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This is a bit of a confession.

I've watched Neigbours since the very begining, it's hard to believe all those years have passed. I was a young man back then, I'd have been 17.

Here we are and it's the final week of Neighbours, it seems like yesterday the first episode aired. It's not just that though, it's also looking back, how those years have flown by and how life has changed during that time. In that time, I've had a few jobs, trained as a machine fitter and setter, ended up doing quality control engineering as well as supervisory, setting jobs. I ultimately ended up fitting again, on micro engines used in the modelling trade. I've lost ( and won) in love, moved countries (Wales to Scotland), lost my parents, but gained a wife and my beautiful daughter. I also discovered photography.

As far as I know, I've seen every single episode of Neigbours (that's the confessional out of the way), I can't recall missing one. It did become a bit of a habit. I will miss it.

Adios neighbours, it's been fun.
 
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I've not watched it for many years, probably since I left school! I am sometimes reminded that as a baby (sorry to make you feel old), I would be sat in front of the TV signing along to the theme tune. I'm sad to see it go
 
I must admit I thought this was going to be a thread looking for advice on a juicy neighbourly dispute over boundaries, they're always fun to read from an outside perspective :ROFLMAO:

As for the TV show, though, I recall seeing it in the early 90s when I was a kid, mum was a particular fan! So definitely and end of an era, I didn't know it was finishing.
 
I'm your polar opposite - I've never seen a full episode of neighbours in my life... I caught the odd glimpse of others watching it when wandering here and there - but never sat down and watched one all the way through... I wonder how many hours I've been doing other things while you've been watching them all down under :) (What are you going to do with yourself with all this new-found spare time?)
 
Pretty sure you can find repeats somewhere!!!
 
I wonder if anyone will ever admit to watching Eldorado? (the soap set on the Costas)
 
Putting "Elder-ado" out of the viewers' misery was one of the more decent things Yentob did as controller of BBC1. :naughty:
 
Dare I ask what music you listen to?

If you go from Freds engineering to Neighbours...

Metallica? Or Abba?

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Dare I ask what music you listen to?

If you go from Freds engineering to Neighbours...

Metallica? Or Abba?

:p;):exit:
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Quite spooky, I am a rocker, love Tool, Sepultura, and slighly softer stuff, Foos, Retrospective, etc etc.............................. but


I am a closet Abba fan, I didn't just say that.
 
Dale. said:
Quite spooky, I am a rocker, love Tool, Sepultura, and slighly softer stuff, Foos, Retrospective, etc etc.............................. but


I am a closet Abba fan, I didn't just say that.
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No Biffy?
 
Gav-canon said:
No Biffy?
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Not all their stuff, Bubbles etc, that's good, that album is good. They originate quite locally too, as did The Stereophonics, Manic Street Preachers when I lived in Wales.

I love rock, but I do appreciate a good voice/tune, whatever the genre.
 
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Dale. said:
but I do appreciate a good voice/tune, whatever the genre.
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I share that view.

I find myself enjoying stuff from every genre and I find myself not enjoying stuff from every genre, as well. Same goes for books, films, even poetry.
 
Music ... I lost interest for donkey's years and we binned all our vinyl and CDs during a house move. No regrets really, but some of the interest is coming back now. Not to the point where I'd buy audio equipment again, not yet anyway, but maybe in the future ...

Preferences? Various. Wagner, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Bob Dylan, Kris Kristoffersen, Leonard Cohen, Steeleye Span, Warren Zevon, Johnny Clegg, Jennifer Warnes and a few others (Carla Bruni, Jay Malinowski, Coeur de Pirate etc). Most of the 70s stuff is 'student music' according to my daughter ... but what does she know? :D
 
Never watched neighbours ,no interest but I do remember bill and Ben the flowerpot men
 
Re Neighbours and Soaps in general. Some years ago..time flies..I made a contribution to a Five Live discussion about how soaps influence peoples' behaviour. I better say from the outset that I have never watched one. However, whilst channel-hopping to find something suitable to watch when I just wanted to chill out.....usually documentaries, I would catch glimpses of soaps. They get viewing numbers of 10-13 million. There's so much violence, mysogeny, sexism,racism,drug-taking, horrific accidents, adultery, alcohol abuse and gay relationships . I assume by now there must be episodes including LGBTQ issues..especially the thorny,controversial, Trans issues.

Over the years Coronation Street has included two murders an attempted armed robbery and the rape of teenager [Toyah Battersby..fictional character] .It's not so much those one-offs that my criticism is aimed at but the incessant showing of volatile verbal exchanges. I described them on Five Live..as 'high octane interactions with the participants screaming in each other's faces..nose to nose". My point was that it was unusual for me not to catch one of those moments whilst flicking through channels so if I'm coming across them so often then they must make up a fair part of an episode. My main point was that youngster, especially, and those who have difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction think that the normal way, the only way to solve a dispute is to indulge in fiery rhetoric..snarling ,extreme anger, threatening gestures and some culminating in assault. Never once did I see one of the participants say..,"Ok, let's sit down and talk this through". .Of course, the producers would say that, that wouldn't make 'good TV'. The studio guest, a sociologist said ":I'd hit the nail on the head " and scenes like that were damaging.

