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
I think nerves may play a part, especially after a few wrong interruptions?
― ailsa, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
my wife knows carson as well appararently
glasgow's a small world
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 16:51 (six years ago) link
don't get calling carson an arsehole at all. seemed really supportive... ? like in a remarkable way?
― belcalis almanzar (||||||||), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
First in to mention there was a reference to ROCKISM in today's University Challenge.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 19 March 2018 22:11 (six years ago) link
the way that captain talks to the mic is reeeeeeeeeeeally annoying
― as the crows around me grows (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 12:50 (six years ago) link
No, Stairway
― Number None, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link
Is Carson the nicest captain? He always compliments his teammate for good answers..
― Mark G, Monday, 26 March 2018 19:58 (six years ago) link
I think he's great. There was a bit of name-calling upthread, but I've played quizzes with him a few times and he's super nice and really good at (1) deferring to people who know stuff he doesn't and (2) recognising the contributions of team-mates.
― ailsa, Monday, 26 March 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
I was on a TV quiz when I was a kid back in 1975. Thank god there wasn't 'social media' back then, I'd be in no doubt what 'the world' thought of me..
― Mark G, Monday, 26 March 2018 22:20 (six years ago) link
The question about the earth being a basketball, how were you meant to work that out quickly?
Reminds me of the binary arithmetic questions a few years ago which meant having to convert two longish binary numbers to decimal and the sum back into binary
― koogs, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 06:58 (six years ago) link
I hadn't seen UC for ages, but watched last night and thought this. They really played as a team, and they seemed willing to just say things without making each other feel like crap.
Also I have never seen a team get so many opera questions right before.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:15 (six years ago) link
damn, that was an annihilation
― Number None, Monday, 9 April 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
The winning team look like the villains in an American college comedy.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 9 April 2018 22:04 (six years ago) link