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- Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:38 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Safeguarding at and around co-events
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9002
Re: Safeguarding at and around co-events
"So far we've been lucky that the worst kind of crimes, of the kind these people got convicted for, haven't happened to any of us at events." That we know of. And going beyond the paedophilia stuff that this discussion hitherto has focused on, there have definitely been crimes committed ag...
- Sat Jan 28, 2023 1:01 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Safeguarding at and around co-events
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9002
Re: Safeguarding at and around co-events
I'm not going to any social event that requires a DBS check in advance.
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 12:04 am
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Safeguarding at and around co-events
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9002
Re: Safeguarding at and around co-events
I hereby copy and paste an Apterous ticket that I wrote back at the start of the month concerning safeguarding issues in the Apterdown community. ---- Hello! Let's kick off the new year in high spirits with a discussion about safeguarding issues on, adjacent to and because of, Apterous. Apterous is ...
- Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:17 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: Safeguarding at and around co-events
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9002
Re: Countdowners in the news
I strongly recommend splitting off such discussion into a separate thread to give it the eyes it deserves.
- Thu Jan 26, 2023 4:33 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdowners in the news
- Replies: 243
- Views: 151715
Re: Countdowners in the news
Unless there are two people of that name who live on that road, then...
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https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/tees ... 0-19453696
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 2:40 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Where the hell, is Julian Fell?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 10061
Re: Where the hell, is Julian Fell?
Howard died a couple of years ago.
- Sun Jan 22, 2023 11:39 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Wordiply (from The Guardian)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8167
- Thu Jan 19, 2023 8:43 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Lookalikes?
- Replies: 390
- Views: 259210
Re: Countdown Lookalikes?
Innis Bevins
- Mon Jan 16, 2023 2:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deathwatch 2017
- Replies: 467
- Views: 266362
Re: Deathwatch 2017
He was YouTube famous.
- Wed Jan 11, 2023 2:41 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Strange things you used to believe as a child
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9724
Strange things you used to believe as a child
The BBC newsreader Nicholas Witchell was the first man on the moon. It was illegal to be outside about 11pm, and infidelity meant jail time. Elephants are blue. Peter Sellers and Saddam Hussein were the same person. "Mininim" was a word, and even though I didn't know what it meant, I got v...
- Wed Jan 11, 2023 10:08 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Colin Murray’s future at Countdown
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5304
Re: Colin Murray’s future at Countdown
#Deeks2023
- Mon Jan 09, 2023 11:10 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Words and expressions that grind your gears
- Replies: 108
- Views: 21959
Re: Words and expressions that grind your gears
Menus that shorten coleslaw to 'slaw.
- Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:15 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Wordiply (from The Guardian)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8167
Re: Wordiply (from The Guardian)
Not really getting the appeal of this one. There's nothing to clue you towards the answer. I thknk that’s part of the challenge - to know and find long words with no guidance. Mind, there’s nothing to clue you to finding the longest word on Countdown . It’s an okay game. Countdown has an opponent y...
- Sun Jan 01, 2023 9:29 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Colin Murray’s future at Countdown
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5304
Re: Colin Murray’s future at Countdown
#Deeks2025
- Sun Jan 01, 2023 8:13 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 331027
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
I thought it was because actors think that saying "Good luck" before a performance is bad form, and will surely bring bad luck. Sure, but that's why break a leg is the choice of substitute. Appaz. There's nothing on the Wikipedia article about it. Not that you should take Wikipedia as gos...
- Fri Dec 30, 2022 3:18 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 331027
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
The phrase "break a leg", meaning "I hope the acting audition goes well for you", came about because broken legs get out in casts. I thought it was because actors think that saying "Good luck" before a performance is bad form, and will surely bring bad luck. Sure, but ...
- Fri Dec 30, 2022 12:00 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Wordiply (from The Guardian)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8167
Re: Wordiply (from The Guardian)
Not really getting the appeal of this one. There's nothing to clue you towards the answer.
- Wed Dec 28, 2022 3:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 331027
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
The phrase "break a leg", meaning "I hope the acting audition goes well for you", came about because broken legs get out in casts.
- Fri Dec 16, 2022 6:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: David Barnard, 1991-2022
- Replies: 85
- Views: 13103
- Tue Dec 13, 2022 12:21 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732066
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
What was with that weird 70s phase of sitting the drummer up the front?
- Tue Dec 06, 2022 11:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Is Colin Murray making Countdown too competitive?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5144
Re: Is Colin Murray making Countdown too competitive?
Well you can't be too against this as a practice if Whiteley is your all-time favourite, because that man was an absolute freestyler.seems to fill up the void for about 5 or 10 seconds before resuming the game which gives the contestants extra thinking time
- Tue Dec 06, 2022 11:11 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Is Colin Murray making Countdown too competitive?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5144
Re: Is Colin Murray making Countdown too competitive?
