Mastermind misery

why they *see slurs, not why they are slurs.

Not everyone on here has an interest in cricket and not everyone will have heard of him.
The sensible among you will understand that names do not define where you live but a poor performance on that show may have encouraged some viewers to conclude that he only came to live here in recent years.
Those of you who seek to find hidden agendas or racial bias in some comments need to re- evaluate why they are slurs in innocuous comments.
I said nothing about names. You did.
I would have said the same about anyone who gave a poor performance, and there have been many.
The subject of my original comment has been slated across the media so there are a lot of us who share the same views (about the performance) for the haters to hate.
Instead of intelligent discussion, it becomes a witch-hunt to find race bias, not the sort of conversation I'd expect to find on a granny forum.

Anja
Your comment says more about you than it ever could about me.
CAM.

I did once beat a contes on his specialist subject but think the questions were really easy.

Many years ago my sister took part in Mastermind and did quite well. She was highly embarrassed that she did badly (in her view) in her specialist subject questions but rather better in general knowledge. Her score wasn't high but she came second.
Afterwards she said she did freeze and answered wrongly several questions that she knew well.

I enjoy tv quiz programmes and my mental map of the African continent is much improved thanks to Pointless!

When I was 14 I was one of the girls chosen from our school to go on a t.v. general knowledge quiz against another school with an audience from both schools.

The questions were relatively easy and under different circumstances I would have been able to answer nearly all. However, I absolutely froze and hardly got any correct answers. My mind just went completely blank.

It was one of the most humiliating experiences of my life and I can sympathise with Monty Panesar.

Does anyone take Celebrity Mastermind seriously? It is a bit of fun and raises money for charity.

I am really good at CM, sitting on the sofa knowing it all but I would fall apart in front of an audience!

I did really well and the general knowledge on the normal Mastermind this week and said to DH that I could be a contestant if only I had a specialised subject and could compete in public. Just so easy to know it all when not having to prove it publicly.

Sincere apologies to all vertigo suffering eggs who like to perch precariously on walls.

Not a good idea IMO.

Sorry, humptydumpty I forgot we had a real life one on Gransnet.

When I was growing up it meant lots of and of no particular importance.

I have no idea where the expression came from.

merlotgran what are these 'humpty dumpty' programmes of which you speak?!

No, merlot, I hope you kwim!

Crossed posts, Jalima.

Are you referring to everyone who made a comment about a poor performance on Celebrity Mastermind, Jalima?

I do hope not.

When I say keyboard warriors I mean out there, there seems only to be one on here.

Poor Monty BSc, England cricketer.

One misjudged appearance on tv done in all good faith for charity and he is condemned for ever by keyboard warriors who hide behind their anonymity.

Same thing Anja

Or just plain nastiness.

Anja I didn’t say it was a joke I said it was a wind up, not the same.

Wind ups - reving up a car to annoy/upset neighbours,
Children who play noisy games close to a persons home just to annoy in the hope it will cause someone to react.

Showing off, attention seeking .

(In the most patronising voice possible).
Well done j and a. Good girls!

The more I think about it the worse it gets. How can any decent human being invite readers to line up and laugh at someone who did badly in a quiz and probably feels rather bad about it?
(And he isn't even a foreigner!!)

I must admit that I'm sometimes amazed at the ignorance of "celebrities"... nevertheless, they have the courage to sit in the black chair, and I don't! So I admire their guts.

I have been amazed more than once at posters who deliver pronouncements of such pomposity that they simply beg to be ridiculed.
Whether on matters political/Brexit/the deserving or undeserving poor/geographical/style/ or even grammatical (and still get it wrong)
There must be a lot of egg on some faces!

Annie the cry of the bully is ‘I was just joking’

I couldn’t give a tnker’s fart myself but there are others who are more fragile. I’m not impressed by ‘friends of....’ who back these sorts up. Think on.

mcem
As you can see, my face, matches my grief!
( My mum's response to those who showed unnecessary malice.)

mcem yes ma’am!

Nastiness is par for the course with some posters!
jangran and anja I hope you silly girls have taken to heart that telling-off and are sitting on the naughty step, duly chastened.

Annie could well be right. It must be a windup!
Surely no-one could actually reach that level of arrogance (and insularity) otherwise, could they?