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- Sat Nov 07, 2009 3:14 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Dictionary Corner Guests for the new series
- Replies: 276
- Views: 32085
Re: Dictionary Corner Guests for the new series
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...
- Fri Nov 06, 2009 5:37 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Monday 2nd November 2009 (Series 61, Prelim 76)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1143
Re: Monday 2nd November 2009 (Series 61, Prelim 76
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...
- Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:24 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Monday 2nd November 2009 (Series 61, Prelim 76)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1143
Re: Monday 2nd November 2009 (Series 61, Prelim 76
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.
- Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:06 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 697293
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
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...
- Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:36 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 697293
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
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...
- Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:04 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Forumite interbreeding
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4381
Re: Forumite interbreeding
Surely all of us here are that?Derek Hazell wrote:Mix me with someone intelligent and perceptive
- Mon Nov 02, 2009 6:12 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Forumite interbreeding
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4381
Re: Forumite interbreeding
Literal? Moi?Derek Hazell wrote:The eccentricity of Ben Hunter combined with the literal outlook of Rosemary Roberts.
- Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:50 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Global Warming - your view
- Replies: 82
- Views: 5987
Re: global Warming - your view
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...
- Fri Oct 30, 2009 6:48 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Who Gets Your Vote?
- Replies: 122
- Views: 10606
Re: Who Gets Your Vote?
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...
- Fri Oct 30, 2009 6:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What gets your goat(down)?
- Replies: 148
- Views: 11687
Re: What gets your goat(down)?
On a bike ?Sue Sanders wrote: I had to drive around the block three times to get a parking space in Tankerton yesterday
- Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:16 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Who Gets Your Vote?
- Replies: 122
- Views: 10606
Re: Who Gets Your Vote?
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...
- Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:52 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Who Gets Your Vote?
- Replies: 122
- Views: 10606
Re: Who Gets Your Vote?
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...
- Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:00 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Who Gets Your Vote?
- Replies: 122
- Views: 10606
Re: Who Gets Your Vote?
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...
- Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:13 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Who Gets Your Vote?
- Replies: 122
- Views: 10606
Re: Who Gets Your Vote?
If you are saying that it's all in the mind I think you must be right.Richard Brittain wrote:If you really sought to understand, then you would understand.
- Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:39 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Who Gets Your Vote?
- Replies: 122
- Views: 10606
Re: Who Gets Your Vote?
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 ...
- Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:00 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Who Gets Your Vote?
- Replies: 122
- Views: 10606
Re: Who Gets Your Vote?
I wish I understood that.Richard Brittain wrote:Rosemary Roberts is just one small reason why the world is going to end soon. They all add up.
- Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:44 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Who Gets Your Vote?
- Replies: 122
- Views: 10606
Re: Who Gets Your Vote?
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...
- Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:23 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Dictionary Corner Guests for the new series
- Replies: 276
- Views: 32085
Re: Dictionary Corner Guests for the new series
Jon Corby wrote:She's on realty telly mostlyAnnieHall wrote:She's unknown to me- I don't watch any reality telly
- Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:33 am
- Forum: Countdown - Current recaps
- Topic: Wednesday 21st October 2009 (Series 61, Prelim 68)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2346
Re: Wednesday 21st October 2009 (Series 61, Prelim
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...
- Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:40 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: C4Cers in Other Media
- Replies: 166
- Views: 30203
Re: C4Cers in Other Media
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...
- Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:42 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Quiz Setting
- Replies: 83
- Views: 7971
Re: Quiz Setting
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.
- Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:04 am
- Forum: Games and Puzzles
- Topic: Quiz Setting
- Replies: 83
- Views: 7971
Re: Quiz Setting
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...
- Wed Oct 14, 2009 6:56 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Tuesday October 13th 2009
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2655
Re: Spoilers For Tuesday October 13th 2009
I thought so, too. Had she been to an audition for Batgirl?Sue Sanders wrote:It was odd - like she'd got her bra on the outside.
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:32 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday October 12th 2009
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2594
Re: Spoilers For Monday October 12th 2009
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...
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:48 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Monday October 12th 2009
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2594
Re: Spoilers For Monday October 12th 2009
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 ...
- Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:37 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: C4C T-shirt
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4827
Re: C4C T-shirt
I rather think breast pockets evolved independently, probably as an adjunct to the emergence of reading glasses.Phil Reynolds wrote:From an evolutionary point of view, I believe they're meant to.Rosemary Roberts wrote:No breast pockets at all! They're useless and they make tits look like arses.
- Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:51 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: C4C T-shirt
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4827
Re: C4C T-shirt
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 ...
- Fri Oct 09, 2009 2:23 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Dictionary Corner Guests for the new series
- Replies: 276
- Views: 32085
Re: Dictionary Corner Guests for the new series
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...
- Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:31 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Wednesday October 7th 2009
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2097
Re: Spoilers For Wednesday October 7th 2009
Bravo, Sue! I was hoping to be the first to post that.Sue Sanders wrote:Last numbers round
(9 x 8) + 7 = 79
79 x (9 - 4) = 395 - 1
- Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:20 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Tuesday October 6th 2009
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3383
Re: Spoilers For Tuesday October 6th 2009
For the first time ever my solution to the second numbers hasn't already been posted!
