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Do you like soaps?
Can't stand them! I need to leave the room if one is on. 82%  82%  [ 14 ]
Boring. I'll only watch one if someone else wants to. 6%  6%  [ 1 ]
Meh. I'll watch them if nothing else is on. 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
I like soap operas but I don't obsess over them. 12%  12%  [ 2 ]
Everything stops while my favourite soap is on! 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Total votes : 17

RazorEddie
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01 Mar 2012, 5:24 pm

Do you like soap operas? I find them very irritating and would never voluntarily watch one. It must run in the family because my mother describes them as 'A bunch of people yelling at each other'. What do you think?


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01 Mar 2012, 8:23 pm

I can't stand them. I have had enough drama in my own real life. Who wants to listen to fake characters having fake arguments, when they have been subjected to an almost daily dose of real arguments most of their lives. I also don't think all the sex stuff is appropriate, except on pay to watch porn channels. For one thing, kids shouldn't be watching that stuff, but they do, all too often.

Soaps are worthless trash.


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01 Mar 2012, 8:30 pm

Soap operas need to be cancelled ASAP; they are nothing but trash.


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01 Mar 2012, 9:36 pm

I don't watch them. I tried once, but I couldn't follow it. You have to watch it every week to know what's going on. Besides, I don't watch TV until the evening.



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02 Mar 2012, 5:51 am

Strangely, I used to watch them when I was younger, 'Neighbours' in particular. But, once I reached adulthood, I completely turned away from them. I can't stand them now,


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03 Mar 2012, 1:12 am

AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
Soap operas need to be cancelled ASAP; they are nothing but trash.
There aren't that many left on the air in the US. They are replacing SOAPnet with another Disney Channel.


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03 Mar 2012, 1:17 am

Hate them and any other program that involves commercials. Don't watch it.



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03 Mar 2012, 3:10 pm

I'm a guy who likes to escape into fantasy ands soaps are not the answer. Transforming robots, epic space batles, superheroes saving the day, animation those are the things for me.



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03 Mar 2012, 4:12 pm

UK soaps are such a timesink. Emerdale, Eastenders and Coronation st all what 4 times a week or something ridiculous like that? And girls sit in week after week watching this crap, then one of them kills its characters on the Christmas 'special'. Wow.



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03 Mar 2012, 4:50 pm

My grandmother watches them religiously, and since I often watched TV together with her, I ended up following a lot of soap opera storylines, mostly from The Bold, ATWT, and Days of Our Lives. I actually used to care about some of the characters. But now I generally don't watch them anymore. My grandma didn't like that ATWT aired its last episode on Dutch television last month (a year after the cancellation in the US).


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