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I am making this as I'm currently looking at what's on the wiki. Before anything though, congrats to Joe for reaching octochampdom!

Now to the question, it says on the wiki that " the letter selection Round 4 included the word WOG, which Ofcom describes as 'strongest language, highly unacceptable without strong contextualisation; seen as derogatory to black people'." At first judgment, I thought we shouldn't recap the episode because of this. As I'm giving it more thought, however, we have had other offensive incidents on the show, according to the same resource. So I'm not FULLY sure about recapping but I think I should ultimately do it and if it's deemed unfit then it can be taken down.

Not sure why that would be a reason to not recap the episode - it aired, it wasn't censored, and we have the explanatory note. Recap is added.

I think it was just an overthinking moment on my end, thank you for recapping.

Np

I've removed the note on the wiki. It's not a word, it's 3 letters in the middle of a sequence . It only becomes a thing by drawing attention to it. We don't censor the word woggle for example.

Also honest note, I think Trevor's more of a sleeper to me, or at least not as interesting as I feel like he should be in terms of hosting. Wouldn't shut him out completely if he hosted again but would be more enthused by the players than the host.

UPDATE:

ZERANOLS in R11

Still found Richard Coles (hugely overrated in my view) more sleep inducing than Trevor McDonald, and the latter had better diction even if he seemed glued to the autocue. Moira Stuart was one of my candidates when Anne Robinson left. She might be fun. Overall though they have made consistently good appointments. I thought Les Dennis was perfect though.

Philip A wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 8:15 pm Still found Richard Coles (hugely overrated in my view) more sleep-inducing than Trevor McDonald, and the latter had better diction even if he seemed glued to the autocue. Moira Stuart was one of my candidates when Anne Robinson left. She might be fun. Overall though they have made consistently good appointments. I thought Les Dennis was perfect though.

I'll definitely give Moira a shot, don't really know much about her to be frank - makes more sense given where I live but still - maybe some banter between her and Christopher Biggins may try and have me enjoying him as I haven't really felt much excitement out of him when he was first on.

Worth remembering that this is day 1 on the job for the guest hosts (bar Sir Trev's special a few months back). Whenever I start a new job I spend the first day finding the coffee machine and trying to remember the way back from the toilets! Any of us who have hosted a game at a co:event know it takes a few games for it to come naturally and there's a lot to concentrate on!

I like this perspective, thanks for telling it like this.

Fiona T wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 9:06 pm Worth remembering that this is day 1 on the job for the guest hosts (bar Sir Trev's special a few months back). Whenever I start a new job I spend the first day finding the coffee machine and trying to remember the way back from the toilets! Any of us who have hosted a game at a co:event know it takes a few games for it to come naturally and there's a lot to concentrate on!

Very true. Though I don't suppose any of your employers told their customers that any slight drop off in service levels that day was their way of celebrating a major anniversary.

David Williams wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 1:24 pm

Fiona T wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 9:06 pm Worth remembering that this is day 1 on the job for the guest hosts (bar Sir Trev's special a few months back). Whenever I start a new job I spend the first day finding the coffee machine and trying to remember the way back from the toilets! Any of us who have hosted a game at a co:event know it takes a few games for it to come naturally and there's a lot to concentrate on!

Very true. Though I don't suppose any of your employers told their customers that any slight drop off in service levels that day was their way of celebrating a major anniversary.

Haha good point

Philip A wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 8:15 pm Still found Richard Coles (hugely overrated in my view) more sleep inducing than Trevor McDonald, and the latter had better diction even if he seemed glued to tne autocue.

I honestly thought Sir Trevor was more sleep-inducing (no offence!) which left me quite disappointed really Luckily the episodes he filmed were way shorter than usual (Most of them only lasted 33.5 minutes which is about 1-1.5 minutes shorter on average) so I guess that makes up for it?