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- Tue Nov 21, 2023 12:33 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Supposedly Common expressions or sayings you've never heard before
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3889
Re: Supposedly Common expressions or sayings you've never heard before
There may well have been, but I am neither a comics guy nor of the Beano generation. Just never heard of that phrase, guess it's more ubiquitous than I would ever have thought.
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 3:26 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Supposedly Common expressions or sayings you've never heard before
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3889
Re: Supposedly Common expressions or sayings you've never heard before
There was a £100 question on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire once where the answer was His Nibs. Nope, never heard of it. Woulda have to have lifelined.
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 2:04 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
- Replies: 321
- Views: 69820
Unpopular opinions you genuinely hold
It's OK to marry your cousin. Men should sit down to urinate. Steve Irwin was really annoying. Alcohol is a scourge on society. The correct way to insert capital letters when using a keyboard is to go caps lock -> letter -> caps lock. Tea and coffee are too hot to drink and when they've cooled down ...
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 7:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: People you shouldn't trust
- Replies: 921
- Views: 482744
Re: People you shouldn't trust
People with wind chimes in their garden. We live in a society, you sociopaths.
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 10:35 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 331097
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
The Bakerloo line is so named as a portmanteau of Baker Street and Waterloo.
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:55 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Strange things you used to believe as a child
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9734
Re: Strange things you used to believe as a child
My parents used to have a copy of Constable's The Haywain in their (incredibly 1970s) front room. I didn't know you have copies of things at the time, sooo, yeah.
- Sat Oct 07, 2023 10:01 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732175
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
If you drink an orange juice within about an hour of brushing your teeth, why does it taste like actual arse?
- Tue Oct 03, 2023 4:53 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: What’s the most remarkable anagram you know of?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4913
Re: What’s the most remarkable anagram you know of?
In an entirely selfish answer, I found it remarkable the day that I found out (through Countdown-adjacent Quinn James) that NBA player Sam Dekker's name is an anagram of mine own. Two Ks in nine letters, it's gotta be unlikely.
- Tue Sep 19, 2023 8:04 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Trial by media (Russell Brand etc.)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2289
Re: Trial by media (Russell Brand etc.)
How on earth was this your takeaway?implication that 'we know what they are like but let's not make a fuss as we are safe'
- Tue Sep 19, 2023 7:15 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Trial by media (Russell Brand etc.)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2289
Re: Trial by media (Russell Brand etc.)
This entirely male thread should maybe listen to women about why they don't often go to the police, so that we don't get comments such as...
...ones where we don't tell women "certainly" what is "better".Certainly going to the police is better than setting up a WhatsApp group.
- Thu Sep 14, 2023 12:15 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deathwatch 2017
- Replies: 467
- Views: 266414
Re: Deathwatch 2017
Sixto Rodriguez. Mrs Warboys from One Foot In The Grave. Heath Streak.
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 4:14 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
- Replies: 644
- Views: 331097
Re: REALLY obvious things you've just realised
Duck's beaks look like dog's heads.
- Mon Sep 04, 2023 8:58 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: I want to live long enough to see.......
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1811
Re: I want to live long enough to see.......
You should probably consider #6, at least. It's not working out as constructed.
- Mon Sep 04, 2023 5:53 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: I want to live long enough to see.......
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1811
Re: I want to live long enough to see.......
You'll never get #3 or #4. #6 is the likeliest I reckon.
- Sat Sep 02, 2023 7:42 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Now you are older what do you find yourself doing that your teenage self wouldn't do?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1127
Re: Now you are older what do you find yourself doing that your teenage self wouldn't do?
Also, I eat mustard now, and de-escalate rather than escalate. Beyond that, my life is worryingly similar to what it was then. Eep.
- Sat Sep 02, 2023 7:36 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Now you are older what do you find yourself doing that your teenage self wouldn't do?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1127
Re: Now you are older what do you find yourself doing that your teenage self wouldn't do?
I used the Essex County Council website to report a pothole the other day. No way back from that, it's over.
- Mon Aug 28, 2023 10:22 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: It started with a kiss
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2716
Re: It started with a kiss
You don't kiss people on the lips unless it's a romance thing, and I guess some people also do it to their kids. He did that, clearly used force to do it, did it on the biggest possible platform as a demonstration of power, it wasn't an isolated incident, and he was unrepentant. This is no witch hun...
- Thu Aug 24, 2023 8:31 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732175
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Why is it 50 years ago the yanks sent men to the moon but it seems landing on the moon atm is proving to be difficult? This isn't a "Moon Landings were fake" post but no progress in 50 years. C'mon Elon sort it out!! Because of the political importance given to it, absolutely immense amou...
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 1:32 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732175
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Paul Talmey, Countdown alumnus, is a subtitle writer.
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 12:16 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Rachel Riley Post
- Replies: 76
- Views: 18009
Re: Rachel Riley Post
Could it possibly also be, given the somewhat ambiguous posts that they put out (which seemed to even imply that they may be planning to keep him), that they were trying to gauge the reaction if they were to retain him, and only after it has become clear that it was completely untenable for them to...
- Sat Aug 19, 2023 5:18 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deathwatch 2017
- Replies: 467
- Views: 266414
Re: Deathwatch 2017
Might not mean anything to anyone here, but, Magoo the rapper just died.
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 8:57 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Rachel Riley Post
- Replies: 76
- Views: 18009
Re: Rachel Riley Post
Someone can't just demand someone's opinion on a subject and expect them to research it. That's a selective interpretation of what happened. Adam essentially demanded consistency from you, not your opinion. If you saw fit to pass judgement with the previous "I see that Rachel Riley has decided...
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 8:44 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Rachel Riley Post
- Replies: 76
- Views: 18009
Re: Rachel Riley Post
If Rachel Riley knows more about the case than I do She really does. You can be quite intellectually lazy sometimes, far more willing to give opinions than research them. Like Jono says, the case has taken place very publicly, and there's transcripts/audio files out there from which to draw your ow...
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 7:37 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Rachel Riley Post
- Replies: 76
- Views: 18009
Re: Rachel Riley Post
And she's right. Mason Greenwood can fuck all the way off.
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 4:57 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732175
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Also, in addition to all apparently being made of empty space with the occasional magnetic lump in it, how can basically everything - from the shorts I am wearing right now to the pencil on the table over there to the table itself to the bit of wood that just hit the window - all be made of carbon?
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 4:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732175
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I'll be honest, I still don't really get it. It's like when they say that molecules (or atoms or whichever it is) are made up of electrons or whatever orbiting nucleuses through magnetism, meaning they are mostly just loads of empty space. How can everything be made up of mostly empty space! And why...
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 4:54 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732175
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Half a mind to report you for this personal attack.Something really dense can be massive but not big.
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 4:12 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732175
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I don't think I understand the difference between big and massive in this context!
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:57 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732175
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
How can there be a shitload of gravity if there's not, like, a giant lump in the middle that actually causes it?
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deathwatch 2017
- Replies: 467
- Views: 266414
Re: Deathwatch 2017
I'm saying. 2023. It's up there.
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:33 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732175
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
What actually is/happens in a black hole? How can there just be nothing?
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:26 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Tuesday 15th August 2023 (Series 88, Heat 33)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4286
Re: Spoilers for Tuesday 15th August 2023 (Series 88, Heat 33)
I launched Avi TV, centred around business, wealth and success.
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 2:52 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
- Replies: 759
- Views: 480053
Re: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
Myself and Lauren Hamer opened a car wash just outside Derby, one we jointly operated while dressed in differently inappropriate ways - her, with a denim skirt jacked up to the armpits in that way usually seen in 95 year old men, and me in a scuba suit with a purple felt hat. Lauren was clearly the ...
- Sun Aug 13, 2023 1:27 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732175
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
It's possible. If they can smell cancer from outside the body then they can definitely smell certain countrysidey smells through a Volvo window. If it isn't that, though, then I've no idea. It can't have been time because no two trips ever took the same amount, and he definitely wasn't looking out t...
- Sat Aug 12, 2023 4:43 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732175
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
When I was young, we would load up the dogs in the car and make the drive to my Granny's house a few times a year. It was about 100 miles/2 hours each way. Every single time, without fail, our dog Sam - who had been sitting in the back with his head down the whole way, not looking out the window or ...
- Sat Aug 12, 2023 4:32 am
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown ELO Ratings
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6383
Re: Countdown ELO Ratings
There were three eras. The Kirk era, the Innis era, the Jack Worsley era. All three unplayable in their era for everyone except Conor, who straddles the timelines and remains the greatest player the game has ever seen.
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 9:55 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown ELO Ratings
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6383
Re: Countdown ELO Ratings
Perfectly willing to accept that Rob Foster is the Lionel Messi of Countdown.
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 9:45 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown ELO Ratings
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6383
Re: Countdown ELO Ratings
Point taken, but, ehhh, the guy's sublime. He could do it any night anywhere. (Matron.)but might forever be plagued by the "can he do it on a wet Wednesday night in Salford?" question
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 2:22 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Big Ben
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7396
Re: Big Ben
The rare ass/diq/ars/crunt scramble.
- Sat Aug 05, 2023 11:23 pm
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Big Ben
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7396
Re: Big Ben
Anything including "midnight" it turns out is quite a good time.
