Neighbours: what the frick has happened to Ringo?

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Jeans so tight I'm sure he'll never father children. High-pitched whiney singing in public. Bizarre headwear. What will be next?!

Although I wouldnt worry about Libby too much. She is obliged to be irrestibly attracted to any new male teacher that comes along. Either that or the new head is to be part of a Rebecca-Paul storyline. Probably set up by Andrew.

Ha - it really is cobblers isn't it - but I don't seem able to stop watching it...

Its the perpetual sunshine onscreen bint. Thats what I blame. Although up to this week James Sorenson was also my reason for tuning in...

Summer and Harry now? As if...

And - could someone please tell me what the hell is going on with Andrew's accent? Why does he occasionally pronounce a word in a peculiar fashion - is he pretending to be Scottish and if so why?!

Supposed to be his real life accent Bint. The actor lived in Scotland as a child. Is the official explaination. So they had to change Andrews backstory to include that (he was originally meant to have spent time in Brazil). I have no idea why he suddenly becomes intensely Scottish for one word and only one word at a time.

I love his accent, it has me in hysterics on a daily basis. I don't really know why I find it so funny, but I do.
DD and I do impressions of him all the time.

Oh FFS stupid fake girl was under the water for all of 30 seconds and she needs to go into recovery position, be checked over by a Dr and rest under supervision for the rest of the day?

Yet a paralysed man can learn to walk in a few days.

Jeeez, kate the really poor dancer is back. I hate how she always has the same facial expression when she "dances", sort of smug. When I say dances, I really mean "walks around while moving her arms"

I love the way pole dancing is viewed with horror by the neighbours cast though. makes a pleasant change.

I was going to come on and say something about Kate's dancing - I'm no expert but she seems very wooden, and totally agree with the smugface. If dancing was going to be an integral part of the role why didn't they get an actress that could?!

Martha - last week when they were getting models for the crappy photoshoot I was quite impressed by the anti "takign your clothes off for a living" stance that Summer took - you just don't get that attitude reflected on tv in this country and I wondered if it was indicative of differing attitudes in the UK and Oz?

Is it me or is horny Steph a really gross storyline?

Oh I love the dancing in all its terrible glory. It makes me laugh so much. Go to audition, get job, go back that evening and perform perfectly choreographed routine with no rehersals.

yes, horny Steph is bad. Very bad.

I loved the dance routine.
Arms up, arms down, a weird shimmy and it's almost award winning!
And all whilst wearing a shrugalero.
You couldn't make this stuff up, though clearly the shite scripwriters do.

Ugh at anyone having sex with Toadie.

When I was at Uni, my friend and I had a rating system for guys, y'know 1 pint, 5 pints etc. Niagara was bad, it meant Niagara falls of vodka before you went there but the worst was a Toadie, and in fact, no one ever got that bad.

Oh I do love Neighbours, and whilst on the subject of Australian soaps, why on earth are they swimming in the middle of winter in Home and Away and pretending it's warm?

I lived there for two years, no one goes swimming in winter, yet Australians watch this.
Why?

Going back to the title of this thread, interesting how Ringo's ditched the guitar and the porkpie hat...

Are you surprised?

Surely if you encountered someone wearing them, the first thing you'd say would be, 'get rid of the child preventing jeans, guitar and pork pie hat', no?

He's done two of the three, lets hope he gets some baggier trousers soon.

Everyone in the prog goes on about Ringo as if he's "a spunk", but he makes me sick up into my mouth.

And kate, she was offered more corporate work because she "shone" during that 14-second very basic routine!!

I agree about Ringo. I used to think he was OK as a kid but then he developed a weird crush on Carmella and a terrible skin. eeew.

ringo is sooooooo never hot
I think Zeke is much more interesting.

I'm sure it took years to learn the 'arms up, arms down, shimmy', routine.
It's just a shame there was no hat this time.
I did so love the routine involving the hat.

The only hot one is Andrew.
He's blonde, and Australian, my weakness, and he's sometime Scottish too.
Guess where I live?

I agree about Zeke. I still think he'd be much better with Donna than Ringo ever could.

Ringos guitar will be back Im betting.

Totally agree about Kates face while dancing - its smug. Think theyre aiming for "revelling in her natural talent and joy of dance". But yes its smug.

Yet still I love Neighbours more than most other things on TV

It got me through some dark days of mat leave last time - six years ago - and I still never miss an episode. I get withdrawal when it's not on over xmas and new year.