I like her but I'm not an avid viewer.


Hmmm Mind you I do think you should talk to babies as though they understand everything you're talking about, if you start like that and just carry on I think it must be beneficial - Just wish I'd thought that way when my 2 were young


You need to get out more


Me too, only I coulnd't remember his name, but I could see him in my head

That's the thing- if I stayed in more, I wouldn't encounter gameshow contestants in pubs. :P

Vicky gave in very easy on that Tree connection.

Horticulture cover a wide range of plant life.

Loved the '-fi' question, although 'something horticultural' when the answer was 'trees' seemed rather generous.

I expected her to ask for more there.

I sense the walls may take some time to solve tonight; there was less 'filler' in round one compared to last week.

EDIT: And as I say that we have a debate on service stations...

The bloke who begins every answer with "So......" needs to be tasered every time he does it. It's the only way he'll learn.

Rather easy missing vowels round there

So I wasn't the only one going "aargh" every time he did that. (And that's a valid use of 'so' starting a sentence. )

Given that they didn't even recognise Lonesome Pine or Tie a Yellow Ribbon the only reason she could possibly give them the point is the obvious favouritism she often shows. It's just lucky they didn't nick it at the end there.

No, me too. Both teams were partaking in this very annoying habit, spoiled the programme for me

It's spreading rapidly. Almost everybody interviewed on Science in Action on the radio does it.

So you're saying it's a common trait?

So what?

Yes I fully expected her to ask them to be more specific but she just handed out the points without a murmur.

I though that Chris Beer looked familiar on the Mixologists team.

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I thought so too.

Most shows have adjudicators though to resolve any disputes like that. I wonder if they do on this show and ever overrule Victoria.

I need to say this,
When you have got to the "3 strikes and your out" stage on the wall, and you have identified a possible connection between 4 of the remaining 8, don't stand there staring at the screen, PRESS THE BLOODY BUTTONS!
If your wrong, your wrong but you won't know until then and all you are doing is wasting time.

The winners did that tonight and one team did it last week (I think it was last week).


That's better

But they will tell you not pressing the buttons gives you a bit extra time to work out the connection for the other group, IF you happen to have guessed correctly.

In this case I'm pretty sure it was a deliberate tactic as the captain obviously reckoned they had all the answers correctly identified and wanted to try to run the clock down for the final round. In other cases what ATG said has applied I'm sure. I may be being cynical, but I doubt it.

I think I saw the producer or somebody else involved say that missing vowels round can be shorter and that a major factor in that happening is a slow wall round.

But you need to leave enough time for another try (unless it's your last chance) if you're wrong.

I agree. It was very much "tree" specifically. I know the first two rounds are judged differently
in terms of strictness (I think someone in the know here said as much) but they were given
that answer then in the next round the other team were not given the Prisoner answer even
though they knew the connection. I am not saying the Prisoner one should be given (obviously
you need the title not the connection there) but it only highlighted that the tree answer
should have at least have required more detail.

I agree, I'm just pointing out what I thought he was doing. He seemed very confident of their answers and their lack of aptitude for missing vowels. It wasn't a case as it sometimes is of them buying time for the fourth connection to occur to them. To be fair having identified what the last 2 connections were it was pretty unlikely not to be what he eventually pressed.

Anyone else think the walls were a bit unequal? One wall seemed far easier too me, and unless you knew backgammon you were never going to see the connection.

Where has this annoying trend come from?

I've also noticed a lot younger contestants do this on Pointless when they are asked what they do for a living e.g. "Sooooo....... I'm in the final year of Politics degree" usually before going on to score a 100 points in a Name a 20th Century British Prime Minister round.

Is it something they get coached to do at school or has it come from US?

Unfortunately it seems to be. And your use is perfectly valid of course, passing the test "following on from a previous comment".

I wish hosts etc, would pull them up on this annoying habit, perhaps making fun of their affliction. They would soon stop it then. But maybe they are too polite.

Perhaps we need a private members bill to make it an offence.