You were at a very impressionable age Boot, that’s why things are easier to learn when you are young. I worry about the kids today with access to the world wide web, and TV material not suitable for young minds. We were only at the beginning of all the propaganda from the media and now they are born into the thick of it and the establishment knows how to use it too…The first job is to make sure everyone is ‘connected’ and needs a smartphone.
You know something Foxy, sometimes you talk alot of sense. I’m impressed.
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Steady on Morty, you’ll damage my reputation…
But I like your comments…
Let me give you a big porky hug…
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Hi
My mum was an extra on Corrie, Last of the Summer Wine and some others for years.
She was hugged by Vera Duckworth in the Rovers on new years eve in one episode.
She loved being an extra, said they had great fun on the set and that the actors were lovely people,not at all arrogant or stand offish.
She was born and raised on a very similar street in Chadderton, only moving to Yorkshire after marrying my Dad and having me and my brother.
I can still remember what it was like living there, with the mills, the ladies in pinafores and hair nets and thick stockings, the washing hanging out across the streets on Mondays and the corner shops.
The old Corrie was very realistic and true to the area, the more recent years are not realistic to the area.
The Mills are now closed and many derelict, high unemployment and people on benefits.
There is no pride in the area, it is not kept clean and tidy by the locals.
I no longer watch it, but if I did
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@OldGreyFox
Ooo…errr, Foxy - are you still following the Theo / Todd story or have you given up Corrie altogether now?
I’m still watching but it is getting very harrowing to watch Theo abusing Todd by gaslighting and physical abuse now. I just want Theo to get his comeuppance now!
I’ve started shouting at the TV, telling Todd to walk out of that flat and run for it!
He should go and stay with his old friend Bethany, who lives with a Copper - but Theo is already working on splitting Todd away from Bethany too.
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Oops! I meant Sarah, not her daughter Bethany - I keep getting them mixed up because Sarah still looks so young!
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I knew what you meant Boot. And yes, I’m sticking with it (although I don’t know why) I suppose it’s easy for us to say about Tod either leaving Theo or growing a pair, but it does go on in real life, especially with domestic violence on women.
Tod needs to realise that Theo is a dangerous bloke and this is not going to end well for Tod, but we are in the script writers hands…
I’m also annoyed with the love triangle of Carla, Lisa and Becky. Lisa needs to wake up and smell the coffee because Becky is playing her like a Stradivarius, and I think she has connections to the mob that she claims that she is so frightened of. It’s probably some of her scally friends that have mugged Costello…I think Kit is on the case and suspects all is not what it seems.
I’m not warming to the family that has taken over the Rovers (apart from Eva) especially the mother and the two sons. They are living up to the usual arrogant and devious young person that seem to frequent the cobbles…
The sexual abuse that Sally reckons happened to Tim when he was just a 16 year old seems to have died a death now, thank goodness. Unless they’re saving it for later…
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OGF, I agree with you on the story lines, and characters, you mention. I just cannot cannot take to Pauline McGlyn in this role. Or the two males. Eva is ok, yes.
Becky needs to do one, together with her equally annoying daughter.
Not watched the last episode yet, that will be later today. I just know I will FF the Theo/Todd abuse.
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Yes, I forgot about the annoying daughter Jazzi, she’s not even Lisa’s daughter and yet she is so in cahoots with Becky against Carla. I was hoping that Carla would have given Becky a slap when they had the altercation last week…But what happens…Carla ends up apologising for getting it wrong… 
Love triangles rarely work in my experience…
WHAT!..
I am led to believe that Lisa’s egg was implanted into Becky, so in effect she is the biological daughter of both of them. Nothing said about the father.
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Yes, Betsy is the biological daughter of Lisa; she is not Becky’s biological daughter but Becky is Betsy’s legal Mother because she gave birth to her.
Lisa was the “egg donor” and Becky was the “gestational carrier” , so they were both invested in bringing her into the world.
The way things are going, I’m wondering if Betsy and Becky will end up leaving the Street - and maybe Lisa too - the other possibility I’ve been pondering is whether Betsy and Lisa stay in the Street and the sperm donor (Betsy’s biological Father) may turn up???
I don’t think we’ve had one of those stories about “anonymous sperm donors” turning up or being found in Corrie yet and it is something that is happening more often in real life nowadays.
That Becky seems a real piece of work and so does Costello - there’s bound to be some nail-biting scenes involving them somewhere along the line and maybe the policeman Kit, who seems to be taking an interest?
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What! The mob! What has become of my beloved old Corrie … gaslighting, sperm donors, love triangles and abuse … it all sounds so stressful to watch.
I thought Phelan of many years back was bad enough and that Bradley bloke who got run over by a tram at Blackpool …
Corrie used to be the humorous one and it was Eastenders that was the depressing darker side of life.
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Well, George often provides a bit of light relief - although, he is the Undertaker! 
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They have an undertaker? Now that sounds full of possibilites.
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How long ago did you last watch Corrie, Morty?
Do you remember Archie Shuttleworth, the Undertaker who paid court to Blanche Hunt (Deidre Barlow’s Mother) and to Audrey Roberts, over 20 years go?
George Shuttleworth is Archie’s son and he inherited his Undertaker’s business.
When he first came in, George provided the kind of light relief that Fred Elliott used to provide, I say, I say, tha remembers Fred Elliott?!
George has been a bit more serious since Eileen Grimshaw left him - she went on Celebrity Jungle then went back to Corrie looking like a different person after a big life change ( or a big cosmetic “makeover” ) - then she left the Street to visit her other son Jason in Thailand to help him run a bar there - I think someone should “text her” and let her know that her son Todd is in big trouble - I’m sure Eileen would soon sort the abusive controller Theo out if she came back and saw what he was doing to her Todd!
(Note to self : am I becoming too invested in the lives of the Coronation Street characters? ) 
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Now this sounds more like it! I can’t remember the undertaker but I CAN remember Eileen Grimshaw and Fred Elliott.
You know one day I may just have to have a peep at it and see what it’s like.
Would you believe it I can remember yonks ago I used to dash through my jobs, get the dishes washed so I could put my feet up with a cuppa to watch it … when it was totally unmissable.
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I’ve just watched that bit where Theo smashes Todd’s face into the mirror on Youtube!
This is a far cry from Hilda nagging Stan and Vera moaning at Jack. It’s a bit heavy isn’t it.
Oh, the chap playing Theo is a good intense scary actor but Todd wasn’t so good … a bit wooden. He must just be scared.
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Just a day in the life of a typical Mancunian street Morty… 
Just ask Dex…
Yes, George works with ‘Stiffs’ Morty…Just like Mrs Fox…
Before anyone gets hot under the collar…Mrs Fox spent most of her life working in nursing homes and was no stranger to dead bodies…
It’s the words … ‘stiffs’ … Foxy!
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