[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I think it said 45 minutes but Livia can tell us if that is it

The thing I'm watching is 36 minutes long.

[GiRTh]

Seven minutes in 'Christian values have gone'. I nearly fell off my seat

[Ammi]

...’mooslims’...mooslims don’t drink do they.....

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...’mooslims’...mooslims don’t drink do they.....

I know. Its unintentionally brilliant.

[GiRTh]

The player who took a bite out of a banana was Dani Alves and it was only a couple of years ago

[GiRTh]

Eileen is moving out due to the death of her husband to be near her daughter. When are we gonna see the ones who are being 'pushed out' of their homes?

[Ammi]

...yeah I’ll watch it over the course of the evening as I’m doing some stuff as well...the inference that the pubs were closing down because the ‘mooslims don’t drink’, when I would say austerity and poverty which many people in the U.K. have experienced would be the reason...and the description of ‘these are proper Eastenders’...

[GiRTh]

'You see it on Eastenders with the Masoods' OMG I need oxygen.

That lady needed to shut up cuz I was giggling and chuckling all the way thru her speech on how 'we all kept to our own' and how she 'wouldn't be happy' if her daughter dated a non Caucasian boy. Lets hope her daughters not gay andbrings home a black girl cuz that might push her off the edge

It always intrigues me to see this kind of attitude. I find it more laughable than disturbing.

[Marsh.]

See what on EE with the Masoods?

They're probably as un-Muslim as it gets. Frequently in the pub drinking alcohol, bacon sarnies for breakfast, affairs, fighting in the street. Just like the white characters.

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

See what on EE with the Masoods?

They're probably as un-Muslim as it gets. Frequently in the pub drinking alcohol, bacon sarnies for breakfast, affairs, fighting in the street. Just like the white characters.

Brilliant the way she picked out one thing to make her point

EDIT - Didnt answer the question. She was making the point that on EE the Masoods didnt like one of their children dating a non-Muslim.

[GiRTh]

Watched it all now and not good, oh dear.

I dont think the people were racist but I found some of the attitudes to be as dodgy as f*(*k. I found the mixed race guy who didnt want his daughter to go to school where she would be a minority to actually be quite disturbing. He talked of her losing her 'identity' . She needs to find her own identity.

Thanks for the link but that show failed to show either the necessary sympathy for the people moving and failed to show how this is not entirely their choice. The show failed to show how the people are being 'pushed out'

[Ammi]

....awwww Eileen and Albert...leaving their home would have been such a difficult decision for her to make...but one that many older people have to make when they lose their life partner......

[GiRTh]

Have you watched all of it Ammi?

[Ammi]

...I think I have around 10 minutes left..it’s always lovely to see all of the children learning and interacting together in schools....and as she said, children don’t see colour...but so sad that this represents a school that the father didn’t feel he wanted to send his daughter to because he was worried she may lose her identity.....look at all of those children learning together and bonding...

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...I think I have around 10 minutes left..it’s always lovely to see all of the children learning and interacting together in schools....and as she said, children don’t see colour...but so sad that this represents a school that the father didn’t feel he wanted to send his daughter to because he was worried she may lose her identity.....look at all of those children learning together and bonding...

He was one of the few who actually depressed me a little. As the offspring of an immigrant its hard to see where that attitude comes from in him.

[Ammi]

...I’m not sure what to say really, the landscape of where people spend their childhood is always going to look so different when they’re then looking at it through the eyes of their own children and their grandchildren etc...populations rise, areas are built on more, building faces change and become unrecognisable from what they used to be...?...it’s a constant changing thing but not in any type of negative way...they had their personal reasons for leaving and Eileen who was the eldest..?...she had a lovely bond and friendship with her Somalian neighbours but just needed to be closer to her family...

[Ammi]

...it was an interesting watch, thanks for that Oliver....

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...I’m not sure what to say really, the landscape of where people spend their childhood is always going to look so different when they’re then looking at it through the eyes of their own children and their grandchildren etc...populations rise, areas are built on more, building faces change and become unrecognisable from what they used to be...?...it’s a constant changing thing but not in any type of negative way...they had their personal reasons for leaving and Eileen who was the eldest..?...she had a lovely bond and friendship with her Somalian neighbours but just needed to be closer to her family...

Oh yeah, I forgot Eileen had Somalian neighbours and mentioned how much she liked them.

I agree the constant changing environment in this country is too often viewed in a negative way.

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...it was an interesting watch, thanks for that Oliver....

Yes, thank Oliver. Have you and Cherie watched it yet?

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

Yes, thank Oliver. Have you and Cherie watched it yet?

I'm not going to watch it - I don't particularly care either way about London, I'm not a city person.

[Ammi]

...Eeeek she would be upset or disappointed if her daughter brought home a non Caucasian partner...?...she would probably freak at my extended family then...

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

I'm not going to watch it - I don't particularly care either way about London, I'm not a city person.

OK seems fair

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

I'm not going to watch it - I don't particularly care either way about London, I'm not a city person.

...thanks for finding it anyway, Oliver...it’s appreciated...

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...Eeeek she would be upset or disappointed if her daughter brought home a non Caucasian partner...?...she would probably freak at my extended family then...

She cracked me up from the moment she said 'Its not like the old days, everyone knew everyone' or whateverthe****** she said at the beginning. Lets not put that lady on Tv again cuz I dont think she speaks for anyone. She was just an embarrassment.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

She cracked me up from the moment she said 'Its not like the old days, everyone knew everyone' or whateverthe****** she said at the beginning. Lets not put that lady on Tv again cuz I dont think she speaks for anyone. She was just an embarrassment.

...thing is nothing is like ‘the old days’ for anyone and everyone looking back on their childhood and it’ll be the same for our children and our children’s children and on it goes and on it goes...it’s not a cultural thing, it’s just ever evolving and changing landscapes and people, which every neighbourhood needs...