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Mark James

Daturas and Waqf are featured in the latest Assassin's Creed game.

Mark James

Head enters the bowl at the bottom, turns on its side... to another head. Sorry Jon. As much as I agree that Derren is full of shit when he says all his disclaimers, I'm not seeing what you're seeing in the video. It ends up as heads sure but I can't fully make out it being heads as it enters the b...

Mark James

Rhys Benjamin wrote: Yet how can a man that has fixed the problems that Ken Livingstone, the previous mayor of London made?

This sentence doesn't make sense.

Mark James

Spoiler Alert.

The filming of the winning roll looked well dodgy. Glad for the guy though. And it was good to see Psychic Sally continue to make herself look an ass.

Mark James

So FIFA have banned the England football team from wearing poppies on their jerseys. Is this really as big a deal as people are making out? If everyone stopped wearing poppies would that really mean that people didn't care or had no respect? How many people on the forum actually wear a poppy or aids...

Mark James

Does anyone here use this? As far as I can see, it's one of the most annoying pices of shit ever invented. I'm surprised they haven't ditched it. Please tell me you're taking the piss or on a wind up or something. How is it annoying? You don't have to look at the things popping up if you don't want...

Mark James

Disappointing. It fails to address the point that she's clearly "in on it", and that this has been utterly concealed from the viewer. There's the implication that I'm missing the whole point by "criticising a magician for being sneaky and misleading" which isn't the crux of the ...

Mark James

We don't fully know what's being said to him by Derren when he's in the suggestive sleep state. Probably something along the lines of, "tomorrow when you find out about a murder you will be compelled to confess to it". Just standard hypnotism.

Mark James

Not quite a link but try typing "Do A Barrel Roll" into google.

Mark James

'Sa funny thing hypnotism. I've been "hypnotised" twice, once on stage on holiday in Spain and once for giving up smoking. The stage one? I walked off halfway through. I started off by playing along for a laugh and then his requests got more offensive so I left. I wasn't bothered about ma...

Mark James

You've got to have rules, otherwise it would be anarchy. Yes, you need rules, but they have to make sense. Years ago it was against the rules to write with your left hand in school. Anyway no one is saying they shouldn't be punished for breaking the rules, just that maybe, they don't have to be sen...

Mark James

Stewart Lee?

Mark James

Ben Wilson wrote:4,671,828,054. Will laugh if someone's able/sad enough to calculate my birthday based on that alone.

Going by my result I'd guess you were born in 1982, sometime in late January, early February.

Mark James

4th August 1971: The 3,776,009,323rd person alive and the 77,962,279,935th person since history began. I'm sure I read something not long ago along the lines of "more people have been born since 1900 than in all the preceding years put together" but I guess that must be bollocks. Or the B...

Mark James

Rhys Benjamin wrote:A* at Latin
A* at Maths
A* at French

Does the asterisk mean you were on drugs, like they do with baseball records.

Mark James

They're ok. I'm never bothered to put much effort in though. I went as the joker one year but my costume was shit and there was someone there with an even better one which made mine even worse. Best costume I ever saw was a guy dressed all in black and had crutches, an arm in a sling, fake stitches ...

Mark James

I had to wait about 24 hours to stop tripping on some particularly strong acid. It seemed longer though 'cause there were times where the clock started to go backwards.

Mark James

Rhys Benjamin wrote: I'm fine - I had to debate against Footballers are overpaid. I won, with a 74% approx swing.

Would you agree with that outside of a debate though?

Mark James

There was a hypnotist at my college and members of the audience were asked to volunteer so I went up but was sent back as I "wasn't relaxed enough". I was stoned at the time so I don't know how much more relaxed I could've been. My friend who went up with me did get hypnotised but he said ...

Mark James

So what did everyone (Corby) make of this then? 48 minutes of bullshit. I liked Derren when he used to do magic tricks. I went off him when he began to mix "real science" with his phony stuff, without any clear boundaries between the two. I mean, I can handle this but it seems the vast ma...

