The Archers #109: Pulp Fiction! Hammer Horror (Tracy), Carry On (Brian & Neil), Call the Midwife (Adam, Ian, Lexi) - but no political thrillers, Ambridge remains Brexit-free. Nitpick here!

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Thank you, @PseudoBadger, for kicking off this long, long series of Archers threads.

All views on The Archers welcome here! New blood welcomed. We don't all agree on all points and most of us are posting tongue in cheek a lot of the time, so don't worry about revealing that you'd like to be Susan's best friend or other unusual views. grin

Spoilers: not on this thread, please. We don't wait for the omnibus to discuss the weeknight episodes, but we do try our best to avoid cross-contamination from www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/3439443-keep-it-to-yourself-the-archers-spoilers-thread-4, where spoilers are positively welcomed!

For newer listeners, lurkers or those who just have no idea what we're talking about, @DadDadDad has created this useful thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/3557323-For-Archers-fans-a-guide-to-acronyms-on-the-long-running-discussion-threads-and-any-other-meta-thread-questions-you-may-have BOOP point for him! (See thread for explanation.)

Thanks to Bucking Frolics and LillianGish for the title ideas, which I had to edit down a bit to get under the character limit.

I wonder if Lily will have gone back to Manchester by the time we've filled this thread.

Actually, Quater, Blix Farbowajj of Betelgeuse 3 is now going to move in to the house, so that's one sentient being who was glad Em n Ed missed out. #ArchersSciFiMashup

Can't we have a Bobby Ewing in the shower moment where Emma awakes in her bedroom in Beechwood and realises the past few weeks were just a bad dream.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that one of the Horrobin or Grundy clan will have a big win on the scratch cards/Lottery.

The Archers is too depressing at the moment.

Could we have a Bobby Ewing moment where Pip wasn't born instead?

I went in search of your reference DDD,
and found this:

Do all of this in extreme mode
First way: Go to outskirts facility in old south and spawn at the entrance. Kill the 3 bots to open up the door. Continue down the hallway and take the first left into a room on the side. In this room there will be 4 handgun drones. Kill them then simply fast travel to the beginning and start over.
Second way: Go to the Forgotten Forest. Spawn at the temple ruins located to the far East. Kill everything there. The enemy that will drop the Betelgeuse is the flying drones. To spawn them go back to the temple you spawned at and go to the left side of it. Doing this will spawn only the drones back up and you can continue this farm.

Which all seems like excellent advice for Emma.

Dad3 - did you hear Rory the Nice Tory saying "me and Amber" on R4 today?

This thread is superior to TA for entertainment, I must say. I'd like a thread about this thread please.

Quater - Blix Farbowajj was made up for that post, although I'm not going to deny the clear Hitchhikers influence at work...

Oliphant - I do maintain that perfectly well-spoken people sometimes use "Me and X" in the subject of the sentence and most of the time it feels unremarkable (except to hyper-vigilant pedants).

Bucking - I've been a one-man industry of threads about these threads (eg the thread linked in the OP plus this one still waiting for its happy ending: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/3510091-ONE-HUNDRED-NOT-OUT-come-here-to-mark-The-Archers-threads-a-MN-phenomenon ).

Blix Farbowajj was made up for that post
I was sad enough to google said sentient nonbeing and disappeared down a rabbit hole of Polish hair-dyeing.

SW1 - “that went well, a new character smoothly introduced to allow lots of amusing townie vs country bumpkin conflict”.

SW2 - “yes, new characters will let us drop all those unresolved plot lines without anyone noticing.”

Intern - “I wish this was just a summer job not a sandwich year”.

QuaterMiss I only wish Emma had got the house so she’d STOP GOING ON ABOUT IT!

I only wish Emma had got the house so she’d STOP GOING ON ABOUT IT!
I wanted her to get the house so the dream would crumble into dust as the financial reality hit home and she realised that it was a millstone. She would still GO ON ABOUT IT but merely change the focus of her moaning.

