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L'oisleatch McGraw

Anyway, go ahead and dodge my valid question about your disrespectful behaviour, just like you have done in other threads. Deekseses's sulky insult-laden diatribe seems to stem from the simple fact that he said "Jump", and I refused to respond "How high?" I'll tell you what... f...

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Maybe...
I hadn't seen the slightly easier way.

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I suspect the 4L in Rd6 would have been a "leave it with me" from Rachel...

L'oisleatch McGraw · Re: Co:Brighton - 16 July 2022 Plot thickens. I'll work this out eventually...

Plot thickens.
I'll work this out eventually...

L'oisleatch McGraw

Fiona T wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 7:18 am FTAOD, it's not Chloe.

Ok so...
If it's not Chloe, then it's probably Ronan Higginson, and the idea to put down "anon" was Fiona's, because he's a minor.

L'oisleatch McGraw

Graeme, what is the average max length for letters rounds in the modern 15Rer? And is there much of a difference in the ave maxes between 3/4/5 vowel selections? The mean average max length for letters rounds is 7.46. This covers 20,890 rounds from the start of the modern 15-rounder to the end of s...

L'oisleatch McGraw

Confirmed attendees (28) Thomas Carey Darren Godfrey Rachael Montgomery Phil Stanton Oliver Walker Mike Lee Paul Anderson Joseph Bartram George Armstrong James Robinson Dave Robjohns Adam Dexter David Hilton Stephen Holford Louis Freedman MSR Gabriel Thallon Coral Heath Adam Latchford Neil Collins ...

L'oisleatch McGraw

This thread should have a 'Contents' index.
At the risk of asking a question that has already been asked:-

Graeme, what is the average max length for letters rounds in the modern 15Rer?
And is there much of a difference in the ave maxes between 3/4/5 vowel selections?

L'oisleatch McGraw

Jack's android app. It's more of a game than a tool at the moment. Maybe after a couple more features become public Eoin will consider it a worthy addition :) No. Not at all. No snubs here... that App is great and more than qualifies. Just lazily listed the first few that popped into my head... Wil...

L'oisleatch McGraw

The idea here being to edit the original post occasionally, based on suggestions received.

Who has contributed a resource that has helped people train for Countdown?
What resource did they contribute?
Is it still accessible today? If so, where / how?

L'oisleatch McGraw

LETTERS PAUL ERDUNAST (Word usefulness list. / Countdown resources site.) ROB FOSTER (Word usefulness list - "The Roster!") CHARLIE REAMS (Lexplorer.) NUMBERS CHRIS BUTLER (Guide to 4L.) ANDY PLATT (Guide to 4L.) CONUNDUMS CHARLIE REAMS (Acsension.) GAMEPLAY JACK HURST (Android gameplay a...

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:00 am Would you say you had a personality?

I was fucking awesome Mark, but you knew.
You were too, to be fair to you.

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Ian Fitzpatrick wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 9:30 am I don't crawl over everything in minute detail so that I, or my senses, can be offended.

But you made an exception just for this forum thread.

L'oisleatch McGraw

I have no issue with her doing that as compared to people giving multiple letters declarations, or declaring needlessly obscure stuff. Coming back to an old topic (Thank you Gevin), and re-reading this reminds me of one of Zarte's greatest failings during his lengthy spell as King of the Countdown ...

L'oisleatch McGraw

I agree it's wearing thin. I used to enjoy it more though . How in God's name are you able to unearth duplicate threads so readily? :shock: Is it just that you have a prodigious memory? Because I searched "Rachel Riley" before I made this thread to see whether I needed to... and that clev...

L'oisleatch McGraw

Has anyone else had their fill of Rachel's "a couple of ways" catchphrase? When she first started using it, it was 1. Used sparingly 2. Used only when a sitter had been missed. To my mind, that was fine. But lately she has started to go over the top with it. (Maybe it's Anne's influence.) ...

L'oisleatch McGraw

Well, your current sig does read a little like something a 12 year old would go with, but fine. Be no fun. :| I will take it as the realest endorsement you could give that you agree the return of the Vord is a strong possibility at this significant point in the show's history. Can't see how it would...

L'oisleatch McGraw

Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:27 pm There's not a chance of Vorderman returning.

You should change your C4C signature to that ^^^ when Carol is presenting the 40th Bday tourney just B4 Christmas.
I am so looking forward to her glorious return.
It is almost definite now. (Denials on Twitter are best ignored.)

L'oisleatch McGraw

This one https://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=3201316&round=49558280#r49558280 ...just because I learned it for TV as READINGS+E, and didn't get to play it until 5 years later. (At the time, GARDENISE didn't exist.) Next on the as-yet-unplayed-but-learned-for-TV agenda is to declare the va...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Wed Jun 01, 2022 11:35 pm
Toby McDonald wrote: ↑Wed Jun 01, 2022 9:40 pm OURSIN in R13
Is that a comment on pride month?

"Sin of pride"
One of the 7 deadlies iirc...

