EASTENDERS 19 - NO SPOILERS

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I'm away at moment so havnt managed to watch any EE 🙀🙀🙀

But gather from 18 that we now know

Fi and Clarke kent are siblings

Linda hasn't told nick about her cancer

Will lauren find out Stephen lied

And that her sister abi is preg with his baby

What will happen to jane and max

Will there be a funeral for Stephen

What else is happening?

The80s me too! You don't just stop just because George moved to another dimension!

Poor Abi. I like her as a character, she's quite interesting and I think the actress is great.
Although, here too, more ridiculousness. Your boss comes round your home to dismiss you? Without a disciplinary meeting or anything of the sort?

Maybe Sausage is the mastermind here, setting all these cases up to build clientele... Sorry, I haven't had coffee yet...

It's obvious what Mick's expression 'I'll stick my Cockney trotter up yer Aris' means but for the friends of Rhyming Slang:
It's double slang, according to cockneyrhymimgslang .co.uk:

^Aris is Cockney slang for Arse.
"Up yer Aris!"
Aris is one of the very best examples of Double Slang. This occurs where a phrase is turned into a rhyme, and later that rhyme is then turned into another rhyme.^

In this case the phrase Bottle and Glass became rhyming slang for Artse. Then Bottle because Aristotle, which was finally shortened just to Aris.

It proves the wide acceptance of Cockney slang that these doublings can evolve over time.

Interestingly (bold mine):

Credit: contributed by Danny on 21-Apr-2000.

Italics fail!

Phil has been in Italy, yes...? So why was his passport behind an old photo album and nearly expired?

I think the tax man said there would be a fine so it's not just the tax bill. Wouldn't they'd allow payment by instalments.

I'm not sure Les was an organised business owner though as I'm sure sure he had cash flow problems as he didn't chase clients for debts.

Not that I’m an expert in crs but he really irks me when he (often) says have a pipe at this, meaning look - when pipe your eye means cry not feckin look grrrrrr

I think he freely admits to making it up.

Re the undertakers and tax:

If there's a fine, it must relate to a failure to submit a tax return for 2015-2016, as tax returns for 2016-2017 don't have to in till the end of this month (paper returns) or end of January (online returns).

But Billy wasn't made a partner (as opposed to being an employee) until May 2017.

Slightly late

Sex on table in kitchen. Yuk !!

How much did the carriers get for t he freehold?

Enough for lady di's op £10k and bit extra for roof

Surely thy would have got 100k + 🙄 If not half a mil for a pub in London

The whole 'freehold, leasehold ' status of public houses has been very well explained by Oreacrumb on these pages ( thank you!) but I think that the writers are just a bit clueless really and all this is just an excuse for a 'turf war' with the Carters and the Mitchells. Shirley and Linda did forge Mick's writing on the forms too - although we are not sure if Hugo is aware of this fact. This may well muddy the waters too.
Having Johnny go through the contract isnt really enough - they need proper legal help and ( as nancy pointed out) their own survey to make sure that 60k is correct, which is probably isn't.

Shirley was brilliant yesterday.

The whole pub story is so unrealistic. I don’t fully understand it - I do drift off a lot, but it just doesn’t make sense.

The ‘posh’ lot are really irritating. Why would someone call a pub a public house just because they were privately educated? “Oi pals, which public house shall we go to on Friday?” Also the way JWB kept referring to Ben as the grease monkey.

That chair spinning reveal was so silly Thalia.

Surely Jay isn’t going to buy a flat outright in London for 200k. Maybe a cupboard under the stairs.

I think Whitters and Lee’s old flat was probably the most realistic one.

Yes, Abi being dismissed without a letter or anything!

Didn't like the "grease monkey" thing - sleazy.

Still, its the Toffs vs. the Real Eastenders! Obviously the writers have got it in for the corporate takeover of Hoxton etc with the big glass windows.

But I do find it a bit unrealistic, the lack of legal advice - just wandering around the square with a dog to decide what to do!

And I thought the whole thing of Linda selling the freehold to the Company another stupidity! Still as long as she's got a choice between different shades of dazzling pink to wear who cares if she's sold the family down the river. What with the Billy going to pieces with tax inspector thing and his silly girlfriend giving him a few receipts she found in a plastic bag, and Jay taking a lower price for car lot, Witless's brainwave of offering "instalments" being received with stunned silence as if the wisdom of Socrates, are all Eastenders just complete Simpletons?!!! Bring back Phil. At least he's got a brain.

Still Friday's better than recent, at least some things happened, even if it was mostly stupid things . I really do think the writers ought to give some of their characters some intelligence and wit though - otherwise its like the viewer being treated as equally dim.

That pic of a young Phil and Grant made me misty eyed for when EE had action and drama and Sharon was caught on tape confessing to shagging Phil on the sly.

My favourite reveals where the Max and Stacey DVD, and Pat and Frank getting caught out by Peggy on firework night! We need some more salacious goings on.

Kitchen table sex in Carmel's own house is enough for me!

Btw - there was a famous film noir called The Postman only Rings Twice(?) where it was first shown on screen, in the 40s/50s. V shocking for the time. Jack Nicholson was in the remake.

Why does Fi/Sophie have two names?

Fi is her nickname. I assumed it was short for Fiona but it's the end of Sophie.

Think she uses Fi around Walford so no one makes the connection to her family?

I think Luke called her Fi in a meeting though.

But this is EE. Consistency is unimportant !

Fi Sophie

That's clever having the end as a nickname

The So/Fi thing hasn't occurred to me. I kept thinking I had missed something! Thank goodness for MN!

I’ve got an idea mick - get your own bloody survey done you muppet

I forgot about her passing out at party. Did we find out in the end? I l ow she was drunk but she was very ill.