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iPhones have killed the pub quiz

  • 22-08-2009 03:22PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭


    Every fecker with one has wikipedia at their fingertips now. I was at a pub quiz on Thursdays and it's emdemic people. There's going to have to be an iPhone embarogo with a strict stop and search policy in order to save things.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,495 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Why just the iPhone? Most modern phones have a web browser on them?

    :confused:


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    People who cheat on pub quizzes should be run out of the country.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    People who cheat on pub quizzes should be banned from all pubs in Ireland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,813 ✭✭✭TPD


    People who cheat on pub quizzes should be run out of the country.

    People who cheat on pub quizzes should be taken out the back and shot.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    People who cheat on pub quizzes should be taken out the back and shot.

    People who cheat on pub quizzes should be held down and pee'd on a little.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    I run quizzes all the time and basically I just have to make them google proof. Picture rounds...video rounds...audio rounds...these rounds


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭citizen_p


    so what its there fault....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭Flying Abruptly


    ...these rounds
    I've seen these before, how are they made??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    photoshop or something i suppose. If you've been to a quiz in waterford you've probably seen them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,495 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    photoshop or something i suppose. If you've been to a quiz in waterford you've probably seen them.
    Or any quiz in the country? I've seen them same "manipulated" screenshots so many times I could name them easily.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭This_Years_Love


    In my local when they do a pub quiz, all the players have to hand in their mobile phones for the duration of the game now because everyone was cheating before. It's stopped most of the cheating.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    people who cheat on pub quizzes should be taken outside and forced to eat poo


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    basquille wrote: »
    Or any quiz in the country? I've seen them same "manipulated" screenshots so many times I could name them easily.

    First off, I was just saying cause I'm in Waterford and so was the other poster. Secondly, there are hundreds of rounds on that website so I don't think you'd spot them that easily.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭Flying Abruptly


    photoshop or something i suppose. If you've been to a quiz in waterford you've probably seen them.

    They must be made using other shots when the camera angle changes aswell because the all have the exact background, textures, lighting etc. right


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    Only a pathetic sad bastard would go to the effort of cheating to begin with, especially on a pub quiz. It's for fun, not for cheating.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    El Siglo wrote: »
    Only a pathetic sad bastard would go to the effort of cheating to begin with, especially on a pub quiz. It's for fun, not for cheating.

    Some people must win at all costs though. People are idiots.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Edgedinblue


    Ive recieved a fair few texts over the last couple of years from people who are at quizzes asking me the questions, i usually write back really quickly with the wrong answer telling them im 100% sure and all that lark. they then trust me and keep texting me for answers, nice wrong answers :D cheating hoooers! :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,813 ✭✭✭TPD


    People who cheat on pub quizzes should be held down and pee'd on a little.

    People who cheat in pub quizzes should have their pint pissed in a little, not enough that they realise but enough that they have a bad aftertaste and a niggling doubt.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,498 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    People who cheat on pub quizzes probably need to.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    spurious wrote: »
    People who cheat on pub quizzes probably need to.

    Why would anyone NEED to cheat in a pub quiz? It's a pub quiz. It's not life or death is it?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    People who cheat in pub quizzes should be sat at the back of the oven.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭Saibh


    People who cheat in pub quizzes should be made hand over their mobile/iphone to be destroyed.... that will teach them...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Phones were providing cheating opportunities long before the web reached them, with people sending text messages to friends who know all about that stuff regularily.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I can never win at quizzes, never watch soaps.
    Any girls wanna join my team?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭tarbuck


    Invigilators is the answer! Pay some piss poor grad student a twelveth of a pittance to walk around the pub keeping an eye on everyone. Have another one in the jacks to watch people when they're taking a wee-wee.

    We will get out pub quizzes back!! :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    People who cheat at pub quizzes should be made have the latest chart hits as their ringtones.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    tarbuck wrote: »
    Invigilators is the answer! Pay some piss poor grad student a twelveth of a pittance to walk around the pub keeping an eye on everyone. Have another one in the jacks to watch people when they're taking a wee-wee.

    We will get out pub quizzes back!! :mad:
    I invigilated the Leaving cert in 2008, the pay was great and I robbed tons of biscuits


    Good times :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,109 ✭✭✭corglass


    Yea, make the cheaters eat poo!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Adamcp898


    People who cheat at pub quizzes are bad at quizzes


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    phasers wrote: »
    I invigilated the Leaving cert in 2008, the pay was great and I robbed tons of biscuits


    Good times :o

    Robbing the biscuits is as bad as cheating on a pub quiz. Shame on you!


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