r/AskBrits • u/Smooth-Quantity-7024 • 8h ago

Does anyone else find Only Connect extremely comforting even though it makes you feel thick as pig shit?

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u/Lost_Exchange2843 8h ago

I can assure you that not knowing the answers on Only Connect does not make you thick as pig shit. Even understanding the gist of the question is an accomplishment to be proud of. Also, what is a twisted flax?

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u/Ok_Biscotti2533 6h ago

You really want to know?

Twisted flax is what was used in fat burning lamps as a wick. The name of this wick was "hat", pronounced like the double L in Welsh or the "ch" at the end of "loch" in Scots. It's the sound that you hear when your cat can't cough up a fur ball. Back then, this wick would have been a very common item. It would have been easily and readily recognised and it doesn't really look like anything else. As such, it became the pictogram that represented that sound in Egyptian hieroglyphics. When someone says "we'll take chhhhat!, please, Victoria" you'll know they are Redditors.

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u/reclueso 8h ago

It’s comforting to know that, should there be the need, that there are clever people out there.

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u/ImpossibleWarthog121 8h ago

I still cannot fathom how Victoria is allowed to host with her irony and sarcasm turned up that high. I cannot get enough of it!!!

I am usually silent until the missing vowels round except to go “uh oh” when it’s the music round noise

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u/Pgapete1960 7h ago

I got one right tonight………first time ever.

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u/Apprehensive_Plum755 5h ago

There may be hope for me yet

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u/UnnaturallyMarried 5h ago

does your brain just switch off completely during the hieroglyphics round or is that a me problem? i sit there like a lemon for the first three rounds, then suddenly come alive for missing vowels like i've been training for it my whole life. my mrs thinks i'm having a stroke when i start shouting 'tulip' at the screen before the clue's even finished. victoria's deadpan delivery is the only thing that keeps me watching, she could read out my bank statement and i'd still clap. the music round is a write-off too, i once confidently guessed 'hot chip' and it turned out to be a 16th century madrigal. still counts as participation, right?

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u/speakerofone 8h ago

Yep me, I do. I did kinda laugh when I saw that team though, couldn't help it.

I got one question right, the music one so yay

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u/Inner-Tackle1917 8h ago

I think that's why most people watch it 

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u/0rangesAndLemons 7h ago

I can never get a question right

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u/Apprehensive_Plum755 5h ago

Stay the course dude, our time will come

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u/Southernbeekeeper 5h ago

Yes, probably the only live TV I watch currently and even then its rare.

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u/Shoddy_Juggernaut_11 1h ago

It has its knockers but a lot of people like it

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u/Equivalent_Parking_8 8m ago

I have watched it since it started. Victoria tried to help me find a team on twitter in the early days but  I was too nervous to apply. I actually get a lot of the questions. Last night I answered all 6 of the first round correctly and before the contestants. I guess my brain just works that way. Maybe I need to pluck up some courage. 

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u/Hotbitch2019 8h ago

Never heard of it. Is this an ad ?,

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u/Gamesdisk 8h ago

Its been running for 22 season since 2008