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Jason Grimshaw’s stupidity (Corrie).

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Originally Posted by Redway

Jason Grimshaw’s stupidity (Corrie).

Yes. Total himbo

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Originally Posted by Kate!

Yes. Total himbo

Re-watching 2006/2007 episodes in the ITVX “Classic” reruns is no easy feat. He seems to think that looking after his own baby is his mum’s responsibility, that it’s a big inconvenience to be responsible for another life.

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Originally Posted by Redway

Re-watching 2006/2007 episodes in the ITVX “Classic” reruns is no easy feat. He seems to think that looking after his own baby is his mum’s responsibility, that it’s a big inconvenience to be responsible for another life.

Much prefer Todd of the two brothers

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Originally Posted by Kate!

Much prefer Todd of the two brothers

I’m not even a big fan of Todd but I have to agree with you. I think ultimately Jason’s a nice person but he’s always been a bit dim and oafish for my liking.

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Originally Posted by Redway

Re-watching 2006/2007 episodes in the ITVX “Classic” reruns is no easy feat. He seems to think that looking after his own baby is his mum’s responsibility, that it’s a big inconvenience to be responsible for another life.

He sounds like the worst stereotype of what a Dad is meant to be.

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Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

He sounds like the worst stereotype of what a Dad is meant to be.

Yeah. Jason was just an idiot. His only responsibility around this time was not losing his bank-card on a night out. Anything more, and it was his mum’s job to sort it out for him. Never anything to do with him.

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Originally Posted by Redway

Yeah. Jason was just an idiot. His only responsibility around this time was not losing his bank-card on a night out. Anything more, and it was his mum’s job to sort it out for him. Never anything to do with him.

And I thought that I was a lazy bastard.

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People who say “I understand” when they don’t, not really.

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Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

And I thought that I was a lazy bastard.

Jason: ‘I know you’ve recently lost a pregnancy, Violet, but since you’re staying in tonight (even-though it’s because you’re feeling ill), can you look after my baby?’

Nah. You’re nowhere-near that bad, my guy. I’m very sure of that. Jason was an idiot on top of being lazy, more of a tool than the building-tools he worked wi., and that made it all-the worse. Good legacy-character but so annoying to watch in the noughties, until he grew up a bit.

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Speaking of this era of Corrie, I also wasn’t a fan of how rushed Mike Baldwin’s dementia-storyline was. I’m not an expert on Alzheimer’s (that’s not where my niche insight of mental health lies) but from the first signs of fading memory and tentative diagnosis there’s only about four months of material. Well-acted, no-doubt, and well-written as far as it goes, but far too rushed.

Something in Corrie fundamentally changed for the worse in the summer of 2005 (at a time when EastEnders was going from strength to strength, between Shannis returning, Zoe leaving and Sam digging up Dirty Den’s corpse in the Vic, even if the Molfie-heavy interim between those points wasn’t the best) and that’s how it stays, albeit never-quite as silly, until about the middle of 2010, bottoming in 2009. Not a good era for the show all-in-all but Mike’s Alzheimer’s is a highlight I try and take from 2006, but I can’t. Not fully, because from a temporal longitudinal perspective it made no sense how he could deteriorate that rapidly and even evade a firm diagnosis.

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EastEnders: people reducing Jamie Borthwick’s acting to copious hand-flapping (which I’ve never really even noticed). I haven’t been Jay’s biggest fan since 2017 but there’s solid acting behind him. He’s made some questionable comments lately but that’s a separate issue.

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Originally Posted by Redway

EastEnders: people reducing Jamie Borthwick’s acting to copious hand-flapping (which I’ve never really even noticed). I haven’t been Jay’s biggest fan since 2017 but there’s solid acting behind him. He’s made some questionable comments lately but that’s a separate issue.

Some people on Walford Web seem really taken aback by this supposed hand-flapping business, in terms of how he gesticulates. That’s what I’m referring to.

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Originally Posted by Redway

EastEnders: people reducing Jamie Borthwick’s acting to copious hand-flapping (which I’ve never really even noticed). I haven’t been Jay’s biggest fan since 2017 but there’s solid acting behind him. He’s made some questionable comments lately but that’s a separate issue.

If I remember correctly, didn't he make a joke that the BBC overreacted about?

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Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

If I remember correctly, didn't he make a joke that the BBC overreacted about?

I wouldn’t call it an over-reaction, tbh. It was a comment in very poor taste.

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Originally Posted by Redway

I wouldn’t call it an over-reaction, tbh. It was a comment in very poor taste.

I remember it not being that bad tbh.

Especially compared to what the BBC has let off the hook at least.

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The current state of Belle Vale Shopping Centre (Liverpool). Whenever I’m in Liverpool and tap into Belle Vale, there’s always some other shop that’s shut up shop. They’ll all be gone by December at this rate. Very annoying.

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Buses that stall in the middle of nowhere.

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People who can’t just sit down.

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Bees and wasps what don’t mind they-own beeswax (pun vaguely intended). ’cause why-you taking a nap in my cup of coffee? Respect the boundary, fam.