Well, as mentioned in the shout box, what a brilliant episode

tonite and very touching I almost shed a tear for nanna, reminded me of when I lost my nan and grandad.

Then came the TV show afterwards with vrious

people ie Peter Kay etc.. talking about the programme but I was almost offended by J K Rowling being in there, talking about the 'family' like she knows

what its like, behave yourself love, u are the richest woman in the UK probably and u expect us to believe your fake fondness for a working class life? Of

course you know the folks who are the real deal don't ya?!!

the episode was brilliant, very well done, both hilarious and sad,

and finished in a nice way not cheesily done. its like it hadnt been on hiatus for 6 years, the writing was as good as it ever was

I just checked UKnova, it won't be on

there because they are selling it on DVD, so I cant get it. :(

Well, as mentioned in the shout box, what a brilliant episode tonite

and very touching I almost shed a tear for nanna, reminded me of when I lost my nan and grandad.

Then came the TV show afterwards with vrious people

ie Peter Kay etc.. talking about the programme but I was almost offended by J K Rowling being in there, talking about the 'family' like she knows what its

like, behave yourself love, u are the richest woman in the UK probably and u expect us to believe your fake fondness for a working class life? Of course you

know the folks who are the real deal don't ya?!!

Unfair, Kev. Whilst Ms Rowling's praise of the Royal Family and its portrayal of a type of

working class life might seem like social tourism when coming from a person as rich as she is now, the woman herself came from a modest south Wales/west

country background. If you read Rowling's story, she'd had quite a difficult life - single mother and so on - before her Potter books became

successful.

As she told us last night, the Royle Family reminds her of her own background and the people she knew from her own family and the

comprehensive schools she attended.

There's working class people down south as well you know. Why weren't you also offended by Noel Gallagher,

another mega-rich person from a working class background talking about the series, for example?

Why weren't you also offended by Noel Gallagher, another mega-rich person from a working class background talking about the series,

for example?

Because I don't believe J K Rowling has enjured any of the working class hardships and life experiences that are so brilliantly

portrayed in the Royal Family.

Single parent families arn't exclusive to the working class. I assume that J K Rowling has had quite a rich upbringing

in terms of opportunities and positive life experiences. She doesn't posess the slightest hint of any regional accent.

Any info on her upbringing would

be appreciated.

also noel gallagher

has been in the royle family situation, hes earned the right to talk about it plus, Half The World Away is the theme tune to the programme which noel wrote,

and can be found on the Masterplan album:)

Because I don't believe J K Rowling has enjured any of the working class hardships and life experiences that are so

brilliantly portrayed in the Royal Family.

Single parent families arn't exclusive to the working class. I assume that J K Rowling has had quite a

rich upbringing in terms of opportunities and positive life experiences. She doesn't posess the slightest hint of any regional accent.

Any info on

her upbringing would be appreciated.

Hi Kev. I think that you're assuming too much from Joanne Rawling's accent, such as it is, and also

probably not identifying it very accurately either.

Firstly, although not from a priviliged background, she is from the south of England and therefore

her accent probably didn't have to change much to get from the one she grew up with to the accent she has now. If it has changed, it's probably an

inevitable result of her leaving her home area in early adulthood to attend university, before living in other places away from her roots. That said, her

accent she has, although southern, doesn't sound exactly "posh" to my ear. Most people down south who end up in office jobs, end up speaking something like

how she now does.

As for Ms Rowling's background, she herself claims to be from a working class background. She may be exagerating the humbleness of

her roots, I suppose, perhaps in response to people who assume that the public school setting of her novels reflects her background. However, we know that

she attended state school and is not from the most glamourous part of the country (south Gloucestershire). Her father was a fitter

(apprenticed).

Obviously a bright and studious girl, J K Rowling did well at school and went to university (in Exeter, not Oxbridge or even other

posho favourites: Durham, Bristol, Edinburgh or St Andrews). Nevertheless, it appears that until she began writing, life had not been terribly kind to her,

with her mother dying young from MS. Neither was her career really going places until she starting writing the Potter novels, something she didn't do until

she was already over thirty and bringing up a kid on her own in Edinburgh.