My God it's so much more relaxing on the show these days. Night and day.
- Thu Nov 17, 2022 11:10 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: David Barnard, 1991-2022
- Replies: 85
- Views: 13103
Re: Please say a prayer for David Barnard
David died at 9.50pm this evening.
- Wed Nov 09, 2022 11:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Lookalikes?
- Replies: 390
- Views: 259210
Re: Countdown Lookalikes?
Countdown lookalikes, but, as descriptions:
Paul Erdunast looks like he'd be fired during the second week of The Apprentice.
Paul Erdunast looks like he'd be fired during the second week of The Apprentice.
- Tue Nov 08, 2022 7:58 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies in general, NFTs etc.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 794
Re: Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies in general, NFTs etc.
* comes forward *
- Sat Nov 05, 2022 10:04 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: David Barnard, 1991-2022
- Replies: 85
- Views: 13103
Re: Please say a prayer for David Barnard
Cheers, those were also the two I'd found. Anyone got the heats?
- Sat Nov 05, 2022 9:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: David Barnard, 1991-2022
- Replies: 85
- Views: 13103
Re: Please say a prayer for David Barnard
On an uplifting note, David's mum got married in the past few weeks, and David was the de facto best man. In his condition, special permission had to be sought in order for him to be able to attend, permission from the medical teams and the Church of England. But they all stepped up, with the Archbi...
- Sat Nov 05, 2022 9:19 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: David Barnard, 1991-2022
- Replies: 85
- Views: 13103
Re: Please say a prayer for David Barnard
There's conspiracy theories about his welfare, and yet it's all the swearing that his mum would find the problem. Gotcha. Oh for a head as cool as yours, to really focus on what matters. No change for David ATM. His mum would however like to ask if anyone has copies of his appearances on Countdown (...
- Fri Nov 04, 2022 6:58 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: David Barnard, 1991-2022
- Replies: 85
- Views: 13103
Re: Please say a prayer for David Barnard
People who lie about his welfare - not those mistaken by the disjointed misinformation, but those outright claiming it - are indeed absolute pricks and I retract nothing.
- Thu Nov 03, 2022 2:48 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: David Barnard, 1991-2022
- Replies: 85
- Views: 13103
Re: Please say a prayer for David Barnard
I am referring to Facebook posts and private chat messages circulated by, and emanating from, C4C and Apterous members.
- Thu Nov 03, 2022 2:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What would you do differently
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1437
- Thu Nov 03, 2022 12:29 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: David Barnard, 1991-2022
- Replies: 85
- Views: 13103
Re: Please say a prayer for David Barnard
Contrary to the misinformation of some absolute pricks in this community - who seem so committed to being edgy and/or in the know that they're willing to lie about someone else's life - David is still with us. It is true that he has mere days left. But he's still here, no matter what the lying fucke...
- Thu Oct 27, 2022 7:02 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Interesting substitutions from home shop deliveries
- Replies: 1
- Views: 361
Re: Interesting substitutions from home shop deliveries
During my Amazon CD-buying days, there was once a marked difference between what I ordered and what I got.
- Tue Oct 18, 2022 11:17 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: In Truss, Ye God's!!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 731
Re: In Truss, Ye God's!!
Penny Mordaunt is hot
- Thu Oct 13, 2022 4:00 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732066
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Some people say C4C peaked 12 years ago. But to that I say, pah.
- Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:30 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732066
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
What are those black spinny things you sometimes get on vans for?
- Mon Oct 03, 2022 8:09 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Absolutely terrible claims to fame/celebrity spots
- Replies: 74
- Views: 29629
Re: Absolutely terrible claims to fame/celebrity spots
England and Newcastle United goalkeeper Nick Pope's mum's best friend just gave my dog a bowl of water, then coughed on her.
- Fri Sep 30, 2022 5:41 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Things you can't un-notice
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1111
Re: Things you can't un-notice
Richard Hammond's saliva noises when he talks. The arrow in the FedEx logo. The amount of overdubbed noise when people in films run with assault rifles. Plugs turned on with nothing in them.
- Fri Sep 30, 2022 5:40 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Heardle
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2959
Re: Heardle
Since being bought by Spotify, Heardle has seen an overwhelming shift in its answers to being mostly from the last 10 years, and as such, I've gone off it, because I don't know any of the answers. (And with this message, Mark fully transitioned into middle age.)
