honestly, a solid week of besting my nearest and dearest at UC is my favourite part of Christmas
― Number None, Thursday, 13 December 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
There's some OC specials coming up next week as well, featuring contestants of yore rather than zelebs.
― ailsa, Friday, 14 December 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
hard to keep your dignity when your conferring is too high in the mix
― I Accept the Word of Santa (Noodle Vague), Monday, 17 December 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
or when your captain spends the entire episode rolling their eyes and mugging for the camera
― Number None, Monday, 17 December 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
Well yeah
― I Accept the Word of Santa (Noodle Vague), Monday, 17 December 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
anyway that question about "broadcast" was a fun fact I did not know
― Number None, Monday, 17 December 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
I actually got that one right!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 17 December 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link
That girl kind of looked like a less hot Roxy but omg he was so obnoxious.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 17 December 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
*she*
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 17 December 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
question about Only Connect for ailsa.
where are the other team when you're doing your wall?
― koogs, Monday, 17 December 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
lol I got the Scooby doo one after 3
― kinder, Monday, 17 December 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
They're outside the studio in the reception bit, with locked doors and various TV peeps in the way. You do pass over the corridor when switching over though - I did an excellent psychological fake-out on the Three Peaks who were utterly convinced we were shite and they'd caught us up - you genuinely don't know until VCM reads the scores (unless you ask your opponents, I guess)
xpost
― ailsa, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 00:06 (five years ago) link
Interesting, thanks.
I was thinking, perhaps a bit too much about this. First two rounds you get a chance to score points if they drop the ball, the wall section you don't, and in the last section you don't either but they get penalised for a wrong answer (which is probably to stop them answering quickly but deliberately wrongly to stop the other team getting anything). It's like 3 different scoring mechanisms there.
(Does the studio have a dalek in reception?)
― koogs, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 05:34 (five years ago) link
VCM is the perfect OC host. it would be so easy to fuck that role up, especially by being too knowing and above it all
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 08:15 (five years ago) link
She's incredibly lovely and professional irl. Also we could totally see her bra at one stage and weirdly the two straight girls in the team noticed and the straight bloke didn't. Quizzers, eh?
― ailsa, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
btw, I did not stand on Rob Kardashian's foot in a shop. That's my "fake quiz show anecdote" made up of two things that happened in close proximity to each other on the same day. I used the same anecdote on Fifteen to One but it was edited out. My actual good anecdote was ditched as well, so I spend the next n+1 (where n is a number greater than or equal to zero) episodes being described in appallingly dull terms.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
Also, no dalek in reception, just a lovely woman called Nia. There is more than one TV studio in Cardiff.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
My worst ever interview was for a BBC website job - there was a lifesize model dalek in the room, pointing its plunger at me for the whole interview.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
Model?
― koogs, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
(there's one in TVC, one in BH, two in the studios in Manchester, one and the dalek half of Davros at the archive. I assume Wales has a bunch because of the museum)
(Davros bottom is a bit of a mystery apparently because it's not real. They think it's a prop from some other show that did a spoof)
― koogs, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
catching celebrity episode from last night and look its not my shtyle to notice but
jeremy vvvv quick to bark at brunel for time while the decidedly posher and whiter reading are being woejusly indulged
― gabbnebulous (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
The only thing is that the edit means you can't really tell how it played out in real time but I wouldn't give that dick the benefit of the doubt
― I Accept the Word of Santa (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
BRUCE DICKINSON <3
he seems hugely endearingly ADD
― gabbnebulous (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
OC cupwinner's cup is barely entertaining - it's far too difficult for us mortals.
― koogs, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link
Ah, the missing vowels round is always a good pub closer
― Mark G, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
not that one! missing owls!
that's usually the round i do best on - i got all of them on monday, all before the teams (yeah, there's a delay). i got two tonight. (nght, and two of the cluedo things slower than the teams)
― koogs, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link
Weirdly I had a brilliant night tonight - five in R1 and R2 on the second clue and both complete walls before every missing vowels.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 22:42 (five years ago) link
So, you up for a team next series?
(I'm not, hoo no)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 10:07 (five years ago) link
I'm not nearly good/dedicated enough.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 10:47 (five years ago) link
Do it. I genuinely can't recommend it highly enough.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 15:01 (five years ago) link
fuck a sports theme, imo
― koogs, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
Yeah, didn't enjoy that very much.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
was waiting for the "bt tldr nds htt lcck" missing vowels clue. it never happened.
― koogs, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
oh cmon that was totally gladys knight
― gabbnebulous (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
the arsehole on the left seems to be an arsehole
― gabbnebulous (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
I had one of those OC moments when you come up with a different but valid sequence in R2.
(The one where the substituted letters were Q-U-I-Z, they also substituted the first, then second etc letters so the fourth could have been COUNT>COURT.)
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
and i came up with a third, unless i misremember the letters switched in each instance were alphabetically sequential so my answer was a pair of four letter word where the last letter of the second was +1 of the first
but i couldn't think of one
― gabbnebulous (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
PI>QIBALL>BULLcan't remember the third
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
chop-> chip
oh well it was a good theory in real time
― gabbnebulous (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
Pretend you've received a condescending VCM look to keep you warm.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
'A jolly roger for Michael Portillo'? I'm going to need some help here.
― large bananas pregnant (ledge), Monday, 7 January 2019 20:36 (five years ago) link
i think it's a thing, innuendo aimed at portillo
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/24/call-me-anything-but-humourless-michael-portillo-only-connect
"It was mainly an excuse to mention Michael Portillo. My Only Connect persona – who is very like me, but just different enough to maintain sanity – is always talking about Michael Portillo. He’s perfect for her. Dark, enigmatic, faintly Spanish… Knowledgeable, quirky, with hints of a sexually adventurous past… I once ended a show by saying: “I’m going to hurry back to my dressing room where I hope to find Michael Portillo, sitting naked atop a crate of rioja, challenging me to wrestle him off.” (I was quite proud to get that past the censors.)"
― koogs, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
i see. her sign off gags usually have a bizarro world feel to them, this explains if not excuses.
― large bananas pregnant (ledge), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 16:11 (five years ago) link
"I said Biggie Smalls"
― Number None, Monday, 14 January 2019 21:06 (five years ago) link
Those high fives were grim also
― Number None, Monday, 14 January 2019 21:08 (five years ago) link
I watched Only Connect before and one of the teams was called The Poptimists
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 14 January 2019 21:10 (five years ago) link
This is how I feel about Champions League Popmaster as well. I've stopped listening to it. I never get a question right.
We did abysmally on OC last night. Our worst performance in ages.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 12:22 (five years ago) link
i remember shouting answers at the tv last night, can't remember whether it was OC or UC.
i live alone, there is no reason to shout anything.
― koogs, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 12:42 (five years ago) link
We did abysmally on OC last night.
Surely kbrady got Cadabra for 5? Privileges removed if he didn't get it at Backrub.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 12:56 (five years ago) link
No, he never gets those ones. But then he gives you loads of ancillary facts AFTER the question, to prove that he really did know it, and then you miss the next question, and then we have a row.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link