Guilty Displeasures

nasahapley

Wallace1492 wrote:

Think its getting away from the point - was what SHOULD you like but don't. Seems more rants about what people don't like.

What about kids then? I'm really not keen on kids, and whenever I remind my girlfriend of this (usually unintentionally), she makes it quite clear that I'm worse than Hitler. It's not that I don't want kids myself (I keep telling her), I just suspect they're a bit like farts - ghastly unless they happen to be your own.

greg66_tri_v2.0

nasahapley wrote:

Wallace1492 wrote:

Think its getting away from the point - was what SHOULD you like but don't. Seems more rants about what people don't like.

What about kids then? I'm really not keen on kids, and whenever I remind my girlfriend of this (usually unintentionally), she makes it quite clear that I'm worse than Hitler. It's not that I don't want kids myself (I keep telling her), I just suspect they're a bit like farts - ghastly unless they happen to be your own.

It's a closer analogy than you think.

Sometimes your own farts can be terrible.

tailwindhome

This is a bit more like what a Friday thread should be.


Though it's becoming a bit too 'Room 101' style list of things we hate


My guilty displeasures..

TV


Blackadder
Only Fool & Horses
Monty Python

Just don't get it

They are not funny*

MUSIC

R&B
That Rap Hip Hoppity stuff
Heavy Metal/Rock from 1985 on

TECHNOLOGY

Games - just don't get it
Phones and associated geekery


(Tetris is ok)


SPORT

Rugby & Cricket

Yawn

Expecially people rambling about how they are better than Football





* except for the chandelier (sp?) scene

tailwindhome

Greg66 wrote:

nasahapley wrote:

Wallace1492 wrote:

Think its getting away from the point - was what SHOULD you like but don't. Seems more rants about what people don't like.

What about kids then? I'm really not keen on kids, and whenever I remind my girlfriend of this (usually unintentionally), she makes it quite clear that I'm worse than Hitler. It's not that I don't want kids myself (I keep telling her), I just suspect they're a bit like farts - ghastly unless they happen to be your own.

It's a closer analogy than you think.

Sometimes your own farts can be terrible.

Despite what some (females) would say - ALL BABIES ARE UGLY. FACT

MonkeyMonster

WheezyMcChubby wrote:

Monty Python

Just don't get it

They are not funny*

I hope for your sake we never meet

Wallace1492

Greg66 wrote:

nasahapley wrote:

Wallace1492 wrote:

Think its getting away from the point - was what SHOULD you like but don't. Seems more rants about what people don't like.

What about kids then? I'm really not keen on kids, and whenever I remind my girlfriend of this (usually unintentionally), she makes it quite clear that I'm worse than Hitler. It's not that I don't want kids myself (I keep telling her), I just suspect they're a bit like farts - ghastly unless they happen to be your own.

It's a closer analogy than you think.

Sometimes your own farts can be terrible.

NEVER!!

il_principe

Bruce Formaldehyde.

Johnathan Ross.

Davina Mcall.

Cheryl Cole - A colleague referred to her as a 'national treasure' the other day...

James Corden - Gavin and Stacey was ok, but the rest of his stuff is fcuking awful.

jedster

Blackadder

Well all I can say is that I'm glad that you're guilty.

Circling back on my earlier comments

"the Teutonic reputation for brutality is well-founded: their operas last three or four days"

greg66_tri_v2.0

Il Principe wrote:

Cheryl Cole - A colleague referred to her as a 'national treasure' the other day...

Good call.

I *particularly* don't like the way her hairline is desperately trying to form a bridgehead to the ends of her eyebrows. Reminds me of Helena Bonham Carter in her chimp suit in the Planet of the Apes remake (now that was a sh!t film).

tailwindhome

Further to my earlier post I'm adding 'The Young Ones' as it was tripe in it's day and hasn't aged well.

prawny

The Killers everyhting since hot fuss has been shite, also the kooks and kasabian.

