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I liked the way Victoria said that it obviously can't be words with double vowels, but is words with one consonant instead. Sure, I can see that there are much fewer one consonant words (unless you start picking out all the obscure ones that seem to be made up just to fill a Scrabble dictionary), and why "double vowels" is obviously the wrong answer, but it feels like a interesting technicality to lose a point on.
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Am I the only one screaming 'No Vicky' at the screen? She allowed the Boardgamers a point for saying 'flowers' and the answer was '(something) petals'. Petals are NOT the same as flowers, and if the Boardgamers win by one point I will say it was a fix.
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Am I the only one screaming 'No Vicky' at the screen? She allowed the Boardgamers a point for saying 'flowers' and the answer was '(something) petals'. Petals are NOT the same as flowers, and if the Boardgamers win by one point I will say it was a fix.
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Both walls were easy tonight, as I not only completed them I even had time to type the answers.
Though it did help in the second wall that I immediately spotted the surnames of the characters in
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Victoria Coren crawls up the arse of the loathsome Pube-Heided Doctor all series. And suddenly their team gets second chances on questions, is allowed to ask the bloody quiz host for help and gets a series of questions guaranteed to play right into their strengths. Meanwhile the Oenophiles get a question correct but are shot down for not knowing the minutiae of Harry Potter exactly. Victoria, I know your willingness to squash wobbly uglies with David suggests either strange tastes or near-terminal myopia, but dear lord, have some taste. And if you can't have taste, at least have realism - you don't need to rig a quiz show to make someone that looks like that sleep with you. He's going to be infinitely grateful that you have both lady parts and a pulse. |
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And if you can't have taste, at least have realism - you don't need to rig a quiz show to make someone that looks like that sleep with you. He's going to be infinitely grateful that you have both lady parts and a pulse.
I'd agree the board gamers have had some very favourable refereeing and an awful lot of luck (to the point where VCM is even having to joke about it, it's so obvious) but I don't think there's necessarily anything that (frankly) weird going on. |
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Victoria Coren crawls up the arse of the loathsome Pube-Heided Doctor all series. And suddenly their team gets second chances on questions, is allowed to ask the bloody quiz host for help and gets a series of questions guaranteed to play right into their strengths. Meanwhile the Oenophiles get a question correct but are shot down for not knowing the minutiae of Harry Potter exactly. Victoria, I know your willingness to squash wobbly uglies with David suggests either strange tastes or near-terminal myopia, but dear lord, have some taste. And if you can't have taste, at least have realism - you don't need to rig a quiz show to make someone that looks like that sleep with you. He's going to be infinitely grateful that you have both lady parts and a pulse. I think she was too lenient on them on several occasions but they still won convincingly. I am sad we have to see the Board Gamers yet again in the Final!! |
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Victoria Coren crawls up the arse of the loathsome Pube-Heided Doctor all series. And suddenly their team gets second chances on questions, is allowed to ask the bloody quiz host for help and gets a series of questions guaranteed to play right into their strengths. Meanwhile the Oenophiles get a question correct but are shot down for not knowing the minutiae of Harry Potter exactly. Victoria, I know your willingness to squash wobbly uglies with David suggests either strange tastes or near-terminal myopia, but dear lord, have some taste. And if you can't have taste, at least have realism - you don't need to rig a quiz show to make someone that looks like that sleep with you. He's going to be infinitely grateful that you have both lady parts and a pulse. Good Lord, please save your bile for the exec producers, not the person who reads out the answers on the cards. |
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It does seem odd that there was a question about an obscure board game (at least I'd never heard of it) but there wasn't anything on wine.
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Er.. you know Victoria Coren-Mitchell is recently married, right?
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Except he's gay.
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It does seem odd that there was a question about an obscure board game (at least I'd never heard of it) but there wasn't anything on wine.
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And suddenly their team gets second chances on questions, is allowed to ask the bloody quiz host for help and gets a series of questions guaranteed to play right into their strengths. Meanwhile the Oenophiles get a question correct but are shot down for not knowing the minutiae of Harry Potter exactly.
The 'Doctor' got away with saying a ring was one of the hallows, when he should've said resurrection stone. |
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Victoria Coren crawls up the arse of the loathsome Pube-Heided Doctor all series. And suddenly their team gets second chances on questions, is allowed to ask the bloody quiz host for help and gets a series of questions guaranteed to play right into their strengths. Meanwhile the Oenophiles get a question correct but are shot down for not knowing the minutiae of Harry Potter exactly. Victoria, I know your willingness to squash wobbly uglies with David suggests either strange tastes or near-terminal myopia, but dear lord, have some taste. And if you can't have taste, at least have realism - you don't need to rig a quiz show to make someone that looks like that sleep with you. He's going to be infinitely grateful that you have both lady parts and a pulse. |
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Am I the only one screaming 'No Vicky' at the screen? She allowed the Boardgamers a point for saying 'flowers' and the answer was '(something) petals'. Petals are NOT the same as flowers, and if the Boardgamers win by one point I will say it was a fix.
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I'm afraid that tonight again left a rather sour taste in the mouth. Of course they won easily enough, but Only Connect is a programme where I'm not accustomed to shouting at the screen due to obvious injustice. I thought there was definitely one part where the camera went to the Eonophile's captain & he looked to be seething to me.
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The 'Doctor' got away with saying a ring was one of the hallows, when he should've said resurrection stone.
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Board Gamers must be the worst finalists since Kirk Shepherd!
How on earth have they made it this far? Dreadful. |
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Doctoring the questions perhaps.
Settlers of Catan question? Really?? |
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When true love comes along, jowls glistening resplendently and receding hairline dappled with the shade of Sideshow Bob's man-garden, how can you expect mere legal formality to stand in its path?
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Doctoring the questions perhaps.
Settlers of Catan question? Really?? It's not VCM's fault, she (as has been said) just reads what's on the cards, more or less. But she obviously felt uncomfortable about it - as her attempt to laugh it off with the opposition showed. if she spotted it, the production team should have. This was poor. There's no other ways about it. You might let it drop in a first round match, but this was a semi-final. A show that prides itself on intellectual rigour and standards of intelligence should do better. |
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