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Fifteen to One
I was watching the box and discovered on Four-7 (is that what it is called? You what?) Fifteen to One (so not sure of it's usual broadcast slot). Hosted by an iPad wielding Toksvig and the planner tells me a cash prize of £40k. I only caught the last ten minutes (but not the last five of those ten because I had to finish off dinner). However I am willing to jump to conclusions one of which is that it is fucking bollocks. If Willy G was dead he'd be spinning in his grave. As an interesting aside I was always certain that Willy was gay but he's been married to three women.
Have you ever pissed on someone sexually?
it's quarter past 2
Your closing sentence has done me :')
The iPad thing looks really wierd.
I don't know why, but it just does.
What were the standard of questions like?
The original was always the best for that, tough questions but not as academic as UC.
About the same.
Some of them were really obscure, like the kind that the Eggheads would spent ten minutes discussing then explaining.
I guess I will give it another go
and forgot to mention that it is now an hour so there must be some added waffle.
wasn't sexual for me
but your dad seemed to be enjoying it
ratio of balonz bad threads : good threads
Link me to a bad Balonz thread.
Go on. They don't exist.
zzzzzzzzzz
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/4205943
My word.
The Balonz FanClub is now disbanded.
oh no £62 is too expensive
THEN WHY NOT NOT GO!?
I didn't!
£62 in 2009 is like £620 now!
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/4432292
Fifteen To One was the best quiz.
Pure unadulterated questioning and very little else. Yeah you could stitch someone up by nominating them all the time, but most of them seemed content to spread it about in the spirit of fair play. None of that nasty Thatcherite WIN AT ALL COSTS cuntybollocks that The Weakest Link et al fostered in a new generation of savvy quizzers.
Anyway, remember Frank Skinner telling this story about the programme once:
`So, at a recent filming of 15 to 1 one person had their bag stolen from the cloakrooms while they were filming. Absolutely true, this. I mean, just imagine being the person affected. They must be like 'I went on this programme and I was the only person who got their stuff nicked? What are the chances of that...'`
It'd be a great joke
if the answer to the question wasn't fourteen to one.
(Assuming WGS had his own dressing room)
Why is the answer not 15 to 1?
If, say, 15 to 1 had, I dunno, 2 people in it rather than 15 the odds of getting robbed would be 2 to 1 wouldn't it? Because the next notch down is 1 to 1 which means it'd be a certainity which can't hold because there's 2 of them.
Way to ruin a perfectly banterrific memory with a slice of horrid pedanticism, ruiner. Only on DiS etc. etc.
1 to 1 is evens
ie a 50:50 chance.
I feel bad now. I should learn to use my powers of maths for good, not evil.
Hmm. You're right y'know.
No-one to my knowledge has ever used mathematics for good.
I was on it
I was shit.
The new one?
Did you get your bag nicked?
nah the original one with Willy G
any youtube links?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p02zKfDsM-Y
Well I'm really glad this is back!
Sure, you can never hit the high notes of the original hosts, especially when they are as graceful as W.G Stewart. (I'm looking at you Vernon Kaye, Simon Mayo and John Humphries).
But when you've got a winning quiz show formula and the right balance of ego stroking tricky right answers and just out of reach wrong answers you hit the fact filled pleasure dome.