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

[Punkatheart]

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.....

Tate. God I'm sad.

I would go on. But not with DH.

Sadly neither of us are beautiful enough

Really? Poor kid.

Her other son is Beau, I think, which is nice. Tate - meh

Wish I could remember important and useful information

You know the questions were so dire tonight we started playing guess the question from the answers. That's a challenge, you only have about 10 seconds.

I liked th couple yesterday who ACTUALLY put their money on a male acheivement of putting the toilet seat down. I was sitting there with my jaw practically on the floor saying 'they're actually putting it on the toilet seat, how THICK can you get?'

We've been saying exactly the same. Most of them are, indeed, woefully hard of thinking.

Me and my mate were in the audience a couple of months back and there was one couple, who ended up winning a fair bit, who we were convinced were a fake couple. They just didn't ring true. We reckon they were put in to boost figures, after a longish run of nobody winning anything much.

Oh. I quite like Tate.

So it is either shiny and sparkly nice-but-v-v-dim youngsters on The Drop, or the local pub bore on the Chris Tarrant's show..

Or the "woo-I-can-feel-it-and-you're-a-lovely-lovely-person-Shirley" on Deal or No Deal.

So, where's the quiz for lovely,witty and bright people like us??

The name Tate just reminds me of that film, Little Man Tate yawn And yawning just reminds me of Emma Bunten. So all in all a yawnsome subject. yawns again

They're not likely to put clever people and have to pay out millions each week are they!

Interesting theory, Calamity

If you apply to go on the programme you have to provide photos of both of you....so clearly they whittle it down to the attractive/photogenic that way.

They also contact you to assess your personality as part of the selection process (code for weeding out the intelligent!...)

So what you are left with is the pretty but dim

Yes! The toilet seat couple.

They thought Roger Bannister's achievement was to put the toilet seat down.

And Pigging Live was an actual programme.

But they were unfeasibly good-looking and had quite spectacular teeth, so really, they probably thought 'who gives a shit when you're as gorgeous as us?'.

Oh yes. The people who appearing on Million Pound Drop are so thick that their faces are printed on the banknotes in Thickoland.

remember when it first started, just before the last Big Brother and we all thought they were fakes waiting to go into the house? it still feels like that sometimes.

I had to turn this off - it made my teeth itch. I heard Daily Mail-isms in my head - "What are they learning in school?" Doesn't anyone read anything anymore?" "how THICK are these people?" etc etc

Didn't particularly notice the prettiness of the contestants but now that it has been mentioned here, it makes sense.

Beauty and brains are a rare combination ...

Nonno it's called Only Connect and it's on BBC Four.

Excuse moi. I'm both pretty and intelligent.

If that's what they're playing at, I hope someone manages to blag their way through the interview process by pretending to be as thick as shit, and then go on to win the million

Gorgeous, Lacking Obvious Signs of Sense, but Young. Fo' sho'.

crikey its just saturday tv, if you dont like it dont watch it