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- Fri Apr 19, 2013 5:14 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: 24 Hour Scrabble World Record Attempt
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2055
24 Hour Scrabble World Record Attempt
Hi folks, just fractionally under 24 hours to go to my world record attempt with Ray Tate. The two designated charities are Daisy Chain and End Polio Now. To donate to Daisy Chain you can go on the Just Giving page http://www.justgiving.com/Craig-Beevers or text SCRA99 £5 to 70070 - changing the cas...
- Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Monday 25th February 2013 (30th Champs, QF 3)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2118
Re: Monday 25th February 2013 (30th Champs, QF 3)
I'll feign surprise that GLADIUS isn't in, pretty strange omission but then it is ODE.
- Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: B'day Championship Spoilers For Monday February 25th 2013
- Replies: 49
- Views: 12485
Re: B'day Championship Spoilers For Monday February 25th 201
You were one of a select few to beat the predictor so far (against Innis), which is something to be proud of. Kirk actually said after beating Innis that for some reason it didn't quite feel enough. But then it was pointed out that he had beaten the predictor and he was ecstatic. ;) Anyway, great g...
- Wed Jan 23, 2013 3:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: B'day Championship Spoilers For Wednesday January 23rd 2013
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8384
Re: B'day Championship Spoilers For Wednesday January 23rd 2
Finding Chris' throat goatee strangely intriguing.
- Mon Dec 10, 2012 6:05 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Prague Mind Sports Festival
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4782
Re: Prague Mind Sports Festival
Taking feedback on Vienna (provisionally 16th-18th February for the Main Event) here: http://forum.mindsportsinternational.com/yaf_postsm619_MSI-Scrabble-Vienna.aspx My video of the Prague event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnpm4rs17Sc Also there are various brief videos on Mind Sports TV: http:/...
- Thu Nov 15, 2012 2:02 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Prague Mind Sports Festival
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4782
Re: Prague Mind Sports Festival
Cool, make sure you've got a card with you if you want to enter the main event. There's an Early Bird event (1st December, Saturday morning) and an Elimination Event (4th December all-day, Tuesday) as well which are more flexible.
- Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:11 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown in the news
- Replies: 217
- Views: 65353
Re: Countdown in the news
Not really about Countdown, more about Rachel Riley. But anyway: http://www.praguemindsportsfestival.com/news/ In short she'll be working at the Mind Sports Festival (which includes Scrabble) start of next month in Prague (feel free to enter). I'll ask her if Kirk's head as gotten any bigger but I'l...
- Tue Nov 13, 2012 2:07 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Prague Mind Sports Festival
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4782
Re: Prague Mind Sports Festival
http://praguemindsportsfestival.com/news/ The news item is finally up. Most of it is about the £20,000+ smart board (which will interest the more technically minded among us). Of more interest is the bit towards the end announcing Rachel Riley's participation. Here are the full details of the Scrab...
- Mon Nov 12, 2012 10:23 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Prague Mind Sports Festival
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4782
Re: Prague Mind Sports Festival
The first big public release about the Scrabble (very swanky board worth over 20 grand, it uses RFID technology to enable top notch media coverage) on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/PragueMindSportsFestival
The bit you folks will be particularly interested in will be tomorrow morning.
https://www.facebook.com/PragueMindSportsFestival
The bit you folks will be particularly interested in will be tomorrow morning.
- Sat Nov 03, 2012 1:37 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: National Scrabble Champ' final - live 10.30am this Sunday
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3249
National Scrabble Champ' final - live 10.30am this Sunday
Taking place in Cavendish Conference Centre in London on Sunday. The event is covered in a traditional online annotated format (ie graphic boards where you just navigate webpages to advance the game) and it will also be covered live on Ustream. I'm told there will be cameras in the auditorium (Brett...
- Sat Nov 03, 2012 1:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Prague Mind Sports Festival
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4782
Re: Prague Mind Sports Festival
Hope to see you some of you there in December, or in a future event. The Scrabble element is well backed, with some big news to come in the next week or so which will be of particular interest to this forum. Here's the Scrabble part of the site: http://www.praguemindsportsfestival.com/festival-sched...
