Popular things that you just never "got"

[Mick Mac]

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote:

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> Dench

Steady HMB - you crossed a line there.

[Jeremy]

I liked The Office, but always preferred other characters (scenes with Martin Freeman and Mackenzie Crook were often painfully funny). Not enjoyed his latest show at all. And his stand-up is terrible.

[Otta]

Same as Jeremy, I really liked The Office, but despite him rather than because of him. Haven't enjoyed any of his other efforts at all.

[El Pibe]

I quite liked the Warwick Davis one, Life's Too Short. Possibly, again, because there was not much Gervais.

I like Stephen Merchant too.

[ernesto]

i saw that interview RG did with Larrry David , when RG was at his global peak - nauseating slimy stuff- LD was slightly spooked as well judging by his body language n ting during the programme

[Parkdrive]

Gastro pubs

Daily Mail

Playstations (and all electronic gaming shite)

ipods

Personal stereos

[titch juicy]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> I liked The Office, but always preferred other

> characters (scenes with Martin Freeman and

> Mackenzie Crook were often painfully funny). Not

> enjoyed his latest show at all. And his stand-up

> is terrible.

Exactly this. To the letter.

[????]

I dislike him, as in him himself.

All his work has touch of genius though, even the latest thing, which I'm not mad on

The B actor one (name gone?) was as good as the office and more subtle and Life's too Short was great

Anywy, back on topic

Paris

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El Pibe Wrote:

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> isn't hating quinoa because it's faddish amongst

> rather tedious middle class types like hating rice

> because, you know, wops...or chinks or

> something....?

>

> It's a grain, or a pulse, or something, a

> traditional object of ire, fecking wheat,

> splitters...or was that the Bulgars (baddam tish)?

> anyway it's small and round, like hundreds and

> thousands but less pink.

Ah yes, hatred would be 'irrational' if I had said I hated it - but this is about things one "doesn't get" - thas all.

I don't get it like I don't get the whole superfoods argument (aren't we all still supposed to be eating some Gigi berry or other or drinking liquidised grass?) only got irritated when I first saw it written and got smug-smile-corrected in its pronunciation after asking in Peckham's H&B what kwinohwer was.

Rice I get.

Wheat I get (even when it's cracked).

Oats ditto and Barley and I have a long standing understanding.

But I think Quinoa can fuck off.

[El Pibe]

:D fair enough.

It was just something i'd never heard of in the lunches I got at work from the supermarket downstairs.

It tasted nice with lots of tabasco.

Turned out I'd be mispronouncing it for months in my head.

yeah, superfoods i don't get. It's not going to counteract the harm from crying into your pinot grigio every night!!

[Otta]

Quids was the B actor one Extras? I'd forgotten that and yeah it was quite good. But mainly because of the cameos imo.

[Jeremy]

Can't say I loved 'Extras', but there were certainly some fun moments... Ross Kemp and Vinnie Jones totally taking the piss out of themselves.. David Bowie singing his "chubby little loser" song.

[StraferJack]

Park drive - if you love 2003 so much just wait until 2005. Arsenal go unbeaten in the league!

Best bit in extras was the Christmas special. All of it but the rant to camera in big brother house was superb. It's on YouTube.

[LadyNorwood]

David Bowie (was dragged along to Town & Country in Leeds in 97ish - I walked out, bored rigid)...

[maxxi]

Otta's recollection of the NT in the sunset brought to mind something that seems to be popular and that I not only do not 'get' but also think is hideously ugly - the proposed 'Garden Bridge' over the Thames.

[????]

The call for Renationalising ANYTHING that was privatised....rose tinted memory or people who are too young to remember how shite it all was

[Robert Poste's Child]

DJs at every live event involving more than 5 people.

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Grayson Perry

[Robert Poste's Child]

Tattoos

[Otta]

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> The call for Renationalising ANYTHING that was

> privatised....rose tinted memory or people who are

> too young to remember how shite it all was

Does that include Royal Mail? Cos that's way better now right?

[Robert Poste's Child]

Snow. It's snowing right now where I am.

[Henry_17]

HMB,

Two excellent calls.

Stevo,

Michael Owen: "we've done a bit of horsey business together"

[Parkdrive]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> Park drive - if you love 2003 so much just wait

> until 2005. Arsenal go unbeaten in the league!

>

> Best bit in extras was the Christmas special. All

> of it but the rant to camera in big brother house

> was superb. It's on YouTube.

Strafer, you've lost me, what on earth are you on about?

[Parkdrive]

Golf

Grayson Perry

Bob Dylan

Baseball

Star Wars

[Otta]

I was going to say Bob Dylan's voice.