Cyclechat investigates...soaps

[classic33]

Ros na Rún

 

[Globalti]

I also thought this was about toilet soap. Not much of it is sold nowadays since manufacturers persuaded us to spend lots more money on slippery detergent gel, packed in single-use bottles, perfectly designed to float for years in the ocean. Most of the gel goes down the drain as well. It's about 90% water with some surfactant and lots of thickener so really profitable to manufacture.

 

[KneesUp]

I also thought this was about toilet soap. Not much of it is sold nowadays since manufacturers persuaded us to spend lots more money on slippery detergent gel, packed in single-use bottles, perfectly designed to float for years in the ocean. Most of the gel goes down the drain as well. It's about 90% water with some surfactant and lots of thickener so really profitable to manufacture.

We use 'Splosh' - it's just the concentrate bit, you add the water yourself, and it's all bio-degradeable eco business. You can buy a re-useable container of them or any number of 'home' stores.

 

[Drago]

Here there some imported soaps from India and Spain which are very popular but this is a home grown example. Mainly based around infidelity and family issues but what people here love to see most is fighting;


View: https://youtu.be/5toXgQ1nmas

I'm liking the sound of that. Great name!

 

[Vantage]

Ah, television soap!

I'd rather have my eyes ripped out by a speeding rusty fork powered by a north sea drilling rig. With vinegar. And Alf Stewart at the controls. With Big Bird of Sesame Street pecking his head.

 

[MichaelW2]

None of them. The only soap type programme I watch is Holby City and occasionally Casualty.

Casualty used to be fun when you had to guess who would die horribly and who would be injured for life. You got a few good first aid tips and some H&S lessons as well. Then it went all soft and concentrated on the relationships.

 

[KneesUp]

Casualty used to be fun when you had to guess who would die horribly and who would be injured for life. You got a few good first aid tips and some H&S lessons as well. Then it went all soft and concentrated on the relationships.

It wasn't a 'soap' originally was it? As I recall it was on Sunday night for a season or two a year - not every week, and not a few times a week. I too used to enjoy the 'oh god, it's not going to end well for the people on the coach - not with the storm, that light aircraft and the tired and stressed lorry driver' moment at the start.

Also, wasn't there a vaguely 'comic' porter, possibly of Eastern European descent, in the early series'? Or am I just remembering one funny incident as indicative of the whole character?

 

[Drago]

Then it went all soft and concentrated on the relationships.

Bits of the Male characters got hard.

 

[Julia9054]

When I was in the Feds it was normal to watch Casualty/Holby as The Bill was so unrealistic. Conversely, the ambo crews would usually watch The Bill because Casualby was so unrealistic.

As a teacher, i don't watch any of the school based ones for the same reason.

 

[Threevok]

They could make a soap about sewage workers - although it would be virtually indistinguishable from the shite already on the TV

 

[KneesUp]

As a teacher, i don't watch any of the school based ones for the same reason.

I'm the same - never watch anything you know something about. Or Casualty, because it's just stress and gore.

 

[Paulus]

Sorry Drago, couldn't find the hate soap with a vengeance option on the vote list. MrsP watches Corrie, can't miss an episode. I will go and do something else whilst it is on. wash my hair, walk the dog, ride my bike etc. The story lines are appalling, they make the citizens of wherever they are supposed to be seem like half wits. The acting is terrible and there is very little humour in amongst the fighting, lying, cheating,(delete as required). Rant over. I must go and take the dog for a walk and visit the pub now.

 

[otek59]

Sorry Drago, couldn't find the hate soap with a vengeance option on the vote list. MrsP watches Corrie, can't miss an episode. I will go and do something else whilst it is on. wash my hair, walk the dog, ride my bike etc. The story lines are appalling, they make the citizens of wherever they are supposed to be seem like half wits. The acting is terrible and there is very little humour in amongst the fighting, lying, cheating,(delete as required). Rant over. I must go and take the dog for a walk and visit the pub now.

My ex used to watch eastenders, I did the washing up,took the rubbish out, etc anything to avoid watching it, which I think was why see watched it

 

[gbb]

I don't generally watch soaps but don't mind an odd Eastenders, corrie or similar....but if there was a poll for the worst, Holby or its incarnations would be right up there. Mind numbing drivel. Gawld help us all if hospital staff behave even remotely like that in real life.

 

[Freds Dad]

Does anyone remember soap on a rope?

There is always the Catholic church version.