Emmerdale one of the oldest soaps in Britain is currently in a bit of bother it's been slammed by parents, parents group and media watch dogs for showing something what a lot of people considered inappropriate. One outraged mother that she said she had to cover her young son's eyes so he didn't see it, another mother said she was stunned as her seven year old Son asked her to explain. And what's got everyone up in arms, screaming at the heavens and searching for their pitchfolks and touches? Could it be a overlong bedroom scene, a gay storyline, stalkers, incest, plane crashes, bus crashes, lorry crashes or chimeys falling off roofs and crushing people. murderers, bodies being buried in the woods, adultury, spousal abuse, assault or even a good old fashioned round of fisticuffs.
Nope none of them. Which you need to remember have all happened in this soap.
What has got people up in arms is a shopping list ( no I am not making this up) which was shown in the background and among "food items" contained the items pile cream and Jam rags. Now Jam rags is apparently ( and I didn't know this) a slang term for Female Sanitary towels. Now there was probably no reason for this term to be in the scene and someone was obivously hoping to the reaction I got but what I found the most scary thing is there are parents with seven year olds and younger who have no problem with seeing anything else which I listed but have objected to this!
I think that some peoples time might be better spent considering their viewing habits as a whole!
anyway
Later folks
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