Do the lads watch soaps?

09-01-2007 03:24AM

I wonder how many lads watch Desparate Housewives, but won't admit it? That's as soapy as you can get!

de5p0i1er · 09-01-2007 06:45AM

Never, thats what Playstation is for.

wyndham · 09-01-2007 10:17AM

Is Dream Team a soap opera?

Aifric is where it's at these days.

Nalz · 09-01-2007 10:24AM

The_B_Man wrote:

when i stumbled in at 4 in the mornin singin "glory glory man unireh"! tut tut

beautiful, just beautiful!

miamee · 09-01-2007 10:33AM

My friends husband has a series link to Fair City on the Sky Plus *snigger*

I watch Emmerdale & Corrie mostly, never any of the others. Even though I'm a girl :eek:

Jimoslimos · 09-01-2007 11:27AM

rediguana wrote:

Soaps are for morons. Even porn is more substantial.

Exactly, better plot/storyline and superior acting:D . Seriously though I'm a bit disappointed with the excuse from some quarters that they ONLY watch it for the totty - would you read Hello, OK, etc., cos there was some good-looking lady in it?

Stephen · 09-01-2007 11:52AM

I hate 'em all. They get far too much air time.
My mother follows coronation street and fair city religiously, with a little eastenders for that bit of added greyness and depression. I have to leave the room when that horse sh1te comes on.

kevmy · 09-01-2007 11:57AM

The_B_Man wrote:

eh, fellas arent meant to watch soaps! why do ya think they have the Champions League on at 7:30 on a wednesday?!?!

Quite obviously takes precedent over any form of soap as it rightly should. Much more entertaining and Dunphy's a much better actor than any soap actor.

I saw 5 mins of that Aifric over the Christmas and if I knew the girls looked like that I'd have gone to the Gaelscoil;)

grumpytrousers · 09-01-2007 12:10PM

yup, i watch corrie. not religiously, but if it's on, i'll watch it. you get an episode with a decent amount of Maria and it can be quite tottytastic, but even without, it's still one of the funniest things on telly; not everybodys cup of tea, but it's closer to the spirit of Peter Kays Phoenix Nights than a lot of people think...

fish-head · 09-01-2007 12:12PM

I can watch them for about 5 minutes then just get frustrated at how poor the acting and storyline is and can't take any more.

jester77 · 09-01-2007 12:59PM

Soaps are the worse **** ever to be put on TV, I would go as far as to say that they are worse than any of those reality shows. Used to live with a girl that would watch them for 3-4 hours straight... thankfully I have a life, so was never around to suffer. They are what I would class as voyeuristic tv as in if I can't have a life then I'll watch some ones else's.... sad

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simu · 09-01-2007 01:41PM

Stephen wrote:

I hate 'em all. They get far too much air time.
My mother follows coronation street and fair city religiously, with a little eastenders for that bit of added greyness and depression. I have to leave the room when that horse sh1te comes on.

If they made human zoos full of semi-literate, English working-class unfortunates, there would be outrage yet it's ok to watch this stuff on tv?

What really annoys me, though, is how soaps set the agenda for newspapers - some character in a soap has some disease and it's used as inspiration for articles on the same disease. :mad: :rolleyes:

Tar.Aldarion · 09-01-2007 01:45PM

No, they are terrible and would drain further my diminishing sanity.

Dun laoire · 09-01-2007 04:08PM

I could be wrong here but fair city is not a soap. Somthing to do with it not being on in the afternoon. S.O.A.P stands for something. The last two words i think are "afternoon program"

Jimoslimos · 09-01-2007 04:54PM

Dun laoire wrote:

I could be wrong here but fair city is not a soap. Somthing to do with it not being on in the afternoon. S.O.A.P stands for something. The last two words i think are "afternoon program"

Eh no, the reason they're called soaps is because then began as short infomercials/ads selling soap, washing-up powder, etc., about half a century ago. For some unknown reason they were popular and eventually mutated into the awful beasts that take up most peak-time tv slots.

Edit* Would be somewhat akin to deciding to create a new soap/drama/reality TV programme based on characters featured on Daz doorstep challenges

Pherekydes · 10-01-2007 12:01AM

Only girls watch soaps.

And I mean girls, not mature women. The poor wife goes into work and can't join in the conversations about the soaps because she doesn't watch any. Lucky her.

Pherekydes · 10-01-2007 12:04AM

tom dunne wrote:

It's just wrong for any male to be remotely interested in these things.

Any body, imho.

the Shades · 10-01-2007 01:44AM

hmmmm... you're all beginning to sound terribly elitist and snobbish. Shakespeare was pretty much the 'soap' writer of his day and as all of Dicken's novels were first serialised in the papers he too was a 'soap' writer.

Sure I doubt any of the writers of Fair City have ever set foot in Dublin, but Coronation St always manages to blend drama and humour very successfully. I actually pretty much grew up with Coronation St because my Mum has always watched it, but due to working in the evening I rarely see it myself these days. I don't miss it and I might pass a glance at it every now and then over the weekend but I'm certainly not going to claim it's beneath me to watch it or run it down because my opinion has been coloured by either fashion or a misguided gender bias.

Steffano2002 · 10-01-2007 02:03AM

IMO soaps are boring, stupid, pointless and should be banned. I detest them (strong word but if I had found stronger I would have used it). They should all be outlawed.

Oh, and the above can also be applied to reality shows.

Cunny-Funt · 10-01-2007 08:03AM

Shoulda made this a poll.. anyways soaps are for grannys.

Do the lads watch soaps?

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