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...The title of this thread is REALLY obvious things that you've just realised. Yeah, a couple of people - mentioning no names - seem to have misinterpreted the point of this thread. Anyway, back on topic. Until a few years ago, I used to think that this song (sorry for the poor quality of the vide...

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I think this is a good point because if you're driving through somewhere, you can still see a lot of the place and take in the sights etc. As another f'instance, I've probably driven through (or been driven through) Liverpool more than a hundred times but the only time I got out of the car was to h...

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Ben Wilson wrote:I introduce myself as 'James Thorn'.

Now there's your subconscious doing stuff; I know it was 13 years ago now but I reckon if you think really hard, you'll remember where that came from...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:I used to think that a buffoon was a type of animal. I also had no idea that a jackass actually was a type of animal.

Now this is the sort of thing I was looking for.

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West Virginia (sort of - drove through without stopping) Of course this doesn't count. Fuck's sake, Gev. If you've left the vehicle in which you are travelling through a country and been outside it for more than 10 minutes, it counts. Did you even spend 10+ minutes outside the vehicle in Indiana? T...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:New Jersey
Pennsylvania
West Virginia (sort of - drove through without stopping)
Ohio
Indiana (pretty sure we stopped)
Missouri
Colorado

Quite impressive to visit all the most boring states in one go. You'll be going to Utah next, I reckon.

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http://legalnamefraud.com/ Assuming (in that you linked) you know a bit about this, can you summarise? I have seen one or two massive billboard posters in London with the "illegal to use a legal name" message that have been up for many months but as they never had a URL on them or anythin...

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Anthony Endsor wrote:Not my best year for Co Events...

Ah, but Anthony, you were at the very first COLIN all those years ago and no-one can take that away from you, and you're still doing it now. That's some staying power, which is far more important than winning if you ask me.

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Mark Deeks wrote:It didn't happen.

I wrote "people". You're just one person. And anyway, you're only putting that for comic effect, because after all, somebody had to.

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GANDISEEG is an example of the Mandela effect. No, GANDISEEG is an example of the opposite, because it actually happened and nobody believes that it didn't happen and we all saw it. Some of it even were involved in it! Loads of us have got it recorded from when it was first broadcast! Now, it would...

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Charlie Reams wrote:
JimBentley wrote:Can you wiggle it (without touching it, obviously)?
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You mean ... surely?

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Hi guys. I am the guy who wrote this game. I'm sorry some of you didn't like my game! I wrote it over the course of 2 evenings, basically as a joke, after meeting banzaikitten in IRC. It isn't intended to be a 100% accurate reconstruction of countdown, it's a just a bit of fun for us to play on IRC...

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Weird question in University Challenge stated "To the nearest factor of 10", where the eventual answer was 80. That's a multiple of 10 and not a factor unless they've changed maths again? It's the question-setter's fault, undoubtedly, but have you noticed that Paxman almost seems to take ...

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Ryan Taylor wrote:Double jointed right thumb:

Can you wiggle it? I had a mate at school who used to be able to do that; freakiest thing you ever saw.

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Matt Morrison wrote:Turned off on C4C?

I always suspected this. Linethrough is one of my favourites and it's not on here. Seriously, this has been a cause of angst in the past.

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All makes sense so far, I think. It's all just mis-remembered stuff and the memory filling in gaps when needed.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE FOLKS.

Except...oh, I don't know. There's something to it, I just can't quite "get" it yet.

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American Football are back it seems. No longer will they be able to be featured on the list of great bands who only had one album (if you heaven't heard said album you should check it out). Their new song is top stuff too https://soundcloud.com/american-football Their search engine optimisation mus...

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I loved the Berenstein (stain apparently) bears as a kid and still have some of the books to show Indra. I assumed it must be an American thing because I hadn't heard of them, which is quite interesting in itself (in that it shows my appalling cultural bias for a start). Were they a big thing in th...

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I loved the Berenstein (stain apparently) bears as a kid and still have some of the books to show Indra. I assumed it must be an American thing because I hadn't heard of them, which is quite interesting in itself (in that it shows my appalling cultural bias for a start). Were they a big thing in th...

