It's time that more schools and institutions taught the art of critical thinking, the ability to see both sides of a coin. In a society where most young people under the age of 25 consider themselves tolerant, there are many who, simply, aren't.
These are the Little Princes (because most of them seem to be male), who refuse to accept any divergent opinion, but who recognise the only fact prevalent as their opinion. Sorry, lads, you are entitled to your own opinion - as I am entitled to mine - but you are not entitled to your own facts.
What I say in this blog is contained in this blog. It goes no place else. It is my blog, do you understand that? My blog.
If you don't like what I have to say or the length I take to say it, then my advice to you is simple:-
Fuck off and don't read it.
I'm beginning to wonder if these people's singular inability to think critically or to tolerate anyone else's opinion but their own is down to good old-fashioned immaturity. Man up, grow up and grow a pair, instead of taking to the safety of an internet screen in a cack-handed attempt to bully.
But then, bullies are cowards.
Let me just say, succinctly, that this episode was, indeed, crap from beginning to end. If you don't want to know why either don't read the following or stick your fingers in your ears and shout LALALALALALALALA.
After all, that's what Tina Carter would do.
The Big Week of Billy Ends.
I'm in the minority of viewers because I actually do like Billy Mitchell, mostly because everyone knows a Billy, a perenniel loser, but also because, when called upon to do so, Perry Fenwick steps up and delivers. He's certainly done so this week. Earlier in the year, I criticised DTC for seeming to regress Billy's character to the down-and-out he was before Janine rejuvenated him.
Well, I'm hoping I was wrong, because it seems as though Billy's being pointed in a different direction, and we'll be seeing a male single parent struggle with the upbringing of a special needs child. We shall see ... I hope. Otherwise, it's all for nowt and sensationalism.
In the meantime, there were these niggles with the story.
- Garry Hobbs? Uncle Garry lives on a boat? Surely that had to mean Garry Hobbs? That boat was almost in bits and little more than a hobby fishing boat when Garry left Walford in 2010. Is he still with Dawn? If so, are we to assume that Garry, Dawn and six-year-old Summer are living on the boat? Jay used to visit them after they left Walford. Maybe they've got a bigger boat. Still, that was a blast from the past and a weird surprise to find that "Uncle Garry" was still living on a boat. Garry, Minty and Gnomi had a mortgage on the flat where they lived. Gnomi walked away from it (being scared out of Walford by Mad May), Garry walked away from it, and Minty walked away from it too. I guess it was repossessed, huh?
- Honey has a plane in four hours. Why isn't she on her way to the airport? Check-in for international flights asks that you be there at least three hours before departure. And with children and the security procedures you have to follow, that's about right. So ends Billy's week-long major storyline, resulting in Billy keeping Janet, and William going with Honey. I suspect that, within a year's time, we'll hear that Honey's met someone in Canada, will be marrying and William will stay. So now, Billy's got a daughter, a granddaughter and a great-granddaughter for whom to fend. I guess his squat will grow another bedroom and all.
The Carters That Should Matter.
Mick and Linda are re-treads. If you don't believe me, check out the Vic ca 2003 and then again ca 1985. Mick and Linda are Alfie-Moon-Marries-Angie-Watts. But consider this: Every couple who's ever fronted the Vic have, at some point, split up - Den and Angie, Frank and Pat, Wicksy and Sharon, Grant and Sharon, Peggy and Frank, Peggy and Archie, Alfie and Kat.
Why should this couple be any different? True, they've been together, literally, since they've been kids, but it's obvious to the discerning viewer that, at least on Mick's part, familiarity is breeding contempt, and this contempt is being fueled and fired by none other than Mick's old unknown scrote of a Ma, Shirley Queen of Scrotes.
