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Old 09-08-2016, 17:08
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First time I have posted on here. I thought Oh good..a thread on UC.
I would've thought posters would be arguing over answers or boasting about how many you got right.
But no...the only topics seem to be the colour of Paxo's hair, who's trans, or looks like Rasputin.
Don't you enjoy the contest?

I got all the literature ones right last night and the paintings. I would be full of admiration for anyone who knew those theories in equation form...
I got 11 last night.
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Old 09-08-2016, 17:10
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I felt sorry for Michael, he seemed very nervous, he also struck me as maybe having some sort of autism.
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Old 10-08-2016, 13:53
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No, we're all threatened by their superior intellect. Except when they're thick as two short planks and look like monsters.

Would "boasting about how many you got right" make for a fascinating thread then?



Ah, I see that in addition to having a pop at everyone else you had a little boast too....
Of course I did...but I like it for the competition and trying to answer questions first, and puzzling over the gender of competitors second...but I'd join in that on the thread too.

I just like to see what others could get that I couldn't... I'm very easily impressed.
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Old 10-08-2016, 16:40
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Maris Piper: your user name seems familiar - were you a member of the late lamented BBC Points of View forum? And did you move to the substitute PoV forum when that one closed, and which appears to be moderated by someone on leave from the Gestapo?
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Old 10-08-2016, 16:51
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Yes. I was summarily dismissed for wanting to discuss Question Time! You could talk about TV programmes but not that one...it was a 'be nice or leave' forum.
DS seems to operate on an entirely different basis!
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Old 10-08-2016, 18:58
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Of course I did...but I like it for the competition and trying to answer questions first, and puzzling over the gender of competitors second...but I'd join in that on the thread too.

I just like to see what others could get that I couldn't... I'm very easily impressed.
Well, I can usually get about 15 -20 ish questions. Sometimes they are vaguely educated guesses, sometimes just from years of experience of UC like with a difficult sounding maths question as the third of the bonuses, have a punt at 1, 0 or ∞. It works more often than not.
Randomly answering "Battle of Bannockburn" has never worked for me though.
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Old 10-08-2016, 19:09
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Yes. I was summarily dismissed for wanting to discuss Question Time! You could talk about TV programmes but not that one...it was a 'be nice or leave' forum.
DS seems to operate on an entirely different basis!
Yes, I was immediately banned - no warning or appeal - for daring to suggest that perhaps they meant "vetted" instead of "vetoed" in a post about external links not having been "checked out". I thought I was just being helpful. I then created a fictitious user so I could discuss this with miranda, who started out being a moderator, but she had had her moderator privilege removed for suggesting something or other. Next time I looked she had been totally banned too.

We are better off here - if anyone is in any doubt, DS is a really friendly site!
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Old 10-08-2016, 19:57
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We are better off here - if anyone is in any doubt, DS is a really friendly site!
Indeed it is ... ALMOST always ...
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Old 11-08-2016, 06:47
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I felt sorry for Michael, he seemed very nervous, he also struck me as maybe having some sort of autism.

I;ve never seen anyone so nervous than Michael on UC, he could barely speak.

What surprised me was that they never got any of the music questions ( Cure,Clash, George Michael) . Fair enough Bo Diddly might have been tough for a team of early 20 year olds!
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Old 11-08-2016, 10:11
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I;ve never seen anyone so nervous than Michael on UC, he could barely speak.

What surprised me was that they never got any of the music questions ( Cure,Clash, George Michael) . Fair enough Bo Diddly might have been tough for a team of early 20 year olds!
These contestants would've been born in the mid 1990s. I'm in my 40s & can answer questions about 1980s pop music incredibly easily, but then again I can also answer 1960s ones - but with nowhere near the accuracy of 1980s ones; these kids are often a lot better on 18th century classical composers than what I am.
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Old 11-08-2016, 16:48
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No, we're all threatened by their superior intellect. Except when they're thick as two short planks and look like monsters.

Would "boasting about how many you got right" make for a fascinating thread then?



Ah, I see that in addition to having a pop at everyone else you had a little boast too....
Brilliant
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Old 11-08-2016, 16:54
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To JeffG1: Same scenario...in fact it was Miranda who warned me I was skating on thin ice..next thing I knew, the mod dropped me right in!

UC...yes, how often do competitors not recognise the Rolling Stones but they know Rigoletto straight off!

And your Battle of Bannockburn ...what was that answer that a team (years ago) gave to every question?
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Old 11-08-2016, 16:57
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Wasn't it "Karl Marx" ? Back in the days of Bamber Gasgoigne .
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Old 15-08-2016, 19:33
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A B.A. in "Viking Studies". Sounds like something The Pythons would resoundingly approve of.
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Old 16-08-2016, 01:03
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To JeffG1: Same scenario...in fact it was Miranda who warned me I was skating on thin ice..next thing I knew, the mod dropped me right in!

UC...yes, how often do competitors not recognise the Rolling Stones but they know Rigoletto straight off!

And your Battle of Bannockburn ...what was that answer that a team (years ago) gave to every question?
Battle of Bannockburn was the answer Stephen Fry's Lord Snot gave in the Young Ones episode, when Bambi had barely uttered the first syllable, and got it right.

I sometime randomly throw it in, just on the off-chance that one day it will work.
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Old 16-08-2016, 01:06
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Wasn't it "Karl Marx" ? Back in the days of Bamber Gasgoigne .
I think one team answered Marx, Lenin or Trotsky to every question.

I do remember one recent student receiving an extremely withering scowl from Paxo when he threw in "Toxteth O'Grady" as an answer.

In fact, it wasn't that long ago that I suddenly "got" the joke why Toxteth was the answer to two consecutive questions, world record holder for most marshmallows up one nostril and worlds stickiest bogey.
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Old 16-08-2016, 08:27
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A B.A. in "Viking Studies". Sounds like something The Pythons would resoundingly approve of.
Absolutely!

Both teams seemed to be finding it hard work last night I thought and Emmanuel's Captain put me off a bit by trying to enthuse his team all the time.

I thought Nottingham would probably win at the start but they seemed to falter half way through just as Emmanuel got going.
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Old 16-08-2016, 13:49
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What a comeback by Emmanuel. Nottingham totally flopped after missing that Judge question

The only question I could answer and get 25 points was the geography question lol
Oh - surprised they could manage to sneak in a set of bonus questions on GOT
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Old 16-08-2016, 18:21
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What did the Vikings ever do for us?

I was so hoping Emmanuel's captain would announce his full name as Jonathan Livingstone Seagull.
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Old 16-08-2016, 18:45
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What did the Vikings ever do for us?

I was so hoping Emmanuel's captain would announce his full name as Jonathan Livingstone Seagull.
Sadly Bobby Seagull is no Alex Guttenplan and having Susanna Shakespeare in the team didn't help much. Don't think Emma will be winning this series.
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Old 16-08-2016, 21:30
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Guttenplan... Amazing - that was 2010 when he disarmed Paxo! He never even seemed to be trying either 😁
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Old 19-08-2016, 02:09
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I have to admit, that I didn't quite grasp the very first question "What type of quark .... " and having heard the full question answered, genuinely answered, "Vanilla."

Oh dear.
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Old 23-08-2016, 03:24
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What an appalling performance by the losing team. Wow.
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Old 23-08-2016, 08:32
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Both seemed very slow to get started last night, but then Balliol really got the bit between their teeth and Imperial just seemed to implode and wanted out of there.
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Old 23-08-2016, 08:44
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Fantastic norkage on one of the competitors, it'd be sexist to say which one. (maybe I should put this on the best boobs thread?)
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