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Michael Wallace

@kailaddiman hasn't tweeted yet. You're only 4,567 tweets out. How annoying. What's the point of setting up one Twitter account using your actual name, then setting up another one under a pseudonym and only using that one? Maybe Kai didn't set up the one with his real name? (And even if he did, his...

Michael Wallace

Tbh Phil, you're a rubbish gay if you didn't realise that shampoo and conditioner did different things. Even I know that.

Michael Wallace

I can't really comment on shampoo, but I do get though a lot of coonditioner.

Michael Wallace

I haven't listened to it yet, but I'm pretty sure she said CASTIGATE.

Michael Wallace

Yeah, agree it was a bit anticlimactic. I found it a bit odd when, with 5-10 minutes to go Pembroke started to really get into it, but Paxo didn't do his normal thing of reading the questions really fast (maybe he was knackered). The presentation at the end was really weird, though, it was just supe...

Michael Wallace

Thomas Carey wrote:Jasmine

I like this, but only if it's spelt Jazzmean.

Michael Wallace

Totallya gree with Gevin's advice.

Michael Wallace

Mark James wrote:I notice no one else has said Congratulations. Although you'd probably want to shorten it to Conny or something.

I dont think you're exploiting the potential for supermarket sponsorship. "Shoppat" sounds a bit Indian (based on a survey of two people).

Michael Wallace

What's the surname going to be?

Michael Wallace

Most of the players seem tactically pretty clueless. Today, for example, with very little risk Dave could have bumped off his partner by stepping forward on the last question and giving a wrong answer. I was wondering about that too - presumably the way they avoid the problem of two players disagre...

Michael Wallace

That Pugh looked like a cock to me with his annoying hand gestures and celebrations at the end. You shouldn't be allowed to celebrate anything on such a serious quiz. But mainly because you're not CF. Tbf, Pugh is clearly a pretty phenomenal quizzer, across all his shows he's demonstrated a stagger...

Michael Wallace

Ryan Taylor wrote:The handshake? He goes for a handshake and gets left hanging.

Oh, haha, have rewatched it now and that's great. The first time I assumed it was something to do with the questions so missed it.

Michael Wallace

Ryan Taylor wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... pisode_21/

11:07 - Left hanging.

I just flicked through this, not sure I understand what you're getting at.

Michael Wallace

Ryan Taylor wrote:Girls. Calm the fuck down.

Is that what you say to two lesbians having angry sex?

Michael Wallace

I had Eastcote, Ickenham and Upminster Bridge - did he specifically say that the pointless answers he showed were all of them? I can only assume they were, since they shoved 5, and usually when they only show a subset of the answers they'll show a multiple of 3. I'm a bit sceptical of this though, ...

Michael Wallace

Mark James wrote:
Phil Reynolds wrote:Haha, very clever. Did anyone else spot the significance of the letters selection?
Aren't you supposed to, or it's not gonna make much sense?

That's what I was thinking...

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Graeme Cole wrote:
Jordan Leckonby wrote:i think on apterous carl williams is keith williams
Not unless he was playing on apterous while in the studio.

Exactly the level of deviousness we've come to expect from the cad!

Michael Wallace

This is genuinely one of the most amazing ideas I've ever heard.

Michael Wallace

Logically yes, these arguments are sound, and I don't think I'd hesitate were it not my local place which we regularly use. The owner is a bit 'chatty', and would almost certainly want to know why we were getting naan breads (which you surely only order if you're having curry) and not buying his cur...

Michael Wallace

Suppose you're having home made curry, is it ok to go to your nearby curry house and order just a couple of naan breads? Or is that dickish? Will the owner see right through you and realise that you're having someone else's curry, and just using him as a petty bread vendor? Or is this common behavio...

Michael Wallace

I've often wondered things like this. (I think I did some crowdsourcing on here for an article about McDonald's Monopoly, where you have to find the one Mayfair token to win the top prize.) The idea of the winning pack never leaving the factory is an old-as-the-hills question though (I can remember ...