- Linda gets undermined again. I love Kellie Bright. I love Linda Carter. She's the best new character on the show. Mick can call her "baby" all he wants, and I've no doubt he loves the bones of her, but he bows from the waist to his sisters, and he shouldn't do that. Tonight we saw "Shirley the Matriarch." No further comment on this marmite character, except to say that, subtly goaded by Shirley, who was openly rude and derisive of Linda's efforts to put her stamp on the pub, Mick moaned about the portrait sign costing 500 quid, but laughed away the fact that his sister defaced it. Ah, but the fire brigade came in to spend 500 quid in drinks that covered the portrait. Maybe they spend a grand, and that would cover Dean's secret deposit and all.
Put it this way, if my husband's sister or mother had spoken to me the way Shirley Queen of Scrotes spoke to Linda, my husband would see to it that they politely left my premises never to return. Mick is a wimp. There, I said it.
- Two Alfie Moons. Spot Mick morphing into Alfie at the dedication, and spot Alfie morphing into Mick when he gently advises Bianca against her new venture. He was adamant that Kat not be involved. Close your eyes, and the characters of Alfie and Mick are interchangeable.
The Murder Mystery Spouts Incongruencies.
Spot the holes in the cream cheese.
- Has the surgery flat grown, shrunk or what? When Mad May and Rob lived there, I thought it was a one-bedroomed affair, yet when Heather moved in with George, it was more of a bedsit, with George's bed and Heather's mattress in the main living area. But now there's Cora, Dexter, Abi and Lauren living there? Houses/flats spring up/lose rooms at will. I thought at first Aleks's flat was two-bedroomed, hence the need for a flatmate. Then Tosh moved into what, presumably, is the box room, which she shares with Tina. The mind boggles.
-The look of innocence. I'm actually surprised Jake is still being held at all, especially if the police have told him that evidence shows that Lucy wasn't killed at the flat. Has there been any DNA evidence linking Jake? And once again, Lauren is the person who gave enough evidence to the police that enabled them to think that Jake needed questioning again, and she's allowed to visit him? More than anything else, the lack of feasible continuity is risible in this programme. There's dramatic licence, yes, but this isn't it. Not when Janine, the wife of a murder victim and the chief witness, is allowed to visit the woman accused of Michael's murder, then Peter, the brother of a murder victim, isn't allowed to visit the man accused of her murder because of his relationship with the deceased. Days later, Lauren, a witness in this investigation, and the person whose statement and evidence led the police back to Jake for further questioning, is allowed a visit. That's not dramatic licence, that's sheer, utter fantasy with more than a twinge of sensationalism.
I can buy Phil connecting with Jake. As far as alcoholism goes, Phil's been there and done that. He, more than anyone, would be able to identify a violent drunk as opposed to a sad, self-pitying drunk. (e.g., Time was, drink made Billy violent; that's when he used to abuse Jamie. Drink makes Phil self-pitying and reflective, just like Jake). Phil got a gut feeling about Jake's innocence, but Lauren's reaction when she shopped Jake was, chiefly, all about Lauren and more that Jake was still trying to get in contact with her.
Do you know how I think Lucy's blood sample got in Aleks's flat? Consider that we're talking about something so miniscule that it took police forensics to find it. I think Aleks is responsible for bringing this into the flat. That does not mean I think Aleks killed her. In fact, I don't think that. But I do think that he may have come into contact enough with her killer so that some smidgeon of Lucy's blood ended up on his person.
Maybe it's Jake, but how young does Lauren look? And who, exactly, is supporting Lauren now, as, IIRC, she was shutting down LB Lettings? Oh, wait ... Max is a bad dad, and what he's done now is probably the worst thing he's ever done (in LaurenWorld), but I bet she stilll expects Dear Old Dad to pay her way. Actually, Lauren, this is not the worst thing Max has ever done. Sleeping with your brother's ex-girlfriend whilst he was married to your mother, really bad; sleeping with your mother when he was married to Bradley's mother and dumping her and Bradley to marry Tanya, really, really bad; living with Tanya when he was married to Kirsty and making Tanya believe he would marry her, when he was still married to someone else,scuzzah bad. But sleeping with Lucy, a twenty year-old single women, when your old man is single, himself, and when Lucy consented to the relationship? Creepy, yes; not nice, yes. But certainly not the worst thing he's done. At least he's never slept with his cousin.