Possibly all bands begining with K.

and Iron Maiden, 3 guitarists and they still sound pap.

I was going to put reverand and the makers but I don't think anyone expects me to like them.

lost_in_thought

+1 on children and babies. Especially babies.

Dear everyone in the world,

I do NOT want to hold your baby. I try to make this clear politely, but you don't get it.

Furthermore, if your child behaves badly in a way that influences me, I will tell it not to. If you had any parenting skills I wouldn't have to, so wind your neck in.

il_principe

Greg66 wrote:

Il Principe wrote:

Cheryl Cole - A colleague referred to her as a 'national treasure' the other day...

Good call.

I *particularly* don't like the way her hairline is desperately trying to form a bridgehead to the ends of her eyebrows. Reminds me of Helena Bonham Carter in her chimp suit in the Planet of the Apes remake (now that was a sh!t film).

Carter:




Cole

CiB

lost_in_thought wrote:

+1 on children and babies. Especially babies.

Dear everyone in the world,

I do NOT want to hold your baby. I try to make this clear politely, but you don't get it.

Furthermore, if your child behaves badly in a way that influences me, I will tell it not to. If you had any parenting skills I wouldn't have to, so wind your neck in.

Add too Other People's Babies. No-one else in the world really cares that you've managed to do what half the teenagers in Middlesborough seem able to achieve without much effort. You're welcome to the standard congratulations, but further interest in the child's achievements is neither justified or required on my part.

biondino

Democracy (stay with me here). What really, really gets my goat is people whose concept of democracy is that they, personally, should have an influential say in any decision they decide matters to them. No, that's not how it works. You ELECT people do make these decisions for you, which they then do with a) knowledge and b) efficiency.

Even though both a) and b) are actually vanishingly rare, imagine, if you will, letting your Mail or Mirror reading man down the boozer have any say whatsoever in policy.

Clever Pun

biondino wrote:

Rock music. Like CP says, there are some decent tunes but most music that can be described as rock is depressingly unsubtle, derivative and boring.

do what now??? I love proper rock and metal... not the new publicised stuff that passes for it today it's just a bunch of kids put together with songs written for them (wonder why the 2nd album always bombs??) arrgh hate it, yet it's gateway music so it serves a purpose I guess.
Same goes for nearly all 'The' bands

Brits abroad holidays (seriously with the whole world to visit you go to the same place again and again.. why f***ing bother)
(reality tv shows, soaps etc) benign drivel don't talk to me about them I don't care
Miami Ink et al.. Cretin comes in asks for everything he likes in the world in one tattoo on his arm, they put a piece of cr@p together and he's happy...why?
Entertainment programs saturday night drivel for people riding out time till they pass away



@Wheezy I've got metal you'd like (it's just a bit harder to find these days with the mass produced garbage out there (try checking out http://www.roadburn.com for an example of a proper music event)

eg I've got a tshirt from Thee Plague of Gentlemen proclaiming "Playing metal like the 90's didn't exist"

Eau Rouge

Greg66 wrote:

Eau Rouge wrote:

My guilty displeasure. The Victorians. They represent everything a society should strive NOT to be yet seem to be held as some sort of Golden Age of Britain.

Now hold on a moment - the Victorians are (as I see it) held up as the Golden Age of Britain because in a generation or two they transformed not just this country, but large tracts of the world into something recognisable as the modern industrial era we live in now.

That they did, but it's how they did that bothers me. Victorian Britian always strkes me as exactly the sort of society the more right-wing Republican American's dream about living in, and I hate it. Child labour, poverty, a ruling elite doing whatever they pleased, and the survival of the "doff the cap at his lordship" fuedalism that had been eliminated most everywhere else in the world by then would be the highlights. You know why there isn't any real road cycling history in the UK? The Victorian era cycling bodies were afraid the rich landowners would have cycling banned if too many smelly poor people were out cycling in races in the countryside. That sums up my hatred for the Victorians.

lost_in_thought

Clever Pun wrote:

do what now??? I love proper rock and metal... not the new publicised stuff that passes for it today it's just a bunch of kids put together with songs written for them (wonder why the 2nd album always bombs??) arrgh hate it, yet it's gateway music so it serves a purpose I guess.
Same goes for nearly all 'The' bands

Almost all the 'The' bands, almost all the 'K' bands. Bands with both 'The' and 'K' are doomed.

