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Post by melikepie on Feb 18, 2015 23:11:36 GMT
To promote some live episodes this week, Danny Dyer has been doing the station announcements here. As you may know, Bromley By Bow is used for the fictional Walford East www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/31515423 |
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Post by jacko1 on Mar 9, 2015 22:01:12 GMT
as in eastenders words WHAT A MUPPET!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2015 10:49:40 GMT
Arr Shut it! this Geezer's got plat- Form Now!
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Post by crusty54 on Mar 12, 2015 6:38:38 GMT
They have their own Walford East entrance and ticket hall on the set
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Mar 12, 2015 10:51:16 GMT
I haven't watched Eastenders in about 15 years now. Is it still implausible rubbish?  |
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Post by bassmike on Mar 12, 2015 11:24:13 GMT
Yes.
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Post by rincew1nd on Mar 12, 2015 19:44:39 GMT
I haven't watched Eastenders in about 15 years now. Is it still implausible rubbish? You mean you managed to watch it for fifteen years without going doolally? |
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Post by domh245 on Mar 12, 2015 19:51:02 GMT
I've managed to not watch it for seventeen years!
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Post by rincew1nd on Mar 12, 2015 21:28:31 GMT
The only way I found out how long whistlekiller2000 was to Google it. Turns out I'm older than it is (just), and I've never watched it. Mwah ha ha. |
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Mar 13, 2015 7:47:33 GMT
I haven't watched Eastenders in about 15 years now. Is it still implausible rubbish? You mean you managed to watch it for fifteen years without going doolally? Sadly no, I am doolally. It's officially recognised (in a report that I just made up) that Eastenders is harder to quit than heroin or smoking. For the non-saints among us (not failed wizards obviously) is Dirty Den still in it? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2015 7:34:26 GMT
The thing which amazes me about Eastenders (not a fan, sorry, but have seen plenty of the back ends of episodes waiting for Family Guy of an evening!) is that it is full of adultery, corruption, violence, murder and family breakdown, but in spite of all that no one swears. Not a foul mouth among them.
Also, no one seems to own a washing machine..
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Post by John Tuthill on Mar 20, 2015 11:00:01 GMT
The thing which amazes me about Eastenders (not a fan, sorry, but have seen plenty of the back ends of episodes waiting for Family Guy of an evening!) is that it is full of adultery, corruption, violence, murder and family breakdown, but in spite of all that no one swears. Not a foul mouth among them. Also, no one seems to own a washing machine.. Or watch soap operas on television! |
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Post by superteacher on Mar 21, 2015 10:45:30 GMT
You mean you managed to watch it for fifteen years without going doolally? Sadly no, I am doolally. It's officially recognised (in a report that I just made up) that Eastenders is harder to quit than heroin or smoking. For the non-saints among us (not failed wizards obviously) is Dirty Den still in it? Dirty Den is dead, but I have no doubt that the implausible EastEnders will conjure up a storyline to allow his resurrection. Maybe a good one for Easter? |
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Post by John Tuthill on Mar 21, 2015 11:39:25 GMT
Sadly no, I am doolally. It's officially recognised (in a report that I just made up) that Eastenders is harder to quit than heroin or smoking. For the non-saints among us (not failed wizards obviously) is Dirty Den still in it? , but I have no doubt that the implausible EastEnders will conjure up a storyline to allow his resurrection. Maybe a good one for Easter? I don't know who the z-list who played him is, but whenever you see him in anything else, he acts as though he were still in it!  |
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Post by class411 on Mar 22, 2015 12:18:12 GMT
I was forced to watch this on occasion for a couple of months, as a girlfriend's daughter liked it.
I seem to remember it was about someone called 'Ethyl' and her 'little willy'.
That was back in '89, and I haven't had to suffer it since.
Has it improved?
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Mar 22, 2015 17:12:23 GMT
I was forced to watch this on occasion for a couple of months, as a girlfriend's daughter liked it. I seem to remember it was about someone called 'Ethyl' and her 'little willy'. That was back in '89, and I haven't had to suffer it since. Has it improved? I've no idea but viewing daytime repeats of later series "Heartbeat" has me crying my eyes out in recognition of some of the worst scripting in living memory. It's a car crash and, being semi-retired with time on my hands, I can't help myself but watch it. In the series to date on ITV3, they've just killed off Constable Crane (never to be mentioned again) after just one season, probably for being the greatest wooden performer in television history and replaced him with someone who can act (from Casualty so I'm told), but has an obviously pathological contempt for the writing. Utterly hysterical!  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2015 12:07:22 GMT
I seem to recall a scene where a mother and her husband and child have a water fight. That's around it.
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Post by trt on Mar 24, 2015 12:24:36 GMT
I was in Goathland a few years ago. Bloody marvellous puffing away on the NYMR out to Grimsby. Lovely railway, well worth a visit.
Who gives a toss how terrible the programme is when the tourism keeps something like that alive? Also... try Thirsk for the Herriott museum. That's my country. I feel it in my bones.