The Star of the Show
Dot: Yes, she was, and I'm saying that as someone who's not the biggest Dot fan. Dot was right to hand Sonia her arse about her simpering after Tina. FWIW, Tina loves Tosh, and I don't think Tosh comes across as particularly needy, but Tina does. She needs to be the centre of attention, which is why she dresses like a Court Jester and acts like a child. If Tina didn't love Tosh, she wouldn't have gone to the trouble she went to to regain her affection in tonight's episode. You could tell that the pair of them had eyes only for each other, and Bianca clocked Sonia's behaviour.
From the get-go, Dot was 100 per cent right - admonishing Sonia for not telling Martin about her disciplinary at work. Horse hockey to her obvious lie that she didn't want to worry Martin, I'll bet there's plenty she hasn't told him. But the loo scene, where Dot reminded Sonia that her priorities were her husband, her daughter, whom she was lucky to get back after adoption (in another suspension of reality storyline) and her mother who was ill, instead of snogging around with another woman. She can protest that it was "just a kiss," but it was cheating, and cop this: it also means that Tina cheated on Tosh too, and now Tosh knows it.
I get that DTC wants the public to be Team Tina, but why am I finding Tosh the more sympathetic character? Shirley's remarked that Tosh has hit Tina, but then both Tina and Tosh have said that Tina gave as good as she got, and - you know - I can believe that.
And, please ... I'll regurgitate my dinner if I hear Sonia refer to Carol as "Mummy," one more time. It's far too pretentious.
Tosh, Tina, Sonia .... GO. AWAY.
Dean manipulating. I like that, but it's not Tosh who's the needy one. Tina sought Tosh, and Tina's the one who's been unfaithful.
These are the Little Princes (because most of them seem to be male), who refuse to accept any divergent opinion, but who recognise the only fact prevalent as their opinion. Sorry, lads, you are entitled to your own opinion - as I am entitled to mine - but you are not entitled to your own facts.
What I say in this blog is contained in this blog. It goes no place else. It is my blog, do you understand that? My blog.
If you don't like what I have to say or the length I take to say it, then my advice to you is simple:-
Fuck off and don't read it.
I'm beginning to wonder if these people's singular inability to think critically or to tolerate anyone else's opinion but their own is down to good old-fashioned immaturity. Man up, grow up and grow a pair, instead of taking to the safety of an internet screen in a cack-handed attempt to bully.
But then, bullies are cowards.
Let me just say, succinctly, that this episode was, indeed, crap from beginning to end. If you don't want to know why either don't read the following or stick your fingers in your ears and shout LALALALALALALALA.
After all, that's what Tina Carter would do.
The Big Week of Billy Ends.
I'm in the minority of viewers because I actually do like Billy Mitchell, mostly because everyone knows a Billy, a perenniel loser, but also because, when called upon to do so, Perry Fenwick steps up and delivers. He's certainly done so this week. Earlier in the year, I criticised DTC for seeming to regress Billy's character to the down-and-out he was before Janine rejuvenated him.
Well, I'm hoping I was wrong, because it seems as though Billy's being pointed in a different direction, and we'll be seeing a male single parent struggle with the upbringing of a special needs child. We shall see ... I hope. Otherwise, it's all for nowt and sensationalism.
In the meantime, there were these niggles with the story.
