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Gavin Chipper

Corby wrote:What in Christ's name does all that mean?

Freeroll - have a shit at no cost.

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Corby wrote:If we do that, can we simply call the subforum "AIDS" please?

Can Sir.

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dinos_the_chemist wrote:There was a young girl named Maddie
with a neglectful mummy and daddy.
Despite what they said
Lets face it. She's dead.
Raped by a Portuguese baddie.

I have to admit I laughed at that - it was the word "baddie" that did it.

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Joseph Bolas wrote:I must be the only one who hates UK football . Unfortunately though people keep asking me am I red or blue, when they meet me for the first time .

I remember at school, the first question anyone would ask when meeting you for the first time would be "Who do you support?" Cunts.

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Corby wrote:
M. George Quinn wrote:You can say anything in a limerick. Them's the rules.
Really? Cool...

"An Austrian father named Fritzl,
..."

Thought it would be good if his kids all,
Had sex before luncheon,
With him in the dungeon,
And comatose one when he hits all.

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Richard Brittain wrote:10. Who did Chris Eubank lose his unbeaten professional boxing record to?

Adolf Hitler?

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Bah, music players are much of a muchness - it's all about writing the music.

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What was the question that knocked Chris Wills out?

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Bad news, everyone! I sent my joke in to the Countdown crew and I got a failure delivery. Does anyone know what is wrong with Channel 4's account and how it can be fixed? I wouldn't worry about it. I've put your name down in the other thread, so you can deliver your offerings in person. (There's no...

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Ben Wilson wrote:Bornald, is that you?

You once accused Bornald of being me!

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Jason Larsen.

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Jason Larsen wrote:Whose initials are HFW?

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

By the way, all celebrity chefs should be killed off as they have a most pointless existence.

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Ben Wilson wrote:On a multiplayer game your arse would be mine on the sponge. :p

But you'd never touch my record laps. Do you have any records available for comparison?

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David Williams wrote:Interested to know what people mean by "support". In my book it means a bit more than feeling pleased when they win. I've been to between forty and fifty Liverpool games a year for the last forty years.

David

That sounds more like religious worship.

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dinos_the_chemist wrote:I managed 1:41.893 using Wario standard kart and boosting over the ramp on each lap. Would help if I knew how to do a starting boost.

But can any of you beat my lap times on Super Monaco GP on the Game Gear? Or Micro Machines 2 and 96 on the Mega Drive? I think not.

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Why would I care about a bunch of 11 players completely unconnected with me? Also, those players could all end up at another team, and I wouldn't support them, even though it could be exactly the same bunch of players. What is it about a football team - the name, the ground, what?

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Charlie Reams wrote:I will look into that. As its the same small number of users making the pointless posts you mention, the "Foes and Friends" feature works fairly well for me already.

I hope I'm not considered one of these!

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Damian E wrote:Not sure about the bit about sorted by highest scores in the event of a tie either. Has it ever happened??

Ben Wilson tied with Phil Wass on points.

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Hmmm - i'd forgotten about that. It was ridiculous IMO to have a No.1 seed with 7 wins and No.2 seed with 8 wins - bonkers in fact. I can't remember who changed it and how it came about. Mark and Michael governed over the rules in those days and were obviously happy with the set-up, so i can only p...

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Corby wrote:If he'd been suggesting that points For & Against should be taken into account, then he'd have more of a case.

I think that sounds even worse. You can't always stop someone scoring the same as you in a round.

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But what would've then happened in the situation with Matt Coates and Tony Durrant as both players got the same total when you added there losing score too. Say this week was the last week before finals and noone knocked Matt off #8 seed, what would happen in that situation? You mean what happens i...

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Jason Larsen wrote:Gavin:

There is no video of the episode in which Gordon Brown appeared as a guest on Countdown on that website.

Jason:

There is a picture of the numbers game in question.

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Jason Larsen wrote:The people whose relatives may someday appear on Countdown.

What has anyone said to give you that impression? No cryptic answers!!!

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Jason Larsen wrote:Are some of you saying that some people don't even care if their relatives were on Countdown?

Which people give that impression to you?

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Jason Larsen wrote:What link, Gavin?

In the first post of the thread.

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Imagine that there is a player (A) who was won 4 games with great scores and during these 4 games, they have had a brilliant performance throughout each game. Then something happens and on their 5th game, they have a poor performance and they lose, but they have made it to #8 on the seed table with...

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Of course I wouldn't fail, I would succeed. I would succeed to tell you that my birthday is on the first day of Fall 1986. Whose 1986th fall occurred on the day of your birth? Other than that, what date was it on? Perhaps you could tell us in a more cryptic way by telling us which season it was in ...

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Jason Larsen wrote:I am ready to admit to you all right now that I don't remember ever seeing a game like that!

Click on the link and you can see it for yourself.

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Corby wrote:Am I the only one who can't see the sense at all in this?

Me wrote:I think it makes sense that for equal wins, you look at al the data you have (i.e. all games) for the most representative seeding.

Way before you came on the scene, sunshine.

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rayfolwell wrote:Alternatively (3x3+4)x25 + 6x2

I did that one.

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jimbentley wrote:I did ((100 + 50) x 3) - 25 - 10, which seemed really obvious and straightforward, so I was surprised when neither contestant got it, then even more surprised when Carol came out with her convoluted method in the end.

Ditto.

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Gevin-Gavin wrote:Yes, and we all remember well that numbers game with six ones with a target of six.

I also remember this game well because I was closer to the target than the contestants - 7 points in the bag!

