Corpus Christi versus TV Scoop
Gail Trimble, president of University Challenge's victorious team from Corpus Christi college Oxford, has found herself in the middle of a media simoom thanks to her lightning reflexes and encyclopaedic knowledge of etiolated plants.
Obviously this virtuosic display of natural talent is an outrage, and quite rightly hordes of morons have lined up to denounce her.
The editor of the TV Scoop blog has some sensible thoughts on the situation:
Whatever people may think, one thing has struck me - when I saw her in action for the first time last week, my first reaction was that of a genuine, massively-intelligent young woman who was actually a little bit shy.
We have to remember that she's a (gifted) student who has appeared on a student quiz show, and she certainly didn't ask for this kind of attention.
True. And he carries on:
But that's TV for you - whoever you are and whether you like or not, people are always going to have opinions about you.
That's true too. Even if you're just a contestant on a quiz show, there's bound to be some maniac somewhere who explodes about how he is "enveloped by... hatred" for you. "Not for some time have I been so angry at a complete stranger" as he is with you, the lunatic may say, presumably not having ventured beyond his front door for 20 years.
After 30 minutes watching you answer questions about Hilaire Belloc, he may conclude that you are a "brain-rupturingly irritating and smug... cocky... odious... patronising... social-retard". With no friends. Who got bullied at school. And probably still is.
Believing himself to be psychic, he may claim that he "just knows" that you sneer at thick people ("and by 'thick', I mean people who don't know as much as her, which is virtually everyone").
OK. I'm being unfair. The evidence presented against Gail is pretty compelling:
Trimble even had the gall to dribble a patronising "Oh well done!" to one of her team-mates when they got a question right.
The gall of it!
And TV being TV, it's unlikely to end there. Someone else will probably feel the need to chime in with several hundred words outlining exactly how and why you "ain't sexy", but are a "smug cow".
Not that the arguments aren't carefully weighed: "I hate that this woman seems to think it's all about her. On the other hand, she's not going to get the questions wrong on purpose, is she?"
Gee... I dunno. Can you read the question again?
TV Scoop: by and for fuckwits.
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She also revealed that a men's magazine had approached her for a photo session.
"Would you believe it - my brother received a Facebook message from Nuts yesterday morning saying 'can we have your sister's email address we want her to do a tasteful photo shoot?'.
"So of course he sent them an answer saying, 'seriously mate would you give your sister's contact details to Nuts?'."
Mrs. Rodent went off her nut when this woman appeared on screen - apparently she's a "geek, a smartarse and a know-it-all who needs a slap". It was the most unexpected kneejerk reaction to a news item I've seen from her in eight years, although, in fairness, she was pissed.
The irony of it all shouldn't be lost on anyone familiar with me or my smartarse behaviour... Hopefully the Mrs. won't cotton on any time soon.
I think this incident speaks volumes about female rivalry and class relations in modern Britain, and the instinctive sexism of British society when presented with an intelligent woman.
That said, I'll note that I'd be happy to do her.
"I'd be happy to do her."
+1
Further reading shows that the guy who wrote the article berating her has written a further one apologising for the venom of his attack.
Twat!
Just watched a clip of her in action on Youtube. What's all the fuss about? I know intellectual smuggery when I see it, and she's a million miles from it.
My interest in this woman starts and ends with idly wondering how well she would answer her starter for ten while I'm nuts deep in her mouth.
As I haven't the remotest idea what this post is all about, I am surprised I bothered to read to the end, including all the comments, but it is just as well, I suppose, because I see my pseudonymous 'admirer' has struck again. I don't mind but I just wish he could scrape up a hint of wit and style.
I agree David, it certainly couldn't be you. He isn't nearly egregious enough.
"As I haven't the remotest idea what this post is all about...."
A new blog header for D&N perchance?
Broad sniggering.
I can't imagine Duff's nuts ever being 'deep' in anything other than his abdomen.
Oi! Watch it, Ill man, I was nice to you in a recent post - and not a drop had passed my lips!
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