- Garry Hobbs? Uncle Garry lives on a boat? Surely that had to mean Garry Hobbs? That boat was almost in bits and little more than a hobby fishing boat when Garry left Walford in 2010. Is he still with Dawn? If so, are we to assume that Garry, Dawn and six-year-old Summer are living on the boat? Jay used to visit them after they left Walford. Maybe they've got a bigger boat. Still, that was a blast from the past and a weird surprise to find that "Uncle Garry" was still living on a boat. Garry, Minty and Gnomi had a mortgage on the flat where they lived. Gnomi walked away from it (being scared out of Walford by Mad May), Garry walked away from it, and Minty walked away from it too. I guess it was repossessed, huh?
- Honey has a plane in four hours. Why isn't she on her way to the airport? Check-in for international flights asks that you be there at least three hours before departure. And with children and the security procedures you have to follow, that's about right. So ends Billy's week-long major storyline, resulting in Billy keeping Janet, and William going with Honey. I suspect that, within a year's time, we'll hear that Honey's met someone in Canada, will be marrying and William will stay. So now, Billy's got a daughter, a granddaughter and a great-granddaughter for whom to fend. I guess his squat will grow another bedroom and all.
The Carters That Should Matter.
Mick and Linda are re-treads. If you don't believe me, check out the Vic ca 2003 and then again ca 1985. Mick and Linda are Alfie-Moon-Marries-Angie-Watts. But consider this: Every couple who's ever fronted the Vic have, at some point, split up - Den and Angie, Frank and Pat, Wicksy and Sharon, Grant and Sharon, Peggy and Frank, Peggy and Archie, Alfie and Kat.
Why should this couple be any different? True, they've been together, literally, since they've been kids, but it's obvious to the discerning viewer that, at least on Mick's part, familiarity is breeding contempt, and this contempt is being fueled and fired by none other than Mick's old unknown scrote of a Ma, Shirley Queen of Scrotes.
- Linda gets undermined again. I love Kellie Bright. I love Linda Carter. She's the best new character on the show. Mick can call her "baby" all he wants, and I've no doubt he loves the bones of her, but he bows from the waist to his sisters, and he shouldn't do that. Tonight we saw "Shirley the Matriarch." No further comment on this marmite character, except to say that, subtly goaded by Shirley, who was openly rude and derisive of Linda's efforts to put her stamp on the pub, Mick moaned about the portrait sign costing 500 quid, but laughed away the fact that his sister defaced it. Ah, but the fire brigade came in to spend 500 quid in drinks that covered the portrait. Maybe they spend a grand, and that would cover Dean's secret deposit and all.
Put it this way, if my husband's sister or mother had spoken to me the way Shirley Queen of Scrotes spoke to Linda, my husband would see to it that they politely left my premises never to return. Mick is a wimp. There, I said it.
- Two Alfie Moons. Spot Mick morphing into Alfie at the dedication, and spot Alfie morphing into Mick when he gently advises Bianca against her new venture. He was adamant that Kat not be involved. Close your eyes, and the characters of Alfie and Mick are interchangeable.
The Murder Mystery Spouts Incongruencies.
Spot the holes in the cream cheese.
- Has the surgery flat grown, shrunk or what? When Mad May and Rob lived there, I thought it was a one-bedroomed affair, yet when Heather moved in with George, it was more of a bedsit, with George's bed and Heather's mattress in the main living area. But now there's Cora, Dexter, Abi and Lauren living there? Houses/flats spring up/lose rooms at will. I thought at first Aleks's flat was two-bedroomed, hence the need for a flatmate. Then Tosh moved into what, presumably, is the box room, which she shares with Tina. The mind boggles.
-The look of innocence. I'm actually surprised Jake is still being held at all, especially if the police have told him that evidence shows that Lucy wasn't killed at the flat. Has there been any DNA evidence linking Jake? And once again, Lauren is the person who gave enough evidence to the police that enabled them to think that Jake needed questioning again, and she's allowed to visit him? More than anything else, the lack of feasible continuity is risible in this programme. There's dramatic licence, yes, but this isn't it. Not when Janine, the wife of a murder victim and the chief witness, is allowed to visit the woman accused of Michael's murder, then Peter, the brother of a murder victim, isn't allowed to visit the man accused of her murder because of his relationship with the deceased. Days later, Lauren, a witness in this investigation, and the person whose statement and evidence led the police back to Jake for further questioning, is allowed a visit. That's not dramatic licence, that's sheer, utter fantasy with more than a twinge of sensationalism.
