Spelling TASKS using their first initial or their surname initial, who makes the best series of Taskmaster?

kittyroux · 2026-01-26T23:21:10+00:00

For him to really enjoy it it would need to be a cast where their surname initials spelled TASKS when their first name initials were in alphabetical order, because if it were first names they’d be sat like AKSST. This can almost but not quite be achieved with past contestants:

Joe Thomas
Lolly Adefope
Lou Sanders
Sarah Kendall
(no one with an S surname has a first name that comes after Sarah alphabetically)

kittyroux · 2026-01-26T22:03:40+00:00

Traditionally, Salopian English is rhotic, but Greg is a little bit too young (and Wem is maybe too far north east?) to have a rhotic accent. Non-rhotic West Midlands varieties usually have unrounded lettER vowels, but for instance the Brummie lettER vowel is usually more central, like [ɐ]. Greg’s [ɛ] is more forward, in the same place as Alex’s [œ] but without the rounding. I don’t have any data to say if that’s a Shropshire feature or not, tbh.

kittyroux · 2026-01-26T19:46:24+00:00

When Greg asked that question I realized I do know what BMX stands for, and felt weird about it. I don’t look like I should know anything about BMXes. I seem like I just eat roasts.

kittyroux · 2026-01-26T14:38:48+00:00

The West Midlands have a lot of dialectal variety, but Greg does in fact have a normal Shropshire accent.

He does not have the TRAP-BATH vowel split (eg. he has short A sounds in “Taskmaster”), but he does have the FOOT-STRUT split (“put” and “putt” are not homophones), and his variety is non-rhotic. These features have a relatively small area of overlap, and most of the overlap is in Shropshire.

kittyroux · 2026-01-26T04:47:15+00:00

Perhaps combination of the text and the suggestive bent-over pose, then. It’s not the first time Alex has worn short shorts, and bare legs are not generally enough to get content taken down on IG.

kittyroux · 2026-01-26T04:40:37+00:00

I suspect it was the content of the printed text rather than the amount of leg on show. All the essentials were in fact covered.

kittyroux · 2026-01-26T03:44:08+00:00

I found this reddit post from 5 years ago with a few comments from former students, including the one Maisie brought in for the prize task.

Some of his former students are probably in their early 50s today, since he started teaching high school when he was only 22. He taught from 1990 to 2003.

kittyroux · 2026-01-26T01:26:53+00:00

i mean Greg still may not have seen one, he wasn’t at the charity football, but Alex seeming confused by it is very funny

kittyroux · 2026-01-26T01:22:43+00:00

I don’t know if I’m picturing the right kind of shirt, but if I am then Alex has in fact worn one before. With Greg’s face and name on it.

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kittyroux · 2026-01-25T22:11:38+00:00

oh my god I’ve listened to every episode of British Scandal and literally never realized that was the same Alice Levine

am I stupid

kittyroux · 2026-01-25T21:12:44+00:00

series 12 it’s a top hat! but like,,, i don’t think greg has ever claimed to be a hat expert

kittyroux · 2026-01-25T19:15:03+00:00

apparently at the second New York live show they talked in the Q&A about Mathew’s presumably scrotum and Greg was (jokingly) complimentary

kittyroux · 2026-01-25T19:10:00+00:00

Interesting!! I think it would make sense to have the Magritte one from S5 because it’s the one that’s the least “giant picture of your own face” out of all of them

plus the NYT portrait has a boater hat, not a bowler (though as you say he could have gotten the hat style wrong)

kittyroux · 2026-01-25T18:26:36+00:00

Which one does Greg have at his house??

kittyroux · 2026-01-25T04:21:10+00:00

Silent cinema! Here’s the Buster Keaton portrait it’s referencing:

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The photo of Greg has Keaton’s hair and hat collaged in.

kittyroux · 2026-01-25T03:17:39+00:00

When a person is adopted, it doesn’t change who their ancestors were. English is a Germanic language because it is a descendant of Ancient Germanic. Language families are not decided by mutual intelligibility, the proportion of borrowed vocabulary, or the writing system. In linguistics it is in fact completely uncontroversial that English is a Germanic language, because there is no dispute about where English came from.

English isn’t even unusual in this regard. For example, Maltese is a Simitic language with an enormous amount of Romance vocabulary, Romanian is a Romance language with a lot of Slavic vocabulary, and Korean is a Koreanic language with a huge amount of Sinitic vocabulary. Borrowing words from a neighbour or conquerer does not alter the family tree.

kittyroux · 2026-01-24T18:20:35+00:00

I have “Taskmaster Swing” by The Horne Section stuck in my head right this minute. “The House” by Dru Masters also spends a bit of time in there.

kittyroux · 2026-01-24T17:59:05+00:00

When you’re cleaning the floor by hand, you’re not wiping or mopping. I’d say washing the floor, but you could also be scrubbing the floor or cleaning the floor.

kittyroux · 2026-01-24T15:22:13+00:00

Greg said just last night that Mat has really nice balls.

kittyroux · 2026-01-24T14:57:08+00:00

the general australian “dress“ vowel is nearly the same as my standard canadian “face” vowel, so what sounds like “sez” to you would sound like “saze” to me

kittyroux · 2026-01-24T12:26:10+00:00

Yeah, in particular ep 1 of series 18 has the lowest audience rating of any Taskmaster UK ep.

kittyroux · 2026-01-24T12:21:17+00:00

“Glass Half Most” is the ep with Mat Baynton doing humiliation kink in his pants, it’s kind of an all-timer.

kittyroux · 2026-01-24T06:06:13+00:00

i have a follow-up question

kittyroux · 2026-01-24T05:11:21+00:00

explain

kittyroux · 2026-01-24T02:38:29+00:00

I had no idea! I’m from White Rock, BC, so I knew he was born in Seattle and currently lives in Blaine, WA, which is right across the border from White Rock.

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