Michael Wallace

I'm encouraged by the number of people who had similarly boring ambitions to me. Chris is winning for best career idea, though.

Michael Wallace

Mark Deeks wrote:Cartoonist. Then a crazy golf course owner. Then a fireman, before I remembered I was asthmatic and afraid of heights.

So you went with crazy golf course owner after all? Wicked. I feel a co-event coming on.

Michael Wallace

Pretty self-explanatory, really - when you were a kid, what career path did you see your future self following, and how has that worked out? When I was very young I wanted to be a mathematician - obviously I didn't really know what that actually meant as a job, but I liked doing maths problems so I ...

Michael Wallace

To add to the Countdown/University Challenge crossovers, I'm going up to Manchester this weekend to film our (New College, Oxford) first round match. I think we're the last match, before the highest-scoring losers, so won't be shown till late September/early October. Awesome stuff, good luck (unles...

Michael Wallace

David Williams wrote:
Julie T wrote:IMHO
Remind me, what does the H stand for?

Statistically speaking...

Michael Wallace

Wicked, thanks.

Michael Wallace

Sorry Phil, I meant the first version of the 4 team format, as opposed to the original 5 team format. Hope thats cleared that up. :?: For what it's worth, I understood what you meant (sometimes it helps not to assume someone's made a mistake :p). Does this mean mine and CF's second show will be tom...

Michael Wallace

Marc Meakin wrote:BTW on challenge at 7 today its a repeat of the first MW and CF edition

Exciting. Thanks for the heads up

Michael Wallace

I enjoy Pointless and also more traditional fact based quiz shows. IMHO the new round 3 format is an interesting joining of the two. The viewer gets to test more specific knowledge of subjects (and compare with the contestants) than the old rounds, while still having the Pointless twist of estimati...

Michael Wallace

Gavin Chipper wrote:I've got nothing to lose by complaining though - to the seller at least.

Except you might annoy them, and they presumably know where you live...

Michael Wallace

Crazy. I remember when we were preparing we spotted the potential for mild shenanigans in that regard, but assumed they didn't care enough because it required a reasonable level of effort/smarts to exploit it. Then we noticed on the day the winners never reappearing (like they'd been eaten by some q...

Michael Wallace

When does the competition close? I've still got a few packs that I haven't entered yet. End of this month. You can give me some codes to work my Midas touch on if you like :) Ha. The limiting factor is my inability to read them (have to get CF to do it) maybe we'll find five minutes to get some don...

Michael Wallace

Five options in the final is interesting - presumably viewers didn't like how the jackpot was won relatively rarely? I'd be surprised if that was the reason - speaking as a viewer, it's generally more exciting when someone wins a big jackpot than when people win a couple of grand every other day. I...

Michael Wallace

Jon Corby wrote:1/25. That's 21 losers in a row I think

Just means you're even more likely to win next time!

When does the competition close? I've still got a few packs that I haven't entered yet.

Michael Wallace

It's been a few shows, but I'm still not convinced by their format tweaks. Five options in the final is interesting - presumably viewers didn't like how the jackpot was won relatively rarely? I thought it was just right, really. I'm a little surprised they changed the head to head - I thought questi...

Michael Wallace

I have no sympathy for anyone who can see well enough to not have their glasses on their face in the first place. Unless they're five. (I once lost a pair of glasses when I was five by leaving them on the bumper of my mum's car.)

Michael Wallace

James Robinson wrote:I read that CF is back on our screens next week when UCL play Balliol College, Oxford.

And that will complete the semi line-up.

Correct. Although I prefer to call them by their proper name: Balli-lol.

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Phil Reynolds wrote:
Michael Wallace wrote:Nick Allwright is a perfectly competent presenter
I prefer that Matt Knowles who does Perfection.

Haha, clearly they are all merging into one super-being.

