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Old 07-09-2016, 15:35
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Having caught up with Monday's thrilling double bill complete with cliff hanger, I really do despair at the depths to which this double pregnancy storyline is sinking. Rarely seen in the same scene together before, the implausible foursome who have zero chemistry between any of them are now driving away from Coronation Street, munching biscuits in the backroom, rehashing another blackmail plot, texting and finding messages on someone else's phone, all within 10mins (apart from the half hour break). We are supposed to believe Super Sperm Steve impregnated his wife and someone he has never shared a scene with (except probably a random conversation in the pub), within a couple of weeks. We are supposed to forget Nick and the former love of his life, who was also subject to the same blackmail plot. The worst of it is, this is going to be going through to the Spring.
The scene where Nick brings Steve off to some remote place, engages in the bizarrest of conversations with him and then threatens to blackmail him was excruciating to watch, like something out of a badly written novel. Steve slept with Leanne when she was single : how do we go from that to him being blackmailed by some weirdo (hello Nick) a few weeks later? This bears no resemblance to anything that would happen in real life.
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Old 07-09-2016, 16:34
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Of course, stupid me!
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Old 07-09-2016, 17:05
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The scene where Nick brings Steve off to some remote place, engages in the bizarrest of conversations with him and then threatens to blackmail him was excruciating to watch, like something out of a badly written novel. Steve slept with Leanne when she was single : how do we go from that to him being blackmailed by some weirdo (hello Nick) a few weeks later? This bears no resemblance to anything that would happen in real life.
i was waiting for steve to turn around and smack his nut on that low beam

and after all that blackmail Nick just drives him back home?
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Old 07-09-2016, 17:35
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i was waiting for steve to turn around and smack his nut on that low beam

and after all that blackmail Nick just drives him back home?
The whole thing is far fetched nonsense. Even if Nick had some issue with Steve being the father of Leanne's baby, he would just have a quiet word with him in private, not drive him off to some remote location like a scene out of a Nordic noir thriller and then proceed to blackmail him. They're not behaving like real people, more like characters in a trashy and badly written novel.
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Old 07-09-2016, 19:03
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The whole thing is far fetched nonsense. Even if Nick had some issue with Steve being the father of Leanne's baby, he would just have a quiet word with him in private, not drive him off to some remote location like a scene out of a Nordic noir thriller and then proceed to blackmail him. They're not behaving like real people, more like characters in a trashy and badly written novel.
bet it took them ages to find a graffiti riddled area with NO swear words on it
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Old 07-09-2016, 19:16
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I haven't watched Corrie since 1997.

I haven't missed anything in life and satisfied it was the right thing...

(I await the haters who doubt my integrity and intelligence because I am new on DS)
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Old 07-09-2016, 20:27
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I haven't watched Corrie since 1997.

I haven't missed anything in life and satisfied it was the right thing...

(I await the haters who doubt my integrity and intelligence because I am new on DS)
Please don't call us haters.

I'm a bit puzzled about why you're posting in this thread. Have you something to say about current SORs in Corrie?
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Old 07-09-2016, 20:48
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Gemma was late for work? It was before 9am. Since when do kebab shops open or the staff get in before the kids are at school?

The kebab shop has just TWO members of staff?

Eva the love-matchmaker was at it again tonight. First Maria now Todd and Billy. Maybe she should start her own business!

Mediation with Sally.
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Old 07-09-2016, 20:55
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Gemma was late for work? It was before 9am. Since when do kebab shops open or the staff get in before the kids are at school?
I think the sign on the door said 'open 11.30am'. I wonder how long it takes to prepare the kebabs. Surely not 2.5 hours.
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Old 07-09-2016, 21:46
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I think the sign on the door said 'open 11.30am'. I wonder how long it takes to prepare the kebabs. Surely not 2.5 hours.
It takes 2.5 hours to marinade and pound the shit out of that best quality Black Angus beef with a sledgehammer so it will be nice and tender for the little children.
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Old 07-09-2016, 21:47
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Gemma was late for work? It was before 9am. Since when do kebab shops open or the staff get in before the kids are at school?

The kebab shop has just TWO members of staff?

Eva the love-matchmaker was at it again tonight. First Maria now Todd and Billy. Maybe she should start her own business!

Mediation with Sally.
But there were about a dozen people, regulars and casual passers by all in the few seconds supposed early in the morning in one short dead end street. Like Piccadilly Station in the rush hour.
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Old 07-09-2016, 21:54
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Eva the love-matchmaker was at it again tonight. First Maria now Todd and Billy. Maybe she should start her own business!
I'm really pleased that that hideous 'life-changing' scar on Todd's his left cheek hasn't put Billy off
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Old 07-09-2016, 22:29
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I haven't watched Corrie since 1997.

I haven't missed anything in life and satisfied it was the right thing...

(I await the haters who doubt my integrity and intelligence because I am new on DS)
Please don't call us haters.

