GWAN THE FUCKIN LADS GIVE IT RIGHT UP EM
― puppy bash (darraghmac), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
and finished by paxman dropping london where it counts
― puppy bash (darraghmac), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
best ever episode tbh
ilxor OC posse represent
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Monday, 3 December 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
only connect got bossed
― single bed mentality (||||||||), Monday, 3 December 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
Thanks for not being mean
― ailsa, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 03:10 (five years ago) link
― ailsa, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 03:25 (five years ago) link
i missed it :-(
― puppy bash (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 08:11 (five years ago) link
oh wow, nice one. You were v good on the quick-fire round
― Neil S, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 08:24 (five years ago) link
Penny's just dropped. Storming performance, ailsa.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 08:51 (five years ago) link
Cheers. At some point, we remember to tell Dave not to take all the credit for other people's contributions. That was not that episode :-)
― ailsa, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 11:34 (five years ago) link
Also, they totes put the missing vowels on telly faster than we get to see them. No way were we as slow or dithery as we seemed.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 12:12 (five years ago) link
Great insider knowledge. Even with the extra time there's no way I was getting 'The Richard the Third Visitor Centre'.
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 12:28 (five years ago) link
Whereas the university challenge ones...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I did a little cheer when I saw Ailsa on OC - especially as I've been missing both OC & UC a fair bit in recent times so it was fortuitous I was actually tuned in. Good work.
Was University Challenge ridiculously easy this week or was it just bizarrely focused on things I know about? I did also do pretty well on some Only Connect stuff so maybe it's early rounds or something?
― emil.y, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 14:58 (five years ago) link
the Slits questions were easy 8)
― koogs, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
I feel properly plugged into the matrix when I know what the bonus questions will be about before Paxman says it. "Oh, this is going to be songs featuring whistling"
― Number None, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
UC was easy. Was Imago an answer on it too?Just about to watch OC!
― kinder, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
xp also when you know what the songs are going to be
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/WetUnsteadyBeardeddragon-size_restricted.gif
― Number None, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
Wouldn't have clocked it was you, Ailsa! Nice to put a face to a poster.
― kinder, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link
ooh paw patrol
― kinder, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link
I am particularly enjoying all the Twitter speculation about how I'm clearly having an affair with my mate Dave because I'm leaning in to confer with him because I'm wanting to touch him with his wife (and one of my best friends) two feet away and a raft of cameras on us and not because (1) I'm a bit hard of hearing and (2) reminding him he's not a one-man team is a bit tricky sometimes :-)
― ailsa, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 00:29 (five years ago) link
I think we're back on in February - there's a lot of faff and repechage to get through first.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 00:55 (five years ago) link
Leo is irritatingly good
doing pronunciations 'n all
― Number None, Monday, 10 December 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
theyre a likeable team of eejits
― technically the international left but one (darraghmac), Monday, 10 December 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
granet a real irritant
― technically the international left but one (darraghmac), Monday, 10 December 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
OC spoiling UC there, the popular vote question.
― koogs, Monday, 10 December 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
gurr a tota-WANKER
― technically the international left but one (darraghmac), Monday, 10 December 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link
future Tory frontbencher and country-destroyer if I ever I've seen one
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 10 December 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
christmas specials continue on bbc4 guys
nice easy questions for the celebs so get in on it
― Moussa- ppl gon die (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 December 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
they're the specials of Christmas past...
this year's ones start on the 24th
― Number None, Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link
i know but ive forgotten a lot of the answers i swear
― Moussa- ppl gon die (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link
ooh thanks Number None
― kinder, Thursday, 13 December 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
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