c4countdown

Jon O'Neill

Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (2nd attempt)
Managed an hour this time.
Not rating it on that basis.

Jon O'Neill

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2017 1:42 pm I got through the ballot for entry into the 2018 London Marathon, so that's two marathons six months apart having never done one before in my life!

That's a little arrogant, to be so certain that you'll finish the first one within 6 months. You might as well get special jumpers made.

Jon O'Neill

So far:

Jon O'Neill

This is a stupid test and doesn't test whether you have the right amount of confidence in your knowledge in a sensible way. Take this example: "Wilt Chamberlain was shorter than 7 feet" I mean, I have no idea really, but most people are well under 7 feet tall aren't they? So really I'm an...

Jon O'Neill

http://confidence.success-equation.com/ I don't. Calibration score Mean confidence: 67.20% Actual percent correct: 54.00% You want your mean confidence and actual score to be as close as possible. Mean confidence on correct answers: 72.96% Mean confidence on incorrect answers: 60.43% You want your ...

Jon O'Neill

Bastille.

Jon O'Neill

Not even sure about this but Robin Hood is called Robin because he's always robbin' the rich..?

Jon O'Neill

You get more than two "chicken wings" from each chicken.

Jon O'Neill

Anfield ~15 times Upton Park/Boleyn Ground ~15 times Wembley ~5 times Victoria Road (Dagenham and Redbridge) ~50 times Can't be bothered to check the names of the stadiums for the following teams as all are less than 3 times: Bromley Aveley East Thurrock United Concord Rangers Romford Hornchurch Pro...

Jon O'Neill

Been in the control room at Yas Marina.

Jon O'Neill

watching Seinfeld yet again...love the first 7 series especially, it did fizzle out a bit when Larry David stopped writing them though. Favourite episode is either The Contest or The Puffy Shirt Madly hyped for season 9 of Curb... I've just started watching Seinfeld. Loving it so far and the first ...

Jon O'Neill

The more you practise, the less it happens.

Jon O'Neill

TLDR: practise.

Jon O'Neill

My geezer Danny Davey continued his distinguished TV quiz career today on The Chase.

Jon O'Neill

That was brilliant. Amazing that if Bristol had got up and left the set with 10 minutes to go they'd be through!

Jon O'Neill

Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:51 pmDead babies

Nowadays I'm more of a muesli person, if I eat breakfast at all.

Jon O'Neill

Does it have to be their current home?
How about student accommodation?

Charlie Reams (family home)
Charlie Reams (student accommodation)
Charlie Reams (current flat)
Heather Badcock
Matt Morrison

Jon O'Neill

Dishoom is fantastic.

Jon O'Neill

No, I don't think cheating does have to benefit the person doing the cheating. I refer my right honourable friend to Oxford Online Dictionary definition 1.1 of cheat (verb): "Gain an advantage over or deprive of something by using unfair or deceitful methods." Selecting out 4th consecutiv...

Jon O'Neill

Zarte Siempre wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2017 9:38 pm
Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2017 7:38 pmAlso I'm glad that my practising words with I as the only vowel will pay off... insipid critics insisting on instilling rigid civility can be dispiriting. But not in this case.
on, can and be all have other vowels in them you idiot. Fuck sake.

Shit. Prick. Dick. Minidisc.

Jon O'Neill

You'd also need to tell people not to defecate on the desks then. I'd say it's pretty obviously underhand if not out-and-out cheating. I don't think so at all. It's always been an enjoyment thing.. some people enjoy getting 7s instead of 5s. It's the same for both players in the game so no benefit ...

Jon O'Neill

I think that should be announced at the event then. You'd also need to tell people not to defecate on the desks then. I'd say it's pretty obviously underhand if not out-and-out cheating. I don't think so at all. It's always been an enjoyment thing.. some people enjoy getting 7s instead of 5s. It's ...

Jon O'Neill

I think that should be announced at the event then.

Jon O'Neill

Can I ask a question about pre-game letters-pack sorting? I've seen it don on tables/done it myself and it makes the game more fun when you know 6 I's are not going to come out consecutively. Nobody on the table gets a competitive edge but if there are tables not sorting then they miss out on potent...

