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by Kieran Child
Tue May 04, 2010 4:34 pm
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Two Towers
Replies: 23
Views: 4124

Re: Two Towers

Brilliant puzzle, I think this works:

Deal 42 cards in pile 1, then turn the rest upside down and place them in pile 2.
by Kieran Child
Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:42 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: TIME FOR A CHANGE?
Replies: 117
Views: 18775

Re: TIME FOR A CHANGE?

The second paragraph there seems a bit much like tarring a group of people with the same brush. I'm a moderator on that forum (I think) but haven't once complained about any behaviour on here. This seems like a tiff between people more than between forums. Oh, and Jimmy showed me this thread. I have...
by Kieran Child
Fri Dec 04, 2009 11:04 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Artificial Sweeteners - Good or Bad?
Replies: 56
Views: 4973

Re: Artificial Sweeteners - Good or Bad?

Since cheese naturally cleans your teeth [Citation needed] http://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/public_health_nut7.pdf I have seen papers on aspartame and sucralose being bad but I pay for them and cant link them. There isnt anything conclusive as far as im aware and it can all be contested bu...
by Kieran Child
Wed Dec 02, 2009 12:52 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Artificial Sweeteners - Good or Bad?
Replies: 56
Views: 4973

Re: Guilty Pleasures

God that's a shame. I checked through the whole of this article a few weeks back and the sources were fine. The basic line, though, is that Aspartame is not 'illegal' in any country, but there exist cases where, because of time more than anything, it had yet to be approved. It does not cause any pro...
by Kieran Child
Wed Dec 02, 2009 12:37 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Artificial Sweeteners - Good or Bad?
Replies: 56
Views: 4973

Re: Guilty Pleasures

erm.... Citation 1 is this: Olney, J.W., N.B. Farber, E. Spitznagel, L.N. Robins, 1996. "Increasing Brain Tumor Rates: Is There a Link to Aspartame?" Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, Volume 55, pages 1115–1123 Citation 2 is this: http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2005/8...
by Kieran Child
Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:50 am
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for 1st October 2009
Replies: 45
Views: 4787

Re: Spoilers for 1st October 2009

ok
by Kieran Child
Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:35 am
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for 1st October 2009
Replies: 45
Views: 4787

Re: Spoilers for 1st October 2009

And yet when James Robinson picked Sue up on her spelling, he was labelled an annoying fool :roll:
by Kieran Child
Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:46 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for 1st October 2009
Replies: 45
Views: 4787

Re: Spoilers for 1st October 2009

^ Not really much of an argument that. The letters rounds aren't an excersize in reading out what's on screen, but if a word comes up, then the contestants are still allowed to say it. The aim is to find the longest word from a collection of letters, and in the collection P,U,L,V,E,R,I,S,E there is ...
by Kieran Child
Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:42 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers for 1st October 2009
Replies: 45
Views: 4787

Re: Spoilers for 1st October 2009

*hand up*
Just watched it and erm... what... what would have happened, had a contestant buzzed in with 'pulverise'?
by Kieran Child
Thu Oct 01, 2009 5:27 pm
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: Which would you rather play? (tournament planning)
Replies: 5
Views: 1463

Re: Which would you rather play? (tournament planning)

Option 2: Each match would be a "custom" round of 4 speed standard word rounds, 4 speed goat rounds, 4 speed junior rounds, 4 speed goat junior rounds, and 4 speed standard number rounds. Winners only scoring (so each section would count the same). Colour me stupid but, I don't understand...
by Kieran Child
Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:12 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
Replies: 584
Views: 70728

Re: Derren Brown - The Events

Looked it up. The ninth guy was Robert Chan. He was labelled the president of Kings College chess society. He plays board 3 for them. Here are some results with him on board 3, not doing very well. Looking at the other people in that tournament, he ends up looking about a 140 rating, but then someon...
by Kieran Child
Thu Oct 01, 2009 3:36 pm
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: Why do you play Apterous?
Replies: 18
Views: 2967

Re: Why do you play Apterous?

Dinos Sfyris wrote:To groom Larsen through the early hours of the morning
GTFO COMPETITION :evil:
by Kieran Child
Thu Oct 01, 2009 3:34 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
Replies: 584
Views: 70728

Re: Derren Brown - The Events

Surely it's just moves. He could come back to the dude and ask "where have you moved?". Simple. The rest of it, such as predicting the number of white pieces left at the end, is baffling though. He could do but it would be pretty crappy; I don't think chess players are obliged to tell the...
by Kieran Child
Thu Oct 01, 2009 1:41 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
Replies: 584
Views: 70728

Re: Derren Brown - The Events

That goddamn chess trick is still bugging me. I think that's quite easy as he only has to remember 5 moves. Yup, and I think he explained that bit on the show. I'm guessing the bit that bugs Charlie "The Rattlesnake" Reams is the prediction about the number of white pieces left over. Actu...
by Kieran Child
Thu Oct 01, 2009 12:59 pm
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: Your best apterous word to date?
Replies: 124
Views: 14873

Re: Your best apterous word to date?

