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Michael Wallace

Yep agree about the electronic thing, all it has going for it is that it's a bit shinier, but it loses a level of 'authenticity' -when I first saw the final game I thought it was an electronic screen and was a bit "wtf". I reckon one thing they've really missed out on is the play along at ...

Michael Wallace

We're just watching the first episode, having heard so much about it, and it's just awful. I was particularly amused by the arrow catching game (which is a pretty badass thing), but since it ended in a draw they then just had to basically do a coin toss, IT'S ALMOST LIKE THAT IS HOW THE WHOLE SHOW W...

Michael Wallace

Righto, well we'll give watching it without skipping a go again. I just get a bit fed up, particularly with the shittier multiple choice rounds, hearing contestant after contestant explain why they're picking one answer at random over another gets a bit tedious. But I'll give it a go.

Michael Wallace

What.

Michael Wallace

Awesome tweet selection, and yeah, #universitychallenge was pretty hilarious last night. I reckon any future episodes will have to include a drinking game where you drink every time someone tweets that CF looks like Brian May/Edward Scissorhands/Zaphod Beeblebrox.

Michael Wallace

Jon O'Neill wrote:http://twitter.com/#!/search/karren, obviously.

Except it's spelt Karran. #universitychallenge is being entertaining though.

Michael Wallace

I watch both on demand, but I reckon if I had to watch one live it would be The Chase. Pointles has way more fluff I think - you can get through an episode in about 11 minutes on iPlayer with good skipping, whereas The Chase has a lot more content (Chaser banter is technically fluff I guess, but it'...

Michael Wallace

Matt Morrison wrote:Does that mean he wins, or makes a tit of himself? I'm hoping both.

Well, empirically...

Michael Wallace

I'll just leave this here for now.

Michael Wallace

CO:LON 2011 is now full up. Thanks to those who have signed up (and paid), although there are a few stragglers who I'll be chasing up soon enough. If you haven't signed up but would like the chance to attend, send me an email and I can put you on the waiting list.

Michael Wallace

with a finite number of spaces they're liable to run out How many spaces are there and how soon do you reckon they'll be filled? I'm not sure when I'll know for sure if I can come or not. Last year we managed to fit 30 people in, and with 16 people already paid up (and a few pending) it's looking l...

Michael Wallace

WAHEY!!! The J-Master is back from my Welsh trip and seem to have stumbled upon the event of the year! Count me in! ;) :) :D :mrgreen: 8-) James - you seem to have sent payment without emailing me first. This is potentially a bit risky because with a finite number of spaces they're liable to run ou...

Michael Wallace

THANKYOU FOR THE £20 FREE GIFT MATTHEW

Michael Wallace

Us obviously. Can't wait. WHERE IS YOUR EMAIL MATTHEW??? :evil: I don't bother with e-mails. I just pay straight away. (Once I can find your PayPal address from last year.) (Or maybe load up the brand new website again.) Also do you like what I've done with this post subject? If you send me any mon...

Michael Wallace

I thought this thread was going to be you announcing that you were getting married. Or having a sex change, one of the two.

Michael Wallace

Matt Morrison wrote:Us obviously. Can't wait.

WHERE IS YOUR EMAIL MATTHEW???

Also be warned, the champion has returned

Michael Wallace

If anybody got a false start, the whole field was on a false start (i.e. the situation now). Which makes no sense really, competitively speaking, whilst also encouraging the most accurate starters to false start. I don't think that's a good thing. Wow, that's pretty mental. 2 false starts seems goo...

Michael Wallace

Important note: Don't send any money without confirmation from me that there is a place free for you! Even more important: there are a handful of extra places now available! email me at countdownlondon@gmail.com if you'd like to grab one of these hot, hot cakes!! That's right folks. CO:LON is back!...

Michael Wallace

Jon O'Neill wrote:It's ten times better than the rule they had previously. I actually don't mind it.

What was the previous rule? I thought it was just 2 false starts and you're out, or was it something else?

Michael Wallace

Gavin Chipper wrote:So, er, moving on, what do you all make of the one-false-start-and-you're-out rule?

Seems a bit shit to me.

Michael Wallace

Ouch painful viewing of the ex-athletics host: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6o52kZxvtg I wonder if he is the new Countdown host. ;) p.s Channel 4 seems to be removing these videos out of embarrasment, so don't expect this one to stay up for long. Wow that was painful. I could only watch about a ...

