I imagine not, Mind you they've broken every other Muslim rule so why stop at that. Lol.

I've been to loads of curry houses and Lebanese restaurants and almost always had alcohol there. I think muslims are not allowed to drink alcohol, but perhaps they can sell it?

I don't see why not. Sure it's not what they believe in, but they are a business and do want to make money.

She probably gets housing benefit,although if this is the case,maybe she could tell Heather??

How do all the EE ladies keep their figures?! - (with Heather and Pat being the obvious exceptions!) - when it appears that they don't do a stroke of vigorous physical exercise! I suppose Tanya and Jane are a bit on the voluptuous side too though! Most of them are trim though with Roxy being a classic case in point.....barely being able to keep up with Christian when running around one lap of the square when she was doing that fitness regime with him last year......and drinking for England into the bargain! Yet she probably has a figure that most women would die for - the same with Ronnie, Glenda and others!

Re the physical well being matter mentioned above, maybe Kirkwood and co. assume us to think they do all their working out and/or keep fit off screen - yet he'd rather promote bad health by showing the likes of Heather coughing up her guts on screen and visuals of other Vic goers puking up from time to time.

Carbon Monoxide kills in about 2 hours , WTF why was Heather still alive after all the time she was breathing the stuff in , sloppy ,

EE stretching reality a bit far
A bad car crash , someone cut out ( head should have gone ) yet 1 hour later they are all let out of hospital

Max ducked just in time

No it doesn't. I was very annoyed at that storyline when people were saying she was going to die. I was a victim of nearly dying from Carb Monoxide. In order for it to kill you there has to be almost no oxygen left in the air and it is a gas that lies low below the air level so you would have to be on the floor with a massive leak and no draughts of air or any other supply of oxygen for it to kill you in 2 hours. Hence even trying to kill yourself in a car with the exhaust running takes quite some time and often fails. Her boiler would not have been leaking THAT much carb monox and I think even though it was faulty it would have had some form of vent not none at all. I felt the way they did do it was realistic apart from her coughing and being red faced for many days / weeks prior as that is not a symptom.

Not disregarding it is a cause of sad tragic deaths to people, this usually happens in places like cheap hotels where there is a boiler in the same room people sleep with no vent at all and heavy fire doors and sealed windows that aren't letting any draught in, they leave the heating on over night. The one thing a high level of carb monox does do is make you fall asleep, so those people would be low to the ground, and exposed for many hours overnight to an ever increasing level which is when they sadly do die.

Obviously if a person was put in small airtight chamber of carb monox, they would probably die in far less than two hours.

Seems to be some unwritten code of soaps that no-one must ever mention the benefits system or council / social housing. This is a shame as it is a big part of working class people's lives (and soon to be everyone else's too) and especially at the moment a real political hot potato with JobCentres failing to process claims on time and people having their benefits axed for spurious reasons.

The only person who ever got a benefit claim mentioned was Myra in HO (done for fraud). As most script-writers spend the majority of their lives scraping through on benefits this is a mystery to me.

was really silly how they let out max so early theyd at least have him stay overnight for observation-my sisters frtioend was kept in for whiplash

I agree that the majority of Bangladeshi restaurants do serve alcohol, notably Cobra. However, the majority of Lebanese restaurants on the Edgware Road with a high muslim population don't. Also I lived above an Indian restaurant which recently re-opened as an Afghan restaurant and even though they welcome the entire community they will not have alcohol on the premises.

If you go to many places in Egypt or the UAE with the exception of the big hotel chains they won't touch alcohol. When I was staying in Dahab the strict muslim cheap beachside eateries would allow you to go and buy a bottle from another shop to drink but they wouldn't fetch it for you or touch it themselves. And if you go anywhere in Dubai that isn't permitted for westerners to drink alcohol you will get in big trouble for having it. Even British people living and working in Dubai are only allowed to purchase a small amount of alcohol for consumption in their own home and they have to have a permit and get given vouchers to limit the amount.

I guess strictly speaking muslims are not supposed to have anything at all to do with alcohol including supplying to other people it or having it in the house.

Well, we are talking London here. You'd have to be on your last legs before they find you an overnight bed nowadays. My friend isn't even allowed to stay with her premature baby and has to travel every day back and forth to hospital to express milk or breastfeed her.

Have to disagree with you there, until legislation changed a few years ago, a lot of these poisonings were caused by gas boilers in rented flats subject to low or poor maintenance, because flues became blocked, and poor ventilation to the boiler itself caused a level of carbon monoxide to build up. Deaths of people through these situations were the reason for the law to be changed, and now boilers have to be inspected by the landlord on an annual basis, with a certificate to prove it has been conducted by a qualified engineer.

CO poisoning was more frequent before we changed to North Sea (natural) gas, as when gas was produced from coal, carbon monoxide was a major component of the gas delivered into the house, hence the old references to people putting their heads into the oven to end it all.

Norman is a suspension of reality!

In all honesty, i have been wondering why there hasn't been one of these threads for EE for months now, considering there's oine for corrie, and considering how unrealistic EE can be at times.

Where's Ian in Ben's latest dilemma?? In the past, no matter what the situation is, ian has always been there wondering what's going on, but now all this bother with patrick's going on???

Where is shanice??

Would patrick really grab ben considering all the trouble he's got himself into for doing it in the first place??

Would a man really just stand there gormlessly while ian throws not one but TWO large cakes over his head??

And another thing, phil being branded a racist?? Pleasee..!

Conveniently forgotten that he once got married to a foreign woman to help her stay i the country. And he has never, prior to this storyline, showed any signs of being a racist.

And, as much as i love yusef, the idea of the entire masood family taking the side of a man who caused a fire which burned zainab, over masood is pretty lame and not realistic.

HAHAHA!!

LOVE how nobody writes on this thread even when i give it a much needed bump up to the top!!

Just goes to show reality on EE has gone so farr out the window that nobody even cares anymore

Roxy serving drinks to Derek, a week after finding out that he was going to have her killed.
Everyone being scared of a small bloke like Derek
Derek and Phil acting like the square is a goldmine..
Walford Police being particularly dim when it comes to Heather's death. CCTV tapes just 'disappearing'
Able to rent out a flat without putting a deposit down
Using the laundrette when you have a washing machine at home.


Sorry for bumping this thread. Just some things annoy me.

Like Bianca wouldn't get housing benefit (been said before but so true).

Eastenders Airline

The beginning of the end

Quite right. It would have never taken off with the boarding stairs left in front of the wing. The plane could only have gone backwards.

Remind me never to fly from Southend Airport.

The entire episode was downright ridiculous.

Just bringing this thread to the fore as it seems so unfair for the Corrie one to be singled out.