It's not a 9 or anything too flash, but this is my best spot, from a game just:
Link leading to said game
by Kieran Child
Thu Oct 01, 2009 12:36 pm
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: Reasons why apterous is better than sex
Replies: 12
Views: 1970

Reasons why apterous is better than sex

Same old format, do add your own! 1) As soon as you've finished one game on apterous, you're ready for another. 2) I can play apterous with 10 different men in a row, and then Phil Jarvis' daughter, and my parents won't be disappointed. 3) I don't have to slip chemicals into Dinos' drink in order to...
by Kieran Child
Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:04 am
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: Your best apterous word to date?
Replies: 124
Views: 14873

Re: Your best apterous word to date?

Dinos Sfyris wrote:
Innis Carson wrote:here
Haha nopane, no gain!
^ This post is the best content that exists anywhere on the internet.
by Kieran Child
Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:53 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
Replies: 584
Views: 70728

Re: Derren Brown - The Events

FFS can we stop with this "it worked with [considerably less] items, so I don't see why it wouldn't work with [shitloads more] items". That's the thing with memory, the more you try and remember, the harder it gets. I'm not arguing that it would work. I'm explaining how it works. Like TER...
by Kieran Child
Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:16 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: I have too much time on my hands
Replies: 12
Views: 3016

Re: I have too much time on my hands

It says "hot new function word" and then this scrambles into something quite different.
by Kieran Child
Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:50 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: I have too much time on my hands
Replies: 12
Views: 3016

Re: I have too much time on my hands

Worked on mine. Ubuntu win.
by Kieran Child
Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:19 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
Replies: 584
Views: 70728

Re: Derren Brown - The Events

Including the imaginary ones? :?
by Kieran Child
Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:39 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
Replies: 584
Views: 70728

Re: Derren Brown - The Events

Anyone who knows the lyrics to "Life on Mars" by David Bowie will demonstrate that it is easier than it seems. That song is meaningless sentences against the backdrop of "my way". Note that I say "easier than it seems" though. I do reckon that anyone could do it, becau...
by Kieran Child
Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:19 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
Replies: 584
Views: 70728

Re: Derren Brown - The Events

For 50,000 numbers, that would be 25,000 sentences. If you group them into songs, that is fewer than 1,000 songs. I don't know how many songs you know the lyrics to, but I reckon you could get there. But surely you only remember the lyrics to songs because they're generally quite simple, follow log...
by Kieran Child
Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:17 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
Replies: 584
Views: 70728

Re: Derren Brown - The Events

I had memorised pi up to 257 decimal places at A-level and it was fun to recite it. I decided to stop there though as my subject studying was suffering. I believe people, with the right techniques, can remember things but Derren doesn't do this. He claimed to memorise the whole encyclopedia/diction...
by Kieran Child
Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:04 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
Replies: 584
Views: 70728

Re: Derren Brown - The Events

If you know the right tricks, the person with a self-proclaimed worst memory ever could learn the phone book. Given there must be at least 50'000 numbers in your average phone book (and that's pessimistic), you'd have to remember that many strange sentences, which would be harder than reciting a ma...
by Kieran Child
Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:17 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
Replies: 584
Views: 70728

Re: Derren Brown - The Events

No really, your memory CAN be that good. Excel random number generator - 0.510032011109162734 Might be hard to remember, but I can recite it perfectly, and probably will be able to for a couple of days now. Because of this: 1=T (one stroke) 2=N (two strokes) 3=M (three strokes) 4=R (last letter) 5=L...
by Kieran Child
Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:36 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
Replies: 584
Views: 70728

Re: Derren Brown - The Events

The London A-Z thing can be done genuinely. It requires a number of memory tricks that anyone can learn. Start off learning the 'peg system' and you'll find yourself able to memorise a list of 100 objects in and out of order. You will need some additional steps to get to the London A-Z, but maybe at...
by Kieran Child
Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:37 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: Jeff visits the record doctor
Replies: 9
Views: 1955

Re: Jeff visits the record doctor

Well that was aggressive :|
by Kieran Child
Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:50 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
Replies: 584
Views: 70728

