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Re: Mrs.
@kailaddiman hasn't tweeted yet. You're only 4,567 tweets out. How annoying. What's the point of setting up one Twitter account using your actual name, then setting up another one under a pseudonym and only using that one? Maybe Kai didn't set up the one with his real name? (And even if he did, his...
- Thu Mar 22, 2012 6:29 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Shampoo v Shower Gel
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4948
Re: Shampoo v Shower Gel
Tbh Phil, you're a rubbish gay if you didn't realise that shampoo and conditioner did different things. Even I know that.
- Thu Mar 22, 2012 1:52 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Shampoo v Shower Gel
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4948
Re: Shampoo v Shower Gel
I can't really comment on shampoo, but I do get though a lot of coonditioner.
- Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:51 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Castigate Countdown
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3424
Re: Castigate Countdown
I haven't listened to it yet, but I'm pretty sure she said CASTIGATE.
- Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:26 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: University Challenge 2011/12
- Replies: 89
- Views: 19431
Re: University Challenge 2011/12
Yeah, agree it was a bit anticlimactic. I found it a bit odd when, with 5-10 minutes to go Pembroke started to really get into it, but Paxo didn't do his normal thing of reading the questions really fast (maybe he was knackered). The presentation at the end was really weird, though, it was just supe...
- Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Name Our Child
- Replies: 110
- Views: 17909
Re: Name Our Child
I like this, but only if it's spelt Jazzmean.Thomas Carey wrote:Jasmine
- Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:50 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Name Our Child
- Replies: 110
- Views: 17909
Re: Name Our Child
Totallya gree with Gevin's advice.
- Mon Mar 19, 2012 4:52 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Name Our Child
- Replies: 110
- Views: 17909
Re: Name Our Child
Mark James wrote:I notice no one else has said Congratulations. Although you'd probably want to shorten it to Conny or something.
I dont think you're exploiting the potential for supermarket sponsorship. "Shoppat" sounds a bit Indian (based on a survey of two people).
- Sun Mar 18, 2012 10:48 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Name Our Child
- Replies: 110
- Views: 17909
Re: Name Our Child
What's the surname going to be?
- Sat Mar 17, 2012 5:42 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Breakaway
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4916
Re: Breakaway
Most of the players seem tactically pretty clueless. Today, for example, with very little risk Dave could have bumped off his partner by stepping forward on the last question and giving a wrong answer. I was wondering about that too - presumably the way they avoid the problem of two players disagre...
- Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:04 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: University Challenge 2011/12
- Replies: 89
- Views: 19431
Re: University Challenge 2011/12
That Pugh looked like a cock to me with his annoying hand gestures and celebrations at the end. You shouldn't be allowed to celebrate anything on such a serious quiz. But mainly because you're not CF. Tbf, Pugh is clearly a pretty phenomenal quizzer, across all his shows he's demonstrated a stagger...
- Sun Mar 11, 2012 6:01 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Perfection
- Replies: 84
- Views: 13818
Re: Perfection
Oh, haha, have rewatched it now and that's great. The first time I assumed it was something to do with the questions so missed it.Ryan Taylor wrote:The handshake? He goes for a handshake and gets left hanging.
- Sat Mar 10, 2012 1:02 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Perfection
- Replies: 84
- Views: 13818
Re: Perfection
I just flicked through this, not sure I understand what you're getting at.
- Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:39 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Headphones
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3855
Re: Headphones
Is that what you say to two lesbians having angry sex?Ryan Taylor wrote:Girls. Calm the fuck down.
- Fri Mar 09, 2012 10:13 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Pointles Series 6
- Replies: 76
- Views: 21863
Re: Pointles Series 6
I had Eastcote, Ickenham and Upminster Bridge - did he specifically say that the pointless answers he showed were all of them? I can only assume they were, since they shoved 5, and usually when they only show a subset of the answers they'll show a multiple of 3. I'm a bit sceptical of this though, ...
- Thu Mar 08, 2012 10:26 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Interesting video
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4859
Re: Interesting video
That's what I was thinking...Mark James wrote:Aren't you supposed to, or it's not gonna make much sense?Phil Reynolds wrote:Haha, very clever. Did anyone else spot the significance of the letters selection?
- Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:27 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: OFF-TOPIC TOPIC:M
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1704
- Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:21 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Carl Williams
- Replies: 50
- Views: 11854
Re: Carl Williams
Exactly the level of deviousness we've come to expect from the cad!Graeme Cole wrote:Not unless he was playing on apterous while in the studio.Jordan Leckonby wrote:i think on apterous carl williams is keith williams
- Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: An idea for a future CO-event
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4787
Re: An idea for a future CO-event
This is genuinely one of the most amazing ideas I've ever heard.
- Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:41 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Is it acceptable to order just a naan?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2262
Re: Is it acceptable to order just a naan?
Logically yes, these arguments are sound, and I don't think I'd hesitate were it not my local place which we regularly use. The owner is a bit 'chatty', and would almost certainly want to know why we were getting naan breads (which you surely only order if you're having curry) and not buying his cur...
- Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:21 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Is it acceptable to order just a naan?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2262
Is it acceptable to order just a naan?
Suppose you're having home made curry, is it ok to go to your nearby curry house and order just a couple of naan breads? Or is that dickish? Will the owner see right through you and realise that you're having someone else's curry, and just using him as a petty bread vendor? Or is this common behavio...
- Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:41 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Enter-your-code style competitions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1204
Re: Enter-your-code style competitions
I've often wondered things like this. (I think I did some crowdsourcing on here for an article about McDonald's Monopoly, where you have to find the one Mayfair token to win the top prize.) The idea of the winning pack never leaving the factory is an old-as-the-hills question though (I can remember ...
- Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:08 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What did you want to be when you were a kid?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6366
Re: What did you want to be when you were a kid?
I'm encouraged by the number of people who had similarly boring ambitions to me. Chris is winning for best career idea, though.
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:53 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What did you want to be when you were a kid?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6366
Re: What did you want to be when you were a kid?
So you went with crazy golf course owner after all? Wicked. I feel a co-event coming on.Mark Deeks wrote:Cartoonist. Then a crazy golf course owner. Then a fireman, before I remembered I was asthmatic and afraid of heights.
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:29 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What did you want to be when you were a kid?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6366
What did you want to be when you were a kid?
Pretty self-explanatory, really - when you were a kid, what career path did you see your future self following, and how has that worked out? When I was very young I wanted to be a mathematician - obviously I didn't really know what that actually meant as a job, but I liked doing maths problems so I ...
- Fri Feb 24, 2012 4:55 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: University Challenge 2011/12
- Replies: 89
- Views: 19431
Re: University Challenge 2011/12
To add to the Countdown/University Challenge crossovers, I'm going up to Manchester this weekend to film our (New College, Oxford) first round match. I think we're the last match, before the highest-scoring losers, so won't be shown till late September/early October. Awesome stuff, good luck (unles...
- Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:42 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Buying faulty crap off eBay - where do you stand?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 11556
Re: Buying faulty crap off eBay - where do you stand?
Statistically speaking...David Williams wrote:Remind me, what does the H stand for?Julie T wrote:IMHO
- Wed Feb 22, 2012 8:06 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Pointles Series 6
- Replies: 76
- Views: 21863
Re: Pointles Series 6
Wicked, thanks.
- Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:42 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Pointles Series 6
- Replies: 76
- Views: 21863
Re: Pointles Series 6
Sorry Phil, I meant the first version of the 4 team format, as opposed to the original 5 team format. Hope thats cleared that up. :?: For what it's worth, I understood what you meant (sometimes it helps not to assume someone's made a mistake :p). Does this mean mine and CF's second show will be tom...
- Wed Feb 22, 2012 6:45 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Pointles Series 6
- Replies: 76
- Views: 21863
Re: Pointles Series 6
Exciting. Thanks for the heads upMarc Meakin wrote:BTW on challenge at 7 today its a repeat of the first MW and CF edition
- Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:32 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Pointles Series 6
- Replies: 76
- Views: 21863
Re: Pointles Series 6
I enjoy Pointless and also more traditional fact based quiz shows. IMHO the new round 3 format is an interesting joining of the two. The viewer gets to test more specific knowledge of subjects (and compare with the contestants) than the old rounds, while still having the Pointless twist of estimati...
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:55 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Buying faulty crap off eBay - where do you stand?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 11556
Re: Buying faulty crap off eBay - where do you stand?
