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University Challenged: Volume Two (09.11.15)

This time last week, I brought up one of my least attractive habits: my propensity for tweeting along with University Challenge, indirectly berating the contestants. Seven days have passed, with no improvement on my part. See below for this week’s social media bullying. I’m a nice person, really. No. Really. 8:02pm: Look at Gard-Murray. LOOK AT HIM. 8:03pm: Leahy's face hasn't settled yet. 8:04pm: Oxford's Smith and Gard-Murray sound like John Thomson's scientist in The Fast Show. 8:05pm: Kaliski can hear you from there. 8:06pm: Leahy is wearing DeForest Kelley's top from the original series of Star Trek. 8:07pm: Osborn looks like an angry, bearded Art Garfunkel. 8:10pm: Kalisky: son of Pob. 8:12pm: Page's hair. So soft. Not an ounce of product. 8:12pm: Leahy is absolutely sh*tting it. 8:14pm: Leahy regrets the speed he took, pre-episode. ...

Universally Challenged.

Most Monday evenings a t this time of year, at a round 8:00pm, I switch on my television and turn to Twitter for a spot of bitching about University Challenge. I’m not proud of myself for this habit. It’s childish and goes against my generally gentle, caring nature. I’m not the sort to pick on someone for his or her hairstyle, am I? It seems I am (if they’re cleverer than me, at least). Sadly, today was no different. See below for the results of my thirty-minute window of 140-character bullying. I’ll pay for it, come the day of reckoning; either then, or when I visit Imperial College London or Sidney Sussex Cambridge University campuses.  8:03pm: Bezer may not survive the episode. 8:03pm: Bennett's head is set to the wrong aspect ratio. 8:05pm: Bennett based his look on Don't Blame it on the Boogie-era Jackson 5. 8:07pm: Bezer: body of a nineteen-year old, face of an eighty-year-old. 8:08pm: Bennett's hairstyle somehow manag...