Why Do People Watch Soaps

[nailit]

I just don't get it...
I don't currently own a tv but even when I did, I just NEVER understood the reason WHY people (mainly women) got so involved in the lives of fictional characters?...
Please enlighten me.

[nailit]

//It would make the parish magazine a better read that's for sure//
ooerr, pray tell :-) this could be interesting...

[nailit]

AB's very own soap opera!

[AuntLydia]

Serioulsy Nailit...Last months headlines, someones wheelie bin got stolen and was found in the village pond and Mrs M celebrated her 80th with a cake. The scouts will be selling poppies and the guides selling cup cakes ( gender stereotyping rife here) and the WI are going on a bus trip to Carlisle. Living on the edge.....

[nailit]

That's a let down, was expecting something to do with the vicars wife and the green grocer's cucumber or something..
Not like in the soaps then?

[AuntLydia]

We've had the odd misplaced sausage.....

[nailit]

I can imagine ;-)

[retrocop]

AL
Quite frankly I would give my back teeth to live in a quiet rural setting with the Parish News letter to enjoy reading whilst enjoying a pint of cider to the accompiament of the village campanologists practising their craft.
All I get 24/7 is the sound of sirens and reading the local freebie Guardian newspapers every Friday as to who features on the latest butcher's bill in the local drug wars.Will I recognise the names of the stabbing victims who might of gone to the same local school as my two lads.?

[kvalidir]

It's the same where I live in the UK, Doris has done the flower arranging in the church this month, there's a bring and buy sale in the church hall, someone got done for having no lights on their bike and there are potholes. Very lucky to live where I do as you identify Retro.

[retrocop]

That is real bliss to me.

[AuntLydia]

yes I know Retro, I couldn't cope with living in a big city, though sometimes it would be nice to be able to get a pizza delivered or go see a movie without having to organise an 'outing' for the 40 mile round trip.

[tonyav]

to the accompiament of the village campanologists practising their craft.

Drives me round the bend for an hour and half on a Monday evening.

[-SharonA-]

Bell ringing???

[Zacs-Master]

Quiet in the countyside! Ha!!! Tractors in the fields till well after dark and then roaring past your house with 15 tonnes of corn cobs in a trailer. Church bells. Drunks on the way home from the pub. Cockerels calling the day. Sheesh, it’s bedlam.

[tonyav]

I know it sounds a bit camp, but yes Sharon.

[-SharonA-]

And do you join in?

[tonyav]

Leavvvve it ahht.

[-SharonA-]

You can ring my bellllllll !!!!!!!

[tonyav]

Ohhhhhh ;-)

[Caran]

I've watched Corrie from the first episode. Might have missed about five episodesaltogether. Always recorded it when we went on holiday even when we went away for a month.
Bliss coming home and catching up with recordings.

[Canary42]

Soaps are chewing gum for the mind.