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Craig Beevers

I agree that CSW has flaws, especially in ridiculous pluralisations of mass nouns What would you have done? Not allowed these ridiculous pluralisations. Then it just becomes arbitrary. The -ING words taking an S or not, amongst others, are already bad enough. It just creates irritating parts of the...

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Liverpool still had a net spend in excess of £20m (according to the Times) in the 2007-2008 season. Including spends of £26.5m on Torres and £11.5m on Babel. The relative small net spends were in the next two seasons, but still included some horrendous wastes of money. The goateed buffoon also let q...

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I'm loving the Liverpool fans turning on their players, whilst still idolising the goateed buffoon who's created the situation you're in now. For a while I thought maybe their fans were something a bit better, there's something commendable about the way they've stood strong over things like The Sun....

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There were well over 2000 ODE-only words when I was studying a few years back. A lot of the South African ones got added to CSW, but would imagine there are still plenty ODE-only words left.

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What's with most of the quickest overall conundrum attacks being done with outrageously easy conundrums?

Anyway could do with some 'nasty' conundrums for CSW.

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All your CSW record are belong to us.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 302348.stm

Goateed wonder failing to get the huge net spend he required to allow his club to tread water. Shame. Amazing photo though, to think Rafa is only the 2nd or even 3rd biggest twat in it.

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937 is going to solvable in a lot of 4 large games though.

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Sinny-world for me too. My logic is in cinema the ma pronunciation part can merge somewhat with the preceding bit of the word - so it gets cut off in cinema but Cineworld it is essentially two words in that sense. Dunno if that's right or not, just the way I see it.

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Apterous Sieve presumably. Suppose you could go more complex and mimic a human memory, have words stay for a certain period of time or use like a cardbox system if words come up frequently enough during a period that they 'stick' for longer. I presume the 'difficulty' of conundrums is used for the b...

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McCoy's at about the same level in his sport as Taylor is in his, and McCoy has to work a lot harder for it. As for "personality", Nigel Mansell won it. Which roughly demonstrates how important the "personality" part of it is, as against sporting achievement. Last time I checked...

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So it looks like I significantly overestimated how good the Nugget would need to be. Of the 3286 Classic games in the database, he could be armed with only 2721 words and still win about 90% of them (ignoring strategic considerations). At the other end of the scale, if we assume the other player go...

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Yea sure running it through any actual games would be good.

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I reckon you could probably beat a few opponents on the letters rounds with no or very few maxes, consistently scoring would be enough. Is it possible to figure out raw score or things like how often in rounds you'd score?

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No idea if anything like this has been discussed before but I was reading another thread which gave me an idea for something that could be quite interesting in a Steve Davis kind of way. The hypothetical scenario is that a bloke goes on Countdown and writes down say 100 words on his pad from memory....

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I guess the Russian Mafia told him to win this time.

I feel sorry for the others having to play the proven cheat. Can't be easy in a game like snooker.

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Show me a straight sport that would have swallowed that complete shite Higgins came up with.

If they accepted that sort of argument you'd never ban anyone for match fixing. It is not a defence. It's not particularly credible either.

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Hmm yes Linford Christie was a cheat and so is John Higgins, they're just different types of cheat. Thinking John Higgins did nothing morally wrong is up there with believing in Psychic Sally. Craig Beevers in simplistic binary opinion shocker. Oh right so it wasn't a blatant whitewash using a load...

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Hmm yes Linford Christie was a cheat and so is John Higgins, they're just different types of cheat. Thinking John Higgins did nothing morally wrong is up there with believing in Psychic Sally.

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Would have thought there'd be something in all 9, going through food like pizza or croissant would be a good place to start.

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Hmm dunno why people are that surprised really. You'll get cliques on most forums, which do cliquey things. Expecting 'nice people' to have class is leaving yourself open to disappointment - let alone for them to be nice people when it really comes down to it. I foe'd a couple of people already on h...

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Yes Victoria Coren did an interview about a year ago for the ABSP's bi-monthly publication. So yea she's enthusiastic where word games are concerned and would make a nice DC guest.

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Hmm the way the questions are scaled to the contestants reminds me of Bethesda video games.

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So Mark's last play in Game 5 - was that a complete punt since he knew he'd lose otherwise? Edit: On closer inspection I realise he had two stabs at it - anyone know what he thought he was going for? I think invalid words aren't automatically disallowed; the opponent has to challenge them. Furtherm...

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Hmm some extremely difficult questions thrown in whenever anyone doesn't chuck 100-200 grand away randomly every question, even if they happen to know it. It's almost as if they don't want to give any money away.

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It was 96 and 94 actually, but yea I was very surprised about The Woolpack being 94.

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I was very surprised about the long tailed tit being a pointless on that round. There's hoards of them at the parks and so on I visit. Don't have a garden though, but they are noisy as hell and pretty brave (ie you can easily get very close to them).

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Kirk somewhere has just exploded one feels. If the question didn't do it then the lack of revealage afterwards sure will. And yea agree with Bob being more obscure. I was very familiar with Klaasen - just didn't know if he'd won it. I was trying to remember that Aussie who had all the health issues....

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Jojo Apollo wrote:You might be thinking of Jackie McLeod, she has been on quite a few games shows also. I sometimes get her mixed up with Daphne.

Poor Daphne.

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Cor, by heck it is. It must also mean that it's cool to be bitter and jealous. 8-) Actually what happens is you stick up for someone cos they're on your favourite show, then you find out a load of stuff which makes you think they're a bit of a cunt. *Place Countdown contestant name here* (I'm nice ...

