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Lesley Hines

We've got an urn that we never use cos it's horribly slow to heat, doesn't get properly hot, the water dribbles out of it and the spout isn't high enough to put anything taller than a saucer under*. I always buy kettles that boil as fast as possible, can open the lid with a button that can be operat...

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Edwin Mead wrote:If that's your real date of birth, it's probably best that you edit your post. You never know who's reading.

That's good advice - I won't post mine. I'm 29 and sticking to that story no matter what

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Being married to a Wolves fan is a terrifying thing at times

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In a game that swung back and forth, with lots of spectators (you bastards), Jon emerged the worthy winner.

I expect to be invited back for a special.

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Screwball scramble: I've got an Addict-a-ball that's thoroughly entertaining. Bought one for my nephew for Christmas and spied another one for me in the charity shop up the road. Haven't completed it yet tho - it's really tough!

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Wednesday night - you got yourself a game

(unless it ends up being Friday, but either way plans are afoot).

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Martin Bishop wrote:Jedward will be lucky to get through the semis.

That's what happens when your fan base is under 13

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n1 Ian

I've been waiting since December for this drubbing, so I'm very much looking forward to playing the winner of you v Jonathan

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Yep, the only way to make the numbers work was by having a round-robin final, everyone plays the other two at a 15-rounder. If no player wins both games, the winner will be decided on highest points over the two games. Should've used AV. But it would cost me £250 million extra! If you'd lost both y...

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Advertising - hth.

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Thanks for this; there's some interesting stuff in there. Didn't know PRAESIDIUM had made it into English via the Russian, though - I only knew it from this cute little limerick: There was a Roman from Vinidium Whose shirt was made of iridium When asked why the vest He replied "Id est Bonum san...

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why on earth do people still believe in it? Surely once you have seen something proven to be false you would then realise this and stop giving money? Am I just being naive here? Can you imagine living in daily agony? Or being told you've only got a short time left (10 years ago today I had less tha...

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but what do we do when c4countdown is down? For obvious reasons it's not possible to have a thread for when c4c is down. Yeah but if there was one, then it'd probably be reasonably simple therefore you could look at what to do beforehand then you'll know what to do when c4c is down - you wouldnt re...

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Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams: "When the city sleeps, and I'm the only one and I wore cologne" Posh boys - it's aftershave in our house :lol: Still, relevant: My favourite mash-up :) I googled the Rock the Casbah lyrics and no-one seems to be able to agree on it - I think "S...

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Michael Wallace wrote:O rite. Although from poking the Internet it was a 14 year old in care of a 3 year old, which seems a little bit iffy to me (but then again, I am not a parent, so maybe that's fine? How dangerous are three year olds?).

I had a job babysitting a 3yo when I was 14. He was a monster.

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Haha cheers. I grew up in a house where the words "I'm bored" would guarantee you having a polishing cloth / broom / mop etc. placed quickly in your hands, so it was much easier to find yourself something useful to do. Why Don't You? Annual FTW!

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but what do we do when c4countdown is down? For obvious reasons it's not possible to have a thread for when c4c is down. Here are my suggestions (in no particular order): <snip> Wow, Lesley. Do you offer your services as a life coach? :) Meh, I remember being 10 without the internet :lol:

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but what do we do when c4countdown is down? For obvious reasons it's not possible to have a thread for when c4c is down. Here are my suggestions (in no particular order): Go outside and get some fresh air and exercise Play on apterous Read the Online Children's Digital Library Play an instrument Ma...

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Mark James wrote:Also in the Clash's Rock the Casbah I used to think Sharlene didn't like it.

Then what should it be?

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I'd have to say, even 99-year-old Granny-in-law's noticed the decline in standard recently. (She also commented how Jeff's jokes always sound like he's reading them off a script - hmmmmm.) AFAICS, it's just going to end up with an increase of apterous players called stuff like Practice Name, rather ...

