BBC presenters!

Of course, my DC were at senior school when they were allowed a choice of humanities for GCSE, history, geography. or RE.
They all seemed to spend a lot of time at primary school and first year senior school learning about castles, and could probably design one from scratch.

There was not room in the curriculum to fit in more than one of those subjects.

By the time they get to the end of the question in University Challenge, I have forgotten the start of it. 'Only Connect' stretches the mind as well. For children learning about the past the 'Horrible Histories' books and TV programmes are good fun.

It always amazed me how ignorant Jeremy Vine was on Eggheads when one of them told him something obvious and he didn't know it, unfortunately cant recall anything specific at the moment blush blush. I have to add I like Jeremy Vine.

Oh I thought a little red face would appear where I typed blush blush,

It's important to listen to the first 3 words of a question on University Challenge. This also applies to Brain of Britain.

Waht annoys me is when some otherwise perfectly good historian or similar shows us an interesting document, picture, or map and then points or gesticulates all over it so we cannot properly see the damn thing.

I thought you would all love these 'barely literate' presenters though, as they're sure to be all be Leftie Remainers. I thought it was the Leavers who were stupid. It's a bit contradictory to your normal opinions which now, it seems, has destroyed some of your previous Brexit arguments!

? I genuinely do not understand what you mean Quizqueen

Quizqueen ? I got it and I would imagine other posters did.

Who are all these "Leftie Remainers" who work for the Brexit Broadcasting Corporation?

Are you talking about Laura Kuenssberg, Andrew Neil, Nick Robinson, John Humphries, Jeremy Paxman etc?

What has politics got to do with quiz show /magazine presenters ?

A quote from Jeramy Paxman.
if you asked me what the politics of most people at the BBC are I should say most people voted to remain most people were Labour/Liberal Democrats with a small i

That's coming from a Tory- Jeremy Paxman, like most of the BBC political staff he is so brexitty right wing that he sees everyone else as "leftie remainers".

The BBC, because it is based in London, has become socially liberal - most staff would, for instance have supported equal marriage.

However the people who matter in the political content have always been right wing, and in the last four years extremely pro-brexit.

The Brexit Broadcasting Corporation has a lot to answer for.

Nope.still don’t get it, I thought it was thread about irritating presenters/ignorant celebrities.

It was, but was derailed by an ultra right wing brexiter trying to score silly points.

I have tutored a number of students from years 9 - 11, in English Lang and Lit. Whenever I mention an episode in English or World history, I always get blank looks. They seem to learn all about World War 2 in secondary school and in primary school, they do a series of 'topics' - eg Egypt, Rome, The Vikings. They rarely know the context of these topics, within a time-line. I loved History when I was at school and appreciated that it was a continuum which doesn't seem to get through to these youngsters.

Have I been pronouncing the word Archipelago wrong. I don't think so but a person on From our own correspondent has pronounced it Archy- pel- largo. Not just once, but twice.
Are there 2 ways of pronouncing the word?

I pronounce it

Ark i (short i) pellar go
With the emphasis on the pell

I always thought it was pronounced Arcky - PEL- a - go

But perhaps I'm not posh

Sorry, I did put pellar but pronounced as peller rather than emphasising the ar, not as in 'hard'

Iyswim

Why put an 'r' in where there isn't one?

Arki-pel-ago.

I too heard that arky-pelargo!

It jumped out at me and thought I was hearing things but she then repeated it

I can only assume she's never actually heard it pronounced before - can't think why the producer didn't correct her!

Yes, felice!

The more you say it though, the odder and more wrong it sounds even if it's right.