[EDIT] I mean Whitby, not Grimsby. Brain fart. *red face*
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Post by norbitonflyer on Mar 24, 2015 15:01:20 GMT
I was in Goathland a few years ago. Bloody marvellous puffing away on the NYMR out to Grimsby. . Are you sure you mean Grimsby? It's a hell of a long way from Goathland - about 80 miles as the seagull flies and probably twice that by rail (via Grosmont, Middlesbrough, Darlington and Doncaster) . |
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Mar 24, 2015 15:04:58 GMT
I was in Goathland a few years ago. Bloody marvellous puffing away on the NYMR out to Grimsby. Lovely railway, well worth a visit. Who gives a toss how terrible the programme is when the tourism keeps something like that alive? Also... try Thirsk for the Herriott museum. That's my country. I feel it in my bones. We go there quite a bit for the railway jouney and the trout fishing prospects as it's not really that far away from where I live. It is very scenic although a lot of the local shops have, as you say become very dependent on the Heartbeat tourists. I've not tried that museum in Thirsk yet but may well do when the days get a bit longer.  Heatbeat's still terrible though! Today's episode featured the Sergeant keeping insurance fraud property in his locked wooden desk instead of (more sensibly) the station safe. He'll be off soon no doubt....... |
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Mar 24, 2015 15:08:29 GMT
I was in Goathland a few years ago. Bloody marvellous puffing away on the NYMR out to Grimsby. . Are you sure you mean Grimsby? It's a hell of a long way from Goathland - about 80 miles as the seagull flies and probably twice that by rail (via Grosmont, Middlesbrough, Darlington and Doncaster) . I noticed that just now. Grimsby's 25 miles to the east of us on the south bank of the Humber Estuary. Was it a special rail excursion or something. The NYMR railway goes from Pickering to Whitby. Is it connected to Network rail anywhere? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2015 16:41:25 GMT
I noticed that just now. Grimsby's 25 miles to the east of us on the south bank of the Humber Estuary. Was it a special rail excursion or something. The NYMR railway goes from Pickering to Whitby. Is it connected to Network rail anywhere? Yes, at Grosmont. |
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Post by norbitonflyer on Mar 24, 2015 17:42:27 GMT
The NYMR railway goes from Pickering to Whitby. Is it connected to Network rail anywhere? Yes, at Grosmont. The NYMR trains actually run over NR tracks between Whitby and Grosmont, where the NR Esk Valley Line to Middlesbrough (built 1865) turns right and the NYMR (the original 1836 main line to Pickering) turns left. It was extended beyond Pickering in 1845 to join the York/Scarborough line at Malton. |
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Mar 24, 2015 18:37:19 GMT
I noticed that just now. Grimsby's 25 miles to the east of us on the south bank of the Humber Estuary. Was it a special rail excursion or something. The NYMR railway goes from Pickering to Whitby. Is it connected to Network rail anywhere? Yes, at Grosmont. Thanks for that. I knew the NYMR runs what amounts to a proper public railway but wasn't aware of the connection. We don't usually go that far up the line when we use it. |
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Post by trt on Mar 25, 2015 10:28:16 GMT
Whitby not Grimsby.... Where's that edit button?
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Post by norbitonflyer on Mar 25, 2015 11:33:23 GMT
Whitby not Grimsby.... Where's that edit button? One east coast fishing port may be rather like another, but I suspect that Whitby, with its abbey and the Dracula connection, attracts rather more tourists than Grimsby would. |
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Post by 1018509 on Apr 18, 2015 11:20:33 GMT
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Post by 1018509 on Apr 18, 2015 11:21:41 GMT
I've no idea but viewing daytime repeats of later series "Heartbeat" has me crying my eyes out in recognition of some of the worst scripting in living memory. It's a car crash and, being semi-retired with time on my hands, I can't help myself but watch it. In the series to date on ITV3, they've just killed off Constable Crane (never to be mentioned again) after just one season, probably for being the greatest wooden performer in television history and replaced him with someone who can act (from Casualty so I'm told), but has an obviously pathological contempt for the writing. Utterly hysterical! I loved "Heartbeat" for the very careful car chases in the cherished vehicles and the off scene noise of a crash then the carefully jacked up preserved vehicle and, usually, carefully placed trees or fencing - great stuff - story contents ballcocks though. |
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Post by nickf on Apr 18, 2015 11:49:04 GMT
I can recommend the Herriot Museum in Thirsk, if only for its inclusion of Mrs Pumphrey and Tricky-Woo. But there's a lot more than that too!
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Post by grahamhewett on Apr 18, 2015 18:18:21 GMT
To quote Mr Justice Cocklecarrot "What is Eastenders?"
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Heatbeat's still terrible though! Today's episode featured the Sergeant keeping insurance fraud property in his locked wooden desk instead of (more sensibly) the station safe. He'll be off soon no doubt....... 
