Mastermind misery

Hell bells, it’s a game of ‘windup’ , not ‘bitter lemons’ .

Why do I get a picture of bitter lemons when you post Gabriella how difficult it must be to always be so superior how can you bear to talk to us minions who may think a mans name defines where he hails from ( your judgements would have great fun with my surname)

I was merely informing the (possibly) uninformed that, being born and bred here, his knowledge of the country he was educated and lived in fell woefully short of even basic standards

Thank goodness for the informed
Where would the great unwashed be without them?
As for insular?
No man is an island, entire of itself - not even Luton
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Gabriella Could you define the meaning of the word insular?

Never heard of the chap until this thread.

GG are you trying to tell me who I can and cannot speak to on this thread?

Because I assure you, the likes of you won’t shut me girlie. I

Rabbit in the headlights then.

He had a good education and a degree in computer science so I'm surprised he couldn't make a better fist of it.

He's quite famous and played for England so I don't know why we wouldn't have heard of him.
Does that mean someone with a non-British sounding name is assumed to be a foreigner then?

That would include some of my family

* was not enraged, not but enraged.

Eloethan
Ignoring your last silly sentence, I was but enraged rather 'gobsmacked' that someone who has travelled more broadly and had a wealth of experience in the eye of Joe Public and the media, could know so little about the wide-ranging general knowledge questions.

MawBroon
I mentioned Luton because not everyone on here has heard of him and, given his name, might assume he had lived most of his life in another country with little knowledge of the UK.
I was merely informing the (possibly) uninformed that, being born and bred here, his knowledge of the country he was educated and lived in fell woefully short of even basic standards.

We do seem to have a lot of celebs doing this for charity recently, some winning not very large sums for their chosen charities. Are they paid to do this, how much does production cost? Far more than goes to the charity I expect.

It's all a bit Pointless..

I've seen several contestants on Celebrity Mastermind who have done very badly on their specialist subjects and general knowledge. Why does it so enrage you that this particular person's performance was very poor and why do you describe it as "insular"? I imagine there are many people "born and bred in Luton" - and other towns - who have equally poor general knowledge.

There is, in my opinion, a rather unpleasant undertone to your post.

There are humpty dumpty programmes available that celebs can go on to raise their profile money for charity. Mastermind is not live so even with editing they're not going to put themselves in the best of lights.

Maybe their agent is holding a gun to their heads?

Perhaps people from Luton have exceptionally high IQs, MawBroon?
Or a high level of general knowledge?
Perhaps Monty let the side down for Luton.

I saw him on Question of Sport and thought he did OK (well, he knew more than me!)

Perhaps he just froze - or they were just the 'wrong' questions.
How often do we watch such programmes and think 'how can they not know that'? But perhaps nerves get the better of some people.

Anja

was zero, in fact, less than a 5 yr old
An absolute disgrace, given that he was born and bred in Luton.

What relevance does being born in Luton have?

I agree that there have been some risible performance recently. I can't remember each individual celeb but when they scored badly on their specialist subject we thought maybe they'd redeem themselves with general knowledge.

Nope!

I actually think it's an insult to the charity they're supporting.

Anja
Can't Jangran99 think for herself or does she need a prompt from you?

My goodness what a harsh and judgemental post Gabrielle some people just go blank when asked questions and maybe aren’t as fast as you don’t be such a miserabke so and so
Those are my thoughts

Ignore her Jangran

You think Monty was bad? Poor fellow looked like a rabbit caught in headlights.

Did anyone see Shaun Ryder’s performance a few weeks ago. He looked and sounded drunk. Yuk!