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charlie3344

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IS IT JUST ME OR HAVE EMMERDALE GONE TO FAR WITH THERE KERRY BEING DIABETIC . MAKING OUT THAT SHE DRUNK ALL THE TIME AND LEAVES NEEDLES LYING AROUND. MAKES US ALL LOOK BAD AND I THINK THEY REALLY NEED TO DO MORE RESEARCH RATHER THAN DOING WHT THEY DO . :x
 
I was thinking just the same Charlie!!

Eric was trying to give her sugar when unconcious!! She had DKA in the end! Not a Coma due to hypo! Very Mixed information. She had obviously been without her insulin pen for a while so maybe hadn't kept up with her insulin. Its hard enough to educate the public about Diabetes without giving mixed information. Off my soap box now :lol: :clap:

Lucy xxx
 
I watch Emmerdale too and I've been wondering when the diabetes issue was going to come to a head. I'm all for the soaps raising awareness of health issues etc but it's just a pity they had to confuse the alcohol consumption with the diabetes - it does tend to make us all out to be uncontrolled alcoholics as well as diabetics. I thought the TV people were supposed to have medical advice before portraying medical conditions and treatments before they went on screen to make sure they're correct?
 
Emmerdale's depiction of diabetes was depressing tonight. But not because it showed a more severe complication of diabetes. But because it showed Kerry's daughter Amy, berrating her unconscious mother and calling her a slapper and basically coming to the conclusion that she should get it over with and die as soon as possible because she didn't intend being lumbered with looking after her. Very depressing.

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I don't watch Emmerdale but being a Soap it's going to have dramatic story-lines otherwise no one will watch it :)

Casualty on the BBC often make mistakes when featuring someone who has diabetes.
 
Lets petition this soap and complain to watchdog, they will have to issue an apology :lol:
 
noblehead said:
I don't watch Emmerdale but being a Soap it's going to have dramatic story-lines otherwise no one will watch it :)

Casualty on the BBC often make mistakes when featuring someone who has diabetes.
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Yes Casualty and Holby City are progs I used to watch fairly regularly until I noticed that more and more very subtle but definitely racist remarks were sneaking into the script on a regular basis. So I complained to the BBC on the grounds that they were inciting racism and violence. Spoiled the whole programmes for me when I realised there was quite a nasty, if subtle, political message being given out with it.

I don't watch either programme now.
 
I simply don't watch any soaps
I realised years ago that if the characters had any sense, there'd be no story. Mind you I feel the same about some classics of literature too. Where would Jaane Eyre be with sensible characters for example?
Hana
 
GraceK said:
Yes Casualty and Holby City are progs I used to watch fairly regularly until I noticed that more and more very subtle but definitely racist remarks were sneaking into the script on a regular basis. So I complained to the BBC on the grounds that they were inciting racism and violence. Spoiled the whole programmes for me when I realised there was quite a nasty, if subtle, political message being given out with it.

I don't watch either programme now.
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I don't watch Holby but do enjoy Casualty and can't say I've noticed the racist remarks Grace, did the BBC send you a reply and if they did what did it say?
 
Something to the effect that the remarks were in context with the storyline and not likely to cause offence to the majority of people, which I didn't buy for one minute. The remarks were aimed at an ethnic minority so it's unlikely they'd be offensive to the majority, if the insult was even picked up at all. They were very subtle remarks and spoken in a way which put the ethnic minority in question down. The remarks arose over a series of three weeks and there was absolutely no need for them in the storyline whatsoever unless the writer had an axe to grind about immigrants. And I really feel the immigrant issue is becoming a bit of a scapegoat for all the ills of the world at the moment. Whatever goes wrong with a country - blame the immigrants. It's at the very least, childish and at the very worst, very dangerous to give that kind of an example in a soap.

I've also made similar complaints about the Go Compare adverts on TV. Not only are the very violent, but they're racist. One shows Sue Barker dressed as a terrorist hiding in a disused building and shooting the Go Compare man (who is quite clearly foreign) with a huge weapon. She then takes off her mask and grins in satisfaction and then a slogan comes on saying 'Saving The Nation'. They have now put a similar one up showing a famous football celebrity (don't know his name) relishing the experience of aiming and kicking a ball straight into the stomach of the Go Compare man. He then punches the air while Go Compare man rolls around in pain and 'Saving The Nation' slogan comes again.

If that's not subliminal racism and violence I don't know what is. At a time when the world is at war and terrorism is a huge problem, I honestly think Sue Barker should have known better than to portray herself in that way. I complained to the Advertising Standards Agency, got a two page letter basically telling me that lots of other people had complained for the same reasons but it was not felt that the ads were anything but 'good natured humour'. Personally, I call it a very sick society kind of humour.
 
Grace, was the immigrant storyline in Casualty just recent as I'm struggling to recollect the episodes?

The Go-Compare adverts attracted quite a number of complaints featuring Sue Barker and agree with you that they aren't very appropriate, how such adverts make people use their products is beyond me but they must work otherwise they wouldn't make them :?
 
noblehead said:
Grace, was the immigrant storyline in Casualty just recent as I'm struggling to recollect the episodes?

The Go-Compare adverts attracted quite a number of complaints featuring Sue Barker and agree with you that they aren't very appropriate, how such adverts make people use their products is beyond me but they must work otherwise they wouldn't make them :?
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They were about 2-3 months ago I think and there were derogatory comments made about a particular character and then a long pause and a quick mention about her nationality was said in such a way to allude that the whole of that ethnic minority would behave in the same manner. I found it quite insulting and inflammatory. Had the same comment been made about black people for example, it would have been immediately spotted but as it wasn't, it was quite a subtle dig at a particular nationality. And I think in the current climate we can do without that sort of subtle 'political message' being included in our soaps.
 
