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to be dismayed by the general ignorance on display on The Million Pound Drop?

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Punkatheart · 07/05/2011 22:33

Yes I know it is a daft programme but do the producers deliberately choose the contestants because they are not bright. Or am I just being an intellectual snob?

Who doesn't know that the Queen's coronation was in the fifties and The Beatles recorded songs in the sixties? Who doesn't know that yoga originated in India, or that Mars was an ancient God?

Do people not read, talk to other people, absorb information. They seem so superficial and......oh well, maybe it's me.....

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BitOfFun · 07/05/2011 22:35

Not just you. There's a right pair of numpties on at the moment (I'm watching C4+1) who didnt know that karaoke was a Japanese word Hmm

notnowbernard · 07/05/2011 22:35

you're not allowed to be fat or ugly on that programme , either

evidently you have to be a bit fick else you might win all the money Grin

KatieMiddleton · 07/05/2011 22:35

The contestants are always unusally good looking. Dh and I did look at each other aghast several times tonight.

I still have my £1,000,000 and have kept it all evening. Unfortunately it's only real in my head Hmm

NonnoMum · 07/05/2011 22:36

I know. Have had to stop watching. Cos all that money could be MINE all MINE!!!!

Would apply to go on, but think Dh and I would be too wrinkled and not look so good is sparkly eye shadow...

bluebump · 07/05/2011 22:36

Agreed, I was saying to DP just now I could go on that programme and do better than this lot!

textfan · 07/05/2011 22:37

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DuelingFanjo · 07/05/2011 22:38

I had to stop watching after the Karaoke question. Numbskulls!

moominmarvellous · 07/05/2011 22:39

And who in their right mind wouldn't know that Ethels Willy was from Eastenders?? Honestly.

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Punkatheart · 07/05/2011 22:39

....although I did like the girl with pink hair who seemed a genuine sweetheart and was a carer for her paraplegic husband - I felt for her because my father was a paraplegic...

..but the rest. Good God. Throw away the eyeshadow and read a good book!!

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kitkatya · 07/05/2011 22:39

I loved the two Irish girls and Im so pleased they won some money.

Its true though, how young and good looking they all seem to be. Is that allowed?

Reality · 07/05/2011 22:39

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Punkatheart · 07/05/2011 22:40

....although I did like the girl with pink hair who seemed a genuine sweetheart and was a carer for her paraplegic husband - I felt for her because my father was a paraplegic...

..but the rest. Good God. Throw away the eyeshadow and read a good book!!

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Punkatheart · 07/05/2011 22:41

Yes but you can make an educated guess. Even I knew that it couldn't be Louvre or Hayward!

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Punkatheart · 07/05/2011 22:41

Clearly I liked her twice!

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notnowbernard · 07/05/2011 22:43

What has Emma Bunton called her newborn daughter?

BitOfFun · 07/05/2011 22:43

Yes but Reality, they would still let you on because you are gorgeous, innit?

ChockAGirl · 07/05/2011 22:43

I had this conversation with DP earlier I may have been ranting, he said I wouldn't be allowed on as I'd probably win the money Hmm

KatieMiddleton · 07/05/2011 22:43

Didn't Emma Bunton have a son? I foget the name.. ummm...

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Punkatheart · 07/05/2011 22:44

I am virtually gorgeous.

In real life, hideous as a mink in a mangle.

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ChockAGirl · 07/05/2011 22:44

I thought Emma Bunton had a son called Tate.

KatieMiddleton · 07/05/2011 22:44

Tate!

KatieMiddleton · 07/05/2011 22:45

x-posts.

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Punkatheart · 07/05/2011 22:45

Think of another London gallery...

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BitOfFun · 07/05/2011 22:46

I guessed Tate, only because if it had been more outlandish, I'd have noticed a thread on here about it Grin

FlamingFannyDrawers · 07/05/2011 22:46

The Mrs Sclocombes Pussy question had me throwing Cheesy Puffs (crips from Tesco) at the telly. I decided to switch off as it brought out a side of me i didn't really like.