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- Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:32 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: DVD Ripping
- Replies: 9
- Views: 848
DVD Ripping
Obviously, no-one on here would ever use software to rip copyrighted material. However, just supposing, hypothetically, that your usual DVD ripping software (Jesterware) wasn't working for a particular DVD, what other software would you recommend? Preferably free although a reasonable charge may be ...
- Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:51 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: My Side Of The Sanctum - A Rude Awakening (Almost)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4536
Re: My Side Of The Sanctum - A Rude Awakening (Almost)
FIX THE LIKES!!! FIX THE LIKES!!!Ben Hunter wrote:As likely an excuse as Richard Brittain hacking your Apterous account and losing to Jason Larsen on purpose.Kirk Bevins wrote:You were more of a distraction as your head kept moving from your pad to the screen.
- Wed Nov 24, 2010 5:47 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Winter Tournament sign-up
- Replies: 64
- Views: 14017
Re: Apterous Winter Tournament sign-up
It means I joined in 2009 and have been consistently more rubbish than everyone else since, hence lowering the averagesRhys Benjamin wrote:What exactly does this mean?Lesley Hines wrote: _________________
Lowering the averages since 2009
- Tue Nov 23, 2010 5:23 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Winter Tournament sign-up
- Replies: 64
- Views: 14017
Re: Apterous Winter Tournament sign-up
In for all three please
- Tue Nov 23, 2010 5:21 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Do you like turtles?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 839
Re: Do you like turtles?
Variation on the woodlouse game:
- Tue Nov 23, 2010 9:58 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Trade Secrets
- Replies: 155
- Views: 52744
Re: Trade Secrets
Ok - this is an Ewwwwwwwwwwww one, but it's quite interesting. (At least if you live in more rural parts of the country, otherwise it's just ew.) Incest is only incest if it can produce offspring. Therefore it's illegal for Grandad to be banging (adult and consenting) granddaughter, but perfectly le...
- Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:58 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Attention Ladies
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4131
Re: Attention Ladies
Of course, all this is assuming that people would put their correct gender and location on their profiles. But once it made any difference to anything, I think it would be more likely that they would. Yeah it's probably time for me to go back to being a man on Apterous. But I felt so liberated :( I...
- Mon Nov 22, 2010 4:45 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Trade Secrets
- Replies: 155
- Views: 52744
Re: Trade Secrets
Thanks for this Lesley:- Sticking anything in your ears isn't illegal, but going through red temporary traffic lights is. (Law changed in 1994.) If you get nicked for it, you do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned, something which you later ...
- Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:38 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Trade Secrets
- Replies: 155
- Views: 52744
Re: Trade Secrets
Going through temporary traffic lights when they are on red and sticking anything at all in your ears are both equally dangerous, but neither are illegal. Didn't quite catch that - can you say that again? Going through temporary traffic lights when they are on red and sticking anything at all in yo...
- Sun Nov 21, 2010 11:14 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Attention Ladies
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4131
Re: Attention Ladies
I reckon it'd be interesting, but not just for the sake of 'seein' the wimmen good at summat...'. It'd be a nice extra statland page, although it would automatically exclude the ladies on here who are happy to play as shims.
Re: Goodbye
^Yes
Sorry to see you go Jeff. And fwiw Bee is hot - you're a lucky man
(Please don't add me to the gay thread. I'm not homophobic but women are just not correctly equipped to jog horizontally with.)
Sorry to see you go Jeff. And fwiw Bee is hot - you're a lucky man
(Please don't add me to the gay thread. I'm not homophobic but women are just not correctly equipped to jog horizontally with.)
- Sat Nov 20, 2010 10:30 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What the hell?
- Replies: 175
- Views: 26460
Re: What the hell?
D'you know, I was in Disneyland (awesome time, wide-eyed 4yo for very entertaining company, thanks for asking) and missed all of this. Is anyone else wondering if there's a thread about all of this in The Sanctum and wondering what's been written there?
- Wed Nov 10, 2010 1:21 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 497796
Re: Feature requests
Aw, you subscribed. Fair playRhys Benjamin wrote:A resign feature.
- Thu Nov 04, 2010 12:37 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Synonyms for Boobies
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1822
Re: Synonyms for Boobies
"Checkin' my email".