All in all, she sounds like a clever, swotty girl from a perfectly normal

background; the daughter of ambitious (for her) upper working class parents. Whilst it's not entirely accurate to say that her family background is

identical to the borderline underclass mileux portrayed in the Royle Family (dad long-term unemployed, elements of criminality evident in friends and

acquaintences), the women will certainly know what working class families are like - she grew up in one.

I just checked UKnova, it won't be on there because they are selling

it on DVD, so I cant get it. :(

Ah it'll be up on one of the other sites before the weekend, keep your eye on isohunt

;)




Poor nana :(

Hands up who cried at the telly :D

Can someone tell me when its on next and which channel as I missed it. :sad: :tear:

Thanks.

Noels recollection of a scene in the Royales ..

Jim: Get your coat on

Barbabra, we are going to the Feathers.

Barb: Oooh are we all going Jim?

Jim: No, I'm turning the heating off................


:D

Can someone tell me

when its on next and which channel as I missed it. :sad: :tear:

Thanks.

It was beeb 1 last night,it'll h0pefully get a repeat this

week on Beeb 3 ;)

I just checked UKnova, it won't be on there because they are selling it on DVD, so I cant get it. :(


Ooooh its here

http://isohunt.com/torrents.php?ext=&op=and&ihq=royle to d/l ;)

Cheers for that Fute :PDT_Piratz_26:

big muwah @ Brenna X ;)

Ta FKoE

You'll need a programme called 'winrar' to unpack the vid Shy, I'm d/ling it too :D

Brenna, it is also my Telewest VoD , if you want

I can record it and post it on ?

Yeah, that would be great if you could do that for us 'F'..
I've been trying to d/l it from that link you gave us but I

must be doing something wrong.:eek:

Yeah, that would be great if you could do that for us 'F'..
I've been trying to d/l it from that link you gave us but I must be

doing something wrong.:eek:

You first need a bittorrent client.. a good 'how to' infopage is here :

http://thepiratebay.org/howdoidownload.php

No problem recording it for you Brenna, I'll give you a shout when I've recorded it ;)

Noels recollection of a scene

in the Royales ..

Jim: Get your coat on Barbabra, we are going to the Feathers.

Barb: Oooh are we all going Jim?

Jim: No, I'm turning the heating

off................


:D

Lines which he attributed to North West Scouse humour.

I've got Winrar, only used it once, but I think I remember how.
I just checked Azereus, it

is downloading at 50 Kb/s so it will take a while, should be worth the wait though.

No problem recording it for you Brenna, I'll give you a shout when I've recorded it

;)[/QUOTE]

Thanks for that FKoE, I cant wait to see it so just let me know when you've done it.

Cheers.

I'll get on it after tea :D

I've got Winrar, only used it once, but I think I

remember how.
I just checked Azereus, it is downloading at 50 Kb/s so it will take a while, should be worth the wait though.

Just double

click on on the first .rar file and winrar will do the rest ;)

Just double click on on the first .rar file and winrar will do the rest ;)

wow I have about 10

US IP's connected to me in this swarm... you could be one of them Shy :D

I was so glad that, the

royal family graced our sceens last night. I don't mind admitting to almost sheding a tear at Jims reaction to poor old Nanna's passing. such a touching

moment.

Enjoyed that, it must be in demand, while i was downloading and watching it I uploaded

more than double. I'll leave it seeding to help speed it up for other people.

I just don't get it. I know how popular it is and I've watched a few episodes over the years, but I just

think it's so fake.

Anyway, I love Corrie, so what do I know?!:disgust:

I just don't get it. I know how popular it is and I've watched a few episodes over the years, but I

just think it's so fake.

Anyway, I love Corrie, so what do I know?!:disgust:


Fake!!? .... The Royles household is just like our

ald house, but we had a budgie. :D

Fake!!? .... The Royles household is

just like our ald house, but we had a budgie. :D
LOL!:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
My mum told me that in the old days, it was quite common to have pet

monkeys in the house, brought back by the lads in the Merch.

Apparently we had an Amazonian Parrot when I was a babbie...The only word it knew, no word is the wrong description... It went

wahhhhh wahhhhh muwahhhh.


Just like me :D so we got a budgie called Joey.

Apparently we had an Amazonian Parrot when I was a babbie...The only word it knew, no word is the

wrong description... It went wahhhhh wahhhhh muwahhhh.


