Daily Mail at it again

[Gwylan]

This time, people who win University Challenge are a bunch of freaks, weirdos and inadequates

Why so many University Challenge champions fail to win in life | Mail Online

How very dare they

 

[El Presidente]

Typical bloody Mail, I know one University Challenge winner who went on to become a successful mass murderer.

 

[Gwylan]

Typical bloody Mail, I know one University Challenge winner who went on to become a successful mass murderer.

Exactly. And do they give credit for that? They just play down those sort of skills

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Nah. They're all complete failures.

"... they are following in the footsteps of the original 1962 winners from Leicester. Geoffrey Ford, who was studying geology, went on to become a university librarian at Bristol, while his team mate John Hewitt is a lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University".

 

[Buzzer]

f*** sake. Can't you lot not just ignore the sodding paper if it offends you so much?

 

[Gwylan]

Nah. They're all complete failures.

"... they are following in the footsteps of the original 1962 winners from Leicester. Geoffrey Ford, who was studying geology, went on to become a university librarian at Bristol, while his team mate John Hewitt is a lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University".

Quite right, all joking aside, the article itself says that 40% of winners are in academia - scarcely a sign of failure.

Other previous winners, not included in the Mail article, are a former head of the Inland Revenue, an MP and a multi-millionaire head of a software company.

The article bases its assumptions on three or four people who have struggled in their lives (at least one of whom admits that he had problems before he went on UC).

I've no idea what the Mail's agenda is here - but it's rather silly.

 

[Notters]

f*** sake. Can't you lot not just ignore the sodding paper if it offends you so much?

I don't wanna trivialise it, but isn't that like ignoring Hitler invading Poland? They shouldn't be allowed to peddle their endless drivel.

 

[Gwylan]

f*** sake. Can't you lot not just ignore the sodding paper if it offends you so much?

Probably ... but this time it was personal

 

[Buzzer]

I don't wanna trivialise it, but isn't that like ignoring Hitler invading Poland? They shouldn't be allowed to peddle their endless drivel.

"shouldn't be allowed"

"like Hitler invading Poland"

just listen to yourselves.

Yes, you're all so much more sophisticated than the Daily Mail readers. Give yourself a pat on the back and go back to reading Polly Toynbee.

If it's untrue then complain to the press commission. If it's just that it doesn't pander to your particular predujices then don't read it. It really is that easy.

 

[User removed 4]

"shouldn't be allowed"

"like Hitler invading Poland"

just listen to yourselves.

Yes, you're all so much more sophisticated than the Daily Mail readers. Give yourself a pat on the back and go back to reading Polly Toynbee.

If it's untrue then complain to the press commission. If it's just that it doesn't pander to your particular predujices then don't read it. It really is that easy.

 

[Scampi]

I can picture you now Buzzer frothing at the mouth and throwing you favourite Norman Tebbit memorial mug across the room at the nerve of people criticising your beloved Daily Mail. Never mind calm yourself down. Have a listen of Talksport and get Bushy to nip over and give you one of his special "massages".

 

[Simster]

I think Buzzer has a point, to be fair. That paper is not going away and nor would you want it to - that's what free speech is all about.

On a related note, I see the Evening Standard in its editorial last night promised "unbiased coverage" of the election. Hmmm. Anyone else consider this an empty promise?

 

[User removed 4]

I can picture you now Buzzer frothing at the mouth and throwing you favourite Norman Tebbit memorial mug across the room at the nerve of people criticising your beloved Daily Mail. Never mind calm yourself down. Have a listen of Talksport and get Bushy to nip over and give you one of his special "massages".

Think ' humour ' is best left to those with a sense of it

 

[The Spanish]

I think Buzzer has a point, to be fair. That paper is not going away and nor would you want it to - that's what free speech is all about.

On a related note, I see the Evening Standard in its editorial last night promised "unbiased coverage" of the election. Hmmm. Anyone else consider this an empty promise?

the only difference between the standard and the mail is restaurant reviews and about 5 hours.

 

[wellquickwoody]

They shouldn't be allowed to peddle their endless drivel.

Pot, Kettle, Black?

 

[The Spanish]

This time, people who win University Challenge are a bunch of freaks, weirdos and inadequates

Why so many University Challenge champions fail to win in life | Mail Online

How very dare they

I would like to know exactly what part of them being oddball freak boffin virgins is untrue.

 

[Buzzer]

I can picture you now Buzzer frothing at the mouth and throwing you favourite Norman Tebbit memorial mug across the room at the nerve of people criticising your beloved Daily Mail. Never mind calm yourself down. Have a listen of Talksport and get Bushy to nip over and give you one of his special "massages".

My "beloved" Daily Mail? I don't read it, matey. I think it's trash.

 

[Badger]

the only difference between the standard and the mail is restaurant reviews and about 5 hours.

...and you have to go out of your way to buy the mail where as you just pick up the standard on a train carriage

 

[The Spanish]

...and you have to go out of your way to buy the mail where as you just pick up the standard on a train carriage

exactly no one used to do that when they paid. my idea has always been a paper rack on trains, to encourage sharing and tidiness. i bet wh smith would scupper it though.

 

[Gwylan]

I would like to know exactly what part of them being oddball freak boffin virgins is untrue.

Mail didn't say that - they said they'd failed in life.

Obviously the part about being oddball freak boffin virgins is true