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cod on this verity woman

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FluffyMummy123 · 07/10/2007 20:42

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AitchyBabesHugz2AllUHunnis · 07/10/2007 20:44
  1. Do you have a BARB box?
2. If not, they don't know you're watching.
ConnorTraceptive · 07/10/2007 20:45

I haven't watched it either and noone in RL has asked me if I have either.

Sheherazadethegoat · 07/10/2007 20:45

did we really need this twice?

lapsedrunner · 07/10/2007 20:46

What's a BARB box?

TwigorTreat · 07/10/2007 20:46

would we be talking about ourselves in the third person again dear

Snaf · 07/10/2007 20:47
  1. I know lots of people in RL who watched it.

  1. I know lots of people who give/gave a shit, for a variety of reasons.

  2. I give a shit becasue I work with vulnerable/worried/nervous new mums every day and this kind of bollocks is completely undermining to them.

  3. I don't give a toss if audience figures go up. In fact, I want audience figures to go up (you and me both, eh Daisy?) because no-one watching that woman could possibly agree with her, and that will make my job a lot easier, quite frankly.

AitchyBabesHugz2AllUHunnis · 07/10/2007 20:48

some people have them fitted, it's how they scale up the viewing figures. the govt aren't actually checking what we all watch on telly...

TwigorTreat · 07/10/2007 20:48

have to say I don't know anyone in rl who has watched it, nor has it featured in any conversation I have had over the last fortnight (nor did I watch it)

or should that be

have to say Twig doesn't know anyone in rl... da-da-d-a-da-da-daaa

MorticiasMother · 07/10/2007 20:49

I didn't watch it either. Don't like watching other peoples brats.

Flamesparrow · 07/10/2007 20:50

"1. i dint watch it as i KNEW id find it annoying

2 you lot di and do

  1. oyu lot talk abotu it a lot and get very angry

  2. i dont knwo anyoen in rl who has watched it

  3. no one in r giev sa shit

6 yo lot rant nad rave adn so i think "hmm maybe i SHOUDL have wathced it"

  1. audeince figures go UP

  2. whose laughing now"

Same here (although with actual real words )

roisin · 07/10/2007 20:51

I aint watched it
I aint gonna watch it

barbamama · 07/10/2007 20:52

posted this on another thread :

I tell you what, they are talking rubbish about only middle class mothers on Mumsnet caring about this - unlike the GF thing and all the other issues this is the first and only one that I have heard almost as much about in RL as I have here. I have been astounded at the number of (unprompted from me) comments I have got from people about CV and Bringing Up Baby - from my Mother to the staff at my sons Nursery to the lady in the corner shop! All of them negative and many of them from people who have never been near the internet in their lives.

Do people watch tv where you live ?

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FluffyMummy123 · 07/10/2007 20:53

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oops · 07/10/2007 20:56

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Sheherazadethegoat · 07/10/2007 20:57

actually i haven't heard anyone mention it in real life. i did watch the first one, mainly so i could really enjoy the rows on mumsnet. i can't watch anymore - not because of the extreme cruelty inflicted on the wee bairns - but because it is just really crap and predictable.

MorticiasMother · 07/10/2007 20:57

It was on a Sat night? Do people really sit in a watch other people's brats on a Sat night?

Get a DVD for crying out loud! (see the pun there!)

Snaf · 07/10/2007 20:59

No, it's on a Tuesday.

Don't know about anyone else, but Saturday night I reserve for pulling on my jogging bottoms and prowling the nitespots of Chelsea looking for Mick Jagger (or Keith, if I'm really pressed for time...)

barbamama · 07/10/2007 21:00

It was on a tuesday wasn't it? you must have seen the repeat as I was out clubbing on the Saturday after my helicopter piloting lessons (yeah right). You're right though, it is crap viewing for many different reasons, not sure if I will bother anymore.

More importantly, I wonder if anyone will buy Daisy Goodwin's book?

marthamoo · 07/10/2007 21:02

I didn't watch it but I have had a RL conversation about it - as in with Real People. Thanks to MN I knew what they were talking about

krazykoolkazza · 08/10/2007 00:27

How refreshing to find this thread.

Demonstrable evidence that there are mothers amongst us (and even on a site like this) who can have a bit of perspective on the subject of "Bringing Up Baby".

It's a bloody television programme ffs!

No children have been abused. They're all still alive and kicking, are quite happy and so are their parents so why the hell should everyone here be up on their high horses about it?

My advice; get over it; get a life and get on with it or, alternatively, find something worthwhile to exercise yourselves over.

AitchyBabesHugz2AllUHunnis · 08/10/2007 00:36

pmsl at the new cod and krazykoolkazza alliance. oh, yeah, you two are soul sisters.

screamsprout · 08/10/2007 01:08

Cod, you are not particularly interested in baby stuff anyway as you are past that stage.

AitchyBabesHugz2AllUHunnis · 08/10/2007 01:13

yes, but the fact that she is not interested must not deter her from a pronouncement...

minorityrules · 08/10/2007 01:33

another refreshed person here

I don't get the hysteria, This was how many many many children were raised and they aren't all suffering from mental health issues

Ok it isn't the kindest way and we most people don't want to raise their babies this way and t isn't wise in light of current cot death advice, but it seems to have gone a bit mad on here

I don't know anyone in real life that watched it either (other than me but I watch all things baby related)

hunkermunker · 08/10/2007 01:37

Lots are suffering from mental health issues though.

And even the women on the programme who were '50s mums said it wasn't kind but they felt they had to do it like that.

And I'm not sure that "so it's not wise in light of cot death guidelines" is something to be glossed over so lightly either - if everyone did as Claire Verity wants, many more babies would die as a result. I can't gloss over that and nor should anybody else.

Most people I know watched it and want to talk about it.