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Charlie Reams

I guess I have a mental illness that makes me impatient with entitlement and obnoxiousness. The way things can come across doesn't always reflect the intentions of of the poster, and sometimes I think you're too quick to jump to a negative conclusion. Something like this maybe might apply. Ha, maybe.

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This really is fucking retarded and I can't believe Mike posted such a polite response. You're so intolerant at times. You seem like quite a reasonable and tolerant person when it comes to things that are distant from you (how to deal with criminals etc.), but in your own backyard, it's very differ...

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Jon Corby wrote:
Jon O'Neill wrote:I know loads and loads of people that think the police do a bad job; that they make a lot of situations worse for their interference.
I'd stop hanging around with them if I were you, they're idiots.

I guess that makes me an idiot.

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This really is fucking retarded and I can't believe Mike posted such a polite response.

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Also there's good evidence that corporal punishment is a pretty good way to screw you up.

Our survey wrote:Parental corporal punishment was associated with all child constructs, including higher levels of ... aggression and lower levels of moral internalization and mental health

Remind you of anyone, Marc?

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I'm not arguing that he deserves to be a criminal, I'm just pointing out that (given the system) I have a fair amount of sympathy with people who don't intervene.

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What is annoying to see is how the ordinary citizen just stands back and watches it happen. Him indoors isn't the type to stand by and watch it happen. He confronted some troublemakers in our local, so they waited for him outside - well over half an hour, mind - and pulled a knife on him. (He laugh...

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My browser started lagging so badly during R3 of today's duel that after I entered a 6 (after about 5 seconds), I wasn't able to enter any more words, even though I saw a 7 during this time and tried to type it in. An error message then made me close the window, and when I reopened it it claimed I ...

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I'm not sure what the old "Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteers be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Ti...

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Lesley Hines wrote:Whatever you think about the police as an organisation, spare a thought for the individuals who are just doing their job

Bit early for the Nuremberg defence isn't it?

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It's not abbreviations per se, but that some are specific to internet geeks that a lot of people probably don't know. And I think it's probably one of those things that we've often talked about where if you know something, you tend to assume that most others do as well. HTH I can't speak for everyo...

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They should focus more on engaging people with Maths at like 7 or something, get everyone up to the same standard then with summer schools or whatever it takes, so that everyone's up. Once you fall behind at a young age, there's nothing extra years of study can do. Yep. See KIPP , or (for Gevin) th...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:I've seen

I think you mean "I have seen".

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1) Seeing as you can see all your PBs by starting a game in the format, could you make this information available on a person's user page? It doesn't have to be as detailed as 'Format breakdown' on Superstats; just 'Format' and 'Top score' as this information is already available to non-Superstatte...

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I'm 12 years old and what is grammar?

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I'm not sure what the old "Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteers be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Ti...

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Some sense on the matter.

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I don't recall the focus on looting that seems to be behind a lot of what's going on now. Whose focus are we talking about here? There's certainly a media focus on that. I don't defend the violence, looting or arson, but if you get distracted by that then you miss the serious part of what's happeni...

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Is it just people thinking "huh, rioting looks kinda fun, let's give it a go"? Yep. And they might get themselves a free pair of trainers. Race/police hatred/recession/Tories are all red herrings as far as I can see. I wouldn't assume that. Someone got this thing started and they must've ...

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What was it Malcolm X said? Chickens coming home to roost?

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Andy Wilson wrote: I guess it boils down to scumbags spotting a free for all and having fck all else to do?

Seems like a fair description of the police, yep.

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Not sure if this is a bug or not, but on the Format part of my user page it says that the most maxes I've achieved in a Junior 9 Rounder is 8/9 - but I've had a max game in that format. The max is still on the Variant Facts & Figures page, so it hasn't been deleted. Any ideas? Was it in the las...

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Rachel is only 24 , I doubt very much if she has seen a penis. Erm, don't you mean 25 :?: It's not like they didn't make a whole song and dance about it on episode 2 of the last series............ http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6181 Here's a tip for life: make sure you guess l...

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PENIS popped out 8 times from 2,686,045 selections (for Normal variant blah blah). Counting selections where it occurred in order but not necessarily as the first 5 takes the total to 35.

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I'll post some proper stats later, but I did find this excellent selection.

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Chorlie - how easy would it be to see if anything like this has come up on apterous? I saw this a while ago and I still feel like it's astonishingly improbable, makes me wonder if it was a stunt. Obviously there are tons of different permutations of words you could get coming out that would still s...

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Rachel is only 24, I doubt very much if she has seen a penis.

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Penn of Penn & Teller dipped his junk in a blowdryer, which is pretty much the same thing, but he went a little too deep and touched the heating element, ending up with Burger King-style flame grill lines across his glans. A cautionary tale to us all.

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If you only underrate one politician this summer, underrate George Osborne.

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I don't like using the notes section for numbers games and was wondering if the calculator thing could come up immediately if I press end round early even against human opposition? This is one of those things which would be surprisingly difficult to do, so it's unlikely to happen. Customizable noti...

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Graeme Cole wrote:

There probably is some kind of game in here. New variant anyone?

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Brian Moore wrote: It would have been quite a clever and subtle piece of humor. Look at the evidence - I fell for the IE hoax.

