Where Does Countdown Rank On Your List Of Hobbies?
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Where Does Countdown Rank On Your List Of Hobbies?
Countdown is one of, if not my favourite tv shows; but I'm really on this forum just because I enjoy the quality of conversation and banter without it being too over the top. I've never had any inclinations to play along with the show or buy the board game or anything.
Obviously some of you actually see Countdown as a 'hobby', but on your list of overall hobbies where would you rate it?
Obviously some of you actually see Countdown as a 'hobby', but on your list of overall hobbies where would you rate it?
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Re: Where Does Countdown Rank On Your List Of Hobbies?
Good question. I don't really watch the show that much any more - I don't have a TV Licence so the activation energy required to actually go and hunt it down on 4oD is just a little too great to make me bother. I don't play on apterous all that much either - it's a fun thing to do now and again, but I have several games consoles and hundreds of games to play on them, so in terms of 'gaming' I usually have more fun options. Also Scrabble is better than Countdown (imo), but it always feels like a much greater investment of time and energy than a quick wang against Prune, so I've kinda gone off that too.
Gaming is probably my main hobby, followed by statistics, and then probably music (I'm trying to learn how to play the guitar). Countdown ranks below that lot quite comfortably, I think.
Gaming is probably my main hobby, followed by statistics, and then probably music (I'm trying to learn how to play the guitar). Countdown ranks below that lot quite comfortably, I think.
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Re: Where Does Countdown Rank On Your List Of Hobbies?
It's up there. Maybe 5 or 6.
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Re: Where Does Countdown Rank On Your List Of Hobbies?
Certainly top 3. Countdown, Huddersfield Town and 007.
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Re: Where Does Countdown Rank On Your List Of Hobbies?
Probably second, after music.
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Football first (soccer and gaelic inclusive), then probably Countdown.
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http://www.apterous.org/statland.php?se ... ime_playedInnis Carson wrote:Probably second, after music.
Really?
Mind you, you're so fucking good that you probably spend 25-28 seconds of each round playing your trumpet though, so I think it's probably accurate.
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*shudder*Jon O'Neill wrote: http://www.apterous.org/statland.php?se ... ime_played
But yeah I'd like to think music has played a bigger part in my life overall.
Re: Where Does Countdown Rank On Your List Of Hobbies?
007 as a hobby?
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Well, watching them anyway.Ian Dent wrote:007 as a hobby?
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No offence James, but I didn't ask you to list your hobbies I wanted an actual rankJames Robinson wrote:Well, watching them anyway.Ian Dent wrote:007 as a hobby?
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Right, because a list of numbers would make for a great topic.Douglas Wilson wrote:No offence James, but I didn't ask you to list your hobbies I wanted an actual rankJames Robinson wrote:Well, watching them anyway.Ian Dent wrote:007 as a hobby?
If you include C4C, apterous, CDB, the wiki, going to the finals, and CO-events then it's probably my primary hobby. If you're only talking about watching the show then... way down.
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Re: Where Does Countdown Rank On Your List Of Hobbies?
1. Facebook
2. Apterous
3. c4c
4. Masturbation
5. Watching Countdown
6. Pub quizzing
7. Binge eating
I gues all you wanted though was "fifth".
2. Apterous
3. c4c
4. Masturbation
5. Watching Countdown
6. Pub quizzing
7. Binge eating
I gues all you wanted though was "fifth".
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Interesting, I didn't think someone with ginger hair would have masturbation that far down the ranking.Ryan Taylor wrote:1. Facebook
2. Apterous
3. c4c
4. Masturbation
5. Watching Countdown
6. Pub quizzing
7. Binge eating
I gues all you wanted though was "fifth".
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Yeah I kind of meant want Charlie said as 'Countdown' being the umbrella heading of all the things he listed. Should have made that clearer.
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It's almost as far down as those with very little hair.David O'Donnell wrote:Interesting, I didn't think someone with ginger hair would have masturbation that far down the ranking.Ryan Taylor wrote:1. Facebook
2. Apterous
3. c4c
4. Masturbation
5. Watching Countdown
6. Pub quizzing
7. Binge eating
I gues all you wanted though was "fifth".
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What happens to the list when you combine those? (Other than a sticky keyboard.)Ryan Taylor wrote:1. Facebook
2. Apterous
3. c4c
4. Masturbation
5. Watching Countdown
6. Pub quizzing
7. Binge eating
I gues all you wanted though was "fifth".
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Re: Where Does Countdown Rank On Your List Of Hobbies?
1) Go-Karting
2) Watching F1
3) The Countdown wiki
4) Playing Countdown. I'm rubbish
5) Watching 9 round Countdown
6) This
7) BBC F1
8) Watching 15 round Countdown
9) Storming Rubens Barrichello's mailbox about his 300th Grand Prix (this weekend(A milestone)).
4th, 5th, or 8th.
2) Watching F1
3) The Countdown wiki
4) Playing Countdown. I'm rubbish
5) Watching 9 round Countdown
6) This
7) BBC F1
8) Watching 15 round Countdown
9) Storming Rubens Barrichello's mailbox about his 300th Grand Prix (this weekend(A milestone)).
4th, 5th, or 8th.
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Re: Where Does Countdown Rank On Your List Of Hobbies?
Tough call - my top 3 hobbies are trainspotting, darts and Countdown but I can't put them into any real order. Trainspotting can get cold and lonely (if I don't go with anyone) and pounding away on apterous for hours can also get tedious so I'd probably rank them as darts, countdown, trains in that order.
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007thDouglas Wilson wrote:No offence James, but I didn't ask you to list your hobbies I wanted an actual rankJames Robinson wrote:Well, watching them anyway.Ian Dent wrote:007 as a hobby?
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Not a hurling man then? I'm definitely sub dividing music into at least 4 different hobbies. After that my only real hobbies are countdown and getting wasted, which I should really sub divide into two.Eoin Monaghan wrote:Football first (soccer and gaelic inclusive)
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sniggerKirk Bevins wrote:Trainspotting can get cold and lonely ... pounding away for hours
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With me it's gaming, damn gaming and statistics.Michael Wallace wrote:Gaming is probably my main hobby, followed by statistics