That might just be my house though
That might just be my house though
- Tue Nov 02, 2010 1:31 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Body parts
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2816
Re: Body parts
A-lol at that conundrum scrambleRyan Taylor wrote:Quite fortunate really.Jon Corby wrote:Awesome work.Ryan Taylor wrote:Got an 8 letter word one now. ARSEHOLE and EARHOLES
- Tue Nov 02, 2010 1:28 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What did you do with your extra hour?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2686
Re: What did you do with your extra hour?
Love that no-one (so far) got a head start
- Mon Nov 01, 2010 12:51 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What did you do with your extra hour?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2686
Re: What did you do with your extra hour?
Wait till you guys have got a 4yo - then clock changes will mean nothingMatt Morrison wrote:["Sleep", i.e. knobbing/nobbing, though sadly the balance wasn't 50/50 by any means.
- Sun Oct 31, 2010 6:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Mass Noun Plurals
- Replies: 86
- Views: 20622
Re: Mass Noun Plurals
Incidentally, can anyone recall any suggestion or feedback that was taken on board by the production team in the near-decade that this forum and its predecessors have been around? Nope. Yeah, there was a TTT suggestion. Yeah, that's it. But the question was any... :lol: Hope you're keeping ok, Dami...
- Sun Oct 31, 2010 6:25 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Awesome, awesome book :)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 484
Re: Awesome, awesome book :)
Yup. RedditJon O'Neill wrote:I'm a total Bryson fanboy, and Short History thing is pretty amazing.
Try At Home as well, that's a cracking read too (Tho' tbf I've yet to find one that isn't)
- Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:16 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Awesome, awesome book :)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 484
Awesome, awesome book :)
Life Ascending by Nick Lane is the best non-fiction book I've read in a long time (and I really like good books!). Figured it my be on some of you guys' radar. Do not attempt to discuss evolution* without having read it - there are some awesome new ideas in there. You can really see how some of the...
- Sat Oct 30, 2010 10:15 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Mass Noun Plurals
- Replies: 86
- Views: 20622
Re: Mass Noun Plurals
They do put it in the contestants' briefing notes, and it's the identical information at the start of the ODE2r (where in fact Countdown is specifically mentioned ).
- Sat Oct 30, 2010 10:00 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 520348
Re: Bug reports
I did exactly the same thing (and reported it as a bug originally... ) Thanks for making me feel better about being a dweeb!James Hall wrote:The mouse-over text for the Gold Bug is written in geek-code:
- Tue Oct 26, 2010 4:43 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 520348
Re: Bug reports
James has highlighted 'wecast' is valid on apterous but it's not in the nODE2r. Cheers
- Tue Oct 26, 2010 4:41 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Wecast
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2288
Re: Wecast
Apparently the word 'wecast', is valid on Apterous but I can't find a definition anywhere; even in the Oxford Dictionary. Could anyone be so kind as to tell us(Ben, Dan) what the hell it is? I think it must be a typo: reported to Charlie as a bug as my nODE2r goes from WEBZINE to Wed. Thanks for th...
- Mon Oct 25, 2010 8:51 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Apterous has raped Countdown
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2364
Re: Apterous has raped Countdown
So the highest in the series is 133, the record before was 114, and now he has NINE HUNDRED and 46? Are you sure you don't mean 146? Surely it's impossible to get so many points in countdown due to the way the points are awarded and the number of rounds? - Steve, London, 25/10/2010 8:31 Read more: ...
- Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:56 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Is Apterous down? [DO NOT POST IN THIS TOPIC FOR ANY OTHER REASON]
- Replies: 604
- Views: 407650
Re: Is Apterous down?
Sorry for the downtime, it seems one of our technical staff* at Apterous Towers** made a hardware installation error***. The member of staff has now been fired****. * My mum ** My mum's house *** Unplugged the server to use the hoover **** Disowned DOUBLE LIKE ;) :) :D :mrgreen: 8-) DOUBLE LIKE ;) ...
- Fri Oct 22, 2010 3:38 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 497796
Re: Feature requests
Different to this one?JackHurst wrote:Still want a statland page for top Diamond difficulty conundrum solvers.
- Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:46 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
- Replies: 479
- Views: 194020
Re: Words You Would Have Thought...
abrations - where more than one abration happens. Might be worth investigating why abration isn't in either! it is though. It's not :? ABRASION (as in scraping) is in, although it's a mass noun and therefore not pluralised frequently enough to warrant entry into the dictionary. Abration (and any pl...
