Popular things that you just never "got"

[Jah Lush]

Lists

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irony

[Loz]

Portmanteau names, like Brangelina, Tomkat, etc. I mean, FFS, grow up world media.

[Jah Lush]

Muslim fundamentalism.

[Otta]

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote:

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> Danish Detective programmes (SkandiNoir?)

Yep, agree with this. And the Bake Off, how the hell is that so huge?!?!

But this is getting too general, of course people are saying Big Brother and x factor.

What I'm interested in are those things that your mates / like minded people are all raving about (either now or in the past), which you may even have pretended to enjoy, whilst actually thinking "this is really shit".

DISCLAIMER: I have seen Withnail & I quite a few times, and don't think it's shite, just not as hilarious as everyone else in the room seemed to find it EVERY time.

[????]

Ok - Inside 72

It was OK and a bit different to other local offers

[Otta]

Fair shout.

I do wonder whether we all look back on it through rose tinted nostalgia goggles.

I had some lovely times in there, but usually during the day when myself and a couple of friends would all be on sickies. Would sometimes go there for a last drink after the pub, but quite often there were some people in there that I really didn't like, and it was too busy to move.

But as you say, it WAS a bit different, and I think that's what people were desperately keen for back then.

[ratty]

Inside 72 was the ONLY place on LL I have ever felt really comfortable in. Apart from the Foresters and the old Magdala when they had the comedy; and they weren't exactly similar.

[LadyNorwood]

French & Saunders, Only Fools & Horses, Fawlty Towers, AbFab, ra-ra skirts, Russell Brand, sushi, Spice Girls, Helen Mirren, Game of Thrones, Tolkien films (although the books were good), keeen-waaah, oysters, whelks, razor clams...

[Otta]

After seeing sushi in that list I was going to say seafood. But that wouldn't really be fair, because it's just something I don't like, not don't get.

But then that led me to think of fads in food that I don't get, and hog roasts and pulled pork sprang to mind.

I'll happily eat both, and have nothing against them, but I have no idea why they both became so popular, as neither are anything particularly special.

Pulled pork does get extra points for having an excellent "Carry On-esque" name though.

[Jeremy]

Almost every subgenre of electronic dance music. A four-bar phrase repeated over and over again, punctuated by various noises or nonsensical words. Rubbish. (With a few rare but notable exceptions).

Olives. They taste disgusting.

Flat Whites. We already have enough combinations of coffee/water/milk, you're just being pretentious.

Shakespeare. The tragedies aren't exactly heartwrenching. The comedies are tragically unfunny. The script format doesn't lend itself to enjoyable/involving reading, and you need a glossary to understand it. On stage it is almost always hammy and over-acted. No thanks!

[Loz]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Shakespeare. The tragedies aren't exactly heartwrenching. The comedies are tragically

> unfunny. The script format doesn't lend itself to enjoyable/involving reading, and you need a

> glossary to understand it. On stage it is almost always hammy and over-acted. No thanks!

Thank goodness - I thought that one was just me.

[Otta]

Nope, I'm pretty sure there are a few of us.

I did like the film of Much ado about nothing though, and Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (although that probably had more to do with Claire Danes to the 18 year old me).

[Jeremy]

On film/TV it's a bit better because the luvvies tend to reign in the aaactiingg a little bit.

[El Pibe]

nope me too; I've never even made it out of the bar after the interval.

[ernesto]

Mrs Browns boys

[StraferJack]

best Shakespeare acting ever is Derek Jacobi in an episode of Frasier

[Otta]

Another shout to Mrs Brown's Boys.

My parents think it's hilarious, which I initially took as reason enough for me not to like it. But then friends my age have raved about it.

It's shit!

[Jah Lush]

Oh god Mrs Brown's Boys, just an advert for that makes me want to puke. See also Miranda.

[ernesto]

any desire to move to australia/ other ex colonies

[*Bob*]

Leaving aside The Queen's Speech, MB'sB topped the TV ratings on Christmas day this year - just as it did last year.

It is both inexplicably popular - and absolutely dreadful.

[El Pibe]

like Michael McCintyre then?

[Otta]

The world has really turned on him, he was the darling of comedy not long ago.

I've never been a huge fan, but he's made me laugh sometimes.

[Jah Lush]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> like Michael McCintyre then?

If I had a gun and a murderous intent, he'd be first on the list.

[Inkmaiden]

Dirty Dancing

Gavin and Stacey

Cronuts