I rarely watch television

Bretrick

Bretrick

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A couple of lines from the show, Open All Hours​

Arkwright - When I was a lad, early was a lot earlier than it is now. We had no time to go broody.
Granville - What, even during puberty?
Arkwright - Puberty? There was no such thing as puberty when I was a lad. Aw, it hadn't been invented. We went straight from childhood into heavy labour. There wasn't a p p p pube in sight. :LOL:
 

Packerjohn said:
I cut my cable over 25 years ago. Can't understand why folks keep watching those 7 minutes of commercials all the time. Life is short and should never be wasted!
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fortunately we're not at that point ..yet..in the Uk. Our adverts last 3 minutes or less... and there's a minimum of 15 minutes ..often more.. of viewing time before there is an advert.

OTOH the BBC has No adverts at all.. that's BBC 1 & 2

I wach one american channel sometimes ''Court TV''.. OMG..it would drive you insane with the adverts.. really they should rename it.. ''a touch of court between Commercial breaks..''. t's absultey appalling...
 
Bretrick said:

A couple of lines from the show, Open All Hours​

Arkwright - When I was a lad, early was a lot earlier than it is now. We had no time to go broody.
Granville - What, even during puberty?
Arkwright - Puberty? There was no such thing as puberty when I was a lad. Aw, it hadn't been invented. We went straight from childhood into heavy labour. There wasn't a p p p pube in sight. :LOL:
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Ronnie Barker was a comic genius who should have been recognised even more than he was... as such
 
Bretrick said:
Totally agree. We will never see the likes of him again. With all this "Politically Correctness" taking over.
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yes absolutely right..altho' he was very clever to not offend with his jokes... but people like Bob Mokhouse another genius..who never offended on TV, but was blue as anything in the clubs.. and of course Jim Davidson, would be all ( and jim is ) cancelled culture, due very much to the PC brigade
 
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Bretrick said:

A couple of lines from the show, Open All Hours​

Arkwright - When I was a lad, early was a lot earlier than it is now. We had no time to go broody.
Granville - What, even during puberty?
Arkwright - Puberty? There was no such thing as puberty when I was a lad. Aw, it hadn't been invented. We went straight from childhood into heavy labour. There wasn't a p p p pube in sight. :LOL:
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I have this show in my British TV Collection. It's one of those shows that is so British, I don't recommend it to my fellow Americans. They just wouldn't understand it at all. Like when Arkwright tells Granville to put 11p in the till, after he lets him have an ice cream. We would say to put 11Ā¢ in the cash register. An American might think that Arkwright is telling Granville to pee 11 times into whatever a till is. :LOL:

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That show really was a classic. The Brits don't make shows with that sort of humour anymore, unfortunately.

If I remember correctly, a couple of lines were...

Nurse - my mother eats like a bird.
Arkwright - yes, a pelican

Something like that. Love it!

I don't watch TV much either. Shows like that and Dad's Army among many others made the thing worth watching.
 
On free broadcast TV, I sometimes watch reruns of older sitcoms like Three's Company. There are too many crime shows. I cancelled pay TV long ago because it wasn't much better. I stop in thrift stores and buy used DVD movies cheap once in awhile. Over the past few years, I've accumulated hundreds of those, and I'll watch or re-watch them when nothing good is on TV.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
On free broadcast TV, I sometimes watch reruns of older sitcoms like Three's Company. There are too many crime shows. I cancelled pay TV long ago because it wasn't much better. I stop in thrift stores and buy used DVD movies cheap once in awhile. Over the past few years, I've accumulated hundreds of those, and I'll watch or re-watch them when nothing good is on TV.
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Welcome to the forum, Mack.
I utulise my local library and take out DVD movies from their extensive range.
 

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