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AIBU?

To think that Casualty is the worst programme on TV?

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Yawnychops · 04/01/2014 21:25

It is abismal. The writing is terrible and predictable and acting is even worse.

DH watches it every Saturday and every week I sit there watching it groaning and telling DH how shite it is, much to his amusement.

I think it's time a bomb was dropped at Holby hospital and the series cancelled.

Does anyone actually enjoy it?

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FluffyDucky · 04/01/2014 21:27

Noo! I loves a bit of casualty I do!
It's always fun guessing when and what the 'look away now' moment will be.

thoroughlymodernmillie · 04/01/2014 21:28

Its not still on is it. Is Charlie still there with his bemused expression.

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TeamSouthfields · 04/01/2014 21:30

I LOVE IT

Yawnychops · 04/01/2014 21:33

Yes, Charlie is still there and still can't act. Tess is there - currently wearing a dodgy wig.

There's a really bloody annoying nurse who cocks up every week and gets away with it.

It's just finished and here comes Catherine Tate's Nan. This will either be really funny or really disappointing. I suspect the latter.

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thoroughlymodernmillie · 04/01/2014 21:40

I can't believe Charlie is still going. What is he now, the chief exec. Does he still randomly look into the distance whilst talking to people.

Yawnychops · 04/01/2014 21:52

I don't know, i still think of him as Charge Nurse Charlie but he seems to run the place whilst staring into space.

God, this Catherine Tate show is awful - practically every stereotype going. Really lazy writing.

Perhaps I'm just a misery?

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chocolatespiders · 04/01/2014 21:56

Love Casualty, hate sat night if it is not on ( I have no life)

Pobblewhohasnotoes · 04/01/2014 21:59

No, I'm a nurse and I hate it! Although not as much as Holby city.

What a load of bollocks. It makes me shout at the tv.

I once had a patient say to me 'it's not like casualty'. No because that's a fucking tv programme!

It makes me angry, you can tell...

LineRunner · 04/01/2014 22:00

Charlie is now some kind of super nurse, with all the sexual allure of a sluice room.

RhondaJean · 04/01/2014 22:01

Yabvvvu. It's the only thing I never miss on tv.

specialsubject · 04/01/2014 22:02

it's not exactly high culture and all the above criticisms are valid. But it is all good clean fun, and there are certainly many much worse programmes.

gas cylinders kept indoors in a bar? Really??

Sparklingbrook · 04/01/2014 22:02

Is Lee Mead in it yet? I am going to start watching it then.

SoupDragon · 04/01/2014 22:03

I enjoy Casualty :)

I am now watching "Saturday Night 80s Disco" on VH1 though as
Catherine Tate looked utter shite.

hottea7 · 04/01/2014 22:04

I love casualty! I have a very lovely friend who is a paramedic, and apparently casuslty is not 'based on RL' at all. Gutted

drbonnieblossman · 04/01/2014 22:06

Catherine Tate was actually very funny.

re casualty, yabu. we play "guess the accident". and I love Fletch

EndoplasmicReticulum · 04/01/2014 22:07

I used to enjoy it years ago when it was more about the patients than the staff, and you would see people bimbling about and play "guess what horrible accident is going to happen to these people". Also it used to be filmed in Bristol when I was a student there, so I could location spot.

I imagine that it irritates medical professionals. A friend who has a child with allergies was irked by a recent episode when they injected an epipen in someone's arm (not the usual place, as I understand it).

InPursuitOfOblivion · 04/01/2014 22:10

Pobble I shout at the TV too!! They can't even get basic medical facts right and have surgeons anaesthetising patients without IV access, no airways, monitoring - not even a sodding ODP or anaesthetic nurse!

Pobblewhohasnotoes · 04/01/2014 22:10

Whoever is the medical advisor on casualty or Holby either hasn't worked for 60 years or gets their information from Wikipedia.

Pobblewhohasnotoes · 04/01/2014 22:14

InPursuitOfOblivion, anaesthetising via an oxygen mask in a theatre room that's just off the corridor.

Oh and they can do any job! Who cares if you're a midwife? Go run hdu!

Aaaargh!

backwardpossom · 04/01/2014 22:19

YABVU. It's so bad, it's brilliant.

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Yawnychops · 04/01/2014 22:19

Ok, so it seems I am being unreasonable and a bit of a misery.

However, in true AIBU tradition, I will refuse to accept it and believe that I'm right.

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Pobblewhohasnotoes · 04/01/2014 22:21

You are right. It's wrong.

Don't even start me on Hollyoaks medical inaccuracies....

LineRunner · 04/01/2014 22:26

Charlie is able to diagnose anyone, anytime.

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