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The way Corrie’s mostly been plodding along in mediocrity at best since the spring of ’05, with only a few genuinely captivating, well-crafted periods approaching the quality of the better of the first 44 years. There are probably years within these last 20 years that have been more alien to Corrie’s core than this current misery-drip of police-drama (2011-12 was marmite-like but I thought most of Collinson’s era was horrible, likewise the infamous bad-comedy summer of ’05) but it’s mostly strayed between that level of horror and just-plain mediocrity since.
2006 wasn’t exactly the best year for EastEnders because of the cast-turnover of 2005-06 and it took a while to get going again in more solid blocks after Sharon goes to Florida but there’s actually quite a lot that’s good about this year, and it’s solid in terms of characterisation for certain key characters. I know we’ll never forget what they did to Pauline, and Sonia was beyond insufferable this year, but characters like Jean (before she became a sausage-surprise caricature) and Bradley were better served by Kate Harwood than Diedrick Santer, with some genuinely good arcs to root for (Denise/Owen/Libby abuse, Billy and Honey’s wedding and Janet’s Down-Syndrome, Sean/Stacey/Jean, the beginnings of things like Stacey/Max. and Stella bullying Ben.) to boot. It had edge and genuine drama amongst the crap (Sonia/Naomi, Johnny Allen getting wasted into cardiac oblivion, “killing” Kathy off for 9 years to give us the repugnant divvy that is Ben Mitchell). One thing that the current “classic” Corrie reruns (currently on October 2006) have pointed out is how flat and stale it feels by comparison to Easties, and like I say 2006 wasn’t exactly a golden year for them, either. Just … Jamie having an affair with his step-mum, Sean (who’s improved as a character just-lately, thanks to Dylan) prancing around convinced he’s straight-acting, Bev. drunk-acting very badly and crying over a gravy-jar, David at his absolute teenage-psycho. worst (even if it did give us that *epic* Gail/David showdown), it … ya. The only stories from this year I really like are Rosie/Craig and Emily Bishop coming face-to-face with her Ernest’s killer (and even that was wrapped up in the first quarter of the year). No real danger of sinking ship at the time, better in hindsight now a lot of icons (like Deirdre) aren’t with us anymore and it’s watchable enough but no more than that. Just so, so painfully average. |
My child has decided to peacefully protest nap time by napping peacefully on the floor... on one hand, I should be happy because she looks happy. On the other hand, her protest is working because I'm definitely not checking the camera for evidences of permanent damage.
Our home is 100% tile, but she probably has her "square" (folded blanket) underneath her as that's her favorite place of late... it's something at least... oh and her head is on her pillow |
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People blaming homelessness on the issue of ‘too much immigration’. Many rough sleepers are recent, unsettled migrants, including ones from Eastern Europe (who might not be Anglo-Saxon white but still fundamentally Caucasian). We live in a world with so much xenophobia and hatred dressed up as impartial politics but at t’end of t’day, no-one should be sleeping rough. Only certain people are wicked enough to deserve nights under the bridge surrounded by rats and damp mould.
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The periodic pain of bunions.
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People who are paid to speak English and say 'nucular' instead of 'nuclear'.
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When the visibly snotty-nosed cashier in your local garage is behind the till two days in a row. Catching sight of it yesterday, I was repulsed for 3 hours straight; I did not eat. I was asking my God why some people can be so disgusting from a public-health point of view. All the Singapore fried rice, chicken-wangs, Skittles and De Rica tomato-paste I’d bought to go and do big celebration of tasty food, I had to put them all aside in anger.
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The way people in certain communities carry shame on their heads like it’s a mad ting just-because it becomes common knowledge that they graduated with a third-class degree (for example now). We do a lot of judging and gossiping and not enough minding our business or at-least trying to put ourselves in t’other person’s shoes. Let’s have less noice and more nuance in our noisy world.
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When people interchange being a person of colour with being working-class. That doesn’t withstand the scrutiny of actual reality. How do people think doctors and pharmacists of colour live?
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The way oxazepam as a benzo. is so, so underrated. It’s less potentially addictive than any of the others, it’s more compatible with alcohol (likewise with lorazepam and temazepam) than the Valium and (in places like the U.S.) Xanax that gets churned out by default and … yeah. It’s just really nice. Grounds your thoughts into a manageable load, whether you’re in intuition-overload or just want to give a bit more mellow weight to your cognitive world on rainy weekends. It’s probably the safest benzo. there is, but it’s barely prescribed outside of alcohol-withdrawal.
Quietly anchoring without fanfare is how I’d describe it. Less of that boom-bust pattern you get with high-drama benzos (clonazepam, Valium, Xanax). Thought-calibrative chamomile for the psyche. Lorazepam? Grounds you in the moment and reduces the hasty pressure you get to work against the clock otherwise. Plantain porridge takes you a good 2 hours to cook in this mode of alert quasi-sedation? No problem. Separating your beiges from your pure whites out of a sack of laundry? I can legit. sit with it for as long as it takes, without feeling any need to rush just that little bit more to get it done. ‘It’ll happen when it happens’ is lorazepam’s aura. |
People who did you dirty in the past while harping on about gaseous nebulas symbolising personal birth rather-than destruction (for another ting). Ironic when that person caused destruction in your own life.
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Flies. It's the one thing I bloody hate about living in the country.
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At least they’re not bladdy mosquitoes like in Florida ?!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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People who seriously believe that “a lady” should only drink white wine and its spritzer. That’s like saying men should only drink shots of whiskey on the rocks and forget about beer.
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Reddit’s auto.-mod. messages.
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Gillian Wright’s current voice (EastEnders). Ugh. How I long for the days of 2005/2009 Jean. Now she’s just a lispy fairy who flies around making sausage-and-fish baskets and slapping Kat for fun.
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Watching England National Football Team play.
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I took the FC to a local comic con recently, and he entered the cosplay competition with a homemade costume. All the "placed prizes" went to people with shop bought costumes with no customisation or anything, while the people who made costumes didn't get anything.
So yeah that's today's gripe, people winning (or even entering tbh) cosplay contests with bought jobbies. |
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