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To hate Deal or no deal

52 replies

Kasterborous · 28/10/2013 16:46

It's all this crying for each other when they open a box and a big red number is inside. All the stupid delay and build up to open the boxes, all the oh Hun I hope it's a blue (vomit). Then they have all these stupid themes, Halloween this week.

I know don't watch it, I don't usually but MIL is here and she is watching it.

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squoosh · 28/10/2013 16:48

YANBU

It's like some weird happy clappy cult headed up by a smarmy charisma free leader.

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Kasterborous · 28/10/2013 16:49

That's it surely they can't all love each other, even if they do spend a lot of time together. It's all so false.

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ClaireandGeorge · 28/10/2013 16:49

YANBU
I hate that programme with a passion. It's just sodding guessing, drives me up the wall.

GeeTeeEff · 28/10/2013 16:49

Yanbu

It's really irritating. I sit watching it hoping they all go home with a penny. Some of them are right greedy feckers. I especially like it when they turn down an offer of say £22,000 and end up with a blue. Then everyone starts crying!

Well if you hadn't been so god damn greedy you'd be leaving with thousands!

And Noels beard annoys me too. Don't ask me why I watch it Confused

usualsuspect · 28/10/2013 16:50

I hate it too.

All the bloody drama.

squoosh · 28/10/2013 16:50

At least the viewer could test their own general knowledge when watching Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Deal or No Deal is beyond painfully boring.

KatieScarlett2833 · 28/10/2013 16:51

I would be shit at this.
I'd point to a box at the start and say I want that one.
The show would last 3 mins.

Metalgoddess · 28/10/2013 16:51

I hate it, slow painful rubbish

runningonwillpower · 28/10/2013 16:51

I watched it once and it took me ages to get it.

I kept asking, 'but there has to be more to it than that?'

Apparently not.

KatoPotato · 28/10/2013 16:52

The wonderful Jon Ronson wrote this excellent piece about the show...

www.theguardian.com/media/2006/oct/21/broadcasting.arts

Almost Cult-like

sheldor · 28/10/2013 16:54

Yanbu My dp watches it.It gets right on my nerves

wintersdawn · 28/10/2013 16:56

don't get it either and my in laws are addicted to it. all the messing around on which numbers are meaningful etc. I'd be the quickest contestant in the world on it.

TorianaTollywobbles · 28/10/2013 16:59

How strange, was just flicking through the channels and thinking the exact same thing when I saw this thread!

Hate it cannot see the point of it at all.

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Kasterborous · 28/10/2013 17:01

Made me laugh today, she went home with £3,000 Noel was all 'how is this going to change your life' ''well Noel I'm going to buy a house and car' yes £3,000 would be great but it's not going to change your life!!

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Ionlywantitall · 28/10/2013 17:01

I call that programme- 'open the box or don't bother your arse!' Wink

Anyone care to guess what 'Just cook the bloody dinner' is?

Chivetalking · 28/10/2013 17:02

YANBU

Thought we'd seen the last of No-woo-el years back but the fucking universe had to have the last laugh Hmm

He, his beard and the greedy fuckers who comprise his contestants can do one Hmm

Minnieisthedevilmouse · 28/10/2013 17:03

I don't get all this 'great strategy' bollox. Surely you are just opening boxes....

Sparklingbrook · 28/10/2013 17:03

YANBU. Start the show. Open the box. The End. Angry

Is it as bad as Nick bloody Knowles though and his shitty quiz Perfection?

KatoPotato · 28/10/2013 17:03

From that article:

Last week, John - who claimed to be both telepathic and have a foolproof system - had his chance as the main player. John, a retired bank manager, had assiduously analysed 105 shows. At night in the hotel, he sat apart from the others, studying spreadsheets. He concluded that boxes 1, 2, 5, 6, 18 and 19 were the luckiest. John's telepathy manifested itself in a tingle in his fingers. If he laid his fingers on a box, and his fingers tingled, he knew the box contained a high amount. John was convinced his telepathy, coupled with his system, would make him unbeatable.

In the end, John walked away with £1.

KatieScarlett2833 · 28/10/2013 17:08

It's a bloody tombola.
Pick a box at the start, you've as much chance of winning something that way than if you go through the whole dithery, dull, talk to the banker shite.

GeeTeeEff · 28/10/2013 17:23

If they cut out all the sob story nonsense crying, Noels bullshit, the programme could be done and dusted in 10 minutes.

I usually put it on at 4.50 and catch the end part before 4 in a bed starts.

picnicbasketcase · 28/10/2013 17:24

I'd just open them all in numerical order. It's all balls. Random big hairy balls.

Except obviously I'd keep box 13 until the end because a black cat eating a four leafed clover told my late grandma that I should.

ChilledGhost · 28/10/2013 17:38

YANBU, I used to love DOND but it run its course long ago. Does Noels beard have its own stylist nowadays?