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Lesley Hines

By the way, I had no idea what FIFY stood for. Guess what I did? I'll give you a clue. It's starts with a G and ends in oogle. What is a Gandisoogle? One of the other search engines available (there's more to life than Internet Explorer, you know). This list is not comprehensive, but also includes ...

Lesley Hines

I see where you're coming from Ralph but imagine having a conversation with someone and every few minutes that person has to ask what a particular word you have just used means. You would probably get annoyed and tell them to go away and learn some things before they try to engage you in conversati...

Lesley Hines

I have to say I am not a big Star Wars fan, but I voted for Episode I because it's the only one I've ever seen. It was alright. If it was rubbish, I wouldn't have voted for anything, though.I have actually seen the trailer for Episode III, but it didn't seem that good. Dear Sophie Please pm me your...

Lesley Hines

Charlie Reams wrote:
JimBentley wrote: the statement really means "between 0% and 45% of customers will save between 1p and £200".

Fucking pricks.
Or it could be nothing at all. Such is the magic of "up to"!

And that's likely to be the mode. It was in my case, anyway.

Lesley Hines

Ian Volante wrote:Think we might go camping for a weekend up north somewhere in a few weeks. Don't have money for much else, maybe next decade!

Camping up north from Edinburgh? Are you insane? Is the Arctic actually fully booked or do you just like really, really fresh (i.e. cold) air?

Lesley Hines

Soph K wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:
Soph K wrote:Does anyone know what place everyone came?
The Stoneycroft Hotel, Leicester.
I knew that - because I went! I meant, like, who came 6th, who came 18th, who came 3rd etc. etc.

I guarantee who came first was a man. It always is.

Lesley Hines

It's not elitism, it's a £20 Robinson-Clayton transaction so James can change his signature. :lol: Unlucky ;) Unfortunately Countdown's not a team sport so you'll have to leave your geisha at home next time James, as it's just not gentlemanly to brag about success with the laydees. Personally I woul...

Lesley Hines

I realise this may be by design rather than a bug, but head-to-head has disappeared. It used to be that you could only access it via the player page but now I can't find it at all. Or I'm really thick. I was thinking as I was looking for it that it would be cool to have under Facts and Figures, so ...

Lesley Hines

I realise this may be by design rather than a bug, but head-to-head has disappeared. It used to be that you could only access it via the player page but now I can't find it at all. Or I'm really thick. I was thinking as I was looking for it that it would be cool to have under Facts and Figures, so m...

Lesley Hines

Yes but I couldn't be bothered to look it up. Bother: it will do you (and everyone else) good. I had my first love affair with my Commodore 64 - yes it was shit, yes Skool Dayz crashed far too regularly, but the basic programming instructions with the manual gave me loads of fun, and my sisters and...

Lesley Hines

they'd put the heaviest ones on the bottom row for demonstration but put light ones on the bottom for the punters so they're really tough to knock off. Other way around, surely? Yeah, maybe. I can't remember specifically, just that it was a con. I remembered being surprised at the way round at the ...

Lesley Hines

The shooting ones are always easy; we're a Scooby Doo, a pink pig and various other crap better off for them. (My Dad taught me to shoot when I was a kid, which helps.) There was a show on TV a while back that showed some of the tricks they use in carnival games to make it look dead easy on demonstr...

Lesley Hines

Rosemary Roberts wrote:
Lesley Hines wrote:I think if anything it's more likely to be a black withcraft curse.
It must be a truly awesome curse if it made them cut out whatever happened in the middle.

***LIKE***
I wondered what happened in the middle bit too

Lesley Hines

Meh, you're safe enough. Derek Acorah's confirmed it's some geezer, which makes it certified wank in my book. Edit: Looking at this subtle little piece how the Dickens are they telling stuff's moved anyway? Sure it's not a rat? I don't think she is making this up because obviously you know you are ...

Lesley Hines

Meh, you're safe enough. Derek Acorah's confirmed it's some geezer, which makes it certified wank in my book.

Edit: Looking at this subtle little piece how the Dickens are they telling stuff's moved anyway? Sure it's not a rat?

Lesley Hines

Lol @ Matt :lol: (Though I dare say she's tried to get her hands on a Christian's relics at some point.) There's a furniture shop in town that's erected a massive sign that's surely intended to read "The cheapest quality sofas in town", and actually reads "The cheapest quality sofas i...

Lesley Hines

Pretty good, really. I've just found out I've qualified again as Team Leader for Usborne, so I'm chuffed about that. My little computer-care thing's going very steadily, and in the B&B we're rammed for the next few weeks and some of our favourite punters are back at the same time. One's a lovely...

Lesley Hines

Kirk Bevins wrote:James got a silver pencil for SIMCHA but it's not showing up here: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 1899677126

And indeed it says the word isn't pencilled in...

