She decided that she loved being the centre of house in a pub, remembering her days at the Rovers and it was her calling in life, not measuring out Bon Bon’s in Rita’s shop.
So Rita bought her a one way ticket to Tenerife so she could start again Jazzi.
Thanks OGF.
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I don’t think that Tony Warren would be turning in his grave about having gay scenes and gay characters in Corrie. He might have loved the Canal Street scenes in the recent episode of Corrie!
Tony Warren used to say that introducing a gay character to Corrie would have been inconceivable when the TV series first started in 1960. Instead he used the language of characters he met in Manchester’s gay village when writing lines for the likes of Elsie Tanner.
As time went on, Tony used to fight against the producers and try to get them to include a gay character but he had to fight a lot of prejudice. At one meeting, he got so fed up of the anti-gay prejudice being shown by the producers, he reminded them that Corrie wouldn’t exist without him, so they owed their jobs to “a poof” !
“On one occasion I sat there and listened and listened until I got to my feet and said, ‘I have sat here and listened to three poof jokes, an actor described as a poof, a storyline described as too poofy, and I would just like to remind you that without a poof you wouldn’t be in work’. One of them said, ‘But Tony, we didn’t mean you’. I said, ‘You call my brothers, you call me’. I didn’t know I felt so strongly until that moment, and from then on I never pretended to another soul that I was anything other than what I am."
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In my opinion it’s still wrong Boot, it’s not how I was brought up… 
The producers were right, it turned out to be the best and longest running soap of all time.
I just think that they have ruined what was supposed to be a typical Weatherfield Street of working class folk, and focused on the gay community too much. I think it’s days are numbered Boot because I’m not the only one who takes exception to the excess of highly strung, neurotic people sorting out their love lives at peak times. It’s not all that entertaining.
Nobody minds the odd gay couple in the street, including me, but come on Boot…
You know Foxy, I just love that little blue smiley you always post shaking his sad little face. Always makes me smile.
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Thanks Morty, it usually best describes the way I feel after reading some posts… 
Don’t you think the old emoji’s were superior to the new ones we generally use now?
I do … they were so much less bling but more expressive.
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So where are they going with Tim’s early sexual education lesson with Trisha?
Does anyone think it’s a bit trivial after all this time?
The courts would be booked up for the next ten years if they ever questioned people from the little pit village where I was brought up in…and lost my virginity in…
Theo…What a big girls blouse…
And what is Abbey going to do when she finds out Carl has been sleeping with James and leave her in the lurch…
I’m so disappointed with Todd…Can’t he see he’s been manipulated…There seems to be a lot of that going on with Carl gaslighting Debbie, and speaking of Carl…He doesn’t look like the type to play happy families with Abi…In fact, he needs a family like Long John Silver needs a skipping rope…Arrrrr!
Two things have happened by accident in recent years. not watching Corrie and not doing the lottery, is one happier as a result 
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I don’t like many of the storylines, including Carl accessing the hotel’s accounts some time this week or next. He is not to be trusted.
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I wonder how Kev’s garage is surviving now Abi has left and Tyrone is disabled. They must have lost lots of customers recently, and the bills will keep piling up.
Kev looks like a vagrant and I’m not surprised Abi has left him for someone more virile and exciting. Mind you…Kev was always punching above his weight with Abi.
Carl is just bad right through Jazzi, and he has brought all the family down.
I was surprised when Tod and Theo bought a flat together having only known each other for ten minutes. I’ve a feeling something nasty is going to happen to Tod…
Why are all the kids on Cora spoilt little disrespectful B’s tards?
None of them would have lasted long in a South Yorkshire pit village…
All it is now in Corrie and Emmerdale, is:
Violence, Rape, Murder, Gays.
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Never heard that one before … like that one.
So Kev is still in it?
And Tyrone is disabled?
Aye … youse is tuff from those pit villages ain’t ye lad.
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I think the Todd/Theo storyline is one of the most believable storylines the series has had for ages.
Viewers can see what Theo is doing to Todd but Todd’s friends cannot see what goes on behind closed doors and Theo has been slowly chipping away at Todd’s confidence and autonomy and isolating him from his friends.
That is how manipulative abusive controllers operate.
Watching this manipulation develop has been painful because it is so obvious to us impartial observers - the Corrie scriptwriters are using all the classic manipulative techniques of real-life abusive controllers.
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I find it a bit intense at times though Boot, a far cry from the original objective of the programme…It used to be entertaining but you need a PHD in psychology to understand it now.
Do we really need to delve that deep into peoples private lives and mental issues on an early evening soap. They have to give warnings now about disturbing content…Not always the case in the past. Have we changed as an audience in what we like to watch now, or have they made that decision for us and forced us into the dark side…
Food for thought, OGF.
Us and Them foxy, 52 tears on
Did you find it less intense when Alan Bradley was abusing and gaslighting Rita?
Or Brian Tilsey was murdered in a stabbing outside a nightclub?
Or when a teenage Toyah Battersby got raped?
I can also vaguely remember some dark storylines even further back, involving Elsie Tanner - one was an man she had an affair with dying of a heart attack when he was with Elsie, then Elsie was stalked by his mental unstable widow, who broke into her house and threatened her with a scary looking knife. I also remember Elsie’s husband was murdered. Elsie was suspected of killing him. Eventually, it turned out that the man who did murder Steve Tanner confessed to it and killed himself.
They didn’t have warnings about disturbing content in those days but some of the storylines were still disturbing. I was only a child when Elsie Tanner was in Corrie but I recall plenty of abuse and crime in the Tanner household, involving Elsie and her menfriends or some of Elsie’s lodgers, who also often had issues.
They didn’t have warnings about disturbing content in those days but some of the storylines were still disturbing. Maybe you’ve forgotten those dramatic scenes or maybe age makes us realise just how dark some human relationships can be.
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