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"Soap Round-up"

If I tell you what happens in the soaps next week, will you promise not to watch them?

Okay then, here goes:

Coronation Street:

Curly bakes a cake for his wife, but drops his wedding ring into the mixture. Jack and Vera help find it, leading to a dramatic climax in which Jack puts the ring in his mouth. Also this week Haley continues to hide her pregnancy from Roy and Ken and Mike have a fight in the Rovers when Ken accuses Mike of only having gold-plated dentures because he thinks he's better than everyone else.

Eastenders:

Bad boy Phil has a nasty run in with the ghost of Steve Owen, who traps him in Ethel's coffin. Fortunately he escapes, only to find that his daughter Louise has been kidnapped by Nasty Nick Cotton who has pilfered back his ill-fitting leather jacket from his dead son. Also this week Sonya wins first prize in the gurning competition, but gets upset when Jamie is unable to attend, and Mark makes it into the Guiness Book of Records for being the person that has lived with HIV for the longest amout of time without it developing any further.

Emmerdale:

Those wacky Dingles are doing more wacky things! Zack robs a pew from the church but manages to hide it under tins of beer when the vicar comes for a visit. Hilarious! And Paddy's drug problems get worse under the stress of the investigation into his beastiality, and Bernice sleeps with the local tramp, then Seth, and then Chris.

Hollyoaks:

Despite being drowned and burned to death Rob Hawthorn returns to Hollyoaks for revenge on those that killed him. Dragging around Kurt's body, like something from Weekend at Bernies he soon loses interest when he realises that all of the cast that he starred with have left. Also, Finn accidently gets into bed with Mr Cunningham, as does Anna, Ben, and Tony. Adam miraculously recovers from his 'being in a wheelchair' condition as scriptwriters realise it's getting boring.

Neighbours:

Guy Pierce makes a dramatic return to Ramsey Street this week, and tells everyone he meets that he can't make new memories, but has been told he used to live there. No one remembers him, but he finds the plotlines strangley familiar. Also Drew reveals that Libby is not the mother of her baby, as he was having an affair with her Dad. Toadfish does something zany and Harold goes "um...ah".

Brookside:

Tinhead and some other young scallies go on the rob, but they're good kids at heart, just fell on bad times, like. Jimmy Corkhill finds his marbles, but gets upset when his collection of home made homosexual pornography doesn't sell on Ebay. Mick murders his children, and his mother, but is eaten by a terrible virus before being caught by the police. A bomb goes off, and a religious cult hold people hostage.

I didn't have a TV as a student either. Though I couldn't have lived without my stereo.....

I didn't have a TV whilst I was a student either. I figured that I didn't want to watch anything, but if I had a TV I'd find myself watching it anyway.

I only lasted 4 months as a student, mind.

SHOCK HORROR - Student in "not watching TV" drama!

Yes, it's true, I am a student, male, and I don't have a TV in my house. This means that my TV experiences are limited to going down the pub to watch the footie. (Quality pub in York for footie by the way is the Rose and Crown!)

This has major advantages, they are known as:
- No Pop Idol
- No Eastenders/Neighbours/Corrie/etc.
- No daytime TV such as Trisha etc.
- No The Premiership

Bit of a strange one at the end there? Not really, have you seen the Premiership?!?

Exactly. I'd never say anything to her about not watching it, it's her choice. She knows I think it's laughable, and that's it.

I occasionally watch Eastenders as it's most interesting.

I don't watch any as a rule, though my parents did, and still do, so I sometimes catch them at there place.

And Neighbours I used to watch, because all kids did, and it seems to be on after work, so some days I see bits of it.

Still, if other people want to watch them that's fine. If they get something out of them, how is it any different from you doing something that you enjoy?

It's weird, as my wife can't actually say exactly why she watches it. She also thinks it's trash, but I think it becomes like a habit. Personally I'd rather she's addicted to a crap, but essentially harmless soap, than say something like fags. All I can think is that she fits into that group of people who start to watch soaps after a hard/long day at work, and they just want something brainless to veg out on, and then they find that they get into a habit of watching it.

devo wrote:
Quick survey - Who watches which
> soaps. Are you male or female? And why do you watch the soap(s) you do?


Male and none of em.
Do watch BBC 2 on a monday night though

I don't watch any of them.
Because I'm not retarded.
Nor do I have a vacant hole in my life that I can only fill by watching a tv show about other people's lives and living vicariously through badly written dialogue and unrealistic situations.

Strangely, I get all the drama and excitement I need from my own,personal soap opera called "Life".
Anything else is a poor excuse for living and creating your own worlds and gods.

I f---ing hate television.

The way Mark keeps on 'staying alive' (to quote the Bee Gees), makes you wonder if he's actually got his forms mixed up and has become a fully qualified heavy goods vehicle driver.

Eastenders does my head in. My wife watches it, so quite often I'll catch some of it (even in the background). The people who make out it's well written just don't know their rectums from their elbows. The characters are one dimensional, and there's more ham than a panto being held at a butchers. Also characters do totally unbelievable things, just to create a new plot line. Utterly ridiculous trash......

Quick survey - Who watches which soaps. Are you male or female? And why do you watch the soap(s) you do?