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"Soaps: All crap?"

I don't really watch a great deal of TV, but if I happen to just leave the old TV on, and watch it on any given evening, what I see displeases me.

Soaps. I'm sure on any given evening you could watch over 2 hours of soaps what with Neighbours, CrossRoads, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Eastenders, Brookside and Hollyoaks to choose from, and no doubt a few more I've missed.

What exactly is my problem with soaps then? Well it may be something to do with the fact that a large percentage of the country care more about what goes on in a fictional area, than they do about their local community.

They care more about the rape of Toyah Battersby more than they do some girl that was beaten just down the road. They'd rather find out who shot Phil Mitchel, than who broke into a neighbours house. Surely this is not right?

What's worse with soaps is that the simply continue to recycle the same old storylines with different characters. Neighbours is the worst culprit of these, even goig as far as using the same props and clothing for a character in the same predicament years later.

Soaps also show a severe lack of moral fibre! Just how many couples stay together in soaps? Almost every family is split up in some way. No wonder there are so many divorces in the country, if Kevin and Sally can split up, so can anyone. If Frank can have an affair with Pat, why shouldn't you? The only couple I can think off that have stayed together in any soap would have to be Jack and Vera in Coronation Street, and they're a comedy couple really, aren't they?

The only soap I ever watch with any regularity (about once a week) is Hollyoaks! Why is this? Probably because it's so unrealistic! The majority of the characters are attractive, and the storylines don't even attempt to stay on the lines of realism like the more serious soaps do.

Still, I'm bored of that now after watching it for a while.

Any soap fans out there willing to defend them?

Good on you sir.

Musicians are a breed unto ourselves.
I've worked hard to get to this position where I can do what I want to.

Life is good.

Goatboy - you're in a band too........

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Are you sure we're not the same person. No we can't be, I just watched TV.

But if you play drums thats interesting. Because I play the bass - as many may have guessed.

Oh and us journos can take a day or two off when we like - we've got all this drinking to be doing. You sometimes just need to sit around and rest.

Quite like tomorrow actually!

;-)

I dont actually drink that much to be honest.

This afternoon has been spent on here, reading some stuff about things and loading drums into van.

Now smoking another ciggie and listening to Clutch on Winamp.

It's a hard life

Goatboy wrote:
> It's like..research or something.

Yeah that's
> it.
Research.

And waiting for my boys to come pick me up for our
> gig tonight.


Isnt that another word for drinking?

:)

It's like..research or something.

Yeah that's it.
Research.

And waiting for my boys to come pick me up for our gig tonight.

mmmm...

Two journos with nothing better to do than sit around on a Discussion board and chat all day...

Dunno why I'm surprised about that really?

:)

Well, like the saying goes

"Aint nobody can get me off like I can baby"

Well I'm anti-masturbation myself, but I can see how you'd have to somehow use up your time.

It's a trade off I considered long before taking.

Hey.

What have I missed?

I dunno... I go out for a quick lunchimte pint and when I get back its a whole new argument...

Goatboy your just a discussion slapper.

lol :)