I'm a bit puzzled about why you're posting in this thread. Have you something to say about current SORs in Corrie?
Yes, I would doubt the integrity and intelligence of someone new to the forums who calls people "haters" in his third sentence.
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Old 07-09-2016, 22:55
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I haven't watched Corrie since 1997.

I haven't missed anything in life and satisfied it was the right thing...

(I await the haters who doubt my integrity and intelligence because I am new on DS)
I voted for you in the DS award for best new poster. I was wondering why you didn't show up at the awards banquet to collect your well deserved trophy. On the strength of this post you can count on my vote again next year. I look forward to seeing you at the dinner.
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Old 07-09-2016, 23:09
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It takes 2.5 hours to marinade and pound the shit out of that best quality Black Angus beef with a sledgehammer so it will be nice and tender for the little children.
Being pedantic, kebab meat is lamb not beef
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Old 07-09-2016, 23:11
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big sor
no pub scenes
bigger sor
no miss hell

we are unlucky not to have her in the episode
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Old 07-09-2016, 23:16
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It takes 2.5 hours to marinade and pound the shit out of that best quality Black Angus beef with a sledgehammer so it will be nice and tender for the little children.
Kebabs are made with lamb...
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Old 07-09-2016, 23:59
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Kebabs are made with lamb...
Not in Dev's shop, more likely to be old goat or yak meat.

Come to think about it, I haven't noticed that old moggie recently that used to hang around the ginnel (or Jigger, as we old Scousers would call it!)
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Old 08-09-2016, 00:18
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Please don't call us haters.

I'm a bit puzzled about why you're posting in this thread. Have you something to say about current SORs in Corrie?
It is a bit odd, isn't it?

I also abhor the term "haters". Does that make me one...?
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Old 08-09-2016, 06:07
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The whole thing is far fetched nonsense. Even if Nick had some issue with Steve being the father of Leanne's baby, he would just have a quiet word with him in private, not drive him off to some remote location like a scene out of a Nordic noir thriller and then proceed to blackmail him. They're not behaving like real people, more like characters in a trashy and badly written novel.
Or even characters in a fictional reoccurring serial drama (soap).
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Old 08-09-2016, 08:50
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It is a bit odd, isn't it?

I also abhor the term "haters". Does that make me one...?
If you are I will join you. It seems to me to be standard internet vocab to use against anyone who holds a different view to the user of the term who by implication is some sort of superior person whose views are worth more than anybody else's.

So I looked up the self same internet and found this

http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/...Gonna-Hate.htm

The older I get the less I know.. I wonder what things will be like after two more generation of 'internet children'.
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Old 08-09-2016, 09:10
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Not in Dev's shop, more likely to be old goat or yak meat.

Come to think about it, I haven't noticed that old moggie recently that used to hang around the ginnel (or Jigger, as we old Scousers would call it!)
It might explain Ozzy's sudden disappearance...
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Old 08-09-2016, 09:46
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Kebabs are made with lamb...
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And they're delivered as a single piece (I've seen a documentary), including the big stick up the middle. So I don't know what preparation is necessary.

So Dev was telling Gemma she was late, in front of a clear notice saying the shop opened at 11:30am, and while Faye and Craig were on their way to school.
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Gail is a lodger in David's house, so what's she doing making the beds? Even if she'd agreed to do some light housework as part of the rent, would David still be having his bed made by his mother?
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Old 08-09-2016, 10:02
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And they're delivered as a single piece (I've seen a documentary), including the big stick up the middle. So I don't know what preparation is necessary.

So Dev was telling Gemma she was late, in front of a clear notice saying the shop opened at 11:30am, and while Faye and Craig were on their way to school.
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Gail is a lodger in David's house, so what's she doing making the beds? Even if she'd agreed to do some light housework as part of the rent, would David still be having his bed made by his mother?
The stick in the middle is for when you go to the hospital the doctor uses it as a tongue depressant to see what the hell you ate before you go to the private room and get hooked up in that infamous bed. Kebab made from lamb my ass. Recycled resin would be close to the truth.
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Old 08-09-2016, 10:21
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And they're delivered as a single piece (I've seen a documentary), including the big stick up the middle. So I don't know what preparation is necessary.

So Dev was telling Gemma she was late, in front of a clear notice saying the shop opened at 11:30am, and while Faye and Craig were on their way to school.
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Gail is a lodger in David's house, so what's she doing making the beds? Even if she'd agreed to do some light housework as part of the rent, would David still be having his bed made by his mother?
That's a bit like saying teachers turn up at school and go into the classroom with nothing prepared - work has to be done before the consumers arrive.

Gemma said she had to clean out the fryer, which she obviously wasn't looking forward to doing. It's bad enough cleaning out a deep far fryer at home (which is why I no longer have one), so I can imagine what it would be like for a commercial one. Not a five minute job. Then it would need to be refilled and brought up to temperature and the other fillings prepared ready for opening at 11.30.
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