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There's a Newsnight special starting on it in 15 mins (22:30) on BBC2

If that's past your bedtime there'll be the repeat on iPlayer for a while.

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I have a considerably younger sister and egalitarian parents so I have to get as many eggs as her, no matter my protestations. Think it was 7 this year, plus a chocolate bunny. I don't even like chocolate. I don't get this. The ankle-biter in our house has been given loads of eggs by various genero...

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I went to Trinity College Dublin. But only to see the Book of Kells. And it was closed that day. We went to see that. It was RUBBISH. It was in box so you couldn't pick it up and read it or nuffin', the story was crap and wasn't even in English. Like it was written by kids or summat - they shoulda ...

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I'm clearly speaking for everyone (since no other sod's bothered to reply in two days) when I say congratulations. I can just see you in the apparently obligatory black combat shorts. Nice Union Flag basque in the video btw. Do us a favour and make sure they all come out the right way up - it doesn'...

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As for music, I don't believe I have perfect pitch (how do you tell?) Presumably Innis can offer a better explanation, but my experience of people with perfect pitch is that you can play them any note on the piano (for instance) and they can immediately say "A flat" or whatever Hearing a ...

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Cheers; they were interesting. I think it depends on how you define 'talent' - a nice one I've just read is a capacity for achievement or success: that's a different thing to automatic achievement and success that's sometimes implied by the word 'talent'. These studies seem to focus on motivational ...

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It's true that "work hard and you'll do well" is a great message to give to any child, but it's not on to assume all children (and therefore adults) start as equals. It's not taking into account any learning disabilities, behavioural disabilities, physical disabilties etc., or any other st...

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Room 3: 2 McFlurrys :. 2 stickers - a Regent Street and a station. No instant wins though.

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Woman goes to see the doctor about losing weight, and he suggests doing some exercise.
"What sort should I do?"
"Start by just shaking your head"
"How often?"
"Every time someone offers you cake."

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It's just pronounced "win" with the very slight hint of "n" before it, basically one syllable. Thanks. Common misconception. Anything with 'win' is incorrect. :roll: Don't leave it there! My interest is proper piqued now. Tell us how it's pronounced or I'll think you're all, lik...

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Has anyone else noticed James and John played their game at 4:30 ish in the morning? Respect for dedication to the cause!

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In future, all cars should be sold like this.

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Charlie Reams wrote:This is a Java sandbox thing, nothing to do with me. It seems to come and go with different versions.

Ah, 'k. Cheers

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Surely COMPLEATS isn't a valid conundrum though as its a plural so there wouldn't be or at least shouldn't be any confusion of what the right answer would be. I think general thinking is that this is a rule for the setter rather than the solver (although Damian may disagree with a shambolic outcome...

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Copy & paste function in chat seems to have stopped working. I don't know if this has been done on purpose (possibly for an anti-cheat mechanism for chat points?) but it used to be quite useful for putting up links n' stuff, and confusing Ryan, not necessarily at the same time. If it wasn't done...

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Soph K wrote:who'd want to spend a whole day doing make up?

Good reason for not doing it, IMO.

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Soph K wrote:I may be the youngest on Apterous and C4C

No, you're not. Most verbose possibly, but not the youngest.

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Charlie Reams wrote:Oops, the small reminder is old and I forgot to disable it when I added the new one. I wonder how long it's been like that for? Probably a good six months.

All gone thanks

Dunno, 5 days of e-nagging was all I could take

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Matt Morrison wrote:I imagine Kevin Ashman to be a very unconfident and nervous lover. Gentle but more through insecurity.

Shared too much, dude.

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I don't know why on earth do people go out on a Friday night when the TV is as good as this!! To get laid. HTH ;) I'm pretty sure I would get more pleasure from TV quiz shows. Graham Norton Show new series is now on and then Celebrity Juiced. The only way I think your argument stands up is if it wa...

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Martin Bishop wrote:I was still very disappointed that none of the contestants knew what hypertension was.

Dur! It's starting a 3-hour exam and being desperate for a wee.

