Totally agree...
...and gets a *click* from me.

I would go one further though and say that there are now a whole section of our population who measure their own turgid lives by what they see on soaps and think that life should be one never-ending drama after another.

I once was at dinner with one of Eastenders producers who told me that the basic premise of the show is that life is all about suffering. What this does to the subconscious attitudes of those who soak this shit in week after week can only be guessed at, but it can't be long before it can be approached as some form of rudimentary mind control. Using fiction to demonstrate desirable responses to awkward situations is one thing, but ratings, as always, are king...

Ban them all and burn the cast.
(zebideedoodah likes florence but prefers venice, Sat 27 Apr 2013, 15:19, 2 replies)

Here's an authenticity check.
At dinner did you have jellied eels and pie and mash?
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Sat 27 Apr 2013, 22:23, closed)

Gor blimey, guvnor...
...No. She wasn't even a Londoner. But she understood the pain felt by ordinary people like you and I - especially when it involved a lack of alcohol.
(zebideedoodah likes florence but prefers venice, Sun 28 Apr 2013, 1:44, closed)

don't know about that
but i had to stop myself from slapping someone the other day for saying that her new coat was totes amazeballs.
fuck, i feel manky just typing that.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 28 Apr 2013, 15:53, closed)

You should give in to your impulses once in a while
- especially if there are no witnesses.
(zebideedoodah likes florence but prefers venice, Sun 28 Apr 2013, 23:25, closed)