They must have some of the stupidest contestants on a gameshow also. The first guy said that constabulary refers to someone in the ambulance service and aborigine was the religion associated with Haile Selassie.

I used to work with a bloke called Fletch. Not him,though. Different bloke.

For trivia buffs: a fletcher is (or was) somebody who makes arrows.

I have gone beyond being annoyed at some of the contestants answers on Tipping Point and I get a strange enjoyment from it - rather like I do when I see someone who can't dance dancing.

This fella literally made me laugh out loud ! Brilliant entertainment !

Fletch's answer of 'Cornwall' to the question about which City returned the first Green Party MP tickled me too.

Yeah it is quite funny at this stage how thick they are.

Carol was absolutely useless! Honestly what is the point in pressing your button when the table is near the end of moving forward?

Do they not watch the show on TV?

I wonder if they're allowed any practice shots at dropping the counters before the game starts.

There was a young lad on The Edge a day or so ago (the one with bowling in it) who said something like "I've been quite good in practice",so presumably on that they do allow them a few shots at it before the show starts for real.

The snow pea is an alternative name for which French sounding legume? "Leg".

Just switched on to see this thicko answer 200m sprint being run in 1 minute 52 seconds as a record in 2000 Olympics

I despair

It was a poor show today. Another OTT female and a finalist getting five of the six questions wrong. I'm surprised they bothered to screen it.

That girl was the most obnoxious quiz contestant in a long time. I had to go in the kitchen before I shoved my boot into the TV!

That's quite an interesting point actually. I wonder how many sets of games they film back to back?

Perhaps they produce more than they actually need to fulfil a season, so they can drop a few when the contestants play up a bit too much. They must know irritating contestants will drive away some viewers.


On a side note, I've got to say Ben looks a little jaded at times these days; I know he tries really hard at the end with the 'ooohs!' and 'aaaahs!' but I don't see much joy in his face in the early rounds. After a mammoth filming session, he probably wakes up in cold sweats seeing nightmarish ghost drops and giant riders in his bedroom.

Again she is also useless only got one cat right so far LOL.

and then puts 3 in and don't get any out that buggered right up.

There's no way of knowing if she'd have won the £10 k - she might have pressed the button differently if she'd been playing for real.

I despair at the contestants on this. I genuinely think Tipping Point's cornered the market for having the thickest, most stupid, clueless, vacuous half wits in the history of British quiz shows. I tell you what, if you wanted to eradicate the most idiotically stupid people in the UK from the gene pool, it would be a good idea to get a list of the dimwits that've appeared on this programme.

I guess you haven't seen Pick Me on an hour earlier. They make Tipping Point contestants look like Mensa members.

... or In It to Win It.

Another pathetic bunch of contestants today, including a primary school teacher. I hope none of the parents of the kids he teaches were watching. In the head to head round almost every question was passed to the other contestant as they didn't know the answer to their question. The answer then given was invariably wrong. Woeful general knowledge.

He just described exactly why it's Goldilocks, yet went for Rapunzel. What a muppet.

And he's a school teacher.

He looks a bit like Mr Claypole from 'Rentaghost'. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...97_203clay.jpg

Seriously? I've only just woken up from a night shift so just tuned in. Good grief!

lol

He didn't know earlier what kind of animal ran at the Grand National.

A school teacher who has not heard of Isambard Kingdom Brunel...jeez