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- Sat Jan 27, 2018 1:14 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XIV- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2018
- Replies: 38
- Views: 49341
Re: COLIN XIV- Countdown in Lincoln, 27-28 January 2018
Lloyds customers - I don't know how dynamic this is related to your own spending, but check your Everyday Offers. I've got 5% off Travelodge and it lasts until 14 Dec 2017. So I'm now hoping for a triple layer of savings - Travelodge sale, Topcashback cashback, and then Lloyds cashback on top. Fing...
- Fri Mar 31, 2017 10:33 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: 81 Questions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 22587
Re: 81 Questions
I take it you're from Northern Ireland...
- Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:47 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: the Countdowner's Homes I've Been In game (CHIBIN)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 54953
Re: the Countdowner's Homes I've Been In game (CHIBIN)
This one is the standout from your list. Anecdote please...
- Mon Feb 13, 2017 11:09 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Why do you never order a paratha?
- Replies: 83
- Views: 48904
Re: Why do you never order a paratha?
Me and Michelle went to Cook & Indi's World Buffet for a Sunday lunch yesterday. We had garlic naan and I had some lamb bhuna. We talked about this thread. I asked what a paratha was. Michelle asked if I'd even read this thread. There were no parathas at Cook & Indi's.
- Sat Feb 11, 2017 7:55 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Why do you never order a paratha?
- Replies: 83
- Views: 48904
Re: Why do you never order a paratha?
All 3 of them clearly don't care about the Liverpool v Spurs game then. Unless there's a TV in Dishoom. Poor form.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sat Feb 11, 2017 4:03 pm In Dishoom now with the Morricocks and Jono. This is on.
- Thu Feb 09, 2017 10:38 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)
- Replies: 97
- Views: 94217
Re: the Countdowners Outside Co:Event Meet-ups game (COCMEAT)
Half inclined to count Ryan, who saw me at the Queen's Jubilee celebrations. I did not see him back, but I did hear him. "MAAAAAAARK", I heard. "That sounds like Ryan", I thought. Saw nothing. Got a text a few minutes later. Cracking day. Rained a lot. Did this happen? I had no ...
- Tue Feb 07, 2017 11:08 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: the Countdowner's Homes I've Been In game (CHIBIN)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 54953
Re: the Countdowner's Homes I've Been In game (CHIBIN)
Heather Badcock
Matt Morrison
Michelle Nevitt (since we're counting this)
Josh Hurst (Student flat)
Matt Morrison
Michelle Nevitt (since we're counting this)
Josh Hurst (Student flat)
- Sun Feb 05, 2017 5:57 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: the Countdowners In My Place game (CIMP)
- Replies: 38
- Views: 36994
Re: the Countdowners In My Place game (CIMP)
I'm pretty sure I remember seeing a picture of quite a few apterites in someone's house, like Lauren's or Amie's for someone's birthday celebrations. Had like 10 people or more in it I reckon.
- Sun Jan 29, 2017 7:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 475638
Re: People you shouldn't trust
We want names Gevin.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Sun Jan 29, 2017 3:14 pm People who order food and then later have no clue what they've ordered and either try to claim someone else's food or when their own food arrives sit there for half an hour while the waiter/waitress is shouting out to find out ordered it.
- Tue Jan 24, 2017 7:06 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 371503
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
I'm out of this year's Parkrun at Lincoln btw. I can't remember the last time I did a Parkrun, or even ran more than 1km in the last 6 months or so. I also don't see the point in having to get up early on Saturday to run in the cold and then get back to the Little Chef and find out they've ran out ...
- Tue Jan 24, 2017 7:05 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Your preferred format for CO-events
- Replies: 74
- Views: 35717
Re: Your preferred format for CO-events
I prefer playing Bristol-style rather than Lincoln style because then I can be assured that the letter distribution is the same for everyone and that the letters are being shuffled properly.
- Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:44 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 371503
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
I'm out of this year's Parkrun at Lincoln btw. I can't remember the last time I did a Parkrun, or even ran more than 1km in the last 6 months or so. I also don't see the point in having to get up early on Saturday to run in the cold and then get back to the Little Chef and find out they've ran out o...
- Mon Jan 23, 2017 5:48 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XIII- Countdown in Lincoln, 28-29 January 2017
- Replies: 87
- Views: 68046
Re: COLIN XIII- Countdown in Lincoln, 28-29 January 2017
I think all past Co-events that Jono has attended need to be discarded from the record books and all titles removed. Sorry Jack Worsley.