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Mark James wrote:Didn't they say that was one the control questions?

They did, and still not everyone gets it right. That one I think averages about 95% but the other control question only got about about 75%, which kind of suggests that they were rubbish control questions to begin with.

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Jim, it was Bob Paisley that turned Liverpool into the dominant force in English and European football, they certainly weren't before he took over, only 1 League Title, 1 FA Cup and 1 UEFA Cup in the previous 8 seasons more than backs this up. That was kind of my point. They were already a big team...

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I hold pencils in an odd way, with my thumb on one side of the pencil, bent backwards, and the support of all four other fingers necessary on the other side I do this too. I'm guessing both of you are left-handed? Nope. That's interesting. I've only ever come across it in left-handed people who wer...

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I hold pencils in an odd way, with my thumb on one side of the pencil, bent backwards, and the support of all four other fingers necessary on the other side I do this too. I'm guessing both of you are left-handed? Nope. That's interesting. I've only ever come across it in left-handed people who wer...

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Pretty rubbish quiz really. I got a low score simply because I didn't know the answers and then it accuses me of being Mandelaed. Fuck off. I agree that the "quiz" is a load of shit due to cultural and generational bias, but it is (more or less) aimed at people of our generation (as I men...

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Bob Paisley and Kenny Dalglish two of Britain's greatest ever Football people, only ever got minor honours for all their magnificent achievements, while these Olympic Rowers/Cyclists/Athletes seem to get Knighthoods/Damehoods at the drop of a hat. To be fair, Bob Paisley (OBE) and Kenny Dalglish (M...

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Peter Mabey wrote:13/22 - my memory does seem to be going, but I'd never heard of those bears.

As I mentioned before, I think they must be more of an American thing. I think there's a bit of a cultural bias problem in the test as a whole.

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I have been thinking that the major ( no pun intended ) factor in our superb medal haul was either John Major, Lord Coe or WADA. Though probably a combination of all three. It's pretty much seems to be acknowledged that it was the Major government (which included Coe) diverting some Lottery money t...

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Inevitable, but this is going to be fun. I've no particular beef with any of our Olympians being given honours; after all, pretty much anyone with a political (or even broadly public service) career gets some sort of honour when they go, even if they were so conformist as to be unnoticeable. Even th...

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Marc Meakin wrote:Have I just stumbled into an episode of Mr Robot ?

Yes. But for you, Marc, that train has passed.

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And I guessed the doomsday cult one. This is actually one of the ones that I knew instantly, despite (I think) it being one of the ones that the majority of people taking the test get wrong. Maybe it just stuck in my head for being so ridiculous a thing (Branch Davidians) - seemingly unrelated to a...

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But every single copy of the film I can track down has her with perfect teeth, no braces. However, I assume this is my brain going wrong rather than some mysterious woo style conspiracy to change reality. My brain must have gone even more wrong than yours then, because not only do I remember the br...

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Johnny Canuck wrote:I hold pencils in an odd way, with my thumb on one side of the pencil, bent backwards, and the support of all four other fingers necessary on the other side

Ryan Taylor wrote:I do this too.

I'm guessing both of you are left-handed?

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I would have got 18 but mixed up the amount of missions with the amount of people who walked on the moon. I also had no idea on the blood type question. Most of the stuff was stuff I knew people tend to get wrong. Only the Berenstain Bears thing freaks me out because it's the clearest memory I have...

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Mark James wrote:http://www.doquizzes.com/QRVR3A

This is pretty cool. I got 16/22.

19/22 for me. The only ones I got "wrong" were things that I'd heard of, but have no interest in (Interview with a/the Vampire, Sex and/in the City and another one I can't remember).

I am MR. RATIONAL.

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I'd not heard of this bizarre "thing" - The Mandela Effect - until a couple of months ago, but apparently it's been doing the rounds for a few years. Basically it seems to come down to (a) believers in such an "effect" and (b) people misremembering things. The thing that gets me ...

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I've never posted in this topic before. How exciting!

Down right now, I'm afraid.