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I agree with it looking like there's something on her finger on the first shot. Haven't seen what a fingertip writer looks like mind - would have thought it would be more subtle than that.

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Thought it was mind-numbingly boring myself. I ended up switching over before the end.

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Derren Brown: Hero at 30,000 Feet on tonight at 10pm.

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22 rounds is nowt these days, the biggest tournament internationally has 45 rounds over 5 days. UK Open is 48 over 5 - if that isn't enough there's a warm-up of 18 over 2 to bring it up to 66 in a week.

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Oliver Garner's leading Division C with two games to go at the BMSC.

http://www.centrestar.co.uk/10bmsc/html/index.html

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Hi I'm Tom Rowell, when a new feature comes out I don't bother to appreciate it or comment on it any way, I just demand more features. Also I'm a racist homophobe. In other news, I've definitely had REVALUED twice now. And CASSOWARY. And CONNIVING. Anyway, you get the picture. Great feature though!...

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I haven't had cereal for a good couple of decades. Used to eat Bran Buds back then so by default that makes it my favourite.

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As mentioned on uk-scrabble this episode has Andrew Fisher on it, he's a top notch Scrabbler who moved to Australia ages ago and was previously on Series 8 of Countdown here.

http://www.sbs.com.au/shows/lettersandn ... andnumbers

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First show I've caught in a while, was a good 'un. Thought the first two numbers games worked out quite nicely if you simply multiply a few numbers to get in the right ballpark and work from there using factors. Always difficult to spot a 9 when there's no obvious 8s of course. The ANTIMERES^ round ...

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All separate taps are completely retarded. Why would I ever need hot water and cold water at the same time? Public toilets that only have a hot tap, that's too hot to be of any use. I came across a peculiar tap set-up in the public bogs at Leeds railway station near platform 15 coming back from Cov...

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Oh right. I forgot that the Spain team will all obviously rush off to the dressing room and bring up c4countdown on their laptops. Of course every forum should just be an extension of the hyperbole-fest that is the media. Also all people should reflect the same cheery 2.4 children family that you se...

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Marc Meakin wrote:Best team won, well done Spain even if they remind me of George Graham's Arsenal (1-0 and all that)

Netherlands had the better, gilt-edged chances in normal time. Same as Portugal and Paraguay did against Spain and blew it.

They should just void this World Cup really.

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How times have changed. In my day, fourteen year old girls were still children, wearing flat shoes and ankle socks. Now they look like glamorous clones of older women, with some of them nursing their children. I believe that the change came when the Americans invented the teenager. Hmm wouldn't say...

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How times have changed. In my day, fourteen year old girls were still children, wearing flat shoes and ankle socks. Now they look like glamorous clones of older women, with some of them nursing their children. I believe that the change came when the Americans invented the teenager. Hmm wouldn't say...

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This was at my old (very crap) school:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... arges.html

There were a *lot* of rumours with that teacher.

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Terry can fuck off anyway. He was responsible for most/all of the goals.

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I suspect there'll a lot of people trying to find a Ghanaian grand-parent and get a gig as a striker. They couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo against Germany. Should have stuck 3-4 past them.

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Hmm James Corden, can't get the past him being not remotely funny, totally unprofessional and a complete arsehole. I'm somewhat perplexed as to why he keeps getting so much work. Don't like the Jabulani. As mentioned above it bounces far too much and I don't see why modern balls are made so they hav...

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Hmm more than 2006 goals in this World Cup, suppose someone will have to make the Apterous World Cup games 20 rounds to make the scorelines more realistic.

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I just remembered these formulae as it was far less confusing to me personally and something I could do and replicate the solution quickly: 25 * 50 * 75 / 100 = 937.5 (50/100 can be replaced by 2, 25/100 by 4) 25 * 50 * (75+x) / 100 = 937.5 + 12.5x (x +/- odd) 25 * (50+x) * 75 / 100 = 937.5 + 18.75x...

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Mourinho's arch shoe shiner has officially departed Liverpool.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 719210.stm

I'm sure he'll be gutted having to carry suitcases of cash away from Anfield.

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The U35s event was cancelled unfortunately.

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Should have kept Johnson in, he just offers something different and he's certainly no worse than some who've made it and will require several miracles to see the subs bench all tournament. Anyway Liverpool trying to get shot of the clown. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article714286...

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What's to stop the biggest idiot shouting loudest? Nothing, but I still bet they've tried to tell them not to - I haven't noticed any answer shouting myself. Also, dropping it to two answers for the final question seems stupid harsh - kinda undermines the whole premise of the show if you're then fo...

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What's to stop the biggest idiot shouting loudest?

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Just be engaging, chatty, play along with whatever shit they throw at you, the usual stuff. At our audition there were 5 couples and we were the only pair to get on, and we were comfortably the most willing participants (if you see what I mean). Tbh, I think they probably liked us because we seemed...

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Yea it's clumsy with the way the wads of cash don't exactly fit nicely onto the panels, if you're just calmly placing over 500k on one answer then it's not a problem, but it usually ends up being a panicky rush and it seems like they've not rehearsed it properly. Other than that it's the usual thing...

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Thought this forum might be a good place for this question... I was playing the IT Box game 'Word Soup' in my local last night for the first time. If you're unfamiliar with the game, the interface is a large grid of random letters and you have to make words by connecting the letters. You score poin...

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Dig time.

England just crushed Australia in the T20 World Cup final. So sweet.

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