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Phil Reynolds

OMG. Is Matt going to be in the final chase by himself?

Phil Reynolds

Haha, if I didn't know you Matt my gaydar would have clocked you for sure.

Phil Reynolds

Charlie Reams wrote:
Phil Reynolds wrote:
Lee Kelly wrote:ano but im just saying that it happened more recently than what they had said
No, you said the BBC had "got their facts wrong". They didn't.
No reply? Who'd've thought.

Can't say I care after the guy called me an ano.

Phil Reynolds

Tricky one. What if it had been your question and you'd said tag-lee-a-telly (five syllables) and they'd queried it and said, 'That's wrong, it's pronounced tal-ya-telly ' (four syllables, and more nearly correct)? I take your point that it's all about where you draw the line, but I think each case ...

Phil Reynolds

They absolutely definitely show episodes in a wildly different order than they are filmed Yeah, I'd more or less assumed as much - I don't know how many episodes they record in a day, but I'd imagine they shoot blocks of episodes with a single Chaser and then mix them up for transmission so you get...

Phil Reynolds

Presumably, Matt, despite you and Sue being in consecutive episodes, you weren't there on the same recording day or you'd have mentioned this?

Phil Reynolds

Matt Morrison wrote:The only decent thing I said the whole show they said they might have to cut out in case it's seen as offensive.

"Hello, I'm Matt Morrison"?

Phil Reynolds

Lee Kelly wrote:ano but im just saying that it happened more recently than what they had said

No, you said the BBC had "got their facts wrong". They didn't.

Phil Reynolds

"It is not the first time the word has appeared on the Countdown board - having cropped up in plural form in 2008, when it was also bleeped out. " just after reading this,, but im nearly certain that dave from ed mc cullaghs season had the same word bleeped out! think the media has got th...

Phil Reynolds

Oh right, gotcha. Anyway Phil, wouldn't you stand a better chance of Damian reading your request if you emailed it to the programme?

Phil Reynolds

I see the standard of today’s Countdown contestants slumped in comparison. Whilst I’m just a medium ranked player in Apterous terms, I still managed to beat them by 80+ and 90+ points respectively Today's winning score was 98 - are you saying you scored 178+? :shock: Ha, you know what he means.... ...

Phil Reynolds

Philip Jarvis wrote:I see the standard of today’s Countdown contestants slumped in comparison. Whilst I’m just a medium ranked player in Apterous terms, I still managed to beat them by 80+ and 90+ points respectively

Today's winning score was 98 - are you saying you scored 178+?

Phil Reynolds

it was a weird thing to choose as one of the 12 responses to put in the question, since you're rewarded with a very low score for saying something pretty obvious. Why is that weird? It's the whole point (haha) of the game. It's not just about knowing the answers to trivia questions, but about guess...

Phil Reynolds

Is there a rule on this show that you can't just give last names? Things like "Howard Webb" for "Robert Webb" seem to happen amusingly often on Pointless. If it were me I'd just say "I'll say that Mitchell's partner is Webb", but have they ever mentioned a Pointless-sp...

Phil Reynolds

Douglas Wilson wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/simpl ... ncur_67869

Did this tonight it was great!

Looks pretty similar to this.

Phil Reynolds

It rather looked as though the producers were willing the two incredibly camp guys to go through to the final when the first question in the Head-to-Head was "Name a Von Trapp child" and then the decider was "Name a Barbra Streisand film". Was somewhat startled in the latter case...

Phil Reynolds

Ryan Taylor wrote:What do you do in the bath (serious suggestions)? And how can I enjoy a bath.

Sorry if this has been discussed before.

http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic. ... 25#p118425

Phil Reynolds

Gavin Chipper wrote:If you've got a "smartphone", just scan it for the answer.

Have you tried? I too assumed at first it was a QR code, but my iPad doesn't recognise it if it is, nor as a 2D data matrix.

Phil Reynolds

Jon O'Neill wrote:Semi-relevant

Do you get the feeling that the people commenting on that story believe it's true?

Phil Reynolds

Jon O'Neill wrote:
Phil Reynolds wrote:in this instance, it would be hard to argue that Susie's judgement call was incorrect.
No, I don't think it would be hard to argue that.

Want to give it a try?

