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Jennifer Steadman

Still think in Kent and Essex Ukip will get half a dozen seats How come? Theresa May's basically gone in the direction with Brexit that UKIP wanted, hasn't she? I'm not really sure what UKIP have to offer now, especially not in counties that are largely made up of Tory strongholds. Possibly means n...

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8th June. The big questions: - Gev For Braintree 2: Electric Boogaloo? - How big will the Tory landslide be? - Lib Dem surge? (South-west results will be interesting) - UKIP collapse? - Labour collapse? - How much will the 'left' split between Labour/Lib Dems? How many seats will the Tories take off...

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Can't be bothered to check the names of the stadiums for the following teams as all are less than 3 times: Bromley East Thurrock United Hayes Lane (Bromley)... Rookery Hill (East Thurrock United) there you go xoxo (Yay for more Ryman representation though. Aveley!! That's a name I've not heard in a...

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Fuck, I completely forgot about Wembley

Idiot. Another one for my list.

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Ben Wilson wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:46 pm You missed one.

Not sure I can count going to the car park of the ground

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I think I've been to 18 different grounds to see games (5 league grounds, 13 non-league grounds) and 2 as a tourist (national stadiums in Kosovo and Macedonia). Considering I've been going to watch football for the last decade, that's not a lot. I imagine some people here will have lost count of the...

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Fresh Meat - Series 1 just about bearable, Series 2 pretty good, Series 3 shit. Most of the characters are annoying as fuck with no redeeming qualities, but I did enjoy JD's dialogue. Freaks and Geeks - Wildly overrated. I enjoyed it towards the end (the episode where it turns out that Cindy is a ba...

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People who say "Thanking you" instead of "Thank you".

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Not Countdown related, but thought this might be enjoyed anyway. Had a dream where I was quite insistent that my gender identity was a sunflower, and I was in a relationship with Noel Edmonds that seemed to consist of me having sex with other people in the back of his taxi and occasionally stroking...

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First room = filled. 30 spaces left. With over 2 months to go, it genuinely looks like this could 'sell out' - so if you don't want to miss out on a place, please don't procrastinate on signing up!

edit: .....*29 spaces left
edit 2: ........*28 spaces left

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The Hayfield house (several times) Maus' student digs Mark Murray Feel like I surely must have some others by now, but really can't think of any. A damning indictment of the wheelchair-unfriendly disablist homes in the Countdown community. You'd struggle to find somewhere more disablist than Tom's ...

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Economist columnist suggests making Manchester the administrative capital of the UK. Really interesting piece. Any thoughts?

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Jennifer Steadman wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2016 11:23 pm- People complain about our contribution to the EU, but what we receive back in funding has stimulated the economies of some of the poorest parts of the UK, (especially Cornwall)

turkey votes for Christmas?

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Now been to the cinema 3 times in the last month, having not gone at all in the previous year.

Lego Batman - Arnett's voice <3 Entertaining superhero rework. 7/10
Hidden Figures - THIS WAS SO, SO EXCELLENT. 9/10

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I should win this... Lauren Hamer (family home) Andy Platt (former residence) Ed McCullagh x2 (former & current residence) Dan McColm (family home) Lauren Hamer & Matt Bayfield Mark Deeks (family home & current residence) Callum Todd Mark Murray Matty Artell (student accommodation) Soph...

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In addition to the 10 Countmandments : GENERAL - Once you're at a 1600 rating on Apterous, stop playing Prune and start playing Prime. And then play humans occasionally so you remember that they miss gettable stuff. - A higher-rated mentor or even just a motivation buddy can be really helpful if som...

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please ensure that you use your real name Mark Zuckerberg has a lot to answer for. (I miss pre-facebook internet and its norms...) But having said that, it brings joy to my heart that the most active user here is called Gavin Chipper! :D Yeah, unfortunately for your crusade to prove how evil the mo...

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30 entries so far! There's room for 72 of you - if you know you're going, why wait to sign up?

xoxo

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Sophie & Joseph Krol This one is the standout from your list. Anecdote please... I was staying at Tom's for CoLeeds last year and we had a few bevvies, some at Bradford Spoons and some at Bingley Spoons. We were trying to convince Sophie to come on the razz with us in Bingley Spoons but she got...

Jennifer Steadman

Wow. That poll is brutal. Interestingly differs significantly from my findings - I did a survey about a year ago which received 43 responses - 53.5% in favour of Lincoln and 46.5% in favour of Bristol. 53.5% is an overwhelming majority these days. All events should henceforth be Lincoln style.

