[Closed] Downton Abbey avoidance thread

*pulls up chair*

Aliens.

pulls up ruffled skirt

Never watched it. I'm not like most women it seems. 😀

London Pride doesn't taste great after Old Peculiar

School boy error on my part. I read your thread title out loud.

#arse.

Fitting mudguards to my winter roadie in the kitchen so I am well out of harm's way.

Man Rule No: 4536 - All period dramas should be avoided.

Building my BMX.

School boy error on my part - No whiskey left!!!!

Down to the garage to rob the Thursday night ride supply*

*I will re-stock

LOL - I quite like Downton Abbey 🙂

Does anything actually happen in this program? Or is it just about that big headed fella going to the post office?

Spotify - G'n'R - Lies + I.P.A. Homebrew. Sorted.

That's the thing with period dramas, nothing ever happens in them. The cast just bumble around in costumes looking uncomfortable.

Definitely ran away and will every week between now and ...........

is it back on already?
excellent 🙂

That's the thing with period dramas, nothing ever happens in them. The cast just bumble around in costumes looking uncomfortable.

I do watch "...Mr Whitcher", though that's a slightly different costume drama.

It's a slippery slope CountZero, it starts here and before you know it.......Pride and Prejudice box set. 😥
There are people you can call for support. Do it now, before it's too late!

I watched it while doing the ironing- not sure what that says about me.... So relieved the fire didn't take hold...

I was avoiding it quite nicely until you started this thread!

Mrs coolhandluke was banished to the upstairs tele to watch it.

Result. 😀

I'm lucky my wife isn't bothered about that sort of TV, we are currently watching season 5 of Justified

Fek that, last night we walked along the beach at sunset, top down in the car to the Great Pub in the hills, sat outside drinking Hampshires finest, home with the top down then watched Sickert on BBC4.

Proper night that.

We all know Downton is shit but Mrs zips take on Breaking Bad is " they make some drugs, someone gets killed then he goes home and has sex."
That is why the telly is always on Midsomer Murder.

[i]Man Rule No: 4536 - All period dramas should be avoided.[/i]

Oo...I dunno, there have been some great ones over the years, but DA is pure unadulerated shite! I watched a bit last night and I think its actually got worse1 As for his Lordship, he just needs a good punch in the face!

Mrs Binners LOVES all that crap. I think its basically Hollyoaks in a big house, with a bigger wardrobe budget, and would rather gauge my own eyes out with a soup spoon than endure a single second of it.

Suggest watching any period drama = I immediately disappear out on my bike/head to the pub.

So she records it and watches it when I'm out on my bike, down the pub anyway. I do the same with BBC4 documentaries about World War 2 fighter aircraft, 70's prog rock bands etc.

Everybody's happy 😀

Does anything actually happen in this program?

I have to watch it, along with The Baking, or accept that my wife and I have nothing in common.

Actually, the problem with Downton is not that nothing happens, it's that [u]so much[/u] happens that it's impossible to keep up, or care.

In last night's episode:

- one of them got in a huff about a war memorial committee
- everyone complained about socialism
- the one whose baby is being raised by firemen got all emotional
- the one who cooks did maths
- a posh random turned up and made one of of the footmen finger her
- a teacher turned up to a party and was rude to everyone
- everyone thought the Irish one had made whoopee with the teacher, although this was not the case
- the one who was doing it with a turk when the turk died talked about pre-marital sex to her maid
- a man suggested a pre-marital sexing to the one who was doing it with a turk when the turk died
- the gay one tried to blackmail the unhappy one, who knows that the one with the big head murdered the one who raped the one with the big head's wife (not the first time he's murdered someone, amazingly)
- it was revealed that the unhappy one had been in prison, this set the stage for the gay one to exit the series because blackmail in a footman is worse than being in prison for a lady's maid
- the one whose baby is being raised by firemen accidentally set fire to the house
- the gay one saved her from the fire, thus getting to stay in the series
- the house burnt for a while, before the fireman who is raising the baby of the one whose baby is being raised by firemen put it out
- the Irish one is a lover, not a hater
- if you get caught in a fire being fingered by the footman, you don't get any breakfast.

That's enough action for a series, but they did it in 90 minutes less ad-breaks. It's hectic, confusing, action-packed and very, very boring. 🙂

Record the rugby on ITV4 and retreat to the shed to watch it while Downton is playing seems to work for me!

I just fell asleep... I wasn't even tired 😳

once i searched and realised the new aphex twin lp wasnt released untill today it gave me enough motivation to get off of my arse and fix one of my bikes.

i like it as it means i end up doing something, anything, rather than watch it.

The upside of Divorce 😀

[i]I have to watch it, along with The Baking, or accept that my wife and I have nothing in common.[/i]

I've accepted it!

Apparently there was a "power cut" in my brother-in-law's place between about 8pm and 10:30pm last night. The guy's a genius.