Do you find that this happens a lot?Gavin Chipper wrote:... he'd long since moved well away from me.
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Needless to say.Gavin Chipper wrote:then girlfriend
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Had you spilt wine on your keyboard and spent a weekend practising your 6 smalls?Gavin Chipper wrote:then girlfriend
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Welsh! Makes me half English, half Irish, and part Welsh. I've got a 50% chance of being happy in the 6 nations. Don't know if they were ginger but if they were it'd suit me down to the groundCharlie Reams wrote: What nationality was your liver giver, in the end?
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Ah, the answer to an age-old question:Lesley Hines wrote:I needed a new liver at 36 hours notice, and got one. It helped that I was put straight to the top of the list in Europe, but I was still bloody lucky.
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That must have been a hell of a night out!Lesley Hines wrote:I needed a new liver at 36 hours notice, and got one. It helped that I was put straight to the top of the list in Europe, but I was still bloody lucky.
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ooooooooooooh yesIan Volante wrote:That must have been a hell of a night out!
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Fair point. Sorry again.
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No need to apologise! Just remember that this lot will quite happily call a spade a spade, and if you aren't seen to be adding value to a debate, or to put it better, if you're caught assuming that these intellectual giants haven't considered all possibilities, chewed them over and discarded them before succinctly and cleverly insulting the author of the thread, then you'll soon find out.Alice Moore wrote:Fair point. Sorry again.
Don't take it to heart though, they're teddy bears really
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Very well put, Ian. I actually found Alice's well-thought out post interesting, and wasn't patronized at all, although I obviously agree that coincidences are interesting as well.
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I liked it too, and there's plenty of evidence on this very forum that otherwise smart people overestimate the significance of coincidences. Corby is just reeling from his crushing defeat at my hands in the recent popularity contest.Derek Hazell wrote:Very well put, Ian. I actually found Alice's well-thought out post interesting, and wasn't patronized at all, although I obviously agree that coincidences are interesting as well.
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Isn't that called making a phone call?Alice Moore wrote:picking up the phone before it rings
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Three halves, just like Countdown.Lesley Hines wrote:Welsh! Makes me half English, half Irish, and part Welsh. I've got a 50% chance of being happy in the 6 nations. Don't know if they were ginger but if they were it'd suit me down to the groundCharlie Reams wrote: What nationality was your liver giver, in the end?
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I'll resist making a joke about one large.Sue Sanders wrote:Had you spilt wine on your keyboard and spent a weekend practising your 6 smalls?Gavin Chipper wrote:then girlfriend
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Smart Alec, perchance?Charlie Reams wrote:I liked it too, and there's plenty of evidence on this very forum that otherwise smart people overestimate the significance of coincidences. Corby is just reeling from his crushing defeat at my hands in the recent popularity contest.Derek Hazell wrote:Very well put, Ian. I actually found Alice's well-thought out post interesting, and wasn't patronized at all, although I obviously agree that coincidences are interesting as well.
(As admin you probably rigged the votes as well)
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Gavin Chipper wrote:Isn't that called making a phone call?Alice Moore wrote:picking up the phone before it rings
That would be "pick up the phone before it rings... only to find that someone is on the other end. Someone you were just about to call."
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[Moved from The Official "Cummins Not-In-My-Pants Finals" Thread]
Having arrived back in Cambridge this morning from Manchester, I was cycling to my house when I saw a froggy figure in the distance. I slowed right down as he was on the same side of the road as me, heading the opposite direction, and sure enough it was Sir Christopher Cummins, Series 50 champion. I was about to stop and profess my undying love for him when I decided I couldn't really be arsed.
Still, odd coincidence eh?
Having arrived back in Cambridge this morning from Manchester, I was cycling to my house when I saw a froggy figure in the distance. I slowed right down as he was on the same side of the road as me, heading the opposite direction, and sure enough it was Sir Christopher Cummins, Series 50 champion. I was about to stop and profess my undying love for him when I decided I couldn't really be arsed.
Still, odd coincidence eh?
