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- Thu Oct 08, 2009 6:04 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Official Thread of Brag
- Replies: 1176
- Views: 178021
- Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:17 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: apterous Logo Ideas
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2430
Re: apterous Logo Ideas
If this is a vote, I vote for 2!
- Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:10 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Numbers Attack Tournament - Round 2
- Replies: 105
- Views: 9245
Re: Numbers Attack Tournament - Round 2
Yeah. One or two that I was annoyed to miss, but Ben was excellent! Jolly well played!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.
- Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:23 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Numbers Attack Tournament - Round 1
- Replies: 76
- Views: 8870
Re: Numbers Attack Tournament - Round 1
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...
- Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:28 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Numbers Attack Tournament - Round 1
- Replies: 76
- Views: 8870
- Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:08 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Official Thread of Brag
- Replies: 1176
- Views: 178021
Re: Official Thread of Brag
I don't often come first.
- Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:04 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: apterous tournament - Numbers Attack
- Replies: 107
- Views: 12961
- Mon Sep 21, 2009 5:05 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Official Thread of Brag
- Replies: 1176
- Views: 178021
- Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:16 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Classic TV themes
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3578
Re: Classic TV themes
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 ...
- Sun Sep 06, 2009 5:17 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Namagrams
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3734
Re: Namagrams
STIFLE
- Sun Sep 06, 2009 4:00 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Down?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6543
Re: Apterous Down?
I've just emailed Charlie about it.
Edit: About Apterous being down, nothing about anyone's wife.
Edit: About Apterous being down, nothing about anyone's wife.
- Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:17 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Frustration
- Replies: 157
- Views: 24088
Re: Frustration
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?
- Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:50 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Etiquette
- Replies: 155
- Views: 16451
Re: Apterous Etiquette
They're both called Andrew Welch, and both have a masters in Physics. However, "I have above average looks" suggests otherwise...
- Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:58 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Etiquette
- Replies: 155
- Views: 16451
- Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:56 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Strange Games
- Replies: 295
- Views: 33632
Re: Strange Games
- Wed Jun 24, 2009 8:48 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
- Replies: 479
- Views: 190926
Re: Words You Would Have Thought...
Kai Laddiman wrote:That's strange, I thought that was in.D Eadie wrote:GULLIBLE
- Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:04 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thur 18 June 2009 [Series 60- 2nd SF]
- Replies: 50
- Views: 4570
- Wed May 27, 2009 11:07 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Vague news
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1643
Re: Vague news
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.
- Sun May 17, 2009 5:04 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Strange Games
- Replies: 295
- Views: 33632
Re: Strange Games
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.
- Sun May 17, 2009 4:26 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Strange Games
- Replies: 295
- Views: 33632
Re: Strange Games
Not a single letters max over 7 here.
- Fri May 15, 2009 12:31 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Official Thread of Brag
- Replies: 1176
- Views: 178021
Re: Official Thread of Brag
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!
- Thu May 14, 2009 11:41 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 508159
Re: Bug reports
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 ...
- Wed May 13, 2009 11:09 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Your best apterous word to date?
- Replies: 124
- Views: 15637
- Wed May 13, 2009 6:52 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 508159
Re: Bug reports
Also the game and win numbers aren't going up.Stuart Arnot wrote:The ratings aren't moving.
- Wed May 13, 2009 1:03 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 508159
Re: Bug reports
The ratings aren't moving.
- Mon May 11, 2009 9:13 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Your best apterous word to date?
- Replies: 124
- Views: 15637
Re: Your best apterous word to date?
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...
- Mon May 11, 2009 4:28 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 508159
Re: Bug reports
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...
- Mon May 11, 2009 4:26 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Official Thread of Brag
- Replies: 1176
- Views: 178021
Re: Official Thread of Brag
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...
- Mon May 11, 2009 4:12 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Official Thread of Brag
- Replies: 1176
- Views: 178021
Re: Official Thread of Brag
My best 15-round score. Pleased with the 9s, but perhaps ought to have maxed in the 3 rounds I missed? Still chuffed, though.
