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- Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 26th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 84)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1239
Re: Spoilers for Friday 26th April 2024 (Series 89, Heat 84)
A malevolent look is baleful, not baneful
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: RoboRiley
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1902
Re: RoboRiley
RoboRiley’s predecessor was COBOL Vorderman.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:41 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: The Dead of 2024
- Replies: 67
- Views: 12804
Re: The Dead of 2024
bye felicia
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:52 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754025
Re: Ask Graeme?
This declaration pleased my mate-lotsAdam S Latchford wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 5:32 am Someone tried to declare it once as PALATES (pronounced pilates and meant pilates) to absolutely get away with murder
It's totally understandable that someone would go for it
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 5:19 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754025
Re: Ask Graeme?
I think it has to go by what is on their name plate doesn't it? As a general rule that seems sensible, but we don't always know that and people change names between appearances too. Do we know whether Jeff ever appeared as Jeffrey? Can't think why the wiki redirect would have been added otherwise! ...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 4:00 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Worst word ever
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3609
Re: Worst word ever
Not as bad as the Scrabble word AARRGHH. I want the Scrabble dictionary committee to show me one legitimate use of that spellingRhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 11:30 pm Mwahahaha.
The number of "ha"s is so arbitrary, it makes zero sense.
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 3:16 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 321364
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Like a big, long, red-hot pepperMark James wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 3:12 pm I don't think we talk about the shape of the country Chile enough. Just a big, long, thin country. It's amazing.
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 12:47 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Worst word ever
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3609
Re: Worst word ever
ACQHIRE and its derivatives. This is objective.
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 5:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What’s the best three-word phrase formed from the conundrum answers on consecutive days?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3475
What’s the best three-word phrase formed from the conundrum answers on consecutive days?
From the end of Series 59, I humbly offer:
lamebrain dietician casserole
lamebrain dietician casserole
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 6:48 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for 3rd January 2024 (Series 89, Heat 2)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1041
Re: Spoilers for 3rd January 2024 (Series 89, Heat 2)
BROMELAIN^ (the natural meat tenderiser that makes pineapples taste sour and numbing, because it causes them to literally tenderise your flesh) was what I risked in the BOILERMAN^ round. I'm 100.0% convinced I've seen it on apto
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 12:00 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for 2nd January 2024 (Series 89, Heat 1)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1036
Re: Spoilers for 2nd January 2024 (Series 89, Heat 1)
ANOMALIST - false positive or new?
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 3:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 716855
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
If it touches you, you will generally get wetter wherever you are touched. (that's what she said)
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 1:23 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Finals Seeds
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3462
Re: Countdown Finals Seeds
Semi-finalist seeds have deviated from 1,2,3,4 only twice in the past ten series, with those being 1,2,3,5 and 1,2,5,6.
Series 88 was the most by-the-book finals stage ever. I don’t have any statistical proof but I’m telling it’s true. Big margins in each game.
Series 88 was the most by-the-book finals stage ever. I don’t have any statistical proof but I’m telling it’s true. Big margins in each game.
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 11:08 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 321
- Views: 60672
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Copyright on media franchises that are made by big corporations should be way way waaaaay shorter. Maybe 30 or 40 years. We all have that game or movie that came out in our childhood that we loved but never got expanded on and can now never be followed up on again in our lifetimes. (Media made by in...
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 7:38 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Strange things you used to believe as a child
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8821
Re: Strange things you used to believe as a child
I thought Microsoft had misspelt Tilting in the name of the font Perpetua Titling MT, or I was like "what the hell is a tit-ling"
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 6:25 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Friday 15th December 2023 (Series 88, Quarter Final 2)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1535
Re: Spoilers for Friday 15th December 2023 (Series 88, Quarter Final 2)
Was it really them who got HARUSPEX? Fr.
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 1:44 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 11130
Re: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
If you haven't got commitments - partner/kids/elderly parents that need you, and you can get work in the UK (did I remember rightly you're in IT? Must be opportunities via some of the consultancies?) then bite the bullet and go for it! You've no idea what life will throw at you before you hit retir...
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 11130
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 11130
Re: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
I'll be gutted for you, the day you finally get on the show and you're buzzing, you've moved your entire life here and this is finally your moment, and then you find out rob fosters decided to go on as you enter the green room No worries, if that happens, it's on to Pointless, or maybe doing the Tu...
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:07 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 11130
Re: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
In my job I have become sadly familiar with immigration rules. It is my understanding you will need a BRP and ILR to immigrate to the UK in that way. Obviously I don't know your personal circumstances so I would not be able to comment on the likelihood of success or failure of applications. However...
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 12:30 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Supposedly Common expressions or sayings you've never heard before
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3780
Re: Supposedly Common expressions or sayings you've never heard before
"If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas."
