Downton. Finally...

[lardhelmet]

Lord Grantham has grown a pair! Anyone else on the programme you would like him to thump?

[retrocop]

Thanks Bathsheba. I'm feeling top of the world apart from some tenderness around wound site.
When Barrow was reading a magazine in the kitchen with concern on his face two episodes back Mrs retro thought she saw Co****? on the page which led her to believe Cocaine may be involved. The plot thickens like cooks custard!!

[Bathsheba]

That's good to hear, retro...hope it continues.
Ah, well-spotted Mrs R......looks like we'll have covered homosexuality/Communism/ racism/and now drug addiction!
I'm sure I've probably missed a few topics, lol,....as I said,....I'll be back!
x x

[Robinia]

Barrow's 'illness' explained....
http://shows.stv.tv/downton-abbey/latest/296161-thomas-barrow-will-try-to-cure-his-homosexuality-in-downton-abbey/

[Bathsheba]

I've just pinched this ......

"I think Thomas has resigned himself to the fact that an epic love story with a man isn’t going to happen for him, any hope he had for that rode off with Jimmy Kent. He possibly believes that in the confinement of servitude, the society and time he lives in, that his best chance of happiness/normality would be to try and settle down with a woman. He sees Molesley and Baxter developing something, he hears Anna and Bates whisper about having a baby (even Jimmy getting some action, despite the disastrous outcome) and he envies them enormously. He’s been alone for so long and he’s probably sick of his love being unreciprocated and being celibate for years on end."

That was good link Robinia, but video was just buffering for me :(

The word "on the net" seems to be that it's heroin he's dabbling with, silly boy!

[Barsel]

Just watched the link that Robinia posted and it seems Thomas is trying to find a cure for his homosexuality, so that is why he is injecting himself.

[Bathsheba]

Barsel...oh definitely,...that's not in doubt,.....I was just going to try + find anything where cocaine is mentioned as being a possible "cure" in those days x x

[Bathsheba]

Tons of stuff to be found by Googling aversion therapy + homosexuality...seems like heroin was used quite widely in that context.

[Barsel]

Found this article about lesbians in the 19th century so perhaps this is something that might have been used by homosexuals.
Cocaine, Strychnine, Genital Mutilation
Physician Denslow Lewis believed that women brought up in wealthy 19th century homes could develop "sexual hyperesthesia [excessive sensitivity to stimuli]" and become lesbians.

In order to cure these women he prescribed "cocaine solutions, saline cathartics, the surgical "liberation" of adherent clitorises, or even the administration of strychnine by hypodermic."

[janbee]

That commie teacher !

[netibiza]

Cora said ' oh rabbit, rabbit'

[Bathsheba]

eh netibiza? ^ ^ Sorry, not with you....
x x

[netibiza]

Cora doesn't say Robert, her accent makes it sound like Rabbit.

[janbee]

The uber drippy Edith

[Bathsheba]

*bump*.....what did I say last week? Something's gonna happen re that dog, lol ;)

x x

[lardhelmet]

Oh yes - the dog. Isis! What a name for a dog.

[elliemay1]

Haven't watched it yet. What's the story with the dog, Bathsheba??

[shoota]

'Downton. Finally...'


We can live in hope....

[Bathsheba]

sorry, am 10mins behind, cause we had it on pause at beginning, but halfway through, Cora mentioned the dog was unwell.
I shall return shortly, lol....:D

x x

[DTCwordfan]

Barrow has been there, with Isis that is.....

[Bathsheba]

Oh I say, DTC.....how very dare you...:o

Seems the dog's going to have to wait till next week to take centre stage, but it's so obvious there's going to be a doggy storyline ;)

x x