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Rosemary Roberts

But, at least it gets talked about. So do Kerry Katona and Amy Winehouse. Not really sufficient recommendation on its own. One thing that gets Countdown talked about is when rude words are expunged from the recording. Perhaps the show needs a bit more WANKING and FARTING in order to be taken seriou...

Rosemary Roberts

As I recall, Former US President Bill Clinton said in his autobiography that his wife was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, which is even more remarkable seeing as she was born in 1947 when Edmund was considerably less famous. Maybe she "misspoke" . . . or he didn't inhale the information c...

Rosemary Roberts

As I recall, Former US President Bill Clinton said in his autobiography that his wife was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, which is even more remarkable seeing as she was born in 1947 when Edmund was considerably less famous.

Rosemary Roberts

dairy cream goodness How that takes me back - to the long-lost days when "good healthy food" meant lots of real butter and eggs and fresh meat. And I agree with your rejection of "vegetable fat nonsense"! The only vegetable fat I permit in my kitchen is olive oil. My brother fav...

Rosemary Roberts

Ice cream gets ice crystals in it if it defrosts and then is frozen again without churning so the texture is spoiled. So the advice not to refreeze....is it a genuine health warning or is that a manufacturers warning intended to avoid having the quality of their product compromised? I think the tex...

Rosemary Roberts

Derek Hazell wrote:Mix me with someone intelligent and perceptive

Surely all of us here are that?

Rosemary Roberts

Derek Hazell wrote:The eccentricity of Ben Hunter combined with the literal outlook of Rosemary Roberts.

Literal? Moi?

Rosemary Roberts

Just imagine the better place we'd be in now if George W hadn't swindled his way into power - we'd have had 8 extra years of international effort under our belts if the US had been on board which, of course, it would have been under Al Gore. Although I am far from being a Dubya supporter, in this c...

Rosemary Roberts

The authorities really do, even in the UK, exaggerate or even completely fabricate concerns in order to get their own way. I think that ought to be "particularly in the UK", I haven't heard of it much elsewhere. My theory is that social workers are carefully trained not to get "invol...

Rosemary Roberts

Sue Sanders wrote: I had to drive around the block three times to get a parking space in Tankerton yesterday

On a bike ?

Rosemary Roberts

I'm sure that there are some children even in Germany who would be better off with home schooling, but I don't see that as a reason to support civil disobedience. I consider it more important to make sure that the unfortunate children born to religious bigots get a fair chance of a general educatio...

Rosemary Roberts

I would guess "You would guess" ??!! :roll: It appears that you are just as keen to fudge things to your way of thinking as you seem to be accusing WND. There are many other reports detailing the case, e.g. the following: http://www.netzwerk-bildungsfreiheit.de/html/pe_erlangen_en.html ht...

Rosemary Roberts

Indeed, a couple of years ago, despite an international outcry among the Home Ed community, a German Home edded girl was put in a mental institution for not wanting to be sent back to school! :shock: Link please! http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55730 Ah... WND. I really don't think i...

Rosemary Roberts

Richard Brittain wrote:If you really sought to understand, then you would understand.

If you are saying that it's all in the mind I think you must be right.

Rosemary Roberts

If you would understand, there wouldn't be a problem to begin with. Richard, so far as I can see, my post contained nothing that anybody could take exception to - unless you are bemoaning the fact that Germany no longer follows the true way. Or is it "creationism" whose name I have taken ...

Rosemary Roberts

Richard Brittain wrote:Rosemary Roberts is just one small reason why the world is going to end soon. They all add up.

I wish I understood that.

Rosemary Roberts

Now a little story of what life might have been like if the Germans were occupying us. I went to Germany to visit my Brother's Mother-in-law. My German Sister-in-law is a cripple. Her Mother told me that she'd had an accident and could not walk. Her mother would place her dinner on the table and te...

Rosemary Roberts

Jon Corby wrote:
AnnieHall wrote:She's unknown to me- I don't watch any reality telly
She's on realty telly mostly

Rosemary Roberts

Lesley Garrett's singing got a great deal more applause from the studio audience than Tim Vine ever did. There's just no pleasing some people. No sooner does the studio audience show a bit of animation than everybody starts slagging off the guest. Personally, although I certainly don't despise Lesle...

Rosemary Roberts

BTW, I'm having a ridiculously long lag between typing stuff on the forum and it coming up on the screen, so now type stuff on a notepad doc and then copy and paste. I only have this problem on c4c, not any other forums. Any thoughts? If it only happens here, and a few other people are also affecte...