Michael Wallace

Unless he is an apterite who plays under a pseudonym

Michael Wallace

Fun fact. The jackpot question today was used in a practice game they had us play in the green room when we went to record (over 18 months ago). It was a topic we'd revised and we got a Pointles answer, which was actually a bit embarrassing because the production people 'hosting' were all "OH W...

Michael Wallace

I want to see pix of the maths equation tie you bought in 2007.

Michael Wallace

Jon O'Neill wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote:I raced my family from Watford High Street (overground) to West Harrow, with them in a car and me on the tube

142 to Stanmore station
Southbound Jubilee Line to Wembley Park
Metropolitan Line to West Harrow.
And......?

His family mysteriously haven't arrived yet, I reckon.

Michael Wallace

Interesting (both posts). £1 play is too rich for us at the moment, until we get a bit better at Hex we're sticking to 50p. That said, we are starting to feel like we're improving, which is nice. The thing about the machine 'difficulty' is intriguing. The more we play the more it feels like our most...

Michael Wallace

Rhys Benjamin wrote:Cloudy with too many actors (8)
He might talk about terms and conditions (8)

OSCARVET and RENORIPS?

Michael Wallace

I have a general question about quizzers - I vaguely remember someone saying that individual pubs can set the 'tightness' of their machine, and we've recently found a machine that seems a lot looser than our regular haunt (took £5 out of Colour of Money and £2 out of Hex in one session, whereas we'v...

Michael Wallace

Here it is http://www.youtube.com/user/davidmitchellsoapbox#p/u/1/uYv2kpalUu0 I've gone for 1: Pierce Brosnan 2: A Star 3: Cadbury's 4: Iron 5: Butter, Jam, Cream 6: Vase rhymes with rays not has And for the tiebreaker I'll go for Pastafarianism My thoughts on the ones I have thougts about: 1: Roge...

Michael Wallace

1952: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=n65VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GcQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2017,532848&dq=lack-of-discipline&hl=en That's a joke. There's obviously no way of citing that statement. I meant to comment at the time, but when Phil linked that Not the 9 O'clock News clip I thought it w...

Michael Wallace

Slowly catching up with Pointles, watching yesterday's show with the first "types of nut round" - one of the options in the second pass is filbert, which was the incorrect cheese I went for on our first show

Michael Wallace

Brian Moore wrote:
Michael Wallace wrote:One vote for scanning them in from me
Done - here. All my O-, AO- and A-level papers. It's a tribute to my teachers and my ability and industriousness over three years that I got A for O-level, C for AO-level, and O for A-level. Hmm.

Sweet, thanks. Shall geek out on these later.

Michael Wallace

GENTOO showed up on Pointles the other day. What do mean that doesn't count as real life?

(I can't actually remember if I know it from Countdown or Linux, though.)

Michael Wallace

I've just dug out my 1979 O-level maths papers (yes, sad, I know), and though obviously we weren't allowed calculators, the instructions tell you to write "SR" next to any answers for which you used your slide rule. If it would amuse/interest anyone, I can scan the papers in for inspectio...

Michael Wallace

What annoys me more is when people use annoying abbreviations/acronyms. I've seen people put HTH quite a lot on here ("Hope this helps" apparently) among other things, and while it's possible to Google all of these things or work it out, it's a waste of time. The poster might be saving th...

Michael Wallace

Right then chaps (is chaps gender-neutral yet?), how do we fix Broken Britain?

Michael Wallace

I'm genuinely a bit confused by all this. The Tottenham stuff I understand (by which I mean I can see a cause, not that I think it's ok or whatever) because of that shooting, but what's sparked the rest of it? Is it just people thinking "huh, rioting looks kinda fun, let's give it a go"? O...

Michael Wallace

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...

Michael Wallace

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 se...

Michael Wallace

As for your question, no idea, but could you get a wingman to lean on the door for you whilst you try it out? Or is that too much like the start of a gay porno? Yeah, it's not really the sort of thing I'd be comfortable asking any of my workmates to do. They might think I was a bit odd. Shame. How ...

Michael Wallace

Before I googled to check, I thought you were talking about the Dyson 'Air Multiplier' fans , which I adore because of how they try and sell them as something other than "y'know, this is a pretty cool fan right?". Their adverts talk about how they have 'no buffeting' , as if for years we'v...

