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The Mandos boys did a whole episode dissecting him and his stand up, it’s a few years old now but as someone with very little exposure to his oeuvre, I found it quite fascinating. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mandatory-redistribution-party/id1474450871?i=1000598173130

Maya folding faster than Superman on laundry day after some fairly gentle questioning was enjoyable. I loved Romesh and Bash’s little conflab after the split vote, and then James B’s facial contortions after he realised he’d fucked it in the final final vote were phenomenal. Great last episode, shame about the rest.

I watched the first few before the traitors final. It was not well done, exactly as Dai says. Endless filler. Lineker was completely the wrong fit, he makes the Pete guy from ITV4 look like prime Des Lynam. Watched the rest later when I was able to fast forward the shite, but it wasn’t up to much. Great leg from Sherrock to win it. In the spirit of continuity from the old thread, let’s mention Wayne Mardle, and the dangers of when people mistake being a loudmouth for having a personality. 0/10 NO MORE MARDLE.

True that it had worked up to that point. I think better players would have recognised that it was time to change up the strategy and get rid of Michael instead of Sharon. With the overall numbers getting low, and (until James A’s abdication) a recent lack of traitor banishment, it was natural that all players were going to come under suspicion, so their tactics were going to hit diminishing returns. Getting rid of a strong voice would have been much more helpful than random~! At least it feels like there’s a bit of jeopardy going into the final day, and after a string of risible tasks, there’s usually a helicopter involved in the final mission.

We had to rewind the bit where Kenny said “as a traitor myself” at the round table about 5 times. Obviously it got overshadowed by James A later on, but…????? Also I don’t think Maya handled being questioned well. It’s normal to be defensive but it wasn’t smooth. Interesting to compare that and the faithfuls who sat there and said “what have you got?” And took the questioning and suspicions reasonably well. Still the biggest thing coming out of that episode, was why didn’t the traitors get rid of Michael instead of Sharon? Whatever logic they said after the reveal was piss weak. My wife said it might have been James B sabotaging them. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were steered by production because it’s been such a meandering series, and at least Michael gives them some oomph.

I tend not to be that engaged when he's playing so maybe I hadn't noticed, but it stuck out as I was already raging. He doesn't look like his heart's in it anymore. I can't see him being one of these lads that sticks around forever for the love of the game (or want of anything better to do).

"Cleaned up" betting on Schindler to beat Nijman in round 1. I've never been so gutted to win a few quid. (Stake was £3, a huge amount for me since I only usually bet pennies on outcomes I'm not in favour of). So sad about my boy, he's obviously hugely talented but he's got to figure out that big TV problem. Although in fairness to him, he wasn't the only one that got overawed by Schindler's home crowd. Looked like Smith might run out of steam in the final but he dug in and was a deserving winner. Also, whilst I don't want to be one of those "I was going to bet on that" people, I did say to my wife on Sunday morning that I didn't fancy Littler against Ratajski, so missed out on a few bob there. Ian "shit banter" Danter is fucking dreadful. You think you're in the clear with Ned Boulting out of the picture and they bring in this shitarse. Smith on 145, hits 60, 45, and he goes "will he go for it?" - No Ian, he's on double top so he's going to... lay up for a different double? I can forgive the odd mistake but he was getting shit wrong all over the place, and calling Ratajski "Ratty". FUCK OFF. I think there's this assumption you can just parachute in a PBP commentator from another sport and they'll have an aptitude for it, but it didn't work here. He obviously rote learned a few stats but I'd be amazed if he'd watched anything other than the odd match at the worlds.

I think the understanding is that contacting customer service privately is often frustrating and pointless, whereas publicly shaming a company/brand on social media might be considered bad optics for them and so they might actually deign to do something in a timely manner. Although if everyone now does this for every little thing, it’s probably at the point of being meaningless as well.

I agree it’s a blunder, though I think due to the way she’s played the game, it could sound like something a faithful might say in an absent minded way. They’re all so enamoured with her, it’s hard to see them doing the required reckoning to figure it out. I thought they’d hit rock bottom with their blind man’s bluff 3D jigsaw mission, but what the fuck was the scarecrow thing even for? They worked out pretty quickly how to get the full prize pot and there was no jeopardy. Why run around and rush through the scarecrow innards if there’s no time limit? Sure, it caused a bit of consternation from Sharon, but she was up for banishment regardless. A stupid mess that not exploding pumpkin heads could make exciting.

Terrible episode of The Krypton Factor

That’s similar to how “The Mole” works on Netflix. One unknown person is working to undermine the rest of the team and they have to try and find who it is. I think there’s enough weird dynamics in the tasks without going down that route.

That’s fucking shite, sorry to hear. What kind of robot? A chatbot or some kind of manufacturing dealio?

Thanks for the heads up about OM, Mrs H has been wanting to go for a while.

I’m still enjoying it, but fully agree on traitor choice. Maya is a total nonentity, zero charisma and will probably go quite far because she’s such a bag of nothing. Great for her, but not exactly compelling television. Although having said that, every time they show her talking with a faithful in the castle, she looks so guilty, though maybe that’s just me. And the you’ve got James and Hannah who don’t like being traitors and just want it to be over already. Where’s Paul from S2 when you need him?

I’m praying my role survives the current AI mania into the bubble bursting, but once that happens, we’re into the economic downturn to end all downturns, so getting through that intact seems even less likely. Everything feels incredibly bleak at the moment, I wish all ‘keffer jobseekers the best.

This is probably a knockoff of someone doing it better etc, but here’s a guy purporting to be in a job interview with an AI recruiter. The idea is that his career started in 1994, working at an island attraction off the coast of Central America. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dc_OK8vQNCc/?l=1 (dunno how to embed instagram, sorry)

I just kept seeing Ambassador Kosh in my head after seeing Maya’s yak hair jacket: