Reply to: Swindon is Britain's most ignorant town

[AtW]

What about Newcastle?

[DimPrawn]

Property prices reduced in christmas run-in « Express & Star


Research by property portal Zoopla on their blog showed that many sellers had lowered their expectations in the hope of landing a buyer before Christmas, making now a great time for buyers to try to land a bargain.

In their top ten areas, Birmingham was number seven with 44.2% of listings having had an average price reduction of 6.65% or £10,533.

Top of the list for bargain hunters was Swindon, where 49.5% of listings have had an average price reduction of 5.14% or £10,299.
A further £500m has been slashed off UK asking prices since August of this year.

[Wodewick]

Best is when they pose the same question a series later with the answer changed, the previous one now being wrong, though I don't have any instances in memory.

One example might be about "Cruithne" (sp) being the earths 2nd moon... and then not... or maybe or something!

[bogeyman]

Mmm, I think lots of well known people have a very different real life persona to their TV persona. Last week I was in a bar in the Hague and chatted to the guy who is in charge of all the speed cameras on the Dutch motorways; he's on telly quite a lot, being a prick and patronising people, and comes across as the kind of person you'd really like to punch. Hard. Several times. In real life he's actually a very nice bloke and quite humorous.

Yes. I suppose some people have to cultivate a public persona. I'm sure that old witch Ann Robinson is quite nice in real life (err, not).

Alan Davies likes to bite the ears off vagrants, allegedly.

[Ignis Fatuus]

What's the difference between an octopus' arms and its legs? Sure, they may push off with their back arms, but why are they called legs, or is this just rubbish? Is there an armatomical difference?

It's just matter of usage. In the case of arthropods you even speak of "walking legs" to distinguish them from the same appendages on other segments, that are not used for walking.

[Mich the Tester]

Yes. He's the token 'everyman'.

Apparently he's a bit of git in real life though.

Mmm, I think lots of well known people have a very different real life persona to their TV persona. Last week I was in a bar in the Hague and chatted to the guy who is in charge of all the speed cameras on the Dutch motorways; he's on telly quite a lot, being a prick and patronising people, and comes across as the kind of person you'd really like to punch. Hard. Several times. In real life he's actually a very nice bloke and quite humorous.

[bogeyman]

I think it´s really Alan Davies that makes it worth watching.

Yes. He's the token 'everyman'.

Apparently he's a bit of git in real life though.

[Mich the Tester]

I used to quite like QI but I'm getting rather sick of that smug, ubiquitous twat Fry.

I'm sure Swindon, for all it's faults (and there are many) is pretty much representative of any medium-sized town in the UK. The denizens of Swindon are probably no more, or less thick, than anywhere else. It's just sheer bloody snobbery.

I didn't know an octopus only had TWO legs ffs

I think it´s really Alan Davies that makes it worth watching.

[bogeyman]

I used to quite like QI but I'm getting rather sick of that smug, ubiquitous twat Fry.

I'm sure Swindon, for all it's faults (and there are many) is pretty much representative of any medium-sized town in the UK. The denizens of Swindon are probably no more, or less thick, than anywhere else. It's just sheer bloody snobbery.

I didn't know an octopus only had TWO legs ffs

[Svalbaard]

What a pile of carp.

That's all.

[TimberWolf]

Here you go. I don't remember how they scored the question on QI, but I fancy you would have lost points for saying oranges are orange

The ones in the supermarket are grown green and use a gas to remove the chlorophyll.
QI (H series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As entertaining as QI is, most people probably end up knowing less than they did before they watched a programme.

Best is when they pose the same question a series later with the answer changed, the previous one now being wrong, though I don't have any instances in memory.

[TimberWolf]

What's the difference between an octopus' arms and its legs? Sure, they may push off with their back arms, but why are they called legs, or is this just rubbish? Is there an armatomical difference?

[BoredBloke]

I guess it explains how our own DimPrawn could afford to have a mansion there, now he is happy to live in a shoebox but at least not far off London

Perhaps while he was out the birds ate the breadcrumb trail he left and he simply couldn't find it!

[TimberWolf]

Didn't QI say oranges were green the other day?

[StopTheEarthIwantToGetOff]

Residents struggled to answer a set of questions posed by the BBC quiz series QI.

These included, identifying the colour of oranges. (The answer is orange although some from Honduras are green.)

The city of York was found to have the most intelligent inhabitants who answered correctly questions such as: What is paper money made from? Answer: Linen.

Another brain-teaser asked: How many legs does an octopus have? Answer: Just two. Octopuses have eight tentacles, two for walking and six for feeding.

The quiz toured 17 towns in England, Scotland and Wales putting different questions to 50 residents in each one. David Chambers, the tour's quiz master, described Swindon demonstrating "gross stupidity" and said that some residents thought that an octopus has 13 legs.

Swindon's disappointing result comes despite the fact that it is the home of Britain's first lending library and the new UK Space Agency.

Robert Buckland, MP for South Swindon, dismissed the result of the survey.

He told the Daily Mail: "I am very proud to represent Swindon and I think that things like this are a load of nonsense."

Source: Swindon is Britain's most ignorant town, claims QI - Telegraph

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I guess it explains how our own DimPrawn could afford to have a mansion there, now he is happy to live in a shoebox but at least not far off London

May the supreme being strike me down, but I actually agree with the politico! The survey was more than likely a load of tosh. The organisers of QI should remember that making someone else look bad, doesn't make you look good. Poor show from the BBC yet again.

P.S.

Not surprised York was the best