Didn't hear it recently but was surprised to have not discovered it until 25+
Didn't hear it recently but was surprised to have not discovered it until 25+
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:21 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 6th December 2023 (Series 88, Heat 114)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2222
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 6th December 2023 (Series 88, Heat 114)
Does the (100-7) prior to the multiplication not count as a split?
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 6:37 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 11130
Re: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
It's helpful to hear that, thanksMartin Hurst wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 4:20 pmYou do you mate - it's your life, nobody else's.Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 11:38 pm Honestly I can’t help feeling like I’m a bad person if I do a stint in the UK with this as even an ulterior motive
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 6:36 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 6th December 2023 (Series 88, Heat 114)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2222
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 6th December 2023 (Series 88, Heat 114)
Split multiplications by 9 are in no way a "kick yourself" situation. Until you're on Apto.
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 11:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 11130
Re: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
Honestly I can’t help feeling like I’m a bad person if I do a stint in the UK with this as even an ulterior motive
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 6:52 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Tuesday 24th May 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 92)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2294
Re: Tuesday 24th May 2011 (Series 64, Prelim 92)
Round 6: D A L E L E H F M [...] C2: fallen [...] Oh dear, Gary mistakes the M for an N, and Liam takes the lead for the first time today. [...] Round 12: V M O D A E C O M [...] C2: deacon [...] N-ybody feel a sense of deja vu here :?: :?: Gary was given an N tile to keep as a memento. I think the...
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 9:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 29th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 109)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3181
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 29th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 109)
I know it has but overlap between targets and starting numbers makes my teeth itch. The 20 --> 20 solutions in Unlimited Jr. are even worse.
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 2:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 11130
Re: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
These seem like incredibly extreme and immoral steps to be forced to go through just to appear on a tv show I can't tell if this is sarcasm? Either way, I think you need a reality check (sorry it's a harsh one!) TV production is a business. Having overseas contestants is more risky and more expensi...
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 2:51 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 11130
Re: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
Out of interest,do Jeopardy producers have the similar residence requirement? They’ve definitely done international tourneys with Brits in before. US and Canada residents are definitely both allowed, and there is no citizenship check from any country. I might consider emailing them to check. Paying...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:17 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 29th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 109)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3181
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 29th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 109)
Dammit Jim! 100 is a large, not a target.
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 8:56 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 11130
Re: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
Am I still a sociopath and a trash person if I do this after retiring? Assuming the show holds up until then. Note that even if I lost early I wouldn’t mind. I’d keep living in and enjoying the UK for a while. I like your generally laid-back culture.
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 10:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 11130
Re: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
Yeah that legal residency document is mainly what I'm looking for more information on. But thanks Fiona for providing a link, it's a step in the right direction. "Live and work in the UK" - for how long though. These seem like incredibly extreme and immoral steps to be forced to go through...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 5:11 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 11130
Re: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
Exactly. What I'm asking is, does it really have to come to that or not? If I know the minimum buffer time, I'd be able to determine. If quitting were what I'd need to do then forget it. I'd be a pretty trash human being if I did that. I'd wait until either they relaxed the restriction, or until ret...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 4:12 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 11130
What's the minimum time you have to be resident in the British Isles in order to qualify for Countdown?
Yes, anyone who monitors C4 applications, I've been the one who's been waspishly asking this for years. I wouldn't need to ask if we had our own but Countdown is too smart for our continent. Mainly I want to see if I'd really have to give up my job over it, or just take extra scrutiny from my bosses...
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 2:14 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 716855
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
If you wanted to travel around the world to include, Japan, Australia and USA what would be the minimum flying you would have to take, assuming you didn't want to use the boats or ships. Geography is not my strong suit I assume you could just go NYC-Tokyo-Sydney-NYC? Boeing 777s should have enough ...
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 1:57 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Interesting things that aren't necessarily completely obvious
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6141
Re: Interesting things that aren't necessarily completely obvious
Montréal is well south of Paris, and about level with Bordeaux. Toronto is level with Nice and Monaco. New York is level with Madrid and Naples. Chibougamau, which is basically the last northern outpost in Québec with good paved roads before you get into the endless boreal forest, is still south of ...
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 11:53 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 321
- Views: 60672
Re: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
Not sure you can have that one both waysMarc Meakin wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2023 2:40 pmI will refer to people by their chosen name
I dont accept dead names
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 5:16 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 716855
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
If the maximum number of terms a US president can serve is two, how can there be people who both maintain Trump won in 2020 and support another term for him in 2024? Is the conservative movement shifting to admitting he lost?
- Thu Nov 09, 2023 5:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 716855
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
What’s a catacomb? Like, a singular, individual catacomb. Is it one room? Is it one wall of skulls?
