Where Does Countdown Rank On Your List Of Hobbies?

[Douglas Wilson]

Countdown is one of, if not my favourite tv shows; but I'm really on this forum just because I enjoy the quality of conversation and banter without it being too over the top. I've never had any inclinations to play along with the show or buy the board game or anything.

Obviously some of you actually see Countdown as a 'hobby', but on your list of overall hobbies where would you rate it?

[Michael Wallace]

Good question. I don't really watch the show that much any more - I don't have a TV Licence so the activation energy required to actually go and hunt it down on 4oD is just a little too great to make me bother. I don't play on apterous all that much either - it's a fun thing to do now and again, but I have several games consoles and hundreds of games to play on them, so in terms of 'gaming' I usually have more fun options. Also Scrabble is better than Countdown (imo), but it always feels like a much greater investment of time and energy than a quick wang against Prune, so I've kinda gone off that too.

Gaming is probably my main hobby, followed by statistics, and then probably music (I'm trying to learn how to play the guitar). Countdown ranks below that lot quite comfortably, I think.

[Jon Corby]

Ninth.

[Andy Wilson]

It's up there. Maybe 5 or 6.

[James Robinson]

Certainly top 3. Countdown, Huddersfield Town and 007.

[Innis Carson]

Probably second, after music.

[Eoin Monaghan]

Football first (soccer and gaelic inclusive), then probably Countdown.

[Jon O'Neill]

Probably second, after music.

http://www.apterous.org/statland.php?se ... ime_played
Really?

Mind you, you're so fucking good that you probably spend 25-28 seconds of each round playing your trumpet though, so I think it's probably accurate.

[Innis Carson]

http://www.apterous.org/statland.php?se ... ime_played

*shudder*

But yeah I'd like to think music has played a bigger part in my life overall.

[Ian Dent]

007 as a hobby?

[James Robinson]

007 as a hobby?

Well, watching them anyway.

[Douglas Wilson]

007 as a hobby?

Well, watching them anyway.

No offence James, but I didn't ask you to list your hobbies I wanted an actual rank

[Charlie Reams]

007 as a hobby?

Well, watching them anyway.

No offence James, but I didn't ask you to list your hobbies I wanted an actual rank

Right, because a list of numbers would make for a great topic.

If you include C4C, apterous, CDB, the wiki, going to the finals, and CO-events then it's probably my primary hobby. If you're only talking about watching the show then... way down.

[Ryan Taylor]

1. Facebook
2. Apterous
3. c4c
4. Masturbation
5. Watching Countdown
6. Pub quizzing
7. Binge eating

I gues all you wanted though was "fifth".

[David O'Donnell]

1. Facebook
2. Apterous
3. c4c
4. Masturbation
5. Watching Countdown
6. Pub quizzing
7. Binge eating

I gues all you wanted though was "fifth".

Interesting, I didn't think someone with ginger hair would have masturbation that far down the ranking.

[Douglas Wilson]

Yeah I kind of meant want Charlie said as 'Countdown' being the umbrella heading of all the things he listed. Should have made that clearer.

[Ryan Taylor]

1. Facebook
2. Apterous
3. c4c
4. Masturbation
5. Watching Countdown
6. Pub quizzing
7. Binge eating

I gues all you wanted though was "fifth".

Interesting, I didn't think someone with ginger hair would have masturbation that far down the ranking.

It's almost as far down as those with very little hair.

[Lesley Hines]

1. Facebook
2. Apterous
3. c4c
4. Masturbation
5. Watching Countdown
6. Pub quizzing
7. Binge eating

I gues all you wanted though was "fifth".

What happens to the list when you combine those? (Other than a sticky keyboard.)

[Robert Baxter]

1) Go-Karting
2) Watching F1
3) The Countdown wiki
4) Playing Countdown. I'm rubbish
5) Watching 9 round Countdown
6) This
7) BBC F1
8) Watching 15 round Countdown
9) Storming Rubens Barrichello's mailbox about his 300th Grand Prix (this weekend(A milestone)).

4th, 5th, or 8th.

[Kirk Bevins]

Tough call - my top 3 hobbies are trainspotting, darts and Countdown but I can't put them into any real order. Trainspotting can get cold and lonely (if I don't go with anyone) and pounding away on apterous for hours can also get tedious so I'd probably rank them as darts, countdown, trains in that order.

[Gavin Chipper]

007 as a hobby?

Well, watching them anyway.

No offence James, but I didn't ask you to list your hobbies I wanted an actual rank

007th

[Andy Wilson]

Football first (soccer and gaelic inclusive)

Not a hurling man then? I'm definitely sub dividing music into at least 4 different hobbies. After that my only real hobbies are countdown and getting wasted, which I should really sub divide into two.

[Charlie Reams]

Trainspotting can get cold and lonely ... pounding away for hours

snigger

[Gavin Chipper]

Gaming is probably my main hobby, followed by statistics

With me it's gaming, damn gaming and statistics.