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Mark James

How amazing have the play-offs been so far? Answers on a scale of 1-6 please, where 1 is "yes" and 6 "is" strongly disagree. Can I not just say Yes without faffing about with numbers? Amazing game last night. Unfortunately I didn't get to watch it live as I went to the bloody Eu...

Mark James

Actually this probably isn't a very good idea but how about a variant where the letters that weren't used to make the winning word carry over to the next round?

Mark James

Also, is it just me or does anyone else really hate the word clubbing? I kind of have a queasy reaction to it every time it is either used by me or someone else. Every time I hear someone talk about 'going clubbing' I have to fight the urge to make a 'seal clubbing' joke. I am well aware it is an e...

Mark James

Peter Mabey wrote:The Portuguese POUSADAS beats DC'S Spanish POSADAS

I just said that.

Mark James

How did dictionary corner not spot that you can put the U in posadas for pousadas? Also the way Rachel wrote out Tom's solution would have got you 427.

Mark James

I could get over the wobbly table with one quick flick and jump up the circular things, which reminded me of rollos, with just one jump. I was always over zealous with the final catapult though and would frequently miss the bell. I much preferred the game Aaaaaaagh and its vertical relation Yeaaargh...

Mark James

Dinos Sfyris wrote:
Mark James wrote:Then, all of a sudden, Matt's in my house playing Scerwball Scamble
I absolutely loved this game as a kid!

Did you used to cheat by taking the top off the blind maze like Matt was doing in my dream? Don't worry though, I made him put it back on.

Mark James

Andy, on what planet are Jedward good looking? I've never heard anyone say that about them. They're supposed to be 19, they look about 12. Also I can't help but think of Paul from Tekken when I see them. Ah c'mon, they're hardly ugly in fairness. I mean, I bet if you were that way inclined you Jedw...

Mark James

Andy, on what planet are Jedward good looking? I've never heard anyone say that about them. They're supposed to be 19, they look about 12. Also I can't help but think of Paul from Tekken when I see them.

Mark James

Eoin, are you getting "You Can't vote for the UK" or "You can't vote for Ireland", to settle this debate once and for all. Can't vote for Ireland, I'm watching on RTE One. But I can vote through BBC If you have BBC why are you watching it on RTE? Graham Norton is a pretty good h...

Mark James

Italy 2nd? What? It was worse than Moldova's effort. Although I suppose it sounded Italian at least. I think it would be great if, one year, every country had to have an example of traditional ethnic music from their own country. I heard a traditional Croatian wedding band once who were unbelievable...

Mark James

I'm surprisingly enjoying tonight's show. Most of the songs have been tolerable. Switzerland is probably my favourite, had it been an instrumental piece I definitely would say it was as your woman nearly ruined it but I also liked Germany's entry. And fair play to Jedward. Completely talentless but ...

Mark James

Michael Wallace wrote: I was just interested in what it is you think counts towards who wins the ESC if "the songs are irrelevant".

I'll retract the statement so.

Mark James

I guess it depends on your definition of what a good song is. For me the last good song to win the eurovision was that Irish entrant Rock and Roll Kids. Every song I've heard since is basically some soppy Mariah Carey inspired ballad or cheesy europop reminiscent of the crap from the nineties. Lord...

Mark James

Probably. The problem I have with it is the name. It says song contest. The songs are irrelevant these days. If it was called the eurovision cabaret act contest or something I wouldn't have a problem with it. I don't really agree that "the songs are irrelevant". Having a memorable perform...

Mark James

Had a dream Matt Morrison had stolen some guys guns and then they started to bet over whether Matt would ever use them. Ryan Taylor was supposed to witness the bet but had run off. Then, all of a sudden, Matt's in my house playing Scerwball Scamble while I'm flicking around the channels on the tv. W...

Mark James

It wasn't quite a misheard lyric more of a reinterpretation but there was an ad on Irish radio for a band's up coming gig sung to the tune of Motorhead's "The Ace of Spades" telling us the gig would be on on the "8th of May". Made me laugh anyway.

Mark James

It bugs me how many acts are miming instrument playing. Am I taking this too seriously? Probably. The problem I have with it is the name. It says song contest. The songs are irrelevant these days. If it was called the eurovision cabaret act contest or something I wouldn't have a problem with it. Th...