Rosemary Roberts

Allan, are these supposed to be answered off the cuff? If so, that lets me out - I would need around twenty minutes internet research per question.

Rosemary Roberts

I am a parent Trustee at my kids' school and run a couple of general knowledge quizzes a year. They usually make a fair bit of cash to boost the Trust funds to help buy minibuses, etc. However, it does get quite tiresome, albeit challenging, trying to think up new themes and questions. My quizzes a...

Rosemary Roberts

Sue Sanders wrote:It was odd - like she'd got her bra on the outside.

I thought so, too. Had she been to an audition for Batgirl?

Rosemary Roberts

I think this particular grammatical skirmish is now all but lost. If you're handing out marks for pedantry, may I point out that it is a semantic skirmish? In linguistics, the definition of grammar is often considered to include semantics. :ugeek: I quite agree that an awful lot of people use the s...

Rosemary Roberts

To be even more precise, he should say "May I have...", as he knows he can have them, because that is why he was invited on the show. Haha. Kudos for pedantry, although I think this particular grammatical skirmish is now all but lost. If you're handing out marks for pedantry, may I point ...

Rosemary Roberts

Phil Reynolds wrote:
Rosemary Roberts wrote:No breast pockets at all! They're useless and they make tits look like arses.
From an evolutionary point of view, I believe they're meant to.

I rather think breast pockets evolved independently, probably as an adjunct to the emergence of reading glasses.

Rosemary Roberts

As long as you get tent sizes for us bigger chaps ! .. and chapesses. And from past experience - Get really good quality fabric, not just a limp cotton that falls apart after two washes. Insist on a non-iron fihish (I will happily pay double for this). No breast pockets at all! They're useless and ...

Rosemary Roberts

All the Anton Du Beke fanatics on here will be ballroom dancing around their PCs joyfully, in the knowledge that he'll still have one open-minded venue for his chat. When I hear his name I immediately think "pinhead", so your comment raises the question: will there be room for all of them...

Rosemary Roberts

Sue Sanders wrote:Last numbers round
(9 x 8) + 7 = 79
79 x (9 - 4) = 395 - 1

Bravo, Sue! I was hoping to be the first to post that.

Rosemary Roberts

For the first time ever my solution to the second numbers hasn't already been posted!

(75+25*(8-6))*7 - 7 = 868

Rosemary Roberts

So tea would be even "better" if water boiled at a higher temperature? Which is entirely possible, if for example you make your tea below sea level. So yes, I think Rosemary is right. But it's to do with oxygenation, not temperature! Don't you know anything? If the aim is to get all the d...

Rosemary Roberts

I don't drink tea because it tastes disgusting. But those that do seem to think that the water has to be boiling, rather than just hot, before you make make your cup of tea. So my question is - isn't it a bit of a fucking coincidence that water happens to boil at the right temperature to make tea p...

Rosemary Roberts

... fake ... That just about sums it up for me. Derren Brown is a highly skilled conjuror, and I enjoy watching conjurors (bring back Geoffrey Durham!), but this whole series has only pissed me off because of all the totally pointless flannel. I don't believe he used any complicated memory tricks a...

Rosemary Roberts

Gavin Chipper wrote:Does it do any damage if you try and start a car with the handbrake on and it stalls?

In my (wide!) experience it does more damage to start with the handbrake on and it doesn't stall. My record so far is 50km, but YMMV.

Rosemary Roberts

Kieran Child wrote:earpieces that people love to accuse mentalists of having.

In his case my money is on a wrist piece. He spends a lot of time with his hand up to his face.

Rosemary Roberts

Jon Corby wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:I had memorised pi up to 257 decimal places at A-level and it was fun to recite it.
That does sound like fun.

Oh Jon! Now I don't believe anything you say!

Rosemary Roberts

Phil Reynolds wrote:
Rosemary Roberts wrote:Are trams that few and far between in Manchester?
They certainly are at the moment - they haven't been running through the city centre for at least six months.

Because the City Transport Director is worried about Countdown suffering from letter-wobble?

Rosemary Roberts

D Eadie wrote:The nodding camera was caused by a tram going past the studios.

Are trams that few and far between in Manchester?

Rosemary Roberts

Kieran Child wrote:The technique of mirroring was not just an act. It is known to cause positive reactions, and is used sometimes by psychological magic in order to get someone to be more susceptible.

The same technique was demonstrated brilliantly on The Brittas Empire by Chris Barrie (Whom God Preserve).

