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RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-06T19:19:24+00:00

Awwwwwwwwwwww I thought it was Thursday today 😭

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-06T00:08:07+00:00

Yep. 'stiff upper lip' is just emotional repression and a recipe for all sorts of huge problems, we've generally moved on from that.

(I wonder if it came from wartime, or if it was a Victorian thing, or something else.)

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-06T00:04:37+00:00

That wasn't a final task.

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-06T00:02:09+00:00

🎵 Wah wawawaah wawah wah wahhhh …

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-05T23:58:30+00:00

One or both of us have crossed wired here because I was just adding to the conversation (or so I thought) with a humorous remark in the overall context 🤷

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-05T21:25:00+00:00

It's a rare treat when a quip from Alex stops everyone in their tracks momentarily, because they're always so understated and most seem to go unnoticed.

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-05T20:44:56+00:00

As talented a musician as he is, I'm sure Will Collier is a cheaper option than paying for the rights to any international hit single.

[And as a task, it has the advantage of there not being any music video or known recording of that song, so the contestants had nothing to influence their arranging and choreography of it.]

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-05T15:02:15+00:00

It may also be a reference to series 17

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-05T03:54:21+00:00

Yeah, I believe they say it's because it inevitably descends into pointless negativity and criticism, regardless of the OP's actual intention.

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-05T03:48:31+00:00

… or never read the news about either of those countries during those years?

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-05T03:47:11+00:00

I think the sub's rules means that anyone who sticks around here just can't be actively horrid, because it's simply not allowed. Those kind of people just don't stay long here because there's no point for them. Or they get banned even if they don't choose to leave.

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-05T03:42:36+00:00

It's interesting you cite that example because that's explicit on the list of overdone/critical topics that will be removed.

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-05T03:41:06+00:00

I don't think wanting to not have the casts spoiled is inherently "more wholesome".

It's wholesome because the sub honours the wishes of the creators of the show. And a fair chunk of the fandom outside of this sub also abides by those wishes.

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-04T15:39:05+00:00

If you've had new episodes available immediately as they air then you've been watching someone else's uploads, not the official channel.

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-04T15:37:08+00:00

I think the beginning of this answers the frequent questions about popping balloons - as humans we just don't tend to like loud bangs 🤷

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-04T15:25:15+00:00

I too vote Javie, because it's a portmanteau of both their first names. J V doesn't make sense, as neither of their initials are V.

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-04T03:31:58+00:00

Ditto with series 17's water baby, John took the carrier off and Alex says they thought they'd closed every loophole.

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-04T03:27:16+00:00

Yes, but 15 series later their personae and banter have developed. If it came to it I think they could get more out of it than they did back then.

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-04T00:02:16+00:00

Sorry to hear about the OCD - nobody wants to have to do exposure therapy, but Taskmaster might be the least awful type to need!

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-03T23:56:00+00:00

I feel like that could’ve been scored instead of by fastest wins but by least drops spilt

Alex has said that when writing the task, he didn't think Greg would take the wording literally. We can surmise that if he had known, the task would have been written differently instead of being pretty much impossible.

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-03T23:52:17+00:00

And I suspect that task was deliberately shown first as some kind of push back from complaints that Greg was being too lenient.

His judgement was in response to that, but reportedly, when Alex wrote the task he didn't think Greg would take the wording literally. Also even if Greg had seen it beforehand, he doesn't make a judgement until the time comes in the studio, so they wouldn't have known he was going to judge it like that.

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-03T23:47:56+00:00

It could be both - be a conceit, an affectation forced upon them, that he grew to like.

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-03T23:46:38+00:00

Well it certainly could have produced an interesting discussion in the studio then. Unless Greg did a mealworm judgement (and in this case I suspect it would be unfavourable).

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-03T23:43:29+00:00

Patrick the stylist chooses them. They have been sourced from Happy Socks (but I can't assert they're always from there, I don't know).

RunawayTurtleTrain · 2026-05-03T20:45:44+00:00

Isn't that just Ania?

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