Post by: wjp666 on March 03, 2007, 09:23:14 pm
Post by: goldencup on March 03, 2007, 11:46:34 pm
Post by: Velvet Darkness on March 04, 2007, 02:34:31 am
I love eclipses, especially if I have the opportunity to sit outside, beside a fire, sipping a warming drink and just watching.
Bliss.
Of course it's not Coronation Street, but then how could mother nature hope to match up to the weekly spectacle of 24 northerners who when not sleeping with their daughter's boyfriends/mother's boyfriends or father's boyfriends, each other, themselves and the kitty cat from number 42 (and getting caught doing it), spend every night sitting in the pub?
Post by: Forth Bridges on March 04, 2007, 08:16:06 am
A: too high
B: cloud
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Post by: smurfboy on March 04, 2007, 01:54:26 pm
Post by: smurfboy on March 04, 2007, 01:58:14 pm
Quote from: Velvet Darkness
It was wonderful. The children and I watched it.I love eclipses, especially if I have the opportunity to sit outside, beside a fire, sipping a warming drink and just watching.Bliss.Of course it's not Coronation Street, but then how could mother nature hope to match up to the weekly spectacle of 24 northerners who when not sleeping with their daughter's boyfriends/mother's boyfriends or father's boyfriends, each other, themselves and the kitty cat from number 42 (and getting caught doing it), spend every night sitting in the pub?
Is your nose bleeding from having it stuck so far in the air?
Post by: goldencup on March 04, 2007, 03:40:37 pm
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I don't have a pop up blocker. Makes no difference. I can use hyperlink and image insert but not image upload. It does not work on my PC. Please try to understand.
Post by: on March 04, 2007, 03:54:59 pm
Post by: on March 04, 2007, 03:59:31 pm
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Quote from: Velvet DarknessIt was wonderful. The children and I watched it.I love eclipses, especially if I have the opportunity to sit outside, beside a fire, sipping a warming drink and just watching.Bliss.Of course it's not Coronation Street, but then how could mother nature hope to match up to the weekly spectacle of 24 northerners who when not sleeping with their daughter's boyfriends/mother's boyfriends or father's boyfriends, each other, themselves and the kitty cat from number 42 (and getting caught doing it), spend every night sitting in the pub?Is your nose bleeding from having it stuck so far in the air?
Just because she's got some class, there's no need to be rude!
Post by: goldencup on March 04, 2007, 04:01:27 pm
Post by: smurfboy on March 04, 2007, 04:04:52 pm
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Quote from: smurfboyQuote from: Velvet DarknessIt was wonderful. The children and I watched it.I love eclipses, especially if I have the opportunity to sit outside, beside a fire, sipping a warming drink and just watching.Bliss.Of course it's not Coronation Street, but then how could mother nature hope to match up to the weekly spectacle of 24 northerners who when not sleeping with their daughter's boyfriends/mother's boyfriends or father's boyfriends, each other, themselves and the kitty cat from number 42 (and getting caught doing it), spend every night sitting in the pub?Is your nose bleeding from having it stuck so far in the air?
Just because she's got some class, there's no need to be rude!
Someone with real class would have the decency to respect how others spend their leisure time instead of making snobby, sarcastic comments. Only person was rude here and it wasn't me.
Post by: oldspice on March 04, 2007, 04:14:33 pm
GC - your remarks re Chloe and Thomas made me giggle and i get your drift!
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Post by: kevvosa on March 04, 2007, 05:49:48 pm
Post by: StarSparkle on March 04, 2007, 07:55:59 pm
Post by: smurfboy on March 04, 2007, 08:40:14 pm
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I like VD's somewhat condescending tone. It's honest.
Here's something honest for you - VD needs a smack in the face with a wet fish. Honest enough for you?
As a side note, some people really shouldn't be referred to by their initials...
Post by: kevvosa on March 04, 2007, 09:50:27 pm
As a side note I agree that calling someone VD sounds dodgy.