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Talking to Steve Wood at yesterday's after party, I commented upon how I felt lucky to have even made it on to the show, having not thought I had passed the audition. He agreed, talking of a 15 year old wonderkid in his audition who had shown him up quite badly. Turns out the kid was Garner, and me and Steve were sitting either side of him in the audition but hadn't remembered each other- in addition to Paul Varlaam sitting opposite, alongside Ian Dent.
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I didn't know Steve Wood was at our audition.
Three Octochamps in the same audition, not bad at all.
Three Octochamps in the same audition, not bad at all.
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ZOMG SPOILERZZZZZIan Dent wrote:I didn't know Steve Wood was at our audition.
Three Octochamps in the same audition, not bad at all.
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You could make it four, Ian.Ian Dent wrote:I didn't know Steve Wood was at our audition.
Three Octochamps in the same audition, not bad at all.
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The punchline?
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Whilst I was on the Countdown Wiki, I decided to search for members of this forum who had appeared on the show ages ago to see how they got on. I searched Joseph Bolas and saw his game with Jack Welsby. Then I went to the front page and looked at the "On this Day" section and saw that very same game had been played today!
I think we need a probability prodigy to work out the probability of that one. Anyone know where I could find one?
I think we need a probability prodigy to work out the probability of that one. Anyone know where I could find one?
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After leaving school in 1979 I went to Glasgow University to do some serious partying. While there I became fairly friendly with Charles Kennedy, as we had attended the same school. He went on to become leader of the Lib Dems, while my only claim to fame is that my jizz helped create a recent Octochamp.
29 years later, in 2008, I returned to Glasgow Uni as a (very) mature student to try to get a degree this time. While sitting having a coffee and a perv at the young lady students I got a tap on the shoulder from a woman whom I recognised as an old next-door neighbour from years ago. It turned out that we had both just enrolled to do degrees in maths.
And guess who was, and still is, Rector of the uni? A suspiciously still ginger Charles Kennedy!
29 years later, in 2008, I returned to Glasgow Uni as a (very) mature student to try to get a degree this time. While sitting having a coffee and a perv at the young lady students I got a tap on the shoulder from a woman whom I recognised as an old next-door neighbour from years ago. It turned out that we had both just enrolled to do degrees in maths.
And guess who was, and still is, Rector of the uni? A suspiciously still ginger Charles Kennedy!
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A couple of weeks ago whilst sitting in a supermarket cafe with my wife waiting on our order, which was order number 24, I asked my wife if she could spot what was special about the number 24. Being a thick physiotherapist she hadn't a clue.
Being a maths genius (in much the same way as Dmitry's a probability genius) I had spotted that if you reverse the digits you get the number 42, and heres the amazing bit, 24 is the only number whose digits can be reversed to give 42
Even amazinger, 42 is the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything. WOW!!
Is this just a coincidence or am i really on to something here?????
Being a maths genius (in much the same way as Dmitry's a probability genius) I had spotted that if you reverse the digits you get the number 42, and heres the amazing bit, 24 is the only number whose digits can be reversed to give 42
Even amazinger, 42 is the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything. WOW!!
Is this just a coincidence or am i really on to something here?????
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I think I once hit my left funnybone and my right funnybone on the same day. Spooky...
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C1: SIGNATURE (18) ["9; not written down"]
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John Gillies wrote:A couple of weeks ago whilst sitting in a supermarket cafe with my wife waiting on our order, which was order number 24, I asked my wife if she could spot what was special about the number 24. Being a thick physiotherapist she hadn't a clue.
Being a maths genius (in much the same way as Dmitry's a probability genius) I had spotted that if you reverse the digits you get the number 42, and heres the amazing bit, 24 is the only number whose digits can be reversed to give 42
Even amazinger, 42 is the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything. WOW!!
Is this just a coincidence or am i really on to something here?????
It's a hell of a coincidence that your avatar pic is a perfect mix of Stephen Fry and a bloke I know.
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I was thinking that as well - particuarly the bloke you know.Ian Volante wrote:John Gillies wrote:A couple of weeks ago whilst sitting in a supermarket cafe with my wife waiting on our order, which was order number 24, I asked my wife if she could spot what was special about the number 24. Being a thick physiotherapist she hadn't a clue.