Re: Crisps
No mention of Mackie's Haggis and Black Pepper crisps - they are awesome. As are Tyrrell's Vegetable Crisps. Always a firm old favourite of mine as part of a meal deal depending on mood.
- Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:30 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: 2017 upgrade!
- Replies: 36
- Views: 92057
Re: 2017 upgrade!
Oh God, is this the new way of describing things after the whole "hard" Brexit chat.Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2017 12:45 pm guys, all you need to do is refresh. if normal refresh doesn't work then hard refresh (CTRL-F5)
- Thu Jan 12, 2017 7:11 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Jon Corby
- Replies: 32
- Views: 14293
Re: Jon Corby
So, COLIN?
- Tue Nov 29, 2016 8:49 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 325602
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
That Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt were not father and son. They were fifth cousins.
- Mon Nov 14, 2016 9:14 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 475638
Re: People you shouldn't trust
Martin Hurst wrote:People who unnecessarily "reply to all" - scum. Pure scum.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37979456Mark Deeks wrote:People who put read receipts on emails.
- Mon Nov 14, 2016 5:49 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Grumbleweed
- Replies: 40
- Views: 21160
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 10:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XIII- Countdown in Lincoln, 28-29 January 2017
- Replies: 87
- Views: 68046
Re: COLIN XIII- Countdown in Lincoln, 28-29 January 2017
https://www.myvouchercodes.co.uk/travelodge
Travelodge for £49.50 (£16.50 discount) with the above promotion.
Travelodge for £49.50 (£16.50 discount) with the above promotion.
- Fri Nov 04, 2016 5:31 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 325602
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
That it is teasmade and not teasmaid.
That Louis Braille was actually blind.
That Louis Braille was actually blind.
- Sat Oct 29, 2016 8:42 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Lookalikes?
- Replies: 390
- Views: 256430
Re: Countdown Lookalikes?
Graeme Cole in this year's Apprentice.
- Sun Oct 16, 2016 1:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 325602
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Only just reinstalled Snapchat. I like how you sent your video before my one. GMTA. Your post-it notes must just be of higher quality. Or maybe it's because mine were near the end of the pack which makes them more likely to curl.Mark Deeks wrote:Check your Snapchat.
- Wed Oct 12, 2016 4:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 325602
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
If you peel Post-Its from the side and not the front, they don't curl up all weird. I read that on some Buzz Feed thing fairly recently. So I tried it and it made no difference at all. Do you mean that they still "curled up all weird"? Because if so, your Post-It notes must be of inferior...
- Mon Oct 10, 2016 5:49 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: MEAKIN THREAD
- Replies: 62
- Views: 28794
Re: MEAKIN THREAD
I've not been on Deal or No Deal.Marc Meakin wrote:After watching yet another historic failure by Ryan Taylor in a box awful quiz show
- Sun Sep 25, 2016 8:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 325602
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
If you peel Post-Its from the side and not the front, they don't curl up all weird. I read that on some Buzz Feed thing fairly recently. So I tried it and it made no difference at all. Do you mean that they still "curled up all weird"? Because if so, your Post-It notes must be of inferior...
- Sun Sep 25, 2016 7:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 325602
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
I read that on some Buzz Feed thing fairly recently. So I tried it and it made no difference at all.Mark Deeks wrote:If you peel Post-Its from the side and not the front, they don't curl up all weird.
- Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Do you have any unusual habits?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11445
Re: Do you have any unusual habits?
Sort of.
- Sat Aug 27, 2016 4:13 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Do you have any unusual habits?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11445
Re: Do you have any unusual habits?
Double jointed right thumb:
- Mon Aug 22, 2016 6:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Do you have any unusual habits?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11445
Re: Do you have any unusual habits?
Nope.JimBentley wrote: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 sideI'm guessing both of you are left-handed?Ryan Taylor wrote:I do this too.
- Mon Aug 22, 2016 6:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 758891
Re: Ask Graeme?
Sorry, I meant 0% for 8 games or more. But lowest (positive) % can be for any contestant.Gavin Chipper wrote:I imagine quite a lot of people have 0%.Ryan Taylor wrote:Who has got the lowest percentage (above 0%) of conundrum solves from the total number of shows they have appeared in (including specials)?
Does anyone have 0%?
- Sun Aug 21, 2016 7:16 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 758891
Re: Ask Graeme?
Who has got the lowest percentage (above 0%) of conundrum solves from the total number of shows they have appeared in (including specials)?
