Pointless BBC One quiz show

[butchersapron]

Gromit its fair point from butchers that heres a guy egging on the tories for having "the guts to do things that are horribly unpopular", such as take money and support away from the most vulnerable, whilst getting an enormous paycheck from the same pot. He's making that case in public

Thank you mr ska - i think to react with anything but horror, with outrage, with real genuine anger here is to fail totally.

 

[DotCommunist]

The Chase is infinitely superior. I like it when Mark 'The Beast' Labatt is playing the panto villain chaser role. Its interesting to watch his form. When he's in the balls he's untouchable but it only takes a few wrong answers for his bottle to go.

 

[ska invita]

i think to react with anything but horror, with outrage, with real genuine anger here is to fail totally.

well....if you watch tv and got angry at every arsehole on the box you wouldnt live long. Sometimes you have to apply "the filter" to get through the days

Do people ask the politics of the person that delivers their milk or serves them in a shop or fixes their boiler or does their tax returns etc.

this is partly why i dont smoke weed anymore - smoking weed makes "the filter" switch off no matter what and im left obsessing with the politics of the milkman and the general shortcomings of society. I dont think there's anything bad in wanting to know what everyones politics are - thats what engaging in life and humanity is all about. Sanity forces us to try not to think about it too much and get on with it, but its not a bad thing in and of itself - the opposite in fact.

 

[butchersapron]

well....if you watch tv and got angry at every arsehole on the box you wouldnt live long. Sometimes you have to apply "the filter" to get through the days.

Ah, see i don't really watch tv - had never heard of this show before, but have read all about this odious poshoes views - but 'job done', other people may not be aware of his sickening pampered hypocrisy, or that they pay him and pay him very well for it.

 

[Firky]

Even if he wasn't mates with Dave, it's the old classic BBC classic: Cambridge do-wellers getting their Cambridge mates a job at the BBC, (thanks to other Cambridge graduates who also got them a job).

Bradley manages to be a bit of a nob without going to Cambridge.

 

[ska invita]

By daytime tv quiz show standards its a good one though...i like ringos mate on it ive seen him on another comedy show...maybe 8 out of 10 cats - he was funny.

 

[DotCommunist]

Even if he wasn't mates with Dave, it's the old classic BBC classic: Cambridge do-wellers getting their Cambridge mates a job at the BBC, (thanks to other Cambridge graduates who also got them a job).

Bradley manages to be a bit of a nob without going to Cambridge.

I like bradleys patter but then I have a lot of time for cockney cheeky chappies

 

[zoooo]

Thank you mr ska - i think to react with anything but horror, with outrage, with real genuine anger here is to fail totally.

Yeah, you got that across when you called me too 'thick' to go to Oxbridge and an ignorant piss faced dick. A lot of prejudging from someone who seems to be against all that sort of thing.

I'm seriously not up for an argument or more being shouted at (I fucking hate confrontation, even on the internet). But I don't feel it's right for people to be so rude without anyone mentioning it. And no other fucker is going to do it for me. Ranting against people is never going to get your point across or convince them they're wrong, you can be passionate without being aggressive. And certainly without throwing personal insults around.

God, just came on here to ask when someone would finally choose Acid Jazz in the final round...

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I like bradleys patter but then I have a lot of time for cockney cheeky chappies

For some reason I felt let down when I discovered that he didn't pop out of nowhere but was in fact one of the TV companies bosses.

 

[ringo]

By daytime tv quiz show standards its a good one though...i like ringos mate on it ive seen him on another comedy show...maybe 8 out of 10 cats - he was funny.

He was funny on HIGNFY. Wasn't posh on there either.

 

[butchersapron]

Yeah, you got that across when you called me too 'thick' to go to Oxbridge and an ignorant piss faced dick. A lot of prejudging from someone who seems to be against all that sort of thing.

I'm seriously not up for an argument or more being shouted at (I fucking hate confrontation, even on the internet). But I don't feel it's right for people to be so rude without anyone mentioning it. And no other fucker is going to do it for me. Ranting against people is never going to get your point across or convince them they're wrong, you can be passionate without being aggressive. And certainly without throwing personal insults around.

God, just came on here to ask when someone would finally choose Acid Jazz in the final round...

Don't post shit about anti-posh prejudice then - simple. Also don't belittle rational objections to privilege with such crude and empty drivel as:

We're not doing the whole, ew Oxbridge we hate poshos thing are we?

if you had maybe responded in a better manner, you know, by actually saying something substantial, by making a point backed up by logic, you wouldn't have got what you did.

 

[zoooo]

If you're really interested, here's the fascinating rundown of events: I skimmed through the thread, ignoring the posts that weren't about the show, saw Firky's post immediately before mine, noticed the ominous ellipsis after the word Cambridge, thought 'oh is the general view here that anyone who went to Cambridge is automatically a knob'? (to me, a moronic generalisation) and posted as such.
I didn't see any posts by you (if there were any, haven't checked), I hadn't read or heard anything about Cameron, Tories, etc. Then suddenly you jumped down my throat with some personal insults and anger. Out of absolutely nowhere.
So yeah, seemed a bit fucking much.

If you're after substantial political conversation, there is a forum for that. I came here to chat about Pointless. The quiz show. The one in the title of this thread.

 

[butchersapron]

I repeat:

We're not doing the whole, ew Oxbridge we hate poshos thing are we?

 

[zoooo]

Yeah, I know what I said, mate. I've just explained precisely what I meant.

