#BBCQT Drinking Game Rules

Drink when:

• Dimbles is wearing an amazing tie
• Dimbles stumbles over the words ‘twitter’, ‘tweeting’, ‘hashtag’ or ‘Dimblebot’
• The cuts are blamed on the “shameful state the previous government left us in”, or the words ‘deficit’, ‘inherited’ or ‘13 years’ are used
• Two fingers if the audience groans in response to these buzzwords
• Any reference to the coalition as an arranged/gay marriage
• Dimbles refers to member of the audience by the wrong gender
• Dimbles refers to an audience member as “You there in the spectacles, yes you”
• Dimbles refers to an audience member as “You there in the spectacles, no not you, in the row behind, yes you”
• The phrase “LET US BE CLEAR” is used
• The economy is compared to household finance
• Female panellist says ‘as a woman…’
• Audience member says “as a mother”
• Female panellist is talked over
• Obvious Daily Mail reader is obvious
• Fists are used to bang on a table to emphasise a point
• (2 fingers if end of finger is used)
• The phrase “Guardian Readers”, “wet liberals” or “liberal thinking”  is used
• 2 fingers if the audience then cheer.
• Sighting of HPN (Hot Political Nerd) in audience
• Two fingers if @mrchrisaddison then tweets about them
• Sighting of audience member wearing tweed jacket/bow-tie combo (BOW TIES ARE COOL!)
• #bbcqt trends on twitter
• The name of one of the panellists trends on twitter
• A panellist tweets during the show’s recording
• Something is blamed on meddling from Europe
• Two fingers if the point has nothing to do with Europe
• Audience member mentions “MPs expenses – it’s one rule for us and one rule for them!”
• Panelist refers to benefits system/NHS as “getting things for free” or similar
• The BBC license fee is referred to as a “tax”
• If people who normally attend drinking game are in the audience and appear on screen
• And finally: if the Question Time music is playing, you are drinking.