Michael Wallace

I'm assuming there's nothing to identify the owner from the glasses/case? In which case I'd've probably left them in the first place - it's not like a wallet where there's more of a risk that someone naughty will come along and just pinch it (citation needed, etc.). I think I'd go and put a note wit...

Michael Wallace

Rhys Benjamin wrote:Only the most stupid people at my school don't understand AV

You shouldn't be so hard on yourself.

Michael Wallace

Anyone else been watching this? It's the new biggish budget show from ITV which they show on a Tuesday evening (I think that short-lived Jeremy Kyle experiment was in the same slot). For the uninitiated, it's a fairly simple concept - a 'maze' of rooms with £££ in each one (which goes in your bank i...

Michael Wallace

That was some pretty classic overestimation of the 100 I thought. IIRC only South Africa was 'too obvious' to have knocked him out.

Michael Wallace

Andy Platt wrote:can we just post pics of fit girls?

Stop stealing my CO:LON marketing ideas

Michael Wallace

I've gotta say, I did not see this thread going in this direction.

Michael Wallace

Ha, I remember seeing that discussed after the Gadaffi one, good times.

Michael Wallace

Liam Tiernan wrote:How the Dutch see cricket.

Brilliant, cheers for that

Michael Wallace

It seems like a pretty untenable situation. Either you let people on purely on skill, or you cherry pick for TV purposes. Using apterous as a way to identify people who are likely to be 'too good' will just lead to even more people playing under pseudonyms and the 'problem' (of too many good players...

Michael Wallace

Jon Corby wrote:
Michael Wallace wrote:Steps in the final is a great idea, such a good idea I wouldn't be too surprised to see it introduced at some point. Can any regular viewers give rough estimates of how many people go low/high?
Thanks. I thought of that with my brian.

Sorry, I meant the band Steps, your steps idea was idoitic.

Michael Wallace

Steps in the final is a great idea, such a good idea I wouldn't be too surprised to see it introduced at some point. Can any regular viewers give rough estimates of how many people go low/high?

Michael Wallace

By the way, what does everyone think of that woman who went with the -£5,000 offer in yesterday's show :?: Super cowardice. :x Didn't see it - what was the state of play? She was the last contestant (unsurprisingly). The previous guy just put in £45,000, the other 2 had put in £10,000 between them,...

Michael Wallace

James Robinson wrote:By the way, what does everyone think of that woman who went with the -£5,000 offer in yesterday's show Super cowardice.

Didn't see it - what was the state of play?

Michael Wallace

Huh, interesting stuff. I'd always thought that there would be some rules that stop certain things. Like, say on a chase the lady game it just randomised it occasionally, would anyone think that was ok? It would seem really odd/deceptive to reveal the battleships grid at the end if that wasn't what ...

Michael Wallace

No, what you do now is keep playing (and not collecting) and then Raccoon Boy can examine the data to see how fair the endgame is. :mrgreen: I can't remember if I ever reported my colour of money findings on here. The short of it is that it seems fair when you're going for the points, but with mone...

Michael Wallace

Wow, I've never seen 4/5/6 either, only ever 3/3.5/4 and occasionally 2/2.5/3. ( lifeboats and 11x2 is crazy, do the number of mines vary or is it always the same?

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Amazing

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote: Haha! After we'd just ranted about it together too.
Did we? I probably switched off.

Yeah, its a pretty boring thing to care about.

Michael Wallace

Interesting, thanks. I thought that your first cash square is 'safe' automatically, but it could be that you just get 30p. The numbers on lifeboats is interesting, since that means you're more likely to hit one than hit a mine (unless you've hit, like, 3). Do you know how big the grid is? I'll pay ...

Michael Wallace

Interesting, thanks. I thought that your first cash square is 'safe' automatically, but it could be that you just get 30p. The numbers on lifeboats is interesting, since that means you're more likely to hit one than hit a mine (unless you've hit, like, 3). Do you know how big the grid is?

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