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To have refused to put "The Great Fire of Pontypandy on AGAIN?!

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DrSeuss · 27/01/2011 18:41

If I have to watch Sam,the Weirdo Next door one more time I am going to kill someone! Please tell me I am not alone. A few weeks short of 40, 24 wks up the duff, exhausted, aching, hormonal. Can't stand any more of Dilys, Trevor et al. Which DVDs have you wanting to run screaming?

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DrSeuss · 27/01/2011 18:42

I also appear to have lost the ability to punctuate. Sorry.

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northerngirl41 · 27/01/2011 18:47

Not unreasonable at all - except a better way of doing it is to hide the DVD in Father Christmas' secret store and claim innocence when kids can't find it.

Wizard of Oz disappears quite regularly in our house.... It's magic you know!

reluctanthomosapien · 27/01/2011 19:15

YANBU, DD obsessed with it and has started saying "brilliant" a lot. Makes me want to poke screwdrivers in my eyes and ears. I'm not pregnant, BTW, it is excruciating, even to the non hormonally challenged.

LJBanana · 27/01/2011 19:27

Oh my goodness, lets just take it all in....

Norman Price NEEDS and ASBO, no question, that kid is a liability.

Mike Flood has literally NO common sense, moron.

Fireman Sam wears his uniform on his day off and is so patronising since he has become a cartoon I want to rip my ears off when he speaks.

And to live in Pontypandy you have to be both intelectually challenged to cause that many accidents and so rich as the rates must be through the roof.

The other day they called mountain rescue in a helicopter to rescue a cat out of a well!!!!

For the love of god. I could go on.

I am 38 weeks pregnant have a 2.8 year old who is obsessed with Fireman Sam and several hundred times a day I am referred to as Penny/Elvis /Station Officer Steel. Do I seem a little un hinged???

LJBanana · 27/01/2011 19:28

Ironic that I spelt intellectually wrong, I was getting carried away!

Spinkle · 27/01/2011 19:31
  1. Norman Price is a magnet for trouble.
  1. We find 'The Great Fire of Pontypandy' is much improved by calling it 'The Great Fire of Ploppypanties'. And gin.

YANBU

GreenEyesandHam · 27/01/2011 19:31

'red is for danger, red is what I said'

reluctanthomosapien · 27/01/2011 19:33

All the children in the cartoon version are really scary looking, too, they look like they're possessed.

They've tried to turn Sam into manly beefcake for the cartoon version, but he does just come across as a

reluctanthomosapien · 27/01/2011 19:34

whoops, as a know it all, patronising, humourless bore.

Dylthan · 27/01/2011 19:35

Luckily for me ds has grown out of fireman Sam I feel your pain though and YANBU

Does anyone else think that Norman might be the product of a drunken one night stand between dylis and Sam?

Sam's always very concerned for normans welfare and their the only two red heads in the village Hmm

doubleease · 27/01/2011 19:35

Fireman Sam is a cartoon now??? Shock

LeninGrad · 27/01/2011 19:36

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TheMonster · 27/01/2011 19:36

We're watching The Hero Next Door again.

Dylthan, I think the same!

LJBanana · 27/01/2011 19:36

Oh no the 'red is for danger' song is now firmly planted in my head again!!!

GreenEyesandHam · 27/01/2011 19:36

and he doesn't even 'keep his engine bright and clean' anymore :(

redrollers · 27/01/2011 19:38

I love Sam
Will always hold a special place in my heart.
DS is going off him a bit now....... thank God! I know exactly what you mean, and there are only so many episodes so you end up knowing them all off by heart.
He will get through it and move on to something else. My DS is now obsessed with Toy Story

I had never thought about Dilys and Sam.... interesting!!

MrsDrOwenHunt · 27/01/2011 19:38

try the wonder pets!!!!!

LJBanana · 27/01/2011 19:40

I'm going to go with a resounding yes for the one night stand. Although when Dilys was the man in drag before the cartoon version I think she may have had red hair in the rollers, the dramatic make over she's had would lend itself to this theory, don't tell Trev.

Also they never have a change of clothes!

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DrSeuss · 27/01/2011 19:40

I suppose it's probably no worse than many others. Upsy Daisy is probably driving someone, somewhere insane as I write!

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Dylthan · 27/01/2011 19:46

I know what you mean red rollers the fact that there is only a finite number of episodes that are constantly on means that we all know what happens in every episode word for word.

This is what leaves my mind to wander on to what scandal may be bubbling under the surface of pontypandy.... I fear there might actually be something seriously wrong with me Grin

LJBanana · 27/01/2011 19:55

Me too,I actually obsess over it and talk about it in real life as I just can't get over it.
Dilys is currently thinking the sunset is a forest fire. And I have just questioned myself as to where the hell Mike Flood gets his home insurance.

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DrSeuss · 27/01/2011 20:17

How does anyone in Pontypandy get anything insured? They are always setting fire to something! And those kids are only going to get more inbred given how few there seem to be! At least helen got imported from somewhere. StPauls, Bristol?

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reluctanthomosapien · 27/01/2011 20:20

That episode where Elvis is making romantic overtures to the crash test dummy tells you everything you need to know about sex in Pontypandy.

Whatever happened to Bella Lasagne?

coatgate · 27/01/2011 20:21

Anyone remember the thread someone started about having moved to a village in Wales and how weird everything was. Had us all sucked in for a while until it turned out to be a troll about Pontypandy.

I do get quite nostalgic though for the innocence of Sam and Thomas, when you have to put up with the Wizards of Waverley Place and those bloody twin in that hotel!