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01st Mar 2017

Rachel Riley picks out a very rude letter combination on Countdown

Nooruddean Choudry

LOL and indeed FFS.

Countdown has a habit of throwing up the kind of letter combinations that have those of us with more puerile senses of humour guffawing at the telly. For such a sedate and pensioner-friendly show, it doesn’t half lend itself to schoolboy humour.

In fairness, it’s all about the law of averages. 35 years of airtime is bound to produce some rude selections by sheer probability. Indeed, who can forget this classic…

Or this…

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And of course this…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ChX7XRr1Ok

But Wednesday afternoon’s episode was a little more…to the point. Indeed, it seemed as though Rachel Riley was giving us all a subliminal message in this age of shouting your mouth off at every opportunity.

‘STFU’ – the widely known acronym for ‘Shut the fuck up’ (for the da’s) – came up and everyone was ruddy loving it. We can’t wait for the next X-rated conundrum…

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