- Wed Oct 20, 2010 10:46 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Winter Closed Planning
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2082
Re: Apterous Winter Closed Planning
Likin' the over-Christmas option, although is the Christmas break just for the people that are visiting families etc? I'd've thought Christmas week would be a busy time on apterous, what with folks not being at work / college / Job Centre etc. Or are you just filling in your time with all the extra ...
- Wed Oct 20, 2010 9:19 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: What is a pencil
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1056
Re: What is a pencil
He must mean something different if the chat answers didn't make sense - HTH
- Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:26 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
- Replies: 479
- Views: 194020
Re: Words You Would Have Thought...
sluttier! How is that not there? The Oxford lexicographers have never been to Worcester, I can tell you
- Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:00 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Bug reports
- Replies: 2157
- Views: 520348
Re: Bug reports
Today's Duel format is Unlimited Junior, but it's given me the Aegilops rules. Jus' sayin'
- Sat Oct 09, 2010 11:27 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Science is Vital
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1742
Re: Science is Vital
The thing is with this, while science is so obviously vital it doesn't need saying, I've read this website and I've still got no idea what they're campaigning about. What funding is going to be cut? To support which research projects? How much of that funding could come, or indeed does already come,...
- Sat Oct 09, 2010 11:19 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Growing old
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2530
Re: Growing old
I love getting older. It's a massive improvement on the alternative. I really do sincerely mean this!
- Fri Oct 08, 2010 7:17 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Capitalism
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4735
Re: Capitalism
There is always a better answer.Charlie Reams wrote:George F. Jenkins wrote:the interest on money borrowed to prop them up running into millions of pounds
- Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:41 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Thursday 7th October 2010 (Series 63, Prelim 64)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 855
Re: Thursday 7th October 2010 (Series 63, Prelim 64)
Fair play James that was an awesome recap. Congratulations on your first year, and many more to come
Re: Slippers
Surely if you really liked raccoons you wouldn't want to ram your foot into them as far as possible and then walk around on them all day, so reported for racism. In fact, if you really liked raccoons you would wear wolf / coyote / owl or human -stylie slippers to do that to their natural enemies :lol:
- Thu Oct 07, 2010 4:23 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: The new logo looks great
- Replies: 1
- Views: 473
Re: The new logo looks great
but Likes seem to broken. Is it something to do with the new logo? When will Likes be back? **** LIKE **** It does look great. Yes, the likes seem to be broken. Let's all pester Charlie as much as possible over this - a thread would be useful for that, or it might be more effective to pepper naggin...
Re: X Factor
Cheryl Cole is absolutely retarded. What actually qualifies her to be a judge on X Factor? Putting Katie through ahead of Gamu is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. I'm never watching this program again. OMFG I hated it tonight. It was all so predictable and I knew she would get put throug...
- Sat Oct 02, 2010 7:28 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: wtf?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3987
Re: wtf?
Fair point lol. Doesn't bother me tho - women can't be gay. IIRC woman-on-woman is art, apparentlyMatt Morrison wrote:THE NEXT PERSON TO SPEAK IS GAY *
- Sat Oct 02, 2010 5:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: wtf?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3987
Re: wtf?
I can't pay £15 a year. Ten easy ways to make £15: 1. Blag your granny - she too crippled to reach her money. All the more reason to get off your lazy arse and help her. 2. Take some old games / DVDs / CDs / hardware into GAME, CEX or similar, and walk out clutching pictures of the queen - No old g...
- Fri Oct 01, 2010 9:52 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Pointles Series 3
- Replies: 191
- Views: 29644
Re: Pointless Series 3
Said the emigrant.Charlie Reams wrote:All the bloody Poles are over here mate, and they certainly don't work! And yet they're stealing our jobs! It's political correctness gone zloti!Michael Wallace wrote:they're trying to demagnetise the poles to make our compasses not work
- Fri Oct 01, 2010 8:26 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Marc Meakin Reccommends
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2652
Re: Marc Meakin Reccommends
Man, that's tmi even for quoting! Make sure she doesn't know you've posted details like that on the internet, or you'll be back to Maccy D's faster than you'd thought :lol: Oh, and make sure you take the right hand side of your script with you - the bit that lists all of your meds and repeat scripts...
- Fri Oct 01, 2010 12:06 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: American English
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3000
Re: American English
Yup. I reckon.George F. Jenkins wrote:Has the word YES disappeared from our spoken vocabulary. All I hear on television is YEAH, which is American, and possibly came from the German word JA.