Phil Reynolds

Thanks Graeme, I'm well aware of all that you pointed out - all I was saying is that, in this instance, it would be hard to argue that Susie's judgement call was incorrect.

Phil Reynolds

Just wondering, is there anything in the dictionary definition of MAIN to suggest that MAINER shouldn't be allowed as a comparative? Or was it just a judgement call by Susie? She seemed oddly definite about it. Well, since MAIN is itself effectively a superlative, it's hard to see how you could der...

Phil Reynolds

Ryan Taylor wrote:
Phil Reynolds wrote:Mmmm... cheese.
Not that cheese Phil!

Mature cheddar is my favourite.

Phil Reynolds

Mmmm... cheese.

Phil Reynolds

Jack, when the deck of cards was passed to you, did you by any chance get a look at more than one card? I'm guessing he did a deck switch after the shuffle and that (apart from the bottom card) they were all the same.

Phil Reynolds

Jon O'Neill wrote:If not, why not?

For starters, what happens when the moon is between the sun and the earth?

Phil Reynolds

Round 7: L L B U E I S U T As soon as the last letter comes out, Nick remarks "law graduates will enjoy that one". I wonder, was he referring to SUIT? Or BULLIES? I was confused by this too, perhaps he was meaning that the selection looks a bit like "libel suit"? Or maybe there'...

Phil Reynolds

From Saturday's Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8999062/Nick-Hewer-Me-on-Countdown-It-doesnt-add-up.html Great bit of writing - not - no idea why the journalist believes it matters whether he's good at maths or not, and brilliant how he states that Hewer had never heard of ...

Phil Reynolds

Matt Morrison wrote:It's gonna be Monday 23rd January 2012.

Woo-hoo! I'm even more excited about this than I am about that other thing that you made up that cryptic crossword about.

Phil Reynolds

Distressingly, this thread seems to have wandered away from the discussion of masturbation. So here's an excellent link to bring us back on topic. (Make sure you scroll down to read the excellent response to a Freedom of Information request.)

Phil Reynolds

Ooh. Patrick and Chris (the losing couple from what Richard Osman is referring to on his Twitter feed as "Paramaribo-gate") haven't returned for a second appearance today. Wonder if they stormed off in a huff?

Phil Reynolds

Rhys Benjamin wrote:Try and survive 5 minutes in my school without a sex reference!

You need to provide references for it these days? Blimey.

Phil Reynolds

Come on - let's not piss about! Time for the classic . Yes, serious nostalgia fest! Just watching some old footage of this, Bob Holness is such a classy host. Also, I'd completely forgotten about this I remember when I first found out that that dance wasn't invented by Blockbusters and that it was ...

Phil Reynolds

Funny, now you see I thought the guy from the other team was a cock for saying rather haughtily "It's only a difference in pronunciation" when what he'd said clearly wouldn't be spelt the same way, as Richard pointed out.

Phil Reynolds

Lesley Hines wrote:from my conversations with mothers of teenage boys they all seem to spend all their time wanking like demons.

Anyone else noticed how Kai seems to have gone very quiet lately?

Phil Reynolds

Fair play to him though as it took some balls to correct that on TV. Fabulous cheekbones too. :D (When the head-to-head started I said to him indoors: "Are we rooting for the gay couple or the cute brothers?" We agreed that, on balance, and as the couple would get another go if they lost,...

Phil Reynolds

James Robinson wrote:
Phil Reynolds wrote:Today's was quite possibly the best episode of Pointless ever.
Quite an interesting end to the head-to-head.

I'd love to know how long it really took to adjudicate the decision on the Paramaribo answer - I bet what we saw was heavily edited.

Phil Reynolds

If they have a set amount of time and the question-asking is included in the time, surely some people will be disadvantaged by having longer questions. It certainly used to be the case (not sure if it still is) that the questions and answers were timed so that a contender answering each question co...

Phil Reynolds

Today's was quite possibly the best episode of Pointless ever.

Phil Reynolds

See Simon Curtis who is ridiculed (wrongly) ( see the 2008 Mastermind champion's blog ) for his performance on the show. I'm not too sure what happened there since the questions seemed to be mostly the sort of thing someone ought to know if they were a fan of Jim Carrey's films and had watched at l...

Phil Reynolds

It's the main reason I don't make a habit of watching it - seeing people answering very specific questions about subjects I have no knowledge of is just a bit tedious. Agreed. Can anyone explain the appeal? The play-along factor may be the reason why in recent series they've made the general knowle...

