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Girliefriendlikespuppies · 23/01/2022 22:49

I thought that about Cyril and Lucille, how on Earth have they conceived a baby?!!

I wonder if Phyllis's mum has died? I think her mum bought her up on her own.

I not convinced a religious ex nun would have been welcoming legalising gay sex, it just doesn't ring true.

EngimaticDisappearance · 23/01/2022 22:50

Well, Nurse Corrigan's magazine was clearly lifted from the set of Malory Towers as I saw the exact same one in Gwendoline's trunk over on CBBC this week.

The Turners' Teal Mansplaining Sex Dungeon is visited regularly.

Mrs Turner: OOOH DR!

Dr Mansplainer: You see, the reason it feels good is I'm stimulating your G spot. It's a shame not many men take the time to really understand a woman's body. Let me walk you through the basic biology...

Mrs Turner: Och nooo. My vagina has sealed up again.

MinglingFlamingo · 23/01/2022 22:54

@EngimaticDisappearance

Well, Nurse Corrigan's magazine was clearly lifted from the set of Malory Towers as I saw the exact same one in Gwendoline's trunk over on CBBC this week.

The Turners' Teal Mansplaining Sex Dungeon is visited regularly.

Mrs Turner: OOOH DR!

Dr Mansplainer: You see, the reason it feels good is I'm stimulating your G spot. It's a shame not many men take the time to really understand a woman's body. Let me walk you through the basic biology...

Mrs Turner: Och nooo. My vagina has sealed up again.

😂😂😂😂😂

Clawdy · 23/01/2022 22:58

You could see Trixie's bump just for a second as she got into the car.

PyongyangKipperbang · 23/01/2022 23:08

Halfway through watching now. Matthew is so fucking wet. OK he is good looking but how on earth did he ever get someone as feisty and intelligent as his wife interested in him, never mind Trixie! He has all the sexual allure of a cold bath.

Vi and Fredbuckle have just become a complete parody of their former characters. Fredbuckle was always a bit of a comic character with his wheeler dealin and she was very focussed on her business and council work, but now its like they are the CTM equivalent of the comic interlude with the ugly sisters at a panto! Reggie seems to have more about him than Vi and Fredbuckle put together!

Not got to Dr Mansplain yet..... although if I was Sister Hilda I would be asking him to refer to get his neck checked for breaks, the amount of head tilts so far.

TrashyPanda · 23/01/2022 23:16

@dayswithaY

Ridiculous how Trixie "rescued" the baby from her pram in the street and shouted at the mother. It normal to see babies parked in prams outside shops and houses. My Mum told me it was common practice (in the 1960s) for mothers to wrap the baby up warm and put them outside in their pram either in the garden or outside the house while Mum was inside doing housework.

Another example of applying modern ideas to 1960s parenting. Of course we wouldn't do it now, but it wasn't unusual to see this in 1967.

And Sheila commenting to Dr Turner about his great it was that homosexuality was about to be legalised. They would be prissy and judgemental about it, even in the 1980s a lot of people were!

And all those gormless men walking past Phyllis in ASOS shorts - is that the best the wardrobe department could do!

Totally normal to “air” a baby as you say. Or to leave the baby and pram outside a shop. Funny how Trixie was so upset about a baby outside during the day when minutes before we saw her in a sleeveless dress going out at night!

There is zero chemistry between Trixie and rich bloke (with no personality). He clearly doesn’t fancy her at all. Am beginning to wonder if he is going to come out and the Turners will applaud.

PyongyangKipperbang · 23/01/2022 23:17

OK so....YY to the hands across a table crap....a man would gather his wife up in his arms and kiss her if he was over the moon with the news. And also YY to Phylis not hugging Lucille. I wish they had not bothered filming this series until SD was over. Just seems like with HG pregnancy (agree with a PP that I would have LOVED to have looked like her when I was PG!) and SD it would have been better if they had waited. With a series like this, close contact is necessary to the plot lines so it is far more obvious when it doesnt happen, moreso than in other shows.

TrashyPanda · 23/01/2022 23:20

Dr Turners hair is getting really long. Is he Poplars answer to the mop top Beatles??

Amazing how he solved the Jewish man’s PTSD with one sentence. What a guy!

Was very surprised he didn’t speak out against circumcision.

PyongyangKipperbang · 23/01/2022 23:21

Matthew being gay would actually fit Trixie's history! Every time she finds a nice man, something goes wrong. I would rather like it if she stayed single and became the next generations Sister Crane proving that you dont need a man to be happy. Although she would (in my fantasy) have a baby in her mid 40's on her own!

Akire · 23/01/2022 23:39

Poor Monica Joan reads script.. few random midsummer nights lines and squelch’s over ice lolly. Plus if freezer wasn’t cold anymore they all would be melted!

It’s odd that Reg calls his auntie/cousin Mum yet calls Fred Fred.

This rate all midwife’s would have left to get married.

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Toddlerteaplease · 23/01/2022 23:47

I not convinced a religious ex nun would have been welcoming legalising gay sex, it just doesn't ring true.

I had the same thought. And this is the same doctor who was sending gay men to be 'cured' only a few years ago.
Also surprised by Trixie's reaction to the baby being outside. Thought it was common practice. And also surprised
that instead of bottle feeding the baby, that they admitted her to the clinic.

Loved the Bar-Mitzvah scene though. And my friend poked me and told me to shut up when I sang along to 'Lord Jesus think on me' with the nuns. I love that hymn!

