Originally posted by BrowneIssue
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EastEnders is a preposterous show.
The racial demographics portrayed are that of the East End in approximately the mid 1950s - except for the conspicuous absence of Jewish folk.
All the white East Enders moved out to Essex years ago. They are not still there knocking back gin and lime in some cosy neighbourhood boozer and having 'kneesups' and singing 'My Old Man Said Follow The Van' to the tinkling of the 'joanna'.
Nor are they running market stalls or 'greasy spoon' cafes (kaffs), pie and mash shops, whelk stalls, or similar Cockney enterprises.
The East End has always been a settling place for new immigrant communities, and nowadays is predominantly populated by Pakistanis.
Times change, but the tired cliche of the cheery Cockney is an anachronism. Why do the BBC insist on portraying an East End that vanished decades ago? And why is it so popular?
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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Glad to be of service.Originally posted by Amiga500 View Post
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I think, for some, East Enders is an instruction manual on how to live their lives.
Gawd 'elp us all.Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Is you 'aving a go, guvn'er ?
Right, no yanking the barnet, this is right and proper fisticuffs innit ?
Rick.....yyyyyyOf all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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I fe<king hate Eastenders and infact any soap with a passion
mindnumbing crap with storylines based around other peoples misery
designed for the mindless masses who like nothing more than to wallow in other peoples misery so that it makes their own sad shallow squalid lives look worth living
it runs and runs because the government want it to - the new opium of the masses.
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If he's found out will Phil Mitchell chop his nob off or does it depend on "which end of the horse" he is ?Comment
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You are indeed correct HAB.Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View Post
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Otherwise, true.
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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