I absolutely loathe soaps. I can't think of a greater waste of time in relation to TV programmes than watching them. Worse than the BBC game show 'Pointless' which is....er..pointless. They are nothing but shallow and addictive melodramas. I've heard comments on the radio about the societal value of particular scenes or storylines which highlight whatever are current issues at any given time ..eg suicides amongst young people, gay issues, disability issues and the like but such inclusion in an episode is the exception rather than the norm.

Just to end on a lighter note. I recall listening to a radio programme in which the Coronation Street actor, William Roache, was interviewed. As soap-watchers will know he played Ken Barlow in Coronation for so many years he must have had a problem with his own identity. He truly lead a double life. He recalled an incident in Manchester, the series was based in the fictional town of Weatherfield in Greater Manchester, when a women went up to him in the street after a particular episode, probably the night before and hit him shouting. "Don't you talk to your mother like that". His 'mother' was the fictional character Ida, played by the actress Noel Dyson, at that time.
 
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JohnC6 said:
Re Neighbours and Soaps in general. Some years ago..time flies..I made a contribution to a Five Live discussion about how soaps influence peoples' behaviour. I better say from the outset that I have never watched one.
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Always good to get an experts view :thinking:
 
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I used to love watching Neighbours. Think I started in the mid-80s. In primary school back then so we would come home, watch children’s TV shows until 530, watch Neighbours and go off and do my own thing. Later, Home & Away started so used to watch that too. Also got into Corrie and Eastenders because my mum used to watch them and we used to have only one telly in the house back then.

Once I went off to uni, I never had the time to watch Neighbours. I did try during the term breaks and summer holidays but by that point there were too many new character changes and I just lost interest.

Many fond memories of the show:
- Melanie and her funny laugh
- Harold and when he went missing, then came back with amnesia
- rivalry between Harold and Lou
- the twins, Annalise, and Libby
- bouncer the dog and the dream sequence
- dastardly Paul Robinson
- Stonefish and later Toadfish who stayed

Probably loads of others.
 
Cobra said:
Your Mod status has just been revoked

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If he'd known it was that easy, he'd have done it ages ago!!!

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And lets not forget a little weed :D
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Only in the short term?

The quantity of recreational pharmaceuticals (and herbs!) consumed prior to the creation and script writing of some of the '60s and '70s children's programmes must have been (as) staggering (as the creators and script writers!)
 
Allan.H said:
Always good to get an experts view :thinking:
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Ah,yes. I thought someone would say that. I really should have addressed it. :)

When I say ' I've never watched one' I mean right the way through and week after week. I saw enough of the snippets I did see, along with ads..ie heads-up,on them, to know that it wasn't the kind of entertainment I would want to spend time watching. There's enough grief (domestic and otherwise) in the real world without having it beamed into your living room under the spurious guise of 'entertainmment' .Bear in mind that the sociologist in the studio agreed with me.I assume she was brought in as an expert so she will have watched them.

People don't have to be an expert in any matter to have a valid opinion about it. You just have to have a general awareness.

Also, please note that Dale (OP) was honest enough to acknowledge the points I brought up with a 'like' and fair play to him for that.
 
I watched a couple when it first came over. but never even once since.
I do not watch any soaps at all.
I suspect that I am one of many.
 
JohnC6 said:
Ah,yes. I thought someone would say that. I really should have addressed it. :)

When I say ' I've never watched one' I mean right the way through and week after week. I saw enough of the snippets I did see, along with ads..ie heads-up,on them, to know that it wasn't the kind of entertainment I would want to spend time watching. There's enough grief (domestic and otherwise) in the real world without having it beamed into your living room under the spurious guise of 'entertainmment' .Bear in mind that the sociologist in the studio agreed with me.I assume she was brought in as an expert so she will have watched them.

People don't have to be an expert in any matter to have a valid opinion about it. You just have to have a general awareness.

Also, please note that Dale (OP) was honest enough to acknowledge the points I brought up with a 'like' and fair play to him for that.
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This. Absolutely.
 
omens said:
- Melanie and her funny laugh
- Harold and when he went missing, then came back with amnesia
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Melanie is back, has been for a while, her and Toady are getting married.

Harold came back last week.......and he remembers everything this time. :LOL:


Nod said:
If he'd known it was that easy, he'd have done it ages ago!!!
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:LOL:

I'm quite enjoying the modding, trying to be fair at it. (y)



JohnC6 said:
Ah,yes. I thought someone would say that. I really should have addressed it. :)

When I say ' I've never watched one' I mean right the way through and week after week. I saw enough of the snippets I did see, along with ads..ie heads-up,on them, to know that it wasn't the kind of entertainment I would want to spend time watching. There's enough grief (domestic and otherwise) in the real world without having it beamed into your living room under the spurious guise of 'entertainmment' .Bear in mind that the sociologist in the studio agreed with me.I assume she was brought in as an expert so she will have watched them.