Mark James

One person died from magic mushrooms and they were made illegal. Will the same be happening for motor sports?

Mark James

David Williams wrote:And there's the whole life after death thing. Your second paragraph looks like an inadvertent attack on organised religion!

Lets hope it was. Religion is wank. Although something tells me David is on a wind up here.

Mark James

There's still an announcement on the front page of apterous for an unplayed tourney game against Stuart Arnot. Any chance of getting rid of it? Cheers

Mark James

Why does my right earphone keep falling out of my ear when the left one doesn't? Could one ear hole be bigger than the other?

Mark James

Not sure if I've mentioned this before but I don't read newspapers.

Mark James

PLACES REMAINING: 38 EVEN MORE IMPORTANT: Tell me if your Pro Rank changes significantly, especially if ANDY WILSON overtakes DAN ABREY. DATES: Monday 24 October 2011 - Sunday 22 January 2012. Eh, I don't think Andy is interested in playing in this tourney. I'm guessing you'll be in then. Nah, i'm ...

Mark James

I'm -5.25, -6.67.

Rhys Benjamin wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:I would read some of Rhys' previous attempts at debate before bothering to engage him with rational points...
Oi, I won the school debating competition!

Just cause someone wins the Scottish Premier League it doesn't mean they're good at football.

Mark James

Okay who actually got some of the answers on the second pass of the cross-dressing film question? I had not a clue, although I did sadly get the 1 point answer on the first pass... Edit: Okay those are officially one of the worst sets of answers I've ever seen for the last round. Just name some sem...

Mark James

I got The Last Samurai one so I guess I'll be getting that medal. Good show that though. It would have been really funny if, just for a laugh in the first round, there was only one pointless answer and all the rest were wrong.

Mark James

Andy Platt wrote: Anyone get the conundrum though? I was miles off it.

I got it fairly quickly and I'm shit at conundrums.

Mark James

Graeme Cole wrote:some stuff

I agree.

I would like to see the guest in dictionary corner have to play along without help from Susie.

Mark James

Pizza also for me - a spicy meat feast which I've covered entirely in chilli. I have a bastard mouth ulcer right at the base of my tongue, which I'm hoping to kill with lots of beer and chilli. That's mad. I have a mouth ulcer too. Right at the bottom of my gum where it meets the inside of my lip. ...

Mark James

Pizza for me too. A Dominos New Yorker and a chicken stripper's combo followed by a Ben and Gerry's Cookie Dough ice cream for dessert.

Mark James

I wonder how strict they would have been on pronunciation for the final. I knew Ray Davis won a Nobel Prize in physics thanks to QI but I would have pronounced it Ray Davies, as they did on QI too as they were trying to get the panel to confuse him with the lead singer of the Kinks. :?: They're pro...

Mark James

I wonder how strict they would have been on pronunciation for the final. I knew Ray Davis won a Nobel Prize in physics thanks to QI but I would have pronounced it Ray Davies, as they did on QI too as they were trying to get the panel to confuse him with the lead singer of the Kinks.

Mark James

Still no sign of Stuart Arnot. He's not been on apterous for ten days.

Mark James

Really minor bug here, but I thought I'd mention it. In Round 13 of this game , I jotted down PASSION, DOPINESS, and PASSIONED. I ended up declaring PASSION, was told that PASSIONED was not acceptable, but DC failed to mention that DOPINESS was an acceptable word when listing the maxes. Don't think...

Mark James

I actually learnt a list of Simpsons characters for Pointless and I still didn't know that Principal Skinner's first name was Seymour! Why don't you just watch it? Its quite good you know. I'm not surprised it scored less than James Herriot but I would've thought it would score more than it did. An...

Mark James

The Fing-longer (its hypehenated according to the wiki) was only a hypothetical invention that featured on the What-If Machine so technically no one has invented it yet. You're wrong - it's featured non-hypothetically in several later episodes. Hence the conundrum - did Farnsworth later realise his...

