Thefts, arson and abuse: The Archers - it's an everyday story of cuntery, folks.

[PseudoBadger]

Thanks to Lancelottie for the title

Seek Helen would make a good Carol (we will ignore the poor woman who shacks up with the Governor and whose daughter gets nibbled).

Sorry for thread derail.

Oh no, Helen is not Carol. At all.

Finding it hard to articulate why. I'm a bit pissed tipsy for reasons that are not mine to tell but are totally bloody marvellous!

Looks like we've had 268 posts in the past twenty four hours, which doesn't touch the Kirsty/Tom wedding which generated 329 in a day. And I don't think any other recent 24h has spiked that much. What has been remarkable recently is the persistently high rate of posting over many days.

Oh I don't know. I can see Helen as crazy-ruthless-kill-fluey-people-in-their-sleep type.

And the delurkers! It's lovely to see them all

You all have to stay now. Tis the law.

But glad you've had some good news, BitOut.

Here --->

3D I know for a fact you're not him, but all your spreadsheets and data make me think of my DH.

Many moons ago, he kept a similar track of things on a thread we were both on in a different forum/website... And that's how we met, on that thread. :-)

I feel old. I don't think websites really existed when I first met my wife (and spreadsheets were pretty rudimentary too).

I suggested the phone from Kirsty on the Hut construction thread (Thu 17-Mar-16 21:52:41). I think I am totally overinfvested in this storyline...

But, sorry, that's a lovely story: it warms my heart to hear that a spreadsheet helped bring two people together.

Towel marking, not listened to today's yet and a bit worried to now, I think will be needed for it!

I think I am totally overinfvested in this storyline... - well, you're in good company here then!

glowfrog that sounds nicely geeky

Am i weird that I actually know lots of couples that have been brought together by similar kinds of things?

DH and I got together by discussing Dasher at a party where we were the only non-lawyers in the room...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher_%28software%29

Horrible listening today I really hope that this is getting towards a resolution soon.

DadDadDad, if it makes you feel any better, we got together by fax.

Tried and failed to explain that one to the kids.

We wrote letters to each other - yes, those paper things you put a stamp on and wait to pass through the postal system; no, we didn't write using a quill.

Never used letters, but I do get the thrill of (not so) early romances every time I start up talk

Does anyone else get the sense that, all over the country, people are bracing themselves and gritting their teeth at 7.02 pm in anticipation of whatever horrors are to come?

DH and I conducted our early courting during office hours (where the computers were) via the exciting new medium of email - I think he was the only other person I knew with an account. It was terribly exciting in 1997. I have them all saved on a floppy somewhere so effectively irretrievable

I am just thinking :-
What does Dr Lock know?
Why Rob not go for full adoption rather than lesser step parent?

Pine email client (which I still use on rare occasions from the data centre.) And IRC (which I still use daily at work.) Why are we talking about my daily work antiquated Unix programs anyway?

Anyway... we don't know why Rob didn't go for adoption, but we assume it is because it's a more involved process than getting parental responsibility, with more background checks, and there's something in Rob's past (like a conviction for assault or rape or something), which he'd rather not have to talk about. Because obviously it would all have been a big misunderstanding and he's not actually guilty and he was driven to it, because he's not a monster, darling.

I'm awake with the lurgy and had a fever induced Archers dream earlier.

In my dream I was Jess Titchener and (in a plot nicked from a Nicci French novel) Helen and I faked my death and framed Knob for it.

We had help from Usha and it worked a treat.

I'll go back to bed now the Lemsip seems to be kicking in.

EBearhug I think it was attempts to out-geek glowfrog. I use Alpine all the time; unfortunately the only person I know/want to talk to who uses IRC is DH, and i use talk with him if not actually talking to him, so I kind of have no reason to use IRC!

Top marks for Easter egg prediction too!

I wonder if they will have Helen telephoning Jess tonight for their Friday cliffhanger?