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Yeah, I play it where you're not allowed external help (so no googling), but obviously you can move. Usually a 5 minute time limit is fun My method is just the SUPER HARDCORE way of playing. Your way sounds much better, though, I think I'll start playing that way from now on. I think I got a bit ad...

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The best score I ever got on this was by googling the name of the company that featured on a logo on the side of a truck in the picture that I could just about make out. It was in Portland, Oregon if remember correctly. I don't like to do stuff like that, it doesn't seem in the spirit of the thing,...

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The end. If you entered, you'll have received a PM; if not, why are you even reading this? Your participation has been appreciated. I was still reading because I was expecting a countdown to 01, not for you to stop at 03. What a gyp! I wanted it to stop at (0)07 because it would have been funny, be...

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Have we done this one yet? https://geoguessr.com/ Whatever, I am absolutely shite at this. "Somewhere in Poland?" Nah, it's Colombia. "That must be in Australia!" No, it's in Botswana. I do play to a strict rule of not moving from the initial spot though, I'm sure it would be a l...

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Jim, I've been meaning to ask, why did you have 1GQAYsGQ3D5dZGtyJfDBD2M7Tgc6qZ4x5W in your signature a few weeks ago, which you then changed to 949804e3-ff9e-4456-9009-ab8af7de6f26? I puzzled over them at the time but couldn't decipher what they meant. It now says "Why are you reading this? Th...

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07...06

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08

Current best score 3 (from a max of 16).

(I think it's only fair to mention that this puzzle isn't just running here; outside of c4c, 7/16 currently leads the pack).

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Cheers to the estimable Mr. Cole for demonstrating what I couldn't be bothered to! Now, Steven:

Steven M. McCann wrote:I have believed...I half recall...had x done y...would have been...

Do you understand why you are going wrong with this?

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The last letters selection seems to be producing more and more "nines", coincidence or deliberate? I was going to attempt to reply to this with HARD MATHS to show how astronomically unlikely the coincidence would have to be, but on second thoughts, it's just too stupid to bother with. And...

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Were the Rio Tennis Officials on Andy Murray to win Gold? nearly every time he was in trouble he would get a shocking call in his favour, throughout the Tournament. Reminiscent of the sort of treatment visiting teams at Old Trafford used to get, in the Ferguson era. If that's what you thought was h...

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Would that be like Rory Linear making a Buckaroo advert . Needs some explanation. This chap has no obvious ironic associations that would make your comment clear! http://www.whitepages.com/name/Rory-M-Linear/Van-Nuys-CA/8z1xd56 Roy Kinnear. Chubby comic actor fella out of the 1970s and 80s who died...

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Matt Morrison wrote:caracassixtyeightguinearamsaymacdonaldthirtyfive

+1

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- Whenever I hear the word "monorail" (admittedly not that often) I have to say "But I hear those things are awfully loud!" in a musical theatre stylee; Many people here in North America have a similar trait; with myself and several people I know, any mention of "monorail&q...

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Susie was on The Museum of Curiosity on Radio 4 yesterday. They talk about Countdown for a bit, about seven minutes in. John Lloyd mentions that "they did a pilot in America, in 1990, of Countdown. Each contestant had a celebrity partner, they had wildcard letter tiles, no numbers round at all...

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I forgot to post this the other day (I was playing as 'Standard' as I just choose a random word to log in as): http://www.fahnn.co.uk/images/carbonate.png My answer was in about 15 seconds and it took a further 25 seconds for that message to appear to say that it went unsolved. It's not case-sensiti...

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I'm sure most of you remember that "don't drink and drive" advert of a few years back, which used Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime" ("have a drink have a drive, go out and see what you can find") which initially seemed incongruous until the advert did the reveal at the ...

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I'm aware that obsessive-compulsive disorder can be a fucker and can really mess some people up, but that's a psychological thing. What I'm after is stupid harmless habits that you might have. Not superstitions though. Avoiding the cracks in the pavement, counting magpies and crap like opening umbre...

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The BBC red button coverage is equally bad as it doesn't seem to offer a choice; it's like guesswork what's going to be on there. So I'm just watching on the website now, there's about ten times as much that you can watch live on there and crucially you can actually choose what you want to watch. T...

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