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- Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:06 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C Link Dump
- Replies: 329
- Views: 61404
- Wed Sep 23, 2009 12:11 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Risque Rachel Riley
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7669
Re: Risque Rachel Riley
Always thought people look better in sort of.... cheapo clothes. *shrug*
- Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:00 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: 8 ticks of the clock
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2219
Re: 8 ticks of the clock
I don't know quite what you mean. But the banging riff that goes on behind it is in 4/4 which may be why.
- Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:32 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Building Cities
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3000
Re: Building Cities
Hey hey hey wooah. What are all these accusations flying about? Speaking about flying, there are 10 birds in a tree and I shoot one, how many are left in the tree? :lol: None, because all the others flew away at the sound of the shot? Full marks for working. Half marks for conclusion. My answer is ...
Re: Religion
Monkey Dust was win. Have 3 points.Matt Morrison wrote:Am I the only one who finds it utterly impossible to read 'Witchfinder General' without thinking about the Paedofinder General from Monkey Dust?
- Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:12 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Building Cities
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3000
Re: Building Cities
Hey hey hey wooah. What are all these accusations flying about?
Speaking about flying, there are 10 birds in a tree and I shoot one, how many are left in the tree?
Speaking about flying, there are 10 birds in a tree and I shoot one, how many are left in the tree?
- Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:03 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: apterous tournament - Numbers Attack
- Replies: 107
- Views: 12823
Re: apterous tournament - Numbers Attack
DEFINITE IN.
- Mon Sep 21, 2009 5:27 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Official Thread of Brag
- Replies: 1176
- Views: 171282
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Part of me didn't wanna post this cos it might rub it into him, but the other part of me thought, the fact that I'm posting this shows that I think he's amazing. I beat Dinos Sfyris :D http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=118293 Not only that but we declared the same thing in 7 rounds so I'd like t...
- Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:10 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 461058
Re: Feature requests
I don't understand why the 'correct' version of gandiseeg is given as paganised?
- Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Monday 21st September 2009
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3061
Re: Spoilers for Monday 21st September 2009
^ I thought this too. Dunno why I noticed it.
- Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:23 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Pick a number from 1 to 10
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5465
Re: Pick a number from 1 to 10
^ Nice idea. That's why people like saying 'indigo'... supposedly.
- Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:57 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Feature requests
- Replies: 1956
- Views: 461058
Re: Feature requests
Decided games (ahead by 11 after 14 rounds, ahead by 21 after 13 rounds...) to be adjudicated should one person log out and not log back in within 24 hours.
- Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:48 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Pick a number from 1 to 10
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5465
Re: Pick a number from 1 to 10
^Everyone picked four.
- Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:42 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Apterous Etiquette
- Replies: 155
- Views: 16055
Re: Apterous Etiquette
Tum tee tum...
Re: Religion
Have you any evidence for free will?
- Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What's your favourite forum skin?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2161
Re: What's your favourite forum skin?
AeroGreen would be less likely to win that one.
- Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:25 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What's your favourite forum skin?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2161
Re: What's your favourite forum skin?
You click user control panel and then forum settings, Kirk.
But if you find yourself puking at how ugly it is whenever you log in, then you have AeroGreen.
But if you find yourself puking at how ugly it is whenever you log in, then you have AeroGreen.
- Sat Sep 19, 2009 1:21 am
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Could this happen?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1712
Re: Could this happen?
If you have the machine, though, you can get a target of 0. Cannot remember if I was allowed it just for pressing equals.
- Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:15 pm
- Forum: apterous.org
- Topic: Official Thread of Brag
- Replies: 1176
- Views: 171282
Re: Official Thread of Brag
Fitting round 13 word.Darren Carter wrote:http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=117262
Pretty rubbish until the nice little comeback at the end.
- Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:45 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
Checked facebook, I know 3 people who it worked on. Out of about 40 who have been on since.
- Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:00 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
Didn't work on me. Pity.
- Fri Sep 18, 2009 6:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Palindromes
- Replies: 59
- Views: 4361
Re: Palindromes
How do I get smooth blue?? I hear it's awesome.
