I suppose they had the excuse that it was “royal” week so at least victoria sponge fits the theme but after weeks of “make this thing no one has ever heard of” something that basic in the finale is a let down.

I didn’t notice anything like that. I would be really disappointed if it turned out that they edited the show to “hint” at the winner though. Would they already know the winner while editing the first episode?

I’m totally with you on the final technical. When you have something so straightforward with bakers at that level, you’re really just seeing who is most affected by the stress. I kind of preferred the format for the first season finale where they eliminated someone after the signature, skipped the technical, and had…

Yes. How dare people spend time and money on a hobby they clearly enjoy but which you yourself do not.

Really? I thought Candice had something of a rocky start for the first few episodes. Yeah she got star baker on biscuit week but she was pretty low ranked during cake and bread weeks. It’s also hard to argue that she wasn’t the best in the finale.

Try squinting an focusing more on a spot between the knees than the legs themselves. I only see paint too but unfocusing my eyes I can kinda see the shiny.

In an ideal world all people would be free to wear or not wear makeup as it suits them but in actuality choices aren’t made in a vacuum. Wearing makeup in no way disqualifies someone from being a feminist and I agree that arguing “women shouldn’t wear makeup because it’s girly” is harmful. But deciding to wear makeup…

I think they should have had Steve get eaten.

I saw a really great description of Reddit (it might even have been here on Jezebel): Reddit is like a tasting flight of wine where someone shat in one of the glasses. Some people deny that the shit-glass is even there because they enjoy the other wines so much. Other people focus exclusively on the shit-glass and…

As you said, Lampanelli’s entire schtick is built around being offensive: no one expects anything more from her and so her cultural clout is fairly minimal. Schumer on the other hand has gotten a fair amount of praise for being progressive in some ways (e.g. gun control), all while making jokes not dissimilar to…

She is pretty much the poster child for “ironic” racist comedy.

Holy shit is that true? I hadn’t even considered that the ultrasound thing was a backdoor delaying tactic.

Have you ever had a Honeycrisp apple?

Dilemma time: if Trump was a cupcake (made from edible products so not just poop and trash people) and you had to come up with something someone might eat, what ingredients would you use?

The purpose of the “plot” section on Wikipedia articles is to give a reasonably complete account of the plot. If you want to avoid spoilers you should look elsewhere.

The Diablo story line pissed me off because it means we could have had a Diablo movie instead of the stupid, ill-conceived mess we got.

paultoes’ quote is from a fake-news site and that tattoo is definitely not real.

Fortunately(?) it’s not real.

That’s not a real tattoo. From the Radio Times interview where that picture’s from (emphasis added):

I would be very interested to know how many internet “revolutionaries” know that those masks are Guy Fawkes and how many of those know anything about him besides “uh... V for Vendetta”?