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Originally posted by Garage Joe:
Barges are notoriously slow. Ken could catch her up walking.

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Originally posted by Karma_:
I think Deirdre's on the old crack pipe

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Originally posted by Cheeky-Pixie:
Come on, this has to be the silliest, daftest storyline for years now. Ken has an affair with the exotic, arty, cultured Martha, as he is 'plain and simple' peed off with chain-smoker Dreary, and her uncultured manner and nagging. So he decided to leave Dreary for Martha.

Then he bottles it at the eleventh hour... after planning on leaving on Martha's narrowboat. SO, he goes back to Dreary Deadrie, and then *confesses* he had the affair, and Dreary says 'let's hear no more about it.'

Sorry to be pedantic and picky here; but am I the only one who would have been a LITTLE more peed off about my husband HAVING AN AFFAIR AND ACTUALLY PLANNING TO LEAVE ME? I would have at least have smashed up his collection of sci-fi memoribilia!

Opinions anyone?

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Originally posted by Lacey:

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Originally posted by Karma_:
I think Deirdre's on the old crack pipe

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Originally posted by Demantoid:
I thought it was pretty brilliant actually. Ken's entire life has been charactised by his cowardice, and this is typical of him.

He started out as a young, angry intellectual - and ended up living back at home with his Uncle Albert because he didn't have the nerve to see if he could make it out in the real world.

He's settled for a frustratingly pedestrian life ever since, while always behaving as if he deserved better. But every time he's had a chance to get out, he's always ducked out because the fear of failure (or being exposed as a talentless dullard) stops him.

As Deirdre cleverly pointed out, he burnt his own novel rather than risk ridicule by the publishers.

And it's the same with Martha. Rather than risk her realising what a boring old fart she'd landed herself with, he legged it like the coward he is.

Deirdre pointed all this out to him and now she's the one with the upper hand - and she knows it.

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Originally posted by squiggle:
At last someone who saw the same thing I saw in Deirdre's witheringly contemptuous dismissal of his 'grand confession'!

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Originally posted by Miss_S:
Deirde can't complain about it too much - she's had numerous affairs

Come to think of it, they both have

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Originally posted by Demantoid:

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Originally posted by Miss_S:
Deirde can't complain about it too much - she's had numerous affairs

Come to think of it, they both have

But I reckon she came back for love, or family commitments. Ken just came back because he was too yellow to take the plunge and go.

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Originally posted by Miss_S:
Good point - it's just been done so many times this type of storyline.

Nothing beats the Ken, Deirdre, Mike triangle from the 80's though...

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Originally posted by Demantoid:
Yes! Deirdre howling on that bridge...

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Originally posted by Miss_S:

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Originally posted by Demantoid:
Yes! Deirdre howling on that bridge...

Forgot about that

My lasting memory of that storyline was the scene at Ken's front door when he nearly battered Deirdre to a pulp - pretty violent in those days

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Originally posted by Demantoid:
His back couldn't stand it, these days

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Originally posted by Miss_S:

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Originally posted by Demantoid:
His back couldn't stand it, these days

Bill Roache has got to be the least ambitious actor thats ever lived.

Why would you want to play the same character for your whole life?

Suppose it's regular pay mind you..

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Originally posted by Demantoid:

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Originally posted by Miss_S:

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Originally posted by Demantoid:
His back couldn't stand it, these days

Bill Roache has got to be the least ambitious actor thats ever lived.

Why would you want to play the same character for your whole life?

Suppose it's regular pay mind you..

Remember he sued one of the tabloids a few years ago, for saying he was as boring as his character?

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Originally posted by Miss_S:
Yes he did

And to think he actually won the case

I imagine him and his character to be identical.

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Originally posted by Demantoid:

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Originally posted by Miss_S:
Yes he did

And to think he actually won the case

I imagine him and his character to be identical.

The only difference I can think of is, he's got more money

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Originally posted by Miss_S:

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Originally posted by Demantoid:

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Originally posted by Miss_S:
Yes he did

And to think he actually won the case

I imagine him and his character to be identical.

The only difference I can think of is, he's got more money

And possibly not such bad taste in comfy jumpers

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Originally posted by Demantoid:
But they've both got Melvyn Bragg's hair

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Originally posted by Miss_S:

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Originally posted by Demantoid:
But they've both got Melvyn Bragg's hair

But it's a fine head of hair for a man/men that age, eh?

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Originally posted by Demantoid:
You're welcome, Pix
Corrie's the only soap I bother with, and you can tell I've bothered with it for a very long time...

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and Dreary says 'let's hear no more about it.

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Originally posted by rosgirl:
TBH - I think this was the decider for Ken Roache to leave Corrie ater the death of his wife and he decided to stay - I think that is why it is being kept low key