- Thu May 07, 2009 6:32 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unfortunate names
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4423
Re: Unfortunate names
It's that knid of thing that makes me wish my parents were hippies.Matt Morrison wrote: 20. Creedence Clearwater Couto
- Thu May 07, 2009 1:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Important issue of the day
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2518
- Fri May 01, 2009 7:33 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: what's your top 10 favourite films?
- Replies: 101
- Views: 11816
Re: what's your top 10 favourite films?
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.
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.
Re: Veggies
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...
Re: Veggies
Really? But I know so few people! And why would they judge other people because of dietary similarities? Weird.Charlie Reams wrote: You're the reason no one likes vegetarians.
Re: Veggies
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...
Re: Veggies
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...
- Thu Apr 30, 2009 10:49 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unfortunate names
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4423
Re: Unfortunate names
There's a footballer called PAUL DICKOV.
- Thu Apr 30, 2009 10:29 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: CountMax errors
- Replies: 727
- Views: 92893
Re: CountMax errors
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...
- Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 27th April
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4165
Re: Spoilers for Monday 27th April
Gyles is my all-time favourite tory.
- Sat Apr 25, 2009 2:10 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Aptominibash II [this Sunday]
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2478
Re: Aptominibash II
I'd like to play.
- Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:19 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thursday 23rd April
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2047
Re: Spoilers for Thursday 23rd April
Ha! I was wondering about spawnier too.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.
- Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:45 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: GOTW Recommendations: 19-25 April
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1268
- Mon Apr 20, 2009 4:53 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers, Monday 20/04/2009
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3098
Re: Spoilers, Monday 20/04/2009
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...
- Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:14 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 17th April
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4763
Re: Spoilers for Friday 17th April
3rd numbers alt:
(75 + 1 - 6) * 8 + 7 - 100
(75 + 1 - 6) * 8 + 7 - 100
- Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:41 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Official thread of scrag
- Replies: 328
- Views: 65839
Re: Official thread of scrag
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.
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.
- Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:26 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 487977
Re: Feature requests
hahahahahaDarren Carter wrote:Kai Laddiman wrote: Similarly, I am the only person to have got ABJ.
Blimey.....
- Sat Apr 04, 2009 3:32 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 487977
Re: Feature requests
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?
- Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:03 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Official Thread of Brag
- Replies: 1176
- Views: 178021
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Got my best score, and beat my top maxes by two here.
- Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:54 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Strange Games
- Replies: 295
- Views: 33632
Re: Strange Games
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...
- Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:52 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Official Thread of Brag
- Replies: 1176
- Views: 178021
- Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:29 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: CountMax errors
- Replies: 727
- Views: 92893
Re: CountMax errors
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...
- Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:22 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Anyone else not able to load Apterous?
- Replies: 132
- Views: 13153
Re: Anyone else not able to load Apterous?
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.
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.
- Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:13 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Obscenity democracy
- Replies: 205
- Views: 31294
Re: Obscenity democracy
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...
- Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:59 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Obscenity democracy
- Replies: 205
- Views: 31294
Re: Obscenity democracy
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 ...
- Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:08 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: MetaConundrum
- Replies: 3
- Views: 618
Re: MetaConundrum
Thanks Charlie.
I can now blame every lost conundrum on this.
I can now blame every lost conundrum on this.
- Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:06 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Obscenity democracy
- Replies: 205
- Views: 31294
Re: Obscenity democracy
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...
- Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:17 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: MetaConundrum
- Replies: 3
- Views: 618
MetaConundrum
Why, in this game, was Andrew given the opportunity to solve the conundrum first? I buzzed a second before him!
- Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:06 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Obscenity democracy
- Replies: 205
- Views: 31294
Re: Obscenity democracy
Too right. Thats the sort of attitude that let the Nazis in.Matt Morrison wrote:Your passive attitude offends me.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.
- Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:04 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Obscenity democracy
- Replies: 205
- Views: 31294
Re: Obscenity democracy
One does not have to be the victim to find abuse offensive.Jon O'Neill wrote: It's much more silly to be offended on somebody else's behalf.
- Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:02 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Obscenity democracy
- Replies: 205
- Views: 31294
Re: Obscenity democracy
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...