GraceK said:
They were about 2-3 months ago I think and there were derogatory comments made about a particular character and then a long pause and a quick mention about her nationality was said in such a way to allude that the whole of that ethnic minority would behave in the same manner. I found it quite insulting and inflammatory. Had the same comment been made about black people for example, it would have been immediately spotted but as it wasn't, it was quite a subtle dig at a particular nationality. And I think in the current climate we can do without that sort of subtle 'political message' being included in our soaps.
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That is a shame that they included that in the storyline, I don't like racist, sexiest and name calling of any nature especially on our tv screens.
 
I'm not a keen viewer of Emmerdale really, but I did happen to see the beginning of the whole diabetes story whilst I was visiting my nan to clean her house. I just felt it wasn't particularly informative and didn't highlight how easy it is to confuse a hypo with being drunk (since the girl had been drinking and looked fairly drunk when she left the pub) and was just poorly done. Now I remember why I don't watch soaps...
 
Giverny said:
I'm not a keen viewer of Emmerdale really, but I did happen to see the beginning of the whole diabetes story whilst I was visiting my nan to clean her house. I just felt it wasn't particularly informative and didn't highlight how easy it is to confuse a hypo with being drunk (since the girl had been drinking and looked fairly drunk when she left the pub) and was just poorly done. Now I remember why I don't watch soaps...
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I love Emmerdale, it's my favourite soap because although it portrays normal life events, it's not heavily weighted down with doom and gloom scenarios. It usually manages to present the downers in a positive light.

But I don't know how I feel about Kerry's diabetes being depicted. I agree with them showing that it can be dangerous to drink if you're diabetic, also I think they depicted quite well how some non-diabetics view diabetics - ie, if we weren't greedy and cut down on the cakes and biscuits we'd be fine really.

I think Emmerdale has shown very well that diabetes can be a life-threatening condition especially if we don't take care of ourselves well - but I was upset at how Amy behaved while Kerry was in the coma. Sadly I think that attitude does happen in some cases, especially as diabetes is a slow onset thing. I've often been accused of 'putting it on' or being 'lazy' when I've been totally exhausted, especially about 10 years ago when my symptoms were at their worst and still nothing was picked up in tests. Certain members of my own family implied I was imagining things to gain sympathy. Believe it or not, when I reported having had two blackouts over ten years ago now, to my GP, he asked me in a very surly manner "Got any witnesses?" Then he handed me a prescription for antidepressants. I have a sister who is epileptic so I was concerned I might be developing epilepsy myself but he just wasn't interested. And oddly enough he was the same GP who told me I was 'borderline diabetic' over 20 years ago, yet he never explained to me what I should do to keep a check on things. So I just continued trying to eat 'healthily' and failing badly and getting more and more tired. That then became 'the menopause' so the diabetes remained undercover until recently.
 
Is Annie Sugden still in Emmerdale? :D
 
noblehead said:
Is Annie Sugden still in Emmerdale? :D
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Eeeeeeyyy naaaaawwww lass! Poor ole Annie is long gone now, as is her son Jack. The farm has changed hands and now there's all sorts of hi jinx going on there between the widowed female cougar who now rents the farm, and one of the young live in farm hands from Scouseland no less!

There's also a 'Saviour Baby' on the way, conceived by a divorced couple with the sole aim of her bone marrow saving her older sister. There's the vet's wife who's just run off to Australia with her Down's Syndrome son completely ignoring the father's rights and the law. Her husband who isn't the baby's father was all for it but has now refused to join her because he's been given community service for accidentally socking a copper in the jaw whilst he was aiming for the father - who I'm totally in sympathy with I might add.

Aye - it's all 'appnin on Emm! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
GraceK said:
Eeeeeeyyy naaaaawwww lass! Poor ole Annie is long gone now, as is her son Jack. The farm has changed hands and now there's all sorts of hi jinx going on there between the widowed female cougar who now rents the farm, and one of the young live in farm hands from Scouseland no less!

There's also a 'Saviour Baby' on the way, conceived by a divorced couple with the sole aim of her bone marrow saving her older sister. There's the vet's wife who's just run off to Australia with her Down's Syndrome son completely ignoring the father's rights and the law. Her husband who isn't the baby's father was all for it but has now refused to join her because he's been given community service for accidentally socking a copper in the jaw whilst he was aiming for the father - who I'm totally in sympathy with I might add.

Aye - it's all 'appnin on Emm! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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All change in Emmerdale Farm then. Seriously I've not watched Emmerdale since I was a child when my mother was addicted to all the Soaps, didn't it use to be on at lunch time?.....as I'm sure we as kids watched it with our mum in our dinner hour from school :?
 
All change in Emmerdale Farm then. Seriously I've not watched Emmerdale since I was a child when my mother was addicted to all the Soaps, didn't it use to be on at lunch time?.....as I'm sure we as kids watched it with our mum in our dinner hour from school :?[/quote]

I didn't become a regular Emmerdale watcher until very late in life, Noble. I don't remember it being on in the daytime but whenever I did catch it on TV I can't say I was enthralled by Annie Sugden or the storylines. But I do enjoy it now, in fact it's the only TV programme that, if I miss, I do get withdrawal symptoms from. I think it has a good balance of positive and negative within its storylines plus it has the lovely scenery in it's favour. :lol:
 
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