Popular things that you just never "got"

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Game of Thrones

[StraferJack]

Park drive. Your list reads like it's from over a decade ago. I was making a joke

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Ugg Boots

[FJDGoose]

Those ring things that people put in their earlobes, can't see why someone would like to disfigure themselves

[cactus]

Tiswas

Duran Duran

Twin Peaks

Peep Show

Toast of London

Sliders

Bloody Marys

[Robert Poste's Child]

Festivals

[????]

Reading '78 was good RPC

[Robert Poste's Child]

So was the National Hunt Festival at Cheltenham back in the eighties, but I don't think it counts.

[Otta]

Going to festivals past the age of 30 (max).

[Otta]

And looking at festivals as something for the whole family to do.

[aquarius moon]

They used to be just for grown-ups wanting to listen to music, drink the whole day & get stoned.

Those were the days (Glastonbury & Reading 1980)

[????]

They didn,t used to be for grown ups they used to be for teenagers and early 20s, it's the whole grown up thing that has changed them. But despite my flaming I like the changes (Glastonbury early 90s again , no thanks) and they are great with kids - the family orientated ones anyway, wouldn't,t do a big one with mine

[aquarius moon]

???? Wrote:

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> They didn,t used to be for grown ups they used to

> be for teenagers and early 20s, it's the whole

> grown up thing that has changed them. But despite

> my flaming I like the changes (Glastonbury early

> 90s again , no thanks) and they are great with

> kids - the family orientated ones anyway,

> wouldn't,t do a big one with mine

Late teens/early 20's are grown-ups!

I meant there weren't loads of families with kids there. At least not when I went. If people had kids they left them at home with babysitters.

[Planetsally]

Colin Firth's D'arcy in Pride and prejudice. Sexy? NOOOOO.

Gravity (the film not the mysterious force that pulls two objects towards each other).

Baked beans.

Robin Williams RIP, only thing he did that I enjoyed was Mork and Mindy.

Champagne.

Wotsits and Monster Munch.

[FJDGoose]

Otta Wrote:

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> Going to festivals past the age of 30 (max).

Ha - didnt really go to any decent festivals until I was 44

[Parkdrive]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> Park drive. Your list reads like it's from over a

> decade ago. I was making a joke

Oh right. So anything more than a decade old is off limits? I'll have to watch myself.

[StraferJack]

Off limits?

How do people leap to such assumptions?

I can comment about how stuck in the past you are without it being off limits no?

On the other hand if you are giving out about ten year old specifics...you hsvent exactly got your finger on the pulse

Or maybe you are actually Louisa

[Parkdrive]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> Off limits?

>

> How do people leap to such assumptions?

>

> I can comment about how stuck in the past you are

> without it being off limits no?

>

> On the other hand if you are giving out about ten

> year old specifics...you hsvent exactly got your

> finger on the pulse

>

> Or maybe you are actually Louisa

So electronic gaming is a thing of the past as are PS4's etc? Maybe its you that doesn't have his finger on the pulse.

[Parkdrive]

Strafer, I've had a look at the other posts on here and several mention things from more than a decade ago or over a decade old, I can only assume you just have a problem with the items I've listed.

[aquarius moon]

SJ, I think you are wrong on this one and your comments were a bit out of order.

[Louisa]

I find it funny how StraferJack still alludes to Parkdrive possibly being me.

On the topic of old people going to festivals I think it's incredibly cringe worthy when someone past a certain age engages in stuff aimed at younger people in a very awkward attempt to rekindle youth. Red face factor times 1000.

Louisa.

[Alan Medic]

The thread IS about things in the past.

[Louisa]

Exactly!!!

Louisa.

[StraferJack]

Christ above

I don't think park drive and Louisa are same person

I thought PD made a list of things which were not just slightly pass? but well out of date. And that's fine. That's ok. He is well entitled to do so

But in the interst of dialogue,humour,engagement I made a jolly play on how out of date the list was. No malice. Normally I would expect some "chuckles" back. But no. Dead eyed, humourless offence

But "out of order"??? Really.

[Louisa]

I think the humour was lost in translation. As things often are on this forum. I should know.

Louisa.