Jon O'Neill

Gavin Chipper wrote:
Euan Slatter wrote:Surprised no ones mentioned good old Turnip Taylor yet... RIP
Meakin did about two posts ago.

Got quite a shock when I read this.. Had to go back to realise you hadn't announced his death by one letter

Jon O'Neill

Gavin Chipper wrote:they had gelatine in meant that I couldn't eat them. But now they're OK again I think [...] They're a bit tough and chewy.

Exactly!

Jon O'Neill

Ben Wilson wrote:ODO/Apterous

... which?

Jon O'Neill

I think the following picture from that holiday proves that it definitely was:

Jon O'Neill

Gavin Chipper wrote:I can imagine you sitting there thinking "Not him again" when I posted

This doesn't apply to just him, or just this post.

Jon O'Neill

This would be great. You could rate each death by certain weighted criteria (e.g. UK notability, worldwide notability, surprisingness of death) and see if 2016 really is such a bad year, or if it's just confirmation bias/recency effect.

Jon O'Neill

Gavin Chipper wrote:Why did he think they might be using tallow?

Because it's in plastic bags? Dunno. He's weird about stuff. You guys would get on.

Jon O'Neill

I don't have a strong view on the matter, but I have a vegan friend who apparently started the whole story: http://i.imgur.com/1hvaSlL.png Did he actually start the story? How did he find out? He wrote to the Bank of England to make sure they weren't using tallow. And they were. Then he posted the ...

Jon O'Neill

I don't have a strong view on the matter, but I have a vegan friend who apparently started the whole story:

Jon O'Neill

Jennifer Steadman wrote:Mark Meakin's nephew Danny Dyer (21st century's answer to Shakespeare)

I highly recommend his Who Do You Think You Are (Danny Dyer's, not Marc Meakin's.. that hasn't been on yet).

I bet Meakin's old girl didn't know she was marrying into royalty..

Jon O'Neill

My favourite televised game is a bit of a cheat as I've only seen it on YouTube , it also involved a young lad, the youngest to ever appear on the show I believe. A couple of bloopers in there as well in the words he declared, highly recommended viewing! I forgot how good this was. Easy to forget t...

Jon O'Neill

I wasn't sure where to put this, but I might as well use the de facto Richard Brittain thread. Does Richard Brittain have a brother? Go to this week's Question Time at about 12:56. This is a brilliant shout. I urge people to check it out. I would send a screencap but it's the mannerisms that are ba...

Jon O'Neill

I guess the links explained it. But the debt must be owed to each other. For example, Jim owes Jen £2, Jen owes Jono £2, Jono owes Jim £2. Global debt is £6 but nobody really owes anybody anything. Now extrapolate this. ???? ? Profit!

Jon O'Neill

Even if it doesn't reveal everything about him, I find it odd that you "didn't really like" it. I know you've already discussed this with Mark Deeks, but it showed him to definitively be a complete cunt, and that's important, even if we didn't get the scale of the things he'd done. And ye...

Jon O'Neill

The only bit of the documentary that I didn't really like was when they had the candid footage of him saying he tied troublemakers up and kept them in a basement somewhere, and acted as if that was an insight into his evil side. I just don't buy that it's on the same scale of evil as rape, child ab...

Jon O'Neill

The only bit of the documentary that I didn't really like was when they had the candid footage of him saying he tied troublemakers up and kept them in a basement somewhere, and acted as if that was an insight into his evil side. I just don't buy that it's on the same scale of evil as rape, child ab...

Jon O'Neill

I watched it and thought it was brilliant. Thinking about it now the original must've been one of my first Louis Therouxs because of how young I was. Definitely with you on the "hiding in plain sight" not being particularly convincing. Also amazing how his PA has utterly failed in her reev...

Jon O'Neill

What's the one song on your playlist that you would have to quickly skip if it was,randomly selected on speaker mode. Mine would be Young Girl by Gary Puxket "Young girl, get out of my mind..." etc. by Gary Puckett &The Union Gap? It's a classic! Philistine. Great song. Iffy suibject ...

