V interesting points! I hadn't thought about the money part at all.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 12 January 2024 13:44 (three months ago) link
Which reminds me, need to get an application in for the 1% Club before they ditch that as well.
― ailsa, Friday, 12 January 2024 13:48 (three months ago) link
"when the Chase isn't airing", that should be
― ailsa, Friday, 12 January 2024 13:49 (three months ago) link
Oh, the 1% club, we enjoy it at home but I do have to be mindful about looking too much of a smartarse on things I alone get right...
― Mark G, Friday, 12 January 2024 13:58 (three months ago) link
You'd do well on 1% I reckon, unless it's the one about putting a phone in your jeans pocket and turning it inside out.
― kinder, Friday, 12 January 2024 16:30 (three months ago) link
(ailsa)
Cheers. I need to practice my wacky quiz personality before applying for stuff that isn't tedious and worthy though.
― ailsa, Friday, 12 January 2024 17:25 (three months ago) link
joe muggs has a quietus thinkpiece on the jungle vs drum&bass issue, complete with a mean sideswipe at the borads lol
― mark s, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 15:05 (three months ago) link
ha, just coming here to share it
As the 21st century rolled in, journalistic tendency that you might call the Continuity Melody Maker Faction, which created an echo chamber for itself in overwhelmingly white male pseudo-academic online spaces like Dissensus and ILX, perpetuated proprietary categories that cemented the authenticity myths
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 15:12 (three months ago) link
i mean that seems like a bad description of us but i wasn't really paying attention in the relevant threads and it's not like the rest of you aren't #RONG #ALLTHETIME abt stuff :)
― mark s, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 15:16 (three months ago) link
I started a rolling D&B/Jungle thread a few years ago and it's now still around in it's second or third iteration but afaict it's just sharing tunes. May have been some threads in the 2000s he's thinking of?
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 15:19 (three months ago) link
Article is very "This is a dumb thing to talk about and here's 2000 words about why".
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 18 January 2024 11:26 (three months ago) link
Talking of dumb articles, Hitchens is back on his annual "why must woke UC ask questions about women and science rather than boring shit I like" tip. It's pretty much a retread of his last go at it
― ailsa, Thursday, 18 January 2024 12:47 (three months ago) link
What's lost in the jungle/drum&bass thing is that after that they were asked a question about the creator of House music and deliberated whether it was The Prodigy or Fatboy Slim.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 18 January 2024 22:10 (three months ago) link
that was a lol for sure
― organ doner (ledge), Friday, 19 January 2024 07:15 (three months ago) link
The P Hitchens article is hilarious, how can anyone be so lacking in self-awareness?
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 19 January 2024 10:33 (three months ago) link
in summary: shameful these young people aren't aware of the recent events of 60 years ago, too busy listening to slob music.
(archive link if anyone wants to annoy themselves without giving the dm clicks: https://archive.is/lxs4m )
― organ doner (ledge), Friday, 19 January 2024 10:39 (three months ago) link
if he'd stuck to "questions too woke" then it would be a standard anti-BBC mail article, but nooo he has to go for the "I don't understand this question and now everything seems unsettling" - truly the one true tory beliver in a world of cynical grifters
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 19 January 2024 10:44 (three months ago) link
He wrote an almost identical one when Paxman left, with the same whining about how asking questions about Artemisia Gentileschi is pandering to the woke lefties.
― ailsa, Friday, 19 January 2024 12:26 (three months ago) link
i got a five-pointer on OC last week but can't remember which.
Internal angles 55.9°, 63.1°, 62.6°
also something on UC which neither of the teams knew, but can't remember what.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon
― koogs, Friday, 19 January 2024 12:31 (three months ago) link
OC was characteristics of the Bermuda Triangle
I got it at the same point because the sum of the angles is >180 suggesting most likely it's on a sphere (or oblate spheroid).
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Friday, 19 January 2024 13:01 (three months ago) link
i didn't even add it up, it was the first triangle with a name i could think of
― koogs, Friday, 19 January 2024 13:42 (three months ago) link
I made it as far as looking at Hitchens's face before I bailed from that article. Dear fucking christ.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, 19 January 2024 22:46 (three months ago) link
they were asked a question about the creator of House music
kinda intrigued by who University Challenge thinks is the creator of house music tbh
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 19 January 2024 22:52 (three months ago) link
Frankie Knuckles. There may well have been some hedging in the "often refered to as one of the originators of house" mold mind, tho they do state pretty categorically that the term comes from the Warehouse iirc.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 19 January 2024 23:06 (three months ago) link
At least we can all agree that Fatboy Slim was indeed the wrong answer to that question
― groovypanda, Saturday, 20 January 2024 14:17 (three months ago) link
hard questions and two very good teams tonight i thought
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 22 January 2024 22:09 (three months ago) link
Don't know if there's room on this thread for Pointless chat, but I think Sally Phillips has been my favourite replacement Richard that I've caught so far. She has a lovely easy wit.
