right now
my so-called friend, whom i have been good enough to give shelter, food and pink wine to for the night, is making me watch eastenders.

it gets no cheaper or tattier than this. the sets are crap. the acting is worse. the script should be illegal. why is this shit still on tv, please?

gah.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 22:09, 15 replies)

How can you say that?!!?
It's there being rubbish so that we all feel fantastic about our lives!
(The_Greyhound wrote www.luckymcdanger.blog.co.uk on, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 22:12, closed)

you should pat the seat next to you, and smile manically
then they will run away, thinking you are a serial killer, or a sex-starved lesbian
( its_hatorah_bitch is b3ta the devil you know on, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 22:20, closed)

you need to pick your friends better, swipe
you know I would never make you watch 'enders!

:)
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 22:24, closed)

.
I've just spent the last five minutes holding back the wretched bile I was about to spew upon mental recollections of Christmas and New Year with the family, all of which are brain-dead morons who crave Albert Squares 'absorbing, intelligent storylines'.

Three words, when regarding Eastenders (or, indeed, Corrie, Emmerdale, etc), can never be compatible.

You are fully sympathised with, Rachie, but sadly that shite still adorns our TVs thanks to council estates nationwide.

Kill me now, and save me from ever seeing Stacey f*cking Slaters face again, pug-faced cow.
(HomeWithTheDownies A towering inferno of penisy pleasure, Tue 8 Jan 2008, 1:35, closed)

Ritual beheading
is the only answer, as it appears there is already a vacuous space up there. Its still on as its cheap to make, and fills up a good few hours of the schedule for fuck all money, and then they put the omnibus on sunday. Did I mention its good for the enviroment? What with the recycling of the scripts year in, year out.
As you say- gah.
( Duke Of Belmsford has got 99 records, but Jay-Z ain't one, Tue 8 Jan 2008, 1:57, closed)

Actually
it's only on the telly to keep chavs off the street for half an hour twice a week.

Well, that's the only reason I can think of.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 8 Jan 2008, 8:53, closed)

Don't even get me started!
My wife is a complete telly addict. It's so bad she even watches Home & Away on C5! As I work for the people who make most of this dross (I'm currently tapping at their PC, in their building, drinking their tea and they're paying me for it), I can't be too scathing.

Generally the 'soaps' are incredibly popular, due to the population being comprised mostly of nosy, yet socially inept people. They love to watch because it's an 'easy relationship'. You get to see all of the exciting things happening in other peoples 'lives' without giving any input, like a one-way friendship.

Try as I might to engage her in something a little more sociable, she loves that lightbox and it remains part of our life. I actually love television too, if I'm honest. It has the ability to educate and inform, even to provoke intelligent thought when used correctly. Unfortunately most people are happier to emotionally engage in second-rate fiction and be entertained by the TV karaoke that is x-factor.

Yes folks, don't slag off the numpties too much, they are (frighteningly) the majority.
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Tue 8 Jan 2008, 9:09, closed)

i
Think it's a sad indictment of society that when you go into someones lounge anywhere in the country the whole room is always set around the t.v, conversation, debate or reading? that died for alot of people a long time ago.
( Trollman, Tue 8 Jan 2008, 9:19, closed)

Pink Wine?
Oh deary deary me. It'll be Lambrini next. Slippery slope alert!

However you are spot on with your concise and incisive critique of the televisual anal seepage that is Eastenders. And almost everything else that clogs the schedules.

Apparently I'm a wierdo because I don't have the TV on as 'background' 24/7 and watch about 4 programs a week voluntarily.

(Actually, it could be the hiding in a darkened room fondling my guns while wearing a French Maid's outfit, now I come to think of it.......cluck cluck etc)
(osok Rebel without a clue, Tue 8 Jan 2008, 9:57, closed)

Argh! EastEnders
I'm a pretty easy-going person and I don't make many demands of my better half. But a few years back, she got hooked on EastEnders and it did my head in. It would be on just as we'd sit down to eat, so I was stuck watching it unless I wanted to be on my own in the kitchen to eat. In the end I put my foot down and told her that we weren't to have it on in the house any more. She was pissed off to start with, but we've not watched it for years now and she's admitted now that she doesn't miss it.

Quite apart from the second-rate acting and the repetitive storylines, what bothers me is that it's just a group of nasty people being nasty to each other. All the time, over and over again. It's depressing, and pernicious -- is this really the message we want to drill into peoples' brains night after night? It's OK to lie, cheat, steal and so on because that's what everyone does?
( reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Tue 8 Jan 2008, 10:37, closed)

Rachelswipe....
Bellenders is fab! It instantly makes you feel talented. We play Bellenders bingo - every time someone says 'It's faaamily', 'Wos goin on'?, 'mind the stall', or 'I'm goin daan the pub' you take a drink.*

Pissed in half an hour - fantastic!

* EDIT: if someone puts the kettle on for a cup of tea, you get a double. It's best not to play it during the omnibus though - you'd never get to work the next day.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 8 Jan 2008, 10:41, closed)

*click*
My fiancee used to be a soap enthusiast, so there once was a time when I was subjected to the full plethora of drudgery that is Eastenders, Coronation Street and Emmerdale. She was even a fan of Home and Away, although I managed to quell this passion by referring to it as 'Homo and Gay' every time it was on.

However, the times they-are-a-changing. She now gags at the thought of watching soap operas, and prefers to watch Scrubs, Heroes and Top Gear! Result!

I doubt she'll be as quick to give up the pink wine though :)
(JasperSinister is offering two tickets to the gun show, Tue 8 Jan 2008, 10:52, closed)

I'm with you
The script has always been shit. I especially hate the tense monologues where previously retarded and monosyllabic characters begin to emote like something from Shakespeare because the screenwriter wants to show off. That's pisspoor writing.

The only thing to come of of "enders was Well 'Ard - the most sublimely idiotic name for a dog ever.
(frankspencer, Tue 8 Jan 2008, 12:50, closed)

I caught a bit of Eastenders of Christmas.
So that was my festive spirit fucked then. Nasty,stupid people living nasty, stupid lives and solving every single problem at full volume and in public.
I've seen Japanese wrestling tapes involving barbed wire and broken glass that were less painful to watch.
(Big D, Tue 8 Jan 2008, 13:20, closed)

I finally found others.
Ahh, sweet bliss, more people who dislike Eastenders. Makes me cringe every time I see it, I just hope one day they all die in a firestorm. That would make quality programming.
(Maccy Divided by 0 on, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 22:58, closed)