- Fri Sep 18, 2009 4:41 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
Really looking forward to tonight. I have actually never witnessed or been in a hypnosis and majorly want to see if it's possible. There's still not much evidence to show that subliminal advertising works so I still don't believe that subliminal coercion can be that powerful. Hoping to get proven wr...
- Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:37 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Palindromes
- Replies: 59
- Views: 4361
Re: Palindromes
You can't? But they're such wonderful Zs, made of the finest silk. Only the ignorant cannot see.
- Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:06 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Digital Spy
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2769
Re: Digital Spy
Digital Spy rhymes with "face full of pie"
Coincidence?
I think...so.
Coincidence?
I think...so.
- Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:22 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Palindromes
- Replies: 59
- Views: 4361
Re: Palindromes
It doesn't make sense if I say "asifiesnesekamtnseodti"
^palindrome that flows better than most
^palindrome that flows better than most
- Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:15 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Petitions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2546
Re: Countdown Petitions
My dad has a kipper tie.
- Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
Hah, no worries Jon. If you enjoy performing it, then practice the line when you say the cups are labelled "1 to 5" and maybe later say put the object under "1 to 5" and on both times make the word 1 stand out as best you can while keeping it natural. Once you're confident in doi...
- Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: That crazy English language
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1069
Re: That crazy English language
^ Ere, an heir e'er measured an are in the air in Ayr
- Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:04 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
The disproportionate amount of people who choose 4 or 2 is all the trick requires. The fact that the performance wasn't entertaining has no bearing on the fact that the magician was certain that the item wouldn't be under 1 or 5. Banachek does have a reputation to live up to. He is quite possibly th...
- Wed Sep 16, 2009 11:41 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
I don't know why you keep on saying that the video of the person didn't pick what I was demonstrating, because it is clear that I numbered them the opposite way around to the way he numbered them, and so the person picked four. Well if "four" isn't the cup next to "five", then w...
- Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:39 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
On the simple shapes one, there is a minority picking of hearts, rectangles, diamonds and pentagons. On the car parts one, there is a minority picking of washer fluid, brake fluid and coolant. I don't know why you keep on saying that the video of the person didn't pick what I was demonstrating, beca...
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:06 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CoLei2 - Saturday 10 October 2009
- Replies: 142
- Views: 16231
Re: CoLei2 - Saturday 10 October 2009
I can come
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:46 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Events
- Topic: CO - Have a dump
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1669
Re: CO - Have a dump
I thought Richard Brittain's was genuine.
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: That crazy English language
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1069
Re: That crazy English language
Southern library-goers like reading in Reading.
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:41 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
^Heh. I can honestly say I do not know what is going wrong for you. It has never failed for me, nor the guy at the discworld convention (he is willing to do it in front of an audience too) nor Banachek, the inventor.
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:30 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Chess Thread
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3797
Re: Chess Thread
^ The stip isn't "mate in 6"
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:29 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
Firstly, it wasn't being used in a point. It was an aside.Michael Wallace wrote:Right, so maybe it's a bit disingenuous to try and use a claim like that to make a point in an argument?
Secondly, my argument is that psychology is used in mentalism, and so it's a very fitting source to show that.
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:28 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
To Jon, yes you're right about the red hammer thing getting hits. Some more that quite possibly won't get so many hits: "Think of a simple shape. A square is quite commonly used so don't bother with that, but think of a simple shape, with a different simple shape inside it" - Nice one this...
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:20 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
There are never any studies that find these things, because magic builds up its knowledge base from outside the world of science. Thus the only things that can be used are magician's experiences. Of course, this is not scientifically sound, and so the cycle repeats, where the knowledge can only be u...
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:14 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
Devil's Picturebook
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:13 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Pick a number from 1 to 10
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5465
Re: Pick a number from 1 to 10
When picking a number from 1 to 10, most people's initial thought is '7', which makes these results curious.
