No offence was meant honest Martin but really what harm is it for internet friends [which is what some of us now are] to occasionally veer off talking SORS?, .... if it upsets some people so badly there's tonnes of other threads for them I like talking SORS on here but also occasionally some of the other stuff.

more corry laws

everybody must have a bottle of wine in the cupboard sent by auntie (insert name here) to be kept for special occasions, which will always taste vile

nobody can cook, when they try they make a disgusting mess of it and order a takeaway

How did Erica take care of her mother for so long if she cant cook? Paella is pretty basic.

And of course Rule Number 1 everyone must drink beer straight from the mucky can anything less can result in the sack.

You must be very posh, Billy. Wiping your sleeve across the top of the can before you open it is the most you can hope for round here!

Oh yes up here in South Yorkshire we're all very posh honeywitch only last year they moved our outside lav in the house.

Erica's even lived in Spain for years. Paella should be a doddle for her.

How strange to have an outside lav in the house

Do you think it's really "acting like internet cops" or trying to keep the thread on track?

There's no problem that some non-SOR points are posted, but it has to be admitted that some of the posts, especially those which list countless irrelevant (to this thread) points are a little tedious.

so did we

next year we're putting it in the bathroom

Paella should be a doddle for anyone!

When Erica first arrived on the street, she was dragging Nick off to bed every half hour and behaving like a true feisty Corrie woman. Now she's gone all coy with Dev and has to be lured round to his place by Mary under the pretense of having paella for dinner!

It was a building regulation technicality Martin there wasn't enough area to build a new internal toilet so they transferred brick by brick the old lav outside up our stairs and then whitewashed the walls as it was and knocked a nail in the wall to hold the cut-up pieces of old newspaper.

I know it's Corrie's way of trying to make us laugh, cry, have various emotions, but all they are doing is making me grind my teeth with irritation.

Sally's supercilious attitude towards her friends is totally OTT - NOT FUNNY
Tracey's constant bitchiness is totally OTT - BEYOND ANNOYING
Gail's whining & simpering is totally OTT - NO SYMPATHY

Carla's handling of yet another blackmail plot is totally out of character.

The only couples with any charisma and look like they belong together is Kylie and David. Such a shame they will have to break up

All the characters have been pigeonholed into the dumb one, the clever one, the business one, the sexy one, the moaner, the eccentric.
All females are gobby loudmouths.
All males are long suffering nincompoops.
Everyone must have amnesia and forget any friends and relatives who left the cobbles unless they are sainted enough to have a photograph in a strategic spot.
Everyone must have a lobotomy and a personality transplant.

Nobody must depart from their respective roles and they must wait their turn for the next blackmail/pregnancy/cheating SL, and anyone leaving must realise they will have the most ridiculous and unbelievable exit. I'm sure the cast have to give plenty of notice unless they are sick, but the exits still seem to look as though they have been hastily cobbled together with about 30 minutes discussion and scripts thrust into their hands 5 minutes before the recording.

I guess I'm the dumbo for still watching.

I scroll through so quickly when the thread goes off track, I probably miss some real gems.

Michael's certainly did. I don't think I've seen an exit worse than his. There was stuff about him and Gail getting back together when there'd been no mention of it from him before Friday's eps. Even Eileen asked him about him wanting to get back with Gail. Where did that come from?

Still, to give them their due, selling ice cream in Brighton is more believable than a great aunt with a twisted ankle.

My take on Michael's exit is that the seed has now been sown for him to return to Gail a happily married man regardless of having no interest in her since the great notgavin reveal, and that's how they will live when his play finishes until he gets another job away from The Street. Quite why he has had this volte-face is beyond my imagination except there's probably nowhere else he can live when he returns.

He can live with his "son" cant he?

I think you are both right but the sudden interest in Gail was rushed and very badly done. One minute he's not interested and then suddenly he wants her back and within a nano second the whole street (Eileen) seemed to know. Gail's face in the Rovers and the - 'Ooohhh, he's come for me,' were cringeworthy and the continuity with Tim and Eileen was so obvious. One minute they were in the settled in the cab office and the next they were all togged up in hats and coats in the street.

For the world's longest running soap and for all its past glories and wonderful characters etc., it's become an insult and an embarrassment.

Oh yes, Mary didnt go far enough telling Gail to play it cool. She should have told her to kick him in the wotnots!
What a cheek.... "Eileen dumped me so I might have you back".



Edit.. To be clear, the suspension of reality is that the Gail of old, (in the days when feisty meant more than having a bit of a snarl ) who stood up to serial killers, crazed nurses, and even Ivy Tilsely, would never entertain the idea of taking back the slimeball who dumped her for Eileen.

Its a fair cop guv. I confess that I started it and it is not a SOR that glammed up actresses go for surly little fat men. It happens all the time in Salford.

Well, I was surprised that Carla Conner was interested in Gromit look-alike Nick. And then she went for ROBERT!!!

Dennis' temporary and permanent exit are by far the worst exits for me.

Was having a reminisce with my brother about our lives and we were talking about my mother working at home.

First she was a machinist outworker for Fairy Glen Doll's clothes and I remember her having to sew a gross of doll's knickers. Later she was a machinist for a company that made shirts and she sewed individual sleeves for men's shirts. Someone else made the bodies of the shirts and they were assembled elsewhere. She didn't have an industrial machine, but we had friends who did and they were employed at home by various garment or curtain making companies. The fabric, thread and trimmings were delivered and the finished sewing collected later in the week. They were paid per completed item.

My point is wouldn't it make more sense for the factory to employ home machinists rather than have them in the factory. They'd get more work done instead of spending all their time on tea breaks or chatting instead of working and the company would actually make money but we wouldn't have the "hilarious" scenes in the factory which would mean that we'd be missing a huge chunk of the "action".

Nor me. Wasn't she the awful Katie that dated Martin back in the day?