who used to stand behind me and run his hands through my hair for about 20 minutes each time I had a class with him. In those days I had beautiful, thick, long flowing hair ... I know, hard to comprehend. The rest of the class used to piss themselves while I sa...

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I remember that Vidic, on his début for Man U, hacked downed a player (Vidic was last man back) in the dying minutes after the player had just got past him. Automatic red card, Vidic walks off smirking, gets a hearty handshake from Fergie and the rest of the team.

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Michael Wallace wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:Just 3 and 8 to go....
I've got 3 and 8, but I'm missing 7 and 10, wanna meet in an empty warehouse and 'compare notes'?

Lol! Been at this for an hour and am missing 3,7,8,10 so I guess they must be the trickier ones.

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I give you some sounds: intro and clock music . Dmitry, the designers of apterous didn't use the actual music from Countdown programme deliberately. If you read the main apterous page it quite clearly disassociates itself from the television programme hence apterous has it's own, custom composed, m...

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Paul Howe wrote:I would pay to watch the Brittain vs Hansford match up.

Had the same reaction; I think Damian should do it as a special.

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Yeah, don't blame you. Maybe don't make it piss easy next time.

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Jon Corby wrote:
David O'Donnell wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:I got that.

Have you been away Jon? the standard has really been downhill these last few days.
Yeah, Cyprus for a week.

As you can see though, I'm back.

Ah nice one! ... That you had a holiday not that you fucking came back.

(Though that's nice too).

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:
It is hilarious if you offer up some pretty extreme opinions about something you know nothing about.
I clearly know something.

You really are missing something with your point about corners vis-a-vis the offside rule and everyone is just letting you run with it.

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Jon Corby wrote:I got that.

Have you been away Jon? the standard has really been downhill these last few days.

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James Robinson wrote:
Douglas Wilson wrote:Isn't this some kind of wind up; James said the player doesn't post on the forum which Ben clearly does.
It is a wind-up, Douglas. As I've mentioned on today's spoilers, it's NOT Ben, so I'm sorry to disappoint many people who clearly want to see Ben on the show soon.

Is it Marcus then?

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[quote="Charlie Reams"]

I think the EU is regarded as a supranational political entity. There similar entities around the world.

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What unique feature do the following words have in common: DONE, HEAL, AIRMAN, RAKING, FOPPIEST, SPEAKING, INCINERATE. No clues. Have fun. :) I only checked the first two but found a pattern. If you split them down the middle, and ascribe a value to the letter (1-26 for A-Z), are they the same? I h...

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Marc Meakin wrote:
Ben Wilson wrote:
Marc Meakin wrote:Great minds think aLIKE
Please for the love of god give it a rest.
Grumpy.
Derek liked it so ner ner ne ner ner.
Or if you prefer STFU.
And, YES I am still pissed off about the England result.

How do I "Dislike" posts?

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Since Facebook is well popular and stuff, I've added a "Thumbs Up" button similar to C4C, similar to Facebook's Like button. It's based on an existing mod but I specialised it quite a bit, so it's a C4C exclusive omg omg omg. The button is at the top right of each post. It's currently onl...

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Dinos Sfyris wrote:I've made a cryptic crossword themed on The World Cup. If you fancy having a go either pm me or reply here with your email address and I'll send it to you

Ta

The World Cup themed bit is putting me off; is there something there for the layperson?

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JackHurst wrote:
David O'Donnell wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:Doddy, do you have the Calendar?
What did I miss here?
Pesticide, again.

A-LOL, if you cunts weren't so funny ...

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Just finished my games with Liam.

118-80

93-73

I got the impression he adopted a somewhat risky strategy.

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Jon Corby wrote:Doddy, do you have the Calendar?

What did I miss here?

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Lucy Gowers wrote:
Unlikely that they've had them since 1982. The OED only extended to 20 volumes with the publication of the Second Edition which came out in 1989.

Erm, I think I answered that one.

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If there's a vegan winner, does Channel 4 still have to pay for the dictionaries, or are they on sale or return? Or are they free anyway, considering all the free publicity the OED gets from the programme? In the case of David Acton they donated the financial equivalent to a charity of his choosing...

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If there's a vegan winner, does Channel 4 still have to pay for the dictionaries, or are they on sale or return? Or are they free anyway, considering all the free publicity the OED gets from the programme? They're not ordered until after the finals. The ones shown on screen are the same display mod...

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I don't like the extra 7 points for missing a nine, it's no different from not spotting an eight in practical terms, and I've always felt that the 18 points is a bit of a gimmick. Also, there's no consideration of whether a risky word wasn't gambled as their opponent had already declared less than ...

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Is the target number completely random?! Why do I ask this? Because I don't know the target that haven't a solution. My first game had these numbers for the third numbers game. 2, 2, 50, 75, 100, 25. Target: 720. 721 is as close as you can get, there are some six small solutions where it is impossi...

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STRAVAIGS and MALAGUETA.

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Marc Meakin wrote: Insert picture of tumbleweed here.
I don't think that's a tradition you want to start.

Completely overlooked response from Charlie btw.

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The style of humour is quite similar to Father Ted, with lots of dreams and flashback sequences and exaggerated-reality situations. When you comapre the reactions to the two shows, I can't help thinking people liked Father ted more for its digs at religion than its actual comic style. I think it wa...

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I got fairly lost too as I stated before the analytical philosophers are like a world apart from us but I am trying to understand them better because Lyotard has elements of both traditions. I get the general gist of the argument but some of the jumps, he makes, leaves me scratching my head. I think...

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The IT Crowd didn't seem to do that well because it was on the heels of Father Ted and Black Books so nothing was really going to look that good in comparison. It's still very funny though I did read a critic ripping into it for pandering to generalisations. The female critic thought the episode abo...

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All this question is doing is asking the question "Heads or Tails" after the toss of the coin. If the coin comes down heads, I ask the question once; if it comes down tails, I ask twice. The probability of the correct answer being heads is 1/3. But the probability of it coming down heads ...

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Mine are in my old bedroom at my mum's place. They currently languish under the bed; only one box was ever opened just to see what they looked like. I did try and flog them, on ebay, but it was around Christmas and no-one seemed particularly interested.

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Nick Bostrom has some interesting remarks on this problem here.

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Is this vaguely similar to the Monty Hall problem? Not really. I don't think so anyway. I think this is more "philosophical" and I'm not sure that it's simply a case of proving that one answer is correct here. Have to state that after a restless sleep I am starting to agree with you. In f...

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Was that it for the beaters?

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Is this vaguely similar to the Monty Hall problem?

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Ben Wilson wrote:Excellent stuff. Also: OH FOR GOD'S SAKE.

Guess you were highest rated player in the second half.

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I reckon David's system as outlined above is as good as any other; my run scores +2 on letters, -62 on numbers and +3 on conundrums for a -57 total, i.e. miles away from the top players, which feels about right. Actually it doesn't quite, I should be further away from the top players - possibly the...

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Yeah, surprised me too! It proved to me that the system I used must be wrong!

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While gripped by another bout of seemingly terminal insomnia I have been pondering this question. I decided to see if there was a fair way you can objectively measure the performance of different contestants. I have used a par system like the gameshow guy does on his website and as Jim Bentley did a...

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Jon Corby wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:It's official now. The England camp have blamed the ball for Rob Green's error on Saturday, and he'll be back in goal on Friday having impressed in training.
and I trust Capello's judgement in the matter.

I am sure that'll be a source of comfort to him.

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Brilliant, just pissed myself.

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