NOW YOU MISPELLED HUMOUR, THIS IS UNBELEIVABLE!

holes in nothingness?

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When I saw that you had the newest post in this topic I was looking forward to reading some more new stuff about how the tricks might be done. Instead it's a Kinky Phil post. Sort yourself out! I did write a lengthy, point-by-point response to Corby, but after I'd re-read it, double-checked the fac...

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Very good. I still hate Math though. It's Maths, it's short for mathematics not mathematic. And even spell checker knows it's wrong as there's a squiggly red line underneath. ... as it would show with aluminum, labor, fetus, parceled, or anything else where the Americans have had the cheek to chang...

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The Economist published a pretty comprehensive rebuttal of that idiotic BBC article. Well worth a read. Very good. I still hate Math though. It's Maths, it's short for mathematics not mathematic. And even spell checker knows it's wrong as there's a squiggly red line underneath. The first four lette...

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TANDOORI. How is anyone supposed to get a word that ends in an I? I remember it as DORATION*. I could never spot AUDITOR until I connected it with OUTRAID^. Same with LONGATE^ for TANGELO. Yep. This topic used to get discussed a lot more in the past so I'm probably repeating myself, but I found the...

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Mark Deeks wrote:TANDOORI. How is anyone supposed to get a word that ends in an I?

I remember it as DORATION*.

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The Economist published a pretty comprehensive rebuttal of that idiotic BBC article. Well worth a read.

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Hugh Binnie wrote:Format request: bullet unlimited jr (letters attack).

Go ahead! If you can get enough other people to play it then I'll add it as a recognised format.

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I'll look at this properly later, but at first glance it seems similar to the secretary problem.

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Brian Moore wrote:
Thomas Carey wrote:Quite surprised I'm the only one who hasn't put Firefox or Chrome, but it's Internet Explorer for me.
Surprised?

Haha, I was just on my way to post the same thing.

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kieranbray wrote:I'm having problems accessing tonight, I just get past the Java screen and then it says 'Error. Click for details.' Which is rubbish, because I can't click on it.
Can anyone help?

I would try clearing your Java cache. Instructions

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I saw Kirk cycling along Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, California. Sadly he turned off before I could take a photo.

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Mark James wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:
Mark James wrote: The kind of ads that work on me are straightforward, ads that tell you what the product does, how much its gonna cost and where you can get said product.
Oh man, you would love it over here.
I don't think I would like it though to be honest.

Me neither, the dole money is much less generous.

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Richard Adams wrote:Olympic seems not to be a legitimate word

Capital O.

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David Williams wrote: Just tried Googling variations on "stupid dad" and there's a lot of people out there that agree with me.

I'm clearly out of my depth with this level of discussion.

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There's a negative stereotype being regularly applied to a particular section of society here. No, there isn't. The whole point of choosing a white male is to make sure that people don't take it as a comment on that group as a whole. Would you say that these adverts are also stereotyping people wit...

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The kind of ads that work on me are straightforward, ads that tell you what the product does, how much its gonna cost and where you can get said product. Oh man, you would love it over here. Where's here? The states? Yep. Every advert is of that form. The only exceptions are occasional and blatant ...

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Come on, you two must be able to figure out the real reason for that. They need a figure of fun because that's funny, and it has to be constructed such that no one is going to think they're mocking the group as a whole. Given the general easy ride of white men in society, they're an easy choice.

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Mark James wrote: The kind of ads that work on me are straightforward, ads that tell you what the product does, how much its gonna cost and where you can get said product.

Oh man, you would love it over here.

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There's a Right Guard one at the moment (both as a standalone advert and a 'Breakfast on 4' ident) where the striker sends his shot over the bar into the crowd. The guy (with/without BO depending on whether it's before/after) catches the ball, and everyone is going fucking nuts around him, like it'...

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I can just tell this topic is going to be great.

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Yea, to elaborate, the Guardian's first step is 6x4=24, and then he uses the other 4 numbers to hit the target, just leaving that 24 there without actually doing it. I assume that if the Guardian can get the solution with 4 or fewer numbers that aren't the red one, he can, in theory, just waste the...

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is there actually a true "centre" to my egg shape? You haven't answered my earlier question about what sort of centre you're talking about. There are many ways of defining a centre even for something as simple as a triangle . Last time I wrote a long post explaining something you'd asked ...

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Mark James wrote:The Guardian (not the news paper ) cheated on a lockdown numbers game. http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 4293034166

More details would be nice.

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Mark James wrote:
Andy Wilson wrote:Yeah, I think I'll stay away from it too http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loser ... o1_500.jpg
"'Al-Qaeda' massacre"? Why is Al-Qaeda in quotation marks? What does that even mean? You see, this is why I don't read news papers.

You're a genius.

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If I take something like a tissue box, in theory is it possible to balance it on any corner or any edge? It must be, mustn't it? If you push it too far one way it falls away from you, too far the other and it falls towards you, so there must be a point where it's balanced, isn't there? There will b...

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Ryan Taylor wrote:How easy would it be to replicate this for the Hangman based games on quiz machines? Ultimately, would it be worth it?

Pretty easy, although most of those games feature weird proper nouns and stuff so you'd need a good dictionary.

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