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    #32
    didikeys
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    Pregnant women always drink orange juice in the pub - there are plenty of other non alcoholic drinks to have!!!!!


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    #33
    Posy
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    Dinners

    Scenario A: A couple will go into a nice restaurant to have dinner. While waiting for the order to arrive they will begin to bicker. When the waiter/waitress comes over with their expensive meals, the woman will immediately push her plate away and say scathingly "I appear to have lost my appetite" while the man looks apologetic and uncomfortable.

    Scenario B: A couple go into the local to have lunch. When waiting for their food they'll have a row. The server will come over to where they are seated and place two big steaming pub lunches on the table, at which point the woman will storm out. The man will call her name, throw a couple of notes on the table and run out after her leaving a LOT of food going to waste.


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    #34
    Tupins
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    When people in soaps decide to 'leave' eg. leave their partner or homes - they just decide to leave and they're gone an hour later.
    There's no making arrangements, giving notice at work or anything like that. And they always go to stay with a 'friend' who has so far never been mentioned!

    If only life were that simple.....

    Plus, how come so few people in soaps own cars????


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    #35
    duridian
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    Tupins wrote: »
    ...Plus, how come so few people in soaps own cars????
    Probably because as props go they are large to store, also quite expensive and you can't just have everyone driving about in 50 quid deathtraps, that wouldn't seem realistic.


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    #36
    RichMc70
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    Tupins wrote: »
    Plus, how come so few people in soaps own cars????

    Who need's a car when
    you work on the same street/square that you live
    all your family and friends live on the same street/square
    you only shop in stores on the same street/square
    you only go to nightclubs that are on the same street/square
    and finally you go boozing in the pub 7 days a week every lunchtime and evening that......yes you....guessed it.... is on the same street/square

    Who would need a car under these circumstances ? (sorry, other than the taxi company that is based again on the same street/square)

    Maybe this is the answer Gormless Gormley and the Greens are looking for. Everyone in Ireland should be restricted to working, shopping and socialising in area less than 0.5km square from their home and therefore no cars, motorbikes, buses etc. and 90% reduction in household electricity use as everyone eats in one cafe/restaurant or drinks in one pub.


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    #37
    Tupins
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    Sounds good to me - I'd love to have the Rovers as my local. there'd never be a dull moment!!


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    #38
    Posy
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    A new government initiative; I like it!


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    #39
    Sharpshooter
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    What bugs me is when new characters come into a soap,
    Ronnie and Roxy for example in Eastenders and within 5 minuets they are talking to people as if they have been there for years, wouldn't happen in real life at all.


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    Posy
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    It's amazing the memory these people have. Within a few days of working in the Vic, a new barmaid can remember the names of all the regulars, know all their drinks ('I'll have the usual..) and (like SharpShooter said) is either close personal friends or mortal enemies with the majority of them.
    I suppose the bonding process is speeded up since a lot of them will have been murdered/left in a taxi/died tragically/emigrated within a few months.


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    #41
    Sharpshooter
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    The Actress Sue Jenkins,Played Jimmy Corkhill's wife in Brookie , follows Val home from Spain in Emmerdale and Pollard fails to recognoise that she used to work behind the bar in the woolpack , her name was Gloria and he had slept with her. She left him and broke his heart.
    l hate when they do that , why not just get a different actress.:rolleyes:


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    #42
    duridian
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    sharpshooterH wrote: »
    What bugs me is when new characters come into a soap,
    Ronnie and Roxy for example in Eastenders and within 5 minuets they are talking to people as if they have been there for years, wouldn't happen in real life at all.

    I know what you mean.
    Hilarious the way Peggy says to them; "'oo the 'ell are you?", at around 6 o'clock, and by 6.15 it's; "I'm off on me 'olliers, 'ere's the keys to the Vic, girls."
    Likewise Danielle pops up, like the Meteor genie, and two minutes later Stacey has her running the stall, and in charge of the animal print money belt.


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    #43
    Sharpshooter
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    duridian wrote: »
    I know what you mean.
    Hilarious the way Peggy says to them; "'oo the 'ell are you?", at around 6 o'clock, and by 6.15 it's; "I'm off on me 'olliers, 'ere's the keys to the Vic, girls."
    Likewise Danielle pops up, like the Meteor genie, and two minutes later Stacey has her running the stall, and in charge of the animal print money belt.

