Iron Chef UK

By | April 26, 2010
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Right, I’m busy working all afternoon and evening so I won’t get to see this this afternoon. I largely suspect it’s going to lose something in translation (“a slightly ridiculous sense of fun”, probably) but I live in hope.

Allez cuisine! Etc.

Edit: Just got in from work, will watch this before I go to bed and offer some opinion tomorrow.

Edit edit: I confess my knowledge of Iron Chef boils (HAHAHA) down to those episodes Challenge showed several years ago, I’m about ten minutes in so far…

  • One word for the future chaps: Steadycam, yeah?
  • Olly and Nick are quite good commentators.
  • The atmosphere is all wrong, it could do with an audience I think, or at least something to feel a more like a stadium and less of a large TV studio.
  • BEEF!

Edit edit edit: Basically the show is a bit underdone in some parts, and a bit overcooked in others. I’ll just let you take that in for a bit.

Saturday night’s alright for writing

By | April 24, 2010
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I’m out this evening, but don’t let that stop you from having a chat about tonight’s shows such as The Whole 19 Yards, Total Wipeout, Who Dares Wins etc.

I’ll avoid the thread until I’ve watched them in the morning.

I’d just like it known…

By | April 23, 2010
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…that this is the best season of Survivor ever ever EVER.

The first Survivor All-Stars was also brilliant, so it seems clear to me – just let the same twenty people play it over and over in future, like they’d do on Japanese television.

Beat the Bodycombe

By | April 23, 2010
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It started out as a Question Too Esoteric For Only Connect by Des Elmes.

It has evolved INTO A MONSTER. And still Only Connect question editor David Bodycombe can’t solve it. Yeah, taste of your own medicine, David.

So if you’re playing along at home and you still haven’t solved it, in which case DUH, here is a complete list of the clues given:

  • Knight
  • Aerial
  • Oscilloscope
  • Scottish Flag
  • An upward pointing arrow
  • A compass rose
  • Some tortoises mating
  • A triple-coloured river
  • A thistle
  • St Paul’s Cathedral
  • A ship pointing westward
  • A chevron
  • Four letters in 2×2 arrangement
  • A slightly colourful, slightly gibbous moon
  • A 3d parallelogram turned slightly to the side with two lines running through it horizontally, conjoining in the middle.
  • A spinning star
  • A sort of Venn diagram in black and white
  • A cake
  • A lot of triangles on a flag
  • Hexagons and a leopard’s head.

There can’t be many more, but if you’ve worked out the connection and can think of any other ones, feel free to add them.

Unless he’s been secretly taking the piss all afternoon.