To ask for your most hated/annoying things that happens in Soaps?

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I started listing these in a "things that annoy you" thread and I thought of so many I thought I'd make my own.

Soaps. I can watch them and be entertained by them but the characters stupidity and predictability in the storylines annoy me sometimes! Let me count the ways:

1. Most people, when having a secret conversation, try to keep things discreet like "don't mention what I told you earlier, ok"? Not in soapland. It's "don't tell anyone that I slept with my ex husband in his new wife's bed last month and now I'm pregnant with his child, ok?" Cut to new wife hiding behind door, listening to everything, plotting revenge.

1. Character claims to be poor and jobless and they are depressed. Next thing you know they're in the bloody pub or at the cafe having some tea and cake. Thought you were skint!?

1. "Have it on the house". I must say I'd love to know where all these friendly freebie-giving establishments are in real life because the only time I've been offered something for free is when I've had a bottle of wine accidentally knocked over me by the waiter. Staff in soap land are always giving stuff away free, even when they've only worked there five minutes!

1. So self-absorbed. (Think of Janine in EastEnders for this scenario). How come is it that she can set someone up for a crime and they are ranting and raving in the Queen Vic as the police bustle them out, screaming abuse at Janine and not one person sees that sly, evil look she always gives and think it suspicious? Also, whilst we're on the subject of Janine (and other baddies) why is it that when someone has seemingly pulled off a crime that is completely out of character for them, and they are blaming Janine, nobody stops to think "Hang on a minute, maybe this character is telling the truth and it actually is Janine, the woman who says and does bitchy and nasty things on a daily basis"?

1. Characters just "decide" they are going to move to America or Australia. Erm, no, you cannot just do that, it takes ages to sort out! And when they do move their whole life fits into one suitcase.

1. "I've got something really important to tell you. Meet me at the pub later". Two things: One: Which pub? What time? Two: Er, no, this really important thing is not waiting until we're at the pub later, you will tell me this instant"!

Please add your own and yes this is lighthearted.

Getting pregnant in a flash if it was unplanned.
Only happily married couples struggle to conceive.

I rarely watch Casualty/Holby because it infuriates me (ex A+E nurse, present theatre nurse) I did see once though a patient rushed from A+E to theatre where the same staff then scrubbed for the very complex procedure! 'twas brilliant. I wish it happened in real life!

People go off on holiday at a moment’s notice, even when they have jobs.

It's not just soaps who have disappearing babies - has anyone ever actually laid eyes on Bernadette and Howard's baby in the Big Bang theory? She gave birth, brandished a car seat a few times, (always turned away from the camera), and then - poof - baby Hallie vanished. I suspect Stuart.

Always leaving the pregnancy test in a prominent place, or dropping their bag so that it rolls out.

Or putting it at the top of the kitchen bin, or in the flimsiest bin bag ever that splits spilling the contents plus test for the person who is the last person the pregnant person wants to see it does so

The Barlows do have a very nice front too, Blance used to sleep/live in there. When Kevin and Sally lived in their first house together on the street they used their front room, it had a hatch through to the dining room where 'the girls' ate their fishfinger tea.

Everyone gets really excited about Christmas even though it usually results in a tragic death.

I used to enjoy soaps but gave up after I couldn’t get excited about weddings because I knew they wouldn’t last 5 minutes, nor pregnancies as they’d result in tragedy or the baby not being seen again until they returned 18 years later shooting people. I wonder how many times Kat and Alfie have split up and got back together in the 10+ years since I stopped watching Eastenders.
It might have changed now, but a lot of young people used to do clothes shopping at the market; I don’t know anyone who does that in real life.

In Neighbours some distant relative would appear in the street and settle there years after their relative had left and therefore no connections to the place.

I had to give up the soaps. Everything mentioned above really started bothering me. I spent the whole time saying "that's not realistic"

Sound proof curtains round the bed in Holby. Said curtains are only ever used for secret conversations or snogs, never for, you know, patient privacy

Abdo pain? Don’t bother your gp. Simply rock up clutching your belly at the ward of your choice where you vaguely know a member of staff and you’ll be admitted immediately, given a raft of tests, the results of which will be back within the hour, diagnosis, cure, goodbye! No months of traipsing back and forth to the gp/outpatients appointments/cameras/tablets etc.

