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Archers thread #162: ‘This is like talking to Lassie’ – how right you are, Fallon! Discuss The Archers here.

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 07/03/2024 22:44

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

Archers All views on The Archers welcome here! New blood welcomed, and of course we are always delighted to welcome back former or occasional listeners/posters. We don't all agree on all points, although we do mostly try to be civil about it. Most of us are posting tongue in cheek a lot of the time, so don't worry about revealing that you think cowhide-covered walls are a great idea for a cafe with vegan and vegetarian customers, or other unusual views. Grin

Archers 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/4636789-the-archers-spoilers-thread-7-cant-wait-for-702pm-join-us-here, where spoilers are positively welcomed!

Archers 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.)

Title comes from one of the better scripted conversations of recent weeks, when Fallon said ”Harrison, this is like talking to Lassie! Just TELL ME”. So true of so many conversations on TA where you just want to shake them and yell 'Just TELL US, and quickly, so you don't get interrupted before you can say the important bit', but of course they rarely do and days pass before the conversation resumes. @TheBell suggested putting it in the title, so thanks for that.

@OverArmour had a great if more obscure idea, paying tribute to a Peter Greenaway film: The Policeman, The Drunk, The Vet and his Lover. That will do very well as a starting point for the new thread. Will Alistair leave? Will Denise tell John she's leaving him? Will Paul learn to be less noisy? Do any of us care?

I do care a little about Harrison and Fallon. I want Harrison to get a grip and realise he needs a paying job more than the captaincy of the cricket team. I don't care at all about Harry but I think he's been brought in purely as a plot device so with any luck we can all forget about him very soon.

Over to you!

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harriethoyle · 13/03/2024 15:15

Hahaha @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g . What a rewriting of your flouncing! 😆 Clearly recollections vary on this one...

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 13/03/2024 15:24

harriethoyle · 13/03/2024 15:15

Hahaha @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g . What a rewriting of your flouncing! 😆 Clearly recollections vary on this one...

Flouncing! Goodness me. I don't recall ever flouncing in my life, as witnessed by the fact that I'm still here starting these threads, but we'll agree to disagree.

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LikeTalkingToLassie · 13/03/2024 15:28

I think soaps often present versions of dilemmas that people have IRL, although usually exaggerated. If an AIBU? was raised, it might help someone.

It is possible that some of the MN threads are not genuine even if they look ok.

LikeTalkingToLassie · 13/03/2024 15:30

Whimper. Timmy's fallen down a well

OverArmour · 13/03/2024 18:02

Is it time for another awful pun? I’m happy to oblige with maybe Ed, Emmur and Will are going to be Polyarborists?

LikeTalkingToLassie · 13/03/2024 19:20

Tree's a Crowd?
Forest Gump?

Roysnewshirt · 13/03/2024 19:26

Cannot wait to go to Borchester for coffee tomorrow!!

Geebray · 13/03/2024 19:28

Ooooooh, Miranda and Brian!!! 😱

LikeTalkingToLassie · 13/03/2024 19:30

Brianda?

MereDintofPandiculation · 13/03/2024 19:35

LikeTalkingToLassie · 13/03/2024 15:28

I think soaps often present versions of dilemmas that people have IRL, although usually exaggerated. If an AIBU? was raised, it might help someone.

It is possible that some of the MN threads are not genuine even if they look ok.

It’s possible that some of them are genuine, even if that’s sometimes even harder to believe Grin

MereDintofPandiculation · 13/03/2024 19:38

Geebray · 13/03/2024 19:28

Ooooooh, Miranda and Brian!!! 😱

That will cause awkwardness at family gatherings. Therefore it’s bound to happen

Bruisername · 13/03/2024 19:40

I can’t bear the thought of Brian in a new relationship!!

LikeTalkingToLassie · 13/03/2024 19:41

Why not? He had a few new relationships while married.

newtlover · 13/03/2024 19:42

I can't remember what role Miranda played in the past...
something is ringing a vague bell that it wasn't good?

Bruisername · 13/03/2024 19:43

his extramarital affairs were excellent radio. But I don’t want to see him in a ‘normal’ relationship with someone that isn’t Jenny!

LikeTalkingToLassie · 13/03/2024 19:45

@Bruisername , me neither but more Brian is good.

@newtlover , Miranda is Justin's XW.

Geebray · 13/03/2024 19:50

newtlover · 13/03/2024 19:42

I can't remember what role Miranda played in the past...
something is ringing a vague bell that it wasn't good?

She's Justin's ex wife! He cheated on her with Lillian.

newtlover · 13/03/2024 20:04

wasn't there more to it than that? why do I dislike/distrust her?

Geebray · 13/03/2024 20:09

I can't remember. I could barely remember who she was tonight, they didn't signpost it very well.

CaptainMyCaptain · 13/03/2024 20:17

newtlover · 13/03/2024 20:04

wasn't there more to it than that? why do I dislike/distrust her?

Maybe it was everything Justin said about her but we haven't heard her point of view.

ToasterChic · 13/03/2024 22:29

I’m sure she was cheating on him too? Shagging the ski instructor or the tennis coach or something…. I’m sure there were a few things introduced about her, I assumed at the time to make it “okay” for Justin to leave her for Lillian.

JanglyBeads · 13/03/2024 23:08

She did something dire to Justin at one point, didn't she? Ah yes, and wasn't she terribly rude to people e.g. the Aldridges - despite her warm words about JD this evening?

BeaLola · 13/03/2024 23:52

I thought Miranda sounded like a horsey version of Annabell from the BL board.

Perhaps if she and Brian get together we will find out more about Stella and Justin ?

LillianGish · 14/03/2024 05:18

I’m preparing to forget everything we ever knew about Miranda in preparation for another Wolverhampton type invention. I thought Miranda’s delivery last night sounded like Justin at his most pompous- not really Brian’s type I wouldn’t have thought.

Alwaysdieting · 14/03/2024 05:44

I was waiting for Alice and Brian to bump into Harry falling out of a beer tent.
I wasnt listerning to TA when Miranda and Justin were married but I cant wait for her to clash with Lillian.
Will lovely Brian really have an affair with Justin's ex-wife? It will cause a lot of trouble if he does.
Im always surprised at the way Alice springs back from any trouble that gets thrown at her. Resilient or what!.

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