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Agree with Louisiana on sports, especially participation as a spectator - yawn. Other overrated things:


Parties

Dulwich Park and that cafe in it where you have to queue for an hour

Hairdressers - more hairdressers have made me cry than boyfriends

Most TV

Those smock tops that seem so promising but make you look like a spacehopper ... particularly when teamed with -

Skinny jeans

Low rise jeans

MBTs - I'm only wearing them because I was stupid enough to fall for the hype and I can't bear to throw the money away

G-strings - very unhygienic and make your trousers sit badly at the back

Low-rise shorts - make all women look pearshaped


I feel better now.

wee quinnie

wee quinnie

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Ms B Wrote:

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> Agree with Louisiana on sports, especially

> participation as a spectator - yawn. Other

> overrated things:

>

> Parties

> Dulwich Park and that cafe in it where you have to

> queue for an hour

> Hairdressers - more hairdressers have made me cry

> than boyfriends

> Most TV

> Those smock tops that seem so promising but make

> you look like a spacehopper ... particularly when

> teamed with -

> Skinny jeans

> Low rise jeans

> MBTs - I'm only wearing them because I was stupid

> enough to fall for the hype and I can't bear to

> throw the money away

> G-strings - very unhygienic and make your trousers

> sit badly at the back

> Low-rise shorts - make all women look pearshaped

>

> I feel better now.


To quote his Keefness:


Exactly right! (on everything here)

louisiana

louisiana

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Ms B Wrote:

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> Agree with Louisiana on sports, especially

> participation as a spectator - yawn. Other

> overrated things:

>

> Parties


Agree with Ms B on this one. Over-rated. I only forgive parties if good food is provided.


> Dulwich Park and that cafe in it where you have to

> queue for an hour

> Hairdressers - more hairdressers have made me cry

> than boyfriends

> Most TV

> Those smock tops that seem so promising but make

> you look like a spacehopper ... particularly when

> teamed with -

> Skinny jeans


Yukee!


And the smock tops are particularly bad with big tits.


> Low rise jeans

> MBTs - I'm only wearing them because I was stupid

> enough to fall for the hype and I can't bear to

> throw the money away


MBTs?


> G-strings - very unhygienic and make your trousers

> sit badly at the back


Dreadful things

HonaloochieB

HonaloochieB

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Catch 22 - the main conceit aside,just dull.

Home-made mayonaisse - for people who are just too damn lazy to go out and buy salad cream.

Whisk(e)y connoisseurs - it's tan coloured hooch, it gets you pissed. Enough said.

CAMRA - look there's real ale already, stop campaigning. NOW.

Finnegan's Wake - a 'circular' novel apparently. A circular hand movement to it.

Neil Young - stop bloody whining man.

SteveT

SteveT

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Dolphins are pubs sometimes, so they can't all be bad. The Dolphin in my home town is one of the oldest buildings the town has, it follows the contours of the land and the doorways were meant for four foot dwarves or fit limbo dancers.


most films,

most jobs

most peoples opinion of themselves.

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El Pibe

El Pibe

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Now I'm not suggesting Charlie Parker is overrated, I think he's great, but he seems to have hit untouchable status when a lot of his stuff, frankly, wouldn't be out of place in a screwball RKO production with Claudette Colbert in!


I blame that Clint Eastwood film with old droopy eye playing Bird, what was it called again?

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