Our Girl and Captain James Discussion Thread Vol IV

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Feel free to join in as we discuss all things Our Girl related

Honorary Members:
Ben Aldridge
Tony Grounds

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I'm teaching you proper good English here!

Tried a little light shopping in Sainsburys earlier. Look what I found. Might gonna need a pair of these.

I've caved. Youngest having his sleep, I'm watching ep 1

Forgot to thank icemist for those gorgeous photos this morning. I love the group behind the scenes one! ?? Captain Stern Face...

You're right firegirl. I failed to exert my authority and rank! Might gonna need a refresher course at Sandhurst.

In fact, now I think about it, the dog showed flagrant insubordination in walking off in the opposite direction. Shall I put him on a charge or is a Court Martial in order?

Ladies and SPO! Just had a quick look at Facebook. I subscribed to the Our Girl stuff (not the anonymous stuff, the bog standard one). They post pictures every so often and to be honest, I've stopped looking as the comments all tend to be the same. However, I did look at this one and Ben himself has posted! It says "Thanks to everyone for the support of Our Girl. We're truly humbled by the positive feedback we've received. Big news coming soon. B. x

Well, I hope it's him. The picture looks right.

Hope this link works:

www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Our-Girl/1636502053242939

Ilovelblue did you buy the pants? Might be ahem stimulating to have stags so close to your lady parts*. Lol

*I don't know what's come over me. I am normally hideously proper. I guess it's the freedom of being incognito. In my defence I was reading the scripts yesterday and there's a bit I hadn't clocked before where CJ says "listen up you shit for brain, lady parts"

Ilovelblue, squeeeeeeeee!!!! Hope that's really Ben - it looks like a new account? Do we think we know what the big news is?

Re: Sainsburys , although I am not on Twitter as I have previously discussed (given the furore in the news today re: unwise photographs I will say no more) I did see a photo posted by Tony Grounds of the OG DVD at number 5 in the charts at Sainsburys. It wasn't really one of you, whilst on another visit to find Stag headpieces, was it?

(By the way, I do love the dog, really - I think I might gonna need to check myself into a nice, peaceful, quiet little place with kind people in uniforms - sadly more likely to be white coats than khaki!)

monopod - in my state of recuperation, I thought excessive stimulation may be too much, so I passed on the undies. However, as soon as I got home, I realised I should have bought them! There was a bra to match as well.

Would Ben post anything if it was going to be a case of "Sorry guys, you're not getting anything else from us!"??

I'm not convinced it's him. He has a FB account already- so why wouldn't he post from that and why in there and not on Twitter?

Iloveblue I saw that as well. I hope it is Ben but the cynic in me says its someone pretending to be him. He hardly ever posts on Twitter so I can't honestly see him getting a whole new FB account just to post something there.

I really hope Im wrong though.

Now I'm excited, if that really is BA, what could the news be?

Iloveblue, think you should get them, who doesn't need stag pants!

icemist - I was a bit sceptical, I must say but thought I'd post it anyway. Are people weird enough to pretend to be somebody else? There was that odd posting on Tumblr or something of somebody who pretended to be his cousin or schoolfriend or whatever, wasn't there? Somebody who said she would Skype him that night. Details are a bit sketchy in my mind now.

Is it really him? On a comment thread I was previously involved with for a little while, before I found you fabulous lot, someone claiming to be Lacey Turner left a comment to the effect that she, Ben and Tony Grounds were meeting in November to discuss the possibility of another series. One or two people thought it was genuine and responded accordingly but the majority sensibly made no comment. I suppose that discussion would need to take place and finances are involved so someone has to approve the budget. I think that series 1 of OG was announced in December last year. Its possible that the timescales could be similar - if this is a genuine message and not someone having a laugh! (Not very funny)

Much as I would like it to be real, I don't think it is. Any announcement would I imagine come via official channels and BA hasn't really engaged directly with fans of the series; doesn't make sense for him to suddenly start now?

People are weird.

Shit for brain lady parts is one that I think even I would struggle to get into real life, and I'm not exactly known for my ladylike language!

Haven't read the scripts, but that's the same trip into the village where they accuse Dangles of being from Benefits Street isn't it? Makes me laugh every time.

Yep smurfingreat, spot on! A+

I love that expression! perfect for CJ to say

OK ladies, sorry if it has been a red herring. We need to keep an eye on it. In the meantime, I will go back to Sainsburys for the stag pants. Not sure about the bra though.

De lurking to say bbc have announced their new and decommissioned dramas for 2015 eg Luther etc so it's not beyond the realms of possibility that itv may do same around this time.

Re Commissioned, not decommissioned.

Sorry

I think we should all get stag bra and pants from Sainsbury's!! To be worn as part of uniform under combats, vest tops etc. Especially for those who are going to Bath. (Sadly not feasible for me I don't think) Ilove did they have any stag boxers for SPO?
Also can't believe I missed shit for brain lady parts, who did he say that to?

But, heels99, Our Girl is BBC! Which seems to mean it hasn't been recommissioned if it's not on the list?