Knob throttlers form an orderly queue at Blossom Hill Cottage! Discuss the Archers on the Official Thread

[PseudoBadger]

Do you know that I was 3 months pregnant when the first thread started - DD was 2 yesterday

That must also mean that Poppy Grundy's 2nd birthday has passed by unremarked upon...

[Toomuchtea]

Probably actually none of them. Some of my job involves teaching people with very good degrees from very good universities how to use the apostrophe. And the comma. And the capital letter.

And for that reason I was really underwhelmed by the characterisation of the Grundys as the apostrophe misusers. Cheap shot.

Badly done, SOC, badly done.

[elephantoverthehill]

I was really hoping that Joe would get the apostrophe right to show up the young whipper snappers.

[BYOSnowman]

Me too elephants!

[EBearhug]

I were an Archers SW I would get rather a lot of enjoyment out of enraging millions of Radio 4 listeners.

What are they distracting us from? They know we'll have got enraged about the apostrophe abuse, so what did they sneak through while that was happening?

[SevenOhTwo]

at swede trousers with turnips, and 'Badly done, SOC, badly done'

I've actually confused myself with the apostrophes - I googled Grundys' Turkeys, hoping some poor over-infested soul out there had been channelling Emmur and had put together a lovely website with George giggling at turkeys and the 400 year history of the illustrious turkey empire. No such luck, but Google says to me, " did you mean Grundy's' Turkeys? " which perplexed me.

Luckily I got a phone call, which distracted me from getting caught up on the British Goose Producers' site (linked as they cited their mention on TA) and finding out rather too much about gosling rearing and so on…

[elephantoverthehill]

It may be the SW got it wrong about the apostrophe. I am now worried to post what it should be, in case I get it wrong. Here goes- The Grundies' turkeys. Is that correct oh knowledgeable posters?

[elephantoverthehill]

Sevenohtwo got in whilst I was considering the apostrophes. There should be no ies on the end of Grud. I am sorry

[elephantoverthehill]

*Grund

[Gruach]

They really should have plumped for "The Grundy Turkey". Weightier, cooler, more 21st century. Something to aspire to.

So, when Rob snatches the upcycled rug from under Fallon's feet, by preventing her from continuing the cafe contract, Emma will be up slurry creek as well?

[PseudoBadger]

Title ideas?

[Gruach]

Badly done, Helen. Badly done. We are so disappointed in you ...

[vixsatis]

"Badly done, Helen, badly done".

I'm now beginning to worry about Mr Knightley and Emma

[Gruach]

Is this what you mean vixatis? From The Jane Austen Society of North America:

A DISTURBING PATTERN EXISTS in Austen’s portrayal of romantic relationships in her novels, the significance of which is difficult to discern. A young woman of intelligent, creative mind, personal resourcefulness and energy sets off on a heroine’s adventure; by the end of her story, a man of superior wisdom and either superior age, income, or both, has worn her into submission. She has lost a significant part of her former charm—her dynamic self-assurance—and been transformed into the conventional subservient wife represented by secondary female characters in her story. What appears on the surface to be a Bildungsroman of a woman’s growth and character development seems to be, at its core, an account of the gradual degeneration of her ego-integrity. Think of Henry Tilney purging Catherine Morland of her silly imagination in Northanger Abbey; Colonel Brandon guiding and protecting a chastened Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility; and Darcy shaming Elizabeth Bennet out of confidence in her own judgment and awing her with his wealth in Pride and Prejudice. Why does Austen seem to kill her heroines’ verve in marriage? Why does she choose husbands for her heroines who are more like fathers than lovers? Austen’s association of love with paternity is nowhere more prevalent than in Emma.

[Gruach]

Link to article above.

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

Fascinating. Without wanting to derail the thread, off the top of my head I'd say that Persuasion breaks the mould.

[enochroot]

Would we develop a collective nervous tic if the new thread title contained some misplaced apostrophes's?

[Minimammoth]

I like 'Grund' as a statement of value. 'Our turkeys have more Grund than any other'. Our turkeys have the Grund factor.

[R4]

Title: Preparations for The Day of the Dead in Ambridge, featuring half a herd of cattle and Hellin's marriage.

But 'badly done' gets my vote.

[BoreOfWhabylon]

She is going to be Badly Done Hellin for me now - makes me think of Badly Drawn Boy

[SmallLegsOrSmallEggs]

"Do you get your Grundys in a twist over apostrophes? The Archers thread is the place for you."

Now I am wondering though, in that case, should it be Grundies? (Seeing as it isn't undys)

I thought the apostrophe sl was not having a particular dig at the Grundys but rather pointing out it is depressingly common - as demonstrated by the chester draws thread just now.

[SmallLegsOrSmallEggs]

Italic fail
Do you get your Grundys in a twist over apostrophes? The Archers thread is the place for you.

[BertrandRussell]

But Knightly was right about Emma-practically everything she did was bad,y done!

What about Emma Thompson and Hugh Grant I mean Elinor and Edwqrd?

[trevortrevorslatterfry]

This confused and then amused me on my facebook feed this morning

BOOP

[ppeatfruit]

I knew as soon as I L.A. just now there would be uproar over the Grundys' grammar on here (haha). Brilliant shot by the script writers

Bertrand Are you forgetting that the modern feminists don't think a WOMAM can be at fault AT ALL even if she was a fictional character at the beginning of the 19 or late 18th century? [ducks flames )

Enochroot getting someone sectioned nowadays is impossible, unless they've deliberately killed many people and are permanently frothing at the mouth or rolling about the place, also more likely to be a man !!

[enochroot]

ppeatfruit Is it 'diminished mental capacity' that he will maybe seek to prove?
I had thought sectioning could be used for someone likely to be a danger to themselves or others.