Archers thread #150: For whom the sausage rolls: George over a Berrow, Fallon & Harrison seek new lease on life, is it all a Fête Accompli? Discuss The Snivelling Simpletons, sorry, The Archers, here.

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

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Thanks for title suggestions. I basically took @OverArmour's excellent suggestion and managed to shoehorn in snivelling simpleton, gloriously coined by @Eastie77Returns to refer to Lee in the first instance.

@WitcheryDivine suggested Recharging, Red Kites and The Man They Call Ron, is Ambridge becoming an earthly paradise or a hell on earth? which seems as good a place as any to kick off our discussions! Ron = Rob, a fortuitous typo on a previous thread. It does feel a bit as if we're marking time before he turns up again. Odd to do what could be a high profile storyline over the summer holidays when a lot of people will be away, but depending on your point of view, maybe that's a blessing!

Whither George? Is he shaping up to be Andrew Tate mark 2?

Everybody looking forward to Ferret Fun at the Fête? Me neither.

Over to you!

Maybe that would have come out in the MASSIVE drip feed that would have come out 200 posts in...

As would the complaint from George about living in a glorified trailer.

The replies would not have been judgemental.

What user name would Emma choose, I wonder?

In the very few instances where I've made a spoof post on MN, I think I have used the name of the character as the user name. Only fair

Emma would be something like 'Lifeshouldhavebeenbetter' or 'ideservemorebecauseimpretty'

LifesNeverFairOnAGrundy?

2DCby2DB

NeveronaGrundy

Very good!

Superb!

George is a vindictive shitheel. I look forward to his spectacular comeuppance in the future.

I don’t know why Brad is so fearful all the time, it’s quite a recent thing, isn’t it?

I’m not surprised he offered to help with the veg, I doubt Tracy lets her kids sit around being waited on. The lack of comprehension from all the Grundy men was both awful and funny. “How would we know, Clarrie’s still at work.”

So good! 🤣

V g!

Brilliant😂 Emma’s AIBU posts would be wonderful to read as well.

Em and Ed could have gone ahead with the Beechwood house. They were on the verge of Exchanging and there was no need for Ed to let the mortgage company know he’d lost his job. Emma’s begging resulted in contributions from Neil, Will and Chris chipped in as well. They had several thousands of pounds so they could have got by until Ed found another job.

Ultimately he just didn’t want the responsibility and of course owning a home “is not for people like us Em” (he said something to that effect)🙄

Brevity is the soul of wit 😄

I remember a spoof thread from years ago

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1109577-To-be-Very-Pissed-Off-at-My-Dad-for-Bringing-a-Lovely-Baby-Toy-Around

And please someone do a 2DCby2DB thread

What you really want is a zoom out during this conversation to show an enormous blackboard in the kitchen with a meal plan for the week on it in large capitals and a note for Thurs saying "Please peel the carrots and chop onions before I get home"

Lovely idea, but I fear Clarrie is one of those women who rather enjoys being a martyr, or at any rate lacks the energy and drive to tackle the Grundy male inertia around female coded work.

Well, I think Clarrie has given up wasting her energy on a non-starter, to prioritise keeping everything else going. She has for decades been outnumbered by a bunch of blokes, all of whom have all mastered the art of strategic incompetence.

Emma was lucky Ed forgave her, too: she encouraged him to do the ferrying dodgy chemicals for Tim Oatey when he was planning not to be able to do it.

All forgotten by her when he lost the job at Home Farm, of course.

I think early on in their marriage Clarrie made the mistake of always thinking things would get better with her lot and one of Eddie's schemes would come good one day but nowadays, she's given up long ago and just accept things for how they are. Eddie will be well and truly lost if she dies first although, saying that, no doubt he'll make sure the younger Grundy women are all busy running round after him.

Oh Henry. Silly boy 😔

God, this is horrible to listen to.

It's excruciating isn't it 😩

I agree... This is absolutely excruciating. And Rob is so manipulative.

As the immortal Harry Hill might say…..I hate Rob. And I hate George. But which one is worst?

There's only one way to find out…

FIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGHHHTTTT!!!!!!!