Only Connect with Victoria Coren

[coppernorks]

She got through all of last night's episode without mentioning her Dad.

Not one of that music lovers team recognised a concertina ?

[ajprice]

coppernorks said:

She got through all of last night's episode without mentioning her Dad.

Not one of that music lovers team recognised a concertina ?

I'm not musical but I was thinking accordion.

[SpeckledJim]

ajprice said:

coppernorks said:

She got through all of last night's episode without mentioning her Dad.

Not one of that music lovers team recognised a concertina ?

I'm not musical but I was thinking accordion.

And I was just thinking about squeezing two things together. I'm not really Only Connect material, to be honest.

[snuffy]

coppernorks said:

She got through all of last night's episode without mentioning her Dad.

She's not done that for ages now.

coppernorks said:

Not one of that music lovers team recognised a concertina ?

I thought it might have been "box". Because isn't a concertina also called a squeezebox and they also had a form with boxes on - so "box ticking".

But last nights were way easier than the previous week. I normally get most of the wall and most of the missing vowels but last week I got none of those.

[PhilboSE]

snuffy said:

coppernorks said:

She got through all of last night's episode without mentioning her Dad.

She's not done that for ages now.

Apart from the previous week's episode when she told everyone her dad's birthday, and then checked later in the show to make sure everyone had memorised it!

However I can forgive Victoria most things, apart from how scathing and condescending she is about anything "normal" that doesn't happen to be one of her pet hobbies.

[Portofoni]

She claimed last night to have little to no experience of X Box and Nintendo console stuff .

[Truckosaurus]

Portofoni said:

She claimed last night to have little to no experience of X Box and Nintendo console stuff .

I didn't think that is especially odd. I must be a similar age and have never knowingly played on an XBox or Nintendo, despite owning a number of Playstations.

[snuffy]

SpeckledJim said:

And I was just thinking about squeezing two things together.

Ooh, Matron !

[snuffy]

PhilboSE said:

snuffy said:

coppernorks said:

She got through all of last night's episode without mentioning her Dad.

She's not done that for ages now.

Apart from the previous week's episode when she told everyone her dad's birthday, and then checked later in the show to make sure everyone had memorised it!

However I can forgive Victoria most things, apart from how scathing and condescending she is about anything "normal" that doesn't happen to be one of her pet hobbies.

You might be right there. But she certainly does not mention him almost every week, which she used to do.

[droopsnoot]

coppernorks said:

Not one of that music lovers team recognised a concertina ?

I was thinking that it was things whose names ended in "ena", rather than rhyming with the sound "eena", and I wondered if they were thinking the same thing.

[Zad]

bigandclever said:

ajprice said:

The Mad Monk said:

Zad said:

You think she needs the show? You do know what she does for a "day" job, and how much she rakes in from it?

Er. No.

What does she do for a day job?

And how much does she get from it?

She's a pro poker player and she's won $2.5m in tournaments.

Over 20 years. And in the main from two tournament wins. It’s hardly her ‘day job’. In fact, she won nothing on the circuit in 2015,16,18 and 19. 2017 she won $8k and in 2020 she won $30k.

You might want to check the thread date.
I posted that in 2014.

[bigandclever]

Zad said:

bigandclever said:

ajprice said:

The Mad Monk said:

Zad said:

You think she needs the show? You do know what she does for a "day" job, and how much she rakes in from it?

Er. No.

What does she do for a day job?

And how much does she get from it?

She's a pro poker player and she's won $2.5m in tournaments.

Over 20 years. And in the main from two tournament wins. It’s hardly her ‘day job’. In fact, she won nothing on the circuit in 2015,16,18 and 19. 2017 she won $8k and in 2020 she won $30k.

You might want to check the thread date.
I posted that in 2014.

You need to have a word with ajprice for bumping it, not me.

Not that it particularly matters, her day job has never been poker, but it’s a good story.

[ray von]

bigandclever said:

ajprice said:

The Mad Monk said:

Zad said:

You think she needs the show? You do know what she does for a "day" job, and how much she rakes in from it?

Er. No.

What does she do for a day job?

And how much does she get from it?

She's a pro poker player and she's won $2.5m in tournaments.

Over 20 years. And in the main from two tournament wins. It’s hardly her ‘day job’. In fact, she won nothing on the circuit in 2015,16,18 and 19. 2017 she won $8k and in 2020 she won $30k.

To be fair to Zad though when he posted it 7 years ago he could be forgiven for not knowing she'd win next to nothing in the next 6yrs

[ajprice]

bigandclever said:

You need to have a word with ajprice for bumping it, not me.

Not that it particularly matters, her day job has never been poker, but it’s a good story.

Not guilty, Mad Monk quoted your post, I answered.

[coppernorks]

Vicky was rightly impressed, takes some memory to recall the position of letters on a qwerty.

[FunkyNige]

My wife was annoyed with Victoria Coren the week before when she made a sniffy comment about Norwich when one of the teams mentioned it having two cathedrals, think Coren replied with something like "two cathedrals? Are they particularly pious in Norwich?" when we actually do have two cathedrals!

[bigandclever]

FunkyNige said:

My wife was annoyed with Victoria Coren the week before when she made a sniffy comment about Norwich when one of the teams mentioned it having two cathedrals, think Coren replied with something like "two cathedrals? Are they particularly pious in Norwich?" when we actually do have two cathedrals!

That only makes sense if you don't know what pious means

[budgie smuggler]

Worthy winners last night. Weirdly easy questions and wall though, managed to get 5 questions right and completed both walls. Best result ever for me!

Saw Frances has been taking some flack on twitter for telling their teammates to "do your job!"

[Little Pete]

budgie smuggler said:

Worthy winners last night. Weirdly easy questions and wall though, managed to get 5 questions right and completed both walls. Best result ever for me!

Saw Frances has been taking some flack on twitter for telling their teammates to "do your job!"

We struggled with the first wall but got the second one. I say we, I mean the wife! Aced the missing vowels though.

[Little Pete]

budgie smuggler said:

Worthy winners last night. Weirdly easy questions and wall though, managed to get 5 questions right and completed both walls. Best result ever for me!

Saw Frances has been taking some flack on twitter for telling their teammates to "do your job!"

We struggled with the first wall but got the second one. I say we, I mean the wife! Aced the missing vowels though.