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I watch this to be polite, because Mrs Hughes really likes it, but I really can't do with it.
To me, it's far too pleased with itself, contestants, impossible format, even the music!
I do like Victoria Coren-Mitchelll - but I have to click off before her final breathtakingly bad 'amusing' link at the end.
Anyone else feel like that, or are you fans?
To me, it's far too pleased with itself, contestants, impossible format, even the music!
I do like Victoria Coren-Mitchelll - but I have to click off before her final breathtakingly bad 'amusing' link at the end.
Anyone else feel like that, or are you fans?
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Oh, and while I'm having a moan - can someone tell whoever makes the questions for University Challenge - we're not all scientists, and whereas I always love to learn things, I learn nothing from questions and answers that I don't understand - and wonder why there is such a high proportion of them every week!
No.
It is purposely a hard quiz which is why it shares a three in a bed threesome with Mastermind and University Challenge on BBC2 on Monday nights.
Victoria is a very good host and perfectly cast.
Her Michael Portillo innuendo reminds me of Humf on Clue referencing Lionel Blair, but sadly, is usually unfunny. She should take Barry Cryer to the pub and he can write her some better material.
(I expect you always get the music round wrong, which is why you are anti).
:-)
It is purposely a hard quiz which is why it shares a three in a bed threesome with Mastermind and University Challenge on BBC2 on Monday nights.
Victoria is a very good host and perfectly cast.
Her Michael Portillo innuendo reminds me of Humf on Clue referencing Lionel Blair, but sadly, is usually unfunny. She should take Barry Cryer to the pub and he can write her some better material.
(I expect you always get the music round wrong, which is why you are anti).
:-)
The Arts/Science thing is interesting.
There was an edition of the 'Alumni' version of UC over Christmas when all 8 of the contestants were from 'The Arts' - so they all too obviously dropped all the Science content - not a single question.
I'm convinced that if the situation was reversed they'd have left a solid quota of Arts questions in, on the basis that people should know things outside their own disciplines.
Why is it acceptable to not know about quarks - but a subject for derision if you don't know King Lear?
There was an edition of the 'Alumni' version of UC over Christmas when all 8 of the contestants were from 'The Arts' - so they all too obviously dropped all the Science content - not a single question.
I'm convinced that if the situation was reversed they'd have left a solid quota of Arts questions in, on the basis that people should know things outside their own disciplines.
Why is it acceptable to not know about quarks - but a subject for derision if you don't know King Lear?
If it's acceptable to call intelligent people 'smug' how do we refer to some of the seriously thick ones on other lower level quiz shows? Ones like the woman years ago when asked Who got shot in Dallas in November 1963 replied JR or the one the when asked The Suez canal connects the Red Sea and what other body of water answered The Thames? I can't stand inverted snobbery.
To be honest I think many of the people on Only Connect have every right to look smug, I'm beside myself when I get something right in there, I'm good on the last round!
To be honest I think many of the people on Only Connect have every right to look smug, I'm beside myself when I get something right in there, I'm good on the last round!
ginge - // Love it and always have. Perhaps Catchphrase or The Wheel are more your thing? You do need a brain for Only Connect.
No need to be patronising.
You don't 'need a brain' to play OC, you need a mind that has the capacity for lateral thinking, which is not the same thing at all - I have one, but not the other.
No need to be patronising.
You don't 'need a brain' to play OC, you need a mind that has the capacity for lateral thinking, which is not the same thing at all - I have one, but not the other.
I have never been wholly taken with it, but I have to be careful what I say as I know a few people who've been on it.
I can't make up my mind if it sets out to be avowedly nerdy or if it's just a symptom of the people on it.
So I do watch, but I won't be trying to blag my way onto the Facebook page :-)
I can't make up my mind if it sets out to be avowedly nerdy or if it's just a symptom of the people on it.
So I do watch, but I won't be trying to blag my way onto the Facebook page :-)
