UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE - No microbe questions.

[Broga]

Here I am, minding my own business, relaxing with a few pro atheist anti religious rants, when my wife comes into the room at a rapid canter. And I can tell you she is seriously fucking upset. Next week's Radio Times comes whizzing past my ear and lands, with the kind of precision that moon landing guys deam about, to the left of this laptop.

"Is it any wonder we fall behind in science when you read this kind of crap. Look at it." There, on page 66, Monday 23rd Feb, and written by Alison Graham, TV Editor, is Alison's shameful hope that:

"not all of the specialist rounds will be too obscure (nothing about microbes, please) while you enjoy tutting at the questions that are just too easy...."

The teams are University of Manchester and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. What Ms Graham wants, in the relentless downward spiral of the BBC is questions easy enough for an audience to patronise, questions about art history or literature will be OK but not microbes. And I love that give away please - the certain indication of the fuckwit TV viewer.

Does this matter. I think it does. Science is downgraded and pushed to the sidelines; what used to be excellent programmes such as HORIZON become so chopped up to accomodate short attention spans and infiltrated with hellish music and now Alison Graham does not want microbes. Can't you just imagine her: "Yuk, there is a spider."

Meanwhile, into the maw of the gluttonous BBC religious section money pours and there are such unchallenged and obscure statements that no one understands the questions, never mind the answers.

[Smellyoldgit]

Jeremy Paxman is a loathsome twat.
I much prefer Bamber Gascoigne.

[psychodiva]

apart from that hair

[Smellyoldgit]

Bamber Gascoigne: What was Gandhi's first name?
Contestant: Goosey?

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[psychodiva]

[Kate]

Will a mod please edit the title of this thread before my eyeballs implode?

[Smellyoldgit]

[Broga]

Smellyoldgit wrote

Jeremy Paxman is a loathsome twat.
I much prefer Bamber Gascoigne.

Paxman is not only a loathsome twat but gutless. When he upset that other twat - Peter Mandelson - in the days of Tony Blair's conniving and power - by saying or implying Mandelson (now a fucking Lord) was gay, Paxman trotted round to Mandelson the following day with a note of apology. Ordered to do this by the Chairman of the BBC.

[Kate]

Thanks, Smelly!

You're my hero!


say motorbike petrol windscreen


mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Broga]

psychodiva wrote

apart from that hair

But no one's perfect - as the man said in Some Like it Hot.

[Broga]

Smellyoldgit wrote

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Wonderful.

[Smellyoldgit]

Kate wrote

say motorbike petrol windscreen

mmm.. I can only manage gas & windshield
is 2/3 of a cunning-linguist OK?

[psychodiva]

Broga wrote

"not all of the specialist rounds will be too obscure (nothing about microbes, please) while you enjoy tutting at the questions that are just too easy...."

The teams are University of Manchester and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. What Ms Graham wants, in the relentless downward spiral of the BBC is questions easy enough for an audience to patronise, questions about art history or literature will be OK but not microbes. And I love that give away please - the certain indication of the fuckwit TV viewer.

apart from cheering your other half for excellent marksmanship

WTF is wrong with questions about Art History or Literature?

*just yanking here - but I like both and they are not dumber than science- just different

[Kate]

Okay.

I'm hoping for a variety of interpretations in Normandy, should that come to fruition.

[Smellyoldgit]

Kate wrote

I've just broken into one of me sweats!