Post by: Velvet Darkness on March 04, 2007, 09:54:25 pm
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snobby, sarcastic commentscondescending tonesniggeringly smugI must say Smurfy, I was slightly peeved by the strange juxtaposition of the eclipse and the watching of Coronation Street. I feel slightly offended because I watch(ed) both and, in fact, I saw the eclipse having emerged from the Royal Albert Hall having watched Madam Butterfly so i am obviously not a total moron.VD needs a smack in the face with a wet fish????????I understand you not appreciating my comment. I recognise your right to your opinion. But I don't know why you took my comment so personally? If you were offended by my remarks then that is because you read something into them that I never even implied, and YOU related yourselves to the comment made, not me.For personal opinion I find Madam Butterfly as boring as Coronation Street, and you don't have to be smart or well educated to enjoy opera.Your opinion of me is unimportant since you know nothing about me at all.Your comment about Catherine Tate made no impact on me since that is something else I am obviously too posh to watch or perhaps I simply cannot see it from my lofty position?Quote from: smurfboyVD needs a smack in the face with a wet fishGrow up.
Post by: Velvet Darkness on March 04, 2007, 09:55:51 pm
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edit: I was actually sticking up for Velvet there but after seeing her attitude on the other thread I think she's rather rude.
As a side note I agree that calling someone VD sounds dodgy.
Thankyou.
Post by: smurfboy on March 04, 2007, 09:55:52 pm
Post by: wjp666 on March 05, 2007, 01:35:46 am
Post by: oldspice on March 05, 2007, 07:03:31 am
Velvet - you will find if you look back at past threads that we often poke gentle fun at Corrie and EastEnders - the characters, plot lines and the strange shortage of washing machines in Albert Square but we do not poke fun at people who watch them.
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Post by: kevvosa on March 05, 2007, 03:02:02 pm
Post by: oldspice on March 05, 2007, 04:46:38 pm
Post by: kevvosa on March 05, 2007, 05:46:55 pm
Oh I always keep a wet fish handy in my bag.
Post by: Velvet Darkness on March 05, 2007, 06:44:39 pm
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Velvet - you will find if you look back at past threads that we often poke gentle fun at Corrie and EastEnders - but we do not poke fun at people who watch them.
Please could you tell me where in my original post I did that?
I have looked but the only reference to anyone by name was mother nature, and she doesn't seem to be complaining.
I WAS poking fun at the programme. No-one else mentioned Corrie and I mentioned NO-one at all, I didn't even use the word people.
I am at a complete loss as to where any of this discussion came from, and now I need a smack in the face with a wet fish and I apparently look down on people and I am ridiculed for watching movies. I found smurfboys post about the Breakfast Club very confusing.
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No, I imagine that as I'm such a moron I watch a soap opera, my opinion is pretty worthless.
I NEVER said anything like that, and I never would, my mum watches them for goodness sake, it's just TV.
I would also like to know why it is alright for you to be rude to me with name calling and comments about my private life and my children, but when I stick up for myself I am
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A nasty piece of workHow unfair is that?
OK maybe I should have been more tactful in my replies but by then I was pretty ticked off myself at some of the things that had been said. Then I tried to treat the whole thing as a joke. I have tried to have a sense of humour, not take it too seriously and bring the discussion back to a managable level, but that is obviously not to be.
Honestly I am quite confused by the vehemence of the replies about a silly TV programme, it was not about you, any of you, or anyone else for that matter.
Oh this is just too ridiculous.
Post by: oldspice on March 05, 2007, 07:16:09 pm
OK so maybe it has got a bit silly. I just resent the implication that if you watch Corrie you probably wouldn't appreciate an eclipse.
Post by: Velvet Darkness on March 05, 2007, 08:01:33 pm
My mum, who was the one who told me about the eclipse in the first place, is one of the most intelligent people I know and she watches Home and Away for heavens sake, (if there could be a dafter soap than that I've yet to find it,) aswell as Coronation Street and Emmerdale, though even she is drawing the line at Eastenders right now as it has "got silly at the moment and she's having a rest from it".
I don't watch TV much at all. Just movies, Bones, Wild At Heart and anything by Agatha Christie. And I never read newspapers. So without mum telling me I wouldn't even have known about the eclipse. It would have been a shame to miss it too as it really was marvelous.
Post by: smurfboy on March 05, 2007, 08:15:12 pm
The eclipse thread also wasn't the first time you've had a dig at someone for watching TV. I made a comment in the Waterloo Road thread about two popular shows up against each other, and your response was something like 'Oh good grief I feel like I'm missing out on something - but I can't think what...' As for saying my comment in the Breakfast Club thread was confusing, I think it was anything but - in fact, even your average Corrie fan could understand it. I was saying that it's a bit rich to criticise people for watching the TV shows they enjoy, then to wax lyrical about a film that's hardly highbrow.