Mark James

On Eiffel 65's Blue it sounds like he's saying "I'm blue, I'm in need of a diet, I'm in need of a guy, I'm in need of a diet".

Mark James

Oliver Garner wrote:
Karen Pearson wrote: United Kingdom. We enter Eurovision as the United Kingdom!
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Exactly Eoin, support your team!

Yeah Eoin, and please remove yourself from the Irish section on pro ranks and join the Northern Ireland section so I can move up a spot you bloody Fenian.

Mark James

Any chance of some new guests in dictionary corner?

Mark James

Myself and and some friends were in Amsterdam and my friends bought some porn (I didn't as, as has been mentioned, you can get it for free). We were sitting out in Amsterdam square completely baked and when we headed off my friend left his bag with his porn and a bag of mushrooms behind. When we wen...

Mark James

Ryan Taylor wrote:Has anyone on this forum ever thought of going into politics? There are definitely a few who I think would be good politicians.

Rhys Benjamin wrote:Me

I think Billy Connolly said it best when he said the desire to become a politician should automatically exclude you from ever becoming one.

Mark James

That Javier Hernandez was pretty good today.

Mark James

My favourite present to both give and receive for any occasion is cash. Just put it in a nice card.

Mark James

Oliver Garner wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Ju8-AzH6I
This is awesome support

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEz5GfZUnBU&feature=aso

Here's another awesome supporter. I'd like to point out though that St. Patrick's Athletic don't wear green and white. That would be The Scum, I mean Shamrock Rovers.

Mark James

In Ireland we had two referendums, one was for the Nice Treaty and the other for the European Constitution. Unfortunately we didn't vote the way the government wanted so we had to have them again. Democracy is a side show to give people the illusion of choice.

Mark James

I thought the line "you know I like to keep my cheeks dry today" in Blind Melon's no rain was "you know I like to keep my cheating strategy". Also in the Clash's Rock the Casbah I used to think Sharlene didn't like it.

Mark James

To a degree yes it's preaching to the converted. I do still think some of it would filter through to people down the line, and perhaps on other things like 'psychics' where there's quite a big crossover - they seem to be pretty popular over here. Hopefully. As I said they seem to have had an effect...

Mark James

Derren Brown: Miracles for Sale on now (Channel 4). It's about faith-healing. Is it any good? Yea I feel much better. Shame the audience at the end was so small (wish they'd have shown the black guy more as the final speech was being read out - would have been hilarious), the program was quite hard...

Mark James

I'd have much rather had three packets of malteasers. If you love them so much then why can't you spell it! :shock: I agree that there should be separate eggs for revels and minstrels though. The egg was very nice itself though. Ooops. Probably too busy eating them to care how they're spelled. Coul...

Mark James

Soph K wrote:Boggle rocks

I'd say they're more like cubes.

Mark James

I'm 29 and got two myself. A Malteasers one like Ryan and a Cadbury's Twirl which had the make your own cardboard spinny thing on the box. My Dad is in his sixties and he got two which fucks up the numbers even more. His ones were a Cadbury's Roses and Flake. The flake one had the word search on it....

Mark James

do Eggheads or The Chase struggle to get contestants because they'll have to play against the Eggheads and the chaser? Er, II doubt Countdown would struggle for contestants if they were offering even the chance of winning £££... Good point. They should do a version of Countdown for money where you ...

Mark James

It's too bad Damo's not on here much any more. I'd like some official response to these allegations (that's probably too strong a word). If there's any truth to them I would be disappointed. It would be akin to the FA not letting people who train a lot to be footballers. I can sort of see the argume...

Mark James

How many did you get? What's your favourite? Why do some have activities on the box such as word searches and a make your own cardboard spinny thing? Since when has chocolate not been able to sell by itself? And just what the hell has it all got to do with Jesus anyway? Here's your chance to discuss...

Mark James

At a live countdown event Kai has beaten or is beating Kirk. Kirk is blaming it on being distracted by a guy who does tricks with hats, you know rolling it up his arm on to his head and such like. Despite being upset at losing Kirk was well impressed by the guy's skill and was totally transfixed. It...

Mark James

Rhys Benjamin wrote:Has ANYONE read the scoring request yet^?

Yes, It's awful. All it would do is give me another reason not to play spoilage.

Mark James

And I read every thread when I have some assignments to do. Ideally Charlie should ban me from c4c and apterous and facebook (I'm sure he has the power) so that I actually do write something. Been sat in this chair finding other things to do for about 6 days now and no words have been written. Some...