Clever Pun wrote:

eg I've got a tshirt from Thee Plague of Gentlemen proclaiming "Playing metal like the 90's didn't exist"

But but but early Skunk Anansie? Korn? There's some good stuff too...

prawny

lost_in_thought wrote:

But but but early Skunk Anansie? Korn? There's some good stuff too...

I thought they were going to play Twisted (everyday hurts) on the radio last weekend so I turnde it up ready, turned out they were using it as a bed and then played the new Bon Jovi single, I nearly vommed.

CdrJake

Eau Rouge wrote:

Greg66 wrote:

Eau Rouge wrote:

My guilty displeasure. The Victorians. They represent everything a society should strive NOT to be yet seem to be held as some sort of Golden Age of Britain.

Now hold on a moment - the Victorians are (as I see it) held up as the Golden Age of Britain because in a generation or two they transformed not just this country, but large tracts of the world into something recognisable as the modern industrial era we live in now.

That they did, but it's how they did that bothers me. Victorian Britian always strkes me as exactly the sort of society the more right-wing Republican American's dream about living in, and I hate it. Child labour, poverty, a ruling elite doing whatever they pleased, and the survival of the "doff the cap at his lordship" fuedalism that had been eliminated most everywhere else in the world by then would be the highlights. You know why there isn't any real road cycling history in the UK? The Victorian era cycling bodies were afraid the rich landowners would have cycling banned if too many smelly poor people were out cycling in races in the countryside. That sums up my hatred for the Victorians.

Oh cra* that's my family history written off.

I hate to say it but family history was built on the empire, fuedalism and the odd bit of slave trading (for which I apologise for on behalf of the ancestors). While it may not be what I would have built a history on it's where I have come from. I can't change that so why should I ignore it and pretend it didn't happen. Learn from the mistakes of the past so as not to make the same mistakes in the future.

Monford22

Jane Austin (and the like)
Brown Sauce

Eau Rouge

CdrJake wrote:

Eau Rouge wrote:

Greg66 wrote:

Eau Rouge wrote:

My guilty displeasure. The Victorians. They represent everything a society should strive NOT to be yet seem to be held as some sort of Golden Age of Britain.

Now hold on a moment - the Victorians are (as I see it) held up as the Golden Age of Britain because in a generation or two they transformed not just this country, but large tracts of the world into something recognisable as the modern industrial era we live in now.

That they did, but it's how they did that bothers me. Victorian Britian always strkes me as exactly the sort of society the more right-wing Republican American's dream about living in, and I hate it. Child labour, poverty, a ruling elite doing whatever they pleased, and the survival of the "doff the cap at his lordship" fuedalism that had been eliminated most everywhere else in the world by then would be the highlights. You know why there isn't any real road cycling history in the UK? The Victorian era cycling bodies were afraid the rich landowners would have cycling banned if too many smelly poor people were out cycling in races in the countryside. That sums up my hatred for the Victorians.

Oh cra* that's my family history written off.

I hate to say it but family history was built on the empire, fuedalism and the odd bit of slave trading (for which I apologise for on behalf of the ancestors). While it may not be what I would have built a history on it's where I have come from. I can't change that so why should I ignore it and pretend it didn't happen. Learn from the mistakes of the past so as not to make the same mistakes in the future.

Don't get me wrong here. I'm not having a go at all pre-1945 Revolution Britain, just the Victorians (1830's to 1900). Actually, it's not even the Victorians themselves I have the real problem with. My dislike is people today who think the Victorians were some Golden Age we should all look back on fondly and with seriously rose-coloured galsses.
Your family history is fine. It's what it is and you can feel about it however you want to, just don't go telling me that the country should return to "Victorian values" or that it was better run because the Victorians managed to build things.

