How Many Liars Are In The Soaps ?

[Bobbisox1]

Emmerdale,Kerry, it just trips off her tongue,Corries Robert skipping between Michelle and Vicky?
Oh purleese
( I don't watch EE, they scream at each other)

[retrocop]

You can use it anytime you wish. As i said a smart Alec who abuses his brief and like sinex spray gets up one’s nose. According to our journalist it is bad form to start a reply with ‘so’.
Ignore it. It is trite and not worth pursuing. He will latch on to another thread soon enough and annoy them.

[Bobbisox1]

Arh right,I'm actually sitting laughing at the absurdity of it Retro

[douglas9401]

OI! Roolz is roolz, toe the line or walk, that's all she wrote. :-)

[Bobbisox1]

But,but.....my 'So was a question, haha

[andy-hughes]

Bobbisox - The 'So' Rule is a minor amusement of mine, it refers to the habit of some people in a discussion who answer a post with "So what you are saying is … " and the proceed to say something that the original poster did not say at all.

It's just for fun, and unfortunately Retrocop takes it, as he does more or less everything, a little too seriously.

As for the 'abuse of my brief', I have no idea what that means, I don't have a 'brief' - but I am not interested in further thread derailment finding out.

[andy-hughes]

Retrocop - // According to our journalist it is bad form to start a reply with ‘so’. //

I am not 'your', or anyone else's 'journalist' thank you, and I have never said it is 'bad form' to do anything - I don't populate an Enid Blyton novel.

[Bobbisox1]

OFGS Andy, Leave it there, I lol about it yesterday and never gave it a second thought so why drag it out?

[andy-hughes]

Bobbi - just offering you a little information, no need to get over-heated, the AB has that covered already.

[Bobbisox1]

A-H I've no intention of ever getting over heated ever again on here, as I'm an past ABer who's just returned, I knew of nothing about your SO rule and found it quite funny....at the time but rest assured me getting over heated about such trivia is never gunna happen :0)

[andy-hughes]

Bobbisox - // A-H I've no intention of ever getting over heated ever again on here, as I'm an past ABer who's just returned, I knew of nothing about your SO rule and found it quite funny....at the time but rest assured me getting over heated about such trivia is never gunna happen :0) //

Good to know - and welcome back.

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

/// It's just for fun, and unfortunately Retrocop takes it, as he does more or less everything, a little too seriously. ///

'SO' it's just for fun is it? Well you can't take me to task for breaching your 'SO' rule because you actually said "it's just for fun".

But it is not a bit of fun for you is it, you take it very serious since you bring this stupid rule of yours into play every time someone dares to type 'SO'.

[andy-hughes]

Anything to actually add to the discussion AOG, or just the usual humorless moaning?

[Ken4155]

Meanwhile, back to the question posed.......................
I'm just surprised anyone watches any of the soaps, these days. I don't switch my tv on until i'm sat down for my evening meal, which is roughly 7pm, so the only soap i catch is the last 3 or 4 minutes of Hollyoaks just before the 7pm Channel 4 news. That 3 or 4 minutes is bad enough! The acting is terrible, the scripts puerile and the colour sends me dizzy. Hollyoaks won the best Soap award this year, did it not? Doesn't say much for the others. IMVHO, of course.

[Bobbisox1]

Never watched Hollyoakes Ken, I think it's 'women' thing talking/watching the soaps but my OH does suffer them too

[aelmpvw]

don't watch soaps but i saw a clip the other night where someone said to phil mitchell 'you're not just a pretty face are you' ... there's one liar for a start

[Bobbisox1]

Haha@ael

[teacake44]

Anyone for nice coffee and bicky:)

[andy-hughes]

When the first soap started back in the 60's, it was full of gossipy exchanges which Tony Warren, with his impeccable ear for dialogue used to create remembering the strong women he grew up around, and recalling their conversations about people around them.

I recall an immortal line from the redoubtable Ena Sharples, referring to a resident from another street, "... very bay window down there …" which gives you a snapshot of someone in five words.

Would that such writing was around today, but of course, soaps have evolved to suit changes in society, and their audiences.

Now, they seem to consist of large numbers of seriously unpleasant people who appear to be manacled to each other which assist them in emotionally and / or physically hurting each other, and creating more drama than one small community could reasonable assimilate in several hundred years.

Of course the standard reaction in the 'real world' would be to re-locate, but as soap characters, they remain in their claustrophobic bubble scheming and shouting and generally being ridiculous.

That said, millions of people enjoy the escapism, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that - but analysis is futile, the entire edifice crumbles at the first look.

For example - if you owned a large Victorian town house within walking distance of a tube station and a main-line rail station, you would be to busy marketing it for an eight-figure price-tag to dossing in the boozer or squabbling in the café!

[Bobbisox1]

Was it when her friend Martha ,***ed, keeled over and died , Andy ?

[Bobbisox1]

****d*