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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

You know, those programmes that seem to be on constantly.

Are you a fan or do you think they're mundane rubbish?

Do you have a favourite or just watch them all?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dont watch any of them any more they have all ran the gamutt of so called every day life (and i say tht with tongue in cheek).

East enders is the worse ......so boring stale un interesting.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

always tickles me when people say 'Dont watch them cos they are really shit'

How would you know if you dont watch them?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

But yes i watch Eastenders, Corrie and just getting into Emmerdale.

Find them a bit far fetched at times, but generally i think they are great. Storylines are not realistic in the sense that SO many dramatic things happen but they raise awareness of issues to the _iewing public and if those plots help one person im sure its worth it

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"always tickles me when people say 'Dont watch them cos they are really shit'

How would you know if you dont watch them? "

Good question, but the same could be said for people who slag off football or rugby for example

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"always tickles me when people say 'Dont watch them cos they are really shit'

How would you know if you dont watch them?

Good question, but the same could be said for people who slag off football or rugby for example "

absolutely..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't watch any.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"You know, those programmes that seem to be on constantly.

Are you a fan or do you think they're mundane rubbish?

Do you have a favourite or just watch them all?"

I don't watch any anymore

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm one of those who doesn't watch them, but then go to my nan's and it's always on.....so I inadvertently catch up and know what's happening after 1 or 6 months of not watching. However neighbours I do tend to watch that, it's just easier and the storylines are over after a few weeks.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nope.

I saw some in a hospital waiting room a little while ago and it was excruciating.

-Courtney

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My mum and aunt are addicted to the things. They record them if they're not in and watch them later. I suspect they get it from my nan.

I get the impression that they are of a certain time, made popular when women often didn't have other hobbies that took them away from the house in the evenings. (My mum and my aunt, for example, don't really have any hobbies other than watching soaps.)

Nobody I know in my friendship group watches them, as far as I'm aware. Personally I just think they're often not very good or exciting story telling. I just find them really unstimulating.

If I'm going to sit down and watch TV I'd rather watch something that will stimulate me, perhaps teach me something new. I mostly watch documentaries on TV, and sometimes a good cooking program or something. I have a bit of a weakness for fact-based gameshows like Pointless or University Challenge. But mostly I just don't spend much time in front of the TV. I have other hobbies to spend my time doing, so it has to be something pretty interesting to drag me away from them.

I'd be interested in looking at studies showing what kinds of people watch soaps - what their class bracket is, their income levels, their other hobbies. I suspect it is far more diverse than many people think.

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By *aneandpaulCouple
over a year ago

cleveleys

Most of us hate them but watch them

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials

I'll admit to loving Emmerdale!! Not fussed about the others though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nope, don't watch any.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Self confessed soap addict!

S

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Used to watch Eastenders & Neighbours. Thinking about it now was very much like Wasp mentioned above^^ it was almost like a hobby.

Don't have the spare time to watch them now & its pretty much the same storyline played out over the years.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I watch Corrie off and on, because my husband does. If he's out, I don't watch it of if there's something else on, we watch that instead. It's just habit really. I watched Neighbours all through school and university, it was part of the daily routine

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I watch Corrie off and on, because my husband does. If he's out, I don't watch it of if there's something else on, we watch that instead. It's just habit really. I watched Neighbours all through school and university, it was part of the daily routine "

Oh god, I remember at university, in one of the rooms that served food, the whole place would go quiet when Neighbours was on

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't watch any now, usedx to watch corrie and emmerdale and like them a bit. My mum watched every single soap going, she lived her life in the TV.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I got into watching neighbours when in hospital, it was better looking at that then staring at the ceilings (especially Kylie and holly valance). Still watch it now and then just to see what's going on or who's on it.

Watch emmadale as the wife likes it so you kind of get drawn into what's going on. Mind you the way they all swap partners in it, sounds to me it would be a swingers paradise of a village lol.

Watched hollyoaks once only because my son said how sexy some of the women were in it, for once he was right lol

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

O o O oo

Yes I watch them. I bet without reading the whole thread there won't be many who say they do, yet know they are rubbish.

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By *a petite madameWoman
over a year ago

London / Essex


"Self confessed soap addict!

S "

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere

Pre kids I used to watch Eastenders and Corrie. Post kids not a chance!! That's fine by me though I'd much rather watch the Simpsons or listen to my little girl reading to me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ever since Albert Tatlock downed his last pint in the rovers .....I'd rather pluck my eyes out with a rusty fork than watch the Soaps......

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By *vgloryholebs16TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol.