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***All the CONUNDRA from the day*** Preliminaries 1. LIGHHGIHT 2. YONTSETIM 3. PILLACYYT 4. EFMPREICT 5. UNMOURNCD (we are free to unmourn CD now, as Ann is due to be replaced!) Quarter-Finals 6. NWATERSBI (for co-event newbie, Niall Waters) 7. IMBSULLEY (for co-event newbie, Brian Sullivan) 8. MORE...

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***THE HALF-TIME STANDINGS (after five preliminary 9Rers)*** 1. Hazel Drury ... (5 wins / 0 losses) ... 326pts 2. Alan O’Sullivan ... (5 wins / 0 losses) ... 316pts 3. Mark O’Regan ... (5 wins / 0 losses) ... 299pts 4. Damian McEvoy (5 wins / 0 losses) ... 276pts 5. Brendan Duke ... (4 wins / 1 loss...

L'oisleatch McGraw

Co:Wat?! 2022 [The AFTERWORD] ----------------------------------------- ~INTRO~ It does kind of feel like karma in a way. Co:Wat 2020 went ahead in the thick of the pandemic. The next co-event after that was Co:Wat 2021… still in pandemic country. We had been so lucky to have been able to find a way...

L'oisleatch McGraw

As I have contracted Covid (possibly the brand new Boleybeg variant! ;) ), Co:Wat will be hosted remotely this year, using videoconferencing software and YouTube. Cannot believe that an event that survived 2020 and 2021 has been put in serious jeopardy in 2022, after all restrictions have been lifte...

L'oisleatch McGraw

Yeah... it is a bad look having some random dope do the Susie job.
Devalues it, imo.

Also brings into sharp focus that if further cuts were needed, that role could go.

L'oisleatch McGraw

Not lazy. Factual and necessary... and not for when people take a different view to me. (That would be more disingenuous than lazy.) I reserve that phrase purely for when people are actually doing it. (virtue-signalling, that is.) You're just sick of hearing it. I imagine you are not alone in that. ...

L'oisleatch McGraw

Wateva. If you want your posturing and virtue signalling to be taken seriously, give me some examples of any quiz or game shows, from any era of television, where a role like the Carol / Rachel role was not given to someone telegenic. Start there. When that fails, you can continue to make arrogant p...

L'oisleatch McGraw · Re: Spoilers for Thursday 19 May 2022 (Series 85, Prelim 99) Wow!

L'oisleatch McGraw · Re: Spoilers for Thursday 19 May 2022 (Series 85, Prelim 99) Zef

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Not really.
If someone is gonna come on here and leave a dull and predictable holier-than-thou comment, along the lines of what Andy posted; it warrants a reply like that. You're lucky there's someone here to treat it with the respect it deserves.

L'oisleatch McGraw

I am definitely definitely coming. Accommodation sorted and the lot.
But can you pay on the day?

L'oisleatch McGraw

Yeah, that's a fair point you make, Andy. And I agree, a hot girl doing numbers is as crucial to Countdown as conundrums... they're not gonna give the gig to a fat minger, or a man. Anne-Marie was *just about* acceptable as a stand-in, by those criteria. (Though, unlike you, I'd probably still watch...

L'oisleatch McGraw

Good news. We finally got it sorted out that the campsite will be at the venue this year. Also I can offer some pretty cool benefits for anyone who is doing both Galway AND Waterford. 1. The campsite will be available from the Sunday night before the event. 2. I can offer a free lift to 3 people fro...

L'oisleatch McGraw

they wanted to cut her salary from £900k to £90k in one go. Sounds typical in the jobs I've been in. You are some man for one man, Andrex! I hope the £900k salary was fun for you while it lasted. (Mystery of how you were able to afford the set-up costs for Team Countdown is solved now, I guess!) As...

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Graeme Cole wrote: ↑Wed May 04, 2022 10:19 am "Anne-Marie is not as strong as Rachel at this specific game based on mental arithmetic against the clock, at which Rachel has had years of practice"

Not sure I know that one.
Could you hum the first few lines please, and I'll try join in on the chorus?

L'oisleatch McGraw

Well, Richard Osman has publicly backed Colin Murray… but more interestingly, Vorderman has not distanced herself from the rumours (like she did last time). That tells me a lot. According to The Sun, “bosses” (C4? Damian? Who knows?) want her back. Carol would be fkn wonderful, and a great redempti...

L'oisleatch McGraw

Whether or not you believe in nominative determinism, it is of note that Colin Murray was quite literally born and raised in County Down. Ah, my County Down gag. Nice to see you were paying some attention when trolling the Co:Wat event page in 2020. :mrgreen: As for host, the Rachel hosting, Anne-M...

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Jim Vincent wrote: ↑Tue May 03, 2022 8:48 am Anne never seems to have come to terms with the show being about the contestants, and not her.

Correction:-

The show is about the game, and not the contestants or the hosts.

L'oisleatch McGraw

I don't think CD team need to worry too much about trying to make a silk purse out of an Anne Robinson. The search for her replacement will be their main priority over the next season or two. The only sincere hope I have is that the person / people responsible for her appointment get fired from the...