Being a maths genius (in much the same way as Dmitry's a probability genius) I had spotted that if you reverse the digits you get the number 42, and heres the amazing bit, 24 is the only number whose digits can be reversed to give 42
Even amazinger, 42 is the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything. WOW!!
Is this just a coincidence or am i really on to something here?????
It's a hell of a coincidence that your avatar pic is a perfect mix of Stephen Fry and a bloke I know.
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http://www.facebook.com/?sk=messages&ti ... son?ref=tsGavin Chipper wrote:I was thinking that as well - particuarly the bloke you know.Ian Volante wrote:John Gillies wrote:A couple of weeks ago whilst sitting in a supermarket cafe with my wife waiting on our order, which was order number 24, I asked my wife if she could spot what was special about the number 24. Being a thick physiotherapist she hadn't a clue.
Being a maths genius (in much the same way as Dmitry's a probability genius) I had spotted that if you reverse the digits you get the number 42, and heres the amazing bit, 24 is the only number whose digits can be reversed to give 42
Even amazinger, 42 is the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything. WOW!!
Is this just a coincidence or am i really on to something here?????
It's a hell of a coincidence that your avatar pic is a perfect mix of Stephen Fry and a bloke I know.
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Has anybody else noticed that APPLE MACINTOSH is an anagram of LAPTOP MACHINES?
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Not me, no.Kirk Bevins wrote:Has anybody else noticed that APPLE MACINTOSH is an anagram of LAPTOP MACHINES?
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Nor me. What a coincidence.Jon O'Neill wrote:Not me, no.Kirk Bevins wrote:Has anybody else noticed that APPLE MACINTOSH is an anagram of LAPTOP MACHINES?
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Just realised there was a guy at middle school called Dan Loader. Sounds loads like 'downloader'.
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Just realised there was a guy at middle school called Dan Loader. Sounds loads like 'downloader'.
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Just noticed this. What a coincidence!!!Matt Morrison wrote:Just realised there was a guy at middle school called Dan Loader. Sounds loads like 'downloader'.
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From this page
5th Junior 9 Rounder 97 0.04% 2279 2279
(Last 2 figures are "Beatable 1 game in..." and "Attempts")
5th Junior 9 Rounder 97 0.04% 2279 2279
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Think that might be the way that page works- there's only ever been one Junior 9 rounder with a max higher than 97.Adam Gillard wrote:From this page
5th Junior 9 Rounder 97 0.04% 2279 2279
(Last 2 figures are "Beatable 1 game in..." and "Attempts")
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Nope, cf here: Games played: 2279.Ben Wilson wrote:Think that might be the way that page works- there's only ever been one Junior 9 rounder with a max higher than 97.Adam Gillard wrote:From this page
5th Junior 9 Rounder 97 0.04% 2279 2279
(Last 2 figures are "Beatable 1 game in..." and "Attempts")
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Isn't that what he's saying? Games played/number of games with score higher than record = Beatable 1 game in...Adam Gillard wrote:Nope, cf here: Games played: 2279.Ben Wilson wrote:Think that might be the way that page works- there's only ever been one Junior 9 rounder with a max higher than 97.Adam Gillard wrote:From this page
5th Junior 9 Rounder 97 0.04% 2279 2279
(Last 2 figures are "Beatable 1 game in..." and "Attempts")
In that case it happens that there has only been one game with a higher max so 2297/1=2297. In the 15-rounder 139634/27927=not quite 5 (I'm sure it was 5 earlier when I checked) so there have been five games with higher maxes.
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That was Ben's point. If it's only happened once, then the odds [in 1:2279 format] and the number of attempts [2279] must needs match (regardless of what the actual number itself is).Adam Gillard wrote:Nope, cf here: Games played: 2279.Ben Wilson wrote:Think that might be the way that page works- there's only ever been one Junior 9 rounder with a max higher than 97.Adam Gillard wrote:From this page
5th Junior 9 Rounder 97 0.04% 2279 2279
(Last 2 figures are "Beatable 1 game in..." and "Attempts")
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I'm a silly billy; thanks for the clarification.Gavin Chipper et al. wrote:From this page
5th Junior 9 Rounder 97 0.04% 2279 2279
(Last 2 figures are "Beatable 1 game in..." and "Attempts")
Think that might be the way that page works- there's only ever been one Junior 9 rounder with a max higher than 97.
