O LORDY MAMA, Sop-eh, Sall-eh,Ros-eh

[Ed209]

Right! I`m in. Deaths and the chance of bare ladies organs will do fer me.

Poor Nigel. Thanks for that Ra Ra.

den

[rabid]

You are (surely!?) aware that the Archers is on the radio

Or is it the noises they can sometimes make that turns you on ...?

[t8yman]

yawn ... someone starts a thread on a soap and its inevitable that before long the high horse brigade come charging in proclaiming soap watchers to be inferior humans.

[ampersand]

how many hours per week are wasted on watching soaps and reality shows? it frightens me to think about it.

[gratedenini]

Didn't you know? Radio has the best special effects.

[rexclark]

Soaps are mind numbing, for the most part pointless and are often crudely acted. I still find them strangely addictive though.

I'd also like to add that I quite miss Brookside.

[Ed209]

Would you care to enlighten me on the value of your average soap? bubblegum for the eyes is all it is. read a book for f**ks sake, or watch something that might broaden the mind. And please please please learn how to spell ridiculous. (sorry, I'm not normally a grammar/spelling nazi, but rediculous really gets my f**king goat I'm afraid)

The only reason I commented was because I was surprised to learn that ye olde den watches such tripe. Call me a snob, call me the "high horse brigade", but I will never, ever change my mind on how f**king vacuous soap operas are, and I dont deem people who watch them to be inferior, I just wish they would wake up and realise that if people didnt watch that kind of shite, they would have to put something of value on the tellybox.

how many hours per week are wasted on watching soaps and reality shows? it frightens me to think about it.

[gratedenini]

If I was a Research student--- I could maybe have penned a reply like that.

But I`m not.. so I will stick to my rediculous musings.

I`ve gave you a +1 though--so if you ever want a relationship if yer bust up with you lass.......

Yes... that was a rediculous thing for me to put.den

[rabid]

???? you didnt say it was on the bloody radio!!!

Anyway.. I searched for it and have got Blues, 5Live, Shit modern music and what i think was a vets program, with a cow moo-in in the background.

I gave up.

[gratedenini]

That last one may have been it. Or maybe you could get it through your freeview?

[Purple Monkey]

Far too many people sit on their arse addicted to watching every episode of Dancing On Ice, Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Strictly Come Dancing.

Are they deemed unhealthy and pointless and quickly demonised for their addictive tendencies? Do they get Panorama specials dedicated to investigating the mass of vegetables that dedicate themselves to a daily dose of brain drain?

And the media has the gall to single out videogames for the exact same thing.........

I tend to end up knowing whats going on in the soaps because it's on TV via other people's choice, and since I like to sit in the room with the comfy chairs, that also tends to be where the TV is, and so I absorb it in a similar way to passive smoking I guess - I get a lungfull of it every now and then. The whole thing with the baby-swap in Eastenders is a hilarious concept worthy of a Jam sketch. The whole thing is retarded.

Edited January 5, 2011 by Purple Monkey

[rabid]

See, if that was me and I wanted you to watch Tartchers... I`d tell you what bloody station it was on.

Is it on Freewiew? Cos i haven`t got that.

I`ve got sky.. but not sky if you see what i mean.

I only get the arse channels.

Wish i had an ariel so i could put the Freeview box on and watch When the Boat Comes In etc.

den

[ampersand]

The only really credible person seems to be Dot

[jump]

Far too many people sit on their arse addicted to watching every episode of Dancing On Ice, Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Strictly Come Dancing.

Are they deemed unhealthy and pointless and quickly demonised for their addictive tendencies? Do they get Panorama specials dedicated to investigating the mass of vegetables that dedicate themselves to a daily dose of brain drain?

And the media has the gall to single out videogames for the exact same thing.........

I tend to end up knowing whats going on in the soaps because it's on TV via other people's choice, and since I like to sit in the room with the comfy chairs, that also tends to be where the TV is, and so I absorb it in a similar way to passive smoking I guess - I get a lungfull of it every now and then. The whole thing with the baby-swap in Eastenders is a hilarious concept worthy of a Jam sketch. The whole thing is retarded.

Edited January 5, 2011 by jump

[fraser_k]

dot, the poor man's emily bishop. and i f**king hate emily bishop!

[ampersand]

How can you hate Emily? She survived Richard Hillmans murder attempt!

[fraser_k]

she's shit, just like every other 60+ member of the cast. they should all be killed off, bar norris and mary. and roy if he's 60+

[ampersand]

You can't be including Rita in that! These are characters who have all had there past glory storylines and its now time for them to blend in till its time to kill them off peacefully afterall it may mean less airtime of such things as sally and tyrone kissing, it almost made me bring my dinner back up!

[jump]

They should get a new doctor to join the cast who believes in euthanasia.

[ampersand]

They should get a new doctor to join the cast who believes in euthanasia.

[fraser_k]

First a tram crash then Harold Shipman. What next? Peter Tobin and a couple of sand pits?

[ampersand]

First a tram crash then Harold Shipman. What next? Peter Tobin and a couple of sand pits?

[gratedenini]

Far too many people sit on their arse addicted to watching every episode of Dancing On Ice, Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Strictly Come Dancing.

Are they deemed unhealthy and pointless and quickly demonised for their addictive tendencies? Do they get Panorama specials dedicated to investigating the mass of vegetables that dedicate themselves to a daily dose of brain drain?

And the media has the gall to single out videogames for the exact same thing.........

I tend to end up knowing whats going on in the soaps because it's on TV via other people's choice, and since I like to sit in the room with the comfy chairs, that also tends to be where the TV is, and so I absorb it in a similar way to passive smoking I guess - I get a lungfull of it every now and then. The whole thing with the baby-swap in Eastenders is a hilarious concept worthy of a Jam sketch. The whole thing is retarded.

[fraser_k]

nah, next a raoul moat style story with a cameo from peter beardsley.

[rabid]

No--I got no ariel. I have a sky box which is plugged in--but you dont even get as much as Freeview on it. Yes--I can get the radio through it.. but last night I was manually trying on the stereo. Tonight I shall listen through the TV.. but if theres no killins... I wont listen !

I dont get the bit about building an ariel.....

den