Except you might annoy them, and they presumably know where you live...Gavin Chipper wrote:I've got nothing to lose by complaining though - to the seller at least.
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 3:30 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Pointles Series 6
- Replies: 76
- Views: 21863
Re: Pointles Series 6
Crazy. I remember when we were preparing we spotted the potential for mild shenanigans in that regard, but assumed they didn't care enough because it required a reasonable level of effort/smarts to exploit it. Then we noticed on the day the winners never reappearing (like they'd been eaten by some q...
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:44 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: WIN A FIVER Chewing Gum Comp
- Replies: 157
- Views: 11238
Re: WIN A FIVER Chewing Gum Comp
When does the competition close? I've still got a few packs that I haven't entered yet. End of this month. You can give me some codes to work my Midas touch on if you like :) Ha. The limiting factor is my inability to read them (have to get CF to do it) maybe we'll find five minutes to get some don...
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:06 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Pointles Series 6
- Replies: 76
- Views: 21863
Re: Pointless Series 6
Five options in the final is interesting - presumably viewers didn't like how the jackpot was won relatively rarely? I'd be surprised if that was the reason - speaking as a viewer, it's generally more exciting when someone wins a big jackpot than when people win a couple of grand every other day. I...
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:59 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: WIN A FIVER Chewing Gum Comp
- Replies: 157
- Views: 11238
Re: WIN A FIVER Chewing Gum Comp
Just means you're even more likely to win next time!Jon Corby wrote:1/25. That's 21 losers in a row I think
When does the competition close? I've still got a few packs that I haven't entered yet.
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:21 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Pointles Series 6
- Replies: 76
- Views: 21863
Re: Pointles Series 6
It's been a few shows, but I'm still not convinced by their format tweaks. Five options in the final is interesting - presumably viewers didn't like how the jackpot was won relatively rarely? I thought it was just right, really. I'm a little surprised they changed the head to head - I thought questi...
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:18 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What do you do if you find a pair of glasses?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4433
Re: What do you do if you find a pair of glasses?
I have no sympathy for anyone who can see well enough to not have their glasses on their face in the first place. Unless they're five. (I once lost a pair of glasses when I was five by leaving them on the bumper of my mum's car.)
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:02 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: University Challenge 2011/12
- Replies: 89
- Views: 19431
Re: University Challenge 2011/12
Correct. Although I prefer to call them by their proper name: Balli-lol.James Robinson wrote:I read that CF is back on our screens next week when UCL play Balliol College, Oxford.
And that will complete the semi line-up.
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:12 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The Exit List
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2331
Re: The Exit List
Haha, clearly they are all merging into one super-being.Phil Reynolds wrote:I prefer that Matt Knowles who does Perfection.Michael Wallace wrote:Nick Allwright is a perfectly competent presenter
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:09 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What do you do if you find a pair of glasses?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4433
Re: What do you do if you find a pair of glasses?
I'm assuming there's nothing to identify the owner from the glasses/case? In which case I'd've probably left them in the first place - it's not like a wallet where there's more of a risk that someone naughty will come along and just pinch it (citation needed, etc.). I think I'd go and put a note wit...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 4:58 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Who is your favourite presenter?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4676
Re: Who is your favourite presenter?
You shouldn't be so hard on yourself.Rhys Benjamin wrote:Only the most stupid people at my school don't understand AV
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:03 am
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The Exit List
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2331
The Exit List
Anyone else been watching this? It's the new biggish budget show from ITV which they show on a Tuesday evening (I think that short-lived Jeremy Kyle experiment was in the same slot). For the uninitiated, it's a fairly simple concept - a 'maze' of rooms with £££ in each one (which goes in your bank i...
- Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:16 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: Pointles Series 6
- Replies: 76
- Views: 21863
Re: Pointles Series 6
That was some pretty classic overestimation of the 100 I thought. IIRC only South Africa was 'too obvious' to have knocked him out.
- Wed Feb 15, 2012 2:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:REA - Reading - Saturday of Easter Weekend 2012
- Replies: 63
- Views: 15110
Re: CO:REA - Easter Saturday 2012
Stop stealing my CO:LON marketing ideasAndy Platt wrote:can we just post pics of fit girls?
- Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO:REA - Reading - Saturday of Easter Weekend 2012
- Replies: 63
- Views: 15110
Re: CO:REA - Easter Saturday 2012
I've gotta say, I did not see this thread going in this direction.
