Crying at bake off

[NigellasNeck]

I cried when Molly dropped her cake. Just a few tears.

I'm a saddo aren't I?

Usually something happens spectuately on the first episode
Yes, that's a good point that I hadn't considered, but they do often show an early 'disaster'. Grab the audience right from the start, I suppose!

I wouldn't know about that with me being a newbie. If I'd watched previously maybe I wouldn't have shed a tear?

When's the next episode?

I think it's fine to cry if something bad happens to a contestant, especially if it's someone you like. That's part of the point of these shows, surely, to become fond of certain people and not like others so much, and root for your favourites?

Poor Molly - I did feel for her. But it was all fine in the end. Danni, bless her, is a tad annoying. From one ND person to another she is definitely autistic. Her cakes also looked like they tasted foul and the judges were just being polite as it was the first week.

just read that danni is a them so for that reason I’m out.

Yes, but even if you take multiple small forkfuls, they all add up! And Nigella is brand new as a judge. Even if she got advice from Paul Hollywood, or indeed Mary Berry or Prue Leith, about how to pace herself when tasting, it’s a very different experience to hosting your own cookery show. She’s a beginner judge.

I don't think that he is part of a trouble, I think he simply lives in the same house as a couple.
Dd has a friend who shared a house/rented a room from two men who were a couple. I doubt that he would have described himself as part of a thruople though

I enjoyed it but I did feel like they were playing diversity bingo a bit too hard!

Annoys me that every series lately someone who isn’t doing very well becomes “ill” and ends up going through to another week because they don’t send anyone home! A couple of them were absolute crap.

But I’m pretty sure the voiceover said he ‘lives with his partners X and Y and their dogs.’

All the people being so ok with the throuple thing, Im sure you would be as well if it was 'he lives at home with his 2 girlfriends'?

You'd be happy to explain to your daughter that just like some people have 2 daddies, well some men have 2 girlfriends. You might be lucky enough to meet such a man one day dear.

I went back to check yesterday after someone mentioned this at work - definitely in a throuple

I don’t care too much if someone wants to be in a throuple although it’s not for me and I don’t understand it. I think it’s odd when two of the people are married and there is then a third “partner” and I find it far less uncomfortable than people being in couples but have multiple other casual partners who aren’t anything to do with their spouse on the side, that’s weird to me.

I remember when she was the literary reviewer in the Sunday Times. So sad about John Diamond her husband who died young.

Here in the US it’s not on yet.

Sorry, posted on wrong site.

I love Nigella she is very intelligent, and she knows so much about food- I just hope she still gets to be herself as a presenter on the show.
I watched it specially to see her on it- don’t normally watch it at all so that’s one extra viewer they have now thanks to her.

I was gutted too for the woman who used the wheelchair. Gutted again how everyone let her say she was going to be positive after this shit thing happened. As if it was just random chance.

Actually, I would have had a massive word with channel 4 and the production company over this, had this been me in her situation.

If an oven door tips down past the horizontal such that burning hot food can just slide out- which she had commented on- and if you are a wheelchair user and can’t quickly move your legs out of the way, then that’s bloody dangerous. So I hope she sues them so that people running shows will think more carefully about putting in equal safety needs for disabled people.

Oh bless.

You get that they do come in other configurations, right? Like the guy in GBBO is in an all-male throuple? All-female ones also possible, likewise one woman, two men? And if a guy is in a throuple, regardless of the sex of the others, he doesn’t have any more status than anyone else in it.

it's bullshit. Throughout time immemorial there are people who love attention. They will gravitate to whatever trend du jour will give them it. A throuple isn't something any significant amount of people are doing. It doesn't need 'representation'. This latest cohort are the least representative of the population. Like all reality shows, once people cotton on it's a spirigboard for fame, all the usuals come out.

Agree. just disappointing. I just want....to watch baking? Society doesn't need to normalise thrupples ffs. And are drag queens not over yet?

no. There aren't loads of people secretly in throuples. You're being ridiculous.

And you are misreading. The discussion was about ‘normalising’ throuples being a bad thing.

the contestants do not represent society as most people in society are not those things. They have gone out of their way to get people who are in no way the norm and it's tiresome.

Not attention seekers? people who enjoy baking and don't want to be a star? Contestants who actually represent most people?

I'd have been asked to leave the table as a child if I'd shoved the spoon in my mouth like that! It was like she was taking the food with her teeth, very odd.

I love your verb 'glooped'