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Gail Trimble: modest 'hot lips' or condescending hate-snab?

  1. avatar T Entertainment
    Mon 23rd Feb 2009, 2:51 pm

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/feb/22/university-challenge-trimble



    Up the 'chester!

  2. avatar tinpot anto
    Mon 23rd Feb 2009, 2:59 pm

    Oh dear God the world does not need to know about your w*nk fantasies.

    "Up the 'chester" indeed

    Euugh!

    *boak* laugh

  3. avatar JTM
    Mon 23rd Feb 2009, 3:07 pm

    What does some plain looking 26-year old perpetual student who will likely never leave the safe confines of university have to do with Norn Iron Music, leek?
    sad

  4. avatar Steven Dedalus
    Mon 23rd Feb 2009, 3:27 pm

    JTM wrote:
    What does some plain looking 26-year old perpetual student who will likely never leave the safe confines of university have to do with Norn Iron Music, leek?
    sad

    I'm sure she would be the first person to give us the correct answer.

  5. avatar T Entertainment
    Mon 23rd Feb 2009, 3:34 pm

    Anto, the Manchester team is made up of middle aged blokes, your woman is of course from Oxford. She turns me.

    OK, so discussing University Challenge is different from discussing the Oscars, camping trips, 'you know you're from Belfast when' hilarity, Louis Theroux, football, captions for someone's sister's boyfriend's birthday card, creationism / evolution, Iris Robinson, Vatican II, Christian Bale losing his rag, the Six Nations, war in Gaza, the US Presidential race, what sandwiches people like for their lunch and I could go on HOW exactly?

  6. avatar Chi-Lite
    Mon 23rd Feb 2009, 3:37 pm

    Cause it's studenty ballix, that's why.

    Nah, I'm only slegging ye. I love a bit of the 'Challenge myself.

    Town Challenge that is.

    I hate them studenty cunts, but I'll be a fan of Uncle Hugo til the day I die.

  7. avatar T Entertainment
    Mon 23rd Feb 2009, 3:53 pm

    In tune with the Sun once again, Marty:

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article2262112.ece


    What is it about intelligent students you don't like, Marty?
    Is it that they are joe dicks like?

    Phil Crossey piloted QUB to the quarter finals once. Dave Roy crashed out in the first round the year after. There's your local music angle.

  8. avatar Crackity_jones
    Mon 23rd Feb 2009, 3:53 pm

    Read that article last night. I haven't seen this series (generally only make a point if my old uni Lancaster or Queen's are on) but I'll be watching tonight. She better live up to the hype! In the question-answering stakes that is.

  9. avatar Crackity_jones
    Mon 23rd Feb 2009, 3:55 pm

    T Entertainment wrote:
    In tune with the Sun once again, Marty:

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article2262112.ece

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    laugh

  10. avatar Chi-Lite
    Mon 23rd Feb 2009, 4:08 pm

    Ha, how could I not like intelligent students, fuck sake. We're fucking class.

    although, in saying that, when i was there the Queen's quiz team was full of Rag Society "student" pricks. you know the type...the worst kind of student.

    They were also fucking stupid, and I think at once stage achieved a record low score on the boul challenge. It wasn't Crossey or Roy though....they must have been the older boys

  11. avatar DontPetABurningDog
    Mon 23rd Feb 2009, 4:35 pm

    Queens wouldn't have me either, the pricks. Given the illustrious quiz-show future I went on to, I can only say this was their loss.

  12. avatar The Grace Jones
    Mon 23rd Feb 2009, 6:30 pm

    JTM wrote:
    What does some plain looking 26-year old perpetual student who will likely never leave the safe confines of university


    I agree with your standpoint entirely. We need to get more of the big-brain folk out working in the mines, dammit.

  13. avatar Jamesy Yakuza
    Mon 23rd Feb 2009, 8:31 pm

    well they won there...

  14. avatar Daithi jasper
    Mon 23rd Feb 2009, 9:23 pm

    After getting whipped for most of it. Great come back.

  15. avatar T Entertainment
    Mon 23rd Feb 2009, 9:41 pm

    They were lucky to have been bowled a series of questions on the classics (which your woman appears to have written most of), but yes what a brilliant contest. Well deserved win.

  16. avatar Daithi jasper
    Mon 23rd Feb 2009, 9:47 pm

    Lots of Latin and Classics based questions, though Manchester seemed to get the starter for ten for most of the Latin ones. smile

  17. avatar The enfant terrible
    Tue 24th Feb 2009, 1:51 am

    Gail Trimble is no Belfast Telegraph's toothy vampire lady Gail Walker. Yum Yum

  18. avatar Sukimonster
    Tue 24th Feb 2009, 2:56 am

    Who cares what she looked like. She kicked ass.

  19. avatar DontPetABurningDog
    Tue 24th Feb 2009, 8:10 am

    Speaking of bad telly and lookalikes, is yer man Mat in the final of Masterchef really Kerry King on his days off?

  20. avatar That Man Fanjo
    Tue 24th Feb 2009, 11:01 am

    The Fires of Hell wrote:
    Judging from her hair, one can only imagine the state of her vast, unkempt etc etc.

    Thank Belial I wasn't the only one thinking the same thing.

    The eyebrows are also a dead giveaway.

    Still... she's probably too busy reading about the olden times to bother much about the whole Rob Zombie thing going on.

  21. avatar xfirefishx
    Tue 24th Feb 2009, 11:11 am

    ...

  22. avatar Sir Bob Gelding
    Wed 25th Feb 2009, 6:46 pm

    She's been offered a photoshoot by Nuts, which will be 'tastefully done'. This from a magazine that's so tasteless my Firefox shuts down every time I go near the site. That'll solve the mystery of the size and unrulyness of her gorilla salad.

  23. avatar DontPetABurningDog
    Wed 25th Feb 2009, 7:45 pm

    Nuts and Zoo are possibly the best argument yet seen for legalised murder.

  24. avatar The Ronster
    Wed 25th Feb 2009, 8:59 pm

    Re: The Sun Quiz

    i only knew the answer to the Slumdog question. Does this make me only slightly less of a genius than her?

  25. avatar T Entertainment
    Mon 2nd Mar 2009, 7:56 pm

    Corpus Christi disqualified!

  26. avatar Daithi jasper
    Mon 2nd Mar 2009, 10:03 pm

    This story just has it all.

  27. avatar T Entertainment
    Mon 2nd Mar 2009, 10:14 pm

    It's like a Greek tragedy, etc.

  28. avatar That Man Fanjo
    Mon 2nd Mar 2009, 10:20 pm

    Seriously... every 'fuder HAS to complain to the BBC... with the following demands...
    ... that the olden-times-expert hippy woman has to tidy herself up a bit.

    ... that Paxman resigns and/or commits ritual hari-kiri on Newsnight.

    ... that Fiona Bruce takes over as quizmistress on a new show entitled Spank-my-arsity Challenge

  29. avatar Portadown News Editor
    Tue 3rd Mar 2009, 1:14 am

    It's blatant class war. Or, in this case, class civil war, as BBC types recoil in horror from someone exactly like themselves.

  30. avatar 10rapid
    Tue 3rd Mar 2009, 6:55 pm

    Ha! They got disqualified cos yer mawn's not even a student any more! Answer that Trimble!

  31. avatar fopp
    Wed 4th Mar 2009, 1:52 pm

    Seems they're not the first to try this sort of shenanigans...

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7922672.stm