"BLANK, I think it's actually quite BLANK"!

Daithi 1

If you listened to FM104 lately, you will have heard about this game thing they have going. Fill in the blank word and win 5000 Euro's.

"BLANK, I think it's actually quite BLANK"!

I was wondering if there are many folk out there who don't cop the scam. For those who don't, I'll explain.

For each blank there are about 1,000,000 possibilities, possibly more.

No matter what answer you come up with, it will be the wrong answer, until they get so much interest, or a certain amount or money back from texts and phone calls.

Sindri

You pluralize euro. :eek:

Jen Pigs Fly

So, you're saying I should wait a few weeks before ringing in?

Brilliant! Thanks for the tip!

MrStuffins

The blanks are quite obviously "Chequebook" and "Pen"!

Daithi 1

xxxJennyxxx wrote: »

So, you're saying I should wait a few weeks before ringing in?

Brilliant! Thanks for the tip!

Yeah, I've calculated you should wait 3 weeks and 4 days. They will have earned about 20,000 Euro, by then. And will give 5,000 back to some random desperado.

DEFTLEFTHAND

It reminds of the Numbers racket Jimmy Coonan used to run out of Hells Kitchen. The game was predetermined and nobody ever won.

Daithi 1

I think the second word is 'Thick'

TehDagsBass

Joe, disgraceful

Battered Mars Bar

What? Are you serious but what happens if someone gets the right answer on day one?

MrStuffins

So, what you're saying is, they don't actually have an answer until they make a load of money and THEN they chose 2 words nobody has guessed?

Do you have proof? I'm pretty sure it's not very kosher from Boards legal point of view making claims like this.

Daithi 1

Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

What? Are you serious but what happens if someone gets the right answer on day one?

There is no right answer.

When they decide enough is enough, they simply create the answer. Like i said, there are countless possibilities.

They just say no no no no no no, then make up an answer.

DUH !

Daithi 1

MrStuffins wrote: »

So, what you're saying is, they don't actually have an answer until they make a load of money and THEN they chose 2 words nobody has guessed?

Do you have proof? I'm pretty sure it's not very kosher from Boards legal point of view making claims like this.

Why don't you run off to a mod and complain then.:rolleyes:

Battered Mars Bar

Man, I feel so stupid. How can I possibly trust another radio station again. I guess, I guess in this world you can only really trust yourself.

paddy kerins

Don't you worry about blank, let me worry about blank

Daithi 1

Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

Man, I feel so stupid. How can I possibly trust another radio station again. I guess, I guess in this world you can only really trust yourself.

How many times did you call them ?

Battered Mars Bar

Daithi 1 wrote: »

How many times did you call them ?

I don't know, 10...20? What does it matter now, once is enough...I don't even know what's real anymore.

You know, you open up sometimes thinking there's some good in this world. A little glimmer of hope for the little guy and then someone swipes the carpet from under your feet. Just like that it's all taken from you, everything you believed in...it's a cold place when you realise you can't trust anyone but yourself.

How about if I call them tomorrow?

Irish Guitarist

Is the prize a Blankety Blank cheque book and pen?

Daithi 1

Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

I don't know, 10...20? What does it matter now, once is enough...I don't even know what's real anymore.

You know, you open up sometimes thinking there's some good in this world. A little glimmer of hope for the little guy and then someone swipes the carpet from under your feet. Just like that it's all taken from you, everything you believed in...it's a cold place when you realise you can't trust anyone but yourself.

How about if I call them tomorrow?

Never give up hope bud. Bank holiday tomorrow, wait till Tuesday.

TehDagsBass

Are the rules that the two 'BLANKS' are the same word, or can they be different?

Daithi 1

TehDagsBass wrote: »

Are the rules that the two 'BLANKS' are the same word, or can they be different?

Yes.

Mickey H

Ok, I will take this BLANK and shove it down your BLANK.

Answers on a postcard please.

MrStuffins

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Daithi 1

Listeners, I think it's actually quite Obvious.

TehDagsBass

Daihi 1, I think it's actually quite sh1te

Daithi 1

TehDagsBass wrote: »

Daihi 1, I think it's actually quite sh1te

What is ?

Don't answer that.

Mickey H

Daithi 1 wrote: »

What is ?

The prize?

Adolf Hipster

Daithi 1 wrote: »

What is ?

Whoooooooooosh

Sindri

Adolf Hipster wrote: »

Whoooooooooosh

Are we writing random onomatopoeic words?

Shuuuuuuuuuuuh

Daithi 1

Mickey H wrote: »

The prize?