Mark James

Rhys Benjamin wrote:
Soph K wrote:
Rhys Benjamin wrote:Have we ever had a duel in Spoilage?
i think so
No we haven't.

If you knew the answer why did you ask? That's really annoying. When I was in school someone asked me what class did we have next. I said "not sure, english I think" and then he said "no, its maths". wtf!

Mark James

On Apterous, when there's a teaser and I get it then after me, someone else gets it, it doesn't say that that person got it except when it says " 'a number' people got it. 'A player' was the first at 'some seconds'. The answer was 'a word'. " but even then, it only ever tells you how many...

Mark James

I went to Trinity College Dublin. But only to see the Book of Kells. And it was closed that day.

Mark James

I'd just like to say how awesome Portal 2 is. Even though it's slightly easier than the first one (so far anyway, I've not finished it yet but I'm up to chapter six and it's probably only that bit easier as I've played the first one and understand the mechanics of it.) and the load screen after ever...

Mark James

Shall see if I can manage any of it unless Portal 2 proves too distracting 8-) Also, I'd never heard of this but it looks pretty cool. I don't have a PS2 or Xbox or anything though :( :o Scandalous. There's a PC version too (you can probably pick up the original Portal super cheap now), but I've ne...

Mark James

Adam Gillard wrote:(This is support for the "practice makes perfect"-style theory).

My Dad likes to say practice makes permanent not perfect. If you practice something the wrong way you'll only become proficient at doing it the wrong way.

Mark James

Dan McColm wrote:Am I the only one who thought the challenger looked a lot like Chris Davies?

No.

Mark James

I hate quizzes with wrong answers. I was at one with a true or false round and the question was, "No one can lick their own elbow, true or false"? They said it was true yet the night before I had watched someone lick their own elbow on that Frank Skinner show. Then there was a who wants to...

Mark James

By the way, only Bob noticed that I hadn't clued the WHEEL part of ROULETTE WHEEL unless you were all just too chicken to tell me I'd made yet another booboo? Either way, the fact that you still managed to do it all with some dodgy clues means you are all cleverer than you ever imagined! :D I just ...

Mark James

Shit's gonna really hit the fan when Sophie gets involved in trying to pronounce James's surname. What are you on about? I think this is how to pronounce james's surname: na-goo-yan I'm pretty sure it's pronounced "nwang" so the joke revolved around "wang" being slang for penis,...

Mark James

Charlie Reams wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:Should ECTOPLASM be removed as a conundrum (because of COMPLEATS)?
Fixed, ty.

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.

Mark James

Gavin Chipper wrote:It's best just not to give a shit about your rating. It's very liberating.

Agreed. Now I've gotten used to the new interface and organising the players list in match quality rather than ratings I barely notice the ratings. It's still nice to move up places on pro ranks though.

Mark James

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh. Fuck you UCD, the baldy cunt referee and Danny fucking North. You've all ruined my Friday night.

Mark James

Not only did dictionary corner not add the S to ACETIC, they failed to realise that ACETIC isn't even allowed.

Mark James

In Canada and I think in the States too they add the tax on when you get to the counter so the price it says on the thing isn't the price you end up paying. It's really annoying. I'm fine by the way. Just had my teeth cleaned by the dentist so now they're all lovely and not as brown as they had been.

Mark James

TOROID for dictionary corner beater.

Mark James

Cheers Ryan. I'm determined to finish at least one of these. The clues anyway, not worried so much about the link.

Mark James

Agreed. It's ridiculous that the head to head is best of three rather than first to three, like in the first series, when they could easily make time for it. Also, there should be an individual prize for getting a pointless answer as well as adding to the jackpot. Finally, despite the show being ca...

Mark James

No idea why, unless maybe it's for the benefit of viewers who switch on during the round and are too thick to work out what the question is. Given how often they explain the rules and what the topic of the round is etc. etc. I think it's just that they don't expect much of their audience. I'd quite...

Mark James

Anyone else spot the continuity error on today's show. While Alexander was asking the first guy what volcano he was gonna pick you could see 22 on both the screen behind and the contestant's podium. My mam, who hadn't spotted this, thinks she's psychic so I let on that it must run in the family and ...

Mark James

50/25=2, 75-2=73, 73x(7+1)=584, 584-6=578

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