Affairs, suicides - the weird world of soaps

[amateur51]

Wan't he a mate of Paddy O'Doors?

[teamsaint]

and in the time it took to get a reaction to that, I ordered the copland Clarinet Concerto for £2.25 inc P and P.

Ain't life sweet !!!

[Nick Armstrong]

Wan't he a mate of Paddy O'Doors?

Good one, ts

[Nick Armstrong]

and in the time it took to get a reaction to that, I ordered the copland Clarinet Concerto for £2.25 inc P and P.

Ain't life sweet !!!

I'll drink to that.

[Mandryka]

I'd like to watch you saying that to creator Phil Redmond's face, Mandy

I'd be more than happy to do so.

Redmond was also responsible for the bilious 'children's soap' Grange Hill, as well as Hollyoaks and other 'down with the kids' rubbish.

As a creator of innovative television, he was a great quantity surveyor (his original profession - and, boy, didn't it show!).

[amateur51]

I'd be more than happy to do so.

Redmond was also responsible for the bilious 'children's soap' Grange Hill, as well as Hollyoaks and other 'down with the kids' rubbish.

As a creator of innovative television, he was a great quantity surveyor (his original profession - and, boy, didn't it show!).

I'm detecting a definite anti-Northern sentiment in a lot of your posts, Mandy - Alan Bennett, Victoria Wood, Phil Redmond all slagged off in no uncertain terms.

What's your problem with artistic types from the North?

[MrGongGong]

It did Liverpool a lot of damage, creating the whingeing Scouse stereotype that is still with us today.
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Scousers were whingeing long before Brookie

Is there ANYTHING you do like ?

[ahinton]

and in the time it took to get a reaction to that, I ordered the copland Clarinet Concerto for £2.25 inc P and P.

Ain't life sweet !!!

Not if you're going to listen to that, it ain't! Go get Carter's and wash the Copland out of your ears!

[Mandryka]

I'm detecting a definite anti-Northern sentiment in a lot of your posts, Mandy - Alan Bennett, Victoria Wood, Phil Redmond all slagged off in no uncertain terms.

What's your problem with artistic types from the North?

As an 'artistic type' from the North myself (and I notice your use of the capital 'N', amsie - always a dead giveaway for patronising southern types!), I think I can claim to speak without prejudice.

But then I'd dispute your assertion that Phil Redmond constitutes an 'artistic type' - then again, from the perspective of someone anchored in in leafy, gentrified Willesden, he probably seems fruitily exotic.

[amateur51]

As an 'artistic type' from the North myself (and I notice your use of the capital 'N', amsie - always a dead giveaway for patronising southern types!), I think I can claim to speak without prejudice.

But then I'd dispute your assertion that Phil Redmond constitutes an 'artistic type' - then again, from the perspective of someone anchored in in leafy, gentrified Willesden, he probably seems fruitily exotic.

So sorry to defy your Conan Doyle-like skills, Mandy but I also come from North of Watford, of Brum, just South of Chester in fact, so put that in your pipe and smoke it outside

So what is the root cause of your antipathy towards your fellow Northerners when they turn their minds to matters artistic, you little bundle of claws?

[teamsaint]

Its on signs.....it says "The North ". (with a capital N )
unless they are patronising signs......

[Resurrection Man]

Its on signs.....it says "The North ". (with a capital N )
unless they are patronising signs......

That's because it's a World Heritage Site and they charge a £16 admission fee

[AjAjAjH]

Back to the thread.

As an avid Emmerdale and Coronation Street watcher, yes some of the chatacters are OTT and caricatures. just as many of Dicken's best loved and most hated characters were/are. Like Dickens in his novels, many soap themes explore cultural, health and moral issues of the day. For example the current issue of a female character abusing her male partner in Coronation Street would never get an investigation or documentary on TV or radio but is far more prevelant than is realised. Some years ago Eastenders, which I don't watch now, did a Multiple Sclerosis storyline. There have been a number of storylines on the soaps about Dementia and have acurately portrayed the effects on familes and friends as I know from the work I do. Sometimes soaps are enjoyable escapism yet at other times really portray what goes on in real life.

[teamsaint]

That's because it's a World Heritage Site and they charge a £16 admission fee

you are confused, and thinking of Wales and its bridge.....and that is to get out, not in !

[Nick Armstrong]

you are confused, and thinking of Wales and its bridge.....and that is to get out, not in !

Want to borrow my grand-dad's tin hat, ts?