bd knew nietzsche, even if he couldn't spell it*. the others just had blank looks even after he'd said it out loud.
* me neither
― koogs, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 13:11 (six years ago) link
one of them tried to do bantz about it too, very bad form
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 13:53 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I couldn't spell Nietzsche out loud under any sort of pressure. But fair fucks to him for having a bash at it. Yesterday's lot were v poor. Iwan Thomas really would turn up to the opening of an envelope - I'm sure if he tries enough celeb guest spots on stuff he'll find something he's good at eventually (it's not dancing or cooking or surviving on an island or being on Countdown or quizzing).
― ailsa, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 13:54 (six years ago) link
I thought it was rather pathetic that no one knew who FYC were.
And that one whole team had never heard of Nietzsche.
And that Chiles thought the definition of 'Oxford comma' (as including the name of a city) led to the answer 'semi-colon'.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
I've recorded them and just catching up. no-one's mentioned Lee Adama?!
― kinder, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 21:31 (six years ago) link
yeah he was a surprise package
― Number None, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 21:32 (six years ago) link
Punk songs when your team has him out of Generation X in it is a fucking gimme.
Still didn't guess Wire!
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link
xpost he was really pretty good, more so than some of the stuffy old academics who seem to think anything outside of their comfort zone is entirely beneath them.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 23:28 (six years ago) link
Katy Brand surprisingly good too (actually not that surprising if you've heard her on Infinite Monkey Cage)
The other thing I find a bit o_O is the number of people who graduated after me
― koogs, Thursday, 4 January 2018 03:24 (six years ago) link
Very chatty tonight.
― koogs, Friday, 5 January 2018 01:12 (six years ago) link
0
― koogs, Saturday, 6 January 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
This Newcastle team tho
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Monday, 8 January 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
The stop-start animation one, three.
― Mark G, Monday, 8 January 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
JS Bach was none of the musics fyi
I know because I said it three times and all were wrong
Got two of the chapters of great manifestos tho
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Monday, 8 January 2018 21:06 (six years ago) link
I got "Swan Lake" after 0.025 secs, like everyone else.
― Mark G, Monday, 8 January 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
This utter cock
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Monday, 15 January 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
A friend just messaged me to say that
― hell is auteur people (Noodle Vague), Monday, 15 January 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
Ya but which....
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Monday, 15 January 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
Fucking Coco
― hell is auteur people (Noodle Vague), Monday, 15 January 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
Just checking
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Monday, 15 January 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
Urgent boy is urgent tho
The captain? He's quite annoying but I just assumed my class bigotry was showing
― hell is auteur people (Noodle Vague), Monday, 15 January 2018 20:49 (six years ago) link
all 8 of them look like a panel out of Viz's Student Grant
― hell is auteur people (Noodle Vague), Monday, 15 January 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
He was also a pushy dick to his teammates and it would not be like me to imagine he was moreso to her
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Monday, 15 January 2018 21:03 (six years ago) link
When Maloney gets one right, Howe sarcastically repeats his answer to Tindall.
― Mark G, Monday, 15 January 2018 23:50 (six years ago) link
I got all the file compression questions right. Just saying.
lz is something I associate with the Amiga, was never really popular on Windows (which favoured PKZIP) or Linux (gzip)
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 06:29 (six years ago) link
Can we talk about why the BBC moved Only Connect to the earlier slot?
I mean, OC is fine (I guess), but it's clearly the optional digestif not the first course
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 12:30 (six years ago) link
Victoria Coren is also fine (I guess) but her patter is reaching Kaufmanesque levels of punchlinelessness
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 12:32 (six years ago) link
I kind of enjoy that. I choose to see it as schtick rather than incompetence
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 12:40 (six years ago) link
it's very much a deliberate production choice
i agree it's wrong bumping UC tho, I'm not that fussed about watching OC nowadays
― hell is auteur people (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 12:43 (six years ago) link
True - it often feels like a "how far can I push this" joke with herself. I don't mind it, but my partner hates it, I can feel her teeth gnashing every time Coren does a routine.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 12:52 (six years ago) link
Oh yeah I mean you could see that
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 12:53 (six years ago) link
We're always watching OC on catchup anyway so I just fast forward past VC's ramblings. Can you imagine the smugbucket conversations she and Mitchell must have at home?
― thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
Find woodland painful
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Monday, 22 January 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
has my brain shrunk or have the questions gotten dead hard?
― kinder, Monday, 22 January 2018 21:03 (six years ago) link
There were very few gimmes tonight imo
NB doesn't mean yr brain hasn't shrunk ianad
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Monday, 22 January 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
My scoring system is: 2 points for correct, double if you get it and nobody on the show does, and 1 point if you give the same wrong answer as a contestant.
This week, I scored one point (Purcell)
― Mark G, Monday, 22 January 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
Ah now I'd have been up on double figures at least under yr system
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Monday, 22 January 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
I knew 100 points' worth of questions.
I liked the name Woodland.
― the pinefox, Monday, 22 January 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
Its a leveller, basically (xpost)
― Mark G, Monday, 22 January 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
I was forced to take a two-term long module on Alice Walker at university, so I finally had some closure on that trauma tonight (although they were all very easy questions).
I liked Woodland, cosplaying as an early 90s indie nerd
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 22 January 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
Chemistry is bullshit and chemistry questions are bullshit
Lol at the Presbyterian getting mad excited at the old testament tho
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 12 February 2018 21:33 (six years ago) link
Here now.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 00:42 (six years ago) link
Not like a politics student to have no general knowledge and no leadership skills
― Big Ched aka The Cheesedriver (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 February 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
Was that Carson?
Because both captains were bad but Carson was a real dick to his team
― rum dmc (darraghmac), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
Mistin i think? the lad from Emmanuel. the other one was probably bad too, i was half asleep.
― Big Ched aka The Cheesedriver (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
Both shite
― DUMPKINS! (darraghmac), Monday, 19 February 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
let's just agree they're all bad at this stage
― Number None, Monday, 19 February 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
Guys, Carson is a mate of mine, and he's not a dick. And he was always good at saying to his team mates when they got something right, unlike Emmanuel dude. He's a bit intense, I'll give him that.
Got the feeling Stone from Edinburgh didn't really want to be there, there was a lot of eye-rolling whenever anything vaguely academic came up (so, like, all of it)
― ailsa, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 07:25 (six years ago) link
happy to be corrected by better knowledge
Besides which, that was a curiously cagey lowscoring affair. Is there a theory or study as to when or why this happens
― DUMPKINS! (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 08:24 (six years ago) link