L'oisleatch McGraw

This thread could probably do with being in the sticky section with the other upcoming co-events...

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samir pilica wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 11:46 pm Nasty stuff. Btw, would like to see the Touch Jnr variant renamed. Too creepy.

Lame.
Only creepy if someone's mindset is impure.

L'oisleatch McGraw

Did a few more ordles tonight. I spent an hour doing that 1000ordle thing! 😳🤯🤓 I had gotten it down to 27 words remaining after 32 guesses, when it suddenly froze on me. When I fixed the freeze, it reset. So I will not be going next nor near it again, the buggy piece of shit... To scratch the itch i...

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My daily nerd consists of:- 1. HEARDLE 2. WORDLE 3. QUORDLE 4. NERDLE 5. OCTORDLE 6. WORLDLE 7. 16ORDLE 7 is a good number. I did DORDLE for a time, but when I needed to drop one to pare things back to 7 after HEARDLE got added, that was the one to get the chop. I also tried hellowordl for a bit. Fu...

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Scrabble players will have to unlearn slur words with include a good half dozen 3 letter words There isn't a list so to speak... Yes there is! And it's even more fun with definitions attached! Enjoy... :mrgreen: ABO (offensive) (short for) an aborigine [n -S] ABOS <abo=n> [n] AMAKWEREKWERE (South A...

L'oisleatch McGraw

TL;DR summary: ~As regards coronavirus, facemasks and distancing probably will not be required. ~The event will be run in line with whatever the public health guidelines at the time are. ~It costs €15 for those who have sorted out their own accommodation. ~It costs €50 for anyone who is availing of ...

L'oisleatch McGraw

I do really like the stats graphics though, thought they were a great idea! And to be fair they were styled as a 'tale of the tape' and normally a tale of the tape in a boxing match, for example, just shows the two competitor's total records and not an average or a selected series of results, so th...

L'oisleatch McGraw

If people are still interested in this yoke... it's back on lately. There's a show on now, and there was one last night too. All very good so far. One criticism... the players stats segment should only show the ZD series that made them qualify for the CoC. To show pretty much every fart they ever di...

L'oisleatch McGraw

David Williams wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 11:37 pm That to me is not only someone working it out, but someone who hasn't seen this simple method of getting to the target.

Yep.
lmfao indeed!

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:58 am I think you must be confusing Rachel for someone else.

The wonderful Jeremy Corbyn, no doubt?

L'oisleatch McGraw

Anne-Marie's incisive closing comment today... "The only thing closer would have been a dead heat". Slow clap for captain obvious. You kinda take for granted how Rachel always has value to add in her closing comment, be it a flash of wit, a stat, an insight etc... until you see someone in ...

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Johnny Canuck wrote: ↑Sat Sep 18, 2021 10:09 pm How big is the biggest group of people such that everyone in it has played everyone else in an Apterous game at least once?

Might have missed it, but didn't notice an answer to this yet.
I imagine this would be a good jumping off point.

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Adam Latchford wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:54 pm Excited for people to complain when that bonus 10 points gets added to his octototal...

Totally!
That sort of thing has been known to give a series the entirely wrong winner on the rare occasion...

L'oisleatch McGraw

Pool oul Novax!

He's having a bad week...

What I don't understand: can they not just do a PCR test? If he hasn't got the virus right now, and he's already in Australia, let him play ffs.
Where is common sense in all of this?
Seems more like a dick measuring contest.

L'oisleatch McGraw

Interesting result. The winner was a great game, but as alluded to in the summary, Callum's entire finals run is the thing that was truly noteworthy. Is it fair to assume that the first 10 games on the list deserved quite a few more votes, and the final 10 quite a few less? Gotta love the recency ef...

L'oisleatch McGraw

I doubt the people running Countdown are stupid, but just in case, it may be worth pointing out the obvious... ...Good ratings for Anne Robinson count for nothing. Countdown is not a ratings based show. Some trashy flash-in-the-pan TV show like e.g. "The X-Factor" is the sort of thing that...

L'oisleatch McGraw

14 of these games, I have either not seen, or had so little interest at the time, I do not remember.
I think if I voted, newer games would be favoured over some potentially better ones from the past, which is why I've abstained, until such time that the old games are available to watch.

L'oisleatch McGraw

If you guys really want, I could cancel this off, and restart the nomination discussion, though I'm not sure how many of those mentioned would be potential winners. What do you say? Nah. It's a bit of fun. What I would suggest though, is that sometime in the future... perhaps 2032 for the 50th birt...

L'oisleatch McGraw

The nominations phase was too short and largely went unheralded.
I object to this entire process!

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Mikey Lear's first game was one of the most memorable ones from the (distant) past.
Also, the first game of Tracey Mills's Octorun was breathtaking. One of the most edge-of-seat games ever.

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Adam Latchford wrote: ↑Thu Dec 23, 2021 7:46 pm Final 3 this series all such class competitors

Final 4. Let's not overlook Jeremy (or Stu, but I assume you were omitting Jeremy).

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