Re: Derren Brown - The Events

The technique of mirroring was not just an act. It is known to cause positive reactions, and is used sometimes by psychological magic in order to get someone to be more susceptible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_(psychology) It was used by Derren for a trick called "The Russian Scam&qu...
by Kieran Child
Mon Sep 28, 2009 4:11 pm
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: Numbers Attack Tournament - Round 1
Replies: 76
Views: 8710

Re: Numbers Attack Tournament - Round 1

Oliver Garner beat me 141-131 It was a battle of 6 small vs. 4 large for most of the way, and I turned out to have less of an advantage from 4 large than he had with 6 small. Then an easy penultimate round killed me off. Good game :) http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=120954 Edit: awww he bea...
by Kieran Child
Mon Sep 28, 2009 3:46 pm
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: Words you like like to get
Replies: 38
Views: 4544

Re: Words you like like to get

I looked it up and couldn't find it. *shrug*
by Kieran Child
Mon Sep 28, 2009 3:42 pm
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: Words you like like to get
Replies: 38
Views: 4544

Re: Words you like like to get

I always thought that in goatdown, the conundrums worked something like: 20 seconds without the last letter, then 10 with the last letter.
So it still added up to 30.
by Kieran Child
Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:12 pm
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: Words you like like to get
Replies: 38
Views: 4544

Re: Words you like like to get

I know it's been picked up on a couple of times when people get a conundrum in 30.7 seconds and so on, but in the above game, James manages to fool the clock that 10 seconds didn't exist... wonder what the latest is anyone has solved a conundrum.
by Kieran Child
Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:42 pm
Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
Topic: Monday September 28th - Series 61 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 1302

Re: Monday September 28th - Series 61 2009

Wrong forum GTFO NOOB.
by Kieran Child
Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:26 am
Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
Topic: Tuesday 22nd September 2009 (Series 61, Prelim 47)
Replies: 52
Views: 7082

Re: Tuesday 22nd September 2009 (Series 61, Prelim 47)

Davies has an annoying accent, one part of him should be in jail for assault, and he's managed by someone who looks like a fat Spanish waiter. :D
by Kieran Child
Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:22 am
Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
Topic: Tuesday 22nd September 2009 (Series 61, Prelim 47)
Replies: 52
Views: 7082

Re: Tuesday 22nd September 2009 (Series 61, Prelim 47)

it's a shame that one of the best recaps I've ever read has been overlooked by some in favour of a mildly abusive set of posts about James.
by Kieran Child
Sun Sep 27, 2009 11:26 am
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: CountMax errors
Replies: 727
Views: 91014

Re: CountMax errors

Couple of ones. "golder"? If it's one syllable I thought that would be allowed.
Also I don't have ODE to hand but am wondering if "tardive" should be in?
Thanks.
by Kieran Child
Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:58 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: For
Replies: 13
Views: 2858

Re: For

I guess it's difficult not to say it:

"....add on the 5 and then times that by 7...........FOR 931"
by Kieran Child
Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:51 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
Replies: 584
Views: 70728

Re: Derren Brown - The Events

True point, but I still wouldn't call the eyes especially important. In tricks of the mind, Derren did a very similar set up with getting people to focus on a pair of eyes, and the answer was 'sugar'...
Focussing on eyes are just something he likes doing to create the illusion of psychic undertakings.
by Kieran Child
Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:44 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: The fantastic Jeff Stelling
Replies: 91
Views: 11032

Re: The fantastic Jeff Stelling

^ that was Milton Jones :D I love Milton Jones. You must listen to his radio show at some point, it's brilliant. "another case of Milton Jones" is probably my favourite set.
by Kieran Child
Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:42 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
Replies: 584
Views: 70728

Re: Derren Brown - The Events

< drew concentric circles. That was brilliant I thought. 'Look into her eyes, not around the eyes, into the eyes, look into her concentric circle eyes'. Pretty amazing that they actually reflected an additional circle right into her pupil so her eyes looked like her drawing. He's a shamen, man! I s...
by Kieran Child
Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:10 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
Replies: 584
Views: 70728

Re: Derren Brown - The Events

Jon Corby wrote:I drew a duck walking away from a unicycle.
I wanna hear more about this. Did his face look dejected, like "2 years of practice and I've still not manage this for more than 3 seconds :cry: "?
by Kieran Child
Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:04 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
Replies: 584
Views: 70728

Re: Derren Brown - The Events

< drew concentric circles. That was brilliant I thought.
by Kieran Child
Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:44 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Nigel Brown
Replies: 18
Views: 3384

Re: Nigel Brown

Jimmy Gough wrote:
Kieran Child wrote:That was the most beautifully crafted posts I have ever seen Charlie. A-LOL
:)
I don't get it :?:
It was just... protecting Jason's innocence... how lovely.
by Kieran Child
Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:57 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Do you like Derek Hazell?
Replies: 19
Views: 1997

Re: Do you like Derek Hazell?