Jon O'Neill

My original post was supposed to be lighthearted, but the complete overreaction by some on here (twisting my words to suit their own agendas) , suggests there may be more than a grain of truth in it. "Real" Top Gear is now on Amazon, Formula 1 is now shared by C4 and Sky. This forum is ob...

Jon O'Neill

Mark Deeks wrote:The alphabet song and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star have the same tune, and Baa Baa Black Sheep basically is too.

This is the first one that's blown my mind.

Jon O'Neill

Just finished American Psycho. A light-hearted romp through the life of a young white-collar worker. I remember reading that at university and really enjoyed it; very much my sort of thing. It made especially funny use of the protagonist's taste in music (all 80s AOR, which of course at the time I ...

Jon O'Neill

Just finished American Psycho. A light-hearted romp through the life of a young white-collar worker.

Jon O'Neill

From original poster: I thought I had a couple of good 'uns here, but I can only remember this one (due to the poor quality of my memory): When the fixtures for the football League Cup were announced, they were done so as "the EFL Cup". Usually it's like the (sponsor name) Cup and I couldn...

Jon O'Neill

The two runners have been reinstated as finalists by the organisers, if they are fit enough to race in Friday night's final.

Really??

Jon O'Neill

I know it's only based on two series worth of data, but a near 25% better than average chance of getting a nine in the last letters selection, is still significant. I for one would like to see your workings.. I assume he means that if you look at the numbers in the first table (number of rounds wit...

Jon O'Neill

Steven M. McCann wrote:I know it's only based on two series worth of data, but a near 25% better than average chance of getting a nine in the last letters selection, is still significant.

I for one would like to see your workings..

Jon O'Neill

I'm not convinced by the format. Having the league bit just means that the final is always guaranteed to be a match-up we've already seen. And if they're going to spend all that time giving losing robots a chance to carry on, then they shouldn't have that quick elimination thing in the first round....

Jon O'Neill

So, the bookies made an arse of it then? I did think of chucking a few quid at leave after the Newcastle result. Wasn't it Sunderland? Nope! Newcastle only just voted remain when they were predicting an easy win. I managed to avoid a catastrophic night of gambling by jumping on 5-1 for Brexit at th...

Jon O'Neill

It's also a really fucking intrusive app, and I've had to deselect all the options to make it less so. It is and always a clunky piece of shite, much like the Facebook app. If you don't like it don't use it. Stick it to Facebook by only using the Facebook-owned WhatsApp instead. But if someone send...

Jon O'Neill

I was minding my own business for several years using Facebook on the browser on my phone, when all of a sudden Facebook decided that I had to use their messenger app to view my messages. But just the messages. I can still use Facebook on my browser, but can't view my messages. This makes no sense....

Jon O'Neill

I was minding my own business for several years using Facebook on the browser on my phone, when all of a sudden Facebook decided that I had to use their messenger app to view my messages. But just the messages. I can still use Facebook on my browser, but can't view my messages. This makes no sense....

Jon O'Neill

Ian used every letter but one (Z) in his declarations, is that the record? Correct! Very good. There have been about 1600 episodes since where 25 or 26 different letters appeared in the selections, so over 3,000 chances for that to be matched.. and nobody else has gone over 23. You could match or b...

Jon O'Neill

Trivia: what record, which stands to this day, did Ian McMenzie set in this episode ? Ian used every letter but one (Z) in his declarations, is that the record? Correct! Very good. There have been about 1600 episodes since where 25 or 26 different letters appeared in the selections, so over 3,000 c...

Jon O'Neill

Trivia: what record, which stands to this day, did Ian McMenzie set in this episode ? I can't see anything notable done in that episode specifically by Ian, but I thought it was odd that there were four identical starting numbers that appeared in each of the three numbers games. Incorrect. Why is t...

Jon O'Neill

Trivia: what record, which stands to this day, did Ian McMenzie set in this episode?

Jon O'Neill

All change at FOCAL! We'd like to warmly welcome Chris Marshall as the newest member of the FOCAL team, as he takes the reins as treasurer. Community legend and St Albans/Huddersfield organiser James Robinson has also shifted role, from treasurer to secretary. The Who Are You? page has been updated...

Search found 3472 matches