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

I have 'been there' myself (admittedly not on UC), you buzz fast, and when it's "I should know this", "I DO!", it's heaven. Mind you I have also done the "I should know this" "OH NO I DOESN'T" helltime.

or, you know, go on telly addicts

funny that there seems to be now show like this now whereas UC survives in these dumbed down times (along with dumbed-down Mastermind)

Eggheads!

really don't think that Trimble is odd or esp arrogant or anything

it's not like sportsmen show much (false) humility when they win a point, and those guys are getting paid for it. afaict, they lose their shit and start macking on each other. trimble stayed pro at least.

Trimble was nowhere near as Flick-ish as her American teammate. She was properly treating every answer as if failing to get it was indicative of some major character deficiency.

afaict, they lose their shit and start macking on each other

^^^she should have done this, imo

Trimble cover of 'Hallelujah' up now on iTunes

I've just worked out who she reminds me of - Tracy Flick from Election. She acted as if it were her birthright to win and looked petulant when she got question wrong. It's no fun watching someone so convinced of victory that the process is almost a technicality.

You're right there, definitely a bit of resemblance despite the different cultural background.

funny that there seems to be now show like (Telly Addicts) this now

Not on prime time like there used to be - well, the prime time ones are all celeb-based now - but there probably are still some kicking around. And look at the utterly skill-free Deal Or No Deal.

I've just worked out who she reminds me of - Tracy Flick from Election. She acted as if it were her birthright to win and looked petulant when she got question wrong. It's no fun watching someone so convinced of victory that the process is almost a technicality.

I think people can do this without really being aware they're doing it

There _are_ skills involved in DOND, psychology for one, although it really is basically a game of Chicken, except with money rather than trucks.

a lot of this seems like stereotypical British hating winners type shit. didn't see the show tho.

(along with dumbed-down Mastermind)

― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, February 24, 2009 5:09 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

they'll be allowing (c)rap musics as a special subject next...

DOND with trucks = would watch

"Would you like to call Trucker Joe?"

they'll be allowing (c)rap musics as a special subject next...

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what IS Uhuru holding there?

A tribble.

true.

No, it's a furry tit.

"I think people can do this without really being aware they're doing it"

True. I just like a touch of humility. Most UC contestants (including Manchester's Yeo, who was no slouch himself) seem to manage it. I don't know. It's hard to explain why certain people you - they just do. It's not like I think she's evil.

I must admit I found last year's winning captain pretty smarmy and pompous.

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.

M*** N****, PA, United States

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