tsk
― Mark G, Monday, 9 December 2013 21:56 (ten years ago) link
McGrath out to prove
― lorde othering (darraghmac), Saturday, 21 December 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
Steve 'Fighting Fantasy' Jackson on the Christmas special right now.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Monday, 23 December 2013 20:03 (ten years ago) link
...and he's never seen Bad Santa.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Monday, 23 December 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
And they're all hopeless at basic maths. Enjoyed Llwyd's no nonsense way with the buzzer though.
― Scuse me while I kiss this guy correspondent (ledge), Monday, 23 December 2013 23:10 (ten years ago) link
Given how piss-poor everyone was in the final of Only Connect, if I wasn't so morbidly terrified of people mocking me the way I mock Jamie Karran (seriously, how the holy fuck is this guy a practising doctor - I don't think he's even stumbled within a mile of any answer requiring medical or scientific knowledge), I'd be well up for getting a team together and going for it.
Imagine NONE of them having heard of the Avengers!
― ailsa, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
Is it just me or was he final a bit easy this year? We got both walls completely and nearly all the connections before the one point mark.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 12:20 (ten years ago) link
Aye, us too. Was definitely easier.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 12:23 (ten years ago) link
Like, unwinnable games should've been a gimme for game geeks after the first clue, yet somehow they didn't get it.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 12:33 (ten years ago) link
Just watched last night's UC, my word they were all pish at maths, eh?
― ailsa, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
Srsly
― lorde othering (darraghmac), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 18:06 (ten years ago) link
squealed with excitement when Steve Jackson was on, just shoot me
― turkey & stfuing (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 December 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
these senile fuckers tonight
― Number None, Monday, 30 December 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
I hate all the all the jocular ribbing of these UC celeb specials SO MUCH
― ferret is followed! (soref), Monday, 30 December 2013 22:06 (ten years ago) link
had to switch off halfway through
UC should never be "fun"
― Number None, Monday, 30 December 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link
Stop joining in, Jeremy
― kinder, Monday, 30 December 2013 23:21 (ten years ago) link
Unwinnable Games? I can think of Old Maid...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 06:55 (ten years ago) link
Global thermonuclear war
― gaze not into the navel (onimo), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 12:00 (ten years ago) link
That was in it! (well, something from War Games anyway)
― ailsa, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 13:00 (ten years ago) link
pretty muchy any family board game at Christmas
― Number None, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 13:35 (ten years ago) link
Ha I was complaining about the festive specials on Facebook today, I said it was like a home video of the world's most loathsome family playing charades on boxing day
― sad banta (wins), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
They are all appalling, and all incredibly bad at basic maths, even the science dudes.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 17:19 (ten years ago) link
Jamie Karran can't even do ebay listings without making me want to hurt him:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Trophy-from-BBC-game-show-Pointless-/301051014773?pt=UK_DVD_Film_TV_TV_Memorabilia_LE&hash=item461809ee75
― ailsa, Wednesday, 1 January 2014 20:55 (ten years ago) link
> Who knows, you could be buying the trophy of a future Chaser or Egghead!
saw both over christmas. such smug gits.
― koogs, Wednesday, 1 January 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
what an obnoxious tosser, he shd have it revoked
― The Zinger Not the Zung (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 January 2014 22:25 (ten years ago) link
what the fuck are those stupid nu rave specs he always wears around his neck???
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Thursday, 2 January 2014 07:24 (ten years ago) link
if we had a resident advisor system in the UK i could see him never leaving university
<3 the round in which one answer was Doug Yule. Nobody got it right, obvs.
― Deafening silence (DL), Thursday, 2 January 2014 13:58 (ten years ago) link
"It's Geneva and vengeance."
"Cosine." "Cosine."
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD, DUSTY FUCKING SPRINGFIELD
Lots of good stuff today.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 6 January 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link
yeah, Robert Nozick and Four Quartets made me happy
― Emilia Fabbo (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 January 2014 22:45 (ten years ago) link
Man we got more than the Reading team by ourselves!
― Mark G, Monday, 6 January 2014 23:10 (ten years ago) link
Strangely, I was being told about George Michael's 'Being Boring' pick on Desert Island Discs only three days ago and then it comes up on UC.
― a beef supreme (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 11:34 (ten years ago) link
that's the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. You'll be hearing about it again shortly
― Number None, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 12:31 (ten years ago) link
(i am getting this with Four Horsemen by Aphrodite's Child. i've heard it about 6 times in the last 2 months in various places)
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 12:44 (ten years ago) link
lolled so much at Paxo calling that guy a smart arse. Also FINALLY the Champions League music gets an airing in the music round.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 January 2014 20:30 (ten years ago) link
it's been in it loads!
― Number None, Monday, 13 January 2014 22:01 (ten years ago) link
oh wait
FUCK YOU SOAS DUDE
― can't believe people like things (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 January 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
Haha!
― ailsa, Monday, 20 January 2014 20:20 (ten years ago) link
he's the engine in that team but clearly Football is not his subject.
― can't believe people like things (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 January 2014 20:30 (ten years ago) link
chuffed I got that Welsh one at the end
― Number None, Monday, 20 January 2014 20:31 (ten years ago) link
half got it, guessed "West"
― can't believe people like things (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 January 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link
Phil jupitus' hanging mouth is killing me
― :D@u!w/u (darraghmac), Monday, 5 August 2013 20:17 (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I saw this lad in the pub last night. Accidentally spent an age staring into his abyss of a gob before I realised where I knew him from.
― oppet, Saturday, 25 January 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
jaysus what is this Revenge of the Egghead shite?
― I never did nothing to no curry (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
The FUCK was that music round?!
― kinder, Monday, 10 March 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link
That was some fucking load of arse, wasn't it?
― ailsa, Monday, 10 March 2014 23:22 (ten years ago) link
Though finally my degree became useful as I answered the question about Daniel Dennett! Eight of the country's supposed finest brains not knowing what a dimension is was some new sort of low, I felt.
― ailsa, Monday, 10 March 2014 23:23 (ten years ago) link
"Ocular sphincter"
― kinder, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
The quiddity question could have been a little clearer.
― jmm, Friday, 4 April 2014 18:36 (ten years ago) link