Yes ladies and gentlemen. It's 1973 in the republic of Ireland.

I've just seen a poster for an open casting for a 6-part mock u soap series on RTE this autumn. Check out the cast of characters.

Waka productions are looking to cast the following male roles:

1. A hunky prototype hot latino lover type: spanish accent Aged 20-40
2. A heavy set Polish body builder type. Easter European accent aged 20-40
3. A slick, Italina gigolo type. Italian accent Aged 20-40
4. A tall, Handosme West Arfican. Nigerian Accent Aged 20-40
5. A buff Aussie Surfer type. Australian accent aged 20-40
6. A well groomed, Faships conscious Oriental teype. chinese Accent 20-40
7. A high camp and "well fed" (make that "very well fed") south dublin Himbo aged 16-22

This could be the worst television programme made in over 30 years.

Are they re-making 'Mind Your Language' for the un-reconstructed or something?

faships?

Aren't they missing a saucy French lady and a blonde Swede with pigtails?

Jaysus. And if they want a Polish character, wouldn't it be helpful to have a Polish accent?

Polish and eastern European are synonymous in Ireland. According to our boss we have a couple of Polish lads from Slovakia working with us.

This sounds like it will be as good as all the other RTE sit-coms.

Oh my!

Christ, Mind Your Language has a five star customer rating.

Just to ask it again...

faships?

Ginger Yellow wrote:

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Christ, Mind Your Language has a five star customer rating.

Doubly amazing: it ran from 1977-79, not '73-'75, as my brain thought it had.

Mussolini's navy, I think.

I know it's perennially 1973 in Ireland because of the 90s episode of Eastenders in which wen the Irish family visited "De Ould Country". No technology from the last 40 years was on view, everyone was a violent, incestuous alcoholic with eyebrows on their cheeks, and everything was brown.

I half-watched 'stenders last night for the first time in ages. They've got a Muslim family on now, with a strict patriarch who disapproves of his wife interacting with the outdide world. It's 1973 in London too, you know.

I hope the actor playing the dad doesn't get deported for staying past his real life work permit or his soap children will find themselves somehow unable to get enough money between them to pay the mortgage despite them all being of working age and apparently in work and so being forced disappear back to wherever it is all the non-white people in Eastenders hide.

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No technology from the last 40 years was on view, everyone was a violent, incestuous alcoholic with eyebrows on their cheeks, and everything was brown.

So, set in modern Dublin, was it?

Not me wrote:

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I know it's perennially 1973 in Ireland because of the 90s episode of Eastenders in which wen the Irish family visited "De Ould Country". No technology from the last 40 years was on view, everyone was a violent, incestuous alcoholic with eyebrows on their cheeks, and everything was brown.

I half-watched 'stenders last night for the first time in ages. They've got a Muslim family on now, with a strict patriarch who disapproves of his wife interacting with the outdide world. It's 1973 in London too, you know.

That episode of eastenders caused a huge storm in Ireland until it was exxplained to us here that Eastenders wasn't being anti Irish, it was that inaccurate and hateful in its portrayal of London people too.

I thought the Muslim Family was actually run by the nagging scold wife, who has the husband on the run, has a son that has fled from her overweening power and has a daughter who just wants to go to the pub and get hammered with her mates.

Faship=Fashion oops.

The show is called ladygravy as far as I can make out. Mind your language was the first thing I thought of when I saw this poster. (I couldn't remember the name though)

Are we talking about the Masoods? It's a matriachal family and the father has been out for months "visiting relatives" but he was a softie. The son still lives with her and the daughter is really quite hot.

I haven't watched it for a few weeks but checking the website the "strict patriach" is a visiting uncle and they are all pretending to be as devoutly Muslim as he.

I missed the end of the Steven/Lucy plot I've just realised, that's annoying.

clive - you say "un-reconstructed", we say "you sound like a fucking tan":)

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That episode of eastenders caused a huge storm in Ireland until it was exxplained to us here that Eastenders wasn't being anti Irish, it was that inaccurate and hateful in its portrayal of London people too.

Well, hang on, what's this "too" business? The portrayal may well have been hateful, but denizens of the 'Mun really *do* put horses in the lifts. How else are you meant to get one to the fifteenth-storey council flat you're stabling it in?