- Fri Oct 01, 2010 12:03 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Marc Meakin Reccommends
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2652
Re: Marc Meakin Reccommends
Er, I think you just didMarc Meakin wrote:I DON'T RECOMMEND THIS THO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsS811o2 ... re_related
I take it you're not in up to your nuts then any more, eh Marc?
- Thu Sep 30, 2010 11:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: COC14 Petition
- Replies: 51
- Views: 8123
Re: COC14 Petition
Do you think Damian might get offended if we all went up to him and shouted "Coc! Coc! Coc! Coc! Coc!"?Gavin Chipper wrote: I'd prefer it if we went to Damian and shouted:
CoC!
CoC!
CoC!
CoC!
CoC!
CoC!
- Thu Sep 30, 2010 11:50 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Amazing Conundrum spots
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1553
Re: Amazing Conundrum spots
Wow, that's some research you did. Which method did you use?Rhys Benjamin wrote:No teacher at my school can spell BALALAIKA, only me
- Mon Sep 27, 2010 11:56 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Monosyllabic Conundrums
- Replies: 46
- Views: 5155
Re: Monosyllabic Conundrums
At the risk of staying on topic, SPLOTCHED
- Mon Sep 27, 2010 6:17 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Server upgrade
- Replies: 88
- Views: 6826
Re: Server upgrade
Unless you want Charlie to start charging £15 a year each for membership to this forum and the wiki too, for all the hard work and maintenance he puts in to it, I really wouldn't start exercising too many complainers' rights.Rhys Benjamin wrote:date?
Oh. and don't say it......
Re: Porridge
I like my porridge the way I like my women - with a Y chromosome
- Sun Sep 26, 2010 10:20 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Server upgrade
- Replies: 88
- Views: 6826
Re: Server upgrade
Good luck Charlie!
- Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:03 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The "new look" WWTBAM
- Replies: 56
- Views: 8794
Re: The "new look" WWTBAM
Aw man, the bastards have moved it. It was ace, tooLesley Hines wrote:Ha haMichael Wallace wrote:Doesn't count if I've seen it before, you loser.Charlie Reams wrote:-old
- Thu Sep 23, 2010 7:45 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The "new look" WWTBAM
- Replies: 56
- Views: 8794
Re: The "new look" WWTBAM
Ha haMichael Wallace wrote:Doesn't count if I've seen it before, you loser.Charlie Reams wrote:-old
- Thu Sep 23, 2010 11:41 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The "new look" WWTBAM
- Replies: 56
- Views: 8794
Re: The "new look" WWTBAM
There are easier ways of keeping him happy than that...Ryan Taylor wrote:So to keep you happy I liked it.
- Wed Sep 22, 2010 9:53 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: wtf?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3987
Re: wtf?
I can't pay £15 a year. Ten easy ways to make £15: 1. Blag your granny 2. Take some old games / DVDs / CDs / hardware into GAME, CEX or similar, and walk out clutching pictures of the queen 3. Offer to wash your Mum's / Dad's car for a fiver, then repeat a couple of times (for £7.50 I'd do an inter...
- Wed Sep 22, 2010 8:38 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Million Pound Drop (Live!)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 12232
Re: Million Pound Drop (Live!)
I know. Where the devil did they find 9 people to recommend it from??Michael Wallace wrote:I am genuinely shocked by this.James Robinson wrote:Or if you prefer English, it's just been recommissioned in the UK.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a27 ... irmed.html
- Wed Sep 22, 2010 6:21 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Million Pound Drop (Live!)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 12232
Re: Million Pound Drop (Live!)
Please form an orderly queue.
- Tue Sep 21, 2010 1:06 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Easter Eggs
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1602
Re: Easter Eggs
Is the hypothetical job hypothetically shitty because of the hypothetical nature of the job, or because the hypothetical people there are twats? The hypothetical managers are twats. Most of the hypothetical "normal" people are OK. But it is also a shitty job anyway (hypothetically). But t...
- Tue Sep 21, 2010 12:45 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Conumdrum riddle!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2712
Re: Conumdrum riddle!
Aw, I miss DamianMatt Morrison wrote:Read from here downwards. Enjoy.
Re: GNR
Fair play Tom - huge congratulations. It's a great achievement