Rosemary Roberts

Charlie Reams wrote:
Darren Carter wrote:And no matter what Jeff says, don't try to chat up girls at Oxford with "I'm a Countdown Octochamp don't you know...."
This works on Cambridge girls, I can assure you.

It would be an awful lot of commuting, though,

Rosemary Roberts

I've been using Windows 7 for a month now. It is practically the same as Vista but without the bugs and with few cool new features - I would definitely recommend it. What I would realy welcome is fewer cool new features, or even none at all. On previous form a software feature is only described as ...

Rosemary Roberts

Julie T wrote:very good deals ... Windows Vista

Julie, I think that's an an inherently self-contradictory expression on a par with "too much Mozart".

Rosemary Roberts

Good post. Edit: Julie, I mean. Yes, I thought it couldn't be me. In the general picture, inequality is not a problem, the problem is with incompetence. Now we just need to find a way to eradicate incompetence. Vaccine maybe? Originally the official approach was "education, education, educatio...

Rosemary Roberts

Martin Smith wrote: if it truly does work, inequality only increases.

In the general picture, inequality is not a problem, the problem is with incompetence. If home schooling (or any other method, including private schools) works then it should be encouraged.

Rosemary Roberts

Matthew Green wrote:Being a fucking lazy twat

Sue Sanders wrote:maybe 'being legs disabled' ?

I found myself looking for an anagram there

Rosemary Roberts

D Eadie wrote:ITV cant show repeats of Countdown.

Could they license them to Challenge?

Rosemary Roberts

I've only read 2 or 3 posts in this thread; but I felt a bad vibe from it which transcended the literary data. If your bad vibes are that insistent maybe you should see an exorcist. Although I suspect you are really saying "I read a few posts and began to fear that I might be forced to conside...

Rosemary Roberts

Kevin Thurlow wrote:This must do something for numeracy in the country.

I wish. Crap maths in = Crap maths out. It won't teach anybody anything.

Rosemary Roberts

I can't comment on Rosemary's feeling that one of Derren's hands was oddly obscured as I didn't record the show and can't look again to check. I thought he was simply using one hand to hold the rather unwieldy piece of card that he was writing the numbers on, but who knows. Phil, he didn't write an...

Rosemary Roberts

Well, it looks like there was a split screen effect with a fake "wobble" applied to make it look like a handheld camera, the left-hand side of the screen was frozen to allow someone to sneak in and place the correct balls in the holder. The fake wobble is the really brilliant misdirection...

Rosemary Roberts

Did anyone else get the impression from the Channel 4 voiceover intro to the show that it was a foregone conclusion and they already knew he was gonna get all six right? I'm sure Darren Brown doesn't go on stage not knowing what he is going to achieve. That long drawn-out spiel about studying the l...

Rosemary Roberts

While the balls were being selected his right hand was completely concealed behind his piece of card and could have been doing anything. At the time I thought he was writing the numbers on the back of the card, but he could equally have been typing them into a remote printer. Why on earth would HE ...

Rosemary Roberts

While the balls were being selected his right hand was completely concealed behind his piece of card and could have been doing anything. At the time I thought he was writing the numbers on the back of the card, but he could equally have been typing them into a remote printer. I am, however, perfectl...

Rosemary Roberts

The problem people have is that when you know you can't beat your opponent as you are more than 20 behind and you see he's on for a massive score then I, for one, would want to help this guy try to get the highest score by choosing 1 large as it could potentially be a record you are witnessing. Sup...

Rosemary Roberts

For several years we kept a colony of guineapigs running wild in our garden.

Rosemary Roberts

Sue Sanders wrote: they must have arranged that behind my back.

That really IS innovative!

Rosemary Roberts

Sue Sanders wrote:Hmmm. No-one's ever refered to my norks as a 'tedious couple' before

We can none of us afford to be complacent, Sue: when was the last time they did anything innovative?

Rosemary Roberts

Utterly ridiculous things, "baby on board"/"child on board" signs. I always understood them to mean "if you are going to crash into another car, please do not choose this one." Which is not likely to be very effective - given that it is addressed to people who are not ...

Rosemary Roberts

Are toddlers supposed to study solid geometry now? I gather from breeding friends of mine that a toddler's first manufacture of solids is regarded as some kind of cause for celebration. True, but geometric figures didn't use to be a requirement. Is this the next Olympic sport? (Well done Phil, mana...

Rosemary Roberts

JackHurst wrote:How did you do when you sat the step Charlie?

Is this something to do with the naughty step we hear so much about? Are toddlers supposed to study solid geometry now?

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