(75+25*(8-6))*7 - 7 = 868
(75+25*(8-6))*7 - 7 = 868
- Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:05 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 697293
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
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...
- Sun Oct 04, 2009 4:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Questions you've always wanted answered
- Replies: 1615
- Views: 697293
Re: Questions you've always wanted answered
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...
- Sun Oct 04, 2009 12:34 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71853
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
... 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...
- Sat Oct 03, 2009 2:14 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: What's the most spectacularly stupid thing you've ever done?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 7313
Re: What's the most spectacularly stupid thing you
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.Gavin Chipper wrote:Does it do any damage if you try and start a car with the handbrake on and it stalls?
- Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:11 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71853
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
In his case my money is on a wrist piece. He spends a lot of time with his hand up to his face.Kieran Child wrote:earpieces that people love to accuse mentalists of having.
- Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:04 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71853
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
Oh Jon! Now I don't believe anything you say!Jon Corby wrote:That does sound like fun.Kirk Bevins wrote:I had memorised pi up to 257 decimal places at A-level and it was fun to recite it.
- Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:30 am
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Tuesday September 29th 2009
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3646
Re: Spoilers For Tuesday September 29th 2009
Because the City Transport Director is worried about Countdown suffering from letter-wobble?Phil Reynolds wrote:They certainly are at the moment - they haven't been running through the city centre for at least six months.Rosemary Roberts wrote:Are trams that few and far between in Manchester?
- Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:14 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Tuesday September 29th 2009
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3646
Re: Spoilers For Tuesday September 29th 2009
Are trams that few and far between in Manchester?D Eadie wrote:The nodding camera was caused by a tram going past the studios.
- Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:34 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71853
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
The same technique was demonstrated brilliantly on The Brittas Empire by Chris Barrie (Whom God Preserve).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.
- Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:50 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers For Friday September 25th 2009
- Replies: 86
- Views: 8932
Re: Spoilers For Friday September 25th 2009
It would be an awful lot of commuting, though,Charlie Reams wrote:This works on Cambridge girls, I can assure you.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...."
- Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:25 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Short (or maybe long) absence
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2360
Re: Short (or maybe long) absence
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 ...
- Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:14 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Short (or maybe long) absence
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2360
Re: Short (or maybe long) absence
Julie, I think that's an an inherently self-contradictory expression on a par with "too much Mozart".Julie T wrote:very good deals ... Windows Vista
- Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:47 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: International Freedom in Education Day 15 Sep 2009
- Replies: 77
- Views: 9830
Re: International Freedom in Education Day 15 Sep
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...
- Sun Sep 20, 2009 2:07 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: International Freedom in Education Day 15 Sep 2009
- Replies: 77
- Views: 9830
Re: International Freedom in Education Day 15 Sep
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.Martin Smith wrote: if it truly does work, inequality only increases.
- Sat Sep 19, 2009 3:58 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71853
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
Matthew Green wrote:Being a fucking lazy twat
I found myself looking for an anagram thereSue Sanders wrote:maybe 'being legs disabled' ?
- Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:02 pm
- Forum: Countdown - General
- Topic: Countdown Petitions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2561
Re: Countdown Petitions
Could they license them to Challenge?D Eadie wrote:ITV cant show repeats of Countdown.
Re: Religion
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...
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:46 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71853
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
I wish. Crap maths in = Crap maths out. It won't teach anybody anything.Kevin Thurlow wrote:This must do something for numeracy in the country.
- Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:54 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71853
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
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...
- Thu Sep 10, 2009 8:03 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71853
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
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...
- Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:22 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71853
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
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...
- Wed Sep 09, 2009 11:22 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71853
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
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 ...
- Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:56 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Derren Brown - The Events
- Replies: 584
- Views: 71853
Re: Derren Brown - The Events
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...
- Mon Sep 07, 2009 5:59 pm
- Forum: Countdown - Spoilers
- Topic: Spoilers for Thurday 3rd September
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3363
Re: Spoilers for Thurday 3rd September
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...
- Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:53 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Tell us something surprising about yourself
- Replies: 64
- Views: 7393
Re: Tell us something surprising about yourself
For several years we kept a colony of guineapigs running wild in our garden.
- Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:21 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: See for see
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2968
Re: See for see
That really IS innovative!Sue Sanders wrote: they must have arranged that behind my back.
- Fri Sep 04, 2009 8:41 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: See for see
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2968
Re: See for see
We can none of us afford to be complacent, Sue: when was the last time they did anything innovative?Sue Sanders wrote:Hmmm. No-one's ever refered to my norks as a 'tedious couple' before
- Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:46 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Favourite Platonic Solid
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4377
Re: Favourite Platonic Solid
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 ...
- Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:27 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Favourite Platonic Solid
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4377
Re: Favourite Platonic Solid
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...
- Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:08 pm
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Favourite Platonic Solid
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4377
Re: Favourite Platonic Solid
Is this something to do with the naughty step we hear so much about? Are toddlers supposed to study solid geometry now?JackHurst wrote:How did you do when you sat the step Charlie?