Jump to content

Recommended Posts

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> 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.

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.

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.

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!

Jeremy Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> 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.

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • Latest Discussions

    • Our camera caught two folks doing this. One of them led me to believe the delivery driver was in on it as he left the package in a very odd place that the thief (who arrived about 10 minutes after from a direction where he could not have seen where the driver left it) went straight to it and took it - but he then dumped it halfway down the next road as clearly packets of freeze-dried food for a DofE award wasn't to his liking (karma sucks!). The second time a guy pulled his bike up in broad daylight, walked down to our door, opened the box, threw the empty box down and stuffed what he had found in his backpack and brazenly waved at the camera and then cycled off. Police asked us to upload his picture but we never heard anything back.
    • I hear that Landells Road has had a spate of parcels being taken,
    • In the 1960s my husband went to a private day school, Although he was a bright child having won a couple of scholarships to other private schools, his father chose this particular one. He went from 11 - 14 years and left as unhappy with the set up which was based on ethnicity. All boys with both parents English were placed in the A stream regardless of academic ability, Boys with an Irish background were placed in B stream. All others were C streamed - this included boys with a Black or Asian  background, mixed race or mixed European background. His schooldays came to an end when he wished to learn Latin and he was told that no boy in C stream could participate in this subject. His father (not English) was very upset at this and withdrew him from the school and sent him  to a country boarding school.  The experiences he had with his schooling culminated in a breakdown of his mental health and several months in Maudsley. He had low self esteem and it took several decades for him to understand that it was the school system and not his ability which had failed him
    • Actually, one of the reasons Sylvester Road was closed was that the space available as more and more parcels were part of the mix was insufficient (and the facilities were primitive). And that was before Covid when parcel delivery numbers soared. Sylvester Road as it existed then would not have coped, probably (and the move to Peckham, when Covid arrived, showed that that wasn't sufficient either!).
Home
Events
Sign In

Sign In



Or sign in with one of these services

Search
×
    Search In
×
×
  • Create New...