Just like me :D so we got a budgie called Joey.
My Grandma had a budgie called

Joey and it lived for 17 years. It's buried in the back yard of 137 Leopold Road, Kenny. (wipes away a tear)

I remember when we were kids, my brothers and sister let the budgie out of the

cage and the shilling in the meter ran out, well the next thing was me dad put the money in the meter and the lights came back on.
We all started to look

for the budgie and here it was dead on the floor...we all maintained "it wasnt me that stood on it" and knew we'd all be in trouble so we decided to make it

look like the budgie was still alive by making a paste out of flour and water and glueing the budgie to the perch and leaning it up against the bars.
Me

dad who was a bit shortsighted was still chatting away to it 3 days later.
Them were the days eh!!!

I remember when we were kids, my brothers and sister let the

budgie out of the cage and the shilling in the meter ran out, well the next thing was me dad put the money in the meter and the lights came back on.
We

all started to look for the budgie and here it was dead on the floor...we all maintained "it wasnt me that stood on it" and knew we'd all be in trouble so

we decided to make it look like the budgie was still alive by making a paste out of flour and water and glueing the budgie to the perch and leaning it up

against the bars.
Me dad who was a bit shortsighted was still chatting away to it 3 days later.
Them were the days eh!!!
This has to be

without doubt the sadddest/funniest post I have read on this forum. Absolute cracker!:eek:
Poignant

I remember when we were kids, my brothers and sister let the

budgie out of the cage and the shilling in the meter ran out, well the next thing was me dad put the money in the meter and the lights came back on.
We

all started to look for the budgie and here it was dead on the floor...we all maintained "it wasnt me that stood on it" and knew we'd all be in trouble so

we decided to make it look like the budgie was still alive by making a paste out of flour and water and glueing the budgie to the perch and leaning it up

against the bars.
Me dad who was a bit shortsighted was still chatting away to it 3 days later.
Them were the days eh!!!


Its a good

job i didnt know about this when our cat went walkies for a few days during the summer as i would of thought it had something to do with her. Ive caught me

ma, who wrote this, trying to drop the cat off at the Marina in Crosby a few times, trying to get shut.

Its a good job i didnt know about this when our cat went

walkies for a few days during the summer as i would of thought it had something to do with her. Ive caught me ma, who wrote this, trying to drop the cat off

at the Marina in Crosby a few times, trying to get shut.


Oh Rob you know how much I love the cat......he's the love of my life...

Its a good job i didnt know about this when our cat went walkies for a few days during the summer as i would of thought

it had something to do with her. Ive caught me ma, who wrote this, trying to drop the cat off at the Marina in Crosby a few times, trying to get

shut.

lol, that cat needs it's nads cut off... i think thats the only reason my mum loves him :D
He is the lion of the neighbourhood, he

thinks he rules!


sorry for the off topic :unibrow:

Well, as mentioned in the shout box, what a brilliant episode tonite and very touching I almost shed a tear for nanna, reminded me of when

I lost my nan and grandad.

Then came the TV show afterwards with vrious people ie Peter Kay etc.. talking about the programme but I was almost

offended by J K Rowling being in there, talking about the 'family' like she knows what its like, behave yourself love, u are the richest woman in the UK

probably and u expect us to believe your fake fondness for a working class life? Of course you know the folks who are the real deal don't

ya?!!

Must admit that's exactly what I said - not just about J K Rowling, but about other 'celebs' too - how everyone says that they know

people and households like the Royle family. :rolleyes: I don't believe it for a minute. Not from certain ones anyway. Half of them wouldn't know what it

was to live in a household like the Royle family!

I wasn't convinced by J K Rowling saying she knew all the real life Royle family characters.



For one thing the Royles are very typically northern.

Of course there are similar families all over the country but I do think this is

essentially northern.

Hands up who cried at the telly :D

I did ! :rolleyes: :D

I cried a few times .... the bit when the song 'Que

Sera, Que Sera' came on and Nana and Barbara started singing along.
... and next door neighbour Joe singing 'Pal Of My Cradle days'

....

those type of songs are always sentimental.

Just watching this on UK Gold now, brilliant episode with rollercoaster of emotions. My favourite bit by far is Jim flying into a rage because Nana has borrowed the batteries out the remote control.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KdtgoSCXpU