Congratulations to University of Sheffield on thrashing their opponents last night on University Challenge (even though I am a Sheffield Hallam man).

ps did anyone see Toby Foster on the BBC Travel Show last night?

pps did anyone see the Fat Cat pub on BBC Breakfast news this morning?

ppps I don't spend my life watching TV, honest.

Yes I saw the Fat Cat on telly this morning. Good to see a decent smoke free pub on the telly.

The Upperthorpe Healthy Living centre was also on telly this morning. The had a load of wheezing pensioners sweating it out on the running machine :thumbsup:

What has Sheffield done to attract so much attention?

(Cue rants about: smoke free pubs, pensioner disrespect and why is Sheffield so under represented in the media. I mean it is the countries 5th, no 4th largest city. Surely there must be some sort of right wing conspiracy to keep it off the telly and out of the newspapers. Personally, I don't care as it keeps it more of a secret for me, but still you'd think a city with 8% of the countries population.....ad nauseam)

I watch Question Time [yes sad isn't it?] but have begun to wonder why some places host it over and over and yet Sheffield seems to be missed out. Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham have all been the hosts more than once but Sheffield doesn't get a look in, Strange isn't it.
Maybe it's because on the one occasion the program did come from Sheffield a guy in the audience had to be removed for being rather 'loud' shall we say.

Sheffield hosted QT a few months ago!

Originally posted by neeeeeeeeeek
Sheffield hosted QT a few months ago!

Yes it was end of May / start of June. I think it was held in the Crucible.

How very annoying, I missed it, can't think back to what the weather was like back then but may of been sat in a beer garden.
So as I missed it I have to ask did Sheffield come across as a city full of intelligent, articulate people?
Would still like to know though why Peterboro [for example] hosts it over and over and I don't even know where Peterboro is.

Originally posted by Jim
a city with 8% of the countries population...

Whoa. Sheffield has half a million residents. The UK population is 60 million, therefore 1/120 of the population, or 0.8%, are Sheffielders.

But yes well done Sheff Uni, especially their captain, Gaff. He seemed to know a lot

Whoa. Sheffield has half a million residents. The UK population is 60 million, therefore 1/120 of the population, or 0.8%, are Sheffielders.

If Sheffield only has half a million, then surely it can't be the 4th largest city in the country?

Originally posted by Jim
If Sheffield only has half a million, then surely it can't be the 4th largest city in the country?

You'd be amazed how many people live in caravans.....

Originally posted by Jim
If Sheffield only has half a million, then surely it can't be the 4th largest city in the country?

You've got to be careful how you define city. It's easy to think of Manchester, for example, as a large city, but what most people think of as 'Manchester' is the Greater Manchester conurbation which actually emcompasses Salford, Eccles, Stockport, Trafford, Tameside, etc, all distinct from the City of Manchester. Same applies to most big 'cities', e.g. Newcastle/Gateshead/North and South Shields etc, Birmingham/Sandwell/Dudley/Solihull/Walsall etc.

So we really are 4th (or is it 5th -- see earlier thread).