Michael Wallace

Mark James wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote:Europe are failing.
Europe is failing surely?

Eruopes is failing. Bloody Americanisms.

Michael Wallace

That one and today's were both fairly gettable, I think. By that, I mean, I got them. Two pointless sportspeople and three pointless Man Booker winners. Yeah agreed. The sportsmen is very guessable even with only a passing knowlecge of sport, the Bookers I'm not so sure about (I had plenty of point...

Michael Wallace

Gathered some more colour of money datodes tonight. Points round definitely seems fairly distributed, but it looks a lot like the money round is biased towards low values near the start. We've now seen 21 money round prizes, with only 5 coming from the top half of the money ladder. It still seems pr...

Michael Wallace

Yeah, I should point out that I haven't actually seen this happen, just what I heard from someone else. So it's probably false! Clearly colour of money agents trying to spread misinformation. I've done some modelling of the game now, and so far haven't found any particularly exciting strategies. Th...

Michael Wallace

A nice touch is that if you get spot on the points in the box you get a free try again, so that's nice. Also I think you can get double the points whatever it stops on. Don't know how it determines whether you get that or try again. Hmm, not had that yet (although only got spot on a couple of times...

Michael Wallace

So we tried out a new game - the colour of money. Terrible gameshow, but actually a pretty sweet quizzer game. It's one of the more complicated games though, so here's a rundown. You pick a target score (a la DoND), and then for the points builder you pick 'machines' (colours) which you have to answ...

Michael Wallace

David Williams wrote:I do think it's insidious and this stereotype of "white dad" is beginning to stick.

It is?

Michael Wallace

What I find odd is his introduction "TV's Mr Magic!" (or something like that) - when exactly did that happen?

Michael Wallace

What isn't 'right'? What are you 'disagreeing' with? Because the only thing I can see that isn't right is the fact the world is full of prejudiced people, which surely goes without saying.

Michael Wallace

I find I get more annoyed than I ought to by all the ads that present white males as incompetent buffoons. How often do you see a family with a couple of savvy kids and a calm, assured mother all being tolerant of the idiot father? Or any time two people are playing a game, the white man always los...

Michael Wallace

Ryan Taylor wrote:I'm thinking already that c4c should physically make an ad.

Totally. Someone should get some good footage from CoNot for it. I want explosions.

Michael Wallace

Inspired by the annoying ads thread, I started to wonder if c4cers could come up with a decent advert for Countdown. The Countdown clock ticking down whilst Rachel Riley mud-wrestles with...a computer generate Rachel Riley? A 24-style multi-screen excitement-fest? Let's have your ideas, the more det...

Michael Wallace

Jon O'Neill wrote:Most of the words fitted in quite well. But yeah that woman stands out like a sore thumb. Awful.

Defo, but they could have (e.g.) had it cutting between several waiters for each line of the order or something? That would work better (in my head, at least).

Michael Wallace

I don't like the Harvester advert . I think it starts well and I enjoy the feel and sound of the advert and the timing for the first 30 seconds but then this bitch goes and opens her mouth and at the point she says "hold the corn on the cob, ok" I think she just ruins the previous 30 seco...

Michael Wallace

Hugh Binnie wrote:Nobody's going to pick opera.

I no rite. I thought today's champions might after they demonstrated vague competence throughout the show, but alas.

Michael Wallace

I don't know if it has much to do with the topic but I've been trying to find, to no avail, a the name of a thing that was featured on an episode of QI that would always revert to its original position no matter what side it was placed on. It would do this by design only and not because it was weig...

Michael Wallace

Oh yeah, so what's the deal with £1 Hex (as opposed to 50p play). Is it just the same but with all the prizes doubled?

Michael Wallace

Is it that if you cut a shape in a straight line through its centre, you should end up with two equal amounts of that shape, regardless of which direction you cut in? I'd imagine most people would take it as the centre of mass of a uniform plane lamina of that shape (which is something I remember h...

Michael Wallace

I would like people to talk to me about You Have Won £20. the thing more than anything that keeps is coming back is that it gave us £8 on about our second go at it. I forget how many questions we had to start with, but we definitely weren't that near the end - when it suddenly gave us a "take ...

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