Does anyone have 0%?
Does anyone have 0%?
- Thu Aug 18, 2016 9:20 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Do you have any unusual habits?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11445
Re: Do you have any unusual habits?
I do this too.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 if my writing is to be good.
- Thu Aug 18, 2016 9:08 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: EU Referendum
- Replies: 182
- Views: 55105
Re: EU Referendum
Once again, it's the communities that did best by the EU (through grants, subsidies, protections etc.) are also the ones least affected by mass immigration, yet they are the ones that most vehemently voted "out". Anecdotally, I've found this the case too. Where I'm originally from (an Eas...
- Thu Aug 11, 2016 5:31 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: IRC Countdown...in 2016?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 14357
Re: IRC Countdown...in 2016?
- the letter and number tiles are absolutely tiny and squashed-up; might look good on 640x480 but nobody uses that anymore - the numbers entry interface defies belief; it has to be done in one line, however complex (and you have to use * instead of x for multiplications) - although there's a 30 sec...
- Wed Aug 10, 2016 4:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: IRC Countdown...in 2016?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 14357
Re: IRC Countdown...in 2016?
I just went on and managed to play a game. It wasn't long after declaring PLEURON and ALMONER that I was accused of cheating. After a bit of a chat about Countdown and apterous etc. it transpires that the IRC game thing was set up by jamesstanley (nickname on that channel) under the instruction of h...
- Fri Jul 22, 2016 10:28 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: On the mass noun restaurant rule
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4567
Re: On the mass noun restaurant rule
If you were ordering SALMONS, would you not just say "two salmon"?
- Wed Jul 20, 2016 2:47 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Wednesday 20 July 2016 (Series 75, Prelim 16)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5220
Re: Spoilers for Wednesday 19 July 2016 (Series 75, Prelim 16)
Yes just came to comment on that. In the RENDITION round Stephen gives DOTTIER andgets 7 points for it
- Thu Jun 23, 2016 8:21 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Thursday June 23rd 2016
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5118
Re: Spoilers For Thursday June 23rd 2016
Very good game you two, as have all the finals games been. Well done Ann on squeaking through by a point again! We will be cheering you on in the final.
Also, minor brag - me and Michelle got RHIZOIDAL!
Also, minor brag - me and Michelle got RHIZOIDAL!
- Sun Jun 05, 2016 10:13 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: IMDB top 250
- Replies: 57
- Views: 19384
Re: IMDB top 250
I did wonder if you would have seen most of them as I seem to recall you going through a phase when you were chipping away at IMDB's top 100.Charlie Reams wrote:218.
- Tue May 31, 2016 8:40 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: IMDB top 250
- Replies: 57
- Views: 19384
Re: IMDB top 250
I always say that I'm not much of a film person and that I would rather read the wikipedia plot to find out about a film than watch it. It was surprising therefore that I notched up (what I think) is an impressive 67/250. Favourites : Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Dark Knight, Forrest Gump, Up...
- Fri Apr 15, 2016 10:14 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 475638
Re: People you shouldn't trust
People who wear yellow jumpers.
- Fri Apr 15, 2016 2:09 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 475638
Re: People you shouldn't trust
People who don't handshake in the conventional way, particularly after a game of 5's. Always awkward when you go in for a normal handshake and they're coming at you with their elbow bent and hand held high up. Are you meant to high-five them? Just grip them? Grip their hand in an arm-wrestling fashi...
- Tue Apr 12, 2016 4:05 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Who would be the biggest deaths?
- Replies: 236
- Views: 54216
Re: Who would be the biggest deaths?
Can just imagine the journalist writing this article trying to stifle his laughter at the irony: Entertainer, producer and reality television star David Gest has died in a London hotel aged 62, a statement from his friend says. He had planned to tour the UK in July with his latest show, called the D...
- Tue Apr 12, 2016 11:59 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Ask Graeme?
- Replies: 1741
- Views: 758891
Re: Ask Graeme?
Maybe a random one this but who are the tallest players to appear on the show that you know of? I'm 6"4 and three quarters and Graham Nash just edged me being 6"5. There was a guy who appeared in the series after me called Danny Hamilton who was apparently 6"8. I would imagine Ryan T...
- Tue Mar 29, 2016 5:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Consistency
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5658
Re: Consistency
Sounds like you need the AA. Apterites Anonymous.
- Sat Mar 19, 2016 1:02 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Let's gamble
- Replies: 36
- Views: 13074
Re: Let's gamble
Put it all on Leicester to be relegated next season.