Considering that the "prize", is other peoples money, people who thought there was an initial prize to be won, when there was nothing. I tend to agree with you.

They (104) also had a competition last year for a house in Barnwell, Blanchardstown. It went on for months. Same deal. The house was paid for by callers and texters. So, the station actually gave nothing away. But they get all the praise. They are taking people for fools.

saywhatyousee

Your probably right OP.The lottery another rigged game

RobbingBandit

BIG I think it's actually quite SMALL...

Followed by That's what she said,woot,woot.

stoneill

A phone in scam! Well I never!

Daithi 1

stoneill wrote: »

A phone in scam! Well I never!

Mr Stuffins seemed pretty surprised... and defensive.

Sindri

Ring in and confront them.

Daithi 1

Sindri wrote: »

Ring in and confront them.

Rite !!
I'll use a different name so they wont recognize me..

MrStuffins

stoneill wrote: »

A phone in scam! Well I never!

"It's nothing but panhandling!

-"Tele-panhandling"

LH Pathe

fill in or wànk.. chancers.

still have a Rock 104 sticker plastered on the shed window dating back 22yr FM uh.. Disco 104 sounds crud I understand

And a Dublin radio station competition is relevant to us *blank*s in the rest of the country because *blank*?

I know I can't fill the blanks.

(Not that I'm annoyed, us countryfolk could come up, win that cash & run back past Weston laughing maniacally.)

IM0

shit I think its actually quite shit

dave3004

Sindri wrote: »

You pluralize euro. :eek:

He didn't "pluralize" it as he has inserted an apostrophe which means there is possession.


PS: Sorry for policing the grammar police. Now ..... who is going to police the police of the grammar police?

forfuxsake

dave3004 wrote: »

He didn't "pluralize" it as he has inserted an apostrophe which means there is possession.


PS: Sorry for policing the grammar police. Now ..... who is going to police the police of the grammar police?

pluralise- this is not America FFS!:D

BuzzFish

forfuxsake wrote: »

pluralise- this is not America FFS!:D

The person who polices the grammar cannot also police the grammar police's grammar police...... or you'll open a black hole in space

Almaviva

forfuxsake wrote: »

pluralise- this is not America FFS!:D

Pluralize is not just American. FFS!
It is also the correct English. Pluralise is also correct English, but not Amercan. Pluralize is the 'most' correct in English though, the 's' being an english recent deviation from the original Greek 'ize'.

Daithi 1

bump for ah day crew..

ScumLord

I thought they had to be phrases or at least a sentence that makes sense. YOu couldn't just drop in any word like "aperture, I think it's actually quite business card".

All phone in competitions, all of them. Are a money making scams. If a paper, TV station or radio station is saying call us, or enter this or that it's only for money making purposes. Every competition is essentially a scam as far as I'm concerned.

xzanti

Daithi 1 wrote: »

There is no right answer.

When they decide enough is enough, they simply create the answer. Like i said, there are countless possibilities.

They just say no no no no no no, then make up an answer.

DUH !

That game is going on donkeys years, I remember it doing my head in back in 2004 when the company I worked for would play FM104 all day..

The line is actually from a song or movie, when the right answer is guessed they'll play the line for all to hear iirc.

Daithi 1

Yeah, it does need to make sense. Still, there are countless options.

Gosh, I think it's actually quite scammericious.

RichieC

Sindri wrote: »

You pluralize euro. :eek:

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Degag

Remember that late night quiz show on TV3 a few years ago? Now that was a scam. This, not so much.

Raging_Ninja

Daithi 1 wrote: »

If you listened to FM104 lately, you will have heard about this game thing they have going. Fill in the blank word and win 5000 Euro's.

I was wondering if there are many folk out there who don't cop the scam. For those who don't, I'll explain.

For each blank there are about 1,000,000 possibilities, possibly more.

No matter what answer you come up with, it will be the wrong answer, until they get so much interest, or a certain amount or money back from texts and phone calls.

Write a computer program that does a frequency analysis of large pieces of text (movie scripts, song lyrics, etc), searching for phrases containing the words "actually I think it's quite". Have the program spit out the most frequentlly occuring words that appear at both ends of the phrase.

I won't tell you what the right answer is, but it will tell you what will hopefully be the most likely answers.

Alternatively, you could just go the boring route and google the phrase.

al28283

Daithi 1 wrote: »

I was wondering if there are many folk out there who don't cop the scam.

I doubt it, it's a very straightforward concept that's being going on for countless years and people don't really need this kinda thing spelled out for them