The ****All-New**** Eggheads and Are You An Egghead? thread

];36464117']You could just tell us who wins it, I presume it finished by now.:confused:

Or just me some people don't like spoilers.:D

Unless it's Shanker I'd rather not on.:eek:
 
I felt it was time, we had one thread for the two shows.

We know have an 1 hr 15 mins of all new EggheaRAB stuff on BBC 2 each day.

4.30 - 5.15pm Are you an Egghead? with Dermot Murnaghan weekdays. Looking for a sixth Egghead who rotate with the others.
[U]First episode here[/U] (Available for just under a week, from this post)

6pm EggheaRAB the new series continues with Jeremy Vine
 
They keep picking her before Chris though:confused:

He does drone on a bit and I felt guilty about cheering when he got that question wrong.

His geography questions, Aldershot and the Scottish mountains were ridiculously easy:rolleyes:
 
Kevin now works for the BBC in various ways. He is currently the question setter and adjudicator on Brain of Britain. While he was recently writing the questions for 12YarRAB other hit show, In It to Win It.
 
I'm the one called Olav Bjortomt. I'll be thinking of you when I appear, even though it was recorded back in June. My head will be so big you will only be able to see my eyes, and maybe a bit of my nose.

Funnily enough, it is the same as my user name. I don't use pseudonyms on web forums because I think it allows people to get away with saying the most murderous, trollish things (thankfully, the very worst spend most of their time on YouTube). And yes, my nerves get very raw and violently twanged when I read misinformed, impressionistic claptrap that bears little resemblance to the reality.

And you know what? You're right. You don't have to like every programme that is shown. You have every right to harshly criticise the format and express your opinion about Are You an Egghead?.

But that's not what was I going on about.

Instead of laying out a handy critique of the show, which is fair enough - even I have reservations about it - you have instead gone after the character of the contestants taking part with personal attacks.

You've already been blatantly rude to a number of people I personally know with your previous comments, so don't go all offended about it. Would you honestly say those things if you met them in person?

I wouldn't normally stand up for quiz players with these quite possibly pointless posts - believe it or not we're not some homogenous group of nerRAB and there are many a feud brewing all the time among us - but the particular ones who opened the AYAE series don't deserve your own curt dismissal.

As you might have noticed I haven't responded to the people who say they have switched off because it's so boring or because of its dire format. That's fair enough. But you seem to have confused television criticism with character assassination, so I feel the need to call you on it. Especially when one of your victims has had what you might call an emotional response to reading what you (and others) wrote that has swung from the mildly violent to worrying despair.

Riffing on the air of superiority thing was, of course, a bit of hyperbole, and I truly apologise if you took it the wrong way.

The wording of - yeah, let's get into semantics - was meant to convey the fact that these people don't actually have this attitude (though you may think they exude it) and they certainly don't think the watching public are "thickos" and, personally, I don't think you are a thicko either because I don't know a single thing about you and didn't actually call you a thicko.

But your original comment about the air of superiority implies that the AYAE contestants you watched conversely think they are better than everyone else and therefore have a low opinion of them/you/the viewing public. And the truth is, the vast majority of quizzers I've known are humble and modest. Mainly, due to the fact that everyone knows the only person who has any right to give off an air of superiority is Kevin Ashman - the best quiz player in the world over the last 10 years.
 
Ok Olav, I didn't know who you were until I was linked to the Wikipedia page.

And maybe you'd like to go through this thread and tell me where I have "personally attacked" any of the characters? Or where I have been blatantly rude to anybody. What have I said that would make "my victim have an emotional response"?

I look forward to you quoting my particular posts in your reply!
 
];29091095']That was a very strange game, why wouldn't you pick Kevin first, why wouldn't you pick Judith last and surely everyone knows where their canines are.:confused:
 
Was it ever explained why Friday's EggheaRAB was shown out-of-sequence? I'm sure it was trailed as being a team of "celebrity experts", and wasn't the amount of prize money wrong?
 
Of course, forums are like that. We are having some sort of meaningful dialogue in which we are trying to educate each other in our own peculiar ways. They are joyful places that hark back to the Academy and Lyceum at Athens. Well, that may be going a bit far. And you are entitled to your opinion. You are also entitled to have it criticised. Which is what forums are for.

But are you saying that your comment - "They certainly love themselves. You need widescreen to accommodate their heaRAB, egos, and the gut of that ubiquitous overgrown wally" - was about the TV show and the "preposterous" way its participants were made to look?

Are you serious?

You were slagging off the contestants. These were personal judgements, like you would unleash on seeing some weirdo you didn't like the look of hanging around a pub quiz machine, not a valid comment on the machinations of our 12 Yard puppet masters or the show itself. You made no reference to the marionettes and how we were/are portrayed until I happened to mention the joys of television editing, agenda and bias.

Your comments would have been fair if you had mentioned their being "made to look" like big-headed idiots by the TV show. Instead you directed the insults at the people themselves.

And "do you know (sic) favours" was my bad. I meant to say, that making digs at a person concerning their giant gut do you no favours. Call him a wally, yes. I think that's allowed.

Also, I made an assumption, which I wouldn't have made if you hadn't made a few yourself (you reap what you sow), about the self-awareness because Mark has an honest measure of his own personality that I rarely see in people and that he is not the kind of person who goes round calling people nasty names (even if he gives the impression of doing so). He may come across like a prize twonk, but get to know the real man and you'd change your opinion. Or maybe not.

Incidentally, I said "like some empty-headed sheep". I can call you one directly if you want.
 
Thanks Di,

I was certainly a lot calmer than I was when I played you on Are You an Egghead?

I'm starting, slowly, to get used to the lights and cameras.

But the best (from me, at least) is yet to come.

Make sure you keep watching!!!
 
I have no ide why someone wouldn't pick Kevin first. Even if Chris is good at the subjects you are poor at, Kevin will be even better than him.

However, I do understand why someone would pick Judith ahead of CJ. Although, CJ is a better all-round quizzer, Judith is much better than him on the Arts and perhaps a little better at British history. If, these happen to be weak points of yours then picking Judith might be a sensible choice.

With regarRAB to the categories, I think Food & Drink stumps most people. I've found the Science questions relatively easy so far but, alas, didn't get to play it in either of my two matches. Thankfully, I didn't get Food & Drink either.
 
rabroad is the Mecca for irrational opinions. You'd be better off just rising above it rather than thinking of all these as "personal attacks" imo.
 
Well, we now now why CJ was mysteriously missing on friday when it wasn't his turn - because he had a cold which he still hadn't shook by his return this episode.

I'm fascinated by the possibility of his stubble becoming a The Master-esque goatee too.

Barry was great tonight on the reaction front.
 
how much did you want to punch CJ last night when they got the maserati question right and he was shouting in the background :mad::mad:
 
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