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:33 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Coincidence
- Replies: 224
- Views: 82651
Re: Coincidence
Ha, I remember seeing that discussed after the Gadaffi one, good times.
Re: Cricket
Brilliant, cheers for thatLiam Tiernan wrote:How the Dutch see cricket.
- Fri Feb 10, 2012 8:22 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Post your audition/filming/transmission dates here
- Replies: 417
- Views: 118592
Re: Post your audition/filming/transmission dates here
It seems like a pretty untenable situation. Either you let people on purely on skill, or you cherry pick for TV purposes. Using apterous as a way to identify people who are likely to be 'too good' will just lead to even more people playing under pseudonyms and the 'problem' (of too many good players...
- Fri Feb 10, 2012 2:17 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The Chase
- Replies: 153
- Views: 81232
Re: The Chase
Sorry, I meant the band Steps, your steps idea was idoitic.Jon Corby wrote:Thanks. I thought of that with my brian.Michael Wallace wrote:Steps in the final is a great idea, such a good idea I wouldn't be too surprised to see it introduced at some point. Can any regular viewers give rough estimates of how many people go low/high?
- Fri Feb 10, 2012 1:07 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The Chase
- Replies: 153
- Views: 81232
Re: The Chase
Steps in the final is a great idea, such a good idea I wouldn't be too surprised to see it introduced at some point. Can any regular viewers give rough estimates of how many people go low/high?
- Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:00 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The Chase
- Replies: 153
- Views: 81232
Re: The Chase
By the way, what does everyone think of that woman who went with the -£5,000 offer in yesterday's show :?: Super cowardice. :x Didn't see it - what was the state of play? She was the last contestant (unsurprisingly). The previous guy just put in £45,000, the other 2 had put in £10,000 between them,...
- Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:20 pm
- Forum: Other game shows
- Topic: The Chase
- Replies: 153
- Views: 81232
Re: The Chase
Didn't see it - what was the state of play?James Robinson wrote:By the way, what does everyone think of that woman who went with the -£5,000 offer in yesterday's show Super cowardice.
- Thu Feb 09, 2012 4:27 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Hex
- Replies: 212
- Views: 32792
Re: Hex
Huh, interesting stuff. I'd always thought that there would be some rules that stop certain things. Like, say on a chase the lady game it just randomised it occasionally, would anyone think that was ok? It would seem really odd/deceptive to reveal the battleships grid at the end if that wasn't what ...
- Thu Feb 09, 2012 3:15 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Hex
- Replies: 212
- Views: 32792
Re: Hex
No, what you do now is keep playing (and not collecting) and then Raccoon Boy can examine the data to see how fair the endgame is. :mrgreen: I can't remember if I ever reported my colour of money findings on here. The short of it is that it seems fair when you're going for the points, but with mone...
- Thu Feb 09, 2012 1:45 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Hex
- Replies: 212
- Views: 32792
Re: Hex
Wow, I've never seen 4/5/6 either, only ever 3/3.5/4 and occasionally 2/2.5/3. ( lifeboats and 11x2 is crazy, do the number of mines vary or is it always the same?
- Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:40 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Raccoon Boy on Pointless
- Replies: 100
- Views: 12247
Re: Raccoon Boy on Pointless
Amazing
- Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:35 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown cat ?!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6150
Re: Countdown cat ?!
Yeah, its a pretty boring thing to care about.Kirk Bevins wrote:Did we? I probably switched off.Ryan Taylor wrote: Haha! After we'd just ranted about it together too.
- Wed Feb 01, 2012 6:10 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Hex
- Replies: 212
- Views: 32792
Re: Hex
Interesting, thanks. I thought that your first cash square is 'safe' automatically, but it could be that you just get 30p. The numbers on lifeboats is interesting, since that means you're more likely to hit one than hit a mine (unless you've hit, like, 3). Do you know how big the grid is? I'll pay ...
- Wed Feb 01, 2012 5:37 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Hex
- Replies: 212
- Views: 32792
Re: Hex
Interesting, thanks. I thought that your first cash square is 'safe' automatically, but it could be that you just get 30p. The numbers on lifeboats is interesting, since that means you're more likely to hit one than hit a mine (unless you've hit, like, 3). Do you know how big the grid is?