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The absolute "HOLY TRINITY OF TWITS".......If there was an Olympic medal for "twittery" our favourite trio would all be on the podiums !!....GOLD,SILVER AND BRONZE !!!!.....with Foggy saluting and crying as they played The National...

Watching a documentary about Simon and Grafunkel, there was a bit in there about the bass player they used for the "Bridge Over Troubled Water" album, and the bassist was talking about having to find and then learn (almost on-the-fly)...

As you say he took over and played Pitkin IMHO. I was born in the early 50's and thought he was funny until my teens, a bit like Charlie Drake. I voiced this opinion on FB a couple of years ago and got howls of indignance and abuse. He...

I am a Northern English gent. I grew up on quite a tough estate so I'll bite the slightly politically incorrect bullet and echo my own experience. Northern wives were and are fierce. My mam was the most gentle loving mam and I felt such...

Easy question, after discovering this marvelous cast of characters in their beautiful paradise why would I NOT watch Last of the Summer Wine?:)

A very warm welcome to you friend, from beautiful Kernow (Cornwall)

Though I'm not British I grew up in rural Ohio where you have a village or town within a mile of each other, kinda like how Huddersfield is not far from Holmfirth. It's the scenery as well as childhood memories of how the adults talked...

You're a scouse Wordsworth ! :D

I watch it because I know I am in good company with people I know so well.

As I have said on more than one occasion, all I have to do is hear the introductory music and everything else, all the worry, pain, stress or whatever, just fades away.

A bit like Pearl, my dad was the main reason I started to watch. He grouched and moaned about just every other TV programme there was but he loved SW And it was about the only time you heard him laughing out loud at the TV.

My dad, from his early 40s he spent most the time in a lot of pain, has a little girl I'd seen him cry with pain and it was traumatising to see but every Sunday he'd watch Summer Wine and laugh so I used to sit next to him and watch it...

I watch to escape from the current American reality. The scenery is restful and the dialogs make me laugh.

You've encapsulated my reasons to perfection