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Jason Larsen wrote:No, quiz machines.

I heard of Countdown on a forum about pubs. I used to think Countdown was the same as Closedown in the schedules until then.

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Joseph Bolas wrote: This data though is going by Facebook Countdown games (which this topic is about) so I still thought it was a little subjective.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.

You quoted a whole post, not just a word. I'm guessing "games". Close?

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Corby wrote:I realise this adds nothing.

Charlie said that about a post he made in the Scrabble thread. Is there a new police force on the forum you're all worried about?

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Jason Larsen wrote:What?

Yes, and we all remember well that numbers game with six ones with a target of six.

Do you think Farrah Fawcett will make an appearance on Countdown one of these days?

Apparently his/her audition went really badly, so no.

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dinos_the_chemist wrote:I don't see why he wasnt allowed the points, when he thought he'd lost it, then rembered a couple of seconds later to add the 50.

Didn't Carol basically tell him he should add the 50?

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Charlie Reams wrote:Okay, I realise I am not contributing anything constructive to this thread.

Get out before the admin guy finds out. He won't be happy.

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Has anyone asked for a worse one after getting an E or some other common letter? Maybe if they got an M they could ask for one of similar quality.

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Jason Larsen wrote:Howard can be a first or a last name, yes.

And Jason. Would your parents still have called you Jason if that had been your surname? I don't want a guess; I want you to go and ask them.

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Jason Larsen wrote:That was true, Kirk. Gordon Brown did appear on the 25th-birthday episode of Countdown.

Don't you remember?

Yes, and we all remember well that numbers game with six ones with a target of six.

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Jason Larsen wrote:Had I not been here, I would have never heard of them, Charlie.

You heard of pubs from a Countdown forum?!

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I've seen discussions about this on F1 forums as well, and it seems that some people equate casual viewers with retards. That's a bit far isn't it? It's nothing to do with intelligence if people don't watch every day they probably don't understand the system. As you correctly point out, I don't wat...

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Is it right for Susie to pronounce on the acceptability of a word before contestant 2 has offered anything? It struck me today, when C1 offered GONNERS, and was told that there was only one n in gonners, that C2 now had the chance to offer a different word. Suppose that he had GONNERS and CONGERS a...

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I think Damian's alluded to this so I thought I might bring it up. How much does the average viewer know about Countdown? I mean do they understand about points and wins and seedings and stuff like that? I'm not really sure, I think a lot of people just think that the winner stays on and then when ...

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Yes they do get added. Damn. JaCu told me they got added, but I didn't want to believe him :lol:. But why is this. Surely it should only be the games that a contestant actually wins, that you get the points for. Does it really matter that much either way? Number of wins always takes precedence anyw...

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Joseph Bolas wrote:I take it then you don't like 3D charts?

The golden rule - have no more faff than necessary.

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I happened to notice the the final score of 66-71 came up on screen - I think during Susie's talk at the end of the second half. Is this normal (I don't watch it that much now)? So is it not all shown in the order it's filmed?

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Maybe you could have an initial post with just a dot in it, all discussion goes after it, and then the first post is edited to become the recap. Obviously this would have the problem that someone would always need to remember to do the dot post (presumably the person doing the recap as well).

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Isn't there a difference between stressing a rather obvious correlation and providing a set of stats that allow the surfer to draw their own correlations: personally, I think there is no contradiction. Not a contradiction as such, but if I wasn't interested in the meaning behind scores, I certainly...

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Charlie Reams wrote:But for the record I agree that the correlation is not very interesting.

I find it interesting that you would say this, given your website with all the ranking lists based on total scores and percentage of highest possible score etc.

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Urp, that would really annoy me. For a start you'd end up seeing the DC beaters on the way down to the recap. The benefit of being able to read old posts is minimal, since I doubt there's much need to refer to old spoiler threads and there's a Search box on every page if you really need it. Well, i...

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I have to admit that now this forum has been around a while, the more I think that the "spoiler" and "recap" threads for each game would be better off being the same - i.e. the two subforums could become one. People discuss the game in both anyway, and if I'm looking for an old p...

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I think the point that Damian, Charlie and Ben are trying to make is that stating there is a correlation between high scores and skill (I am an exception) is so obvious it's not even worth stating. Well Damian seems to respond by disagreeing with the obvious point. Obviously you're not an exception...

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Ben Pugh wrote:
Gevin-Gavin wrote:The point is that there is a positive correlation between high scores and skill.
Revolutionary.

You know, I think I've seen the same thing in football and rugby and cricket and basketball and golf and...

I'm not sure Damian agrees with the point. The point wasn't made out of the blue.

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Yeah, but plenty of series have had more than one 800 octochamp, so therefore plenty of 800 octochamps have not won the series. You can argue it both ways. The point is that there is a positive correlation between high scores and skill. We can argue about how strong the correlation is, but it is un...

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Jason Larsen wrote:Adolf Hitler has been dead for a long time.

You mean the fight took place a long time ago and it was to the death?

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Richard Brittain wrote:creating a general balance between all of our moods?

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Richard Brittain wrote:What does sense have to do with fighting?

Well if Hitler goes in fast and early then he might wear himself out. Eubank would be sensibly sitting back, absorbing the punches and then would go in for the kill in a later round.

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Yep. Although there seems to be an implicit exception for participle adjectives like PISSED, because you presumably can't have PISSEDER/PISSEDEST, although I'm not sure if this rule has ever been tested. Is this just something assumed by people who discuss online? I think they should be allowed for...

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