- Thu Apr 12, 2012 3:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: 24 Hour Scrabble World Record Attempt (in aid of Polio Plus)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3307
24 Hour Scrabble World Record Attempt (in aid of Polio Plus)
I'm doing a 24 hour Scrabble world record attempt this weekend. It will take place this Saturday starting at 10am (GMT+1) up in Paisley, Scotland. The record is to score as many points between us (myself and Ray Tate) in 24 hours of playing Scrabble, the current record is 162,171 - so it's sort of a...
- Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:24 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Buying faulty crap off eBay - where do you stand?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 11941
Re: Buying faulty crap off eBay - where do you stand?
No, I don't understand. What are you actually complaining about? If you refuse to participate in any social setting with existing friendship groups then you'll be in for a fairly solitary existence. There's nothing preventing anyone else from having a private forum and forming their own "cliqu...
- Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:31 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Buying faulty crap off eBay - where do you stand?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 11941
Re: Buying faulty crap off eBay - where do you stand?
Hmm straw man arguments and people effectively saying being funny = good guy. Fun. I don't think you realise how many people have been hounded off this site or simply haven't bothered joining in in the first place. People don't have to be a bully or be nasty to be funny. I'm sure they're busy tearin...
- Sat Feb 25, 2012 7:44 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Buying faulty crap off eBay - where do you stand?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 11941
Re: Buying faulty crap off eBay - where do you stand?
Who is calling who cunts and arseholes? Pretty much every sane person who isn't one of the odious clique would agree that Corby on here is a cunt. I don't think there's any serious doubt about that. I'm pretty much irrelevant to that reality. I accept that one of the strategies on here is to endles...
- Sat Feb 25, 2012 7:09 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Buying faulty crap off eBay - where do you stand?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 11941
Re: Buying faulty crap off eBay - where do you stand?
Hmm I see the clique is circling again. Just out of curiosity is Corby just as big a cunt in person as he is on here?
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:58 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The Chase
- Replies: 153
- Views: 86574
Re: The Chase
Just want to punch the people who want to 'get home' and go for the middle option which absolutely makes NO MATHEMATICAL SENSE WHATSOEVER. :?: If you go for the higher offer, you run a higher risk of being caught by the Chaser and losing out on a chance to share in the final prize pot. It's not roc...
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:42 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The Chase
- Replies: 153
- Views: 86574
Re: The Chase
Just want to punch the people who want to 'get home' and go for the middle option which absolutely makes NO MATHEMATICAL SENSE WHATSOEVER.
Today's options for last guy were £40k, £1k and £-1k. Why the fuck would you go for £1k.
Today's options for last guy were £40k, £1k and £-1k. Why the fuck would you go for £1k.
- Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:00 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Perfection
- Replies: 84
- Views: 14050
Re: Perfection
Thanks thought it would probably be last year.
I wonder what wordlist or program their researchers used, the new book was out but I suspect they just flicked through a Collin's Gem or it got played on the hideous Scrabble iPhone app.
I wonder what wordlist or program their researchers used, the new book was out but I suspect they just flicked through a Collin's Gem or it got played on the hideous Scrabble iPhone app.
- Wed Feb 08, 2012 5:11 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Perfection
- Replies: 84
- Views: 14050
Re: Perfection
Yea I saw that, it was very impressive - also having the guts to rebuff all the offers at the end and go it alone. I notice they had a question about Scrabble in today, it was (roughly) "the word Innit is acceptable in UK Scrabble" - the 'correct' answer was TRUE. However if the show was f...
- Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:13 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Hex
- Replies: 212
- Views: 33421
Re: Hex
I've never won on word soup. Hexagrams however I win the jackpot virtually every time. Hex, as played in Lincoln with the other Countdowners, we won 6/6 times. It's a shame the new machines have scrapped Hexagrams and made Hex so hard to win on. I suppose it helps if you know some basic 3s/4s. But ...