Good idea.
by Kieran Child
Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:53 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Do you like Derek Hazell?
Replies: 19
Views: 1997

Re: Do you like Derek Hazell?

Derek isn't smug enough for my liking.
by Kieran Child
Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:09 pm
Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
Topic: Spoilers For Thursday September 24th 2009
Replies: 44
Views: 4511

Re: Spoilers For Thursday September 24th 2009

*hand up, quivering* I got smorzando. But basically lost every single other round -_-
by Kieran Child
Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:04 pm
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Pass the time?
Replies: 153
Views: 16268

Re: Pass the time?

^ Try buggery in the winter and you'll soon realise that it is a seasonal thing.
by Kieran Child
Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:03 pm
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: New Duels - what do you want?
Replies: 21
Views: 2541

Re: New Duels - what do you want?

I always thought it would be nice if duels were thematic. Like, the 3 numbers games all have a solution which involves the ability to spot a multiplication by 7, or a large number of the words rounds contain -ing words that people wouldn't have heard of, or something.
by Kieran Child
Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:10 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
Replies: 584
Views: 70728

Re: Derren Brown - The Events

Jon Corby wrote:Anybody getting excited about being a 'psychic spy' tonight?
Not especially, but I'm actually expecting it to be better than the previous two shows. Less hype, less disappointment I guess.
by Kieran Child
Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:13 am
Forum: Games and Puzzles
Topic: Pass the time?
Replies: 153
Views: 16268

Re: Pass the time?

Shouldn't the time have run out by now and someone in the audience have solved it for us?
by Kieran Child
Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:34 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Nigel Brown
Replies: 18
Views: 3384

Re: Nigel Brown

That was the most beautifully crafted posts I have ever seen Charlie. A-LOL
:)
by Kieran Child
Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:06 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Do you like Kirk Bevins?
Replies: 37
Views: 3072

Re: Do you like Kirk Bevins?

Kirk Bevins is class :D And he thinks I fancy him, which makes it all the better.
He should be star of an anime though.
by Kieran Child
Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:15 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: The fantastic Jeff Stelling
Replies: 91
Views: 11032

Re: The fantastic Jeff Stelling

Charlie Reams wrote:
Kieran Child wrote:We decided within 4 posts to ban Nigel?
No, I decided.
I worded it poorly. I wanted a cross between "within 4 posts we all hated Nigel" and "this lead to him getting banned"
I fused the two great sentences into one AWESOME sentence that didn't really mean what I wanted it to.
by Kieran Child
Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:11 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Ad Maths Problem
Replies: 7
Views: 1727

Re: Ad Maths Problem

I can do this with integration but I'm not sure she'll have covered that by GCSE? Screw that. After going at it for a long time I've come to the following conclusion: SPOILER SPOILER OMGSPOILERZ The centre of mass is 1/4 of the way up from the centre of the base circle. If she needs to do working, ...
by Kieran Child
Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:08 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Ad Maths Problem
Replies: 7
Views: 1727

Re: Ad Maths Problem

I can do this with integration but I'm not sure she'll have covered that by GCSE?
by Kieran Child
Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:13 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: The fantastic Jeff Stelling
Replies: 91
Views: 11032

Re: The fantastic Jeff Stelling

Percy Round wrote:Will you be including any profane words in your dissertation, then, Charlie?
I got the word 'fuckload' onto my S1 exam, and got an A :D
by Kieran Child
Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:07 pm
Forum: Countdown - General
Topic: The fantastic Jeff Stelling
Replies: 91
Views: 11032

Re: The fantastic Jeff Stelling

We decided within 4 posts to ban Nigel?
Image

I like Jeff Stelling. I love his style of jokes.
by Kieran Child
Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:46 pm
Forum: apterous.org
Topic: apterous tournament - Numbers Attack
Replies: 107
Views: 12758

Re: apterous tournament - Numbers Attack

I knew something would make me join Apterous eventually. It may be a disaster but I'd like to enter anyway. :) Welcome. I'll have to give you a dummy rating of zero at this point, which I suspect may be a bit low. Well, presumably a rating of zero does make you a dummy. WINWINWIN :D You are officia...