University Challenge

[cailin maith]

Was that the question on flower arranging or the one on fluffy kittens?

[Churchill]

Was that the question on flower arranging or the one on fluffy kittens?

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[TimberWolf]

Gail Trimble was on the radio earlier today.
I fail to see what the fuss is about after all It can't be that odd to find an intelligent female. Can it?

Not intelligent, clever. A injured or diseased brain can start to memorise facts and that isn't a sign of intelligence, rather the inverse. A healthy mind clears its garbage and forgetting is a useful and necessary function.

[wobbegong]

Hats off to Gail Trimble, she was truly fantastic! After a fairly slow start she literally stormed through the final 10 mins. A fantastic final. Won by superior intellect. Very entertaining.

Raise your glasses to something that should make you proud for a change, instead of whingeing about the depressingly mindless Chav culture of New Leibores' Britain.

[BrilloPad]

Hats off to Gail Trimble, she was truly fantastic! After a fairly slow start she literally stormed through the final 10 mins. A fantastic final. Won by superior intellect. Very entertaining.

Raise your glasses to something that should make you proud for a change, instead of whingeing about the depressingly mindless Chav culture of New Leibores' Britain.

I only saw the last 10 minutes as I was at pilates : cleared my watching the TV inspired her....

[KentPhilip]

Not intelligent, clever. A injured or diseased brain can start to memorise facts and that isn't a sign of intelligence, rather the inverse. A healthy mind clears its garbage and forgetting is a useful and necessary function.

What did you say again?

[expat]

So the media are hyping her because she is a woman? Does it matter if she is male or female : can we just celebrate the fact that she is very clever. Whether she is white/black, disabled/abled etcetc.

IMHO it is somewhat demeaning to women to celebrate her being so clever, when we would not do the same for a man. It is as if it is especially remarkable to find a very clever woman.

I think that people don't want women to be clever. My partner's daughter (who was told at school to stop putting her hand up with the right answer in Maths all the time because it discouraged others) used to play chess in competition when she was young. She was good, but she gave it up about 13: most girls do, they start to realise that it's going to be a choice between chess and boys. Boys don't like clever girls, or at least girls who are too clever and who can beat them all the time: in school subjects you can hide it a bit until you qualify for university, but your chess trophies give it away (her entire shelf-full are wrapped up and stored away).

When I say "people" don't want girls to be clever, obviously "men" are the prime suspects; but not I think the only ones.

[Ruprect]

IMHO it is somewhat demeaning to women to celebrate her being so clever, when we would not do the same for a man. It is as if it is especially remarkable to find a very clever woman.

I think that people don't want women to be clever. My partner's daughter (who was told at school to stop putting her hand up with the right answer in Maths all the time because it discouraged others) used to play chess in competition when she was young. She was good, but she gave it up about 13: most girls do, they start to realise that it's going to be a choice between chess and boys. Boys don't like clever girls, or at least girls who are too clever and who can beat them all the time: in school subjects you can hide it a bit until you qualify for university, but your chess trophies give it away (her entire shelf-full are wrapped up and stored away).

When I say "people" don't want girls to be clever, obviously "men" are the prime suspects; but not I think the only ones.

AND she refused to do a photo shoot for Nuts magazine

[sasguru]

Have to agree with the OP that recall of facts does not make one intelligent.
The ability to be logical and problem solve (both with machines and people) is far more important.

[cailin maith]

AND she refused to do a photo shoot for Nuts magazine

She needs a bloody haircut...