Ian Beale from Eastenders.....

[memyselfandi]

Man, people are dumb - surely anyone would be able to figure out that Rebecca must have been a finalist or something on X-Factor, which finished just recently? Either absolutely nobody you know had any interest in the show, in which case you need more friends, or you're so detached from them that you somehow missed the fatuous chatter that always surrounds such an event, or you're pretending ignorance in a laughable attempt to seem aloof and above mainstream drivel. I've not watched a single episode of any of these cash-cow shows for years, and the context still made it really obvious who stopper was talking about.

No people aren't dumb, they are just uninterested in that sort of thing.

I had no idea who Rebecca was as well ... things like X-Factor are not a topic of conversation between me and my friends or at work. the only thing I know about the show was that there was a contestant called Wagner who my friend Paul kept on moaning about still being in the show on Facebook. Given the number of these sort of competition shows which seem to be on most of the time there was nothing to indicate that this person was particularly from X-Factor.

 

[MikeHunt79]

Even back in the oldschool casualty days I never understood why watching people recieve injuries and precede to suffer was considered prime time saturday evening entertainment.

I was in A&E once on Saturday night due to fracturing my elbow the previous day during a bike ride... Casualty was on the TV in the waiting room which I found to be rather amusing...

A Saturday night is probably the worst time to go in A&E, so much waiting... with hindsight I should have waited until Sunday morning...

 

[Pestilence]

On another note, you don't converse with people who watch drivel? I can understand avoiding the show itself, but to never engage in a conversation [edit: by this, I mean engage to the point where you comprehend what they're saying and can reply in context] with someone who does is pretty sketchy - I've got many friends who are in to this kind of TV, and I consider their interest a vice - as I'm sure I have many vices of my own. How do you know who to ignore?

You may have many friends who are interested in it, but I'm sorry to tell you that I don't. I also have a relatively small social circle -- none of whom are remotely interested in it either, or in the case of any relatives who might watch it, know better than to mention it in conversation with myself -- and have little exposure to popular media in my spare time. Thus, I had no idea who Rebecca was or what show she was poised to win (could have been X-Factor, Big Brother, I'm a Retard Get Me Out of Here, Strictly Come Dancing, or any number of guff reality show).

In fact, the most recent exposure I had to anything of the sort were a few work colleagues (who I've only known for a few months) discussing individuals on The Apprentice. I had no idea who they were talking about and, when asked, simply said I don't watch the show. End of discussion for me.

 

[Morba]

Gotta love how aloof some of the people in this thread sound.
The stench of smoking jackets and pipes must be terrible around some of you.

 

[Lightnix]

I'm constantly amazed by what they're allowed to display on Casualty - one week a guy is massacring the nursing staff with a crossbow, the next an old woman turns up with a decomposing, riddled with maggots pigs corpse for a leg. I need to learn to go up stairs whenever the remote is within my mother's reach.

 

[stopper]

So a poster suggests that secretly people watch crap TV

Exactly what I was saying, and nearly everyone totally missed the point.
Anyone smart enough would have realized it was about "everyone watches crap tv and enjoys it" at some point in their life.
Xfactor was just the best example because it was the biggest "crap TV" on, biggest thing in the tabloids and the most popular conversation among friends and family at the time so most of you are bound to understand what I meant...how wrong I was.

 

[Reality|Bites]

Yes, quite a few scenes take place in the garage called the Arches.

*Wonders how many will actually get the pun*

Nightclubs in Glasgow?

 

[Cosimo]

Gotta love how aloof some of the people in this thread sound.
The stench of smoking jackets and pipes must be terrible around some of you.

LOL but they all watch the soaps and serials when they think no one is looking.

 

[Viper²]

I don't know how many avid Eastenders fans are on these forums but Beale came out with a really fantastic line a few days ago.

He was saying this line from father to son.......

"Christmas trees are like women..they look good and smell nice but wherever you take them they leave a mess." lol Ian Beale from EastEnders!

Really made me laugh what a t**!

Also Dot says a few funny lines a lot as well

What if you have an artificial one?

 

[Klo]

Gotta love how aloof some of the people in this thread sound.
The stench of smoking jackets and pipes must be terrible around some of you.

So because I don't watch dumbed down crap television suddenly makes me an upper class tosh?

Shockingly, something many people fail to understand, there is actually a middle ground.