🏘️ Archers thread #129: Casey, Macy, Lily, Alice – Decent types or full of malice? Discuss The Archers here.

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Thank you, @PseudoBadger, for kicking off this long, long series of Archers threads, which has now passed 125,000 posts! (See below for further details.)

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 lust after Russ, or other unusual things.

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/4197199--The-Archers-spoilers-thread-6-Cant-wait-for-7-02pm-Join-us-here, 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.)

For the thread title I was very tempted to go with @R4's title suggestion of Come follow the exploits of Brine, Lily, Elizabeth, Usha, Ruari, George and Helen. Know collectively as bleurgh. because on the last thread @DadDadDad, our invaluable statistician, identified a post from @ILoveShula as the 125,000th. Many of us felt it was fitting that the post simply said Bleurgh!.

However, feeling that was a bit niche for the casual listener, I adapted @MayIDestroyYou's title suggestion in the end. Thanks, MIDY!

Back to Ambridge this week, after our enjoyable sojourn at Lower Loxley last week! Will we go with Alice to rehab? (Hope not.) Will the petulant Adam make good his threat to leave Home Farm? (Hope so.) What will Jennifer say? (Lots, I hope, and preferably to Brian.) Will the fete be a triumph? (Of course it will.) Will we ever return to Brookfield, or have they all fallen unnoticed into the slurry pit? (Let's hope Pip did, anyway.) WHERE IS PAT? (Can't answer this one.)

Over to you!

Two cod Brummie accents in one episode

He is, isn't he Gasp0de.
"Geography was boring" wasn't the best answer but I'm sure he'll ace the nursing because...did he say something about looking after farm animals?

I didn't realise he'd applied to be a guide-dog. But it's fine: Bess will ace the nursing.

Two cod Brummie accents in one episode.
Ahem, one was a cod Black Country (YamYam).

But a health worker and a teacher in one episode!

Not heard tonight's yet, but the Grundy bit of Monday's episode was dire!

Least Yam-Yam got something right. Ed is utterly gormless…

@Taswama

Not heard tonight's yet, but the Grundy bit of Monday's episode was dire!

And the Dopey bit wasn't?

Who is Yam Yam?

It's what the nasty little boys used to call their PE teacher Adrian York, apparently. I expect it was because he comes from the Black country.

Black Country! Eeep! Sorry.

Who on earth still carries wads of cash?

I found a five pound note on a bookshelf recently; I was staring at it for quite some time before I could picture the last time I must have held a paper (what are they made of?) note. Does Eddie not want his 'tips' going through a card machine?

Anyhow: on his agent's page Greg Hobbs, who played Adrian, gives "48-56" as the age range of parts he plays.

@R4

Two cod Brummie accents in one episode. Ahem, one was a cod Black Country (YamYam).

But a health worker and a teacher in one episode!

I did wonder about differentiating but it was just a cringe fest.

Vince's is the only believable one at present. Actually, I like Vince.

Does Eddie not want his 'tips' going through a card machine?

I really enjoyed the teacher nonsense.Eddie was clearly adding twenty quid on mentally for every insult. And Gormless 1 and 2 plus Sweary Carter was very applicable.

HMRC can see what goes through a bank account. Our window cleaner, who I'm sure pays all his taxes, still takes cash.

Were we supposed to assume it was the hangover that made Yam Yam* so appallingly rude? I cannot imagine any teacher bad-mouthing a former pupil like that, in front of their parent.

It was very hard to believe that anyone would have agreed to marry Mr York. (But then, after 30 years of badgering the poor woman must have seen no chance of escape.)

*Why have I never knowingly heard this before?

Were we supposed to assume it was the hangover that made Yam Yam so appallingly rude?
YamYam is a P.E. teacher.
QED

YamYam is what Brummies call Black Country folk. It is nothing to do with yams; it is based on their inability to properly articulate the words "you are" or even, gawd-help-us, "you am".

I'm not convinced by Gormless 1.0 and 2.0's cleverness. They may have fleeced YY out of £100 but hasn't YY gone off with a suit worth at least that, which they will never see again.

I think the scriptwriters had been watching far too many episodes of Grange Hill from the 80's before they wrote that episode.

I beggars belief that neither Eddie nor Ed knew how to get Google Maps to act as a sat-nav.

That episode reached new lows of implausibility.......and there are still another two episodes to go with this writing team.

I beggars belief that neither Eddie nor Ed knew how to get Google Maps to act as a sat-nav

They obviously do as Eddie told Ed he had to go so he could use his phone for directions. I only let the app shout at me if I’m on my own driving, it’s hopeless if anyone else is in the car yammering away. Much better for a navigator to tell the driver what the map says instead.

But yes, that was an excruciating episode all round. I was cringing at Ben’s (quite believable) breathless nervousness and the limo stuff was awful. I did laugh at Sweary Carter though. I wasn’t listening when they were teens and it immediately conjured an image of a permanently furious Emma.

Who on earth still carries wads of cash? My thoughts exactly. As lame and unfunny as we’ve come to expect from so much rude mechanical comedy in The Archers. Laugh? I thought I’d never start.

I can picture a permanently furious Emma Carter.

I knew the term Yamyam.
I've even used google maps as a satnav when on foot.

Ben was cringeworthy, but I love him anyway.

Who on earth still carries wads of cash?
I still carry cash (not wads!) but who on earth still has loads of cash on their person after a boozy night out?

I might do if I'd had incessant heavy hints from my chauffeur that he would be expecting a wad of cash in lieu of payment for his services. Surely the boozy night out would all have gone on plastic?

I still carry cash, too, but rarely more than £50, unless I knew I was going to need more for a specific reason, so I wouldn't expect to still have it with me by the time I came home.