#BigBenGame for 00:16:31
361 points
Longest word: TELLINGS
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
#BigBenGame for 00:16:31
361 points
Longest word: TELLINGS
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 6:10 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
- Replies: 759
- Views: 480053
Re: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
With no obvious connection to the plot of the rest of the night's dream - which broadly consisted of Danny John-Jules driving a commercial airliner down the A421 towards Bedford at about warp nine and wondering why the thing wouldn't lift off the ground - my sleep brain did a jump cut to a large emp...
- Thu Aug 03, 2023 8:17 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732175
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
I dunno man. The flute's a sneaky-cool instrument and all, but I can't remember us beatifying a flautist before. She seems to have transcended society with it. My take on her is like Keanu Reeves, who is so personable and an all round Nice guy and you can forgive his crap serious acting. Lizzo is a...
- Thu Aug 03, 2023 8:16 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
- Replies: 759
- Views: 480053
Re: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
Whoever it is gets 45 bonus points. Could decide the title.
- Thu Aug 03, 2023 5:04 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
- Replies: 759
- Views: 480053
Re: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
I also enjoyed on this journey the ways people were dreamt about. That is to say, some people were dreamt about in a Countdown context and some were not, but also, how people's depictions in the dreams of community members en masse trended in ways that could not be random and speaks to their reputat...
- Thu Aug 03, 2023 4:57 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
- Replies: 759
- Views: 480053
Re: C4C/apto/Countdown Dreams
In an impulsive decision which ended up taking consiiiiiiiiderably longer than I expected, I decided to put together a matrix that counted how many times Apterous/Countdowners have been specifically named as being in dreams. METHODOLOGY: Countdown and Catsdown hosts included because eh why not. The ...
- Tue Aug 01, 2023 6:14 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Big Ben
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7396
Re: Big Ben
I lied. One more.
#BigBenGame for 07:11:38
322 points
Longest word: VELVETEENS
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
#BigBenGame for 07:11:38
322 points
Longest word: VELVETEENS
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
- Tue Aug 01, 2023 2:45 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Big Ben
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7396
Re: Big Ben
#BigBenGame for 03:40:17
312 points
Longest word: UNOPPOSING
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
That'll do for now. Fun game!
312 points
Longest word: UNOPPOSING
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
That'll do for now. Fun game!
- Tue Aug 01, 2023 2:22 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Big Ben
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7396
Re: Big Ben
Took a few goes but cracked 300. It seems it reeally makes a difference when you play, because you need them vowels.
#BigBenGame for 03:16:15
320 points
Longest word: PRIZEMEN
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
#BigBenGame for 03:16:15
320 points
Longest word: PRIZEMEN
https://vole.wtf/big-ben/
- Wed Jul 26, 2023 5:52 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732175
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Why, when your voice gets louder, does it also go higher?
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 2:03 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Deathwatch 2017
- Replies: 467
- Views: 266414
Re: Deathwatch 2017
A lull in star names recently, but a double whammy of George Alagiah and Trevor Francis today. Also recently - Vince Hill, Tony Bennett, Cedric Roussel.
- Thu Jul 13, 2023 10:50 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdowners in the news
- Replies: 243
- Views: 151768
Re: Countdowners in the news
FIFTH PLACE with 32 left. Amazing.
- Wed Jul 12, 2023 9:07 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdowners in the news
- Replies: 243
- Views: 151768
Re: Countdowners in the news
Guaranteed a minimum of $67,700 but that number is definitely going up. Remains seventh in chips.
- Wed Jul 12, 2023 8:56 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdowners in the news
- Replies: 243
- Views: 151768
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 10:32 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdowners in the news
- Replies: 243
- Views: 151768
Re: Countdowners in the news
Hulme is up to second!
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 12:51 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdowners in the news
- Replies: 243
- Views: 151768
Re: Countdowners in the news
Fairly good moving day for Hulme; 441 players remaining, and he's still 29th. Guaranteed a minimum payout of $37,500.
- Mon Jul 10, 2023 3:25 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdowners in the news
- Replies: 243
- Views: 151768
Re: Countdowners in the news
1,517 players left, 1,507 places paid - Andrew Hulme is incredibly close to cashing in the World Series of Poker Main Event. In fact, he's 12th in chips at the end of day three.
https://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts/
https://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts/
- Sat Jul 01, 2023 10:55 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732175
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Also, people DO die like that. Sometimes it's not the punch that kills you; it's hitting your head on the hard pub car park ground. I've ended several like that.
- Thu Jun 29, 2023 10:06 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732175
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Per AP style, you write out numbers up to and including nine, then use numbers for 10 and upwards.
- Thu Jun 22, 2023 12:05 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732175
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Well now you've just made it weird.
- Thu Jun 22, 2023 10:55 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 732175
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
Do worms faint? If not, why not?