Pip and Jude..... oh go forever to hell and never come back

[ipanemagirl]

It's just so dull.
And Tom and Brenda shut UP.

They imported Jazzer so that they could have a stock drug addict story without any of the precious native Ambridge youth being impugned. Then there was the horse tranquiliser incident and he was left with serious brain damage. Then it got a bit boring having him brain damaged and they just forgot about that. Now he is some kind of youth version of the Benny Hill milkman having it away with sexy housewives while their husbands are away.

He has never once been allowed to be a proper free-range person. He is a battery-farmed character. Pat would be appalled.

Too true Eleison And hasn't he made a remarkable recovery from said brain damage!

I was right about Jude - ha! I am impressed by my own prescience.

Isn't Pip supposed to be fairly bright? So if so how on earth was she so deluded to think that if Jude went travelling without her, she would be abandoning him, rather than the other way round? Even an infatuated 16 year old surely isn't that blinkered

I agree, Eleison, about Jazzer. Couldn't bear the competition with posh trainee milkman. So tortuous!

LB, I think the writers must have parked Jazzers horse-tranquiliser brain damage in Pip. She used to be so clever and thoughtful.

Yes he really did queenceleste, and that was the horrific finishing touch for me! If he's really gone for good I may venture back one day, especially if Pip (Fizz???)goes too, but the whole thing has gone downhill so much I much just continue to read the round ups on the Archers website. I get more laughs out of the message boards there than from the show itself!

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Haven't listened this week but I'm assuming Jude's done us all a favour and buggered off?
Can't be gone long enough imo.
Don't know what the horse tranquilliser references are about either .
Fallon was a caa to scorn Jazzer, and now she's creeping around posh geezer as if she'd never even heard of the love of her life, Ed.

oh definately with Matt I could be doing with £1000 as long as i could say "Goodbye Mr Floppy" when he was leaving and hed say "WHAT?" in that voice of his and Id say "oh, nothing"

Queenceleste: think Ruth was about to have an affair with temporary dairy man, who came as an expert to increase yields or something.....can't remember name

Sam
Jennifer thinks Christopher isn't good enough for Alice -coming from a lowly family -but despite having the dreadful Susan as a mum,he is one of the pretty decent characters.
My teeth itch whenever Alan and Usha are on btw.

I loathe Brenda and Tom - she is utterly stupid - has done a business studies degree and seems to expect to be a marketing directer. And tom and his pies - well I felt sorry for Vicky over the veal and ham and she's not exactly my favourite character.

I do love jenny-darling though and the dastardly Brian along with puss-cat and tiger.

Brian, puss Cat and Tiger all great - I love the way Lilian pronounces J'lene

Brenda is painful isn't she? And what a completely bizarre name for a woman in her early 20s - mind you I always thought Betty must be about 70. There really are very few characters I'd like to have a drink with - Lilian and Fallon are about it.

'Alice' lives near me.My sister taught her dancing and I know her mum.

I listen while I'm at work,but if I miss a weeks worth of episodes,or more,I can still pick up the storylines quickly,as they move tortuously slowly.Ambridge is indeed stuck in a timewarp,[and an annoyingly worthy timewarp at that].All that biodiversity guff makes me laugh,no farmer I know carries on like David and Ruth do.But still,I can't stop listening.

To make it more realistic,they should have a few of the following;
Traveller camps
Wind turbines
Wife swapping
Adulterous affairs
Shotgun accidents
Drunk driving
A resident pervert who pinches underwear from washing lines
Troublesome folk from 'the town' being given a council house
Scrap metal thieves

Then it'd be a bit more like real rural life.

Wot ? No dogging going on at some car park near you 101?

Not dogging,it's too posh around here for that,but you have reminded me that the village 'Alice' lives in is notorious for wife swapping,and always has been [according to my mum,who seemed surprised that I only recently found out about it.]

very interesting... I lived briefly in a very posh Cheshire village once and next door was a very tall man with a huge beard who on occasion could be seen in his garden in full Edwardian feminine dress very much moving like a Laydee. I was so surprised coming as I did from that there London.

I can't go through this with Jolene. I've stopped listening. It's too awful.

Dazmum, the Horror, really?
SOZZ FIZZ!
It makes me want to self immolate in a public place or outside Vanessa blardy Whitbourne's office.

[my dh was working in the office next to the Archer's office in Birmingham a couple of years ago and couldn't care less about Ambridge and I was hysterically overexcited and all he did was bring me a lousy pen which cost, actually, a Huge Amount! And he despised me for my excitement.... apparently there are no 'Long Term Plot Synoses' lying about in the communal areas.]

101dalmations they have had

Adulterous affairs
shotgun accidents
drink driving

I think there was a peeping tom in the 1950s.....

Really,5?

Typical of me to have missed all the good stuff.

But her in our village we had the bloke who was sleeping with both the gays in the village and someone else who was married, we were holding our breath to see who the baby looked like.

!

And I thought it was bad where I lived!

Caught the omnibus on the car radio, Pip had just read Judes Facebook page, status single of course and just managed to switch stations before I just aimed my car into the oncoming traffic. GRIM.

If they are going to be really topical, David gets half his Herefords stolen and Brian looses his swanky combine harvester.