Mark James

The Fing-longer (its hypehenated according to the wiki) was only a hypothetical invention that featured on the What-If Machine so technically no one has invented it yet.

Mark James

I got the best answer for the landlocked African countries question and I knew Jeb Bartlet's job. Can't believe that only scored 2.

Mark James

But 99.9% of music IS painful. I love music but would probably have to agree that 99.9% of it is pure shite. Fortunately there's so much music that that .1% is enough for me. I still don't get how people couldn't like any though. The same for sport. If you say you don't like say, football, I could ...

Mark James

From the Championship: Mark James 83 - 108 Marcus Hares http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=527135 Cheers Mark - good luck in the rest of the tourney Ben - not sure if this result has been overlooked but I have a message on apterous stating "You have 1 unplayed tourney game: vs Mark Jame...

Mark James

I don't know if it holds true for music, but on the recent QI Stephen Fry said that, during experiments of pain tolerance, people could endure more pain in rooms that had works of art on the wall, as though the works of art had pain killing properties. It wouldn't surprise me if listening to music y...

Mark James

Charlie Reams wrote:Wow, this is somewhere between really cool and totally overwhelming. Good work Matthew.

Yes, quality work. I especially like the names you've come up with for them. If Shakedown is ever implemented I really hope this can replace the clock music.

Mark James

I used to be keen to get a tattoo but I've gone off them now. Especially on women. A lot of the girls on beabestation and the like have ruined themselves with nasty looking tattoos. Small ones on your arm are fine but not ones all over your back. And I'd definitely steer clear of writing of any kind...

Mark James

Could we have a variant where the minimum vowel limit is two instead of three? Maybe incorporate it in to the nasty variant?

Mark James

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2c2NQp5 ... ure=relmfu

Here's the answers.

And it was brands of chocolate so mneh.

Mark James

I've gotten far more annoyed than I probably should over that idiot who claims to be a Psychic who can't tell the future but can tell the past and present. That shit drives me bananas. Your man with her didn't seem to contribute anything either. Are they possibly the worst contestants to ever reach ...

Mark James

Matt Morrison wrote:I hope this doesn't make ITV bankrupt.

I hope it does. ITV is shite. And it can take TV3 with it.

Mark James

Sorry Jason, I can hum the theme tune for Play Your Cards Right. I have no idea how the theme tune for The Price Is Right goes. I don't even associate that show with Brucie. I think of Leslie Crowther when I think of the Price Is Right.

Mark James

Only two options? What about Play Your Cards Right?

Mark James

http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/games/87422 ... -the-sword

People who like Risk and Countdown will probably like this.

Mark James

with a finite number of spaces they're liable to run out How many spaces are there and how soon do you reckon they'll be filled? I'm not sure when I'll know for sure if I can come or not. Last year we managed to fit 30 people in, and with 16 people already paid up (and a few pending) it's looking l...

Mark James

Michael Wallace wrote: with a finite number of spaces they're liable to run out

How many spaces are there and how soon do you reckon they'll be filled? I'm not sure when I'll know for sure if I can come or not.

Mark James

Keith Bennett wrote: Dave would almost certainly still have come back as a seed.

What would he have grown into?

Mark James

Michael Wallace wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:So, er, moving on, what do you all make of the one-false-start-and-you're-out rule?
Seems a bit shit to me.

Yep. Complete nonsense really.

Mark James

There is a an account for a Dave Taylor on apterous. Only played 11 games though.

Mark James

I've just been listening to this on Radio 4, and thought it might interest some of you here if you haven't heard of it before. It's a cryptic quiz, and the questions are printed on the website so you can read them whilst you listen. I find it very tricky, but I still enjoy the show. http://www.bbc....

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I think it's this . There's no crash sound. I think Rhys might just mean the racing noises were from the same race. But even if the "proof" video no longer exists, you could at least tell us the way in which the video enlightened you to this fact. Cheers Gavin. Sounds like standard stock ...

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