How everyone in Corrie has to either be gay or toying with the idea. How the roads need to be full of diversity. How the writers have obviously never set foot in a church but write about the services anyway. How no one has ax boring life

When people are upset they go and sit outside. In the square, or near the chippy on coronation st. Even when its freezing. Even though their house is 20 steps away.

'I rarely watch Casualty/Holby because it infuriates me grin (ex A+E nurse, present theatre nurse) I did see once though a patient rushed from A+E to theatre where the same staff then scrubbed for the very complex procedure! shock 'twas brilliant. I wish it happened in real life!'

On soaps like 'Grey's Anatomy', they bring the patient into the theatre for a complex and dramatically life-threatening procedure requiring GA, where they sob and be dramatic before going under with no sedation. Yah, right, and they never wake up sparko or disoriented or trying to rip everything out and get up (I had what was supposed to be a minor knee op under region block that didn't work, but was still very sedated, so they knocked me out and it turned out needing to be over an hour long - I don't remember, of course - but apparently after being brought round, then tried to get up and leave. I just heard, "No,' and then don't remember anything else for the next couple of hours).

And someone new moves into an area where they know not one person and they immediately make lots of friends.

I always like when they go somewhere to sit and be upset even if it’s a public place it’s always always deserted except for them and the person who comes and finds them.

How no one in Eastenders has a washing machine!! Although now the launderette is closed who knows where they put their soiled garments....? It also really gets me how someone who works on a market stall in East London can afford the rent on a 3/4 bedroom terrace and pay for 4 kids and a wife who doesn't work (because of the kids). Maybe the rent is low in Walford due to the insane amount of murders/affairs/bad luck. Also, getting married? Don't expect any of your family to show up, they'll suddenly become unwell and far too poorly to travel from Milton Keynes.

People have tragedy after tragedy pile up yet never have counselling or any sort of mental health related treatment.

Miscarriages of justice!

Innocent people get banged up on the flimsiest of evindence, while the real villains could walk about with "I done it" on their foreheads and not even get arrested, never mind convicted.

When the Carla Connor rape story was going on I swore I'd never watch Corrie again if the guy got away with it - it just sent such a negative message and it would have been nice to actually see the Weatherfiled police get it right for once. But no, the Keystone Kops are more competent!

I kept my word, never watched it since.

And so often, if the characters would just talk to one another, instead of 'I'll tell you later' or correct a misunderstanding when the other person says 'I don't wanna hear it' or the like... many, many storylines could be avoided.

'People have tragedy after tragedy pile up yet never have counselling or any sort of mental health related treatment.'

Sadly, that's pretty common in real life, too.

The fact that they are made and given airtime on my TV

I hate how there will be the soap lawyer (who does everything from criminal to property to drafting a will) or the soap doctor (who will be a regular GP but will then get stuck in to perform a heart bypass or something). Also, the soaps also get the law or medicine (and I'm sure many other professions) massively wrong. How hard is it for them to just speak to a real life lawyer or doctor and ask what would happen?

I also hate how medical problems are just forgotten about after an episode or two. Like if there's an eating disorder storyline, the person will be on death's door within a few episodes, there will be the big moment when everyone works out what's going on and confronts the person, then by the next episode it's all forgotten about and that person's fit and healthy .

Why do they always shop in the convenience shop's (minute mart/freshco) they is well expensive!
Nobody goes to a proper supermarket.
Nobody owns a washing machine on 'The square' the launderette has long gone, where are they washing their clothes?

LegallyBrunet. Sorry to be pedantic but whether a surgical registrar is Mr/Ms or Dr depends on whether they have passed their Fellowship exams for the Royal College of Surgeons. If they have then they are certainly called Mr/Ms while at registrar grade.

Hanging up the phone without saying bye.

There is rarely any cars parked on Coronation street, despite the fact there is hardly any drives or car parks.