Nope, cf here: Games played: 2279.
Isn't that what he's saying? Games played/number of games with score higher than record = Beatable 1 game in...
In that case it happens that there has only been one game with a higher max so 2297/1=2297. In the 15-rounder 139634/27927=not quite 5 (I'm sure it was 5 earlier when I checked) so there have been five games with higher maxes.
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I went approx. 60 miles away from my house one day. When I got out of the car I bumped into someone (literally) walking past. The person was my business teacher (who incidentally is called Trevor).
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Just did a standard letters attack, and the rounds 5 and 18 were identical. (Needless to say I got the darren second time round.)
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Damn, forgot to post the link: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 9928846150Joseph Krol wrote:Just did a standard letters attack, and the rounds 5 and 18 were identical. (Needless to say I got the darren second time round.)
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I was playing Cluedo the other day and got into a room on my second go, guessed right and won the game. (Well, it wasn't just me - it was a team of two.)
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Callum got his guess right on the first go of the game once, sort of spoiled the fun.Gavin Chipper wrote:I was playing Cluedo the other day and got into a room on my second go, guessed right and won the game. (Well, it wasn't just me - it was a team of two.)
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Haha, what a coincidence!! And youre not making this up, right? Wow
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On a similar theme to my original post, I've just met Jon Stitcher at my local. I knew he lived in the Wirral but didn't realise quite how close. Nice guy.
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Pretty cool, he's a c4c legend!Chris Davies wrote:On a similar theme to my original post, I've just met Jon Stitcher at my local. I knew he lived in the Wirral but didn't realise quite how close. Nice guy.
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Haven't seen it for absolutely ages, but I used to watch it. Not often, but sometimes I did.AnnieHall wrote:I like Goldenballs, it's fun guessing who has the killers and whether or not they split or steal at the end.
It's amazing how many people turn up in several game shows over & over again!
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Only just remembered this one from the weekend. Was at my brother's stag do (monopoly pub crawl) and one of the pubs we ended up at, we happened to stand outside, right next to someone from my year at secondary school (someone I hadn't seen in the best part of 10 years).
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5 seconds of madness in the Bash Room. Innis said I must have a better short-term memory as I was fastest second time. I mumbled something about perceptual salience. Anyway, coincidence!
2011-05-17 21:29:30 Innis Carson got it first. You have 27.2 seconds left.
2011-05-17 21:29:30 Adam Gillard got it too, you have 26.9 seconds left.
2011-05-17 21:29:30 Everyone got it! Innis Carson was the fastest on 2.3 seconds and gets 2 bonus points. The answers to IRSEPMS were IMPRESS, PREMISS, SIMPERS.
2011-05-17 21:29:33 Adam Gillard got it first. You have 27.2 seconds left.
2011-05-17 21:29:35 Innis Carson got it too, you have 24.8 seconds left.
2011-05-17 21:29:35 Everyone got it! Adam Gillard was the fastest on 2.3 seconds and gets 2 bonus points. The answers to SEIMPRS were IMPRESS, PREMISS, SIMPERS.
2011-05-17 21:29:30 Innis Carson got it first. You have 27.2 seconds left.
2011-05-17 21:29:30 Adam Gillard got it too, you have 26.9 seconds left.
2011-05-17 21:29:30 Everyone got it! Innis Carson was the fastest on 2.3 seconds and gets 2 bonus points. The answers to IRSEPMS were IMPRESS, PREMISS, SIMPERS.
2011-05-17 21:29:33 Adam Gillard got it first. You have 27.2 seconds left.
2011-05-17 21:29:35 Innis Carson got it too, you have 24.8 seconds left.
