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Topic: Does Anyone Watch Soaps?
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Ami Anne
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posted December 21, 2010 09:34 AM
  
Talking about Soap Opera's got me thinking?
I watched one for a looooong time--All My Children.
I loved it but I made myself give it up cuz I thought it was giving me a skewed view on life lol
Please talk about your favorite soap. How long have you been watching it?
What does it mean to you?
How has it effected your life,for good or bad?
Has it shaped your world view at all, your expectations of life, in one or another? If you don't want to talk about "hard" questions then "Why do you just like it  ------------------
The most beautiful things in the world can't be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
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Scorp31
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posted December 21, 2010 10:10 AM
I’m ashamed to admit this (being a male) but I do watch soaps. I used to be an avid All My Children fan for years however, I feel the story lines have been just dreadful over the last 5 or so years so I’ve stop watching.Big fan of One Life to Live and the Young & The Restless though the latter was sucking wind for a couple of years but changes in the writing staff have made the show more palatable. I have been watching Y&R / OLTL for about 15 years. I don’t feel these shows have affected my life in anyway at all, its just entertainment of the mindless kind, pure escapism. If you think about it most of these soaps pander to the MOST salacious side of the human element, it's like having to look at a car wreck on the highway when you pass by, you don’t want to watch but you just have to.
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Randall
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posted December 21, 2010 11:37 AM
I can truthfully say that I don't watch soaps...because I only watch one. Haha!------------------
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Scorp31
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posted December 21, 2010 11:57 AM
@Randell-LOL for real  IP: Logged |
Ami Anne
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posted December 21, 2010 01:23 PM
Randall
You should have been a lawyer ------------------
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scorpio17
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posted December 21, 2010 01:28 PM
Please talk about your favorite soap. How long have you been watching it?
What does it mean to you?
I've watched the bold and the beautiful a couple of years. Buth finially I got impatient
with Brooke and Ridge. Please choose?
How has it effected your life,for good or bad?
Good.
Has it shaped your world view at all, your expectations of life, in one or another?
Life can be a soap opera as well. Shocking positive and negative.IP: Logged |
Ami Anne
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posted December 21, 2010 01:35 PM
Thank you Scorp 31 for fessing up.
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Randall
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posted December 26, 2010 09:40 PM
OMG, Bo broke Hope out of prison!  IP: Logged |
katatonic
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posted December 27, 2010 12:57 PM
in my book the only thing soaps are good for is providing steady pay for the actors who work them...i try to stay away from the soap mentality as much as possible! it is far too easy to let your life become one, so i focus on other things...even if i had a tv they attract me not at all.IP: Logged |
Ami Anne
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posted December 27, 2010 01:22 PM
You got LL, Kat.You don't need soaps ------------------
Jesus never put his trust in man cuz he knew what was in man.
Pluto conjunct Deja ,Bruh. IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted December 27, 2010 06:47 PM
You don't have a tv? ------------------
"The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists." Linda Goodman IP: Logged |
katatonic
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posted December 28, 2010 04:16 PM
i have one but when i moved i never bothered to hook it up. everyone i know has one so i don't miss it...if there's something i really want to watch i turn it into a social occasion. however my father's last "life partner" was an actress who was on the cast of Tommorrows World (i think) for about 20 years. most actors have no hope of such steady money, so she was very happy to have it. a lady used to come do ironing for my mom and had the soaps on while she was working...but we used to talk more than watch! there is enough soap opera mentality in real life to make watching it on tv superfluous, for me anyway. IP: Logged |
katatonic
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posted December 28, 2010 04:17 PM
and i am amazed at how seldom that compulsion comes up lol!IP: Logged |
WinkAway
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posted December 28, 2010 06:38 PM
Seriously Randall? Bo & Hope are STILL going at it?? I haven't watched that in years lol. IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted December 28, 2010 08:41 PM
Hope is actually in prison for trying to kill Bo.------------------
"The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists." Linda Goodman IP: Logged |
WinkAway
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posted December 29, 2010 12:15 AM
lol.. of course she is.
Don't fret.. they will find the real killer IP: Logged |
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