To be fucking sick of working class people screaming

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We get it, Coronation Street. Working class people show their midriffs and scream, but ars all right really FUCK OFF.

OP you picked on the wrong programme - it should be Eastenders. WHatever they are meant to convey i don't care but the screaming hurts my ears. Wince if i leave it on by accident. Vile. Like jeremy kyle in motion. Literally offensive the constant wailing.

What are you talking about? On something this evening!

I can't stand Jeremy Kyle for this very same reason

If you think TV soaps are bad, cop an earful of The Archers.
If you are working class you are thick, gossipy or a criminal.

Mind you the middle classes don't come over too well either.

Short hand for the chavviest of the chavs on EE?
Brahn kid, particularly when plonked in the middle of two white ones.
No need for slowly introducing complicated back stories when mixed race kid = gobby slapper.

Haven't seen EE for years - last time I saw it Kat's baby was stolen.

Who cares? Sometimes the business owner millionaires shout. The high flying lawyers shout. The single mum shouts. Sometimes none of them shout. They all have good times. Sometimes it's very funny.
Get a grip

BishBoshBashBop what do you mean?

I long for the days of Dynasty and Falcon Crest

"Sometimes the business owner millionaires shout"

I think you're over-estimating the new worth of the Connors. Especially now the factory roof is AWOL

"The high flying lawyers shout"

That's seriously over-estimating the acumen of Wolverine and Todd

"The single mum shouts"

Possibly - though when she (Maria) tried to rip off Eve's wedding dress in a fountain it was much more entertaining.

"Working class" are they the people that watch soap operas?

"Working class" are they the people that watch soap operas?

Quite possibly a proportion of the viewers are, but that's not really relevant to how on-screen characters display class stereotypes is it?

God I miss Brookside. That was so good, working class shouting and all.

Brookside is the only soap I ever watched. I like Scouse accents and the Grants.

I'm not sure the OP deserves it, but to take it seriously, Coronation Street's creator Tony Warren deserves to be lauded for his portrayal of women as strong characters to be admired rather than slatterns, gossipy charwomen or 'tarts with a heart' - the default portrayal of the working class woman at the time. He saw women as the driving force in everyday life in Britain - hard-working, feisty, determined, family-oriented - and by gum [it's okay, I'm Northern and I can say that] he did a grand job.

His legacy continues to this day and long may it continue. Do not denigrate his achievement.

OP I'm not sure what you're banging on about. I can't hear the message over the apparently WC shouting at the end

Spot on ChinkChink. I think Corrie has a good spread of types, including Gemma. She's a gobby kid who sells kebabs. More depth by far tha EE, plus no Danny Dyer. Now there's a real stereotype!

Watch the News, much more interesting. Lits of screaming if you're lucky

Chink

I heard in a documentary that he wanted the women portrayed as realistic Lancashire women, they are much different than Cheshire or Yorkshire women.
The women in Lancs are said to rule the nest.

YY Gran 22. I stopped watching EE 20 years ago. Full of cockernee wide boys, stereotypically swerving the law with a Dick van Dyke stylee wink to camera. I've no doubt the vast majority of East End families do not resemble this lot [as I recall the portrayals] in any way whatsoever.

The Beeb, unfortunately, failed to emulate Corra in its gritty portrayals, based in truth and experience.

The other thing that put me off The Soaps was that everyone was clad in full-on makeup. Not just stage/actore make-up, but full-on and I first noticed it with Corrie. Ok - in real life there's a 'put your face on' for a special but seriously not to pop down your local on a Tuesday afternoon?

And hardly anyone centralizes community life round the local pub now anyway - bits of it yes, but not as the pointe centrale.

Fucking Middle-class Soap script writers really need to go live life more and the producers of this shite.

very few people actually live their lives in a constant screaming argument

You should come to.my house my estate is full of it. No need to watch the soaps, i can just look out of the window.
It's actually kicking off as I type.
Someone is shouting and screaming about a "crack head and he's shouting back "you think you're fucking hard?!"

The thing is...im not even joking. This is a regular occurrence.

AIBU to think we even regard a class system in this day & age?

What exactly makes you privy to each class? Red Brick Uni verses old Polytechnic? Working in a factory? Eating at McDonalds? Not cooking your children meals fresh each night with foods picked by virgin nuns?

By career I'm Middle Class if not Upper Middle Class. But honestly in today's age I don't see how one can possibly ascertain class, as it's archaic.

I think ChinkChink is correct about the history of the show, but is wrong to extrapolate that to what the show is like today.

I really do not think that female characters are well written now, and many the storylines are issues-driven, not character driven.

Having a good past does not make you immune from present criticism. And Corrie has been using a lot of lazy stereotyping and cardboard characters of late, and that OP's description of the screaming is a fair one.

I'd rather see the Corrie of old, with well-written, multi-dimensional characters, than the current repetitive storylines (mainly about male criminals)

That is the problem. They aren't strong women. They are screaming women. Every word.

There are no existing female characters on that soap who are 'strong' - sad, really.