I have been a huge corry fan ever since I can remember...It is probably the only thing I slightly miss when on holiday,but very easy to pick up It is very funny and always makes me laugh..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"always tickles me when people say 'Dont watch them cos they are really shit'

How would you know if you dont watch them? "

I know they are shit in the same way as I know McDonald's is shit food without needing to actually eat there.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not way watched a soap in years. Occasionally catch a bit of one while channel hopping and that's enough! It's not my idea of entertainment or a fun way to spend my spare time

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

O o O oo


"always tickles me when people say 'Dont watch them cos they are really shit'

How would you know if you dont watch them?

I know they are shit in the same way as I know McDonald's is shit food without needing to actually eat there."

You see I have had a Mc Donalds and decided it was manky so know from experience they are shit. If I hadn't had one then I wouldn't be able to say one way or another surely?

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk

I'm not a fan of soaps. I don't watch any of them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Soap addict eastenders my favriote

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It tickles me when people get incandescent with rage when the football comes on during a World Cup or European Championships every 4 bloody years as "it's on all the time" and an episode of one of the soaps has to be postponed.

Like the soaps are on EVERY DAY of every week ..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It tickles me when people get incandescent with rage when the football comes on during a World Cup or European Championships every 4 bloody years as "it's on all the time" and an episode of one of the soaps has to be postponed.

Like the soaps are on EVERY DAY of every week .. "

Now now Dan.... Xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It tickles me when people get incandescent with rage when the football comes on during a World Cup or European Championships every 4 bloody years as "it's on all the time" and an episode of one of the soaps has to be postponed.

Like the soaps are on EVERY DAY of every week ..

Now now Dan.... Xx"

well, I mean ...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A dwindling allocation of real-life doesn't afford me a sufficient resource of real-time to habitually waste it watching other people pretending to be involved in a real-life scenarios .....

I don't care how realistic they can make it look......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"always tickles me when people say 'Dont watch them cos they are really shit'

How would you know if you dont watch them?

I know they are shit in the same way as I know McDonald's is shit food without needing to actually eat there.

You see I have had a Mc Donalds and decided it was manky so know from experience they are shit. If I hadn't had one then I wouldn't be able to say one way or another surely?"

It depends what you mean by 'shit' I suppose.

I know that McDonalds is nutritionally shit food. I'm ok saying that without eating it - because I can examine that from other sources.

But someone couldn't say that McDonalds tastes shit *to them* without eating it themselves.

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By *abphilMan
over a year ago

sheffield

Big fan.

I watch em to decide which one of the female cast would be be best in bed

No ones beat Elsie Tanner yet!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't watch any of them

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By *oward1978Man
over a year ago

Rotherham

I watch Neighbours, have since I was about 10 years old. It's like my guilty pleasure, though it is essentially shite. You can't really deny it, it is utter drivel! It's now just become some mindless nonsense that I have on while I eat my lunch.

I think the key is not to watch too much of this kind of crap. I'd be concerned about my sanity if I watched too many soaps.

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By *abphilMan
over a year ago

sheffield

It makes me laff how eastend women drink vodka neat straight out of the bottle.

Give me a Yorkshire lass whos happy with a pint of bitter anytime.

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

I watch Emmerdale if it's on and quite enjoy it.

I wouldn't record it or watch it on any catch up

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By *ENDAROOSCouple
over a year ago

South West London / Surrey

I'll watch Emmerdale or EastEnders if I'm in and the TV is on. I can take or leave them.

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By *abphilMan
over a year ago

sheffield

Eastenders they wander off to the bog for a shag

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By *errygTV/TS
over a year ago

denton

mindless escapism for people with shallow lives, constipation st, arsenders, emmeroid, crookside to name but a few, that aussie shite say no more

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By *isdirtygirlWoman
over a year ago

Dublin

Emmerdale has to be my favourite if i sit still long enough to watch it...

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By *ervent_fervourMan
over a year ago

Halifax

Brookside.

Jimmy, Tinhead, Sinbad and Mick. Brill.

Only one I ever watched.

Although I suppose there's the 'news' now..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Corrie & Emmerdale and I dip in and out of EastEnders.

I'd blame the fact that I've always watched Corrie on the fact that my grandma brought my mum up on it so my mum brought me up on it, but that's no excuse.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't watch any.. Take me out and tattoo fixers are the only English TV programmes I watch regularly

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

Enders and Hollyoaks but not fussed if I miss them... Out of habit I guess.

Should really watch Corrie as my dad used to be in it

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

I don't watch Emmernation Enders, Easterdale St, Corriender Dale or any such trash.

Bring back proper shit like Prisoner Cell Block H

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