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[TV] Bake off fix



Super Steve Earle

Well-known member
Feb 23, 2009
8,298
North of Brighton
Just wasted an hour of my life watching Bake Off only for it to be a fix! So wimpy Rahul is bottom in all three challenges and survives. Could it be because he is the only black person and/or the only man?
 

Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
71,891
Living In a Box
That was a very poor decision as he was totally off form in all three challenges
 

studio150

Well-known member
Jul 30, 2011
29,524
On the Border
Just wasted an hour of my life watching Bake Off only for it to be a fix! So wimpy Rahul is bottom in all three challenges and survives. Could it be because he is the only black person and/or the only man?

Probably felt sorry for him, given he was clueless about Luke Skywalker and Star Wars
 


Billy the Fish

Technocrat
Oct 18, 2005
17,471
Haywards Heath
This is a flaw in the bake off format in that you're only a good as the current week.
Rahul has been the best and most consistent baker overall, this week he was useless.
He must've put them in a right pickle, do you keep the best one in or do you stick with people who have been scraping through every week and probably don't have a chance of winning.

I think it was the right decision overall, but they definitely had to use their imagination to find a reason to keep him.
 

Ludensian Gull

Well-known member
Apr 18, 2009
3,632
Thorpness Suffolk
Just wasted an hour of my life watching Bake Off only for it to be a fix! So wimpy Rahul is bottom in all three challenges and survives. Could it be because he is the only black person and/or the only man?

You would have wasted an hour of your life watching that regardless of the result .
 


strings

Moving further North...
Feb 19, 2006
9,965
Barnsley
I was gutted to lose Manon :love: However Rahul has been the most consistent baker over the series and I am pleased he stayed.

At least there is still Ruby :love:
 

brightn'ove

cringe
Apr 12, 2011
9,132
London
Just wasted an hour of my life watching Bake Off only for it to be a fix! So wimpy Rahul is bottom in all three challenges and survives. Could it be because he is the only black person and/or the only man?

Assuming the last comment is sarcastic, he was probably let off the hook as he has consistently been the best baker.
 

Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo

Waxing chumps like candles since ‘75
Oct 4, 2003
10,840
Rahul needs to man up a bit, he looks like he's about to burst into tears and/or shit himself every time Paul Hollywood goes near him.
 


Tony Towner's Fridge

Well-known member
Aug 22, 2003
5,382
GLASGOW,SCOTLAND,UK
Total joke of a program. Pru Leith must be on some hallucinatory drug with the outfits she wears. Raul was awful but ethnicity got him through. It really is crap now. Baking accounts for 10% and the ability to have a fine arts degree is the other 90%.

Poor poor poor pour pour sift!

TNBA

TTF
 

Hamilton

Well-known member
NSC Licker Extraordinaire
Jul 7, 2003
12,364
Brighton
Total joke of a program. Pru Leith must be on some hallucinatory drug with the outfits she wears. Raul was awful but ethnicity got him through. It really is crap now. Baking accounts for 10% and the ability to have a fine arts degree is the other 90%.

Poor poor poor pour pour sift!

TNBA

TTF

Raul is on Bake Off?!

Wow, they are pulling in some names.

raul-celebrates-goal.jpg
 

Hamilton

Well-known member
NSC Licker Extraordinaire
Jul 7, 2003
12,364
Brighton
And as others have said - even though he has the air of a creepy wimp - he has been consistently the best baker. He just could do a Danish bake.

It must have been close though.

Anyhow, I'm #TeamRuby

And Noel and Sandi are ten times better than Mel & Sue at presenting this.
 


Greg Bobkin

Silver Seagull
May 22, 2012
14,685
:shrug: The day I get THAT hung up about a show on TV is the day I'd stop watching TV. It's just a consumable to me – doesn't mean I don't enjoy it, but it's merely entertainment until something else comes along.

There is ALWAYS some kind of 'fix' outcry about these programmes – leading to petitions, boycotts, front page news and, often, some kind of follow-up 'story' on Loose Women or something – but within days it's all forgotten again and life goes on.
 

Super Steve Earle

Well-known member
Feb 23, 2009
8,298
North of Brighton
Can't do anything about Mel but watching on All4 solves the ad problem. Manon wasn't the worst baker but she completely ignored the "Danish" in "Danish week".

All true, but Rahul ignored the bake in Bake Off!
 

Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
72,015
I am astounded that these programmes flourish. Maybe it’s because I have no interest in watching contrived cookery programmes and am a shit cook.
 


Thunder Bolt

Ordinary Supporter
And as others have said - even though he has the air of a creepy wimp - he has been consistently the best baker. He just could do a Danish bake.

It must have been close though.

Anyhow, I'm #TeamRuby

And Noel and Sandi are ten times better than Mel & Sue at presenting this.

I liked Mel & Sue, but also miss Mary Berry.
I cannot stand Paul Hollywood, who is so full of himself, so I don't watch any more.
 

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