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I just watched an episode of Glenroe from 1992

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  • #32
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
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    What was that old codgers name who had a posh posh accent and always wore one of those stupid little hats?


  • #33
    weldoninhio
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    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsB6-GbpQxQ

    That is the most unfunny clip I've ever seen.


  • #34
    Arghus
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    The Honey Monster wrote: »
    What was that old codgers name who had a posh posh accent and always wore one of those stupid little hats?

    George.

    Speaking of Protestants:The lad who played the Vicar - the Vicar! As a kid I used to wonder what the hell a Vicar was even supposed to be and why was he always dressed like a priest? - has turned up here, there and everywhere in Irish soapland: Ros na Run and as some form of inner city hardman called "Bottler" in Fair City. I knew that's why Fair City was fundamentally rubbish. It wasn't the cardboard sets or Paul's improbale casting as the cueball noggin-headed lothario like lovegod of Carrigstown. Oh no. It was because when they needed a tough guy, they cast the same wet blanket actor who had spent years knocking around Glenroe looking like he wouldn't win a fight with a pair of slippers. Giz' a break RTE.

    Other memorable parts of Glenroe:

    - Mary tripping out on magic mushrooms accidentally. Mad craic.

    - Some mad bastard - he had slicked back hair, probably was responsible for the beginning of Paul Galvin's "notions" - killing his brother with the whack of a shovel. Pretty shocking, genuinely.

    - Stephen's moustache. Like something out of The American Civil War. Tough, like Bracken tough. Stephen's head was like a giant frown.

    - Biddy's sister. Who just could not get enough of Blacky Connors. Hard to say no. He sure cleaned those gutters.

    - Teasy's absolute chancer of an ex-husband, Sylvie, played by David Kelly. Kind of like anti-matter to Dinny's matter.

    - Raging hormonal hunk o' spunk Dick Moran. The serial philanderer with the heart of gold. Until he had a heart attack and then he had a heart of aspirin and stents and plasters, or some other kind of shite. You earned it Dick, you sure earned it.

    - Blacky's brother?/nephew?/son?... all three? Johnny. The guy that made you realise how Blacky really was the sophisticated one.

    - Miley. He was a legend in fairness. Fidelma.In the hay. Credit where it is due. #talkdirtytomeaboutmastitis.


  • #35
    [Deleted User]
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    The Honey Monster wrote: »

    - Some mad bastard - he had slicked back hair, probably was responsible for the beginning of Paul Galvin's "notions" - killing his brother with the whack of a shovel. Pretty shocking, genuinely.
    That was Chuck. Another serial womaniser, he was like a younger version of Dick Byrne in a pair of wellies.

    I believe he had a go on Fidelma too (who didn't, eh?) as well as Venetia Crosbie's daughter (right mink she was) and Michelle the Milfy bellydancer/ barmaid, when her dodgy husband was driving lorries across Europe.

    Believe it or not, he even got up on Biddy Byrne. Shudder.


  • #36
    razorblunt
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    I always thought Stephen Brennan looked like a Jack Russell.


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  • #37
    byte
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    byte


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    That's life!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IMOSN0WYvg


    Sausages!


  • #38
    Atoms for Peace
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    Given that today is Tuesday how about an episode of friends followed by the x-files.


  • #39
    maudgonner
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    When's 'Know Your Sport' on?


  • #40
    HensVassal
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    McDermotX wrote: »
    Did you have a sudden realisation about whether or not your ecker was done for the next day ?

    I only got the Glenroe theme tune horrors because it was the end of the weekend.

    Of course I always did ALL my ecker on Friday night after watching Monkey and the Tube....because I'm a smarmy little sap that way :P


  • #41
    HensVassal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭HensVassal


    _Whimsical_ wrote: »
    Will anyone admit to having fancied Biddy?
    Biddy has to be the longest running unglamourous female lead in the history of television. She was such an absolute wagon of a character too. Like men have always gotten away with being average on tv but how did Biddy manage it in an era of Sue Ellen Ewing and Crystal Carrington ?

    Whatever about the shoulder-padded divas on US soaps, even sour-pussed scrotes like Angie Watts, Kathy Beale and Michelle Fowler outsexed Biddy.


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  • #42
    darkdubh
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    Don't forget the priests house keeper who had all these teenage children who kept being introduced into the series out of nowhere with no backstory.

    Mynah,couldn't think of her name at first.


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