People don't have to be an expert in any matter to have a valid opinion about it. You just have to have a general awareness.

Also, please note that Dale (OP) was honest enough to acknowledge the points I brought up with a 'like' and fair play to him for that.
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I always throw a like when I've read a reply, just as an aknowledgment, it doesn't mean I necessarily agree with it. Unless it's a dig, they don't get likes.

On that topic though, I've never thought of it that way but there may be some substance to it. I don't believe that we can blame soaps for the wrongs in the World though (especially one as soppy as Neighbours), I doubt Vlad P is a fan, although, you never now. :LOL: Neighbours does have it's moments but on the whole, I think it's a lot more harmless than some.

Granted though, we stopped watching Eastenders a few years ago, time issues with a young child running about, long working hours etc meant we had little time to relax in front of a TV, as Little Missy took most of our time. Eastenders was at times particularly nasty though and I feel often aired at the wrong time. The time issues we had prevented us watching much on TV at all but it was also not the kind of program we wanted a then 4 year old child seeing, as she was often awake when it aired, and Easties got turned off and hasn't been watched since.
 
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What a pity to see the end of neighbours. I always loved it when the main characters were, among others, Ena Sharples, Minnie Caldwell, Elsie Tanner and Len Fairclough etc. :exit:
 
Dale. said:
Melanie is back, has been for a while, her and Toady are getting married.

Harold came back last week.......and he remembers everything this time. :LOL:




:LOL:

I'm quite enjoying the modding, trying to be fair at it. (y)






I always throw a like when I've read a reply, just as an aknowledgment, it doesn't mean I necessarily agree with it. Unless it's a dig, they don't get likes.

On that topic though, I've never thought of it that way but there may be some substance to it. I don't believe that we can blame soaps for the wrongs in the World though (especially one as soppy as Neighbours), I doubt Vlad P is a fan, although, you never now. :LOL: Neighbours does have it's moments but on the whole, I think it's a lot more harmless than some.

Granted though, we stopped watching Eastenders a few years ago, time issues with a young child running about, long working hours etc meant we had little time to relax in front of a TV, as Little Missy took most of our time. Eastenders was at times particularly nasty though and I feel often aired at the wrong time. The time issues we had prevented us watching much on TV at all but it was also not the kind of program we wanted a then 4 year old child seeing, as she was often awake when it aired, and Easties got turned off and hasn't been watched since.
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Ahhhh...I fought you was agreeing wiff me :D

You mention EastEnders, Dale. In the back of my mind I recall that one character (completely bald) who was particularly nasty..Phil ? I've done a check. I see he had a 'brother' Grant. Bald too and also very nasty. So,I could have been looking at either as it seems that both were permanently on an ultra-agressive high. Nastiness personified. Mr Bad Guy as Freddie Mercury would say (album)... :) I also recall radio shows like Five Live making a real issue out of whats going to happen in that evening's episode. Will Phil or whoever..maybe Grant having seen his profile, beat up whoever .Infact, I've just had a look and this Grant chap had an affair with his sister-in-law. Kathy, Phil's wife.

Neighbours.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Paul Robinson's hotel opening..the Lassiters hotel, he chartered a flight from Australia to Tasmania taking many Ramsay Street residents with him. Lovely idea. So far,so good. ..but that doesn't make for 'good telly', so..the script-writers had another brain- storming session. After a short while another of them shouts 'Eureka ! I have it. "How about we get someone to plant a bomb on board ". "Brilliant" said the fellow co-writers. "You are clever coming up with such great ideas" said one of them.. And so it was. The bomb exploded as the plane was in mid-air causing it to crash into the Bass Strait (separating the two countries). All three members of the Bishop family who were on board died. The father,Harold Bishop, didn't go on the trip. Those who were killed were his son David, daughter in-law Liljana and granddaughter Serena. Their bodies were never recovered. Harold Bishop not being on board was a clever addition to the plot, with something else in mind. It's called 'forward thinking'. "Mmm. What now", said the script writers." I'd thought of that", said the one who had dreamt up the crash scenario.. Harold Bishop blames Paul Robinson for the deaths of his family and strangles him" What do you all think ?" . 'Wow"..said one of the writers. You are so talented. Where do you get these ideas ? I'd never have thought of that"" And so it was. One day, with revenge eating away at him,Harold Bishop went to the home of Paul Robinson and strangled him leaving him on the floor in the entrance area of his home to be found by his wife when she ran downstairs, in excitement, to suggest they go away together for a couple of days. Harold Bishop was then shown going back to his home with bloodied hands and pulling petals off a rose that was in his front garden. It seems that Paul Robinson didn't die and forgave HB,as you do. Turns out the person who placed the bomb on the plane was Robinson's son who wanted rid of his father. 'Appy families and all that...

You can't beat a good soap,Dale.....:)
 
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