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to think you actually need to be lobotomized to watch This Morning?

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JeterandPane · 13/08/2015 12:35

I'm 'working' at home and just watched this with my lunch mainly because there's nothing else on to dip into for 10 minutes.

What the actual hell is up with this programme?

I watched the segment where they had a phone-in with A-level results students. The agony aunt (Denise?) was offering advice when she clearly had no fucking clue what she was talking about. They had a girl ring in who wasn't sure if she'd been offered a place because she'd just missed her grades. Erm, maybe phone the fucking university rather than Eamonn Holmes

Last Friday I watched it for about 10 minutes and had the delight of seeing Marvin and Rochelle try their hand at presenting . I can't understand a bloody word he says and she seems actually simple.

Does anybody actually watch this fucking shit? I feel like my IQ has dropped by about 20%. Eurgh.

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HelloNewman · 13/08/2015 22:14

I don't watch TM as a rule, but I will sometimes flick it on if I am home.

Last Friday, I think, I put it on only to be met with these 2 utter halfwits presenting - Marvin and Rochelle, I soon found out.

God, they were bad. So awkward, so thick and their atrocious grammar made me switch off - all 'was you' and 'we was', ugh.

CaptainHolt · 13/08/2015 22:16

I used to watch it years ago when Judy was trying to rein Richard in when he was making a twat of himself (are your conjoined twins identical?) and the sex offender with the jumpers was on the floating weather map. that Denise is still alive on it. She seemed really old back then, but then so did policemen and doctors.

Bakeoffcake · 13/08/2015 22:33

Did you all know Wanted Down Under Revisited is on bbc1 in the mornings again? It's repeats, but still worth a watch.

It's great watching all those very innocent deluded people thinking they're going to be getting a mansion for £150,000 and "lots of free time with the family".

Sparklingbrook · 13/08/2015 22:38

I am still reeling from the 'Poor Brendan' and episode Bake and that was ages ago.

PuppyMouse · 13/08/2015 22:52

I was off work virtually immobile for 10 weeks before DD was born. I thought I'd relax and indulge myself all the daytime TV I wanted. How wrong I was.

I was texting entries to the competition and by day three gave myself a stern talking to (well as much as I was capable of after numbing my senses with brainless drivel) and turned over to the Millionnaire Matchmaker on ITV2....

Bakeoffcake · 13/08/2015 23:12

Oh I don't remember Brendon Sparkling. Today the woman said she was going without her dh if wouldn't agree to go to NZ

Sparklingbrook · 13/08/2015 23:14

That was the same as Brendan's wife. She had brainwashed the 3 daughters. Brendan didn't want to go and spent most of the programme in tears.

PiperChapstick · 13/08/2015 23:22

It does seem to be dumbed down these days so I don't watch it much any more but I caught a bit of Marvin and Rochelle presenting and can only assume they know deep dark secrets about ITV honchos as I've never seen two presenters sonspectulalrly dull. I think ITV clearly thought they'd be the upcoming R&J of their generation.

Also the fact that they have EXACTLY THE SAME FACE is unbelievably distracting

to think you actually need to be lobotomized to watch This Morning?

PiperChapstick · 13/08/2015 23:22

so spectacularly

Bakeoffcake · 13/08/2015 23:35

Poor Brendan

giraffesCantBrushTheirTeeth · 14/08/2015 00:04

It could get worse - they could have Jezza abortion clinic, Jezza gate crashes random weddings and performs lie detectors on the bride and groom, Jezza conducts a funeral and shouts at members of the congregation about how shit they were to the deceased.

I better shut up - ITV will steal my ideas!

suzannefollowmyvan · 14/08/2015 00:14

I used to love it when it first started, not watched it for years and years though

SinisterBunnyMonth · 14/08/2015 00:19

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derxa · 14/08/2015 16:40

Don't diss HUTH

Rollermum · 14/08/2015 17:04

Piper omg they do have the actual same face!

What's HUTH?

I still watch bits of it when I'm doing chores etc and it really irritates me. It's like the Daily Mail in magazine TV form. I still watch in the hope it will be like the good old Richard and Judy days when I was meant to be revising.

Sometimesjustonesecond · 14/08/2015 18:43

It's always a bonus when somebody not called Lorraine is presenting Lorraine!

thehypocritesoaf · 14/08/2015 18:53

That's the most interesting thing about the show!

Sparklingbrook · 14/08/2015 19:01

Homes Under the Hammer Roller. Quality daytime telly.

I watched Cowboy Builders today with melinda Messenger and Dom 'Conshoomers' Littlewood as I couldn't face those Hume people.
I came to the conclusion that it might be worth having a botch job done and letting those two come and sort it TBH.

Liquoricetwirl · 14/08/2015 19:07

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PiperChapstick · 14/08/2015 19:44

Sparkling I adore Cowboy Builders, except it's always the same scenario.

Sad couple who, TBF have been so very scammed and screwed over that 99% of the time I just expect the house to fall into a pile of rubble around the camera crew. Dom Conshoomers put his cross face on and sets off to find the cowboy while Melinda looks blankly at John the builder for the rest of the programme. She goes to shops and points at £3000 worth of furniture and says "any chance of a freebie?" And the sale assistant sucks his teeth then says "ah go on then" not staged at all and guaranteed every time John the builder explains that "we just can't do it in time Mel, it's not gun-noo 'appen!!" as she explains they've had a "huge setback" because said cowboy builder did something ridiculous like sellotaped foundations in place. Mel ponders gormlessly before she announces "I've drafted in help from a local building firm. For free."

The end result is show home worthy and Mel says "we only spent 57p".

Good programme but they every episode is the bloody same!

Sparklingbrook · 14/08/2015 19:48

That's all so true Piper. She was trying to cadge a free kitchen today. Lots of 'nos' from the horrid kitchen shops. then as if by magic the first 'no' changed their mind and rang back and supplied a £££££ kitchen plus appliances and everything.

Dom Conshoomers was doing an interrogation of a builder in what looked like a police interview.