Phil Reynolds

Michael Wallace wrote:[...I] would probably have guessed Justified because who else would it be?

Bizarrely, although I didn't know it, something at the back of my mind was saying *NSYNC for that one so I could have made a good (albeit wrong) guess. (The only one I knew on that pass was Scissor Sisters' Ta-Dah.)

Phil Reynolds

Jon Corby wrote:the albums question was a right bitch for those two poor older ladies

And not just for older ladies. I knew precisely one answer in each pass.

Phil Reynolds

Jon Corby wrote:"cremation in Britain" sounds like it could be a reasonable subject

It's certainly a hot topic.

Phil Reynolds

there must be a really huge variety in the depth of people's specialist subjects, celebrity edition or otherwise. Of course, and many nominated specialist subjects have been rejected, in some cases presumably for being too narrow. The Wikipedia article lists a few: Routes to anywhere in mainland Br...

Phil Reynolds

Jon Corby wrote:I wonder how they decide what a valid "specialist subject" is? Surely there's a huge difference in depth?

The criteria for the celebrity editions appear to be relaxed somewhat, as is the difficulty of the general knowledge questions.

Phil Reynolds

Julie T wrote:Crap hoax, but then I'd read the bollix comment before viewing. Why don't youtube remove it?

Why should YouTube remove it? It hardly qualifies as a "hoax" anyway, unless you can't read, seeing as the opening title says GAGFILMS in large cartoony letters.

Phil Reynolds

Another Countdown clip on It'll Be Alright On The Night 2 tonight. Rachel seemingly not able to contain laughter at summat to do with COTTAGER in S63. Had on mute, so don't know exactly what. I wasn't watching properly but one of the contestants declared COTTAGE so Rachel may have been laughing at ...

Phil Reynolds

From a report in our local paper today about the norovirus outbreak at Warwick Hospital:

"[Visitors are asked] not to bring food or come if they have had diarrhoea or sickness in the last 48 hours."

Phil Reynolds

But I did sort of think with my limited PC skillz that zipping them all in one place would keep the music in tact but when I tested it by downloading it on to my other laptop it didn't work. Did you perhaps attempt to run it by double clicking on the PPT file in the zip contents? This will unzip th...

Phil Reynolds

Ben Wilson wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apZBqdR_sjU

Yeah, this one's for you Phil.

Awwww.

Phil Reynolds

I promised the answers on Christmas Eve and yay, C4C's come back just in time for me to not be a welsher (although still Welsh). Here they are; for the more obscure answers I've suggested links to places where you might have found them. 12 S C N on the R W M T 12 Series Champions' Names on the Richa...

Phil Reynolds

You'll hate this Andy, it's so not your style of music. But I love it, and it always pisses me off at this time of year that they constantly play that Chris Rea 'Driving Home for Christmas' song on the radio when there's a much better driving-home song they could be playing instead. OK, so it's not ...

Phil Reynolds

I think that theatre question is the only one he was annoyed about watching back [...] Actually, no. He's most annoyed about the Kepler's laws question Wow. Well, I suppose it's understandable that he's berating himself slightly, but he shouldn't too much because the team won by a satisfying margin...

Phil Reynolds

Karran was brilliant again, great viewing. Indeed, and some terrific answers too; although after Paxo's observation during the intros that "when UCL are right, they're right... and when they're wrong, they're very, very wrong," I was glad CF didn't disappoint with the suggestion that thea...

Phil Reynolds

Clue to question 6: The link is C4C-related.

Phil Reynolds

Joseph Krol wrote:Sean Lock and someone else as contestants

The Radio Times listing says it's Jon Richardson.

Phil Reynolds

Michael Wallace wrote:no-one trusts statistics

Try saying that aloud.

Phil Reynolds

Looks unreadably small on my screen. I set it to size=10. Ah right. Just remembered that ages ago I got so annoyed with websites that have unreadably small text that I set the minimum font size in Firefox to 10pt, at which it has evidently remained ever since, surviving several Firefox upgrades and...

Phil Reynolds

Another one correct - well done Graeme. By the way, there seems to be something strangely apt about the fact that your idea of hiding is to make yourself very slightly smaller while still perfectly visible...

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