University Challenge (also featuring Only Connect and other BBC quiz shows)

mind you, i'm well acquainted with (and sometimes meet) the winning captain from last year's series, and it'll at least be good to point out to him that he is no longer british studenthood's #1 repository of knowledge

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Oops. That should be "why certain people irritate you."

The logical response to any Jagger post.

Did he mentions he knows a former winning captain of a University Challenge team?

Was it James Corden?

Every time I saw that smuggo who won it last year, he reminded me of LJ. I thought this was gross over-generalisation and classism on my part, but I guess not... (He was pretty damn good, though, nearly as good as Trimble).

Trimble seemed very self-conscious, not arrogant. Manchester did bloody well.
Last week's questions were way more biased towards the literary, I thought. This week's was a better mix and I even got quite a few myself way before they did. So actually, using the transitive property, I'm better than Trimble.

thank you for your ringing endorsement

i do OK on some science esp. astronomy but am hopeless at literature. i liked the 'identify these fonts' bonus that one time also.

If you want some perspective, his dad was ultimately responsible for the admittedly inevitable decision to make a whole slew of workers redundant, including my own dad. There are no hard feelings.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7917481.stm

University Challenged. Manchester ftw!

Corpus Christi have been stripped of their title!

Thank God Nuts magazine wasn't conned into having a fraud strip for them.

trimble and fred goodwin for IACGMOOH imo

do they have tasers?

^instameme

wrong thread, but right thread

this is up there with the Omoyimni scandal

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can't believe i have never noted up-and-coming commentator ryan shorthouse before:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1158466/RYAN-SHORTHOUSE-Young-people-treat-geeks-respect-deserve.html

byline photo, for full effect:

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Ryan Shortbus, morelike

Intelligence is not a necessity for most of Beyonce’s and Kates’s younger fans. But their intelligence is of course essential for how many Grammys and Oscars they win. Intelligence, not beauty, will ensure greater personal success in the long-term.

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Ryan Shorthouse, a Conservative policy advisor, Deputy Editor of CrossBow Magazine and qualified Tennis Coach

Fuck the spineless BBC jobsworths.

No one is at all bothered about it except mediocre bureaucrats trying to keep their own worthless "jobs."

And of course, the Meejah, who can spot a Good Story at a hundred paces.

My God, how we hate and envy intelligent, talented people in this country.

the guy was ineligible you fucking moron.

rulez is rulez yo

and, apart from a crystal fruit bowl or whatever, what does anyone really lose or gain from this?

Cheaters are losers. They cheated and now they've lost.

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do they not check these things, um, before people are let on the programme?

They cheated, they got found out, they had their title taken away. The BBC acted quickly and rightly. I really can't see any other way of reading this, unless you are determined to have another crack at the BBC. Once it was found out that he had cheated what else were they supposed to do?

When I auditioned for the show, in '97 I think, they explained the rules very clearly at the audition. Which they need to do: the auditions are held in the summer term, but recording is in the autumn, so most final year students, although still students when the team applies, will be ineligible for the competition. From the news story, it seems that Kay *thought* he was still going to be a student in the autumn when he auditioned; but, regardless of that, I can't believe that noone on the team realised that they were breaking the rules at the recording.

It's a quiz show.

It's light entertainment.

It's not the Olympics (even though we all know about the tedious hypocrisy going on there).

Yet again, no one would have known or been bothered by it had not some hopeless loser of a whinger gone and talked to the Meejah.

Why don't we just get rid of all programmes on the BBC and have 24-hour Songs Of Praise with Aled Jones and Myleene Klass if we want "purity"?

Cheatin' bastards, fuck 'em

Doesn't matter what kind of show it is. How can you say it's fine for people to break the rules and still walk away with the winnings not very attractive trophy?

it is pretty retarded to break the show over the long vac, but them's the rules. silly corpus not to have got in a replacement coz they'd probably have won anyway.

Like the cards aren't stacked enough in favour of Oxbridge teams without allowing them to field cunts who aren't even students!

Like the cards aren't stacked enough in favour of Oxbridge teams

um how exactly? they have a vastly smaller pool of potential team members to draw on. it probably is unfair but otoh they let in loads of polys so...

Here, see this page, it's white

so what marcello is saying (if i'm following correctly), if the meejah didn't exist, would anyone have raised the complaint directly to the Beeb ?

I blame the internet.

but they weren't allowed to field non-students

xps

I know, but Marcello seems to think they should be

Marcello, do us a favour and turn the Carlinbot off next time you go on holiday for two weeks.

It's unfortunate that the taping schedule is what it is, since it really does seem to unfairly preclude third-years from participating. It would be more fair to allow people to be on the programme who are students when they begin the filming and to leave it at that. Note that MCR didn't want the poisoned chalice of winning through a DQ.

FWIW in many areas people retain student status for six months post-graduation.

I gather in years past dozens of past "students" were no longer students by the end of the process - so why disqualify Corpus Christi?

Because of Meejah pressure, of course.

In the war Thompson's BBC would have been on the side of the Nazis for fear of being bullied by the Daily Mail.

I gather in years past dozens of past "students" were no longer students by the end of the process

Was this guy a student when he actually took part in his first show tho?

yes

just

imho they shouldn't allow open university students or indeed any postgrad/mature students at all

I gather in years past dozens of past "students" were no longer students by the end of the process - so why disqualify Corpus Christi?

Because two wrongs don't, etc...