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 2:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 8th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 94)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1233
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 10:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 6th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 92)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2096
Re: Spoilers for Monday 6th November 2023 (Series 88, Heat 92)
FUNDABLE was an alt 8 to FLOUNCED (r13). Also I thought the conundrum was on the easier side. Surprised no one in the studio got it. What were the letters in round 13? It's surely impossible to be able to get both FUNDABLE and FLOUNCED. I thought the conundrum might be nightcore , but it's not in. ...
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 1:47 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 716855
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Does the sun have a surface, where there is a transition from low to high density quicker than usual, or is it a smooth gradient from empty space all the way to its core?
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 2:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co:Vegas 2024 - Prime time, The Hangover or The Hangover II?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4029
Co:Vegas 2024 - Prime time, The Hangover or The Hangover II?
I am getting ready to decide if I am to move forward with my Zoom-based Countdown event being broadcast from Las Vegas next February. As mentioned previously, this had been planned for Saturday 24 February; however, I noticed that a UK co-event has since been planned for that same day and was wonder...
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 12:16 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: What two words are antonyms and together anagram to SPEARLIKE?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6249
Re: What two words are antonyms and together anagram to SPEARLIKE?
Confirmed that this was the intended answer - score one for lexical creativity!
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 7:16 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 30th October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 87)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1790
Re: Spoilers for Monday 30th October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 87)
I've marked MARLIER^ as no good (someone please verify in premium), although I believe it should be brought in. Reggae is the marliest music genre, marlier than any other. It directs to ‘marly’ but no -ier/-iest forms. Unless Premium has them, I'm kind of surprised that Susie came forward with it g...
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 6:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 31st October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 88)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1183
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 6:13 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 30th October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 87)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1790
Spoilers for Monday 30th October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 87)
I've marked MARLIER^ as no good (someone please verify in premium), although I believe it should be brought in. Reggae is the marliest music genre, marlier than any other.
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 4:19 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 25 October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 84)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1726
Spoilers for Wednesday 25 October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 84)
Steak knife
Card shark
Noonwise
Boattrade
Card shark
Noonwise
Boattrade
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 10:12 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 321364
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
I'm not sure this is that obvious, but "swing" in elections doesn't mean what I thought it did. If a constituency goes from e.g. 40% Tory and 20% Labour to the opposite, I always thought that was a swing of 40%, but actually it's not that . Edit - It seems the swing is half what I thought...
Re: Religion
Im starting to wonder if this generation will be the last to reach old age Probably not, because the definition of "old age" will change to reflect the age people are generally living to. Back in Methuselah's time, 100 was probably considered young. Didn't it turn out Methuselah's age was...
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 6:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 754025
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 3:41 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 17th October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 78)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1262
Spoilers for Tuesday 17th October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 78)
Episode 8128. Only the fourth episode of Countdown with a perfect number. West Germany existed during the previous one. And Rihanna did not.
- Wed Oct 11, 2023 3:57 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 10th October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 73)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1588
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 10th October 2023 (Series 88, Heat 73)
Um. There was a 7 and a 5 left over after getting to 240. Unless the axioms of mathematics have shifted overnight? Not sure. I've had too many margaritas
- Sun Oct 08, 2023 3:45 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Co:Liv II - Saturday 24 February 2024
- Replies: 31
- Views: 17768
Re: Co:Liv II - Saturday 24 February 2024
This is the same day as the zoom-based event I was planning from Vegas - know if the afterparty pub will have wifi?
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 10:21 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: What two words are antonyms and together anagram to SPEARLIKE?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6249
Re: What two words are antonyms and together anagram to SPEARLIKE?
Yep, that’s what I had. Never thought of that specific pair of opposites before though
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 3:58 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: What two words are antonyms and together anagram to SPEARLIKE?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6249
What two words are antonyms and together anagram to SPEARLIKE?
Will Shortz asked this on his puzzle podcast. I have a potential answer but don’t feel like it’s really the good one
- Tue Oct 03, 2023 9:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What’s the most remarkable anagram you know of?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4444
Re: What’s the most remarkable anagram you know of?
Only A Valentino could make an anagram so beautiful
- Tue Oct 03, 2023 3:18 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What’s the most remarkable anagram you know of?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4444
What’s the most remarkable anagram you know of?
In terms of low probability, famousness of both sides, whatever you want.
PRESBYTERIANS = BRITNEY SPEARS has to win it for me
PRESBYTERIANS = BRITNEY SPEARS has to win it for me
- Thu Sep 21, 2023 1:51 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1645
- Views: 1782052
Re: Politics in General
It’ll cancel out and they’ll idolise herMark James wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 11:50 am Now that womb transplants are a thing I can't wait until a trans woman has an abortion. Just to see the reaction from the right.
- Wed Sep 20, 2023 2:21 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Celebrities that are all round good eggs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2241
Re: Celebrities that are all round good eggs
Betty White was around before bread was commercially sliced. Sliced bread was the best thing since Betty White.