: Exposure therapy at (and to and from) the Walmsley Amphitheatre
Two crowded Tube trains between Victoria and St Pancras (one at rush hour, the other amidst hordes of stunned Arsenal fans), separated by a taping in which strobe lighting was used. How did I cope? I still don't know.
I am of course referring to my trip to the Millionaire taping - it went rather well. I note, with great interest, that an opening question deemed ambiguous (not least because it was sent to the audience and they were split almost 50-50 between two answers) was thrown out, will be left unaired, and replaced with another, the ATA left intact. The player was somewhat shaken up I think, and was very conservative indeed in lifeline use after that, but at least his game was fair. As I mused at the time, Endemol would have kept the dodgy question in.
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The strobes of which I am referring to are those that create the 'camera flash' type effect on the (acrylic, not glass) floor, which I thought were hidden underneath it. They are in fact tiny lights - possibly of a kind we've used here at the university, in fact - hidden within the circular scaffolding bars that hold up the larger colour-changing moving lights. These are used annoyingly often, and no warnings were given. Bad, bad, bad. But at least I knew the lighting setup, and could close my eyes at appropriate moments. In honesty, they weren't terribly overwhelming, just irritating. Perhaps that's a sign the inadvertent exposure therapy was having immediate effect...
Two crowded Tube trains between Victoria and St Pancras (one at rush hour, the other amidst hordes of stunned Arsenal fans), separated by a taping in which strobe lighting was used. How did I cope? I still don't know.
I am of course referring to my trip to the Millionaire taping - it went rather well. I note, with great interest, that an opening question deemed ambiguous (not least because it was sent to the audience and they were split almost 50-50 between two answers) was thrown out, will be left unaired, and replaced with another, the ATA left intact. The player was somewhat shaken up I think, and was very conservative indeed in lifeline use after that, but at least his game was fair. As I mused at the time, Endemol would have kept the dodgy question in.
Bad Shirt Casino in 12 days...
The strobes of which I am referring to are those that create the 'camera flash' type effect on the (acrylic, not glass) floor, which I thought were hidden underneath it. They are in fact tiny lights - possibly of a kind we've used here at the university, in fact - hidden within the circular scaffolding bars that hold up the larger colour-changing moving lights. These are used annoyingly often, and no warnings were given. Bad, bad, bad. But at least I knew the lighting setup, and could close my eyes at appropriate moments. In honesty, they weren't terribly overwhelming, just irritating. Perhaps that's a sign the inadvertent exposure therapy was having immediate effect...