- Thu Mar 17, 2016 6:07 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Let's gamble
- Replies: 36
- Views: 13074
Re: Let's gamble
Jon O'Neill wrote: Zabana needs to perform.
- Mon Mar 14, 2016 10:52 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Let's gamble
- Replies: 36
- Views: 13074
Re: Let's gamble
Victoria Pendleton to win the Foxhunter Chase on Pacha du Polder on Friday.
- Sat Mar 05, 2016 5:24 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: 10-00 pm BBC2 Tonight. STEWART LEE'S COMEDY VEHICLE
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6557
Re: 10-00 pm BBC2 Tonight. STEWART LEE'S COMEDY VEHICLE
among the worst things I've ever read. Tediously overwrought, pretentious shite that you'd expect from the try-hard 'literary' journal of an 18-year-old vegan Communist who's just turned up at university and hasn't got round to signing up for the self-awareness module. Wait, are you talking about h...
- Sat Feb 27, 2016 3:39 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:parkrun Recaps
- Replies: 597
- Views: 371503
Re: CO:parkrun Recaps
Was close to a PB today but sadly couldn't quite make it. 13 seconds off with 20:52 although I ha it timed at 20:50. There were a couple of moments where I was what I'll call "coasting" - where I'm just on autopilot and not really thinking about the run, my breathing or my pace. It's these...
- Wed Feb 24, 2016 5:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 23rd February
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6163
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 23rd February
I always catch the last 10 minutes or so of the morning repeat and those last 10 minutes were pretty awkward viewing seeing the challenger not add to her score at all. And then her comment of "I just want to go home", despite bringing a sympathetic laugh from the audience, was painfully h...
- Wed Feb 24, 2016 5:44 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: If all of us were to meet...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10488
Re: If all of us were to meet...
And Ralph Gillions has passed on since.Johnny Canuck wrote:This must be the chronologically largest BUMP in C4C history. When the last post before today's was made, Apterous wasn't even a thing yet.
- Wed Feb 24, 2016 6:52 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 23rd February
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6163
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 23rd February
I always catch the last 10 minutes or so of the morning repeat and those last 10 minutes were pretty awkward viewing seeing the challenger not add to her score at all. And then her comment of "I just want to go home", despite bringing a sympathetic laugh from the audience, was painfully ho...
- Fri Feb 19, 2016 6:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deliberately Silly Factoids
- Replies: 45
- Views: 11302
Re: Deliberately Silly Factoids
Perhaps you could answer a question for me - what's the difference between the General Ignorance section and the rest of the programme? I've never been able to notice any difference. Well, I think it's just that the questions they ask in General Ignorance are often questions to which we think we kn...
- Fri Feb 19, 2016 3:58 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deliberately Silly Factoids
- Replies: 45
- Views: 11302
Re: Deliberately Silly Factoids
Is this not just QI's General Ignorance section?JimBentley wrote:I also would like to do this...Fred Mumford wrote:I would like to compile an entire quiz based on misunderstood trivia, kind of like they used to do on Shooting Stars - "True or false - the Great Wall of China can only be seen from outer space?" Etc.
- Fri Jan 29, 2016 12:48 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: GCHQ Christmas Puzzle
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8064
- Wed Jan 27, 2016 5:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: COLIN XII- Countdown in Lincoln, 30-31 January 2016
- Replies: 132
- Views: 44161
Re: COLIN XII- Countdown in Lincoln, 30-31 January 2016
I'll bring a couple too as backup.
- Thu Jan 21, 2016 11:07 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: CoC Semi-Final 2 Spoilers For Thursday January 21st 2016
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6125
Re: CoC Semi-Final 2 Spoilers For Thursday January 21st 2016
Can you watch Countdown live on Channel 4's website or anything? I have pissing forgotten to watch everything every day. Yeah you can watch at this link http://www.channel4.com/now/c4. Thanks all for the comments so far, though I don't think I'm one of the best two contestants in this CoC - Giles w...
- Thu Jan 21, 2016 10:00 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: CoC Semi-Final 2 Spoilers For Thursday January 21st 2016
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6125
Re: CoC Semi-Final 2 Spoilers For Thursday January 21st 2016
Yeah once again extremely high standard and Jen did well to get back into it after Dan's 9. As Steven says, I think we did have the 4 best players in the semi-finals and we've now got what I would have said were the top 2 in the competition to start with so I'm really looking forward to it. Dylan vs...