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The Gavin Obsession; On Walford Web
Topic Started: 17 Aug 2015, 00:29 (7,013 Views)
NevermindMe
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What's SNL?
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Christina
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Saturday Night Live?
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Michelle Fowler,Ice Skater
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Gavinnui
18 Aug 2015, 21:05
Off topic, but does anyone know what happened to Debbie Downer from SNL?
"You're enjoying your day, everything's going your way, then along comes Debbie Downer. Always there to tell you 'bout a new disease, a car accident, or killer bees. You'll beg her to spare you, 'Debbie, please!' but you can't stop Debbie Downer!"
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BigApe
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It'll all die down soon. In the meantime we're just Gavin a laugh.
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Ennui
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I've got my eye on you

Gavin Sullivan,Ice Skater
18 Aug 2015, 21:34
Gavinnui
18 Aug 2015, 21:05
Off topic, but does anyone know what happened to Debbie Downer from SNL?
"You're enjoying your day, everything's going your way, then along comes Debbie Downer. Always there to tell you 'bout a new disease, a car accident, or killer bees. You'll beg her to spare you, 'Debbie, please!' but you can't stop Debbie Downer!"
I dunno why, but I just suddenly thought of her.
You can't just come bounding in here like John Wayne on a Spacehopper!

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Michelle Fowler
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Michelle Fowler
Gosh, the Gavin fun soon turned into a group of bullies in the playground spouting off at someone who isn't part of their gang.
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Gavinnui
18 Aug 2015, 21:53
Gavin Sullivan,Ice Skater
18 Aug 2015, 21:34

Quoting limited to 2 levels deep
I dunno why, but I just suddenly thought of her.

I didn't know who Debbie Downer was,I searched search her up and this came up,so I pasted it here
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Gavinnui
18 Aug 2015, 21:05
Off topic, but does anyone know what happened to Debbie Downer from SNL?
:lol: :lol: :lol: !

She's under my bed along with the senses of humour I found last night.
Edited by Leon, 18 Aug 2015, 22:54.
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Michelle Gavin Fowler
18 Aug 2015, 22:46
Gosh, the Gavin fun soon turned into a group of bullies in the playground spouting off at someone who isn't part of their gang.
Not at all.

There's no gang to be apart of in effect, but when someone complains about the enjoyment that many are having, after weeks of people complaining of bad atmospheres, there's going to be a little bit of a "oh shush" response.

It's temporary, it's light hearted and if people REALLY can't tolerate it, they know it's going to be over in a couple of days so they can either stay away until Friday, or just dodge the Gavin related threads - "So, Kathy...", "The Gavin Obsession", "All things Gavin EastEnders", some of which aren't even focussing on the discussion...
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luisgarcia
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This seems to be getting a bit catty. I'm not part of this Gavin thingymajig, I find it almost as bizarre as the Lola's mum meme! :D I certainly don't feel the need to try and begrudge others a bit of fun if gibbering about Gavin makes them happy. Nowt wrong with a bit of temporary silliness now and then!
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Bec
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I get people's annoyance with the whole Gavin... 'craze'. It can be tedious to go into multiple threads and read a number of Gavin posts that frankly, stopped being funny after about the 20th one IMO. Especially when they are popular threads such as episode discussions, 'So, Kathy' and 'All Things Eastenders'.

The usernames and poll alterations don't bother me though, that's just a bit of fun.

I think a happy medium would be if we could try to stay vaguely on topic and have less of the Gavin jokes streamed one after another, something which I've noticed has improved today. That way, people can still have their fun and people who don't see the appeal can still enjoy reading this forum.

I agree that posts complaining about the situation, multiple posts essentially saying the same thing no less, won't help either. People aren't going to stop participating in the fun just because someone has a moan. At the same time, just because someone is taking issue with it and voicing their opinion, they shouldn't be singled out to feel like a downer either.

Live and let live and all that... within reason.

Props to those who are enjoying the atmosphere on here much more because of Gavin The Great by the way. Personally, I prefer the bitchiness and the drama but that's just me. :P
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Mrs Peel
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The Gavin thing started because people were all reckoning that he was going to be something to everyone - that he was Vincent's father, that he was Brian Slater and, thereby, Stacey's father, that he was going to return at Christmas with Janine as his wife, when at the moment he's simply Kathy's husband and, most probably, Sharon's birth father.

The actor has, however, portrayed Jesus Christ, a kiddy diddler and a cat, so saying Gavin is Jesus Christ, a kiddy diddler and a cat is pretty accurate.
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DirtyDen
18 Aug 2015, 17:16
I take offence at the fact someone who doesn't know me personally telling me to lighten up. My enjoyment of this site has been ruined by this pointless and unnecessary silliness. The mods should be dealing with it and representing Everyone not just a few on this site.
To be fair your enjoyment of the site has also been ruined by the fact you don't like reading posts that are too long. You can't have your cake and eat it.
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Gavin Sullivan,Ice Skater
18 Aug 2015, 17:37
Im going back to Michelle Fowler,Ice Skater by Monday the latest
I'm never going back. Gavin is forever.
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19 Aug 2015, 12:53
DirtyDen
18 Aug 2015, 17:16
I take offence at the fact someone who doesn't know me personally telling me to lighten up. My enjoyment of this site has been ruined by this pointless and unnecessary silliness. The mods should be dealing with it and representing Everyone not just a few on this site.
To be fair your enjoyment of the site has also been ruined by the fact you don't like reading posts that are too long. You can't have your cake and eat it.
Actually I disagree. I no longer see the longer posts so my enjoyment has been restored.

I do feel however because I have been vocal about the Gavin issue, that I have been singled out as grumpy when I have received lots of messages of support from other members who feel it had gotten out of hand and their enjoyment of the site was also spoilt.

As someone has already pointed out, because I was vocal I took the backlash from people.

I wasn't aware there had been a negative feeling on the forum prior to this, so was surprised to read that people were fed up? But then maybe because I have blocked certain posters and so haven't been subjected to it?
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Jade
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Maybe now we have a Gavin thread we can keep all our Gavin fun in here that way anyone can avoid this thread and just read the other ones? Some threads hold no interest to me so I don't read them. Since we now have a Gavin thread keep it in here as a compromise? Then the rest can be read on their EE enjoyment subjects?
Edited by Jade, 19 Aug 2015, 13:34.
Your approval is neither desired nor required.

Julia Smith "We decided to go for a realistic, fairly outspoken type of drama which could encompass stories about homosexuality, rape, unemployment, racial prejudice, etc., in a believable context. Above all, we wanted realism".

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Broken_Arrow
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Now it's out in the open hopefully you can learn from this experience and lighten up. It's just a forum.
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Ennui
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Actually, I'm going to close this thread as I don't think we need another Gavin thread and it's descending into sniping which is the opposite of what we intended when we started this silliness. Let's still have fun but as Dan said let's try not to disrupt anyone's debates with it.

Gavin.
You can't just come bounding in here like John Wayne on a Spacehopper!

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