DP angry with me over University Challenge

Regiments?

I have an arts degree and a postgraduate qualification. My husband is dyslexic and left school with no qualifications because " his teachers thought he was thick". However, he has a wealth of scientific and mechanical knowledge as well as a wide range of general knowledge. He can understand many aspects of quantum physics. So we both yell answers at the tv - I usually get the Arts ones, he gets the science ones and the world geography.Neither of us is good at flags or football though. We both whoop when an answer is correct (our late dog used to join in at this point too). There is an occasional "How the hell did you know that???" from one or other of us, but in a rather impressed tone. Sometimes he wins, sometimes I do. No big deal. The only complaint my husband makes is when one member of the teams we are watching doesn't seem to contribute . Oh, and if I correct someone's mispronunciation of a foreign language...

Next week you need to watch it on iPlayer first, note down all the answers and get a clean sweep

See how the poor bastard copes with that

It was a shitty response, he sounds fragile and quite bitchy. Just keep an eye out.

I’m sorry but the answer below made me laugh!
( not very PC I know )

I've been dumped for being smarter than a man 😂 since then I usually go on a date to a pub quiz quite early on. Play a few boardgames and see how they react to losing (or winning, for that matter). Filters out the ones easily intimidated and emasculated. I like a bit of competition - intelligence is attractive.

I'm currently happily single, mind 😅

If that's true, how embarrassing 😂😂😂

Id deliberately engineer some more that and see how he reacts.

It’s unattractive

My favourite University Challenge moment (misses point of thread):

Paxman: "The term Cheesemongers, Cherry Pickers, Bob's Own,The Emporer's Chambermaids and The Immortals are or have been used to describe which groups of men?"

Contestant: "Homosexuals?"

🙈

It's all about interpretation of his reactions. My DH can wipe the floor with me in a university challenge quiz. We love shows like 1% club, catchphrase etc. I'm usually better at 1% club & he hates it but I'd never say his reactions were anything other than funny & I wind him up even more. We both know it's all fun with healthy competition during the show.

I think that you need to play at every opportunity. Tell him you enjoyed it so much.

You sound pretty clever. What are you doing with him, then?

whT twat asks you to join in then says oh youve decided to win

wtf

DH & I ‘compete’ against each other every week on UC. I ‘win’ about 80% of the time.

On the occasions when DH wins he goes on and on about it for ages afterwards! It’s so tiresome. When I win we just go onto whatever we’re planning next.

We do have different education backgrounds although I would say DH is cleverer than I am generally.

He is like this about most things. On the rare occasions he cooks, he goes on about how great ithe meal was for days. Mows the lawn , i must admire it several times. Etc

why do men do this? I think it is mostly men.

If he did this to you, he definitely is regularly doing other unpleasant things. How is he behaving in other areas of your life? Could he be more loving and kinder, generally?

I used to go out with someone who was quite insecure about his own intelligence (due to a rubbish degree at a rubbish university) and he used to go out of his way to try to prove he was more intelligent than me. (like challenging me at scrabble, or wordle or seeing how many answers I got in a pub quiz (even if we were in the same bloody team).) He was so insecure, and really disliked being beaten.

It was all about his insecurity. And actually I just stopped playing games with him - he sucked all of the joy out of them.

"Because people generally tend to pride themselves on being good or exceptional at something, and that pride will often develop over a long timescale so they have considerable investment in it. It's part of what makes them them.
So not really surprising that they get annoyed when they find out it actually isn't the case."

I think you just made my point.

Maybe next time he should watch an episode by himself first, make a note of the answers, and then watch it again with you so that he can answer all the questions? Would that make him feel better?

Because people generally tend to pride themselves on being good or exceptional at something, and that pride will often develop over a long timescale so they have considerable investment in it. It's part of what makes them them.
So not really surprising that they get annoyed when they find out it actually isn't the case.

Same as when someone thinks they look good whereas actually they look awful. Telling them that isn't always going to elicit a positive response.

@Teachingquestion how long have you been with this guy?

Yessss! Hell yess to this! 😘

The new season started on Monday