- Mon Feb 06, 2012 11:11 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Hex
- Replies: 212
- Views: 33421
Re: Hex
Yes good Apterous players should be able to at least get their money back on Word Soup after a little practice, unless you're in a really tough area for pub machines (such as parts of London) in which case however good you are you'll lose money. Getting the end right so you clear is the most importa...
- Mon Feb 06, 2012 7:50 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The Chase
- Replies: 153
- Views: 86574
Re: The Chase
Yea. But that's not the angle you're describing, you're describing the line. It's a sort of vague trick question, which is weird for this program. Anne got it wrong - went with one of the angle names (obtuse or something like that).Gavin Chipper wrote:What was the answer - a straight line?
- Mon Feb 06, 2012 5:56 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The Chase
- Replies: 153
- Views: 86574
Re: The Chase
Slightly weird question at the end of today's show:
In mathematics what is a 180 degree angle called?
In mathematics what is a 180 degree angle called?
- Wed Feb 01, 2012 10:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Google Demographics
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6025
Re: Google Demographics
I think I got somebody else's this time. Below, you can review a summary of the interests and inferred demographics that Google has associated with your cookie. You can remove or edit your categories at any time. Science – Biological Science - Psychology – Persecution Complex Arts & Entertainmen...
- Wed Feb 01, 2012 10:04 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Google Demographics
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6025
Re: Google Demographics
Your categories Below, you can review a summary of the interests and inferred demographics that Google has associated with your cookie. You can remove or edit your categories at any time. Beauty & Fitness - Fitness - Bodybuilding Games - Computer & Video Games - Casual Games Sports - Team Sp...
- Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:08 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Who Dares Wins Series 5
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6098
Re: Who Dares Wins Series 5
Yea I think "o-huh-roo-goo" is the most popular one. Still most pairs would have killed to have gotten that question - Olympic gold medallists (track athletics) since 1980.
- Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:59 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The Chase
- Replies: 153
- Views: 86574
Re: The Chase
Yea I don't think any team has a chance if The Chaser is getting them all right. I remember weeks ago watching Anne Hegerty losing when she had about 3 steps needed with a minute left, 'the team' is very much a secondary factor to The Chaser - they only have an input on the outcome if The Chaser all...
- Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:19 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Nick Hewer, YOU'RE HIRED!!!
- Replies: 204
- Views: 39320
Re: Nick Hewer, YOU'RE HIRED!!!
So what's the actual consensus on him so far?
- Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Carl Williams
- Replies: 50
- Views: 15018
Re: Carl Williams
Hmm. Someone's trying too hard. And what of people who just accuse others of trying too hard without even bothering to congratulate a fucking fantastic and deserving series winner? How hard are they trying? Meh. Seen about 10 minutes of about 2-3 shows in this past series. So fuck off and have a ni...
- Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:43 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Carl Williams
- Replies: 50
- Views: 15018
Re: Carl Williams
Also, credit where credit's due, Carl did extremely well to get as far as he did, and was very magnanimous in defeat. Great player, and definitely the most successful troll this forum has ever seen . I did link you to the game, you prick. I directly quoted your request and linked back to the spoile...
- Wed Nov 30, 2011 3:02 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816552
Re: Politics in General
Nurses are low-skilled You what? Come again? I'm going to need something from you to back up that statement please, as I guarantee the guy that put me on an aspirator and was inserting NG tubes and compression apparatus, and balanced my internal pressures, seemed to know what he was doing. All nurs...
- Wed Nov 30, 2011 2:49 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816552
Re: Politics in General
I look after my sister and have done for a couple of years. Not that it's any of your business.Jon Corby wrote:Have you grabbed one of these well-paid low-skilled jobs Craig, or are you still unemployed?
- Wed Nov 30, 2011 1:58 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816552
Re: Politics in General
Oh and I'm hugely against the strikes. I'm so sick of the way every news item in general seems to focus on nurses and teachers. Nurses are low-skilled and get a good deal. The general teaching standard is shite and most of them (particularly at primary/secondary school) get a very good deal, they al...
