MESTIZALAND: I Hate The Archers

Monday, 17 November 2008

I Hate The Archers

This is me running to hit the radio with a frying pan because 'The Archers' is on again.

We all know that the lyrics to The Archers theme tune go,

Nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh up yer bum,
Nuh-nuh up yer bu--um,
Nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh up yer bum,
Twiddly up yer bum.

But how does the rest of it go? What are the missing words in the verse above? Any ideas?

Only the truly English like 'The Archers'. It's a DNA test. Being only half British, I am allergic to it. When the theme tune comes on I have a kind of epileptic fit where I find myself being hurled towards the radio shouting, 'No! No! No! No! **** OFF!' as my hand fumbles for the dial. And when I've wrenched the dial to 'OFF' I mutter, 'Nyeah, that stopped ya.' I cannot control any of this.

If you like 'The Archers', sorry, and as a treat here is a link to the chilled out It Is Just You, Everything's Not Shit blog whose author Steve Stack knows where the theme tune comes from. If you are not English and have no idea what 'The Archers' is, here is a link to the very interesting icons.org.uk which celebrates and debates all that is English culture - a subject many of us here are baffled and wryly amused by.

Altogether now, 'Ner-ner-ner-ner up yer bum!'

2 comments:

HanslopeMay 22, 2011 02:22 AM
"Only the truly English like 'The Archers'."

Wrong! I'm proudly English (well Yorkshire, actually), and I loath The Archers with a passion. I nearly came a cropper once when bounding from a soap-slippery shower to switch off that bloody annoying intro' tune.

Snobby, nasty and ultra-PC. Loathsome in the extreme, and the epitome of current BBC group-think mentality.
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MestizalandladyMay 22, 2011 03:50 PM
Ha ha, 'bounding'! Yes, The Archers makes you inadvertently self harm. You can be innocently listening to the news or a vaguely interesting documentary while elbow deep in kitchen duties and then suddenly you're listening to a couple of well-to-do old farts gassing on about their farm-y 'problems'. Like we care? Another thing I find annoying is the way they've given some of the characters completely inappropriate, plucked-out-of-the-air names like 'Shula' and 'Jolene'. It's clearly some kind of twatty BBC in joke. Anyway, thanks for commenting. Bye!
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