I can buy Phil connecting with Jake. As far as alcoholism goes, Phil's been there and done that. He, more than anyone, would be able to identify a violent drunk as opposed to a sad, self-pitying drunk. (e.g., Time was, drink made Billy violent; that's when he used to abuse Jamie. Drink makes Phil self-pitying and reflective, just like Jake). Phil got a gut feeling about Jake's innocence, but Lauren's reaction when she shopped Jake was, chiefly, all about Lauren and more that Jake was still trying to get in contact with her.
Do you know how I think Lucy's blood sample got in Aleks's flat? Consider that we're talking about something so miniscule that it took police forensics to find it. I think Aleks is responsible for bringing this into the flat. That does not mean I think Aleks killed her. In fact, I don't think that. But I do think that he may have come into contact enough with her killer so that some smidgeon of Lucy's blood ended up on his person.
Maybe it's Jake, but how young does Lauren look? And who, exactly, is supporting Lauren now, as, IIRC, she was shutting down LB Lettings? Oh, wait ... Max is a bad dad, and what he's done now is probably the worst thing he's ever done (in LaurenWorld), but I bet she stilll expects Dear Old Dad to pay her way. Actually, Lauren, this is not the worst thing Max has ever done. Sleeping with your brother's ex-girlfriend whilst he was married to your mother, really bad; sleeping with your mother when he was married to Bradley's mother and dumping her and Bradley to marry Tanya, really, really bad; living with Tanya when he was married to Kirsty and making Tanya believe he would marry her, when he was still married to someone else,scuzzah bad. But sleeping with Lucy, a twenty year-old single women, when your old man is single, himself, and when Lucy consented to the relationship? Creepy, yes; not nice, yes. But certainly not the worst thing he's done. At least he's never slept with his cousin.
The Star of the Show
Dot: Yes, she was, and I'm saying that as someone who's not the biggest Dot fan. Dot was right to hand Sonia her arse about her simpering after Tina. FWIW, Tina loves Tosh, and I don't think Tosh comes across as particularly needy, but Tina does. She needs to be the centre of attention, which is why she dresses like a Court Jester and acts like a child. If Tina didn't love Tosh, she wouldn't have gone to the trouble she went to to regain her affection in tonight's episode. You could tell that the pair of them had eyes only for each other, and Bianca clocked Sonia's behaviour.
From the get-go, Dot was 100 per cent right - admonishing Sonia for not telling Martin about her disciplinary at work. Horse hockey to her obvious lie that she didn't want to worry Martin, I'll bet there's plenty she hasn't told him. But the loo scene, where Dot reminded Sonia that her priorities were her husband, her daughter, whom she was lucky to get back after adoption (in another suspension of reality storyline) and her mother who was ill, instead of snogging around with another woman. She can protest that it was "just a kiss," but it was cheating, and cop this: it also means that Tina cheated on Tosh too, and now Tosh knows it.
I get that DTC wants the public to be Team Tina, but why am I finding Tosh the more sympathetic character? Shirley's remarked that Tosh has hit Tina, but then both Tina and Tosh have said that Tina gave as good as she got, and - you know - I can believe that.
And, please ... I'll regurgitate my dinner if I hear Sonia refer to Carol as "Mummy," one more time. It's far too pretentious.
Tosh, Tina, Sonia .... GO. AWAY.
Dean manipulating. I like that, but it's not Tosh who's the needy one. Tina sought Tosh, and Tina's the one who's been unfaithful.
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ReplyDeleteI blame the parents for bringing up a child so intolerant and self-obsessed that he thinks the sun shines our of his arse. Go back to wanking on the naughty step.
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