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Thread: The Archers - BBC radio story of everyday country folk
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Jigsaw
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Originally posted by Firenze:
Welcome to The Ship, gerbilfodder.
( Mrs Dale's Diary - now there was a catalogue of crime and passion).
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Jigsaw
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Originally posted by Firenze:
( Mrs Dale's Diary - now there was a catalogue of crime and passion).
Firenze
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For Firenze:
"I'm worried about Jim"
(this will make absolutely no sense to most other Heaven dwellers, but I couldn't resist posting it)
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Sir Kevin
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I guess Lillian cannot be an adulteress because she is not actually married to poor old cuckolded Matt, but she keeps getting sluttier and sluttier and seems to be completely devoid of conventional morals when it comes to matters of the heart. It does spice up the scripts a good bit!
Why not have here walking up to an illicit meeting at a "love hotel" with her lover while wearing no pants and no brassiere on a windy day in a short skirt and nearly transparent top? Oooh, that is a troubling image... My eyes, my eyes!
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North East Quine
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What would be the point of going braless and knickerless on radio?
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Firenze
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And when did this thread cross over into Archers fanfic/ porn?
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North East Quine
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I'm with Matt on this one. I think Lillian would look good in a smart winter coat.
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Albertus
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
Ruth only fell for Sam-the-Cowman because David was dallying with Sophie-from-the-past.
Don't you believe it. Underneath that sensible Northumbrian grazing expert, shepherd's pie maker aand harassed mother of typically repellent Ambridge teenaged daughter, there's a woman who has needs that David just can't fulfil...
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Sir Kevin
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That was a bit before my time as a listener, but it sounds fascinating.
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North East Quine
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Originally posted by Albertus:
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
Ruth only fell for Sam-the-Cowman because David was dallying with Sophie-from-the-past.
Don't you believe it. Underneath that sensible Northumbrian grazing expert, shepherd's pie maker aand harassed mother of typically repellent Ambridge teenaged daughter, there's a woman who has needs that David just can't fulfil...
Didn't we all get audible proof that David could fulfil her needs in the conception-of-Ben episode? In a hay-stack IIRC.
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Albertus
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That was round about 2001, wasn't it? It's been a long time since then.
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The Weeder
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Please stop- I do not want to be reminded that the awful pair actually MATE.
I feel quite sick as I prefer to think their repellant brood came out of a test tube.
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Albertus
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Originally posted by The Weeder:
Please stop- I do not want to be reminded that the awful pair actually MATE.
I feel quite sick as I prefer to think their repellant brood came out of a test tube.
I didn't actually hear the episode, but I can imagine it-
DA: series of indistinct grunts within which sounds that might possibly be interpreted as 'milk quotas', 'NFU', and 'sod it, what about a quickie?' can vaguely be discerned.
Sound effect: Rustle rustle rustle of hay and removal of Economical Outfittings for Agricultural Employment
RA: 'Ooh Daavid! Oooh Nooo! Oooh Nooo! Oooh Nooo! Oooh YEEES !'
Up grams Barwick Green and fade to Brian Perkins...
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Firenze
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So not an everyday story of country folk, sheep meat quotas, fowl pest control and hints on sugar beet cultivation, but a (drystone) wall-to-wall rutfest then?
[ 06. February 2013, 19:50: Message edited by: Firenze ]
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Sir Kevin
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Who the hell is Brian Perkins? He is not coming up in my Who's Who. I vote Lillian for Slut of the Year: she has no redeeming social qualities except of her pocketbook which keeps poor old Matt interested and out of gaol. Do they still copulate? Is his half-brother in danger of transmitting a social disease to him via her if that is the case?
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Spike
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Brian Perkins was a Radio 4 announcer, much parodied by the excellent "Dead Ringers".
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North East Quine
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Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
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she has no redeeming social qualities
She drives her mother to the Laurels regularly, she's a concerned and caring aunt to Adam, she's a doting mother to the worthless James....
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Albertus
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Lillian's fun. She's a tart with a heart, and underneath it all a certain (if fallible) moral code. I find her a much more attractive and enjoyable character than either of her siblings (and especially than her brain-dead ageing sloane doormat of a sister, Jennifer).
Tonight's Brief Encounter episode was quite entertaining.
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Sir Kevin
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Yes, I admit it was! She is still a piss-poor excuse for a girlfriend.
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Albertus
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But look at what's available in Ambridge, especially among the middle-aged and upwards. Matt's damned lucky to get her and should have realised it.
And leaving aside the question of a sexual or romantic relationship, in any list of the Archers characters of either sex that you'd be happy to have a drink with, Lillian has got to be in the top flight.
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birdie
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
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she has no redeeming social qualities
She drives her mother to the Laurels regularly, she's a concerned and caring aunt to Adam, she's a doting mother to the worthless James....
Also, I was really impressed with how she spoke to Peggy about Bethany, Mike & Vicky's new baby daughter. She's all right, is Lillian.
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North East Quine
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Lillian stood by Matt when he was in prison. She became disillusioned with him because of his poor treatment of elderly and vulnerable tenants. Her affair with Paul wasn't driven by hormones, but part of a reassessment of Matt.
Don't knock Lillian.
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Ariel
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The Archers haven't been the same since the death of Grace. Thread closed to provide fans with pause for thoughtful reflection.
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Sir Kevin
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Apparently we had some, then!
I liked today's storylines about the death of Scruff the dog and the retired architect at Lower Loxley, Lewis. OK, so Lillian is a "tart with a heart" but I am still getting tired of hearing about her dirty weekends with Matt's half-brother and the constant, if not pathological, lying about losing earrings and crap like that!
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
Apparently we had some, then!
I liked today's storylines about the death of Scruff the dog and the retired architect at Lower Loxley, Lewis. OK, so Lillian is a "tart with a heart" but I am still getting tired of hearing about her dirty weekends with Matt's half-brother and the constant, if not pathological, lying about losing earrings and crap like that!
I think "I lost an earring there" is one of Lillian's euphemisms.
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North East Quine
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Any thoughts on the current plot re Alice / Christopher?
Should someone with a Masters degree in engineering, but virtually no experience expect to get a high-flying job straight away?
And should a spouse who goes for a job interview expect their spouse to be supportive and rational, even if they think the job would be a bad idea, as opposed to sulking and getting drunk?
If the genders were reversed (husband contemplates moving abroad in search of a better job, wife sulks and drinks herself into a stupor) wouldn't this storyline seem ludicrous?
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Sir Kevin
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I think people with newly-minted Masters Degrees in any field should expect to get a good job right away. My wife expected that would be the case, but it wasn't.
I do think Alice was a bit selfish and short-sighted going all the way to BC to find a better job: she did have a job and could have been promoted in a relatively short time.
I hope the writers don't kill off Chris!
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North East Quine
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Your wife has experience though, Sir Kevin - she's not a wet-behind-the-ears twenty-four year old.
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Albertus
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But Alice has a huge sense of entitlement: most of the Ambridge yoof think the world revolves around them but she has the additional curse of being the spawn of Brian and Jennifer. Much as I dislike her, the poor girl never stood a chance.
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Sir Kevin
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
Your wife has experience though, Sir Kevin - she's not a wet-behind-the-ears twenty-four year old.
Tell it to our creditors! She doesn't have a permanent position with a pension and health insurance: because we are not yet in the UK (though I would love to sell up in ten years and retire to Land's End) health insurance payments are absorbing an obscene amount of our earned income and forcing us to sell shares!
Ooops! Typed too fast!
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