billybathgate
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I'm only trying to help you Ro-land
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Post by billybathgate on Jul 15, 2004 12:13:01 GMT
How cute was the little eco-boy when they were eating dinner and he said "Did you hear that? Rowan said she wanted to kill Joanna"
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Post by zaffra on Jul 15, 2004 12:47:39 GMT
How cute was the little eco-boy when they were eating dinner and he said "Did you hear that? Rowan said she wanted to kill Joanna" 'Sage' - how could you call your child that, at least the sister wasn't called Onion.
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Post by Becky on Jul 15, 2004 16:22:24 GMT
I missed it since I was at work and the video machine decided it was going to tape 2 programmes on channel 5 instead of the 3 programmes on channel 4 I'd put in and checked on videoplus. What a shit show. Anyway, I hope it gets repeated at some point.
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Post by Steven on Jul 27, 2004 23:10:56 GMT
Funny thing about tonight's episode - the way that I went into the final five minutes with completely different feelings about the families to the feelings I had at the end of the show.
Right up until that point my loyalties had been with the health-obsessed family because although the dad was self-righteous and domineering, they seemed to have the right idea of what constitutes a good family dynamic.
But after the confrontation between the two families, I was absolutely disgusted with the way the health-obsessed family behaved. Yes, there were an awful lot of things wrong with the ebay-obssed family's lifestyle, but for them to assume that there was absolutely nothing they could have learnt from the experience because they were such perfect parents and such upstanding members of society was smugness and self-delusion to the extreme. The mother of the other family was right to say that the kids would benefit from having time out every once in a while from all of the family running/cycling/hiking to develop some other interests, because we saw that when she took them to a car boot sale they were enjoying themselves, having a break from their routine.
Grrr. What with them and Dan Big Brother, Channel 4 really was a hotbed of I'm-above-all-this tonight.
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Post by zaffra on Jul 28, 2004 10:39:19 GMT
I only saw last 15 minutes last night, but I totally agree with Pandarama, from what we were seeing health obsessed family were cool and sorted, they all got on really well and knew how to have a good time.
Then when the couples confronted each other at the end, health mother came across as a right bitch, her comments to boot sale mother were cruel and spiteful, boot sale mother was reduced to tears and said she had learnt somthing about spending more time with her daughter and doing more exercise.
And for all that exercise and her (comparitivly) trim figure health mother still had no dress sense, Stevie Nicks after she'd been living rough a few years, it's so not a good look.
It's sad I know but I really have enjoyed this series, especially the last few where the couples have at least been able to communicate a bit.
If only I had a wife, I'd swap her!
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Post by Storm on Jul 28, 2004 13:02:58 GMT
Last nights was the first I'd seen, but I defo agree with panda - the exercise family were horrible. They refused to even contemplate that their lives were anything less than perfect. Did anybody else think that the amount of time they spent together was odd?? I mean, none of the children seemed to have any other friends, and all spare time seemed to be spent together.
The Huddersfield woman should have berated them for the state of the house - it was disgusting. They may have been all upper class, and 'we know best' but they lived in a hovel. Kim and Aggie would have been disgusted!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2004 13:25:04 GMT
The healthy family were complete cunts. They called their daughter "Calamity", but Calamity was too busy being 18-going-on-40 and loving her siblings to actually notice that a) her name was shit and meant "disaster" and b) there was life beyond the large field in which she lived. What did the kids talk about when they went to school? Did they have any friends, listen to music, watch TV? No, they rode bikes. And as soon as BitchMum returned they completely forgot that they could do something other than that. The fact that the fat family discovered exercise just shows that they were willing to broaden their horizons, and for that, I salute FatFamily.
I loved Alice. She had clearly never seen a day of sunshine in her life, and played the trumpet like a deaf leper with no lips.
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Post by blahblah on Jul 28, 2004 13:26:11 GMT
What I find weird about the show is that the couples cannot compromise to any extent.
A family is either fat and only eat junk food or is into healhty living and organic food. They are so set in their ways that any changes to diet or lifestyle are poo-pooed before even giving it a go.
Like the programme before it "you are what you eat",the people are all fat fuckers who only eat shit and when something healthy is put in front of them and they are asked to eat it, they react like children given a brussel sprout.
I did think that the exercise mum was a bitch in the end but what I don't get is how it's always the mum's who get so nasty. Why are they so uncivil to each other? How long do those meetings last and how edited are they?
It is educational to me though and makes me wonder how I would bring up a child. Certainly though I'd rather my kids out and about than sitting in their room looking at a collection of rocks.
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Post by zaffra on Jul 28, 2004 13:38:07 GMT
I loved Alice. She had clearly never seen a day of sunshine in her life, and played the trumpet like a deaf leper with no lips. I just sprayed banana all over my monitor thanks to you.
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Post by max on Aug 4, 2004 22:15:50 GMT
i made someone do that today with my mention of the "hardcore salad-dodgers" on You Are What You Eat
Wife Swap was quite good this week i thought, although Kate was pretty useless in an office. They werent too hard on each other as Fit Family and EBay Family were last week.
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