Archers - why the f...

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..does Ruraidh have an irish accent?????????

Not only is Roooooray's accent unbelievable Oirish but it also sounds really broad Dublin so not in keeping with his Mama's international lifestyle (complete with "Hungarian translations" eh Brine ). The artichoke thing is bizarre and dull. Tis obvious that Kenton is going to bugger off with Kirsty. I do sort of feel sorry for Kathy but she doesn't help herself. I wish Clarrie was my next door neighbour though. She is so nice and non-judgey

My choice of murder victim would be Susan or Alice (spoilt rotten little madam)

I'd like it to be Bert or failing that Susan, but I fear it will be Nik at the hands of increasingly psycho Will (he sounds darker and darker every appearance - what is it with The Archers and Gamekeepers?) The premise will be him getting delusionally jealous at her becoming a popular local barmaid. I wonder if Paddy Power will take my bet?

Any chance that it will be a mass rampage?
At present Will with his shotgun could probably take out Ed, Emmer, any bloke in pub who has looked at Nic. I suspect that the Lillian/Paul/Mat triangle storyline may return - so chance of violence there. Also Helen who is almost certainly bonkers and is either having a phantom pregnancy or will go for infanticide when pfb cries.
And Will on his shotgun rampage could spray a few shots in the direction of Vicky, Shula, Jenny, Susan, Cathy, Ruuuth ...

What happened to Peter Perfect who was lodging at the Bull so he could play cricket? Was it Harry? Wouldnt he be the prime suspect in a mass killing?

The artichokes made it into the Guardian yesterday.

I would love to be in the archers. Unfortunately with my accent I would be doomed to criminality or at least goldigging.

Me too, MrsD - or a figure of fun for the PLUs to make cats-bum comments about.

Jennifer would think me 'simply dreadful'.

LadyBiscuit, every time I listen to the Archers atm I think of you. And then I curse myself for getting sucked in and basically turning into my MIL before I'm even married

Icould be in the Archers as i sound like Jazzer .Olivers voice drives me batty so does Jennifers and Cathys and Jolenes and oh the list is endless..loving this thread

cyteen - I am soooo not your MIL :o

It was my flatmate when I was 21 who got me into it - a load of ex-art students, sitting around hungover on Sunday mornings, making breakfast!

It's hilarious listening to the appalling Sooooooosan preening herself about the new, exalted circles she and Moike are going to be moving in, while JennyDarling is resorting to the smelling-salts over the horror of being related to Horrobins. A very clever touch to get Chris'n'Alice hitched (although I can't bear Alice's chuckly, drawly voice and have to crash around the kitchen to drown it out when she speaks).

At least it's a bit of light relief from the unbearable mad Helen and her lunatic pregnancy master-plan....not to mention the widow Cathy and her increasingly bonkers insistence on Sid's saintliness. As far as I remember he was rather a nasty piece of work. She'll be petitioning the Pope to have him beatified soon, you mark my words....

Just listen to the omnibus.

I have changed my mind. Jennifer wouldnt think I was dreadful.

I would be 'ghastly'

Poor woman having to sit in that pokey house and mix with the hoi poloi. I bet they even had 'serviettes' and said 'pardon'

Its simply the last straw for Jenny, it really is.

i expect the Carters hold their knives like pens too

wtf IS WITH THE ARTICHOKES?

bugger capslock.

Jenny is losing it a bit.

mind you, lets just see how long this marriage lasts with the revolting Alice at university...surrounded by Appropriate Boys.

Soosan is just begging to be put out of her misery with an AK47.

I'm not sure who was the most annoying between Susan and Jennifer. I'd cheerfully drown both of them in packet-mix hollandaise.

I don't think that Kenton will go off with Kirsty, though. I don't think she's thick enough to fall for his Disco Stu act. But I do reckon he'll make a drunken pass at her, Kathy will find out and boot him out just in time for Christmas.

Still, let's look on the plus side. I haven't heard anything from Shula for ages so it's not all bad...

Oh Kathy is just dying to find an excuse to be the wounded wife again. Its her role in life, like Jenny's is to be the perfect mother, totally sacrificing her life for the sake of her children (and her husband's dead lover's child etc).

I want Alice to have a honeymoon baby and call it Jaidon Kyle Addidas Carter.

(disclaimer - I have children and nephews with those names, apart from Addidas but I do have a nephew with the middle name Nike)

Jenny can just about cope with her other hidous child because she is a bohemian feckless nightmare and the black man she married is educated and South African.

If he was called D'Antey and his mum lived on an estate, now that would be feckin hilarious

Mwah ha ha...

Is Nigel a new Nigel? Haven't listened for a while, but he sounds different to me...

gosh no...same actor

Is it just me or does anyone else find Nigel and 'Lizzy' a completely unconvincing couple? They talk to each other like business partners, not people who've ever swapped bodily fluids! And Nigel is such a stuffed shirt.....'Gosh, Lizzy. Pargeters have ALWAYS gone away to school. It's A Tradition that goes back 400 years. Yes, I know I was flogged daily with stinging-nettles by the prefects, but it was jolly character-forming. And it was simply lovely coming back to Lower Loxley to be looked after by Nanny for the hols.'
'Lizzy': 'Oh Nigel, I don't want them to go away from home.' [coughs meaningfully and puts hand to chest] 'It would be so upsetting for me.'
Nigel: 'Gosh, Lizzy. You do have a dodgy ticker, don't you? Okay then! We won't send them away.'
'Lizzy': 'Oh Nigel! Super!'
[Cue dum-de-dum-de-dum-de-dum...]

I reckon emma's going to lose the baby or something and it will be because of artichoke poisoning.

Really annoys me how they've made Will so dark - I mean he had good reason to be ever so slightly annoyed with ednemmur but its all forgotten by everyone else.

agree with you there salteena - very strange-almost formal

She is a spoilt brat. She married him because he will let her do anything she wants.

She was soooo annoying when Pip was being a nightmare. Bloody know it all - wait till she has teenagers. Ha ha ha!

Can someone explain how this wedding has come about?

Surely if she's off to college they'll only each other at weekends for sex, but since they were brazenly romping under Jennifer's nose (dressing gowns at lunchtime? - Ew!), I don't see why they feel the need to be hitched at this stage in in their lives.

I've obviously missed some crucial episodes - will get back in the routine of listening while loading the dishwasher after the hols.

Alice and Christopher went off on a holiday driving across the USA, stopped off in Las Vegas and decided to get hitched in some Chapel of Love, thus leading to endless scenes of Jenny wrinkling up her nose in disgust (as well as one can do that on radio) and Susan looking forward to getting into Borsetshire high society.

And if Alice says hubby or moons over him much more well I may just vomit.

Ah, I see .

Quite funny, actually, but I bet they they put the 'funny' bits in quotation marks, as usual.