Actually, same thing's happened to me for SENHOR. Well spotted that man

Lesley Hines

Is it not just an example of the Kruger-Dunning effect? Dunning-Kruger is the effect where people who are really bad think they are good. This is more like people who know/are good at a certain thing assume that everyone else knows/is good at the same thing, and likewise for things they don't know/...

Lesley Hines

Ryan Taylor wrote:University of Hull mate.

Edit: One of the great universities along with Oxford and Cambridge.

Oxford's a complete dump...

Uni of Essex, Uni of Worcester. I've had a quality education.

Lesley Hines

Is it not just an example of the Kruger-Dunning effect?

Lesley Hines

BTW. got me a table but no chairs any advice on free furniture that doesn't involve breaking the law. There's obviously Freecycle where people offer stuff they don't want for free. It's probably worth asking your local council if they have any sort of furniture recycling scheme in place. In Worcest...

Lesley Hines

I used to smoke say between 10 to 20 joints daily too Jesus! I presume you're not 44 or over. Haha. On reflection I should have just said at least ten a day. I'm sure I have smoked twenty, if not more, in a day, but those days would have been few and far between. Although you have reminded me that ...

Lesley Hines

Charlie, I've just installed Firefox 4.0 and it's had a remarkable effect on performance. Same. Adam - you're on a Mac? I'm on Vista and Firefox 4.0 now loads the game perfectly every time - I always had to resize the window before - and there's a very noticeable improvement in performance. I still...

Lesley Hines

When your rating changes it updates on the list of people in the room but doesn't on the bit about you in the middle that comes up and says your rating / fave variant / pic etc., so you end up with this: http://i767.photobucket.com/albums/xx320/lesleyshines/scrdump1.jpg Cheers :) Noticed it now doe...

Lesley Hines

Me and Joseph Krol weren't offered a chance to go for our 3178 where the target was 3168. Spoilage is Stepdown scoring for numbers, so 10 away would be worth zero points even if you got it. Edit: what Innis said. Edit edit: Also it's "Joseph Krol and I", I'm sure your mum can confirm this...

Lesley Hines

Michael Wallace wrote:
Mark James wrote:You should spend the money pimping your ride.
What would my ride be? (I don't have a car.)

cf CF

Lesley Hines

Please leave this until Sophie can join in, although since she said she'd be contributing every three days and has currently exceeded her quota I wouldn't like to speculate when that might be. Sweepstake for 8:32 a.m.

Lesley Hines

When your rating changes it updates on the list of people in the room but doesn't on the bit about you in the middle that comes up and says your rating / fave variant / pic etc., so you end up with this:

Cheers

Lesley Hines

OCARINA

Sorry, I've only got the one

Lesley Hines

When salesmen cold call and open the conversation with that I usually reply with something similar to this: "I'm so glad you've asked that. I'm dreadful, having a terrible day. Really, really awful. But this is obviously a sign from God that you've rung as my psychiatrist says I should talk to ...

Lesley Hines

My friend's reading politics and has prepared this survey. He needs as many people as possible to fill it in so if you have one minute of your time and would be prepared to submit an anonymous survey, couldja?

It's here:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/58Q9JSZ
Thanks very much!

Lesley Hines

Lesley Hines

Michael Wallace, Jon O'Neill and Charlie Reams wrote:(source?)

Fair, although it's bedtime. I'll get back to you in the morning

(NB not a cop-out, just up to my eyes in it with work

)

Lesley Hines

Meh, stable door, lock, etc. Plus alcohol's had the advantage in this country that it was the only way to purify drinking matter for a long time so westernised livers are better adapted to cope with it than say, Asian ones, that historically coped with brewed teas. Plus alcohol in moderation is fine...

Lesley Hines

Charlie Reams wrote:
Ben Wilson wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:The following have also been retired having been deleted from the new edition:

JACUZZI
Um, wtf?
It's a trademark, I imagine they got an angry letter from Jacuzzi Inc.'s lawyers after the last edition.

Swingers everywhere will be very sad about this

[/Simpsons]

Lesley Hines

The message that it sends out is all wrong. People assume alcohol's harmless because it's legal, and that's far from the case. I know people (kids under 18) that have thought that cannabis is 'legal' (it isn't) because it was downgraded. Hell, when I was a kid I thought cannabis was harmless. I read...

Lesley Hines

Fair point re the AV, although that's £250M wasted if the end result is no. But I guess at least it's everyone's no :lol: Sorry, legalising drugs won't save money. It'll cost thousands, if not millions, in psychiatric treatments in the NHS, not to mention cancer, the long-term effects of drugs in lo...

Lesley Hines

Mark James wrote:why is there still a squiggly red line under the word movie. How is it supposed to be spelled?

F-I-L-M

Lesley Hines

CoLei's in an hotel - does that count?