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:04 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
I don't consider it especially odd that nobody's discussed it anywhere. There are tonnes of these things. "Think of a tool. And think of a colour that the tool is" Will almost always be a red hammer. He did lead her. He said "anything from one to five". This instantly rules out 1...
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:33 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
You won't find literature describing it because it is magic. You will not find literature describing Lennart Green's snap deal (shown above) unless you buy it.
Terasabos is described in the book "Psychological Subtleties 2"
Terasabos is described in the book "Psychological Subtleties 2"
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:18 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
If she put it under anything other than 2 or 4 then you have got incredible unlucky on your first go :lol: I was hoping for more videos of it on youtube so that you can see that it's always 4, but sadly the...erm....discworld dude... is the only one available. Oh and TERASABOS doesn't mean bridging ...
Re: Religion
In coding, the / thingy always means an end of something. So put normal what you want at the start, and then the same with the / at the end.
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- Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:43 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Building Cities
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3000
Re: Building Cities
Terribly sorry Michael. Though my post did come with a semi-warning of being rubbish XD
The final pattern I end up with is the following:
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/1754/71609302.png
The final pattern I end up with is the following:
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/1754/71609302.png
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:31 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
good point. I wonder why I, and others, falsely add that U in.
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:57 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
By creating pointless things to do (read out the box beforehand) and having doubt over unrelated items (whether the boxes were part of the table) you are weaving a mystery. Transparency in magic is just based on style. It doesn't make something better or worse. Of course it does. You don't create m...
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:14 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Building Cities
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3000
Re: Building Cities
No you were fine, I just didn't read all of your post. Sorry. Changed accordingly.
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:31 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Building Cities
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3000
Re: Building Cities
Edit: don't read below. It's rubbish, still working on it though. Edit: you can read below now, but I'm still not sure of myself. First step: Place a blue anywhere, and reds around it. Now put a blue on one of those reds, and turn the old blue red, and turn red all the new adjacent blocks. By doing ...
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
The stuff about the boxes looking stuck to the table and her needing to anounce the box beforehand makes it less transparent how exactly? There was nothing in any of the boxes. Had the boxes been glued to the table, and there been a secret chute in the bottom of each of them with a man sitting under...
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:12 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
It really wouldn't be. Given that the audience often expects the magician to be right, which has more oomf: Being told what will happen, then watching for 5 minutes as exactly what you expected to happen happens or Watching something happen for 5 minutes, then finding out that this was predicted bef...
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:22 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
The bit where you touch 5 isn't a way of 'forcing' number 4, but a way of 'eliminating' number 5. That guy's method seems to be a tad muddled up, but the key components are there. I'm not sure what he was doing with the first cup. Given that it was the one cup she might have put her watch under othe...
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:54 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
I never said 4 had anything to do with it. I just numbered them to make the follow up easier to understand.
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:38 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
I've found a video of someone performing it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHqmg1OO0x0
In my set up, the performer was standing by 5 and the victim was standing by 1. In this instance, they're the other way around, so she ends up picking a 2, but what I was labelling a 4.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHqmg1OO0x0
In my set up, the performer was standing by 5 and the victim was standing by 1. In this instance, they're the other way around, so she ends up picking a 2, but what I was labelling a 4.
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:32 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
^ I don't do anything like that. I just do tricks for fun with people every now and again, and TERASABOS is a good one when there aren't any props around (most people have cups). Yeah, people reading this would then be more likely to pick 1 or 5 to be contrary, but if someone is trying to be contrar...
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:03 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71579
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
I wasn't aware that she was a '3,1,2' lady. I actually thought that 3,1,4 would be more likely, because that's the pattern that people sitting on chairs fall into. You are correct when you say that everyone would have done it (approximately). I don't know whether or not the fear of mice was necessar...
- Sun Sep 13, 2009 11:33 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Mastermind
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1125
Re: Mastermind
So Jon O'neill finishes the round with 1 point.
- Sun Sep 13, 2009 11:17 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Retraction
- Replies: 60
- Views: 4742
Re: Retraction
Jason is proof there's a god.