- Wed Nov 30, 2011 1:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816552
Re: Politics in General
Gave up after a minute. What a complete moron. Or as he'd say what a fuck fucking complete fucking moron. Fucking.Jon O'Neill wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0SPio6RE-s
Re: Cricket
Yep these short Test series are a travesty. South Africa get horrendous attendances for Test cricket, I'm not sure why really.
When South Africa tour England there are only going to be 3 Tests, despite there being an agreement about how their future series were going to be 5 Tests.
When South Africa tour England there are only going to be 3 Tests, despite there being an agreement about how their future series were going to be 5 Tests.
- Sun Nov 20, 2011 9:57 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: (Power) Snooker
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2561
Re: (Power) Snooker
If John 'I was spooked by the Russian mafia' Higgins is banned from it I might watch.
- Thu Nov 17, 2011 12:27 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816552
Re: Politics in General
Unemployment was high under Thatcher. Doesn't automatically follow she caused it (or didn't cause it), it's more complicated than that. As for "there's a reason why so many people refuse on principle to vote Conservative" - the reason is stupidity. Belief in this hysteria Labour amongst o...
- Wed Nov 16, 2011 10:59 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816552
Re: Politics in General
Unemployment was high under Thatcher. Doesn't automatically follow she caused it (or didn't cause it), it's more complicated than that. As for "there's a reason why so many people refuse on principle to vote Conservative" - the reason is stupidity. Belief in this hysteria Labour amongst ot...
Re: Cricket
Rather awesome match going on in South Africa right now...
http://www.espncricinfo.com/south-afric ... 14029.html
http://www.espncricinfo.com/south-afric ... 14029.html
- Wed Nov 09, 2011 3:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Wednesday November 9th 2011
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1538
Re: Spoilers For Wednesday November 9th 2011
Just caught the last 5-10 minutes. Julie seemed rather nervous, hopefully that'll die down and she can put a good run together.
- Thu Nov 03, 2011 6:43 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Words You Would Have Thought...
- Replies: 479
- Views: 189748
Re: Words You Would Have Thought...
Yea it's an easy mistake to have made.
In Scrabble BUMELIA (a thorny tree) is a word. So if ABEILMU sits on your rack or comes up on Zyzzyva and you know there's an anagram it's easy to mess things up.
In Scrabble BUMELIA (a thorny tree) is a word. So if ABEILMU sits on your rack or comes up on Zyzzyva and you know there's an anagram it's easy to mess things up.
Re: Cricket
My point is nothing to do with whether they were convicted of cheating, or conspiring to cheat, or defrauding or conspiring to defraud, or whatever. It's that prison isn't an appropriate punishment for this type of crime. Maybe I'm taking a simplistic view but I can't see how locking them up (at th...
Re: Cricket
The two charges were conspiracy to cheat and conspiracy to accept corrupt payments. If you did the latter in any walk of life you'd be facing prison time - that charge comes with a maximum 7 year prison sentence. These three have damaged the image of cricket. They've cheated spectators, fans and oth...
Re: Cricket
Butt guilty on both counts. Asif guilty on the lesser count and the jury has been sent out again on the other. Result. Edit: Asif now found guilty on the second count. Amir pleaded guilty to both counts back in September. Just need to see prison sentences now. Made my week this. Their 5 year bans (i...
- Sat Oct 29, 2011 4:59 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Carol Vorderman on Celebrity "The Chase"
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3654
Re: Carol Vorderman on Celebrity "The Chase"
It's about to start on ITV.
- Sat Oct 22, 2011 9:46 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: 2011 World Scrabble Championship
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4545
Re: 2011 World Scrabble Championship
Well done to Nigel Richards too who I believe is the only person to win this tournament twice. Don't follow scrabble that closely but this guy seems to be miles ahead of everyone else. Yea pretty much. There used to be a problem with him not being in a position to qualify due to being a New Zealand...
- Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:01 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Food you like that no-one else does
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1398
Re: Food you like that no-one else does
I absolutely love ham croissants. Surprisingly the local Asda does really nice croissants, so I have one with ham in daily.
- Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:17 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816552
Re: Politics in General
No Mrs Thatcher's legacy was the much stronger position she put the UK in - for a legacy you mostly need to look at the period of time after she knifed in the back. She basically won the election for John Major. She built up the UK, which Major and Blair reaped the rewards of. But at what cost? The...
- Thu Oct 06, 2011 10:01 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Politics in General
- Replies: 1646
- Views: 1816552
Re: Politics in General
Not when they screw up the lives of millions of people. Do you aspire to be like Hitler or Stalin? Exactly. To use your reasoning from further down your post, there's a reason why so many people refuse on principle to vote Conservative, and that reason is Mrs Thatcher's legacy - a legacy of unemplo...
- Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:43 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Pointless Series 5
- Replies: 216
- Views: 43101
Re: Pointless Series 5
Okay who actually got some of the answers on the second pass of the cross-dressing film question? I had not a clue, although I did sadly get the 1 point answer on the first pass... Edit: Okay those are officially one of the worst sets of answers I've ever seen for the last round. Just name some semi...
- Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:03 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Million Pound Drop (Live!)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 11900
Re: Million Pound Drop (Live!)
The logical thing to do is go well 1st day of the month will be the same as the 8th and the 15th etc. 15th is two days after Friday the 13th. I could imagine a lot of people going wrong when working it out more laboriously and getting the day on the 0th of the month instead of the 1st. What the pair...
- Sat Oct 01, 2011 10:55 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Million Pound Drop (Live!)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 11900
Re: Million Pound Drop (Live!)
I've probably worded this badly, but this is a question two people just got eliminated on after spreading 1 million pounds on three answers: What day of the week would the first day of the month have to fall on for there to be a Friday the 13th Friday Saturday Sunday or Monday? :shock: How long do ...
- Sat Oct 01, 2011 9:15 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Million Pound Drop (Live!)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 11900
Re: Million Pound Drop (Live!)
I've probably worded this badly, but this is a question two people just got eliminated on after spreading 1 million pounds on three answers:
What day of the week would the first day of the month have to fall on for there to be a Friday the 13th
Friday Saturday Sunday or Monday?
What day of the week would the first day of the month have to fall on for there to be a Friday the 13th
Friday Saturday Sunday or Monday?
- Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:43 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Pointless Series 5
- Replies: 216
- Views: 43101
Re: Pointless Series 5
Hmm 3 wrong answers from the same person, nice.
Oh and more people know where Jasper Carrott is born than George Best. Interesting.
Oh and more people know where Jasper Carrott is born than George Best. Interesting.
Re: Cricket
lazy groundstaff Citation needed. I remember listening to one of their rained off ODIs before the Ashes Test they stole off a proper cricket ground. They were under-staffed and fannied about getting the covers on and off. If you've ever listened to the diplomats and fence-sitters on TMS you'll know...
- Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:28 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Pointless Series 5
- Replies: 216
- Views: 43101
Re: Pointless Series 5
Indistinct name = harder to recall who they are and therefore what they do. I've no idea what you mean by an "indistinct" name. If as I suspect you mean "not distinctive", then as Karen pointed out there are other Skinners on TV, while I've never heard of anyone else called Herr...
Re: Cricket
It's a farcical situation really. Cardiff couldn't cough up the money they owed the ECB and have asked for more time to pay. Meanwhile you've got Headingley who couldn't afford to bid for the Ashes Tests, so in the future they're going to get less money coming in... and will be even less able to aff...
- Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:52 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Pointless Series 5
- Replies: 216
- Views: 43101
Re: Pointless Series 5
I've barely heard of James Herriot which is a fairly indistinct name and I've watched the show (I can remember the theme tune). I've no idea what point you're attempting to make here. The Simpsons is much more fresh in people's minds, most people will have watched it at some point I know, I said th...
Re: Cricket
FFS. Cardiff's shithole of a ground gets another Ashes Test to turn into a turdfest nonevent. They've also got the 2012 T20 Finals day, which is even more of a ludicrous misfit.