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Oi be caringOriginally posted by Sysman View PostThat reminds me of a listener's suggestion on the radio many years ago. In their plot, the combined casts of Emmerdale and Coronation Street took a charter flight to Spain, which crashed into the Crossroads set, wiping the lot of them out.
P.S. What did happen to Benny? Anyone know or even care?
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Originally posted by bogeyman View PostEastEnders 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?I actually walked out the Star Trek Film last week, I thought to my self warp drives don't exist and I have never seen a vulcan so why am I here?. Or is that fiction?fic·tion (fĭk'shən)
n.
An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented.
A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact.
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Hear, hear.Originally posted by bogeyman View PostEastEnders 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.
Wind back 10 years or so and I had a mate whose mum was a proper Cockney. She found the show intensely depressing as it seemed to consist predominantly of one miserable git moaning at another miserable git. There were very few cheery Cockneys in view.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?
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That reminds me of a listener's suggestion on the radio many years ago. In their plot, the combined casts of Emmerdale and Coronation Street took a charter flight to Spain, which crashed into the Crossroads set, wiping the lot of them out.Originally posted by bobhope View PostRats, I literally thought you meant that Eastenders Square was going to be blown up and the series ended.
Shame. I would have paid money to see that. (so long as it meant that it was taken of the air)
P.S. What did happen to Benny? Anyone know or even care?
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Are you comparing me to Fooker? Kewl!, thanks!Originally posted by Bagpuss View PostIt's a joke based from a comedy show based on the missuse of 110%. Trust someone on CUK to take it literally. God knows what you get up to if someone tells you to go Fook yourself

That's the nicest thing anyone's said to me in ages!
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It's a joke based from a comedy show based on the missuse of 110%. Trust someone on CUK to take it literally. God knows what you get up to if someone tells you to go Fook yourselfOriginally posted by BrowneIssue View PostYeah, whatever. Definitely no knockers in that story.
This is bugging me:
That will leave you 99% behind him. 10% of 110% is 11%, so if you backtrack by 10% you will go down by 11% from 110% to 99%.
You need to be backing him 111.11 recurring %.
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Originally posted by bogeyman View PostEastEnders 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?
Bengalis
Otherwise, true.
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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 ?
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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.
probably
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Is you 'aving a go, guvn'er ?
Right, no yanking the barnet, this is right and proper fisticuffs innit ?
Rick.....yyyyyy
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I think, for some, East Enders is an instruction manual on how to live their lives.
Gawd 'elp us all.
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