BS: TV Soaps

Subject: BS: TV Soaps
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 02:17 PM

Good..or BAD?

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: MikeL2
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 02:56 PM

hi lizzie

Both

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 05:47 PM

25 years of bloomin' Eastenders makes me feel BAD, mike..Ohhhhhhh that programme! Everyone is so blinkin' miserable in it, being nasty to each other all the time. HOW people can watch it, I've no idea..

The soaps over here seem to vie with each other over who has the nastiest plot line...

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 06:09 PM

So, if you don't watch them, how can 25 years of the blinkin' misery and nasties make you feel bad? :)

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 06:44 PM

I have a cartoon somewhere:

Man sitting in a chair, facing TV, glowering....saying to himself,"To think, people are watching this!"

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 08:13 PM

TV soaps are no good without a lot of hot water!

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: MikeL2
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 06:20 AM

Hi Lizzie

You are soooooooo right. All that bawling and shouting (or should that be sharting?).

frankly these days I don't watch the soaps. They bloody adverts are enough to put me off.

My though is a soap fan but she puts East Enders a the bottome of her long list with Corry on top.

Regards

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: MikeL2
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 06:21 AM

hi

the last sentence should include "wife" ...

Cheers

mike

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 06:29 AM

The only genuinely good soap was Eldorado - that was a hoot! No I'm not kidding, it was great fun. Loved that episode where son high on E's and his pissed Dad, fell about laughing together in the bathroom (cue credits). Best ending ever, next to stuff like (super slow) high speed car crashes/deaths in Neighbours. I sometimes watch the omnibus edition of Hollyoaks (like once every 6 months) for the hilarious plots too.

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: Smedley
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 06:48 AM

Currently my favourite British soap is comprised of a few threads in this forum.

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: Rasener
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 06:55 AM

I always used to like Imperial Leather Toilet Soap

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 07:15 AM

I am going to get in first, before the obvious follow on from certain quarters. The soaps are all so miserable and nasty because the educatshun system has created an atmosphere of fear where everyone goes round cutting off other peoples heads with chain saws. That is compounded by 'them' (they know who they are) in power at the English Folk Department of Social Security who are plotting against everyone who likes anything joyfull, full of colours and tasting of real chocolate.

If it were not for the miserable lot who turn all our children into terrorists, our town centres into war zones and our folk clubs into dens of moroseness, self-flagellation and auditory torture, all the soap operas would be full of fun. Like they used to be.

Seemples. ;-)

DeG

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 09:25 AM

TV Soaps are very popular in Latin America, especially Cuba ... there these TV series content deal more with social and historical content.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 09:28 AM

Ebbie, over here, for the last umpteen weeks, we've had to endure '25 years of Eastenders' advertising between programmes, where people choose their favourite bit, and others are encouraged to phone/text/email in with theirs...So every single night the gruesomeness of Eastenders is splayed across the screen.

I don't watch them, apart from the very occasional episode to see if they're still as gruesome as ever. Sadly, they always are. They're much better with the sound turned down..as then you see all the angry body language..

I have a cousin who used to be in Coronation Street, in the days before they copied Eastenders and became just as 'orrible.

David, it's way past time for your next tablet, methinks...

Nope, once upon a time, you used to have good story writing in soaps, but now it's all about bitchiness and adultery.

You can't beat 'Friends', that's a great show! Over 20 scriptwriters, I think I read once...and all with a great sense of humour and wit, if you try not to notice too many of the story lines..but at least you get to laugh out loud and end up feeling happy, as opposed to wanting to slit your wrists with Eastenders..


Pears Soap was good too, Villan. Can you still buy that? I used to love holding it up to the light, gorgeous colours came through.

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 09:36 AM

David, it's way past time for your next tablet, methinks...


Would you please explain that remark, Lizzie. I don't understand what it means. I take three tablets a day. One for reflux, one for perenial alergic rhinitis and a low dose asperin just in case. I have had them all today but even if I had not, what bearing does it have on the discussion?

DeG

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 09:37 AM

One day my husband was driving home from work, and he heard something on the radio that made him laugh so hard he had to pull over, park, and listen.

It was Brad Sanders, a black comedian, being 'Cla'ence" and filling people in on what they had missed on the big soap, 'The Young and the Restless.' He's a riot.

Later I ordered a CD of the Best of Cla'ence. It's great.

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 10:48 AM

OK - In the absence of further clarification I am going to assume that David, it's way past time for your next tablet, methinks... means that the poster of said comment is implying that my remarks are somewhat outside the scope of normal behaviour and that I should take some sort of medication to normalise an implied personality disorder. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Well, I am going to skip the fact that personal attacks are frowned upon here, as it is quite a humorous way of suggesting that someone is mentaly different. I can cope with that. What I find illuminating is that the poster would suggest that anyone saying that the education system or other posters are at fault for something unrelated was somehow unhinged. I am sure someone else has done exactly the same thing on many threads before but, for reasons of propriety, I shall leave the name unsaid and let people draw their own conclusions.

:D (eG)

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: Smedley
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 10:51 AM

'Friends' is a sitcom. It's supposed to be funny.

Soaps are dramas. They're not supposed to be funny. (Although sometimes they are, for some people.)

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: Pistachio
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 03:29 PM

I'm a fan of one Australian soap. I find that I escape 'this' world for 20 minutes when viewing which is a therapy in itself.
I even indentify it as "Crap tv" when warning my husband not to disturb me! I accept it is rubbish, but it's my only TV vice. Dead-enders and Corrie leave me cold ... probably the climate!
H.

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: Rasener
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 04:36 PM

I love coronation street. I find it very funny and well acted.

Lizzie, I don't think you can get it anymore.

Hi Hazel, how are you?

Les

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 04:43 PM

I can get Coronation Street, Villan....I just don't like it much (if that's what you meant by 'get it')..I used to, a long while back. Heck I can recall old Ena Sharples and albert Tatlock (he used to give me the creeps, as a child) My cousin played Mike Baldwin's girlfriend..and she played the girlfriend of John Alderton, in the film of Please Sir. too.

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: Rasener
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 05:04 PM

No you dozy pillock Lizzie :-) I mean't Imperial Leather Toilet Soap LOL

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 05:17 PM

Ha! I am laughing out loud here, Villan..

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 05:24 PM

Oh..and you CAN get Imperial Leather soap, as it's the ONLY soap that Vi will use, so I have it right here in my bathroom. :0)

I don't have the Firefighters though.... :0)

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: Rasener
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 05:29 PM

LOL love it I was thinking the same myself :-)

I'll get me chopper

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 05:37 PM

...and it's made, or at least it was, right here in Salford. If anyone has a shortgage I drive past at least three times a week!

Latest news from Cussons.

DeG

Subject: RE: BS: TV Soaps
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 06:24 PM

The Paul Merton version...