Wallace1492

Monford22 wrote:

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Brown Sauce

SACRALIDGE!!

You mean Bacon Sauce...... it just compliments bacon, more than don_don could ever compliment LiT.

tailwindhome

Again further to my earlier post

Chinese food.

CdrJake

Eau Rouge wrote:

CdrJake wrote:

Eau Rouge wrote:

Greg66 wrote:

Eau Rouge wrote:

My guilty displeasure. The Victorians. They represent everything a society should strive NOT to be yet seem to be held as some sort of Golden Age of Britain.

Now hold on a moment - the Victorians are (as I see it) held up as the Golden Age of Britain because in a generation or two they transformed not just this country, but large tracts of the world into something recognisable as the modern industrial era we live in now.

That they did, but it's how they did that bothers me. Victorian Britian always strkes me as exactly the sort of society the more right-wing Republican American's dream about living in, and I hate it. Child labour, poverty, a ruling elite doing whatever they pleased, and the survival of the "doff the cap at his lordship" fuedalism that had been eliminated most everywhere else in the world by then would be the highlights. You know why there isn't any real road cycling history in the UK? The Victorian era cycling bodies were afraid the rich landowners would have cycling banned if too many smelly poor people were out cycling in races in the countryside. That sums up my hatred for the Victorians.

Oh cra* that's my family history written off.

I hate to say it but family history was built on the empire, fuedalism and the odd bit of slave trading (for which I apologise for on behalf of the ancestors). While it may not be what I would have built a history on it's where I have come from. I can't change that so why should I ignore it and pretend it didn't happen. Learn from the mistakes of the past so as not to make the same mistakes in the future.

Don't get me wrong here. I'm not having a go at all pre-1945 Revolution Britain, just the Victorians (1830's to 1900). Actually, it's not even the Victorians themselves I have the real problem with. My dislike is people today who think the Victorians were some Golden Age we should all look back on fondly and with seriously rose-coloured galsses.
Your family history is fine. It's what it is and you can feel about it however you want to, just don't go telling me that the country should return to "Victorian values" or that it was better run because the Victorians managed to build things.

As an engineer I would like to see a return to the 'can do' view the Victorians has when it came to engineering projects, these days it's too much about 'ooooh that'll be too expensive' or 'ooooh are you sure that can be done', thank christ Brunel didn't think that!

As for the 'family values' of the Victorians, I would tend to agree with you on that one.

Monford22

Wallace1492 wrote:

Monford22 wrote:

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Brown Sauce

SACRALIDGE!!

You mean Bacon Sauce...... it just compliments bacon, more than don_don could ever compliment LiT.

Ok in a bacon sandwich it's not bad but it still doesn't beat Tommy K or BBQ sauce..

CdrJake

I would also like to add to my list 'American Comedy' series a bit like American Intelligence, it dosen't exist.

Clever Pun

CdrJake wrote:

I would also like to add to my list 'American Comedy' series a bit like American Intelligence, it dosen't exist.

are you talking seinfeld or simpsons et al here? as two gross examples

CdrJake

Clever Pun wrote:

CdrJake wrote:

I would also like to add to my list 'American Comedy' series a bit like American Intelligence, it dosen't exist.

are you talking seinfeld or simpsons et al here? as two gross examples

ALL American comedy

Clever Pun

prawny wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

But but but early Skunk Anansie? Korn? There's some good stuff too...

I thought they were going to play Twisted (everyday hurts) on the radio last weekend so I turnde it up ready, turned out they were using it as a bed and then played the new Bon Jovi single, I nearly vommed.

I used to like Skunk Anansie (first saw them supporting Senser..), Korn were always a bit too nu-metal for me, liked the Deftones though I feel those are guilty pleasures in metal circles