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The ‘My mate & The Beast’ story;
My mate, his missus, who was driving (she’d recently passed her driving test) and their daughter pulled into Tesco, Pengam Green car park and she dropped a bit of a bollock reversing into a space, didn’t hit anyone though, no damage caused to anything. The Beast’s car was near and when she got out she apologised to him for her driving and was so relieved she didn’t hit anything. He gave her a mouthful of abuse, ‘You shouldn’t be driving, you’re a danger etc’, he ranted on at them on the way to the store. My mate, who had his daughter late in life, said words to the effect of that she knew she’d made a mistake but there’s no spilt milk etc, with this The Beast turned to their daughter and said ‘Tell your Granddad to shut up’, by now they were inside the store, my mate’s daughter hit back with ‘He’s not my granddad, he’s my dad’. He made some sarky comments, anyway, a store official came over after overhearing the raised voices and had the event explained to her, The Beast came out with the classic ‘Do you know who I am ? I want these people removed from this shop’, fair play to the store official, she told him that he’d have to do his shopping at Sainsbury or Asda from now on as he wasn’t welcome. The man came over as a self important bully.
Quiz shows have a ratio of questions apparently - how many questions per ten minutes of show (or something).
The Chase has a pretty good ratio, better than most on TV recently. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire had a really low one.
I think Fifteen To One had one of the highest of all time.
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That’s one of the things we shout at the telly about, ‘Just get on with the questions and answers for Christ’s sake. They could wrap up an hour game show in around about 25 minutes without the waffle. I know it’s all about filling time and padding it out but I’m not interested in Nuneaton scoutmaster Bob’s camping tales with the boys.
Much prefer Pointless to The Chase.
The latter is a test of knowledge and speed of recollection, whereas Pointless is more a test of the depth of your knowledge.
House of Games is a little gem which I think is moving to BBC1 in the next week or so.
Versions of Pointless have been broadcast in 13 countries and it has ended in 10. The UK version has been shown since 2009 and, IMHO, is an example of a show that has run its course. It needs to finish. As The Chase seems to be quite popular the BBC have got to come up with something good to fill the teatime slot in order to compete. I wonder if they are just dragging on with Pointless until someone comes up with a decent alternative.