- Sat Sep 17, 2022 4:53 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: David Barnard, 1991-2022
- Replies: 85
- Views: 13103
Re: Please say a prayer for David Barnard
So, let's not beat around the bush here. It's a hard truth but it's an unavoidable one. After much testing and unsuccessful rehabilitation, it has been determined that there is no hope of recovery for David, and he is being moved into hospice care for whatever time he has left.
- Thu Sep 15, 2022 10:06 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What do you do with Christmas/birthday cards?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1002
Re: What do you do with Christmas/birthday cards?
It's a two-step policy.
1) Put them up for a week in case anyone comes round, then recycle them.
2) Don't buy them or others. Except my grandmother.
1) Put them up for a week in case anyone comes round, then recycle them.
2) Don't buy them or others. Except my grandmother.
- Mon Sep 05, 2022 1:48 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732066
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I do a lot of night time driving, and, being an East Anglian girl, most of it is done around the countryside. This means I spend a lot of time trying not to kill deer, because at night, they're bloody everywhere. But where do they go during the day?
- Thu Sep 01, 2022 6:18 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Colin Murray’s future at Countdown
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5304
Re: Colin Murray’s future at Countdown
I just would have expected a heads up, that's all, didn't expect to have to be find out this way. Would have been the respectful thing to do, given howo far through the process I was.
- Mon Aug 29, 2022 12:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Colin Murray as Host (pros and cons)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2443
Re: Colin Murray as Host (pros and cons)
Rachel seems night-and-day happier.
- Thu Aug 25, 2022 3:37 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Lookalikes?
- Replies: 390
- Views: 259210
Re: Countdown Lookalikes?
Had a slight frisson earlier today when, for a second, I thought Phil Jarvis had bought a hat, grown a moustache, gone into politics and died.
- Wed Aug 17, 2022 7:32 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732066
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
After prostate cancer surgery, my dad made that change. He has never detailed why he now needs this new technique. And nor do I really want him to.
- Tue Aug 16, 2022 11:25 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732066
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
What is the point of washing-up bowls placed in a sink? Do they not do the same tasks as a sink in a smaller and far less helpful space?
- Sun Aug 14, 2022 6:57 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Lookalikes?
- Replies: 390
- Views: 259210
- Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:45 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 331027
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
American lemonade is not fizzy, hence the trope about kids making and selling it.
- Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:37 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Best and Worst National Flags
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2862
Re: Best and Worst National Flags
And on a regional administrative level, I hereby anoint the winner of the world Best County Flag competition to this absolute belter from River Gee County, Liberia.
- Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Best and Worst National Flags
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2862
Re: Best and Worst National Flags
Since neither I nor anyone should yield to the self-appointed authority of Gev, I would like an honorable mention for the following, which is not a national flag, but nearly was, coming fourth in the New Zealand flag referendum in 2016. I enjoy its simple majesty and colour contrasts. https://s.wsj....
- Thu Aug 04, 2022 2:19 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Lookalikes?
- Replies: 390
- Views: 259210
Re: Countdown Lookalikes?
Michelle Nevitt..... https://wiki.apterous.org/images/thumb/5/51/MichelleNevitt.jpg/300px-MichelleNevitt.jpg .....plus Ryan Taylor..... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/Beaker_%28Muppet%29-en.jpg ....equals, quite aptly, Michelle Ryan. https://flxt.tmsimg.com/assets/502190_v9_bb.jpg
- Tue Aug 02, 2022 6:06 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdowners in Art....
- Replies: 2
- Views: 783
- Sat Jul 30, 2022 10:48 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Best ways to improve your Countdowning skills...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 15783
- Sat Jul 30, 2022 4:41 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732066
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
No idea why this pedantic distinction matters, but, eh, sure, it's both.So you see that seatbelt alarm as a punitive measure rather than as helpful?
- Fri Jul 29, 2022 12:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732066
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Society has to cater to its lowest and simplest. We all have to go to the "how to use a ladder properly" training session, even though we all know, because there's that one guy who doesn't. We all know to put a seatbelt on, but there's one guy who doesn't, so he needs bleeping at. Etc.
- Fri Jul 29, 2022 12:43 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732066
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
They're definitely annoying but they must also have definitely saved some lives in the past, so, OK. Bleep away, bleepy thing.
- Fri Jul 29, 2022 12:18 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732066
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
It's like a two second inconvenience each time, just do it already. If it was like relacing a shoe every time, I'd understand, but it's just a clicky thing, it's fine.
- Thu Jul 28, 2022 8:48 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732066
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Are they uncomfortable, though? I mean they might have been made of chainmail back in the early days, but now, it's the most minor inconvenience. And in terms of restricting movement, a driver shouldn't be moving anyway! I just find it such an odd battle to pick. Just put the belt on and stop whingi...
- Thu Jul 28, 2022 5:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: How do I know if my word is valid?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 70759