I want to know what all these things are that Emma has done for Ambridge that she keeps on going on about. I can't think of a single thing she has ever done for Ambridge, and precious few she has ever done that were not for Emma, either directly or indirectly. I will cheerfully agree that she works her fingers to the bone or her heart out or whatever the cliché was that she used about it, but memory tells me that it is always for money or her children.

She helps look after Joe. She does a lot of childcare for other people, Will and Helen in particular. She is a parish councillor. She usually helps out at village fayre and other ambridge events. Didnt she organise the karate, although Lee may not thank her for that.

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I do maintain that perfectly well-spoken people sometimes use "Me and X" in the subject of the sentence and most of the time it feels unremarkable (except to hyper-vigilant pedants).

I made a comment about Phoebe using a turn of phrase that I did not think was in character. It was my opinion, just as it is others’ opinion that Pip is annoying, or Tracey is badly-written, or the storylines about mortgages are technically unrealistic. Is it really in the spirit of these boards for you to continue to slap me down with snide insults just because you disagree?

And before you say it was just a statement of fact, I do believe that you used “pedant” as an insult in the comment above.

She only joined the parish council so she could get her house! I wonder if Joe is going to Win Big at the Flower & Produce and die in his bed at Grange Farm. That would be a fitting tribute I reckon.

I still think Emma will eventually get her house, maybe when Joy sells up and moves back to wherever that was. Cripes she was boring.

Also, can anyone help me out here? When Brookfield was nearly split by the New Road, wasn't there a scene where Jill was wanging on about when she first moved to the farm and it was birds and bees and wild flowers as far as the eye could see? Have I imagined that? Just wondering if that was some very long foreshadowing of ReWilding!

Joy confused me. I thought she was Welsh when she first spoke to Neil but then she said she was from Newcastle.

Emma is being a martyr about the house but her frustration is understandable.

@ArgumentativeAardvark - I'm really sorry if that came across as a slap-down of you or anyone else. I was merely responding to someone who recalled that previous debate, not aiming a remark at anyone in particular.

I consider myself a pedant, so I certainly don't use it as an insult. In fact, reading it back, it's obvious that adding "hyper-vigilant" sounds like a dig, but in fact I don't mean it to be - so, sorry again. I try to limit my pedantic tendencies (eg to critiquing my own writing), and not worry about slips in spontaneous speech, but I appreciate some are more vigilant to these things and react strongly to grammatical errors.

I value the way these threads do have a friendly spirit, so I hope you'll accept the above as a gesture to restore that spirit?

Thank you DDD. As the person who started the debate that you were recalling I did feel it was a dig squarely aimed at me, with the sub-text that the subject should never have been raised, but I’m happy to hear you say that was not your intention.

By the way, I would not describe myself as someone who “reacts strongly to grammatical errors”! There is a huge difference between pedantically correcting or criticising the speaker/author of a statement (rude and rarely-appropriate) and making an observation about the way a fictional character speaks. I feel it should be possible to do the latter without being accused/suspected of having an attack of the vapours in real life every time someone says “less” when they should have said “fewer”!

Thanks, AA - I agree with your last statement, so I'm happy to move on. We just need to keep an eye on that troublemaker, Oliphant...

Oh Joy! Another new character.

I still think Emma will eventually get her house, maybe when Joy sells up and moves back to wherever that was.

Nah, not Joy's house. She lives next door to Kirstie, in the executive homes part of the estate. The "affordable" homes are in a different area.

Joy confused me. I thought she was Welsh when she first spoke to Neil but then she said she was from Newcastle.

I didn't think she sounded Welsh. She definitely had a northern accent.

Joy confused me. I thought she was Welsh when she first spoke to Neil but then she said she was from Newcastle.

I assumed she was the LSWs idea of a townie moving to the country and complaining about cowpats.

When Lynda and Robert moved to Ambridge there were a series of other so terribly funny cliches based on Lynda being the incomer who didn't understand country folk. Being from that urban wasteland known as Sunningdale.