    Animal print money belt , :D:D:D:D
    Great attention to detail.:pac:


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    #44
    marie_85
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    duridian wrote:
    I think the strangest drink related soap behaviour is when they order a pint of "beer" or a "lager", that is all the info they give, yet the bartender magically knows which brand they wanted.

    The only time I've ever seen a character name a drink was in Coronation Street and Nick Tilsley asked for 'Stellarberg' or some other ridiculous sounding composite name.

    Harry Hill ripped the p*ss out of it that weekend and I don't think they've done it since.


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    #45
    Sharpshooter
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    Caderyn wrote: »
    It's amazing the memory these people have. Within a few days of working in the Vic, a new barmaid can remember the names of all the regulars, know all their drinks ('I'll have the usual..) and (like SharpShooter said) is either close personal friends or mortal enemies with the majority of them.
    I suppose the bonding process is speeded up since a lot of them will have been murdered/left in a taxi/died tragically/emigrated within a few months.

    l bet they dread it , reading the script and out pops TAXI , at least they know they are not getting killed off.:D


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    #46
    babi-hrse
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    duridian wrote: »
    Oddlly enough this has come to be the cause of Lana's murder in Fair City. :D

    what she didn't pay?


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    Sharpshooter
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    babi-hrse wrote: »
    what she didn't pay?
    Seem's that's all it takes in soapland.:D
    We shall wait and see.:pac:


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    Posy
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    sharpshooterH wrote: »
    l bet they dread it , reading the script and out pops TAXI , at least they know they are not getting killed off.:D
    Hehe, true.

    Billy- Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
    Honey- Blah blahblah blahblah blah!!
    Billy- Blah blah blah.
    Honey- Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

    Honey blah blah TAXI blah blah

    Emma Barton: "Oh crap.." :eek:


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    #49
    Sharpshooter
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    Caderyn wrote: »
    Hehe, true.

    Billy- Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
    Honey- Blah blahblah blahblah blah!!
    Billy- Blah blah blah.
    Honey- Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

    Honey blah blah TAXI blah blah

    Emma Barton: "Oh crap.." :eek:

    Wellard : Grrr.:D


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    #50
    marti101
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    You always know when someones preggers they stop drinking straight away.They have unlimited relatives so if something happens another one pops out of the woodwork.If they are having an affair they always choose a where you are guarenteed to be found out.And another thing that bugs me is when Billy couldnt find work in the square he did a dodgy job with jase rather than get the tube and look for another job outside the square.Also Honey is way to good for Billy theres no way she would go for him in real life.


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    #51
    Posy
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    marti101 wrote: »
    Billy couldnt find work in the square he did a dodgy job with jase rather than get the tube and look for another job outside the square.
    OUTSIDE the square? Dear God, what are you suggesting!!? :eek:


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    Sharpshooter
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    Caderyn wrote: »
    OUTSIDE the square? Dear God, what are you suggesting!!? :eek:

    :eek: 1.gif:D


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    #53
    duridian
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    babi-hrse wrote: »
    what she didn't pay?

    Yeah, your man Terence said that she wouldn't pay because she accused him of taking her a longer route in his taxi, or something to that effect. He wouldn't let her out the taxi, they struggled resulting in his killing of her. That's what Terence told Leo on Sunday 31st August at Leo's gaff.


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    #54
    efb
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    No matter how impoverished they are they always have enough capital to set up, or buy, a business instantly!


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    #55
    Sharpshooter
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    They never talk about whats on TV.:eek:


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    #56
    duridian
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    Caderyn wrote: »
    OUTSIDE the square? Dear God, what are you suggesting!!? :eek:
    .
    villagecopysd7.jpg


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    #57
    Posy
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    ROFL516.gif


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    #58
    Tupins
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    Tupins wrote: »
    ......that we don't do in reality.


    When packing suitcases, people always bring the suitcase and all their clothes down to the living room and pack there rather than in the bedroom.

    Hey, this corrie reviewer obviously reads boards - he has clearly ripped off my observation and passed it off as his own!!!

    http://www.itv.com/Soaps/coronationstreet/Scenebyscene/Fri5Sep830/default.html?ModuleId=191432&ImageIndex=3&XPos=0&YPos=228&ThumbScrollPos=0

    By the way, that website is brilliant if you miss an episode, it tells you the whole thing scene by scene (just in case you didn't know)


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    #59
    Posy
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    Tupins wrote: »
    Hey, this corrie reviewer obviously reads boards - he has clearly ripped off my observation and passed it off as his own!!!
    Stick a claim in- blatent plagerism! :p


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