I feel like I'm missing out on something - but I can't think what...' As for saying my comment in the Breakfast Club thread was confusing, I think it was anything but - in fact, even your average Corrie fan could understand it. I was saying that it's a bit rich to criticise people for watching the TV shows they enjoy, then to wax lyrical about a film that's hardly highbrow.By the way, I haven't said a single word about your children. What I'd like to know is why we're supposed to take your snide comments as a joke, but anything we say in response is rude?
Post by: wjp666 on March 05, 2007, 08:18:23 pm
come on, people - this is getting out of hand. it's pretty obvious if you go back and read the posts there was no 'attack' on anyone... just a throw-away statement about a tv show.
everyone kiss and make up!
Post by: Velvet Darkness on March 05, 2007, 09:44:37 pm
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Velvet - IF it was genuinely meant as a joke and not a knock at anyone, I am sorry. But what I don't get is why say it in the first place? How was it relevant to the eclipse? As far as I could see, you were having a dig at GC because she said she wasn't impressed by the eclipse. Maybe I got that wrong - although GC and Oldspice both came to the same conclusion...
But don't you see that's why I didn't expect the reaction I got, because it WAS irrelevant?
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The eclipse thread also wasn't the first time you've had a dig at someone for watching TV. I made a comment in the Waterloo Road thread about two popular shows up against each other, and your response was something like 'Oh good grief
I'm sorry but I did not post on the Waterloo Road thread. I wanted to avoid any discussion about school girls in or out of uniforms.
The quote you mention was in the Ugly Betty thread, programmes with names like Ugly Betty, Jam and Jerusalem and Bonkers! and I said I didn't watch them, you made me feel like I was missing out on something, but with names like those I couldn't think what it might be, the truth behind that statement is simply that, but I think I failed to make my meaning clear and once again a simple misunderstanding leads to resentment and anger when that was really not my intention.
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As for saying my comment in the Breakfast Club thread was confusing, I think it was anything but - in fact, even your average Corrie fan could understand it. I was saying that it's a bit rich to criticise people for watching the TV shows they enjoy, then to wax lyrical about a film that's hardly highbrow.
Exactly, I am NOT highbrow, so why would I think I have ANY right to criticize anyone? I wouldn't, that's what I find so confusing. But of course because you don't know me you don't know that. Sorry.
I do not watch soaps or TV series as a rule because I have a toddler and two teenagers (well almost, my son is 12 soon, but acts 14 now!!!) and with guides and cubs, canoeing and pantomime rehearsals, boyfriends/girlfriends and trips to the pictures, parties, disco's and sleep-overs, (all for them not me you understand!) I cannot gaurantee where I am going to be on any given night. I soon lose interest when I only see one programme in about every 6 or 7.
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By the way, I haven't said a single word about your children. What I'd like to know is why we're supposed to take your snide comments as a joke, but anything we say in response is rude?
No, I realise you didn't, but my children's names were brought up in this discussion, and I object to them being dragged into this in what appeared to be an effort to hurt me in some way as they are lovely kids and do not deserve to be used in such a way.
I have explained myself here and I will promise to try and make my meanings more clear in future, but really I do not put undercurrents into my posts, what I say is what I mean and if I was going to 'have a go' at someone I would come right out with it as I can be quite rude when I feel it necessary.
I intended no slight to anyone and was not aware of any snide comments, but I will watch out for that.
Now this whole thing is really silly and since you have apologised to me, and I will now apologise to you all -I am very sorry- for any unintentional but obviously hurtful things my posts may have inadvertantly seemed to contain, I would love it if we could start again with a clean slate?
Wow some BIG words in there huh?
Post by: smurfboy on March 05, 2007, 09:49:13 pm
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Post by: Forth Bridges on March 05, 2007, 09:51:43 pm
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Post by: wjp666 on March 05, 2007, 10:22:06 pm
Post by: Velvet Darkness on March 05, 2007, 10:32:38 pm
Now THAT I could have lived without seeing!
Post by: smurfboy on March 05, 2007, 10:46:00 pm
Post by: loulou on March 07, 2007, 10:45:40 pm
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Post by: smurfboy on March 07, 2007, 10:54:45 pm
Post by: loulou on March 07, 2007, 10:56:35 pm
Yay you read Heat too.
Post by: smurfboy on March 07, 2007, 10:57:10 pm
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Post by: Cherry_Ripe on March 08, 2007, 09:02:07 am
Billie Piper was on Top Gear at the weekend. I didn't really know much about her before but she came across well ... although she needs to do something about her eyebrows IMO.
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