Lesley Hines

I certainly agree that the military budget is horribly wasteful and far, far too large, but I think we do need some sort of military force. I'd prefer to live in a world where no-one did but unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case. The forces do actually do quite a lot of useful work that doe...

Lesley Hines

Kai Laddiman wrote:
Soph K wrote:Also, there has been a few vowels. Please post here if you know any of these.
A, E and O, for a start.

Yes - A is right next to the Caps Lock. Please be careful which you hit.

Lesley Hines

Other than with The Woolwich? There's been lots of headlines recently about where councils are cutting services and the consequent uproar, so where do you think they could save money? My first suggestion is to end free lifetime prescriptions for people with certain medical conditions. NHS services a...

Lesley Hines

Gavin Chipper wrote:
Lesley Hines wrote:
Marc Meakin wrote:jOHN WILL YOU BE AT MILTON KEYNES SOON AS IM STARTING TO GET HYPERTHERMIA
Is that because it's awfully warm and sunny in Milton Keynes or because you've been taking Ecstasy?
Will he get that?

Depends how much Ecstasy he's actually taken

Lesley Hines

Marc Meakin wrote:jOHN WILL YOU BE AT MILTON KEYNES SOON AS IM STARTING TO GET HYPERTHERMIA

Is that because it's awfully warm and sunny in Milton Keynes or because you've been taking Ecstasy?

Lesley Hines

Charlie Reams wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:Be a free spirit. Do what Ryan Taylor says.

Lengthy clarification of my position available on request.

Request submitted. I'll show you mine if you show me yours

Lesley Hines

http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6581&start=60#p109565 Just because you don't understand someone's view, doesn't mean you should call them retarded and fucked up. I still think the question of WHY you shield your kids from these words is an interesting and valid one, and I ...

Lesley Hines

Nobody's fallen out or flounced off the forum in a huff. What's going on here?! Screw you fucker. I can't believe these bastards only agreed with some of what I said. Watch your backs and your inboxes - consider this a warning that I'm gonna be sending you threats of death threats! Remember - I hav...

Lesley Hines

I still think the question of WHY you shield your kids from these words is an interesting and valid one, and I find it bewildering that you can't see that it is an interesting and valid question. No-one else has tried to answer this so I thought I'd try to give my humble (not stolen) two penn'orth....

Lesley Hines

It really isn't strange to want young children to be able play a word game that won't involve swear words. It's totally, totally normal. Fine, absolutely. It's just then maybe apterous isn't the word game for them, and it's not like there aren't others available. Again, there's an argument for limi...

Lesley Hines

Joseph's classroom example is a great one - Countdown's a great game for improving spelling and numeracy (and just getting the brain going) and ideal for a classroom setting, but apterous probably precludes itself from being a viable implementation to use because of this. IMO. That's not an example...

Lesley Hines

Choosing consonant, vowel, consonant consonant could easily bring out CUNT on the letters board itself, even if it had been taken out of the lexicon. Hmm.. CVCC also could yield (wield) FUCK or COCK. It looks like this particular problem can be easily rectified by removing all the 'C's from the con...

Lesley Hines

They've shown obscenities on the show (granted not displayed them on the board) where they've been valid declarations, and TV probably reaches a wider audience than apterous. When? And how did they "show" them if not on the board? IIRC, for example, when Charlie submitted WANKING they sho...

Lesley Hines

Ryan Taylor wrote:this

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. I learned something there.

Lesley Hines

Yeah, sorry, I'm with Charlie on this one. No-one's trying to be offensive in their use of the word - they're just declarations that are valid from the word list offered by the ODE. I'm also pretty confident that not a single younger player will learn an offensive word from playing apterous, so if t...

Lesley Hines

What have you done with your nameplates? Donated mine as a Valentines love token to Jeff Burgin. :shock: :x :cry: I am usually fairly tolerant and understanding. But there are limits!!!! There are things up with which I will not put. Do your worst Lesley. I comfort myself knowing that some bonds ca...

Lesley Hines

Ralph Gillions wrote:What have you done with your nameplates?

Donated mine as a Valentines love token to Jeff Burgin.

Lesley Hines

A censor button which stops any rude words appearing, for when you are apterousing in front of an important person. For this we must make a list. Spindlex perhaps? List PENIS GOBSHITE BUGGER I can't believe you think any of these are actually rude - perfectly reasonable biological / descriptive / l...

Lesley Hines

Is there a reason why you can't input non-existent letters for conundrums? I had a conundrum where the answer was WEEKENDED and I saw it as WEEKENDER, so it didn't let me type the final R. So if I'd been more on the ball, I could have blagged that, although I would have been watching out for Corby-...

Lesley Hines

I had CONIESRAT once and sticking with the no plurals rule I went for NARCOTISE, only to be told that the answer was ACTIONERS. I will have a look for the screenshot. That's lousy too as you could also have had CREATIONS and REACTIONS - surely the official sanctioned game should at least have worke...

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