― chap, Monday, 5 February 2024 17:24 (two months ago) link
I thought I'd discussed it here, but perhaps somewhere else. I like her too. I also liked Alex Brooker, Stephen Mangan and Andi Oliver. All naturally engaging folk.
― ailsa, Monday, 5 February 2024 17:30 (two months ago) link
Thought I'd seen it being talked about somewhere, took a punt on this thread!
Andi Oliver was good, agreed. Not sure I saw any of Brooker. I find Mangan off-puttingly smarmy.
― chap, Monday, 5 February 2024 17:38 (two months ago) link
ucl very impressive
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2024 20:53 (two months ago) link
pointless answers for 'actors in the last episode of cheers' included Norm and Cliff and Carla. all members of the main cast for as long as it aired.
― koogs, Friday, 9 February 2024 18:01 (two months ago) link
(um, maybe spoilers)
I liked mangan even though I don't think I knew him from anything else. I was just glad to see Giles go. I hate that man almost as much as I hate j Lithgow.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 9 February 2024 18:11 (two months ago) link
Wait, none of those are actors
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 9 February 2024 19:55 (two months ago) link
sally phillips has been on my strong strong crush list for about twenty years
mangan has been on my shitlist since he made an ass of himself on camera walking about abandoned pigsheds in north mayo and saying shit like "gord imagine my mamma was raised in a hovel like this" u buffoon
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 9 February 2024 21:19 (two months ago) link
Also he’s a Spurs supporter
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 9 February 2024 21:55 (two months ago) link
"I have a weird set of loyalties, following England in football and Ireland in rugby"
― Number None, Friday, 9 February 2024 23:15 (two months ago) link
"Kylie, you are AMAZING!!!"
― Mark G, Saturday, 10 February 2024 00:44 (two months ago) link
Look, if these are the worst things that can be said about him, I'll take them. Considering what craven, creepy weirdos most people in British entertainment seem to turn out to be, like.
― trishyb, Saturday, 10 February 2024 15:17 (two months ago) link
<quietly>i don't like House of Games</quietly>
Mangan is good on (Portrait|Landscape) Artist of the Year on Sky Arts. but whether he's better than Frank Skinner (who did the early series) is another question.
― koogs, Monday, 12 February 2024 15:07 (two months ago) link
House of Games very much relies on the personalities of the contestants. If the people are too stupid and/or annoying, we only watch the rounds we really like -- Distinctly Average, Where is Kazakhstan, I'm Terrible at Dating, the music intros round -- and skip the rest. Even if the guests are good, there's a couple of rounds we usually skip. That said, I usually skip the final round on Pointless too, unless it's a category I care about.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 09:12 (two months ago) link
Mastermind got weird yesterday. Not seen that happen before. It was all above board wasn't it.
― Stevo, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:57 (two months ago) link
How do you mean?
― ailsa, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:07 (two months ago) link
Everybody tying, the person with the weakest first round winning. I suppose it is possible to have much better general knowledge than for the subject one has crammed for. no closing comment from the winner though maybe having to go for a tie breaker question swallowed that time.Certainly don't remember seeing the 4 way tie at least numericallyspoilers
― Stevo, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:25 (two months ago) link
Oh, ok, that didn't seem suspicious at all to me.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:32 (two months ago) link
It's gonna happen at some point, it's been going a long time
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 07:16 (two months ago) link
almost seemed like she ground to a halt when she hit the score. but maybe she had just revised her subject and left her general knowledge though not sure how you revise that.
― Stevo, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 12:10 (two months ago) link
If she was able to keep track of her score as she's playing then she's already not paying enough attention to the questions. I've seen people lose from better positions than that through just not having a wide enough general knowledge. Or through nerves. Or all manner of other reasons. You wouldn't even believe the reason I basically bottled it and looked an absolute idiot on telly with the final in my grasp, but it was absolutely above board.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 13:08 (two months ago) link
We watched house of games for the first time ever, it was one of the few things not in dutch on the tv in our antwerp holiday flat. (The existing netflix logins had been CANCELLED - 'this device is not in your account plan'.) Anyway I'm not a snob- ok I am a snob but I've enjoyed e.g. pointless, the chase. this was utterly devoid of intellect or entertainment. it was like a show for simpletons and it wasn't even trying to be funny - there were just no jokes, good or bad, no amusing between-rounds chat a la taskmaster.
― organ doner (ledge), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 20:55 (two months ago) link