 

[spanglechick]

To summarise - a lot of people like pointless, but Armstrong is a nob. Richard Osman isn't posh and isn't a nob as far as we know, although he may have gone to Oxbridge. If you watch telly at all it's quite hard to avoid Oxbridge types, and the old boys' (oxbridge) network seems to dominate telly. This is news to precisely no one.
However, the full extent of Alexander armstrong's nobbery probably is news to quite a few. However those who like pointless will probably still continue to watch it.

Not least, because Bernard Cribbins.

Yay.

 

[zoooo]

Not least, because Bernard Cribbins.

<3

 

[Firky]

By daytime tv quiz show standards its a good one though...i like ringos mate on it ive seen him on another comedy show...maybe 8 out of 10 cats - he was funny.

His brother had something to do that IIRC... more jobs for the boys init!

E2A wiki says:

Osman's brother Mat is a founder member and bassist of the band Suede, and produced music for 8 Out of 10 Cats and You Have Been Watching!.

(I can't stand Jimmy Carr's laugh!)

 

[Firky]

I like bradleys patter but then I have a lot of time for cockney cheeky chappies

 

[scifisam]

Do people ask the politics of the person that delivers their milk or serves them in a shop or fixes their boiler or does their tax returns etc.

I fail to see the importance of the politics of TV entertainers. Do they entertain me? Yes. Job done.

Actually yeah, that would all matter to me.

Butchers, if you'd seen the show you might understand a bit more. Most people don't know someone's political views before they see them host a daytime quiz show, they just go on how he is on the show. AA's so much nicer than any quiz show host I've seen - the others seem to feel denigrated just by doing their well-paid job.

Ant and Dec are far worse in many ways - I've only watched their stuff because I've been paid to, and they're really fucking patronising.

 

[butchersapron]

Actually yeah, that would all matter to me.

Butchers, if you'd seen the show you might understand a bit more. Most people don't know someone's political views before they see them host a daytime quiz show, they just go on how he is on the show. AA's so much nicer than any quiz show host I've seen - the others seem to feel denigrated just by doing their well-paid job.

Ant and Dec are far worse in many ways - I've only watched their stuff because I've been paid to, and they're really fucking patronising.

And one of them voted tory - the tall one! Thing is, i don't mind what someones political views are generally - it doesn't really get too much in the way if i like them (for example Michael Bentine, nutty far-right loon with some seriously bad news mates but a genius), i happen to think that AA is a great comic actor who can play absurd situations brilliantly - he's a talented chap quite obviously. It's the smugness with which he endorses the shocking attacks on the poorest whilst getting paid by them that has pissed me off - as well as the attempts to shrug off a criticisms of who privilege operates as

We're not doing the whole, ew Oxbridge we hate poshos thing are we?

 

[zoooo]

Aw. It's okay, as one of the privileged golden few I'm used to people getting obsessed with me...

 

[D'wards]

Butchersapron - apropos of nothing, i'd just like to ask if you will watch Clint Eastwood, Jimmy Stewart, Arnie or John Wayne films.

Not a call-out just interested, so please remain calm.

 

[butchersapron]

Yes, i know that they are right wing. Have a read of my last post.

 

[scifisam]

And one of them voted tory - the tall one! Thing is, i don't mind what someones political views are generally - it doesn't really get too much in the way if i like them (for example Michael Bentine, nutty far-right loon with some seriously bad news mates but a genius), i happen to think that AA is a great comic actor who can play absurd situations brilliantly - he's a talented chap quite obviously. It's the smugness with which he endorses the shocking attacks on the poorest whilst getting paid by them that has pissed me off - as well as the attempts to shrug off a criticisms of who privilege operates as

I know it's stupid, but it's weird that two people who are so welcoming to everyone on their show and seem very like someone I'd meet down the pub are Tory voters. Maybe they've changed their minds since? *hopeful* Like you say, I wouldn't discount someone automatically just because of their politics, but I would take them into account, depending on how much I wanted to watch their stuff as well as how bad their views were. That "Cameron doing stuff others were scared to" shit is pretty bad. Others were scared to steal money from children and disabled people? Pfft. Makes me wonder how sympathetic he really is to some of the people on his show.

The Oxbridge thing is a bit difficult. There really are far too many of them at the Beeb (esp from Cambridge), but I also know some very left-wing people who are Oxbridge graduates and some others where I don't know their politics exactly but they certainly aren't Hooray Henrys. Now there's an old term.

 

[Gromit]

I like bradleys patter but then I have a lot of time for cockney cheeky chappies

I can't understand some of the questions th way he asks them during the speed rounds though. Wost quizmaster evar!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Not least, because Bernard Cribbins.

Yay.

What does Bernard Cribbins have to do with Pointless?

 

[spanglechick]

What does Bernard Cribbins have to do with Pointless?

he won pointless celebrities doctor who special on saturday. he was completely awesome.

 

[goldenecitrone]

What does Bernard Cribbins have to do with Pointless?

He's the son of Nazi war criminals.

 

[MrSki]

Pointless Celebrities is such a good name. They could have called it Celebrity Pointless but I like the slight if not the programme as much as the normal version.

One of the few regular programmes that I miss by not having a telly.

 

[Maltin]

he won pointless celebrities doctor who special on saturday. he was completely awesome.

He went down in my estimation when he seemed to blame Jax for saying Nurse Cratchet rather than Nurse Ratched.