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Ryan Taylor wrote:I don't know why on earth do people go out on a Friday night when the TV is as good as this!!

To get laid.

HTH

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I'd've described Phil's joke as super, cool and funny (or even super-cool and funny) rather than jolly, so it's probably in the right place.

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The two helpful messages (1 message, 1 nice bright purple notification like the GOTW reminder) reminding me to resubscribe have now changed to only one helpful message since I resubscribed. The nice bright purple one's gone but the more muted line is still there. Unless you wanted me to come on here...

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Liam Tiernan wrote:
Lesley Hines wrote:cf CF
Looks like Marc's not the only one who recycles.

Genuinely hadn't clocked that (consciously). Clearly great minds think alike, or fools rarely differ, or something

Wit of the Irish

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I was going to post some groovy stuff, but being currently absolutely knacked (Legoland - awesome) I found this site that's got pretty much everything I as going to post in it about fats and cholesterol. Cholesterol and homeostatic mechanisms would be worth a search too (I haven't done this so good ...

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Chris Corby wrote:
Marc Meakin wrote:spunk it up the wall
You really would have come into the money

A-lol. That's much funnier than my comeback, which was going to be:
"For £500? For that you could get him to swallow it"

Proper put in my place

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Can I suggest setting up a poll with the properties / instant wins on so people can just use a radio button whenever they get one? It'll give you a groovy chart and everything :) I imagine they're using the Panini stickers distribution system - 38,000 Regent Street, 29,000 Oxford Street and 1 Bond S...

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Without actually thinking about it, that's what.I've always thought. Fat makes you fat. Clue's in the name. Another indicator is how fat and saturated fat are.on the colour wheel thing on.most foods. But.not carbohydrate? Look around the shelves in a supermarket and it will all say 'low fat'. Weird...

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I didn't know what a Roomba was (although I had an ankling from the context) and guess what I did. Yes! I put it into Google and it told me! What about IR Repeater, AV equipment (might be able to guess this one)? I don't mind Googling the odd term but the idea is that people should post in English!...

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After 4 weeks I am the satisfied owner of an IR repeater, that allows me to store all my AV equipment magically out of sight but still appeals to my lazy side. Roombas, however, cause considerable distress in the numerous pieces of Lego that have to be retrieved every time the damn thing's emptied. ...

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She's joking Sophie, just scandalised that you've never seen the aforementioned film I suspect. ;) http://www.cool-screen-names.com/smilies/girly/girly20.gif Cheers bud. Sophie, don't ever give out your address over the internet: you're quite right that it would be extremely foolish. However, also ...

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Andy Wilson wrote:That's an interesting idea! Maybe she could convince him to appear in dictionary corner.

Fucker

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Matt Morrison wrote:Age old Hyper numbers bug, Lesley.

Cheers for that Matt. I'm putting the performance down to an Old Age hyper numbers bug

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There's something weird going on with the emboldening. I'd understood scores were emboldened if they were the correct max, but not if they were an incorrect declaration or below the max. In my Duel game today (it might be Hyper in general, I don't tend to play it very often) several incorrect decla...

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Aw, this is the weekend of my wedding anniversary

Doesn't bother me but I think HWMBO might be a tad narked at dinner for one that he's had to cook. Otherwise what was the point in him getting married?

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Sorry, I've now got the greatest mental image of Jason being drunk and trying to shift Andy's ma. I'm wondering how this will be achieved; everything from a simple "excuse me" to a crowbar and a couple of mates for proper leverage.

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There's something weird going on with the emboldening. I'd understood scores were emboldened if they were the correct max, but not if they were an incorrect declaration or below the max. In my Duel game today (it might be Hyper in general, I don't tend to play it very often) several incorrect declar...

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^Kewl - the Black album & G'n'R Appetite for Destruction were my first two rock albums. Much more admissible than my first 45

For years I thought the 'warm smell of Carlitos rising up through the air' was a reference to personal hygiene.

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