2011-05-17 21:29:35 Everyone got it! Adam Gillard was the fastest on 2.3 seconds and gets 2 bonus points. The answers to SEIMPRS were IMPRESS, PREMISS, SIMPERS.
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C2: SEATING (7)
Score: 108–16 (max 113)
Another niner for Adam and yet another century. Well done, that man."
C1: SIGNATURE (18) ["9; not written down"]
C2: SEATING (7)
Score: 108–16 (max 113)
Another niner for Adam and yet another century. Well done, that man."
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OK bit of a long one and a bit sad but I thought this was a very big coincidence. So we're at the Monday night pub quiz and the picture round (10 pictures) has gone pretty bad in the first round as we fail to identify 'Entrapment', 'The African Queen' and 'Traffic' amongst others. The next rounds go pretty much smoothly although there are a few guesses that we are not sure of such as Melanie Blatt being a member of All Saints and the the Seven Years War lasting from 1756 to 1763. Anyway, we think that over the picture round and the next 4 rounds that out of 50 points we are not doing enough to win it. So we decide to gamble in the last round which is a 'Wipeout' round meaning that if you answer one question wrong you lose all points for that round but if you get all 10 then you gain 5 bonus points. We are confident of 8 of the answers and although I was a little shaky in placing precisely the Canary Islands and the Balearics I'm pretty confident with the 9th answer. The one question we have blank is "In the film 'Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason' which country does Bridget get put in prison?" I offer information that I think I know about the film such as "I have watched bits of this when it's been on ITV2", "I think she is skiing at one point in the film" and "I think I've seen the Eiffel Tower in it". In the end we think FUCK IT let's do this shit, let's go all out for France as the answer and hope that we get that to make sure that we have won. Anyway, turns out the answer is Thailand and our score if we decided to not put France would have been 49/65. The winning score was 47 (four teams tied). We of course ended up with 40 having scored zilch for the final round. This was Quiz Suicide.
Anyway, the coincidence is that when we get back home I joke, "shall we watch a film?" "how about Bridget Jones?". Well, whadda you know, guess what is on ITV2...Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, oh and guess what...it is at the point in the film where she is in fucking prison surrounded by lots of Thai women! Arghhhhhhhhhh!!!!
Weird or what?
Anyway, the coincidence is that when we get back home I joke, "shall we watch a film?" "how about Bridget Jones?". Well, whadda you know, guess what is on ITV2...Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, oh and guess what...it is at the point in the film where she is in fucking prison surrounded by lots of Thai women! Arghhhhhhhhhh!!!!
Weird or what?
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But hasn't that film been running on ITV2 for like the last ten years anyway?
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Don't listen to Jono, he's in a bad mood. I thought that was a nice coincidence.
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Fair point. It is played a lot on ITV2, a bit like The Italian Job (2003) on Film 4. But still I thought it was pretty coincidental.Jon O'Neill wrote:But hasn't that film been running on ITV2 for like the last ten years anyway?
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Funnily enough, yesterday I was out and about driving minis really fast with some gangsters, and when I got home I put on Film 4...
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So now you're being a prick too? I'd say it was nothing short of a miracle really.Matt Morrison wrote:Funnily enough, yesterday I was out and about driving minis really fast with some gangsters, and when I got home I put on Film 4...
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On this page, my name appears adjacent to that of Series 4 finalist Robert Richland. A Quite Interesting (TM) fact is that in my first year at university Robert Richland lived three rooms along from me on the same corridor in my hall of residence.
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I have no idea why (porn) but this morning I was thinking about one time when I tried to deep throat a banana at school to impress (??!) a bunch of male friends.
Then moments later I stumbled upon this: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/take-a-s ... -fuck-food
I can definitely relate to the "rather see my Internet history than my food history" thing.
Not that I do it often but sometimes I'll buy a chocolate bar when I go and do the food shopping and make sure I throw the receipt away before I get home just in case.
Then moments later I stumbled upon this: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/take-a-s ... -fuck-food
I can definitely relate to the "rather see my Internet history than my food history" thing.
Not that I do it often but sometimes I'll buy a chocolate bar when I go and do the food shopping and make sure I throw the receipt away before I get home just in case.