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Toddlerteaplease · 23/01/2022 23:53

@UnicornsReal babies are still admitted for poor feeding. Out of all the patients we have. They terrify me! I'd rather have a really really sick child than a new born poor feeder. It's so difficult to work out if they are getting enough, and how much too up to give. And my gut instinct is just to say, for gods sake can we just give them a bottle. (I don't say that though)

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PyongyangKipperbang · 23/01/2022 23:57

Its not actually that far out for a woman with "baby blues" to be treated for the symptom rather than the cause. I had my eldest in 1990 and PND wasnt taken seriously then. It was very much a case of "you'll feel better when baby sleeps through/is on solids/settles into a routine". And in many cases it may well be that after treatment of the symptom (in her case, feeding) the PND would improve but because she had 24 help and support so didnt feel so alone rather tthan the feeding problems being solved.

When I was very ill with PND after DC2 (1997) even the MH nurse I was assigned said that Infacol would solve all my problems.

blyn72 · 24/01/2022 00:00

Girlfriendlikespuppies: I not convinced a religious ex nun would have been welcoming legalising gay sex, it just doesn't ring true.

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I think it is perfectly reasonable. Both she and husband are very much in touch with society and they are prepared to move with the times.

GarethSouthgatesWaistcoat · 24/01/2022 00:32

Was pnd really recognised and treated in the 60s (and 70s and 80s)?

I thought the same about the melted lollies!

At one point I thought the young midwife was going to make a play for the posh wealthy landlord when Trixie explained they were like old friends!

Akire · 24/01/2022 00:39

I think over years doctor seen much of what happens with gay men being forced into treatment that can’t change their sexual desires, or young men being used as prostitutes and getting sexual disease but to worried get help as obvious signs of homosexual sex. Plus mental distress of “not being normal”. Being put in prison for a relationship was hardly going improve situation. Though didn’t say still illegal for under 21s and even if 15 y olds had babies they weren’t going end up In prison Because of it unlike boys and men.

Wonder if Timothy will eventual come back
And we be doomed with a clever dr T well into the 2000s!

PyongyangKipperbang · 24/01/2022 00:44

I reckon Timothy will come back from Uni as camp as Liberace to be greeted with a YAAAAAY!!!

veevee04 · 24/01/2022 05:54

I did think it was a bit too modern wasn't FF pushed lots in the 1960s ? I thought the midwife would have just said give the baby a bottle not admit them both to hospital . But I get they are trying to say breast is best just it doesn't really match the 1960s.

DobbyTheHouseElk · 24/01/2022 07:58

It’s become a joke now. With the game of hiding Trixie’s pregnancy and the social distancing it’s lost all of the charm.

I haven’t seen a show where the distancing is as obvious as CTM. It’s hilarious. Poor Cyril. Holding hands over the longest table ever. Trixie out for a picnic on the biggest blanket ever. Trixie has to be hidden and distanced so her head bobs into view.

I can’t take it seriously which is a shame.

MyOtherProfile · 24/01/2022 08:05

And the doors! Nobody has ever stood half hidden by a door as much as Trixie in this episode!

LavenderAskew · 24/01/2022 08:23

I was quite suprised, they allowed the tailor to give his own experience and it wasn't Dr Mansplain telling him the information about what happened in concentration camps.

think they are distancing themselves from teal too. Everything is so brightly coloured. Maybe someone on the CTM team read all the teal comments ona previous thread on here.

UnicornsReal · 24/01/2022 08:45

@Toddlerteaplease

I not convinced a religious ex nun would have been welcoming legalising gay sex, it just doesn't ring true.

I had the same thought. And this is the same doctor who was sending gay men to be 'cured' only a few years ago.
Also surprised by Trixie's reaction to the baby being outside. Thought it was common practice. And also surprised
that instead of bottle feeding the baby, that they admitted her to the clinic.

Loved the Bar-Mitzvah scene though. And my friend poked me and told me to shut up when I sang along to 'Lord Jesus think on me' with the nuns. I love that hymn!

It was common practice to leave babies in their orange outside. However the baby in this case was left on the street in the East End. If the oram had been in a garden that would have been different. Babies were routinely outside for hours in their orange for ‘fresh air’. OH was left in pram like this till he was about two!!

UnicornsReal · 24/01/2022 08:46

Pram not orange!

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 24/01/2022 08:52

Maybe midwives in a woman-centred and led service like Nonnatus House were very pro breastfeeding, but as far as I'm aware it was very different in hospital. I was born in a hospital a few years before 1967 and my mother really struggled with breastfeeding. Within a few days after my birth she'd given it up with the full blessing and support of her GP, health visitor, visiting midwife etc. Far easier to implement 4-hourly feeding with bottles, anyway. When my brother was born I think he was FF from the start.

I can believe they were pleased to see the change in the law. It wouldn't have got through Parliament if MPs and Lords hadn't been convinced the general public would accept it. There had been a lot of campaigining and publicity about lives ruined when men were prosecuted and/or blackmailed for having consensual sex with other men. Appalling to think of now.

TrashyPanda · 24/01/2022 08:59

However the baby in this case was left on the street in the East End

It was totally normal to leave your baby and pram out in the street when you went shopping. Nobody took prams into shops. Mothers were told babies needed to be outside. I f you didn’t have a garden, the street was the only alternative.

It was mentioned above that some of the writers are fairly young, with no direct experience/knowledge of the 1960s and this seems to prove it.