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I should win this... Lauren Hamer (family home) Andy Platt (former residence) Ed McCullagh x2 (former residences) Dan McColm (family home) Lauren Hamer & Matt Bayfield Mark Deeks x3 (family home, former residence, current residence although he didn't live there at the time?? does that count??) C...

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PARENTS' HOUSE
Mark Deeks
Ed McCullagh (also at uni)
Dan McColm
Callum Todd
Zarte Siempre

TW HOUSE 1
Matty Artell
Conor Travers
Big Steve Anderson

TW HOUSE 2
Callum Todd
Maus
Giles Hutchings

TW HOUSE 3
Giles Hutchings
Maus
Big Steve Anderson

Jennifer Steadman

I assume that Friday night pub meet-ups before Co-events come under the 'Co-event' umbrella and so does staying at someone's house for a Co-event? In a vague chronological order: 1. Mark Deeks (First Countdowner I met! Various, including the first time at Tonbridge Angels v Bromley on New Year's Day...

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The last few months has been pretty insane for politics (particularly in the USA), but this manifesto (by a Stoke by-election candidate who has been arrested for it) is probably the most insane thing I've ever read . That's pretty amazing. Not decided what my favourite bit is yet. Probably either t...

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The last few months has been pretty insane for politics (particularly in the USA), but this manifesto (by a Stoke by-election candidate who has been arrested for it) is probably the most insane thing I've ever read.

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Last night dreamt about CO:LON (being held in my primary school hall). Adam Gillard started dramatically announcing the finalists, which annoyed me because it was my event, and declared that Mark Deeks was in the final with 6 wins and 60 points in each game. (Mark looked grudgingly pleased about thi...

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Forgot to post that the standings after Lincoln are available on the website ! See the current top 8 and have a look at the full standings spreadsheet. There's just over a week until Countdown in Bristol (18th February) - to confirm your buffet lunch, sign up by Monday! And don't forget our Northern...

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The state of this subforum

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If I have time and can be arsed, I'll make/devour one of: - eggs and chopped tomatoes with chorizo and chilli flakes - Lebanese scrambled eggs (with cumin and chilli) - fried eggs with pitta bread and onions (Massively craving eggs atm.) If I can be super arsed, Eggs Benedict, although poaching eggs...

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Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2017 9:03 pm She has no idea who won. I'm fairly sure Mark (here) or Phil (most likely via tweet) will remember more!

Mark definitely didn't remember and I don't think Phil did either.

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Mary Tyler Moore's croaked it. One off Jim's list.

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Done this with crying, but not pissing.

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Mark Deeks wrote: ↑Tue Jan 24, 2017 2:33 pmDid someone not at one point have a standardised set of decks made?

Dandy McPlatt had some made for CoLeam but I think that had a slightly 'kinder' distribution than on the show, and Callum made some for CoLeeds which I think followed the show's distribution. (I'll be doing the same for London.)

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La La Land - Beautifully shot, funnier than expected. 8/10 Yeah, best film I've seen this year so far. The directors previous film Whiplash was great too I liked Whiplash, but didn't love it. JK Simmons is pretty awesome in everything I've seen him in though. Going to try and watch 52 new films thi...

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La La Land - Beautifully shot, funnier than expected. 8/10

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Capacity for the definitely-booked room is 42; capacity for the potential second room is 30. Potential capacity of 72... but only if there's sufficient interest. I've got a month to make the decision about booking the second room. Let me know if you're interested, even if you're not sure yet if you ...

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Matt Morrison wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2017 12:45 pm guys, all you need to do is refresh. if normal refresh doesn't work then hard refresh (CTRL-F5) - it's just the CSS is cached.

How do you do this on a) a phone and b) a Mac?

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Ian Volante wrote:What platform?

PC.

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Installed an emulator just so I could play this absolute gem from the past: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/StvRLx3TZG8/maxresdefault.jpg Once I remembered how to play it, I completed the game fairly quickly, but STILL. Everything about it brings back really happy nostalgic memories of playing it on my grand...

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Gavin Chipper wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:the affair dancer thing
Right. I suppose Jen's so into her celebrity gossip that she would just assume everyone would know about this stuff.

Or maybe everyone does know about this stuff except you. (Seriously though, it's pretty common knowledge.)

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Also, most Indian restaurants just have crappy ice-cream puddings, but occasionally some do proper puddings like gulab jamun . And they're pretty good. I've never had them, but gulab jamun is in one of the cookbooks I got for Christmas! Bring a kitchen and all the necessary ingredients and tools to...

