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To not know who from the Musketeers I'd boff first.

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MalcolmTuckersMistress · 20/02/2014 16:15

It's doing my head in. 5 leading actors and I fancy ALL of them. I tried to pick the one I fancied most when he was a simple cartoon dog and that was Aramis, but just one look as sexy Richelieu in his black cloak of evil and I'm a gooey mess.

It's turned me into such a tart, but IABU to want all of them. No? Ok thanks.

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MalcolmTuckersMistress · 28/02/2014 17:55

(Oh I know this isn't strictly Musketeers, but this made my heart melt and my knees turn to jelly

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LetUsPrey · 28/02/2014 18:02

That is very sweet Smile

I expect to be a wibbly mess when Aramis is holding a baby in Sunday's episode

Oblomov · 28/02/2014 18:06

I prefer the dirty, sexy, sweaty, haired and morose Athos to the bouffant wham haired younger one!!

Oblomov · 28/02/2014 18:10

I think we need to decide quickly on title for thread 2.
At this rate, with all the clips and jokes posting. we don't want to be struggling, mid Sunday nights episode, to struggle to get the 2nd thread up and running.

I suspect/hope that when we get the perfect title, we will all just KNOW.

MalcolmTuckersMistress · 28/02/2014 18:12

I really seriously hope there will be some topless action. At least half the episode for them all. Even Dogtanian looks brilliant with his tits oot. Can't they have an episode where they are all having a day off just hanging out in the sunshine drinking beer? It's not like it would ruin any apparent storyline because no one even cares about that!

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BoffinMum · 28/02/2014 18:16

Someone called?

MadBusLady · 28/02/2014 18:25

I have the same whole dark curls/pale skin going on as Milady now I think about it...

Only two more days, you loons Grin

LetUsPrey · 28/02/2014 18:26

WE MADE THE ROUND UP EMAIL!!!!

Well done MTM Grin

What would you like as your prize?

MadBusLady · 28/02/2014 18:26

BoffinMum it is disgusting in here. Adjust your bodice, pull up a wooden form and try not to step in anything sticky you may see on the floor.

LetUsPrey · 28/02/2014 18:30

Going back to what to call Friday and Saturday, we could have ForFucksSakeWhyIsItNotSundayYet Friday

MalcolmTuckersMistress · 28/02/2014 18:35

CAPALDI!

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Oblomov · 28/02/2014 18:37

Round up email?
Bar-hum-bug MNHQ. Title of OP still not good enough to move to Telly Addicts? Wink

MalcolmTuckersMistress · 28/02/2014 18:39

Actually what does it say? I don't get the round up email. I hate mumsnet spamming me!

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LetUsPrey · 28/02/2014 18:43

It's the title of the email and then it says this:

MalcolmTuckersMistress has a BIG PROBLEM. Is she being unreasonable, ladies and gentlemen of Mumsnet, in not knowing which one of the Musketeers she would ‘boff first’? You’d think the clue would be in the name but…

“It's doing my head in. Five leading actors and I fancy ALL of them. I tried to pick the one I fancied most when he was a simple cartoon dog and that was Aramis, but just one look at sexy Richelieu in his black cloak of evil and I'm a gooey mess. It's turned me into such a tart, but AIBU to want all of them. No? OK thanks.”

“If it's the Musketeers, surely a threesome would be in order? (plus you, of course!),” suggested Bettercallsaul1, with the sort of generosity for which Mumsnetters are famous.

“I bloody adore the Capaldi,” objectified MalcolmTuckersMistress. “He would get it until one of us died!” (It? We hope she means cake. Or sherry.) “The sword fighting is possibly the most erotic thing I've ever witnessed on television, I don't even know why. See if Capaldi gets a sword out at any point I think there is a good chance I will expire completely.”

“Please don't talk about Capaldi with a sword,” chastised motherinferior.

“I have work to do.” SelectAUserName is confused. “I read the title as ‘To not know who from Mumsnet I'd boff first’. As you were…”

MalcolmTuckersMistress · 28/02/2014 18:47

Hahaha oh my goodness that has really made me laugh!

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Oblomov · 28/02/2014 18:52

Fantastic
Grin

traderpd · 28/02/2014 19:06

Ladies, ladies, please! Go back to the beginning of this thread and replace the Musketeers names with the three hottest female morning program presenters, or the fittest weather girls, or today's page three girl. How does it read to you now? You are treating those fine, sensitive, intelligent actors as mere sex objects. Treating them even, like pieces of meat.

This is the kind of banter you've all spent three decades trying to beat out of us poor confused guys (except when you want it, of course...which is usually in private, not on message boards, and only from that select band of varied and indefinable types you fancy...on that day, and in that particular mood you're in...which we're somehow supposed to know... without banter)

Personally, I'm all for it. Let rip. It tells us things about you that we need to know if we're ever to fulfil your dreams and the hopes you have for man-kind.

Give in to these urges (to post). But please, let us do it too without being made to feel like we're predators. And remember, our banter with you (as opposed to about you) is the only way we can ever find out what you do actually want from us.

Just thoughts from the gander, for the goose.

(Dons tin hat, deletes email account, and retires from public life)

Oblomov · 28/02/2014 19:14

I don't agree with trader's 'feminist' (?) post.

I like The musketeers. The tv programme. fab.
I feel Tom Burke's acting is superb. He has got into the character of Athos. And is portraying Athos perfectly.
It is not Tom Burke , who has captured my attention and my affection.
It is his acting . It is Athos. Tom Burke's skill , as an actor, for presenting Athos , as I think he should be portrayed.

Yes the thread if a bit smutty. Yes it's a bit if fun and a bit crude.

But I don't see that as something to be ashamed of.

DrinkFeckArseGirls · 28/02/2014 19:14

I think we need to get Capaldi onto the web chat. If he dares Grin

We'll be nice, wench's word!

Oblomov · 28/02/2014 19:17

Well. That's a wet fish / damp sponge, isn't it?
Sad

DrinkFeckArseGirls · 28/02/2014 19:18

What is, Oblomov?

Oblomov · 28/02/2014 19:20

Trader's post.

Oblomov · 28/02/2014 19:21

Where's Hannah?

DrinkFeckArseGirls · 28/02/2014 19:23

Well, we know it's wrong but if feels so good....

MadBusLady · 28/02/2014 19:26

trader it is a sign of how lost I am to feminist discourse in general that I have thought long and hard stop sniggering about this. And I have concluded that objectifying characters is one thing, objectifying actors would be quite another. I watched a couple of Tom Burke interviews and thought "oh, what a nice interesting bloke" and AFAIK nothing further. That is really where the fantasy element comes in.

Saying that, I think there is a strong argument that performers who portray only themselves and not other people (eg most standup comics, presenters, slebs in general) are actively inviting objectification, and therefore although it's not good for the soul of the objectifier, I give most objectification of that sort a free pass regardless of gender. While it does, of course, contribute to the objectification of women in general that page 3 girls exist and that men objectify them, I think it would be a pretty harsh feminist who blamed this wholly on the people involved in that transaction rather than the supporting power structures, which is why I back the campaign to put pressure on the Sun editor to discontinue it.

This is my second Very Serious Post on this thread. Blush