mjmooney Posted March 30, 2018 Author VT Supporter Share Posted March 30, 2018 7 minutes ago, snowychap said: Bliemy, old Brian from Malvern went and won Mastermind this year (finished second a couple of years ago, I think). He won the other heat when I won my BoB one in 2014. I think he got to the final that year, too. Really nice bloke. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 1 minute ago, mjmooney said: He won the other heat when I won my BoB one in 2014. I think he got to the final that year, too. Really nice bloke. I don't know him but I see him about once a year when I go to the AGM of the management company of my mother's flat (he lives in one of the other blocks). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy Lifeboats Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Name a UK number 1 single where the lyrics are all questions. * * the backing singers sing certain parts of those questions as part of the harmony. Those don't count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 14, 2018 Author VT Supporter Share Posted August 14, 2018 8 minutes ago, Mandy Lifeboats said: Name a UK number 1 single where the lyrics are all questions. * * the backing singers sing certain parts of those questions as part of the harmony. Those don't count. Can you tell us what decade it was, so I'll know whether to bother trying? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy Lifeboats Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 7 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Can you tell us what decade it was, so I'll know whether to bother trying? If your profile details are correct it was a song you heard in the prime of your life. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 14, 2018 Author VT Supporter Share Posted August 14, 2018 32 minutes ago, Mandy Lifeboats said: If your profile details are correct it was a song you heard in the prime of your life. OK, in that I case I'll go with "When Will I See You Again?" by The Three Degrees. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Dialect quiz: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 I scored "You're not from around here, are you?" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 that's quite impressive, got me pinned 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Likewise with me , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted February 16, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted February 16, 2019 Me, too. i.e., definitely not from around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 Has me largely somewhere between Oxford, Peterborough and Reading. 15 years in Cardiff yet I've in fact gone east of my original birthplace instead dialect wise I guess that mostly means not many people from Worcester have taken the test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 Has me down in small part of where I am living now in the midlands, but largely down as being north of the border and in the highlands etc. Fascinating quiz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted February 16, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted February 16, 2019 Looks like they have me down as the West Midlands but with Nottingham and Gloucester being referenced. Split the difference and it’s more or less spot on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 1 hour ago, Shropshire Lad said: Looks like they have me down as the West Midlands but with Nottingham and Gloucester being referenced. Split the difference and it’s more or less spot on. Has me down as Wolves with a bit of Lincoln Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 Feels like the rest of the quiz is pointless when they ask the mom/mum/mam question. Even if you say ‘eejit’, ‘wee-un’, ‘nesh’ or ‘peng’, MOM will always give the game away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisVillan Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 1 hour ago, a m ole said: Feels like the rest of the quiz is pointless when they ask the mom/mum/mam question. Even if you say ‘eejit’, ‘wee-un’, ‘nesh’ or ‘peng’, MOM will always give the game away. You've got a point but I went for multiple answers on that one and I'm pretty impressed that it placed me in the West Midlands, Bournemouth specifically and London. Three for three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 16, 2019 Moderator Share Posted February 16, 2019 It didn't get me, in f,act it appears that the three influnces on the way I speak aren't represented on this map very much at all. Liverpool, Birmingham and South Wales Valleys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 It gave me Birmingham and Sheffield, which is probably pretty much exactly right since I'm local and my best friend is from Chesterfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid4ever Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 Square on Blackpool for me, never lived there, been in Preston for 14 years but before that down in leafy Hampshire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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