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Hello All, New to here. Been on Apterous a few months. Passed a CD audition in October. I am a teacher in Ireland though and my (amazing, but) inflexible holidays mean I have no idea when I'll be filming. None of my available dates up to the end of the Summer suit, so it could be a long time before...

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Oh yeah, I forgot to do this. Other people already snapped up a lot of the obvious ones so I've edited my original list. 1. Queen Elizabeth II (90) 2. Tiffany Trump (23) - of all the Trump kids, she seems to be the one he cares least about and probably has the least amount of security, so I can tota...

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I basically like all puddings that I can think of, except for stuff with crunchy meringues in or fruit salad (really boring and definitely not a real pudding). Favourites are generally homemade: my mum's chocolate/cherry trifle that we get every year at Christmas; salted caramel chocolate torte; cho...

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I have started playing scrabble on the MSA website/app and it is much better than EA in my honest opinion. It got me wondering why an app couldn't be developed for apterous or a simple countdown related game. I vaguely remember asking Charlie back in the day and I think at the time it couldn't be d...

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Don't really like sweets. I'll eat some of them if they're there but would never actively seek them myself. Used to eat an ungodly amount of sherbet on the way to school when I was 11, until my train 'buddies' staged an intervention and banned me from having any - I can't really face it since then. ...

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Heather Styles wrote:Either way, the Old China Hand (the after pub for Comultilon) is very near the venue and has ping pong, darts and board games. Just a thought.

Oh yeah, I remember it. Will bear that in mind, cheers!

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We've got some updates... - We're launching an initiative for 2017 called Bring A Buddy, to encourage attendees to bring along brand new players - be it their other half, their friends, family, work colleagues, total strangers... Basically, as long as that person/those people mention that you referr...

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Jennifer Steadman wrote:At the moment, I'm going to tentatively say it's 45.

1/3 full now... If you definitely want to be there and will definitely be free that day, sign up now to avoid disappointment later!

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What does it have out of the usual Co-event joys; quiz machine, pool table, darts board? From memory it has none, although I could be wrong. Ideally I would've loved to have had those things, but London is hideous for finding a good, affordable venue. I looked for several months for a viable venue ...

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You might have said somewhere already, but is there a specific cap on numbers? I have not. At the moment, I'm going to tentatively say it's 45. (So, like, it's over a quarter full already.) But I'm looking into the possibility of hiring their smaller second room as well to fit another 15-20 in. I d...

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Amazing response so far... 12 sign-ups in 3 days! People are keen, so if you're sure you're coming, don't delay - pay up sooner rather than later to ensure you don't miss out on the fun. You can be refunded at a later date if something even more pressing crops up. (It won't.)

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-WHAT?- With more than 70 Co-events under the community’s belt, you may have thought you’d seen and done everything… until now. Prepare for glitter, tiaras, #FashionWatch2k17 and aubergine emojis. And that’s just on me. But for those of you with a less glittery constitution, fear not: all the normal...

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Anyone see about that hoax that the Queen had died last night? I'm holding off posting my list until 2017. Would've felt well smug for holding back if she'd croaked it before the end of the year.

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My farts aren't generally that smelly. I think the vegetarian thing is a myth. And before you say it, so is the thing about not being able to smell your own farts. I imagine it must be really uncomfortable holding in your farts. Also I can't imagine they are all hold-in-able anyway. People fart in ...

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I'm going add people that think holding in a fart is even a thing. Is it even doable? It's never occurred to me to try. Because I'm not a fucking maniac. Not sure if I trust you less for the fact that you claim you've never had to hold one in (genuinely unbelievable) or of the fact that, if somehow...

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I'm going add people that think holding in a fart is even a thing. Is it even doable? It's never occurred to me to try. Because I'm not a fucking maniac. Not sure if I trust you less for the fact that you claim you've never had to hold one in (genuinely unbelievable) or of the fact that, if somehow...

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The bikini thing isn't something that I necessarily remember her for, but it's something that a lot of people have talked about over the years, so it's something I'm more aware of because of that. So it's a big part of her fame for people who aren't Star Wars geeks, and it's your wide-ranging fame ...

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Anyway... Fisher as Princess Leia is infinitely more recognisable than Kenny Baker, obviously in part because you don't see his face, but also because Leia is a main character and, even more importantly, she's got several unique looks which are universally recognisable. Several? There's one though ...

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