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I've not seen as much action since Nellie Bishop got caught having a quickie with Tommy Jefferson in the old air-raid shelter at Cecil Avenue Secondary School for Girls.

By Christ you must have some time on your hands Spendi!

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.......and some serious issues about women.

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Don't forget the loony supports celibacy, something sadly wrong with that lad!

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Sorry extra what tonight?

(reminder to self...they may be talking about the televisual apparatus)

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DP wrote-

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and some serious issues about women.

Not in the least. It is certain women who have serious issues with the natural order of things who have ruined the lives of millions of women. And when attempting to defend those women is answered by two foolish and, as usual, easy, pictures what is one to think?

I'm not bothered. As Mathos says-

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Don't forget the loony supports celibacy, something sadly wrong with that lad!

Exactly what. Perhaps Mathos you might explain. Give us the benefit of your wisdom. I'm ready to be converted by anything that makes sense. But define celibacy first will you? I don't care for arguing about abstract concepts. Something concrete and scientific I mean. What's non-celibacy?

I've seen a little bit of Extras. It's on when I'm drying off after my nightly soak and meditation. It looks lacerating. Very destructive.

Steve- not keeping your eye on the popular soaps is a bit like fighting a sophisticated enemy with no intelligence gathering. You constantly get taken by surprise. With 17 million viewers Corrie must have Premier league scriptwriters. I mean people with knowledge of a lot of stuff. And the skill to manipulate it into ordinary language. It's as alike to Shakespeare as anything on TV. I don't run around underestimating people to suit my self-serving complacencies.

Kids who are kept away from TV become isolated within their peer group.

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smorgs wrote:

Did you say something, PDoggy?

Yeah yeah yeah, cute little pandlets and all. But some poor bastards had to wait and watch for hours, weeks, months, years, wringing hands and sitting on an aging humidor before anything came of anything, I guarantee it.

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I've not seen Corrie for years, and not much then, very little, but I think I don't like it.

I quite liked Ena Sharples and wossname, the character that Pat Phoenix played.

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Elsie Tanner, McT.

Like you, I haven't seen it for years. It happened when I came back from a Greek holiday, and was sitting in the garden when the theme tune started blaring out from next door's TV. I went to get up to go and watch, but thought "What a waste of life", and haven't watched a soap since. The bill, East enders, Emmerdale, all those bloody hospital ones, Corrie...nothing.

It must be about ten years since I've seen any of 'em, and don't miss them at all.

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Dorothy Parker wrote:

Don't forget people - Extras tonight. How funny was that last week when his doll went off at the Bafta's?

It was brilliant tonight, DP. Ricky is a genius, IMO.

< note to self - keep egg whisk in bathroom cupboard, just in case, and never chat up women while fiddling with sparkling water bottle. >

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Just been out in the back garden, supervising the dog's peeing session. Saw the best shooting star I've seen for years. It came over low (so it seemed) and quite slow, and actually made a ripping noise as it passed overhead.

Of course, I made a wish.

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Lord Ellpus wrote:

Elsie Tanner, McT.

Like you, I haven't seen it for years. It happened when I came back from a Greek holiday, and was sitting in the garden when the theme tune started blaring out from next door's TV. I went to get up to go and watch, but thought "What a waste of life", and haven't watched a soap since. The bill, East enders, Emmerdale, all those bloody hospital ones, Corrie...nothing.

It must be about ten years since I've seen any of 'em, and don't miss them at all.

I don't watch none o' those either! I like The Sopranos. My better half liked Will and Grace. I like Curb Your Enthusiasm. Is there a pattern emerging, I wonder.

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Lord Ellpus wrote:

Dorothy Parker wrote:
Don't forget people - Extras tonight. How funny was that last week when his doll went off at the Bafta's?

It was brilliant tonight, DP. Ricky is a genius, IMO.

< note to self - keep egg whisk in bathroom cupboard, just in case, and never chat up women while fiddling with sparkling water bottle. >

All right, new ones. Look forward to them coming stateside.

The episodes with Kate Winslet and Patrick Stewart were hysterical...

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Lord Ellpus wrote:

Dorothy Parker wrote:
Don't forget people - Extras tonight. How funny was that last week when his doll went off at the Bafta's?

It was brilliant tonight, DP. Ricky is a genius, IMO.

<note>

I couldn't watch it. The cringe factor was too much for me. The gay play, when his butch pals were in the audience.......too stressful for me. :wink:

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Oh!

What a scene the one Ellpus has called the "egg whisk" actually was. It was the only scene I saw properly. How lucky can I get. They used to call me "Lucky" in the military. I put it down to good management myself but I realise some might think that a type of bald assertion. My drying off after my hot soak and meditation coincided with the "egg whisk" scene.

And I hadn't even stoked up.

Anyway, a pal of mine has recorded it so I'll be seeing it again soon and I might get ready for it.

It was lacerating alright.

What's that stuff doing on before the watershed.

Don't forget that the lady had been auditioned and costumed. It wasn't actually happening. It was a shaggy dog story.

Did he really have to get the egg whisk out before she realised he wasn't the man for her. Did the grub, and the dessert was a lovely touch, tempt her into to allowing for all his other disadvantages.

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It was to show the importance of table manners or manners in general.

The Book of Etiquette is a quite important tome in European literature.

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Table manners having been imported to Europe in the last few centuries, I should imagine that it is.

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spendius wrote:

It was to show the importance of table manners or manners in general.

The Book of Etiquette is a quite important tome in European literature.

What's wrong with licking your plate?

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A survey this week has shown that British table manners are in a parlous state, with two-thirds of us eating with our elbows on the table and a quarter of us burping during meals.

:wink:

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I would never accept fish and chips wrapped in The Sunday Sport.

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spendius wrote:

Oh!

What a scene the one Ellpus has called the "egg whisk" actually was. It was the only scene I saw properly. How lucky can I get. They used to call me "Lucky" in the military. I put it down to good management myself but I realise some might think that a type of bald assertion. My drying off after my hot soak and meditation coincided with the "egg whisk" scene.

And I hadn't even stoked up.

Anyway, a pal of mine has recorded it so I'll be seeing it again soon and I might get ready for it.

It was lacerating alright.

What's that stuff doing on before the watershed.

Don't forget that the lady had been auditioned and costumed. It wasn't actually happening. It was a shaggy dog story.

Did he really have to get the egg whisk out before she realised he wasn't the man for her. Did the grub, and the dessert was a lovely touch, tempt her into to allowing for all his other disadvantages.

What about Sir Ian McKellen's acting class? Apparently actors only pretend, and imagine themselves to be other people.

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McT,

Is it foggy up your end?

Real 'pea-souper' down mine...

x

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